Chapter 116
Chapter 116
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Translator: True Detective
Chapter: 0
Chapter Title: All-In on the Female Submission Hunter!
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All in on the Female Submission Hunter!
I've already crossed the line.
In the past, I took down the one I once called a friend.
No one other than that child who was like a daughter to me...
"No."
Without any noble excuses like that—just the reward I could only claim by becoming the Clan Head of the Supreme Lee Clan.
To secure the finest plot of land in the northern reaches of the Korean Peninsula.
Solely for the clan, I've become the kind of Clan Head who can even strike down a friend.
In other words, from here on out, I wouldn't see anything in my path.
Kwajik!
"Kuhuk?!"
"...?"
In that instant, someone shot past her side.
Seeing her unsightly, unbefitting a Clan Head, reduced to a bloody mess—she was the Clan Head of the Wilhelm family, Maya Wilhelm.
"Maya Wilhelm? Don't tell me you lost?"
"Kuuh... Don't even mention it. The owner of the depths just showed up here!"
"The owner of the depths?"
"That guy right there!"
Following the direction of Maya Clan Head's pointing finger.
Before Emma Clan Head's eyes loomed an enormous serpent, massive enough to swallow the entire island, having pierced Yeouido's barrier and reared up above it.
"Krrrrr..."
"Indeed, no matter how you look at it, that power is on the level of the upper layers... the highest floors among them."
"That's what I'm saying! At first, when it was in human form, I could manage somehow, but after it suddenly transformed like that, I couldn't stand a chance!"
A declaration of defeat from a Clan Head's lips.
Even if Maya Clan Head wasn't one to obsess over victory or defeat, she wasn't the type to openly admit it like this.
In short, the thing's power was the real deal.
It was more accurate to say one of the 'upper layer owners' had been summoned atop this island turned aerial fortress.
"What an absurd thing to crawl out."
"Krrrrrr..."
"However, even so, it's just a beast in the end."
"Kraaaaaah!"
The massive serpent's head swallowed Emma Clan Head's body in an instant, dismissing her arrogance.
At that sight, Emma Wilhelm thought they'd just lost one of their Clan Heads and was left utterly speechless.
All that was visible was her face drained white.
"...Kuhp?! Krhuh!"
"Secret Art."
The secret art of the Charlemagne Clan Head, hailed as the strongest among the world's top ten families, darkening the bright sky.
"Karolus Denarius."
From the moment she activated her secret art, Emma Clan Head could now store each of her previously used attributes within a single finger.
"Corrosive."
In her index finger, the power to corrode all things in the world.
"Toxic."
In her thumb, a poison capable of killing anything in this world.
"Radioactive."
In her middle finger, a horrifying radiation that destroyed life forms themselves.
"Ignition."
In her ring finger, flames that turned anything they touched to ash.
And finally.
"Explosive."
In her pinky, the weakest finger, she concentrated the power of destruction itself—explosion.
She drove that fist, infused with all five powers, straight into the enemy's innards.
The effect was immediate.
"Kieeeek?!"
It was a cruelty beyond words.
Ptooey!
Amid the fountain of blood spraying across all of Yeouido, Emma Clan Head emerged without a speck of filth.
Meanwhile, Jörmungandr spewed black blood nonstop, its guts wrecked in proportion to its massive body, unable even to maintain its original form.
"Kuh... Ugh!"
Its size gradually shrank until it reverted to human shape.
"Hu... man...!"
But before it could recover.
"Oxidizing."
In her middle finger, the power to melt everything.
"Hemolytic."
In her thumb, a harmful substance that obliterated all blood cells in a life form.
"Carcinogenic."
And in her pinky, cancer cells—the natural predator of all life forms—before piercing Jörmungandr's solar plexus once more.
"Kuhuuugh...!"
No matter if it was an owner of the depths—even it could only crumble pathetically before the strongest Clan Head, who had shone as a hero of the victorious nations in not one, but two world wars, the only ones in history.
Thud.
"If it had fought me in monster form from the start, that would have been lucky. Otherwise, I couldn't have landed that decisive blow right away."
"Incre... dible...! Emma Clan Head... you're truly that strong, huh?"
"Well, yeah. After all, I'm the only Clan Head among our top ten families who's actually fought on the front lines of a world war."
"Ha, haha..."
Originally, she'd been discarded by her own family.
Sent to the battlefield as an illegitimate child, basically told to die quickly—but who could've known the German forces would reach the French homeland in just three days?
