36. Gwen (6)
36. Gwen (6)
"Enjoy your meal."
I patted the Mimic Creature.
Ujeok. Ujeok. Ujeok.
Something is weird.
Recently, humans who are trying to kill me have appeared.
Until now, it was only humans targeting me based on my appearance and body. Even when they threatened me, their purpose was to kidnap or rape me without causing as much damage to my body as possible.
But recently, strangely, humans who only move to kill me have appeared.
'Besides, they feel completely different from vagrants or mercenaries.'
From their attire to the way they fight, everything was completely different from the humans I had seen so far.
They seemed like humans who had been trained together in a professional place to kill people. Should I call them a professional assassin group?
Of course, from my perspective, it's good.
Recently, I was a bit sad because there were no humans approaching me, not knowing what to do with me.
Because it's an opportunity to obtain living humans legally and without any suspicion.
But perhaps because I ate every human who approached me without anyone knowing, at some point, the humans targeting me disappeared.
So I was a bit disappointed, but suddenly an assassin appeared.
"Th... this mo... monster...!"
I kept one human alive who looked like the leader among the assassins.
Unlike the other assassins, their weapon was different, and their attire was slightly different. Anyone could see they were a high-ranking human.
Since there is a group of humans suddenly trying to kill me, I plan to find out information even if I have to torture them.
Now I have to think about how to take this human to the Colony.
But this problem is actually very simple.
Because the underground of this city is already fully developed. What kind of development? Development for my children to move around.
The Mimic Creature lifted the assassin, whose important tendons were all severed. Then it walked to the stairs leading down to the sewer.
A foul stench mixed with various filth and the smell of rot vibrated. Strange substances were clumped together, and the air was also murky.
I walked a bit through that sewer area and stopped at one place. And through the Hive Mind, I ordered the child in front of me.
[ Open it. ]
The wall of the sewer squirmed and moved, a giant eyeball appeared, blinked at me, and the wall opened with a jjeoeok sound.
"Ugh! Ughhh...! Ugh!"
As we went further down the sewer, a giant cave appeared.
Here, no one can disturb my actions.
I approached the assassin, who was twitching on the floor, intending to ask something, but the assassin's body went limp.
I lowered my head and looked at my nun outfit. A thin tentacle came out of the nun outfit, shaking left and right diligently, saying it wasn't its doing.
White foam started coming out of the assassin's mouth, and their pupils dilated.
I placed my finger on the assassin's neck to check the pulse. No reaction.
Did they have poison in their mouth?
Sorry, but...
I pulled up Holy Power, which I don't like to use but have no choice but to use in this situation.
It is definitely a power that feels warm, soft, and like a mother's touch. Even though I perceive it that way, for some reason, whenever I try to use it, I get goosebumps as if I'm hallucinating that bugs are crawling all over my body.
But the power is certain as much as I endure it.
Pure white light flowed from my body into the assassin's body, and the assassin's body flashed.
"Cough!"
The assassin coughed and came back to life.
I don't know to what extent I can revive them, but if it hasn't been a minute since they died, I can revive them.
The only downside is that both Holy Power and Mana disappear in an instant, and a great sense of hunger rushes in.
I immediately took out the Pipe Tobacco and put it in my mouth.
Chiik.
"Sssuuu... Phooo~"
Ha... Pipe Tobacco is indeed the best.
The quality of the Pipe Tobacco is gradually improving.
Originally, I would take the flesh of an ordinary human, drain the moisture in an instant, dry it, turn it into powder, and use it like leaves.
But now, thanks to the Knights of the Padix Kingdom last time, the quality of my tobacco leaves has also improved.
It's tobacco leaves made from flesh that held Mana, not the flesh of an ordinary human.
Recently, I was feeling a slight lack in soothing the growing hunger, but with tobacco leaves made from humans who held Mana, I became able to endure that hunger again.
The problem is that the number of humans who held Mana is not large.
So I have to use it sparingly, but if I use too much Mana or Holy Power, my body craves nutrients, so the hunger becomes quite severe.
My eyes turn black, or my teeth change into sharp teeth for tearing flesh instead of human teeth.
