37 Episode 37 - Territory Dispute, Part III (1/2)

Chapter 13. Territory Dispute, Part III

Translator: Khan

Editor: RED

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Under a pedestrian overpass...

Originally, a place where cars should be running was now a bloody battleground.

Three Orcs and nine humans were going at it.

”God damn it, what kind of power…”

”Spear! Give me another spear!”

A simple and brutal war was taking place against monsters, using crude spears made of sharp cut-offs of iron pipe ends, and a crude shield made of car doors.

It was a desperate battleground.

”Spray! Spray!”

Those who were fighting the Orcs were doing everything they could desperately.

The man with the car-door shield was tanking an Orc like a football lineman, and the men in motorcycle helmets were blackening or yellowing Orc's eyes and mouths with the spray paint in their hands.

”Aaaaaaah!” The man with the steel pipe spear drove a spear into Orc's body with all his might.

In such a mortal battle, the victory was rapidly passing to the humans.

”Kuh! Kuhuh!”

The blood-stained Orcs screamed, looking like hedgehogs with the spears stuck in them, were in great pain and struggling for life.

”They are almost done!” The faces of the human group gradually began to smile, and the conviction of victory began to spread.

”K-hung!”

Until an Orc which is bigger than ordinary Orc appeared on the pedestrian overpass.

”On the overpass, on the overpass!” The appearance of the big Orc, which had to be the captain of the Orcs they were fighting, changed the atmosphere at once.

The Orc now inflated its chest as much as possible and bellowed when it was done.

KAAAAAH!

Its ferocity swept over them.

”Uh…” Immediately, some of their legs limp.

”Kuhuh!”

At the same time, the blood-stained Orcs flared like candles just before they were extinguished.

The situation had changed.

”Get ahold of yourself!”

”Just hold on! They're all dying!”

The humans yelled out, but the captain Orc on the pedestrian overpass moved to the railing as if to laugh at their efforts. He was going to throw his huge body into the battlefield immediately.

”Hey!” At that moment, on the left side of the captain Orc, something approached at a tremendous pace and gave a short cry.

”Kuh?” When the captain Orc turned its head, what he saw was the head of a huge hammer used in the steel factory.

Krak! The hammer smashed the head of the captain Orc, crushed its face, and even broke its skull.

The head of the captain Orc spewed out something red, like a burst watermelon.

Bang Hyun-wook, the man who finished it in one hit, immediately shouted down below, ”I'll eat this one!”

At the words, those below burned with fighting spirit instead of anger.

”Oooh!”

”Get them! All we have to do is kill these Orcs that are left!”

The fighting spirit began to fade in the eyes of the Orcs that had lost their captain.

The battle was one-sided thereafter. The three Orcs died, and those who survived the battle spat out long breaths.

For some of them it was not enough, and after taking a cigarette from their pockets, they began to smoke carefully.

Bang Hyun-wook, watching the scene from up on the overpass, turned his head slightly. He saw Jang Sung-hoon looking around the building with a map.

”Brother.”

”What?”

”The buildings around here are not cleaned up yet, are they not dangerous?”

At the words, Bang Hyun-wook looked around the area. No white flags were visible anywhere in the buildings around them.

”That's why I brought you here.”

”No, not that… If you have any problems, I can just run away with you, but what about those below…”

At his words, Jang Sung-hoon folded the map and immediately looked at those who were working on monster stone collection under the overpass.

”To live, they have to risk it.”

”What if they die?”

”It's better than just dying doing nothing. At least they're not trying to die, are they?” Jang Sung-hoon sighed briefly, looking at them doing their best to survive.

'The parties are growing.'

Parties. They were groups for monster hunting in the area of ​​Mac Clan now.

'I could have wished that.'

After Kim Tae-hoon demanded a price of forty percent, some of the survivors began to hunt more aggressively than when Lee Jin-sung was the leader of Messiah.

There were many reasons.

'Since we have given them a lot of things, at least they have to show what they're trying to do.'

Kim Tae-hoon had shown them tricks needed to hunt monsters through the Mac Clan.

He did not hide the reason for spraying, how to make poison balloons with perfume, oil, pesticides, and exploit the weaknesses of monsters.

In addition, the Mac Clan is removing monsters with orange eyes that were stronger than red-eyed monsters, and monsters that moved in large groups from time to time.

There were only traces of the Mac Clan passing by; a fugitive monster who could not build a pack near a building with a white flag; a fugitive who ran away from other powerful monsters; and a vagrant monster. For the hunting dogs, safe hunting was possible.

Of course, the biggest reason was the street tax of forty percent.

'Is what they are wearing the Orc leather armor? Nice work. I heard a rumor that an old man who was a shoemaker would make a leather set for a monster stone… I'll have to meet him once.'

The rest was for the hunting dogs after paying their forty percent tax. With their monster stones as well as their monster corpses, whatever they did was up to them.

But they couldn't just use them stupidly. If they had intended to do that, they wouldn't have hunted monsters in the first place.

There was something they wanted to get through hunting, so they were hunting.

In other words, hunting monsters was not just consumption, but hunting to fuel productive activities.

'We built an ecosystem, so they're trying to survive.'

Of course, all sorts of ways were being tested out, trying to use monster bodies more efficiently.

The old man who made leather shoes, and the technician who repaired the leather shoes, now making armor with monster hides; the worker from a construction site who made a spear with construction materials; and someone who worked at the car factory, converted a car into a tank to break the monsters.

'It's more like a place where people live now.'

It was also the way mankind has survived so far.

The development of technology created to achieve something better had made humans the top predator.

The same was true of the age of monsters. In order for humans to survive in this age, they had to use this way to survive.