Chapter 185
Chapter 185
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 185
Chapter Title: Tyrannosaurus Cassette
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“There doesn’t seem to be anything here!”
“Same here!”
They searched every nook and cranny nearby, but no traces of the beast were found.
“Has it already gone down to the lower levels?”
This particular beast had always fled at the slightest sign of presence.
And so, the elves all hurried down to the lower levels.
Unaware that a massive beast had hidden itself in a dark corner.
It had no eyes, but its ears and senses were highly developed.
The beast slowly shook its head this way and that, following the elves from behind.
“Grrr...”
It had no intention of going outside.
The beast’s goal was to sow chaos in the city.
Killing elves along the way would just be a bonus.
But not right now.
It planned to snatch them when the opportunity arose. For example...
“Uwaaaack!”
Like right now, when a straggler appeared.
A scream unmistakably filled with terror.
Drool dripped from the beast’s mouth.
- Shh, shh!
With grotesquely long limbs disproportionate to its massive bulk, the beast was surprisingly fast.
It reached the source of the sound in an instant.
The sound came from behind a pile of debris.
The monster prepared to devour the fallen prey deliciously.
“Gruk?”
But it detected no signs of life at all.
The scream had clearly come from here?
For a beast that could even hear a cat’s heartbeat, this was baffling.
“Kyaaaaack!”
Then a scream echoed from further below.
Had it already fled that far?
The beast raced to the source once more.
But the sound vanished like a ghost.
“Grrruk?”
The second time.
The eyeless beast tilted its head.
“S-Save me!”
This time, the voice was clearer.
The beast followed it, puzzled but compelled.
It was a voice brimming with fear.
A real voice that could only come from living vocal cords.
The beast swiftly arrived at the source and halted.
-Chzzzt...
The sound morphed.
Static filled with dust-like noise.
Not a naturally produced sound.
-Chzzzzzt...
-Chzzzt.
Such noises began emanating from ahead, beside, and all around.
“Gruk?”
The beast couldn’t comprehend the sounds.
But one thing was certain.
The place it had followed the sound to was a dead-end room with only one entrance.
“Kraaa!”
Realizing too late it was a trap, it unleashed a threatening howl.
Normally, mortals would cower at that.
Any twitch would allow it to locate and tear them apart from that spot.
It planned to rip them to shreds as cruelly as possible, spreading terror to make them flee.
But the beast had no idea.
“Gotcha.”
That the strange, unfamiliar noise was from a cassette tape playing something.
[Kraaaaaack!!]
A bizarre roar it had never heard before filled the room.
“Gruk?!”
It was the overwhelming cry of a predator.
Just hearing it made its legs buckle.
“K-Keeeen!”
The variant beast was considered an upper-tier monster outside.
But before this predator, that meant nothing.
Its strength failed instantly, and it collapsed.
Deprived of sight and relying solely on senses, the terror hit it doubly hard.
“Ugh...”
“W-What in the world is that sound?”
Even the watching elves felt much the same.
A tool containing the screams of life.
Judak had introduced it as a cassette.
Apparently an essential item that was hugely popular once...
What kind of being could make something so terrifying trend?
“...I don’t know. And I don’t want to.”
Elia shook her head as if repulsed.
A roar like artificially mixed animal cries.
Elia had no desire to know what form of beast it belonged to.
No, even imagining it terrified her.
“But I do know its name.”
At least she knew the name.
Judak’s item containing that soul clearly had a label.
“W-What is it?”
Elia silently looked down at the tape at the nearby elf knights’ question.
The incomprehensible soul collector had a paper label clearly stating it.
“Tyrannosaurus.”
“Heeek.”
It read ‘Movie Tyrannosaurus Roar Compilation’.
*
[Title: Wearing a Skirt, But Does Anyone Know How to Take It Off? Plz ㅠㅠ]
Author: Lucky Letter
(Frog glaring straight ahead meme)
This letter originated in Adrian and must leave your side within 4 days.
The solution is simple.
Hit like on this post right now,
Then ensure at least 100 people see this letter’s content.
Copy-paste if you want.
You might call it superstition, but it’s real.
Ignore it, and Judak will visit your house around 00:00.
Judak will grant you a horrific end,
And seal that final scream into a soul-binding device, a cassette.
[Likes 9999+] [Dislikes 302]
- E-Elfkyaaaack!
- (Knight Conan clutching his face)
- This letter originated in Adrian and must leave your side within 4...
- You falling for this lol
ㄴ But tbh the cassette ← that alone is scary af
ㄴ Fr, what the hell does that roaring beast at the end even look like
- Judak is scarier than I thought... that might really be a soul-binding tool
ㄴ Troll disassembly analyzer ㄷㄷ
ㄴ What the hell does Judak even do with those all day?
The cassette became a hot topic in the gallery.
I lay on my bed, enjoying something on cassette for the past hour.
[Great Mad Movie Songs for Gaming / Carryon]
“Nice.”