I have to control it moderately to prevent that.
"Then, since I have a lot to ask, let's do this quickly."
I smiled at the assassin, who was reading my expression.
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Ujeok. Ujeok. Ujeok. Ujeok. Ujeok. Ujeok.
According to the assassin, whom I had divided into almost 200 pieces, the Holy Kingdom is trying to assassinate me.
At first, like a trained assassin, they didn't say anything. It was only silence and silence.
Perhaps thinking that they were thoroughly trained to endure torture, and that they wouldn't open their mouth with ordinary torture, I used a special method.
It's using them as food for the kids.
The Mimic Creature, similar to Gluttony, can change its whole body into something specific, and teeth and eyes appear anywhere on that changed form.
I made the Mimic Creature's teeth as small as possible and made them eat from the fingertips and toes step by step.
Small but powerful teeth started chewing on the assassin's body bit by bit.
And when the body was eaten to the point of death, I returned the body with Heal again.
After repeating that to some extent, the assassin finally opened their mouth.
The problem is.
Kwaang!!!
As soon as they opened their mouth, the assassin's head exploded with a bang right in front of my eyes!
But I revived them using Holy Power and Mana.
Instead, I almost chewed up the assassin in front of me, but I suppressed the impulse by thinking of my days as a human.
Anyway, after the assassin's head exploded and they died, perhaps not knowing they would end up like this, they got annoyed and spilled the information they knew.
The assassin is an assassin secretly trained by the Holy Kingdom.
The reason they are targeting me this time is simply because I am called a Saintess in this city.
In the current situation where the Saintess Selection is taking place in the Holy Kingdom, a Saintess suddenly appeared in another country.
As Medherun City has many trades and merchants, the rumors spread quickly.
From the Holy Kingdom's perspective, the fake Saintess started to become too famous.
A Saintess not created by the Goddess's choice but just passed down by people's mouths should not exist.
Since there shouldn't be two Saintesses who have a significant influence on politics between countries, the Holy Kingdom wanted to secretly kill me, who is called a Saintess.
It's only famous among citizens so far, but if the state intervenes, it will be difficult to touch, so they tried to kill me before my influence as a Saintess grew bigger.
"That's interesting, isn't it?"
[ Dare dare dare dareee! ]
[ Must kill. Holy Kingdom. Must perish. Holy Kingdom. Must perish. ]
[ Slaughter slaughter slaughter slaughter slaughter slaughter slaughter slaughter slaughter ]
After all the stories were finished, while I was contemplating what to do with the Holy Kingdom that tried to kill me and the assassin, the Overlord-class children in the Hive Mind started to get angry.
The anger of the children, which I had never felt before, shook the Hive Mind greatly.
I was planning to attack the Holy Kingdom anyway.
Because there are many humans who possess Mana and Holy Power, I thought it could be a stepping stone to stabilize our Colony and grow the legion significantly.
It's just that I postponed it because I wanted to get my hands on Gwen first.
'I need to get my hands on Gwen quickly.'
I put my finger into my mouth and pulled it out.
Jureuk.
Saliva stretching like cheese.
Because of this, I think I can get my hands on Gwen faster than I expected.
These days, Gwen is clearly becoming addicted to the tea that my saliva is in. Although she thinks she isn't, she is clearly becoming addicted.
Niv, who started drinking with Gwen, has already gone beyond addiction and developed a dependency.
These days, I am definitely experimenting with my saliva using Niv.
What symptoms, what effects, what side effects, and what happens when they stop.
My saliva, simply put, is a drug.
But it's ambiguous to even call it a drug.
Drugs usually induce hallucinations, stimulation, pleasure, or anesthetic effects, and are called drugs when addiction and withdrawal symptoms occur.
But my saliva is a little different.
It makes the body healthy. But that health is a slightly different kind of health.
It makes the body's condition the best. As if feeling like flying.
Wait, explaining it like this, it's no different from a drug...?
But there is a big difference from drugs.
Drugs ruin the body, but my saliva makes the body healthy.
To be precise, while the cells are slowly turning into creatures.