Chapter 343 – 343. Everyone’s Preparations for Second War (2)

– One –

‘Jesu-san, go to the place I designated first, and whatever is good, make the grass grow thickly in the field. It’s about the height of your thighs to your waist. You don’t have to do anything else, just do it.’

‘Is that really enough?’

‘Of course.’

According to the instructions given to Jose the day before,

“I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-!”

Shushuk, soooooh!
Shaaaaa

Urmama grows the grass.

The densely grown grasses cover the entire field.

With that alone, the surroundings seemed to have become a swamp made of grass.

Hehe…”

Urmama sticks out her tongue and pants like a dog.

It was because I was in a hurry as quickly as possible while pouring out my ability.

It was not necessary to grow grass in such a large area, but it was because the work had to be completed before the Imperial Army’s eyes reached, or at the latest, before they arrived.

‘Since the Imperial Army joined the Priests, they started moving even faster. The rebels stationed nearby are also in the mood to start reconnaissance immediately after securing the base, so the speed at which they are expanding the occupied area around the base is unusual, so please finish it as soon as possible.’

‘Uh, um… You mean, hurry up, hurry up, Jose?’

‘That’s right, Mr. That’s all you need to know.’

‘Uh, what if the Imperial Army or the rebels see me?’

‘At that time, you can run away without looking back. But that won’t happen. Before that, my love will tell Mr. Jesu.’

‘Aha!’

As Jose said, there is no word yet that the imperial army or the rebels’ patrols have come nearby.

However, just in case, the sincere Urmama squeezed out this ability with all her might.

Shudder.

“Hua ah … I did it!”

– You worked hard, mamang.

“No, Margarita sister! It was a little hard, but it’s not so hard that I’m about to die!”

Rocking, rocking!

Ur Mama spreads his chest wide and raises his nose.

A smile forms on Margarita’s lips.

– Whoops. I see I’m glad. Is that the last one?

“Yes!”

– Then come back soon. Ada’s sister prepared her yummy treats.

“Yes! Churup.”

Urmama’s mouth starts to salivate.

At the thought of eating the homemade snacks Ada has prepared for her, she is already excited.

Squeak, squeak.
Shrrrr!

In a moment she made her basket,

Whii profit!

Start flying high in the sky.

With her hair flowing, she goes home.

– 2 –

‘Octopoda, and Demosh.’

‘Yes, Jose.’

‘Tell me.’

‘Are you sure the tentacles are unaffected by poison?’

‘I’m not sure about that. But even if the tentacle gets poisoned, it will be restored once you re-summon it again. I deliberately scratched the tentacles and re-summoned them several times, but each time it returned to its original state without incident.’

‘Then, I have a favor to ask of you.’

‘What is that?’

The Octopodas did not move alone.

They moved as a couple.

They even pulled out a luxurious two-seater carriage, which was also the couple’s mobile home for newlyweds, which they had ridden a long time ago and left in a warehouse.

However, they were not enjoying the leisurely atmosphere of a carriage ride.

“Kyaaaaagh! Snake, snake! Poda oppa, it’s a snake!”

“I-I’ve seen it, my mother-in-law. But don’t scream or stomp too loudly. Although a snake’s hearing is dull, it is an animal that is extremely sensitive to vibrations.”

“I, I, I know! Ha, but, uh, it’s scary…!”

They drove the wagon and came out to the so-called River of Water Serpents.

It was the place where the Monohorn couple used the animal growth promotion obtained after the 5th stage of the supernatural ability to bloom, breeding and breeding a lot of snakes and releasing them.

“The horse may bite, so let’s ride the tentacles from here on out.”

“Ugh, ugh… I don’t like snakes…”

Even though it sounds painful,

Squeeze, snap.
Shureuk, shrrrr.
Wiggle, wiggle.

Demosh didn’t run away.

The two each extended three tentacles to the floor, supporting their bodies in the shape of a tripod.

Whistle, whistle.

“Aww!”

“Uh, um… Mosi’s tentacles lack strength, so it seems unstable with just three.”

