The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 365
Episode 365: Natural refrigerator.
Colors that fill your eyes.
The colors of that magical power were diverse.
What stood out was the proportion of green.
‘There are this many green-level monsters?’
There wasn’t just one type of monster.
There are monsters that look like beautiful fairies.
There was also a bizarre monster made only of tentacles.
There are monsters that look similar to earthly beasts.
Even a mushy mud-like entity that makes you wonder if it is actually a living thing.
Countless monsters.
Those enormous numbers and the magic power contained within them.
I saw that.
I couldn’t help but be completely overwhelmed.
‘Even if an army comes, we can’t defeat this.’
No, it’s not that much.
Even if the army were swelled 10 times, their numbers and strength were such that you would wonder if they would be able to last a day.
The president of the association said he had seen this plan.
So I despaired and gave up.
‘It was worth it, damn it.’
At first, I was dumbfounded that people were abandoned for that reason.
Now that I had seen it in person, I could understand his decision to betray.
‘I was saving the water droplets… in preparation for the enemies that would be inside.’
I thought it was a waste to use it up so quickly.
It was a ridiculous misunderstanding.
Against those numbers, it’s like dozens of water droplets.
Can I survive 0.1 second alone?
The difference between them and me would be whether or not I could last 0.2 seconds.
‘Haha… this is my last time?’
Tears are leaking out.
I get goosebumps all over my body.
“…I’ve been holding on like a dog until now, but like this?”
When those monsters start attacking me.
Now I can’t last even a few seconds and I die.
but.
“…You can’t do that.”
I thought as I held the dagger with my shaking body.
It is certain that he is an enemy that cannot be defeated.
But that doesn’t mean that.
‘I don’t want to search around in places like this.’
I don’t plan on doing anything and looking around.
Because there was no such thing.
‘If you use [Victimia] in the shadows, you won’t die instantly.’
The operation was simple.
First of all, the one who attacks from the front.
After somehow cutting down just one of them.
Check that ability.
‘Do you know anything? Could it be a monster with the ability to overcome this situation…!’
With that thought in mind.
Take a stance and look at your enemies.
“Whoosh whoosh…!”
Even if it means struggling like a dog.
Survive somehow.
I was preparing myself with that thought in mind…
“…Huh?”
What should I say?
The intense battle I expected…
didn’t really happen.
“These guys…”
No.
It’s not that the battle didn’t take place.
“Why aren’t you moving…?”
There are countless monsters in front of you.
It wasn’t even moving at all.
* * *
They are monsters trapped in something like a giant ice.
Normally, it would be normal to not be able to move.
I’ve seen those [Belsnickel] move just fine even in that condition several times.
Even the president of the association said that.
so that.
When I first entered this gate and saw those monsters.
I thought they would attack me right away…
“…What are you guys?”
I get right in front of one of those monsters.
I looked into those eyes and muttered.
“You have no focus.”
That wasn’t all.
These guys weren’t even moving.
Even though they are monsters that contain such powerful magical power.
The condition was like that of a dead body.
[Identification of food ingredients (enhanced)]
[A person swimming in pale water]
[Freshness – Good]
I am careful.
I saw a huge snake-like monster in front of me.
‘Freshness is the best.’
As for humans.
The condition was average to good, but…
[It is an excellent food ingredient that is kept at a low temperature and maintains high freshness. For grooming, first….]
“…?”
In fact, the content that appeared in [Food Ingredient Identification] was different.
Although the freshness is clearly high.
More literally than alive.
‘Ingredients that are well-preserved….’
And.
It was only then that I noticed it.
-Originally, we had a powerful body that we won from our hometown… but
the guy who occupied Jang Ji-han’s body said that.
At that time, it just flowed.
-I lost everything in the process of leaving my hometown.
With these freshly preserved corpses in front of you.
Description of that gate.
After reading that.
Only then did I understand.
“Is this the body they said they possessed?”
Beings that seem good and beings that seem evil.
Monsters that can live in the water, animals that can live on the land, and even animals that can fly in the sky.
It’s an awkward sight, with everything all tangled up in one place.
‘For some reason, I thought it was too heavy-duty.’
This is probably.
“They must be the original strong people in that world.”
Those evil spirits destroy the enemy’s soul and steal his body.
These monsters are the world they came from.
They must have been the indigenous people of that world.
and.
[Gate] is a fragment of a destroyed world.
The indigenous people of this world are similar to us.
One day it would have suffered destruction.
Is there anything a little unexpected?
This is why these worlds were destroyed.
“…Until now, the people who came out of the gate were the natives who fled from the destroyed world.”
but.
These were not them.
[A destroyed world where eternal winter has come and all life has disappeared.]
[It is a frost-covered castle, the home of the evil spirits who destroyed that world.]
“Did you destroy it?”
A world swimming in space, destroyed.
The people who destroyed that world.
It was these guys.
* * *
The gate is a fragment of a destroyed world.
I just assumed that the residents in the debris were survivors who had escaped from a destroyed world.
But no way.
‘I never thought there would be a case where the culprits of that destruction were the residents inside the gate.’
These guys were different from the residents of other gates who were victims of unwanted destruction.
The people who destroyed the world they lived in.
Just like what they did in Gyeonggi-do.
After stealing the bodies of the powerful people of their world, they increased their power.
In the end, it drove a world into destruction.
and.
I don’t know what happened to those guys who destroyed the world like that.
‘Even these guys had to leave that world?’
Due to some incident that occurred in the process.
It must have come to a point where you can’t use those bodies.
“…by the way.”
and.
A status window appears before my eyes.
