Chapter 368 – Homologous Predation

000

The Yogtos that Cleon had defeated along with Quon that day was nothing more than a fragment that had been summoned in the past.

In general, even if such clones are destroyed, the main body is not affected.

This is because they are beings that have come over from the gap of the second dimension and are separated and act independently.

However, Yogtos, the predator of time, is different.

As an existence that transcends the three viewpoints of the past, present, and future, he has the ‘possibility of simultaneously existing anywhere’.

Conversely, that possibility makes Yogtos vulnerable.

The fact that it is everywhere means that all of its duplicates become its main body.

That’s why all the attacks he receives are fed back to the main body.

—Of course, he is the World Predator.

An existence that fell into the banishment realm in the past, swallowed other realms, and sublimated.

Using the characteristics that can exist anywhere, it replicates itself infinitely and swallows other beings to make itself.

Excluding the Sun King and his army of the past, there were no beings who could stop him, who could banish him to another world once again.

Even then, by killing the Sun King’s minions and absorbing their corpses, he was able to heal his wounds.

However, when Quon borrowed the power of the Holy Sword of the Sun to evict Yogtoth.

The enormous damage suffered by the alter ego – without giving them time or time to recover from the damage that was close to extinction, Quon and Cleon evicted the existence to a gap in another world.

Plus—for one reason or another. It was impossible for Yogtos to blow away the wound in another timeline.

If you ask where he ran out of luck, it would be that he got involved with Cleon and his friends her.

“Kuh… Zen, Jean… Damn it…”

Yogtos wandered through the rift of the other dimension, turning to ash, with the fire ignited by the Holy Sword of the Sun attached to his body.

If you go to another world and don’t swallow anything.

If it continues like this, it will truly disappear.

If the burning part is cut off, that part will become a clone and the main body will catch fire immediately.

The sun’s flame never misses him and makes sure he pays for his karma.

Little by little his body his was turning to ashes as he walked, and he could feel his strength his draining away.

“…Ha, haha… At a time like this, meeting that guy… Would be the worst…”

“Ohhh. Who are you talking about? Dear Yogtos.”

“…”

A feeling more terrifying than the shyness you feel when someone overhears you talking to yourself passed Yogtos’s back his.

He quickly turned around and there stood an elderly gentleman in a white suit.

“Snake…!”

“Oh my gosh… I’ve given you the courtesy of a fellow countryman. You don’t seem to have that. I’d like you to call me ‘Jormungand’ as well… Isn’t that what you decided?”

“Who… To you…”

At the words of the old gentleman, the silhouette of Yogtos shook greatly, twisting its figure his. Its figure was in the form of a bird stretching its wings and about to soar into the sky.

“Hmm. Escape, is it? Escape to the sky, is that a mockery of me?”

Jormungandr sighs, grabs the brim of his silk hat, and shakes his head.

And, with the staff he was holding in his hand, thump. And hit the ground-

From the end of the staff, several gigantic snakes appeared and soared towards the sky in pursuit of Yogtoth, who soared towards the sky.

However, it is a jump at best. The thing that can’t reach the sky is a creature called a “Snake”.

“Kuh, hehe… No matter how huge your body is, it’s impossible to get hold of the sky!”

After Yog Toth flew into the sky, he killed the snakes that were unable to catch him and killed them with sharp feathers like the blades of his sword.

The snakes that fell to the ground screamed and wriggled and died.

If you go up a little further like this and hide somewhere, Jormungandr will not be able to follow you.

The catharsis of being able to get out of the crisis filled Yogtos’s head and mocked him.

“Maybe.”

But the next moment, a voice came from behind him.

With a creepy expression, Yog Toth’s body turned 180 degrees and looked behind him-

There, with its huge mouth open enough to see the entirety of its venomous fangs—

It was in the form of a gigantic snake glaring at him with its mouth wide enough to swallow Yogtos.

“Hey, hey!”

Although I try to get out of that mouth by flapping his wings while giving off a bewildered voice.

Where Yogtoth is, he could no longer call heaven.

At least – for Jormungandr.

His mouth his is tight! It closed so strongly that it made a cracking sound and ate Yogtos’ half body.

Besides, that part is a half-body that does not have the flame attached by the Holy Sword of the Sun.

“Click ah ah ah!”

“The moment of devouring one’s compatriots is always sweet. How nice it would have been to be able to swallow ‘Cleon’.”

Wiping his mouth with his handkerchief, Jormungandr, who had returned to his human form at some point, muttered that while looking at Yog Toth, who was burning to death.

Now, Yogtoth could n’t quite understand what he was talking about, thanks to the pain and fading of his presence.

“With this, you will have to live quietly for thousands of years. Since your ego is fading, I don’t know if you can properly find the ‘world’ and regain your strength.”

Jormungandr took off his silk hat and put it on the remains of Yogtoth.

As if by magic, if you pop the top of your silk hat and touch it with your wand-

Moments later, only Yogtos wriggled like a slime with the lights off where he grabbed the silk hat.

Now he was moving to escape anywhere while his few remaining eyeballs twinkled, but he could n’t go far even if he moved desperately due to his small body his.

“Ohhh. You’ve become quite cute. If ‘she’ sees it, she might be delighted. ‘It would be nice to take a bite of her’. Say…”

Jormungandd clapped his hands and looked down at Yog Toth, then turned him around.

His tuxedo top his shakes.

“However, the bonds of fellow countrymen are not easily broken. If you survive that state, you will be able to see them again someday. At that time, I pray that you will have a little bit of ‘character’.”

And, when he drew his wand horizontally, the space opened its mouth and opened a passage leading to another place, just like Jormungandr from before.