“Uh, uh uh… I-I’m not that heavy,”

“I know. Why don’t I know that Moshi’s tentacles are specialized for delicacy, and that great strength is not their primary characteristic?”

“Yeah, is that so…?”

Demosi’s face flushed red.

She pretended not to be, but seemed quite embarrassed.

“Of course. Well, first of all, let’s make sure the tentacles are given orders. If a water snake approaches, they’ll catch it or take it off.”

“Yes, it should.”

Shrek, shruck.
Wiggle, wiggle.

They inject commands

Each tentacle will act based on independent judgment through ganglia embedded in them.

If a water snake approaches or tries to climb on its tentacles, the tentacles will automatically catch or drive the snake away.

‘If you two use your tentacles, how many water snakes do you think you can capture and carry?’

‘I’ve never tried it, but if I decide to expand the tentacles and capture them, I think each tentacle can hold more than a hundred.’

‘Then, you two, capture as many water snakes as possible, and release them wherever I designate. There’s a wagon that we rode on when we came here, so if you use it to transport it, the two of you should be able to do it.’

‘Wouldn’t it be dangerous with just the two of us?’

‘No, Ada. It’s okay if I’m alone, but if my wife and I move together, there’s absolutely no danger.’

It was as Octopoda said.

They,

Shureuk, shureuk!
Swish, swish!
Shaaaaa!

“Kyaaah! Poda oppa! I caught three more!”

“Congratulations, Moshi. Well, I guess we should call this a taste of hands or, no, taste of tentacles. I think I’ve found a more fun leisure activity than I thought.”

“It looks more like fishing using a steamboat trawl than fishing, but it’s more fun than I thought!”

Water snakes were being overfished indiscriminately.

At that time,

“Kishyaaaaah!”

Jump!
Whoops!

A snake soars into the air.

After biting into Octopoda’s thigh, he rushes at him with his mouth wide open.

It squeezes the venom glands and secretes venom.

Yellowish venom flows through its fangs.

It shines.

Demosi finds it.

“Po, po da oh,”

The moment she opened her eyes wide and was about to let out her terrified scream,

Shurreuk, Tup.
Shua, rumble…

A single tentacle swallows the head of a water snake in the air.

Whiik, Whiririk!
Took, splash.

He swings his torso around and hits the tentacles, but the tentacles do not budge.

Wriggling, wriggling.

Rather, it begins to swallow the snake’s body whole.

“Yes? What’s wrong, Mosi?”

“Oh, no. I was surprised that the snake suddenly flew by.”

“Haha. It’s okay. Our tentacles are much more agile and quicker than we thought, so unless thousands of snakes come flying at the same time, we’re absolutely safe. Haven’t we thoroughly tested this through thought experiments?”

“Yeah, but…”

Democi hesitates.

She seemed unsure.

Shudder.

Octopoda uses its three tentacles to glide towards Demosi.

“Don’t worry, my mother-in-law.”

Sararak.
Koo Woo-wook.

He stretches out his arms and hugs her waist.

“Now, look.”

“What, heh…!”

As she turned her head following Octopoda’s gesture, Demosi was greatly shocked at the sight unfolding before her eyes.

In the direction Octopoda pointed,

Shureuk, shureuk!
Squeaky!
Whoop, whoop, whoop!
Shaa, shaaaaaub!

It was because there were hundreds of tentacles floating around.

They roamed fields and riversides, sweeping water snakes into tentacle prisons in an instant.

“Why, why, tentacles…?”

Haha. I thought it would work, so I tried it for the first time this time, and it seems to have succeeded very nicely.”

Octopoda was even more delighted when she was much more surprised than she had expected.

The joy he felt was all the greater as her eyes were burning with a passion for learning for the first time in a long time.

By returning to their original attitude as scholars after a long time, the couple was able to immerse themselves in nostalgic memories even in the middle of the war.

“Remember our discussion of the ganglion’s ability to control tentacles by region and the parallel processing of received commands?”

“Don’t remember.”

“Haven’t the individual ganglia in the middle of the tentacles developed enough to be judged to have reached a level of pseudo-intelligence as we reached stage 6?”

