Chapter 49: Hexennacht (8).

She was almost there.

After Heukgu took possession, she didn’t know how far she had escaped, but it took Chayeon a long time even with her speed.

‘If I just get out of here.’

It was the road she had walked with Arena earlier.

Back then, she had walked on the snowfield on the ground, but now Chayeon was moving laterally like a billiard ball bouncing on a billiard table while stepping on the tree trunks.

Finally, passing through the dense forest, she could see the mansion.

A mansion that was burning brightly,

A mansion being eaten away by the flames.

“Ah?”

A feeble scream burst from her mouth.

What..?

Why is the mansion burning?

“Arena!!”

Chayeon, who had flown in as it was, entered without caring about the flames.

The peaceful and cozy space where they had lived for two months was nowhere to be found. A smoky odor, huge flames eating away at the building, and columns, ceilings, and floors that were burning and collapsing.

She couldn’t feel any presence.

“Arena! Where are you! Answer if you’re here!”

After striking away the column that was tilting towards Chayeon’s body with a heavy sound with her bare hands, she went up to the upper floor.

She couldn’t hear any sound other than the sound of the building burning and collapsing.

Why is the mansion burning?

Where did the people from Jindal go?

Byul, Arena.

Where did Arena go?

“Arena!”

Chayeon’s voice, which had been calling for Arena in a high voice as if screaming, stopped suddenly.

It was a corpse.

On the second floor, there were several corpses.

Several corpses, which had each lost a part of their body and had died coldly, were lying down and burning.

No way, no way, no way.

No, that can’t be, no way.

Forcibly holding onto her arms and legs, which were trembling as they pleased against her will, Chayeon quickly approached the corpses.

Their seriously damaged appearance was too gruesome to see, but she didn’t have the leisure to worry about that now.

There were a few faces that she knew as well.

They were all people from Jindal.

She looked at all the corpses, but Arena and Byul were not there.

She was relieved and anxious at the same time.

Then where on earth did Arena and Byul go?

And, she could feel a presence.

“You-“

Bang!

Chayeon’s eyes captured that existence, and she didn’t give it even a single second.

The demon, who had been smashed in an instant, was lying under Chayeon’s feet.

While waiting for the demon’s head, from which blood and brain fluid was flowing like juice from a squeezed fruit, to regenerate, Chayeon aimed her sword.

Soon, the demon finished regenerating and smiled slyly while looking at Chayeon.

“This smell, is that Heukgumiho?”

The demon licked its lips and said.

“I’m honored~ It seems like you’re looking for someone. Was it Arena? She’s really delicio”

“I’m not letting you.”

She interrupted the demon’s words, who was trying to instill chaos and manipulate with fear.

Black heterochromia had settled in Chayeon’s eyes before she knew it.

“If you think you’re the only one who can do that, you’re greatly mistaken.”

The Heukgumiho, borrowing Chayeon’s body, looked straight at the demon.

At that moment, energy permeated the inside of the demon, and soon fear began to settle in the demon’s eyes.

“…Ha, hahaha, ah, aaa……..”

Confirming that the demon had started to tremble, Chayeon, who had regained her body, asked.

“Where is Arena?”

“Th, that, hahaha, I, ate th”

The huge energy that was enveloping the demon, who was trying to resist somehow.

In the end, the demon couldn’t withstand the sensation that was crushing her whole body and the energy that was rummaging through her head, and opened her mouth.

“Th, those, I don’t know………….”

“Two teenage girls. One has black hair and golden eyes, and will be holding a broom, and the other has purple hair and also purple eyes.”

As Chayeon, forcibly calming herself, put the two girls’ characteristics into words, the demon shook her head.

“I, I don’t know. Among the humans I’ve eaten, there aren’t such……”

Pak-

At the same time as Chayeon brought down her sword, a huge forepaw that had formed above it slammed down on the demon.

Leaving the demon, who had been compressed to the point where she couldn’t even regenerate and had reached the end of her life, Chayeon turned her body.

If the demon didn’t know, then was it that they weren’t here, at least?

While enduring the pain felt from the burning clothes and the skin being scorched, Chayeon went up to the last 3rd floor.

There were plenty of corpses here too.

However, the one difference was,

<<One person, is alive.>>

“I know.”

There was still a survivor.

It was in front of Arena’s room door.

A faint breath was felt from the nose of the man, whose legs had been torn off, whose intestines were protruding, and whose face was badly burned and oozing pus.

He hadn’t died, but it was only a matter of time.

“……No, rth, weast…… sho…rean…ka….
The man, who had found Chayeon approaching, opened his mouth and tried to convey something.

The man, who was desperately speaking with a gurgling sound in his throat, only said up to that point and closed his mouth.

After quietly laying the man down, Chayeon got up from her seat.

The northwest coast, a rift.

Whether that had told them that the place where Arena and Byul were was in the direction that Chayeon wanted, or had conveyed something else, but there was no other clue other than that for now.

At least they weren’t visible inside the mansion.

The last words spat out by the demon, who had been mentally dominated by Heukgu, must be the truth.

