115. Human Garden (4)
115. Human Garden (4)
The Healer couldn't understand what was happening before her eyes.
Their brains had been pierced through, their breath had stopped.
Of course, it wasn't complete death, but a state so close to death that it was impossible to save them.
To the point where even if the Saint came, she would think saving them was impossible.
But the woman before her was bringing the two dead people back to life. No, she had brought them back.
She was clearly saying her unique ability was human, but the woman in front of her didn't look human at all.
She just looked like an ordinary woman, but now that she looked, countless insects were flying around her.
The problem was that those insects weren't normal insects.
There were some that looked like ordinary butterflies, but there were also things that anyone would have no choice but to call Creatures flying around her.
Among them, a mosquito the size of her palm came into the woman's hand, and the woman immediately crushed it to death.
She slowly inserted the suspicious liquid that looked like blood from the mosquito Creature into the hole in the head that had been pierced through.
And on top of that, the Divine Power emanating from her hand.
Those two actions had saved the dead Hero and Adventurer.
She absolutely couldn't understand it.
Bringing dead people back to life is something from myths.
==
"Kkeueung... Haa, this is still really hard."
Erina felt dizzy from her depleted Divine Power.
[ Be. Careful. ]
Evolute wrapped its tentacles around Erina's waist to support her stumbling body, worried that the Queen's toy might break.
"Thank you... Hoo-ah..."
Although she had borrowed the power of the Moss Creature, it wasn't just a simple piercing—the brain had been pierced through, and treating it required an enormous amount of concentration.
In the past, this would have been absolutely impossible, but while operating the Human Ranch and managing countless pregnant women, her healing efficiency with Divine Power had risen to the extreme.
The reason was simple.
When war breaks out, medicine advances.
The reason was simple. Because the number of injured and dead people becomes very high.
In the process of treating those people and dealing with deaths, numerous incidents occur, making new ideas emerge, and new technologies are created.
Erina was currently performing healing on all the humans in the Colony.
The Human Ranch, the Museum, the Human Zoo, and even the Corpse Disposal Site.
Erina wanted to make it so that no one in the Colony died from illness while she was there.
Humans who couldn't get pregnant or broke the rules would become food as they were, but aside from that, she wanted to protect everyone.
But to do that, she needed to raise her own power, which had been stuck at B-rank.
So she made sure to handle all the patients that occurred in the Colony, and even the corpses, with her own hands.
It wasn't just humans without injuries that came when the Creatures kidnapped them.
There were many humans with various wounds, and Erina saved those people, and studied why the people who died on the way to the Colony had died.
In this way, Erina treated a very wide variety of patients in the Colony—things she would never have experienced normally—and eventually reached S-rank in her healing ability alone. No, she surpassed it.
However, even if she were to become an Adventurer now, she wouldn't achieve S-rank as an Adventurer.
That's because an Adventurer ultimately needs to have a means to protect their own body.
But her healing magic alone had risen to the point where it could be compared to the Saint.
If the Saint heals with overwhelming Divine Power, Erina has achieved overwhelming skill by directly experiencing the healing and deaths of countless humans.
Moreover, it wasn't just that she handled mana and Divine Power well.
Having received permission from Queen Leah to use Creatures related to treatment and healing, Erina had established herself as a human-exclusive Healer in the Legion.
What's impressive about this is that, unlike Amber or Yui, she is a pure human. Her heart too.
Although it has become an act of helping Creatures, Erina works here with the sole intention of saving at least one more person.
Her now-changed comrade, Yui.
Back in their Adventurer days, she was a bit prickly but pure and kind-hearted mage, but now she doesn't call people 'people' but 'humans.'
She ties up living humans, feasts on their brains, and treats humans like mere insects.
Honestly, there were times when she thought about giving up, just letting her mind go and becoming a Creature herself.
She wanted to be without any worries, without any concerns, without feeling any fear.
So many people die before her eyes.
And not just die—they die in so many different ways.
But there was no one to rely on here.
A few months ago, there had been Na-rim, the only one she could empathize with and get along with.
