The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 345
Episode 345: Negotiation (2)
“You’ll save Jun…?”
Jo Beom-seok, who seemed like no suggestion would work.
A crack appeared on his face.
‘As expected, the information is correct.’
The two people nodded and said, confident that the suggestion had worked.
“It is possible if we mobilize the power of our brothers.”
When an expeditionary force was said to be attacking.
The first characters to be neutralized are the two awakened people who play a major role in large-scale battles.
It was Jo Beom-seok and Jo Joon.
‘And General Cho Beom-seok said that he actually cares about his grandson very much.’
Even though they may have failed their brothers in the last raid.
The brothers who returned alive all reported the same thing.
A low-level knight who commanded the battle.
The brother’s arrow clearly succeeded in hitting the target.
Surviving that shooting, etc.
That it would never be possible.
“…I guess I’ll ask first. “How is that possible?”
“As you know, General, we are spiritual beings. And… a soul that has recently died does not disappear immediately but hovers near the body for a certain period of time.”
One of the most important people has already been successfully eliminated.
They thought that the other one would be easier to eliminate than they thought.
Sigh.
He said, extending his hand towards Jo Beom-seok.
“I will take your soul and give it to you in a new, more powerful body.”
“….”
“It’s not easy for us, but if you want, you can do it.”
In those words.
Beomseok Jo clenched his fists and said, clenching his teeth as if they would break.
“Okay… I understand. “What are the other conditions?”
“Hehe, you’re expecting more from here… You’re greedy too. But our brothers are beings who know mercy, so I will tell you.”
The two people seem to have already convinced Beomseok Jo that he has crossed over.
He opened his mouth in a relaxed manner.
“First of all, as I said before. If you want to take control of your body, you can do so. We have already obtained the bodies of the strongest people in this area… The more bodies with this potential, the better, but we are still not in short supply.”
“Hmph, I see, if the temperature in this area continues to drop because of you guys, you’re going to freeze to death one day, so what’s the use of such a proposal?”
“I will even give you a place near the ‘Wall of Fire’.”
“…hmm!”
“Our influence is lessened near that wall due to the intense heat. I will give you a chance to spend the rest of your life there. Not only that, but if you really want to…”
They said, looking around at the expeditionary force glaring at them.
“Not only will we give you a chance to become our brothers.”
“sibling?”
“The human soul is weak. General. The same was true for the current owners of this body. Even though it has such a powerful body, when we opened our consciousness, it couldn’t last even half a day… I honestly wonder how the soul and body are so out of sync.”
“I am giving you a chance to abandon such a weak soul and be reborn as a high soul like us. “You can escape the mortal life that is tied to your body and be reborn as a powerful spiritual being.”
Being brothers means.
They said they would give them a chance to change into the same species as them.
If you just listen to it this way, it might not sound like a big deal.
What was important was that they were beings not tied to the body.
‘That means…’
The eyes of the people who heard the story slightly waver.
‘Isn’t that what it means to become immortal… even if you die?’
In this world where we have to worry about death every day.
A proposition that is bound to be very attractive.
“Yes… that is your suggestion…”
“I hope you know that I am giving you too much consideration, general.”
To such a suggestion.
Beomseok Jo said as he slowly approached the two people.
“Then you should give me an answer.”
The two people, who thought that they had made an offer that they could never refuse, looked at Jo Beom-seok with relaxed expressions.
and.
“The conversation is over. “The whole army…!”
“…hmm?”
“Quickly subdue these two evil spirits!”
I couldn’t help but open my eyes and be surprised.
* * *
“what…!?”
Jo Beom-seok’s attack order was given suddenly.
The two surprised people raised their weapons again.
It didn’t mean much.
“Yes!”
Quaaaaaaaaaaa!
In the first place.
He opened his mouth only after being pushed to his limit by the two leaders’ attacks.
As they begin to attack again.
“Wow…”
The two people from the raiding party were unable to mount a proper counterattack.
I had no choice but to roll around on the floor miserably.
“The body itself belongs to my friends who were with me on the battlefield, so I tried to subdue it as gently as possible… but it just wouldn’t be possible.”
Beomseok Jo looked down at the two people rolling around on the floor.
He said, clenching his teeth so hard that they felt like they would break.
“dare…!”
The first time I saw him shivering.
The two thought that Beomseok Jo was beginning to waver at their proposal.
“How dare you call Jun’s name with that dirty mouth…!”
“…!”
“No matter how hard I try, I just can’t bear it…!”
but.
It wasn’t.
“The people who put my grandchild through that situation are now asking me to surrender? “Did you really think that I would accept such an offer?”
It seems like Jo Beom-seok had no intention of listening to their suggestions in the first place.
He shouted with a spirit that made it hard to believe he was an old man.
“You’ll give me land near the wall? gibberish! You guys turned even the hot summer weather into an infinitely cold winter. “They probably thought that with time, even the heat of the wall could cool down.”
“….”
“And even if the suggestion were true, it would mean nothing to us.”
Even though I’m old.
For an awakened person, age does not matter much.
“Someday, that heat barrier will collapse.”
“…what?”
“When the day comes if we accept your offer and become monsters!”
The former general shouted with utmost confidence.
“You just end up being hunted by those who come from beyond the Wall!”
Their proposal is.
It was meaningless from the beginning.