Arena and Byul are alive somewhere else.

They had to be alive.

‘Please don’t be too late.’

Smashing through the wall of the mansion, which was now completely burning and collapsing, and jumping out, Chayeon flew towards the coast.

What on earth is this.

While forcibly swallowing the questions that had been sticking to her head since she arrived in this place and wouldn’t go away, Yeonkyung was constantly recovering the other Ineungnyeokja and assisting them.

“Kyaaaaak!”

Kwajik-

“Auaaaaaaa!”

Pshook-

“Hua, haak, haa-”

Even so, due to the overwhelming difference in power, the Ineungnyeokja, her colleagues, were being trampled on miserably.

“Heup!”

Wolmyo, who had released all her power in the very front, was doing her best, but she was being pushed back little by little as the number that was constantly rushing in was too much for her.

Special Class Danger, Basilisk.

Special Class Danger, Phoenix.

Special Class Danger, Cerberus.

Special Class Danger, Hydra.

As many as four special class danger demons, including the Basilisk that she had failed to capture before.

These alone were enemies that they had to risk their lives against, excluding the two, who were Seven Divine Pillars.

An emergency situation that would be dangerous even if only one of them appeared.

However, the situation didn’t end there.

Dozens, no, almost a hundred demons.

There weren’t any small fries.

Every single one of them was a 1st Class demon, or at least a 2nd Class demon.

They were all dangerous demons with their own unique names.

Such demons were filling the ground and the sky.

Cackling laughter echoed under the clear sky.

Snow began to fall little by little like feathers, and red blood was painted over it.

It was a lyrical slaughter scene.

“Director!”

Yoona shouted with an urgent voice next to her.

She had been constantly putting mental manipulation on the demons in reverse to block them, but that was also reaching its limit now.

Wolmyo was also starting to be overwhelmed, and Yeonkyung, who had been constantly recovering everyone here, was the same.

She can’t do it anymore.

“Everyone, retreat!”

She had to get out of this place first somehow.

But where should she go?

She recalled the report that had come in through the geas at the end.

As soon as they had requested support, the two girls had escaped.

Although the safest place was there, Yeonkyung had clicked her tongue at the two girls’ judgement of leaving the safe ground with their own legs.

However, the report that had come in after that made her reverse that thought.

A demon had come in, she said.

A demon judged to be special class or royalty class had broken down the barrier too easily.

Yeonkyung’s colleague, who had urgently reported the situation by listing only the words, was silent after that.

Not only that, but no answer was heard from anyone she had left at the mansion.

The area around the mansion was no longer a safe place.

“Don’t scatter! To the forest!”

Yeonkyung shouted until her throat was torn, but in a place filled with shouts, screams, and laughter, Yeonkyung’s words were not conveyed.

For now, she has to run away with at least the people who are near her right now.

Judging so, Yeonkyung turned around without hesitation, and those who were near her including Wolmyo and Yoona somehow pulled their bodies out.

However, those who were running away towards the forest while blocking the demons who were crowding in one after another eventually had no choice but to stop due to the three figures who had blocked their way.

Yeonkyung’s expression contorted with shock as she confirmed the faces of the three.

“Long time no see, Codfishy who tormented me~?”

“That……impossible…………”

A blue light that was reminiscent of anglerfish fluttered.

A long white tail was squirming between her slender legs.

“Thank you for what happened last time. Uroboros, it’s been a while, hasn’t it?”

The demon, Uroboros, who had been captured and had his mind investigated before being hit by a geas and dying in front of Yeonkyung’s eyes, was smiling at Yeonkyung with eyes curved like a crescent moon.

Next to him, Wolmyo was also looking at the man next to him with a surprised look and furrowed brows.

That man, who had eerie eyes that looked like a white pupil with a red dot in the center, was also a face that Wolmyo and Yeonkyung knew.

“Jormungandr…!”

In the past, the demon king whom Wolmyo had personally subjugated.

Demon King Jormungandr.

“It seems like everyone knows each other? Gee, you’re making only me feel awkward, what a thing to do?”

The remaining woman, Hwedo, was putting her arms around Jormungandr’s waist while watching the four people who were exchanging glances.

“Wh, how can…!?”

“Are you going to keep repeating that like an idiot, fish head? How can you call yourself one of the Seven Divine Pillars if you don’t even know something like this.”

At Uroboros’s ridicule, Yeonkyung belatedly regained her senses.

She could find out what was going on later.

“Break through!”

“Kyaak~ Mommy, Daddy, help me~”

Yeonkyung gave a sharp instruction and everyone, including Yeonkyung herself, shot out at the same time.

There were more of them numerically.

Even if the opponent was royalty class, they thought they could somehow manage it if the remaining people dealt with the two while Wolmyo, who had been subjugating Jormungandr once before, took on him.

It didn’t take long to realize that that was a foolish misjudgment.

“…Kkuluk.”

Yeonkyung, who had coughed up blood, stood there silently and looked down at her waist.

There was a huge hole pierced through it.

One of the numerous spears of Jormungandr, which Wolmyo had failed to fend off, pierced through Yeonkyung’s stomach and was stuck on the floor.