“…But, the axis of ‘central time’… Yogtos. You’re out of luck too. Meeting him.”

With that last word, he disappeared across the aisle.

001

Yogtos was responding to the summons of all summoners who summoned him.

Even with his weakened self his, his will his to survive was clear, so he swallowed everything around him in response to the summoning, and as a result of eating the summoner, he could n’t maintain his body his, so he retreated to a gap in another dimension.

Repeating that, the moment I thought I had recovered my strength to some extent, my feet went black and half of my body was cut off.

Of course, there were things that made me angry, but even in a situation where I didn’t even have reason left, what I could see was the existence of ‘Cleon’ who fucked me like this.

‘If only that guy, if only that guy wasn’t there!’

While filling my head with the same, curse-like thoughts, I first swallowed the nearby prey.

The nutrient-rich meat he had eaten after a long time brought back the joy of ‘meal’ to him.

But, that’s it.

He immediately lost his mind, realizing at the same time that the nutrient was poison.

Mixing into a mess with the rampaging flesh inside the body, it inflicted great pain on Yogtos and forcibly transformed his form.

Looking at that figure, Cleon clicked his tongue.

“Yogtos… Without Quon’s holy sword, how could he-“

The reason why he was able to evict Yogtos at that time was because Quon awakened at that time and became the hero of the holy sword of the sun.

Now, the Yogtos in front of me may not have reason, but compared to the Yogtos I faced back then, it was a threatening existence that was not inferior at all.

“Cleon!”

At that time, Lila’s voice came from behind.

When Cleon turned his head, Freyja and Sif were approaching.

The bloody alter egos that were lined up around them all disappeared as Alesis fell.

Thanks to that, the siege was broken, but-

“…It’s all messed up.”

“Well, that’s right.”

While gliding through the sky, with the raging Yogtos on top, the party pretends to be indifferent, as if denying the current situation.

But soon, when the bat started to fire beams of magical energy from its eyes and scorched the ground, the party closed their mouths and looked up at the sky.

Fortunately, the attack didn’t hit properly thanks to the lack of reason, but if it goes like this-

“…Freya.”

“──”

When Cleon called Freyja by name, she silently looked at Cleon.

As if she knew what Cleon was going to say.

Clenching her fists, she made eye contact with Cleon.

“Take Amelia and everyone back to the realm of Yggdrasil. We’ll do something about this guy here.”

“Wait…! What are you talking about! Cleon!”

Sif got angry at Cleon’s words and stamped her Gungnir into her land her, but Freya stopped her with her arms outstretched as if to stop her.

“Utgart. Pick up Peruluca.”

When Cleon said so, her Utgart her quietly placed her on her own back her.

“Cleon, sir…”

She raises her arm as if trying to grab Cleon, but Peruluca is really weak, unable to move.

“I have no intention of going either!”

And, Moose still burns the face of a battle maniac.

However, her stamina her, which seemed infinite in the previous battle, was also almost exhausted, and the flame was greatly weakened.

“No, everyone has to go back. We are all beings from different time zones. Just gathering in one place like this is giving Yogtos strength.”

“…”

When Freya nodded after hearing Cleon’s words, Gray and Amelia came running a little later.

“Now, wait! We’re here to rescue Cleon! We can’t leave him like this again!”

“That’s right! He always tries to do everything by himself…! This time I can’t admit it!”

When Amelia and Gray raise their voices in anger-

Right next to them, Yogtos’s attack passed by.

However, they were looking at Cleon without blinking an eye.

“Cleon. I heard everything you wanted to say.”

And, between the three of them, Freya’s voice intervened.

“I’m sorry, but this time I feel the same way. I have no intention of leaving you alone.”

“—Freyja, you too… “

When Cleon said that, he felt something on his shoulder and raised his hand to his.

There was an image of Illenu shaking his head.

“…”

Then, Cleon lets out a sigh as she recalls the conversation with her.

Lyla and Beatrix looked at the group, then walked away and looked up at the sky.

“Vampires, gore… Now bats are the opponents…”

“Lich. Use your magic to bring it down to the ground.”

“Impossible. Why don’t you do something with that proud executioner sword?”

The two looked at each other for a moment, then turned their gaze to Cleon.

“Cleon. Do you know him well?”

“Somewhat…Because I’ve fought before.”

At Cleon’s answer to her, Beatrix looked at Cleon with her eyes sparkling.

“As expected, senior!

To Beatrix who asked such a question, Cleon nodded awkwardly and answered.

“…Fire and sun are weak points.”

“—Hey.”

Hearing that answer, Lila raised the corners of her mouth and looked up at her again.

“Unfortunately, there’s no sun here. Well, there’s no sun in any of the Exiled Realms.”

Layla said so, and she lit the tip of her index finger and drew her geometric patterns in the air.

“However, there are plenty of fireworks here.”

“…Reliable.”

After hearing Cleon’s answer to her, Layla laughed ‘huh-huh’, then went up to Cleon and pressed her lips against his.

It is a simple and light kiss that does not involve exchanging saliva or mixing tongues.

However, that kiss opened the magical passage between the two.

“—Mumumu what!?”

Moose reacted unexpectedly.

Her body her, which was originally made of flame, reacted as if it turned redder.

Lyla, separated from Cleon, soon closed her eyes and chanted as if singing.

That incantation—it was an incantation that Cleon had heard before.

“Lyla.”

“Cleon, you have to remember it properly. I have a way to deal with that guy. You guys! Everyone help me!”

As Lila said, her toes her turned into flames.

“If it’s about the predator of the gap in another world… It’s a suitable opponent to show off my research achievements.”

And- soon the magician’s power, which had turned into magic, was released.