“What do you mean, the wall is falling down?”
With words full of confidence.
The two people rolling around on the floor couldn’t help but be embarrassed.
The information they know about humans belongs to the ‘attack party’.
The raiding party doesn’t know.
Because I couldn’t find out about information that was only recently known to the association.
“In the first place… an invitation to surrender.”
Jo Beom-seok laughed
at them and said,
“Isn’t that ultimately proof that you guys are also a burden to us?”
If they are really overwhelmingly strong.
There is no need to encourage them to surrender, just trample them down.
The reason he didn’t do that
was because fighting the expeditionary force was burdensome.
“…I’m not sure, but I do know that you rejected our offer.”
“okay. Go away, you bastards. “Thanks to you, I am confident that we too have a chance to win.”
In Jo Beom-seok’s words.
The two people rolling around on the floor said with bitter smiles.
“The barrier opens. “It seems like new information has come in that we don’t know about.”
They were the ones who were devastated by the expeditionary force’s attack.
But apart from that miserable appearance.
“…I don’t know about the rest, but there’s just one thing wrong. General.”
“Tsk tsk. “If the wall opens, those from the other side will be able to subdue us.”
they.
Rather, he opened his mouth in an attitude that seemed laughable.
“The time when that was possible… has already passed a long time ago.”
“…?”
“The reason we recommended you surrender is not because you are burdened. On the contrary, you are nothing more than a very light enemy to us.”
“Hah, then why did you recommend surrender?”
“Didn’t I already tell you?”
When they revealed their true colors to the expeditionary force.
The reason I said it for the first time.
“It was out of consideration for you.”
“It wasn’t a lie that I felt a little close to you guys after getting this body.”
Because the moment I took on a human body, I developed intimacy with the humans in my memories.
To show one last mercy.
and.
The second reason is…
“I just didn’t want to cause a fight near our hometown…”
That moment.
The light in their eyes began to fade.
“You refuse the last mercy offered as a favor. It is true that it is a bit disappointing…”
“Well, it won’t be a big deal.”
The two slowly closed their eyes and said,
“I don’t know your souls, but in the end.”
“The body will be with us…”
With those words.
The two people’s heads looked as if they had lost their minds.
Thumping.
I ended up falling to the floor.
“….”
There was only heavy silence among the expedition troops watching them.
Beomseok Jo thought as he looked around the expeditionary force.
‘You say we are no different from ants?’
The appearance of countless monsters shown by the enemy.
The appearance of an immortal who abandons his body without hesitation.
‘It’s a big deal.’
Among the expeditionary forces who saw it.
The agitation was spreading.
* * *
-As expected… you are not an easy inspiration, Beom-seok Jo.
The body they were using just a moment ago.
Looking down at the expedition troops who were looking at the body in heavy silence.
-No way. I never thought I would choose revenge over saving my dead grandson.
Two souls.
[Belsnickel] thought.
-I guess the information that you would do anything for your grandson was a bit wrong… Or rather, did you cut off your personal affection for your grandson for the sake of the expeditionary force?
-Maybe that’s why the brothers’ attack failed.
-There is a high probability that he even realized that the story about saving his grandson was a lie. Is it not for nothing that they overcame that attack and brought the expeditionary force here?…
They were two souls who set out to easily subdue the expeditionary force.
Unfortunately, that plan failed.
-…But this may actually be a good thing.
Although I lost two precious bodies.
Anyway, new bodies will be distributed sooner or later.
Among them are Park Jung-gun and Heo Yun-chang.
There are also more useful bodies.
For them, all they have to do is change into that body later…
– They succeeded in instilling fear in them.
Jo Beom-seok’s momentum was clearly considerable.
Their last words must have instilled anxiety in the members of the expedition team.
-I worked hard on my own, but it ended up being a disappointment. General Joe.
-It seems like we benefited from this contact.
That anxiety.
They will exert a huge influence that cannot be compared to the two lost bodies of the awakened people.
-First, you must return to your hometown and report this to your brothers.
-New information that that wall may collapse… I need to discuss it with my brothers… hmm?
Thinking like that.
Two souls turned their heads and tried to head towards their hometown.
however.
Right at that moment.
Paaaaaaaaaa!
-…What!?
These people existed as spirits that could not be seen through the eyes of ordinary humans.
their bodies.
-What is this…!
As if color suddenly appeared.
Their souls were revealed to the world.
Faba Park!
From far away.
Several daggers seemed to have a will of their own.
Running to hunt the two souls.
-What a useless thing…!
In their spirit form, they are unaffected by physical attacks.
Even now that it has been revealed, that part must still be the same.
Suddenly –
‘Huh?’
‘Nonsense…!’
What are their thoughts?
It didn’t last long.
* * *
“Mercy and all… You really have a long tongue.”
“….”
“But you all know that, right? “In the first place, an empty cart is noisy.”
I bow down.
After picking up items that fell on the floor.
“Anyway, I guess those guys are scary. Like this…”
[Belsnickel’s prepared soul]
[The frozen soul Belsnickel has been prepared into a size that is easy to eat in one bite.]
[The chef’s soul cooking skills are inexperienced. There was some damage, but it was just recently repaired so it was in fresh condition…]
“I see you’re bragging about a trivial topic.”
Holding in your hands the souls that have been cleaned into bite-sized pieces.
I said this to those who were watching my back.