Thud.

“Director!”

Yoona ran towards Yeonkyung, who had slumped down on the spot.

Recover, she has to recover.

But those guys won’t give her time.

How, what should she do…

“How about you recover quickly, Yggdrasil.”

While the attacks that were flying at her were being blocked by Hwedo, who had come forward, Jormungandr was looking down at Yeonkyung and saying that.

“…Wh, what is this.Kkuluk.”

“How about you hurry and recover. You chose so many ladies, Yggdrasil. Wouldn’t figuring out the truth on this side be a priority after living first?”

With a gentlemanly attitude that didn’t suit the hellish landscape where the slaughter was unfolding at all, Jormungandr said that and was just waiting for Yeonkyung without doing anything.

After a while, Yeonkyung, who had somehow regained her mind and recovered her body, got up unsteadily.

Only then did Jormungandr start to create spears in the air again.

He’s ridiculing her.

He’s planning to play with this side one-sidedly.

That arrogance was so terrible.

That conceit that was worthy of a royalty class demon.

That was the opponent’s fatal mistake.

“Haat!”

The best opportunity was now when he thought that Yeonkyung’s ability was only an absolute recovery ability.

She would release her power as it was and temporarily ‘stop’ the opponent.

Even if she used such a petty trick against a royalty class demon, it would be just a fraction of a second at best.

The opponent would be released from the ‘stop’ state right away.

However, now that Wolmyo, who had blown away Hwedo in an instant and was prepared to stretch out her legs and slam down from behind Jormungandr, was here,

This brief moment will decide the victory or defeat.

“Hwit!?”

“Gee, why are Shinryeong these days choosing females as vessels so often.”

Jormungandr, who had been released from the stop, shook his head from side to side.

Wolmyo, who had her legs grabbed by the transparent tentacles that stretched out from the back and was being lifted as it was, let out a hurried breath.

That face, which had been maintaining a straight face until now, couldn’t withstand the pleasure that was digging into her whole body and had become dissolute.

The tentacles that flowed out from the huge mass that was reminiscent of a transparent jelly were wrapping around Wolmyo’s body as it was.

Every time the number of tentacles increased one by one, Wolmyo was rolling back her eyes and convulsing.

“No matter how strong the Shinryeong is, it’s useless if the vessel is weak.”

“……Such…”

That transparent slime was also an existence that Yeonkyung knew.

A special class danger, Lamia.

The demon of pleasure.

A more dangerous existence than an Incubus for women.

It was a demon that Jindal had put in a lot of Ineungnyeokja and had barely captured ten years ago.

“Yoona, quickly recover Wolmyo’s mind!”

While urgently giving orders, she herself was also infusing as much power as she could to recover Wolmyo.

If Wolmyo was captured, there was no more hope.

She has to somehow make her escape.

“…Yoo, na…?”

While repeating the name of her old friend, whom she had treated officiously since sometime, Yeonkyung slowly, forcibly turned her creaking head.

Poke- poke-

“Were you close? I’m sorry.”

Another royalty class demon, Hwedo, was sitting on top of the corpse of a woman who didn’t exist above her neck and was poking her chest with her fingers.

“…Ah……”

Not only that.

Yeonkyung was now the only person who was stepping on the ground among those who had been heading to the forest.

She repeated in her mind that she had to get it together, that she had to be calm, but she couldn’t stop the momentary panic.

Moreover, the mental manipulation that had dug in as soon as their eyes met was tenaciously holding on and wouldn’t let go of Yeonkyung.

The words of Yggdrasil, which were constantly echoing in her head, were amplified in the chaotic situation, the world is collapsing.

Kerk! Keoheup!”

The Uroboros’s huge tail, which had suddenly appeared behind Yeonkyung, strangled her neck and lifted her up.

While feeling the sensation of her breath being cut off and her brain being cut off as her feet floated into the air, Yeonkyung scratched at the tail in order to somehow tear it off.

“Kakahk, Keok, keok.”

“Codfishy, that’s my pretty tail that you cut off. How is it?”

Uroboros grinned and twisted her tail so that Yeonkyung’s body was facing her.

With bloodshot eyes and drool coming from her mouth, Yeonkyung struggled to get away.

“To think one of the Seven Divine Pillars is getting strangled by someone like me, it’s funny. Daddy! Can I eat this?”

“Please do so. Our little Miss.”

“Daddy is always calling me a little Miss.”

A harmonious conversation continued.

“Then, thank you for the meal~”

The strength was leaving.

Before she knew it, all her nails had been peeled off, and the act of scratching was just painting the white tail with blood.

Yeonkyung’s vision became blurry.

Like this,

So futilely.

Jindal, she has to protect, them.

Her consciousness, was drifting away.

…The rain, of black?

Beyond her blurry vision, a dot blocked the sun.

The shadow was cast on the sky.

The shadow was squirming, and soon, it was divided into several strands.

The black shadow that had covered the sky was moving as if it was alive.

It was nine black tails.

Soon,

The tails became rain and poured onto the ground.