18. Village (4)
18. Village (4)
The Centipede Creature used on Amber.
I hadn't been the Queen for long, so I used it without much thought.
It was only about twice the size of my palm, so I thought it wouldn't consume many resources to create.
But surprise, surprise.
Creating a Centipede Creature costs as much as creating a thousand Ners.
In other words? It means the Centipede Creature is a high-tier, expensive unit.
It's a creature you shouldn't use carelessly. I slightly regret using it on just some random human.
Come to think of it, the Centipede Creature is insanely powerful.
It has no practical combat ability, but its skill is broken.
The Centipede Creature enters the target's nose, locates the brain, and attaches itself to the brain and spinal cord.
It drives its centipede-like legs into the brain and spinal cord to control the nerves.
It doesn't matter what the target thinks.
A living being with a brain moves based on signals from the brain.
It blocks that in the middle and manipulates the signals with the legs embedded in the brain to control them however it wants.
The scarier part is that there's no way to get rid of the centipede other than dying. The problem is, even with that death, you can't die the way you want.
What if you try to force it out? The moment you do, the centipede crushes the brain and spinal cord where its legs are embedded.
Then how do you gag them without the centipede?
Simple.
Chwa-ak!
"Kyaaaaaaah!"
I ripped off both arms so she couldn't attack.
Tteu-deu-deuk!
"Keuk! Keuk!"
And I just had to rip off both legs so she couldn't run away.
"Yu, Yuiiiii!"
"Don't worry. I won't kill you."
I don't intend to kill her since I don't know how to handle mana yet.
I healed the torn parts with Holy Power, which felt warm and cozy yet made my whole body crawl.
Yui, dangling and swaying in my hand.
I threw the fainted Yui, who was streaming tears, snot, and drool from the pain, to Erina.
"Wash her up."
"Ye, yes..."
I tried to avoid the act of removing limbs as much as possible.
Do you know what happens to a person if they lose their limbs? Most people give up on living and their minds crumble.
That person eventually dies mentally and gives up on life.
In short, it means they can't get pregnant and become useless for farming.
A human body might seem sturdy, but it's heavily influenced by the mind.
That's why I tried not to cut off the limbs of people used for farming, but Yui is different.
She's a B-rank Adventurer who has overcome countless hardships and adversities.
She won't give up on life just because her limbs are gone.
Well, if she says she gives up, I can just fix her so she doesn't.
If she can't get pregnant, I can just absorb all her mana.
What a kind thought this is.
To make everything useful.
And honestly, it's ridiculous.
Why are they trying to kill me? It's not like I'm going to destroy the world.
Just about half. Half of this world is enough.
I'm not trying to destroy humanity, either. I'm just going to farm about half of them, so why are they acting like this?
==
[ Queen-nim? Did something happen? ]
Evolute asked, seeing me covered in blood.
"Nothing happened."
[ Understood. ]
"Humans are coming soon, did you make it well?"
[ Of course. Together with Amber. I made it. ]
"With Amber?"
[ Yes. I verified if the facility works well through Amber. ]
"Oho. Well, there has to be a subject for experiments, I suppose."
[ I will show you. ]
"Sure."
I'm curious.
What kind of human farm Evolute, who read a human's memories, created.
I followed Evolute to the farm, my eyes drawn to Evolute's tentacle legs, which were moving diligently as it walked forward.
Is this what it feels like if an octopus walks?
Honestly, the front looks creepy, but I think the back is a little cute.
[ This is the space where the livestock will stay. ]
The first thing I saw was the place where humans rest and sleep.
'Oh? It's cleaner and nicer than I expected? Did Evolute make my bedroom?'
Honestly, I was thinking of the farm as a livestock pen for raising pigs or cows.
But what I saw in front of me was just a prison-like room.
"But how on earth do you make things like this?"
[ They are all living organisms. ]
"These? They don't enter my Hive Mind."
[ They are inorganic matter made using living organisms. ]
"Oho... Do they move if I force them to command?"
[ It would be possible, but they would have zero lethality. ]
"Well, they don't have eyes, mouths, or noses, so they are useless."
It seems they made them into useless creatures because their combat ability disappeared.
Even if creatures are killing machines, there are mutations and failures.
Usually, they disappear through cannibalism, but the ones that survive seem to become objects for us like this.
Nice.