A BGM compilation from game mad movies.
The store surprisingly had a wide variety of tapes.
“No way they even sell this stuff.”
From classics to sound effects, even game mad movie BGMs.
Everything but the kitchen sink!
After handing the cassette to the elves and listening to music for about an hour.
The beast infiltrating the elf city was neutralized.
[Title: Got it]
Author: Elves Are Pretty, Cute, and Everything
(Beast trapped in iron bars meme)
Should I kill it, master?
[Likes 6941] [Dislikes 102]
- Burn it alive!
- Starving it to death looks good too
- How about making it drink until it dies to teach it the value of spilled dew?
- Fact: spilled soju doesn’t come back lol
ㄴ Fr lol
ㄴ Author) (Dead elf con)
First, lured it in with screams as bait.
Then played the pre-set cassette with dinosaur sounds.
“Didn’t expect that reaction, honestly.”
Since it relied on sound, I’d hoped it’d just block out noise.
Didn’t think it’d freak out and collapse.
Anyway, caught it easily, so all good.
With the beast issue resolved, next up...
Full Elf: Absolutely, absolutely do NOT sell soju to elves
Enforcing elf prohibition (mandatory).
“City gets breached because they drink?”
They like booze? Fair enough.
No race hates alcohol as far as I know.
Can overlook that.
But chugging it like water and letting the city get breached?
“That won’t do.”
Racial outcast.
Abandoned by the World Tree.
At least since I got isekai’d, they’ve been punching bags.
Tried pitying them, but this is too much.
[Notice: Any good news on elves and soju?]
Author: Judak*
(Cat glaring seriously head-on meme)
Like that’d happen?
Gave ’em some to drink moderately, and they miss a beast invasion? That’s too much, right?
Time to... snap out of it?
El Radrien IP soju sales banned.
[Likes 9999+] [Dislikes 1021]
- Nice, back to normal thanks to big Judak
- They need a good smack tho ㅇㅇ
- Lord Judak, what do you mean?
- Nooooo!!!!!
- This ain’t it, just kill us!!
- All elves hit the floor!!!
- ◀●▅▇█▇▆▅▄▇
- ◀●▅▇█▇▆▅▄▇
Harsh protests poured in, but whatever.
- ◀●▅▇█▇▆▅▄▇
ㄴ Full Elf) What makes you think you can lie down?
ㄴ Full Elf) Gonna get up? Want me to grab your ear?
ㄴ Heeek
ㄴ Hieeek
Perfect timing since Padak was a fairly influential knight captain in elf society.
Weak-against-strong-strong-against-weak elves had no choice but to cower before Full Elf, an elf knight captain.
No room for excuses either.
Couldn’t even beg for more since they’d let the beast in due to booze.
[Title: If Elves Were a Restaurant, It’d Be Exactly This]
Judak grilling meat at a BBQ joint
BBQ owner’s an elf, burns it to charcoal while grilling for him
Then elf employees right where Judak can hear:
“Meat’s burnt? Give us new meat already, why hold out??”
Other elves going lmao fr
[Likes 1921] [Dislikes 1832]
- What’s this even saying?
- ?
- Wtf are you on about asshole
ㄴ As expected, Brutal Honesty is Galbung Emperor
ㄴ Gutted lol
ㄴ Still doesn’t click fully
No disagreements.
I’m the sole supplier anyway, no need to care.
- Th-This’ll kill all elves!
- No dew? No dew... no dew?
- Elves collectively broken?
Elves already starting to flop down.
But this time, I went hard too.
“Flop down? Mom’s leaving.”
Elf, keep crying here.
“Should I put music up in the market too?”
Maybe they lean on booze ’cause they need something to rely on.
In apocalypse medieval times, booze dependency leads straight to addiction.
“Well, they’ll stop after a few times.”
I firmly closed the gallery window.
*
Holy Kingdom, Nel.
From the ruins now reduced to ashes, a woman with pale golden hair poked her head out.
“No beasts...?”
She looked around, but no beasts in sight.
Strange. Goblins coveting the Holy Kingdom’s treasures should be swarming.
But her mood didn’t improve.
“So in the end, I’m the only survivor.”
Everyone else dead.
Once bustling with people, the royal castle now had no bodies left.
The woman gazed at the emblem in her hand.
The Saintess’s emblem.
A saintess proof she’d cherished even while hiding.
“Useless in the end.”
But god hadn’t saved Nel.
The god Nel believed in was false.
If it had been real, would Nel have ended up like this?
The saintess turned her attention elsewhere instead.
“Adrian...”
The Adrian Empire at the world’s center.
Rumors of a hero appearing there.
A rotting religion reformed, a church growing with true faith.
“Maybe there...”
What had kept her alive so far was Judak’s marketplace.
Not the fake god worshipped in Nel.
The woman, once a saintess named Lea, slowly rose and began walking.
Toward Adrian, where the true god resided.