The problem was that unlike Erina, who saves people, Na-rim had to turn living humans into meat and cook food.
Eventually, she couldn't hold out for long, her mind collapsed, and she ended up with the same personality as a Creature.
In the end, Erina was left alone in the Colony, trapped in a lonely and frightening situation.
But she thought that if she herself changed like that, there would be no one to work for the people here, and countless people would die.
So Erina pulled herself together and maintained her human purity.
==
The Hero and the Mage hadn't fully recovered to 100%.
It wasn't that they had regained consciousness and could use their power—it was just that their lives had been preserved.
For Evolute, that was enough.
What Evolute needed to do now wasn't to heal them and return them to normal, but to use their bodies to create Creatures.
Their semen had already been extracted as much as possible.
Since it was the semen of S-rank Adventurers, he thought he could make quite delicious humans.
Evolute had already finished thinking about how to turn the Hero and the Mage into Creatures.
The Archer and the Healer were the same.
However, they weren't going to become Creatures themselves—they were bodies for creating Creatures.
He had already learned through Gwen that humans could conceive and give birth to Creatures.
But there was a problem.
Gwen was at the top tier even by human standards.
She was a being stronger than even these current S-rank Adventurers. And even someone like Gwen, if it hadn't been for Leah's power, both Gwen and her child would have almost died.
In the end, Leah poured out her Divine Power and life force to bring forth Stacey, who was born strong enough to rival A-rank Adventurers from the moment of birth.
Now she was growing further by continuously eating humans.
No, she was growing like crazy day by day.
Anyway, powerful Creatures like Stacey were good, but in the end, a body is just one.
Evolute didn't want a Creature that was extremely strong—he wanted Creatures that were moderately strong and moderately numerous, able to cover the increasingly expanding Colony.
For that, various experiments were necessary. In this situation, the Healer and the Archer were very suitable test subjects.
Evolute put the Hero and the Mage into the cocoons he was managing and approached the Healer.
Numerous tentacles crawled out of Evolute's body, and just as they were about to enter the Healer's genitals to modify her and make her pregnant—
Pwaat!
Kwaaaaaaaaaaang!!!
In the Breeding Ground, which only had a little light for the sake of the pure human Erina, a bright light burst forth from the cocoon containing the Hero.
Though he had been brought back to life by Erina, an ordinary human would have been in a state where it was hard to move even a single finger.
[ Impressive. ]
Evolute looked at the Hero, who was standing like a hero turned the tide, holding a sword made of mana, and admired him.
Even for Evolute, who didn't have much knowledge of humans, he had used countless humans as test subjects over half a year.
Evolute knew just how serious the Hero's physical condition was by human standards, which made him even more impressed.
[ As expected. A. Very. Good. Test subject. ]
"Oh, Oppa!!!"
"Zeon!!!"
Evolute's tentacles rushed to capture the Hero, but the Hero's sword cut through all of Evolute's tentacles.
[ Hmm... ]
With almost no combat ability, only Evolute and Erina remained.
[ Stacey-nim. ]
Evolute reluctantly called a name he didn't want to call.
"You called me!?"
Less than five seconds after Evolute spoke, Stacey appeared from Evolute's body.
[ That. Man. Subdue. Required. But. No. Harm. ]
"Got it!!!"
[ Minimize. Damage. To. Surroundings. ]
"Yiyayayayayaaaaaaaah!!!"
[ The damage... ]
Kwagagagagagagang!!!
Stacey and the Hero clashed.
The Hero was strong, but his condition was at its worst right now.
Moreover, Stacey was originally stronger, so subduing him was an easy task.
However, Stacey, who hadn't been able to participate in the invasion of the Padix Kingdom this time, was thirsty for battle.
Bang! Kwagagagak! Bang!
To enjoy the battle, Stacey began toying with the Hero instead of subduing him immediately.
The problem was that the Breeding Ground, which contained countless human and Creature specimens, started getting trashed in the process.
[ Ah. ]
Evolute, who had seen in real time the Breeding Ground, which he had organized with not even 1mm of error, getting destroyed, covered his eyes with his tentacles.