64. Elf
64. Elf
I grabbed the man's brain and immediately tried using his Unique Ability.
A bandage appeared before my eyes.
'What a trashy Unique Ability.'
I touched the bandage to check it.
It's just a normal bandage. Plus, it doesn't stay active constantly; it disappears after a certain amount of time.
It's a truly useless ability.
Sure, I could bind someone in mid-air wherever I want, but as I said before, it's just a normal bandage.
Any Adventurer or knight with a bit of strength would easily tear it apart.
'So that's why he was only kidnapping children who couldn't even tear a bandage like that? What a trashy human with a trashy Unique Ability.'
Well, the only advantage is that it can obstruct vision for a split second, but from my perspective, it's a trashy Unique Ability.
To use the Unique Ability, I have to keep the human alive, and that maintenance eventually costs resources.
It doesn't cost much, but if I keep increasing the number of humans for the sake of the Unique Ability, it'll add up.
'I should only make the truly useful humans mine.'
I pulled my hand out of the man's brain and said,
"Don't leave even a drop of blood, eat it all at once."
The Mimic Creature on the ceiling came down to the floor in an instant and wrapped around the man.
It looked like a boa constrictor that had swallowed an elephant, and not long after, it returned to its original form, looking very satisfied as it came back to my body.
I wiped the brain matter that had gotten on my hand while grabbing the man's brain onto the bedsheets before looking around.
It was a room vastly different from the place where the women were earlier.
It was clean, and it was obvious that there was a lot of money here. From the bed to the decorations and Magic Tools visible around the room.
"Wow... I guess he really intended to enjoy himself properly?"
I marveled at the numerous tools in the drawer next to the bed.
It was filled with adult toys, and it didn't end there—it was also full of torture devices.
'Usually, in places like this, you wouldn't use piercings or torture devices to protect the value of the merchandise... That's strange.'
"What's this?"
I picked up a syringe from among the torture devices.
Whoever looked at it, what was inside was one of two things.
An aphrodisiac or a drug.
Actually, if I set my mind to it, I could get them anytime now.
But I really hate using aphrodisiacs or drugs.
The reason is simple.
If I were about to eat pork, and the pig that made the pork turned out to be a pig addicted to drugs, who would like that?
This is the same even if it's a human.
Aphrodisiacs or drugs are substances that spread through the body, but in the end, the thing most affected is the brain.
I don't even feed much of my saliva to Gwen because I'm anxious about it, so I have no intention of using aphrodisiacs or drugs.
I don't want to feed the children meat that's been soaked in drugs.
I threw the syringe aside and continued to search the area, but there wasn't much, perhaps because this man wasn't that high-ranking here.
It seems he was just the human who managed this place. That was the extent of it.
As I walked out of the man's room, gazes poured onto me.
It seems it's because I just went in and came back out without anything happening to me.
I looked around the place where the women were again.
As expected, it doesn't make sense for one man to manage it alone. This place with just this one warehouse-like room probably isn't the only one.
They wouldn't be receiving customers here in the first place.
I ignored the human women who had already been tainted and walked toward what looked like a door leading outside, opening it as I did.
I heard shouting from behind that it was dangerous, but I just ignored it.
==
Exploiting women is a truly bad thing.
Not just exploitation, but forcing prostitution?
I absolutely cannot understand the mindset of those kinds of humans.
The best time for a human to get pregnant is around 23 years old.
If they live harshly and engage in prostitution before that, the human eventually breaks.
It's an environment where even an adult would break, and they're just barely adults? There's a high possibility they won't be able to get pregnant by the time they turn 23.
In short, the talent that will enter my human ranch in the future is decreasing because of this place right now.
Even I, a monster who is a Creature and not a human, run an Orphanage where children can be free, do what they want, and eat what they want to eat so they can grow up.
How dare humans, of all things, overwork the humans who will become my future livestock like this?
Places like this should disappear.
"What the. No, how does that bastard manage things that the brats are thinking of coming out of this door?"
