Chapter 107 (1/2)
Main Quest (1)
Paht!
The man disappeared from his seat as soon as he finished speaking.
‘Where are you?!’
The observer attempted to chase his tracks as it panicked, but he had already disappeared.
An ominous foreboding stormed into the poodle’s head.
Just a moment ago, the man stared straight at Ilyusha, who activated the [Observer’s Eyes].
Even though thousands of kilometers were distancing the two apart, it was certain. The creepy sensation it felt couldn’t be a misunderstanding.
‘He identified my location!’
If he found out where it was, then his next move was obvious.
When Ilyusha turned its head around, It found Sergei unaware of the situation and simply knitted leisurely.
It felt a sense of crisis that froze its entire body.
‘He might be coming here right now!’
Ilyusha urgently reported the current situation to the Union Headquarters via a multi-dimensional network and asked for help from the five observers monitoring the different regions of the planet.
After finishing all that, it shouted to the young man. It briefly explained the dire situation they were in before giving him an order.
“Sergei! The ‘enemy’ has located this place. Runaway now! Wait at the place we talked about before!”
Sergei was weak compared to it, but by the standards of the Earth’s native species, he was at the very least a B-Rank hunter.
If Ilyusha could succeed in pulling him out of the impending battle before it could commence, there would at least be no danger of death.
However, despite being surprised by the alien’s sudden outburst, he rebelled against its orders.
“What about you, Ilyusha?!”
“If you wait there, I’ll follow–!”
“No! Ilyusha is coming together with me!”
The observer clenched its teeth. It had no time for quarrels and arguments.
Woong!
Ilyusha caused flashes to emerge and converge around Sergei as if holding onto his very being.
It was trying to teleport him forcefully away from the danger.
Sergei, wrapped in light, extended his hands out as if to tell it that he didn’t want to be taken away from Ilyusha. The knitting materials on his knees fell on the ground.
“Wait for me! I promise that I will follow after you soon!”
However, they soon found out that their cries were meaningless.
Paht!
The flow of light that was flocking toward him stopped and dissipated immediately.
The young man frozen by the sudden change in the situation was still standing there.
The teleport had been canceled.
“… De-spell?”
She tried it again, but it was as if a firewall was blocking her.
The observer felt a sense of abnormality in the environment.
There’s one more element that felt strange to it.
‘I called them using an emergency line. Why isn’t anyone answering my requests?’
If it’s a reply from the headquarters in a far-away dimension, it would be understandable if it was late. However, it was uncommon for none of the other observers on Earth to reply.
[Observer’s Eyes]!
The observer, who was looking around with a tense heart, realized the situation.
‘We’re sealed in!’
A simple spell like de-spell didn’t cause the current phenomenon.
The effect of [Observer’s Eyes] was blocked around the house, and its vision couldn’t be extended beyond it.
All magical and non-magical movements that went beyond a certain range around the cabin were blocked.
‘Teleportation is impossible, and the Union’s network is down!’
Perfect isolation.
There was a high probability that its rescue request didn’t reach anyone.
‘What do I do?!’
The moment she was trying to figure out a solution in extreme tension, she heard a calm voice on one side of the cabin.
“… This is a low-quality breed that isn’t worth wasting my seeds on.”
Pshk!
Even before the echoing end of his words could be blown away by the winds, Sergei’s jaw dropped.
“… Huh?”
His blank eyes slowly hovered down at his chest.
A hole had pierced through his chest, crushing his heart as well.
His body tilted to the sides slowly.
Thump!
Like a broken marionette, the young man fell down without any signs of life in his eyes.
His heart was torn off in an instant without warning, causing him to die in that manner.
“Ser…”
The observer’s body trembled, and the ensuing cry ripped through the air.
“Sergeeeiiii!”
There was a man beyond the space where Sergei was standing.
The observer was oblivious of when he got there and how his power was released to kill Sergei.
The human was killed off so easily.
The pale-brown-skinned man spoke, looking at the screeching observer and the body lying in front of him alternatingly.
“I see. Was it a child raised with affection and not for food? I made a mistake.”
The following words stabbed the observer’s chest like a fire poker.
“If I had known, I would have skinned and tortured him instead of killing him immediately.”
“Aaaaaaaaargh!”
The observer, who quickly released the dog’s disguise, spread out its six legs and released an energy bomb around it.
Pa-paht!
Boo-boo-boo-boom!
A flash and heat storm struck the man and blew the whole cabin away.
Amid the debris pouring like volcanic ash, the observer leaked a voice stained with abomination.
“You–!”
In the smoke, the man stood straight without faltering.
His glance stopped at the body that collapsed at the foot of the observer.
The body was still intact in the explosion. Ilyusha had protected it.
After seeing that, the man raised a question.
“Have the Ghenuts stopped eating humans already?”
The words only made Ilyusha’s wrath even worse.
It’s been a long time since her race, the Ghenuts, had agreed not to eat any more intelligent beings.
His words sounded like an insensitive joke to harass her.
“My common knowledge must have stayed too far in the past. My bad.”
“Youuuu!”
“Before I kill you, I have a few questions to ask. Will you answer me?”
The man raised his hand with a smile.
Ilyusha once again unleashed a storm of flashes without an answer.
*
An untimely storm hit the countryside of the Sakha Republic.
It was a vortex created by light and flames instead of rain and wind.
After a frantic conflict that seemed to shake the core of the Earth had passed, the winner of the battle was decided, and the two aliens faced each other with different faces.
“… Have you changed your mind yet?”
“Keuuup–!”
As if to prove that powerful forces clashed at that place, the terrain had changed.
Dust clouds and smoke rose across the lands, and the ground, which melted due to the intense heat, was blazing.
The man seemed to have had almost no change from his first appearance. With an aloof look in that mess, there wasn’t even a grain of dust on him.
On the other hand, Ilyusha looked devastated.
“No… fucking way!”
Shadows had been cast all over the place because of the dust clouds that filled the sky.
Ilyusha was pinned in the dark atmosphere with her body ragged like a mop.
“K-argh!”
In pain, It tried to catch its breath.
Even at that moment, the power that the man displayed was penetrating the observer’s body and was brutally assaulting it. It caused terrible agony that felt like it was mutilating it all the way down to its cells.
After his overwhelming victory, the man repeated his question, tormenting Ilyusha.
If Sergei were alive, he would have tortured him in front of the observer to force it to answer.
“The assignment of as many as six observers to this small planet… causes me headaches, but I let it be. However, the story has changed since you found me.”
He cast a heavy glance down at it with his steel-like eyes.
Looking at her face distorted by pain, he raised a question again.