Chapter 64 – Anomalies (6)

The road to the place where the Giant Evil Rabbit was was very smooth.

Although there are some students who died or were seriously injured in the attack of the clone body….

Still, there were close to 20 class A students who could clear the practice dungeon by themselves.

Even my potions and scrolls. In some cases, they even borrowed magic tools, so they were showing off their abilities more than usual.

The condition is good, but it is in a state of being crowded around. Of course, the momentum has to be equal.

However, when we arrived in front of our destination, the giant rabbit hole, we froze for a while.

Pieces of meat and bloodstains scattered all over the place. Bodies torn apart as if eaten by a huge beast.

Originally, all the people standing guard to prevent the boss from coming out of this place and to prevent someone from killing the boss were brutally dead.

“Woo-wook….”

Vincent, who had a weak stomach, covered his mouth at the scene in front of him.

The other people must have been shocked as well, and if not to the point of vomiting, the confident atmosphere of a moment ago has disappeared.

Did he finally realize that the opponent was the Archbishop of the Evil God?

If we do it one step wrong, we could all lie on the floor like those corpses.

But it’s okay.

7,000 hours of playtime.

It’s not a level where the game becomes a life, but it’s a level enough to go somewhere and listen to the sound of stagnant water.

I’ve never fought at this point, but… Edmerek itself has been caught several times.

Of course, the pattern is also threaded one after another.

As a result of measuring angles here and there, I can affirm with confidence.

Enough to win

I patted Vincent on the back for no reason and took a step forward.

“There is nothing more to vomit. Let’s go.”

“Ugh… Okay. I have to go.”

Vincent wiped his mouth and drew his sword. Helena and Elisha also stood next to me in silence.

In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that we led others to this point, and as we took the lead, the rest of the students followed suit one by one, resolutely determined.

So we set foot towards the cave with its huge gaping mouth.

***

The length of the crypt was longer than expected. Of course, at some point, the sunlight didn’t reach it anymore.

“It is too dark.”

“Should I use light magic?”

“It’s okay, Miss Glenciel. You don’t have to distract yourself.”

I took out from my inventory and tore about five light scrolls one after another.

Hwaaak.

Small clusters of lights appeared one after another and began to circle around us.

That should be enough.

Since the light source was also resolved, I headed deeper without any hesitation.

I didn’t forget to periodically detect similarity using telekinesis.

However, these boundaries were meaningless.

There were no traps or anything until we reached a large hollow along the straight road.

Instead.

“Keeek.”
“Shaaaaagh.”
“Kureureuk.”

The cavity was filled with countless clones.

Did you bring all the duplicates you recovered from the middle to here? As expected.

The clones, who gave off a bloody atmosphere as if they were going to attack at any moment, glared at me and rang their necks, but did not leave their seats.

And not long after, clear human words were heard among the growls of all kinds of hybrids.

“Woo-wook… ! I’m hungry. No matter how much I eat, I vomit it all up, so it’s only natural… Gouweek!”

A voice mixed with nausea.

Reflexively, I aimed my staff at the source of the sound.

There was a man in a black robe.

Not only me, but the other students also aimed their weapons at once, but the guy continued talking with a calm attitude as if nothing was wrong.

“You know what? The turbid union… Guh… He granted my wish to eat full… Wow.”

Iron puck.

A gray lump that vomited out of the guy’s mouth.

It must have been vomited from a normal-sized mouth, but strangely, the vomit was larger than the man’s physique.

The gray mass wriggled for a moment, then changed its shape in an instant and assumed the form of a giant.

Of course, it was no ordinary giant.

Instead of a head, his shoulders were full of wriggling bundles of tentacles.

He probably made the boss here, the Giant Evil Rabbit, into his own clone.

I knew that Evil Rabbit was a turbid unity-type monster, but I thought it would be possible to recreate him as an alter ego while keeping his lifeline attached.

To vomit something bigger than oneself, or to vomit such a lump instantly take on the form of a monster.

Either way is a natural impossibility.

If it was natural, it would be natural.

That’s power Although it is said to be an evil god, it is still the power of turbid unity that occupies one place in the throne of God.

After all, is that guy Edmerek?