A human who looked like the one managing this place so the children couldn't run away.
"Don't you dare come in—"
The moment the human tried to grab my hair, the human's head disappeared.
Ujeok. Ujeok. Ujeok.
I kept walking and killed all the humans in front of me.
It was really convenient because the Mimic Creature attached to my body would ssik-ssak and kill the humans even just by me walking.
Of course, I'm not killing them recklessly.
They are humans not even worth absorbing Mana from, so I'm just killing them.
As I kept killing humans like that, a human who looked quite strong to anyone's eyes appeared.
"Which bastard brought a monster here?"
Although not as much as Gwen, the man, who had the most Mana among all the humans I'd seen here so far, used Physical Enhancement Magic on his body like Gwen.
Pang!
I closed my eyes for a moment and opened them, and the man's hand, which was as big as my head, blocked my entire field of vision.
==
The man threw a punch toward Lea's head, intending to blow it up.
He didn't go easy on her or pull his punches because she was a child.
Although her appearance was that of a quite cute child to anyone's eyes, all of her subordinates around her had no heads.
It wasn't that their heads were cut off.
It was just that their heads were completely gone.
That means only one thing.
It means that child ate their heads.
There is no human who eats a human's head in an instant.
Even if you told someone to eat it until they could eat it slowly, there is no human who could do it.
Judging the Lea in front of him not as a monster, but as a Demon, the man attacked first while Lea was letting her guard down, using his full power.
The attack of the strongest man in this place.
He, who was quite famous in his days as an Adventurer, had been expelled from the Adventurers for the crime of raping a woman who was his comrade, and was working as a Mercenary in the underworld.
His strength was such that most people in the underworld were afraid of him, and he was a human whose name people were reluctant to even mention.
The attack of such a human was, quite simply, a punch.
But the story changes if such a simple attack contains truly powerful force.
The man's straight punch was powerful enough to ignore shields and armor and pierce through a person with just his fist.
Such a man's fist was strengthened by numerous Magic Tools, making it one step stronger.
A normal person wouldn't even realize they were beaten to death by the punch.
The man's fist was perfectly embedded in Lea's head.
As the fist was thrust, the air exploded with force, and smoke that seemed to explode swirled around, causing the space itself to vibrate.
Lea's head should have been blown off and she should have died in an instant.
However, Lea stood in place without even flinching.
The fist should have been striking Lea's head, but when the smoke cleared, what was visible was Lea's unscathed face and his own missing fist.
And the giant mouth of the Creature that could be seen.
".....What is your identity—"
Before the man's words could finish, with a sound that sounded like wajik, the man's head became a headless corpse like the corpses around him.
The difference from the corpses that were there originally was that his right hand was also gone.
The place where only corpses remained after the man died was engulfed in silence.
Lea ignored the floor, which was mushy due to the blood, and kept walking.
==
"Ugh. Why is this place so complicated?"
Perhaps they made the structure difficult on purpose so the children couldn't escape easily; I couldn't get a grasp of where this place was at all.
For now, seeing as there were no windows, it was clear this was an underground area.
I decided to just open every door I could see.
Beolkeok.
"Oh...!?"
As soon as I opened the door closest to me without thinking, I was startled by the living creature I saw.
It looked almost no different from a human, but there was a clearly different part.
It was the ears.
The ears were long.
It had the characteristic of long ears, and an appearance similar to a human?
This is definitely an Elf.
It's definitely an Elf!
I approached the Elf quickly.
"........"
"Ugh—!"
As soon as I approached the Elf, I covered my nose because of the disgusting stench of filth.
I held my nose and slowly examined the Elf.
It was a room for torture, and the shackles on the wrists were up high so the Elf couldn't sit down comfortably, as if to ensure they couldn't rest.
So, the Elf's condition was even more visible.
The whole body was full of scars from torture, and the Elf's chest and genital areas were even more horrific, as if they had been severely sexually tortured as well.
"I really don't know who is human and who is a monster."