Chapter 32 Consume (7) (1/2)
“Zwei!”
The numbers in their names represented their rank within the organization. The fact that the second strongest Zwei had been killed like this…!
“Vier!”
“Neun! What the hell happened…”
“Stay away, idiots! You’re gonna get yourselves ki…”
Some of the scavengers were deeply shocked by the sight of their teammate’s decapitated heads. Eins tried to warn the other scavengers, but it was already too late.
*Swish*
A blade suddenly dropped down from the sky next to Eins. And there, he found Zehn with his hands grabbing tightly onto his throat.
*Gurgle*
But soon, he collapsed on the floor frothing at his mouth. And on that spot where Zehn had been standing, now stood Yeon-woo with a cold smile underneath his white mask.
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*Splash*
“Kuk!”
“Damn it!”
Yeon-woo then swung his arm and scattered several daggers in a fan shape towards the other scavengers.
The daggers plucked into the scavengers necks. They firmly clutched their wounds in an effort to stop the bleeding, but soon they ended up collapsing as their blood sprayed all over the floor. The remaining scavengers finally came to their senses and stepped forward to kill Yeon-woo.
However,
Kahn and Doyle, who had been looking for an opportunity, sprang forward.
In a situation where their formation had been broken, and with the two people’s offensive being added into the mix, the scavengers were literally being swept away.
“Stop those three! Do whatever you can to stop them!”
In his fright, Eins yelled at the top of his lungs. But from the moment their siege had turned into a melee, they had little chances of winning the battle. Yeon-woo was dashing from scavenger to scavenger just like a wolf killing a flock of sheep. Swords were swung from every direction, but none of them could deceive Yeon-woo’s senses.
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Yeon-woo skillfully dodged the attacks as if he had eyes everywhere, he held his dagger backward while stabbing at his opponents’ muscles and arteries, and threw several daggers that penetrated their necks.
Kahn and Doyle were just as fierce as Yeon-woo. Doyle quickly slid to a side as he summoned a series of flamebugs. Then, he made them explode in the middle of a group of scavengers, wreaking chaos in the battlefield. Kahn, on the other hand, was fighting amid the enemy lines. Streams of blood splashed up whenever he wielded his sword, as if to show why he was called Blood Sword.
The scene they created felt like a city being engulfed by a tidal wave. Now, the scavengers position was reversed. From the predators, into the preys
“You sons of bitches…!”
Eins struggled as hard as he could in order to turn the situation around. But before he knew it, Kahn was already right in front of his face. He hurriedly swung his sword from the shock.
Without missing the chance, Kahn wielded his sword aiming for Eins’ neck
*Shluk*
And his head fell on the floor.
* * *
The scavengers collapsed as quickly as the initial shock they had created with their appearance. Their awaited backup showed up dead, and their leader, Eins, also died a sudden death. Their morale hit rock bottom.
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Eventually, the scavengers abandoned their weapons one by one and began to surrender, knowing that they had no chance of winning.
“I, I surrender! Please, d, don’t kill me!”
“We were just forced to do what Eins told us to do. Believe me!”
“Y, yeah he’s right! We had no choice but to take part in order to survive! B, but I’ve never killed any player, so please, spare me…!”
They wanted to bet on Kahn’s and Doyle’s compassion. They had seen, how Kahn and Doyle had tried to take responsibility for the slaves even though they weren’t acquainted with them. Based on this, they thought that Kahn and Doyle might spare their lives if they put down their weapon and surrendered.
However,
“What’s the difference between you and Hargan?”
Kahn looked at the kneeling players and inquired coldly.
“W, what?”
“I’m asking what makes you different from Hargan who consumed his own kind, shitheads!”
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“What… Kuk!”
Kahn relentlessly stuck his sword into their throats.
The scavengers then realized who they had messed with. They had thought he was still green, but the player they were dealing with was the Blood Sword. A swordsman who was born as the son of a ranker in The Tower but had made his own name without riding on his father’s coattail.
They should have known that such a person would not be swayed by mere compassion.
“Hargan at least cried when he saw his wife and his babies dead. But what about you? You must have been laughing all the while you sold other players to the monsters! And you even murdered the rest of the trapped players!”
In the end, seeing that it was dangerous to stay any longer, the scavengers began to run away one by one. There was a great risk of falling prey to the Lizardmen by escaping unarmed into the swamp area. But they couldn’t afford to think that far ahead.
However, escaping wasn’t going to be so easy.
Just like when Yeon-woo eliminated their reinforcement, he was now hunting them from the shadows. Eventually and for a long time, horrible screams echoed around the forest. By the time the heavy smell of blood drifted with the wind, all the scavengers had already disappeared.
*Tak*
Yeon-woo returned after getting rid of the last remaining scavenger, and there, he saw Kahn and Doyle sitting down deep in sorrow.
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They had thought they had rescued the people who had been trapped by the Lizardman King. But the slaves were, in fact, all dead, and the only ones left were the scavengers trying to kill them. It must have been a tremendous shock.
Yeon-woo didn’t say a word. Unlike himself, who had experienced this kind of things many times in Africa, this must have been the first time for them.
There will be apprehension towards humans, and there will be anger towards those who did this. In times like this, with all these kinds of emotions stirring their minds, no consolation would help them. The only thing he could do was to wait for them to organize their thoughts and stand on their own two feet.
‘After that, people usually fall into one of two cases. Either they go crazy or they let it go.’
In the meantime, Yeon-woo wiped the blood off of Carshina’s Dagger with a cloth and stuck it next to his waist.
Kahn then looked at Yeon-woo with an indifferent stare.
“How come you’re so calm after this?”
“I got used to it.”
“I have no idea… what kind of life you might have lived. What about other people in your world, are they just like you?”
Yeon-woo shrugged his shoulders.
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“If they were, the whole world would have gone mad.”
Kahn, as if he was exhausted, lightly rubbed his eyes with his index finger and thumb. Then, he swept his face with his hands and looked at Yeon-woo with a serious look.
“Can I be honest?”
Yeon-woo nodded calmly. He had a rough idea about what he was going to say.
“These crazy bastards who had been pretending to be victims got us shocked but… Truth be told, both of us are a little scared of you too.”
“….”
“I don’t understand how you can remain cool in a situation like this. I can’t help but think that you were suspicious of them from the beginning.”
Kahn’s expression was sunken.