At the time, the battlefield felt safer than the cities, which were completely overrun.
The Charlemagne family members were mercilessly slaughtered by Nazi forces advancing to the Eiffel Tower.
All except Emma Clan Head, who was suffering on the front lines.
'Is she just on a whole different level from figurehead Clan Heads like us? Even those who flew high in the world wars... No, even then, not to this extent.'
Just moments ago, that owner of the depths had been rampaging wildly.
That colossal serpent required at least three Clan Heads charging in just to form a battle line, let alone subdue it.
It was that absurd a monster, yet Emma Clan Head had crushed it despite being caught off guard.
She was undoubtedly one of the greatest Clan Heads, not just now, but in all history.
In a way, she might be the 'strongest' in the entire history of Clan Heads dating back to antiquity.
"Uh, by the way, aren't you going to kill that serpent monster?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because... I suspect its owner is the very man we're looking for."
"?! You mean the hunter we're after is one of those ultra-rare types who can even tame monsters?"
Who knows...
It probably was, but she couldn't say for sure.
By rumor, that guy named Kim Yongchan's hunter class was none other than 'Female Submission Hunter'.
According to her daughter, it was some unheard-of arrogant class name, but did that 'submitting females' qualifier include monsters too?
'Not that it changes anything now.'
In any case, they got lucky.
Familiars tied to their master had a faint thread of mana connecting them.
Follow that, and they'd naturally run into the man.
Gazing down at the half-dead Jörmungandr, Emma Clan Head intended to dismantle her and track down Kim Yongchan...
"My sister..."
"Hm?"
"Don't touch her!"
But then.
Suuung!
"That slime?!"
"Slime?"
In that moment, Lime shifted into a squishy form and slid away, carrying the unconscious Jörmungandr on its back.
At a glance, it was clear this human couldn't win, yet it fled into the dense trees with its precious burden.
"Two familiar monsters...?"
"No time to gawk—chase them down!"
"Right, we should..."
Yeah.
They had to pursue.
This was actually better.
One familiar might break and die while extracting info, but now they had a spare chance.
Might as well catch that monster too and make its owner spill everything.
Since the familiars were calling each other sisters, no need for tedious brainwashing—just torture one in front of the other to get answers fast.
'...Damn it.'
To think such thoughts came so naturally now.
I've really broken.
But that's exactly why she couldn't stop.
The water was already spilled—she'd just watch where it flowed and what sacrifice it demanded from the world.
"Is Isabella Clan Head still fighting those kids?"
"Well... haha. If she's out of sight, probably?"
She'd likely headed toward the young Clan Head and Princess Seolgi.
Or maybe, like careless Gok, she had some hidden power after all.
Whatever.
Catch that slime, and it was all over anyway.
"Ice attribute!"
Maya Clan Head, following behind, unleashed her ice attribute, turning the ground into a sheet of ice as Lime zigzagged through the trees.
Its lower body quickly froze solid, trapping it—and now Lime was surrounded by two Clan Heads.
"Slime. Tell us where your master is."
"N-No!"
As expected, to break the familiar monster's spirit, Emma Clan Head slowly pressed her heat-infused finger to the unconscious Jörmungandr's thigh.
Sizzle.
"Eueut... Ut...!"
"Speak quickly. Or I'll slice off this thigh of your 'sister' the serpent monster and stuff it in your mouth."
"N-Nooo... S-Stop it!"
"I want answers, not excuses. I'll count to five. If you don't talk, her left leg gets cut off because of you."
Despite Lime's pleas to stop, the reddened finger began slicing into the serpent monster's thigh.
As five became four, four became three.
"A, Aaaah...! D-Don't! Please don't!"
Her sister and her master.
Unable to choose between them, Lime reverted to its original human form and began to sob.
As three ticked to two and the finger neared bone.
"1...?!"
BOOM!
An explosion ripped through the air, detonating precisely above the two Clan Heads in front of and behind the monster sisters.
"Kuh, kuaaaak?!"
"This power...?"
Leaving the sprawled Maya Clan Head behind, Emma Charlemagne turned to see the traitor emerging from beyond the saplings.
"Kara Ardri!"
"Hoo. Sorry, but I'm all-in on Yongchan-kun here to the end."
Among the top ten families, the one that had sided with Kim Yongchan.
Kara Clan Head, her green hair whipping in the wind, had come to protect the boy's two familiar monsters.