43 Episode 43 - Daedongyeojido, Part III (1/2)

Chapter 15. Daedongyeojido, Part III

Translator: Khan

Editor: RED

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Everything was trying to live. The moment things combined together to live, it became an ecosystem.

The monsters, that we do not know from where they had appeared, also built an ecosystem to live.

The weak monsters that did not dare to have their territory, and could not even hunt, wandered around in search of bodies or the remains that some monster had eaten and left, and the strong monsters lived there, building their own territory.

A large stone fell on the ecosystem.

The Black Snake.

A terrible snake that had laired in Bucheon City and made its territory there, had died. It was like the death of a king.

It was not something that you could hide just because you wanted to hide it.

The news of the death of the king spread faster than the death of anything else and brought a great shake-up. Pointedly, it made the monsters with ambition move. Monsters that wanted to make the area of the Black Snake their own territory began to move more actively in groups.

It was Kim Tae-hoon, the new king who defeated the Black Snake and got everything it had, that trampled their ambition.

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Kim Tae-hoon's right arm, reminiscent of a huge hammer, was black from his fingertips to the shoulder joint. It broke the skull of the Monkey Dog, who had a head twice the size of his own

Even as the burst pieces of skull and brains of the Monkey Dog scattered to wet the ground, Kim Tae-hoon moved into the twelve Monkey Dogs that followed their boss.

He passed between the Monkey Dogs like a snake, striking a black fist toward the head of a Monkey Dog.

The scene looked as if Kim Tae-hoon was moving in a suspended world.

The reason it looked that way was not that Kim Tae-hoon's movement was simply fast. It was his accuracy.

Kim Tae-hoon's fist was exactly punched in the middle of the forehead, in between two red eyes over the protruding snout of the Monkey Dog, in a situation where everything was moving blindingly fast.

It was a superhuman skill.

There was no other word than that to describe the ability to achieve exactly what he desired in all the action that took place so quickly.

”This is insufficient.”

It was proof that Kim Tae-hoon quickly adapted himself to the new power of the Eyes of Black Snake and made it his own.

It was why Kim Tae-hoon ignored the blood and gore, throwing himself willingly into the fight against the coming monsters, like they were the most delicious cooking for him.

”I have nothing to say.”

”Who's the monster…”

The survivors, who viewed him as a savior, at such an appearance of Kim Tae-hoon, could not help but admire him.

They dismantled the monster bodies without stopping, but the scene, where the number of dead monster bodies was growing rather than decreasing, was a shock, not just admiration.

However, Kim Tae-hoon, the source of that violence, was not satisfied with the scene he created.

Two monsters.

He was not satisfied.

'There are two monsters of the same rank as the dragon on the Korean peninsula.'

The gruesome horror of the world was palpable to him now. He couldn't help but know how damned the world was.

The despair felt at the moment when the horror was enumerated was much more fatal.

He thought there would be a monster that was equal to the dragon, but he realized that such monsters were in Mt. Baekdu and Mt. Halla.

At the beginning and the end of the Korean peninsula, an unutterable monster was serving as a gatekeeper.

In addition, the proportion of land of the Korean peninsula was very small compared to the huge area of the whole Earth.

So how many monsters were similar to the dragon in the whole world?

That was not the only thing.

”There are dozens of monsters around me that are stronger than the Black Snake I was lucky to kill at the risk of my life.”

Daedongyeojido was like a radar, as Jang Sung-hoon had explained.

Strong monsters such as the dragon were marked even if they were far away, but weaker monsters were not displayed when they were distant.

Nevertheless, in the Daedongyeojido that they had secured, there were nine blue lights which are under the rank of dark blue.

The green and yellow lights were too numerous to measure immediately.

'The words of Lee Jin-sung were right.'

The land of Bucheon was the only area among such lights that did not have green and blue lights.

'Bucheon was lucky.'

They survived because of being between the powerful monsters.

'We were lucky right now.'

Of course, it was not positive news.

'A country caught between powerful nations can benefit a few times, but eventually, it collapses at some point. History proves it.'

The ecosystem of the world was being maintained thanks to the overflowing number of humans. This meant that since there were many humans, monsters could survive with the humans as prey right now.

'Humans are not like plankton. They do not lay eggs like fish.'

Right now, the number of humans was overflowing, but if they are eaten and eaten, the number of individuals will eventually decrease sharply.

Since monsters can not raise humans, they will eventually move to places where there are a lot of human beings to survive, and the land of Bucheon, where a population remained, would be the most coveted for such monsters.

In the end, there was only one way.

'We've got to attack them before they come.'

Killing them before we die!

Before monsters come in force, in a situation where mankind has the advantage in numbers, and in a condition where we still have the power, skill, and will to fight, including food, we have to seek the end of the monsters.

To Kim Tae-hoon, killing monsters with red and orange eyes was not exciting. Rather than excited, he felt impatient.

'No, not like this, not with this ability… nothing can be done.'

It was the low whisper of Jang Sung-hoon that took away his impatience.

”Boss, the Golden Glass is full...”