It was similar to the cutscene shown at the beginning of the boss fight, so I could immediately tell even though I was covering my face with a hood.

The other students, who had only heard about it, and it was the first time seeing the manifestation of authority in person, began to hesitate in awe.

Indeed, Edmerek was fixating his eyes on me, as if he didn’t care about the opinions of others.

“Thanks to that, I can eat my fill every day. Now that I can eat things that I couldn’t eat, I see the world differently. I am truly grateful to him.”

“Even if you vomit it all? You just said it with your own mouth. I’m hungry.”

“Ah… You are mistaken. He didn’t force anything on me. I vomit up everything I ate that day, every day, only because I did His power with my will. My clone killed you because I wanted to help him.”

Having said that, Edmerek pushed back the hood he was wearing deeply and looked straight at me.

Coarse brown hair. His eyes were sunken, his face pale and his lips dry.

On top of that, his cheekbones stood out because of his skin bone.

To think that the Archbishop of the Cloudy Unity, which symbolizes gluttony, is on the brink of starvation.

Isn’t that ironic?

Edmerek, who roughly wiped the vomit from his shaven beard with his sleeve, glared at me with a wide-eyed look.

“However, recently there was something he himself ordered.”

“I think you know what that is.”

“Okay. It is said that a certain Goyan twisted his grand plan, his fate.”

“I saw a cultist and killed him. It’s a common thing that happens everywhere. At most, one bishop-level dies, and the fate is ruined. Isn’t it your job to twist the order of things in the first place?”

At my sarcasm, Edmerek gave a ghastly smile.

“You son of a bitch who lives for that good taste. Listen carefully.”

Guess.

This time, Edmerek, who vomited up a clone made of an ordinary evil rabbit, continued.

“What he is doing is fine. His plan is destiny. Rather, it is you who disturb the world.”

A tone that does not doubt that what you say is absolutely right.

Edmerek, who was constantly spewing out something among the clones who were stealthily posing, raised his skinny hand.

“But there is one truth that you know well.”

Nails sharpened like carnivores glittered in the air.

“The providence of the weak meat is just like that.”

Edmerek salivated and growled like a beast.

“So obey as soon as possible.”

A clenched fist.

Because it was a preparatory motion of a familiar pattern, he immediately rolled on the floor.

The translucent jaws that appeared in the air strongly bit the spot where I had been before.

Fain!

I would have avoided it, but the chills reached here.

It is an attack that chews and swallows space itself. If I hadn’t noticed in time, I wouldn’t die, but the shield and everything would have been broken.

“Kureureu!”
“Chaaaaagh!”
“Ahhh!”

As a signal for an earlier attack, the clone body screams and rushes forward.

And among them, Edmerek, who is still gagging whether there is anything left to vomit.

Just like Edmerek, Vincent, who had been vomiting, pulled my body back, which had not yet stood up.

At the same time, Helena, who was clad in divine power more intense than ever, lunged at her body.

“I feel like my ears are going to rot just listening! How dare you talk about the natural order of things when you’re a madman!”

The one who ran first put her fist into the long nose of the body.

Oops!

The guy staggers back with the sound of something being crushed.

As the one who stood at the forefront mixed with the alter ego that followed, a wave of divine power surged as if he had been waiting for it.

Not for attack. I just put up a huge barrier.

Of course it won’t last long, but… A moment is enough.

Whoa… Perong!

Various kinds of magic flying over your head.

While I was buying time, the wizards who finished the chanting came out.

The double body of the battle line that was swept away in an instant.

Then, in order to give them more time to prepare for magic, the students from the Faculty of Knights began to face the clones head-on with Helena.

“What… ?”

Edmerek’s expression shook violently as if he hadn’t expected us to fight so well.

Looking at Edmerek like that, he raised the corner of his mouth in an ironic way.

“To say that it was created by the power of God is very poor. Oh, is it because the god is an asshole?”

“Jackanapes… !”

Great. So far, everything is as planned.

Edmerek always took the lead by consuming the air and rushing his clone body at the same time.

If you know how it will turn out, you should of course prepare for it.

But the real thing starts now.

Thud. Thud. Thud.

A gigantic clone made from an evil rabbit. And Edmerek glaring at me with red-hot eyes.

Because they haven’t moved yet.