“I did. Oh, so you split the tentacles by applying body transformation, and then divided and assigned control of each tentacle to the ganglion?”

“Exactly. Ramie should be able to do it. In terms of control, Mosi is far superior to me in terms of delicacy, so my tentacles will be able to work with efficiency that cannot be matched.”

“I’ll try it!”

The water snakes, who reigned as the top predators of the river, encountered their proper natural enemies for the first time that day.

Their natural enemy was the octopus.

– 3 –

Tumbling.

Benison climbs the ridge, sweating.

It was midnight, but I climbed the mountain without even lighting a torch.

But don’t worry about securing your sight.

His keen five senses are because he was able to see his surroundings as brightly as daytime with only the dim moonlight.

The reason he climbs the mountain on foot is because he was carrying two pieces of luggage three times his own.

‘Benison.’

‘Yes, brother Jose!’

‘In our last training session, no one handled Atlatl better than you. You are the only one who can shoot the farthest and most accurately.’

Hehe…’

‘You go here, and from the top of this cliff face downwards with Atlatl, and fire javelins indiscriminately.’

‘How much?’

‘Carry as many javelins as you can, and repeat until they run out and come back.’

‘Do you go out and shoot every day?’

‘No. Then I’ll designate another place.’

Retrace Benison’s conversation with Jose.

He said so clearly at the end of the conversation.

‘Your job is the most important thing in this operation. So, you should never be fooled by it. Got it?’

‘Yes!’

When I remembered that, I couldn’t even be lazy.

Bruise, bruise, bruise, bruise.

Finally he reaches the top.

It was a grove of trees on top of a rocky cliff.

It was one of the most rare terrains inside the mostly flat northern unexplored lands.

“Queueungcha!”

Rrrr.
Dump.

Throwing javelins, Benison collapsed on the floor.

“Ha, ha, ha, ha…”

He is sweating and gasping for breath.

At night, the temperature had cooled considerably.

Swoop, Swoop.

“Hehe… I think I know why Jose hyung-a asked me to throw a javelin here…”

He wipes his sweat and smiles innocently.

The presence of people crowded under the cliff is captured in his senses.

“Your brother José already knew that the rebels had established themselves here! That’s great!”

He may have found this place with the help of Margarita, or he may have inferred this place from his many years of experience as a mercenary.

It didn’t matter to Bennison, he could only shed pure admiration.

Beep, Beep, Beep!
Shashak!

“Hey! End of break!”

After drinking the cool water, Benison jumped up from his seat.

As he stretched his body around, he loosened his tight muscles.

Prepare thoroughly to avoid injury.

“Jose hyung-ah told me to shoot, but I think it’s okay to aim and shoot…?”

Swoop.

Benison raises his head and looks up at the sky.

He tilts his head for a moment, then whispers quietly.

“Do you have Margarita? Are you sleeping?”

– I didn’t sleep. I’ve been through a lot.

“Hehe. No. By the way,”

– I was going to ask if I could aim the shot, right?

“Yes!”

Benison laughs broadly.

The fact that Margarita had been watching him all the time seemed to make him very happy.

– Honey, don’t aim and shoot. Wearing one atlatl in each of his hands, randomly throwing it as fast as possible and returning it as long as possible.

“Aha?”

-And he said never to focus your senses on a person. It can’t be good for mental health to feel delicately for a long time as someone is dying. You, Estrus unnie, and me too. If your senses are sensitive, there are obviously uncomfortable things as sensitive.

“Benison is fine!”

He eloquently retorts.

However,

– This time, let’s listen to older sister and older brother. Don’t think too deeply, and rely on Honey unconditionally this time.

“Yes…”

Her answer back from her was fairly stern.

Benison was downcast.

– Later, if you adapt a little more, and if Monohorn returns, then what you will do even if you don’t like it will be killing people. You don’t have to strain out in advance. My good Benison, do you understand my sister?

“Yes!”

Still, he quickly regained his vigor.

“I’ll finish it soon!”

