Chapter 16 (1/2)

The deepest hideout in the underpass – it was built as a bunker in case of emergency situations, but it had been a long time since it was used for those purposes.

A place with plenty of space for tens of thousands of people was bustling with blood-sucking insects.

To use military terms, this was their headquarters. The habitat that Zephyrus had discovered was a small camp of the evil blood-suckers.

Seuseuk.

As they got closer to the center, higher levels appeared. There was a clear order.

The weaker ones were gathered on the outside, but the stronger ones had constantly dug in to get to the center. Something was brewing.

Kyarung!

A stifled cry as if something was caught in the throat. As soon as the sound was heard, it became quiet.

As a thorn the size of a human arm scratched the hard concrete, 5 demon blood-suckers a few times the size of the evil blood-suckers raised their heads.

Demon blood-suckers controlled the incoming insects and drew a circle.

It was to protect the giant cocoon behind them. The cocoon was large enough for all 5 of the demon blood-suckers to fit in.

The top of the cocoon cracked. Something inside was trying to get out.

The demon blood-suckers and insects moved as if they were having seizures. It was like looking at fanatics enshrining a pseudo-Sheikh. It was about half larger than the normal demon blood-sucker. It was an elder to the insects.

Kiik!

They could not describe the despair they felt when they lost their king in a losing war. Fortunately, the king left an heir and the heir was about to be born.

-[We are not yet finished. Worship his return.]

This was what they would have said if the demon blood-suckers’ thoughts were translated into human language.

Kwakwang!

The cocoon could not withstand the power being exerted from inside and a hole formed. The creature that sprang out of it surged towards the ceiling.

Woowoowoowoo!

There was a mighty power in its roar.

This was when Cha Jun Sung had passed out. This was the type of mental collapse that a Level 7 mutant could invoke.

Keukeukeukeuk.

The ceiling was cracking. It had been split by a thorn sharper than a knife.

As it was in the basement, the concrete’s thickness was unimaginable – but the mutant had pierced it.

It was easily 100m from its head to its tail, and 10m in diameter.

Other than the cone-shaped thorn, the underground creature also had blades attached to it. The thorn was larger than a person.

It looked similar to the demon blood-suckers but the underground creature was more fit for destruction. Its color was a harmony of blue, red, and black.

The blood-sucking insect’s 3rd form of evolution.

The blood-sucking lords took one spot in the 36 nightmares.

Seuk.

The blood-sucking lord looked down. The things that gathered. They were weak and insignificant, but he could tell that they were a fellow species.

Kiah!

The blood-sucking insects howled. The king they had so waited for had been born.

How could they express this happiness?

They were ready to avenge the sorrow they felt in the past under the new king’s command.

Mental collapse.

It was the mind control used when high level mutants wanted lower creatures to submit. This concept of lower creatures included humans.

3 years ago in Life Mission, a Level 8 mutant was let loose in a big city.

Outbreak event? That was the basic objective. At the time, Lifers below the 5th stage of body modifications in a 500m radius passed out.

Cha Jun Sung survived the mental collapse and caught the mutant with other Lifers.

Level 8 was that fearsome. He recognized the same noise in the Underpass before passing out. But Underpass was only supposed to be a Class E. What was going on?

“How could it be a blood-sucking lord. Even I’ve only caught one before because they’re so hard to find.”

Disaster and nightmare.

It was the way to refer to Level 9 and Level 8 mutants. Blood-sucking lords were a Level 8 mutant.