"But isn't it annoying to breed humans in rooms like this? It's not like they live all together, and even if there are many here, 10 seems to be the limit?"
[ Correct. But what is needed to breed humans is humans. ]
"Hmm?"
[ Humans are interesting creatures. I will make humans breed humans. ]
"Oho..."
Certainly, humans are the best at handling humans.
This world is a medieval fantasy-style world. It's a world you'd see in most manga or novels.
It means slavery exists.
According to Amber, even in the glorious Kingdom of Padix, slavery exists, and there are many things related to the underworld, that is, darkness.
Kidnapping, slavery, and assassinations happen, she said.
"Then how do you plan to breed humans?"
[ The creature collects the male's semen. Inserts it with tentacles. ]
Oh...
[ Male semen extraction. If it doesn't come out anymore, then as food. ]
It suddenly turned into tentacle stuff.
Evolute quickly made a human-looking mannequin in front of me and showed me how it proceeds.
In rooms lined up like a pigsty, like where cows eat, they hang their necks and eat, and they get pregnant through tentacles.
Managing such humans is a human selected by Evolute.
A human who doesn't want to die. A human obsessed with power.
Even in situations where humans have to stick together, humans have a habit of dividing themselves into ranks and excluding others.
In short, they are stupid.
[ Queen-nim. ]
Dagos's voice.
Finally, they arrived.
Our first humans for human farming.
==
"W, what on earth is this!"
"That kind of thing is a monster? Where did such a large army of monsters suddenly come from!?"
"Are there really that many monsters of that level!?"
"We need to recruit adventurers right now!"
"Shouldn't the Knights Order go if it's that level!"
"Who will protect this city if the Knights Order leaves!"
The Lord and nobles of Mederun City, who were watching Gwen's memories as a video, were very surprised.
It's not that monsters forming groups and creating legions to attack humanity has never happened in history.
The problem is that according to the information from that history, the time when monsters form legions and attack is exactly when the Demon King existed.
Monsters forming legions and attacking means exactly that.
"Did the Demon King really revive!?"
"Where, where is the Hero!?"
"Don't speak lightly about the Demon King reviving! Do you know how much ripple effect those words have!"
"Then how do you explain that monster army!"
"We must call all S-rank adventurers outside right now!"
"Tell the Padix Kingdom this fact immediately—"
"Stop!"
The Lord's shout made the noise disappear in an instant.
"Knight Commander Gwen."
"Yes."
"What does the Knight Commander think."
"First, I think you should continue watching the video."
"Understood."
Gwen began to watch the video, which was a visualization of her own vision, with a calm and settled mind now.
Spider monsters.
Thousands of them attacked the village. The scary part is that not a single spider monster ate the citizens.
This clearly means there is an entity that can perfectly control monsters, and thousands of them at that.
The problem is that it's not just that.
If there were only spider monsters, I would have thought that a Spider Queen had appeared.
But it wasn't.
"Th, that is..."
"Hi, hiik...!"
".........."
When the Ners appeared, everyone at least reacted. But at the sight of Gluttony, they couldn't even react like that.
"In my feeling, I think that monster is National Despair-class."
"Knight Commander! Don't speak lightly!"
"Do you know what it means that a National Despair-class has appeared!"
"The Demon King must have revived!"
"Isn't the Knight Commander feeling that way because she is weak!?"
"Hoo..."
Gwen just wanted to punch those mouths that were flapping in a safe place, but she held back.
Even if those nobles were trash, it's true that the nobles' abilities are needed by the citizens.
"Knight Commander Gwen. Can I trust those words?"
"Yes. There is no mistake. If that monster attacks Mederun right now, our Mederun will be erased from the map."
"Knight Commander Gwen!!!"
"Is that so... Understood."
"Lord!"
"I will tell the Kingdom right now that a National Despair-class monster has appeared. Knight Commander, raise the city's security to the highest level immediately."
Gwen bowed her head and said.
"Understood."
==
Species: Chimera
Rank: World Emergency-class
Overview: A creature born from cannibalizing numerous kin. Its appetite level is on par with Gluttony.
It is similar to Gluttony, but it is clearly a different creature. Gluttony needs many humans due to its overwhelming body size, but Chimera needs many humans because it has numerous creatures inside its body.
Possessing the abilities of numerous creatures, Chimera is one, yet it is a legion.