– Okay. Until you come back, I’ll be waiting for you.

“Yes!”

With that said, Benison’s model melts into darkness.

Tup!

At the same time, a bundle of javelins disappears.

Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha Shak!
Fufufufufufufufufufufu!

Following the trail of his shadow passing vaguely, the javelin pierced the floor obliquely.

Tup!
Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha Shak!
Fufufufufufufufufufufu!

Even another bunch of javelins turned into part of a colony of javelin trees growing on the cliff.

Shashak.

Benison stands near the javelin tree colony.

Sruck, Chuck.
Sruck, Chuck.

After taking the atlatl from the belt, wear one on each hand.

“Ready! Now, then, let’s go!”

Benison put a lot of spirit into it,

Shasha shak!

Passing by the javelin tree,

Tup, snap!

Atlatl is loaded with a javelin at the same time.

He didn’t stop,

Woo woo woo woo!
Wedges, Wedges!

Throw two javelins obliquely over the cliff.

Fuhuaaaaagh!

A javelin flies through the atmosphere.

Whether or not it properly penetrated the target was not his concern.

Before the javelin could land anywhere, he

Tup, snap!
Woo woo woo woo!
Wedges, Wedges!
Fuhuaaaaa!

Pick up two javelins again.

Afraid to pick them up, throw them right away.

Shush shush shush shush!

As if dozens of people threw javelins at the same time, javelins covered the entire night sky.

“Hot, chaa!”

Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha Shak!
Clap, shush shush shush shush!

Benison’s body moves faster.

It seemed that his body was moving faster than the arrow that had been shot.

… Ahhh…
… Aww…

A faint scream is heard from far away.

Although it was a wooden javelin made of a hollow pole, it fell like a shower from a height that could have been hundreds of meters, with a large drop.

Even the horizontal thrust of Benison’s physical strength was added, so the killing power of each javelin was overflowing.

Tup, snap.
Wedges, Wedges!
Fuhuaaaaa!

“Shut up!”

After the last two shots, Benison threw away all the prepared javelins.

All that was left of the edge of the cliff were the hideous holes where the javelin trees had been uprooted.

“Uh… It’s like a bear, and it’s kind of creepy…”

The fact that at least a hundred people have died or are dying is captured by Benison’s senses.

But Benison didn’t bother focusing on it.

It was because he was determined to strictly follow Jose’s request.

“Let’s go down now…”

Wood Deuk!

Benison stretches for a long time.

Although he smiled brightly and did not express himself, there was no way that physical fatigue would not accumulate.

The work he did was definitely because it was heavy labor.

The moment he turned around to go home,

“Oh right!”

Slap.

As if he had remembered something belatedly, he widened his eyes and clapped his hands.

‘And before you return, at least carve traces of hundreds of people all over the climbing route. Just taking footprints is enough, so you can do it alone.’

José’s final request flashes through my mind.

“Footprints, footprints~♬”

Benison sings his hum.

Jump, jump.

Jump in place

Looking around, there were no clearly visible footprints.

It was because he and Estrus had become accustomed to moving without even leaving a trace, let alone leaving a trace.

“Then shall we go back?”

It would have been over with just a little bit of care and hard stepping, leaving footprints here and there in a messy way.

In order to complete the last mission, which is not very difficult,

Thud!
Kwak Kwah Kwah Kwah Kwah!

Stomp one’s feet furiously

Spin around or step on the floor with both feet.

It stops in one place and then jumps to the other side.

From the top of the mountain to the entrance, loud traces remain everywhere.

The traces of hundreds of people ascending and descending the mountain are appropriately forged due to the irregular circulation created by Benison.

Tup.

Benison stops at the foot of the mountain.

“Wow… Jose hyung, you’re smart…”

And admire

It was because I instantly understood why Jose told me to carve only on his climbing route.

“Come to think of it, the whole area around here is a gravel field…”

– Whoops. Knowing the terrain is one of the basics that those who establish tactics should have.

Hearing his admiration, Margarita sighs with him.

Bennison had no choice but to accept her swagger.