I frowned when I saw one of the phrases.
[But all worlds have a lifespan.]
[Worlds that existed for a long time even after destruction reached the end of their lifespan and began to swim in the gaps of the destroyed world.]
‘It’s a lifespan.’
It means that all worlds must perish someday.
Normally, I would have thought it was just a courtesy phrase and moved on.
‘The system doesn’t lie.’
If you think about it like that.
Because it was quite a strange phrase.
‘…no. ‘Let’s not worry about that part.’
Isn’t it said that a star’s life will come to an end someday?
I guess that’s roughly the concept.
After shaking my head.
I muttered as I saw the corpses of monsters in front of me.
“The president of the association said he gave in after seeing these guys.”
The president of the association judged that he could never win against the true power they showed, so he decided to betray them.
That’s right.
Even I felt like they were worth betraying at this level, but…
I held the kitchen knife in my hand.
It was inserted into the body of the hideous monster that was standing there in a daze.
Phew.
A blade that goes in without any resistance.
“…You got it right.”
If only I knew they weren’t alive.
The president of the association would not have betrayed him.
‘They said they only started working after the summer ended and their numbers continued to increase.’
As a result, this is what I got.
A huge number of monsters are fighting the expeditionary force out there.
In other words.
This means that they began to increase in number only in the fall.
‘If only the president of the association had not betrayed him when he first brought the attack force and had marched ahead.’
That was more than two months ago.
Considering that the association president’s strategy was attempted around fall.
These ghosts would not have been able to stop the raiding party.
“Did you deceive the president of the association?”
No matter how hard the ghosts that found my body attacked me.
Unable to stop the raiding party.
They would have been able to enter this gate without blood.
“Humanity… “Did you trick me?”
The power that the association president saw and surrendered to was the power they had lost.
By proudly showing the power they have already lost.
They have this huge land.
They were able to form a force capable of taking over everything in Gyeonggi-do.
The humans who originally lived in that land had to spend a painful time in that cold.
It’s just that one person was deceived.
An overly tragic ending.
This is a bit much.
What can I say?
Pretty.
“It’s annoying.”
It was a frustrating thing.
* * *
Well…
I walked inside the gate, carrying my heavy body.
All of the countless monsters here were practically dead bodies.
Because it was freshly preserved, I could feel the same powerful magical power inside that body as when I was alive.
That magic power was not that of the [Belsnickels].
‘It is not these corpses here that are responsible for lowering the temperature in Gyeonggi-do.’
I suppress my anger as much as possible.
With a heavy body, but as fast as possible.
I was walking deep into the gate.
Then I slowly looked around.
A very large building frozen on all sides.
‘You said this was a castle, right?’
I definitely thought so.
There also seems to be some old-fashioned decoration around.
I may not be very knowledgeable in art, but even to me, this castle is quite beautiful.
Is there anything unusual?
‘It’s so big…’
The gate and the pillars.
Could it be that it was ridiculously big and tall?
A castle this huge.
Perhaps the residents wandering around inside were also quite large.
Thinking of looking around at that height.
Let’s look up at the sky.
“uh?”
The beings above it.
It was only then that it caught my eye.
-…!
-%$@!@^(!@$%!@….
Make eye contact with me.
Blurry figures moving around in the sky making all kinds of fuss.
[Frozen Soul Belsnickel Junior Sentinel]
[Frozen Soul [Intermediate Belsnickel Article]
“…Were they all gathered there?”
Countless souls flying through the air.
They were [Frozen Soul Belsnickel], the real residents of this gate.
The number was considerable, but
fortunately . .
“Are they the ones who couldn’t participate in the battle outside because they didn’t have a body? No. They could be the ones who lost their bodies before Han Yi-seo’s buff spread.”
-$@!*%@!…!
“Well, then just watch.” .”
Those guys had no body.
It seemed impossible for them to attack me.
‘These corpses or those souls here probably aren’t everything at this gate.’
That’s because
the cold that hit Gyeonggi-do was too strong.
If we go further inside,
there must be a fundamental cause of this cold. I
started to walk inside
with heavy steps .
-!!!
I could feel the spirits in the air making a fuss.
I coolly ignored it and went inside. Moving.
The inside of the huge castle was filled with the frozen corpses of those monsters.
This large castle felt cramped. It was
an unbelievably large amount.
‘It could be tens of thousands… no, it could be hundreds of thousands.
‘
These guys are the ones who completely destroyed a world.
They must have stolen the bodies of all useful beings in that world. They
collected corpses in order of most usefulness.
They searched the entire world, said to be in the hundreds of thousands. Speaking of the numbers,
I also understood the power contained in these corpses.
Then…
Took…
My body collided with a corpse that was blocking my path.
“There are so many…!”
My body was already exhausted. As I was walking,
it was difficult to control my body properly.
In that state, I was walking inside as quickly as possible.
‘There are so many corpses that it blocks the path.’
Meanwhile,
the inside of this gate is literally filled with the corpses of monsters. It is no exaggeration to say that it is full.
For now, I’m just walking inside.
So much so that it is difficult to enter while avoiding the corpses.
‘Intrusive.’
Because there are so many.
After I placed my hand on one of the many corpses.
Toouk.
Pulling the body.
I guided my body forward.
OK.
Tuung….
“This is okay.”
A frozen body falling to the floor.
And through that repulsive force.
I was able to move forward a little faster.
…and.
That moment.
“…Hmm.”
The corpse of a fallen monster.
Looking at that, an idea came to mind.
“It’s so cold here…”
It was so cold here.
Just like a freezer.
We are now suffering from the aftereffects of [Berserk].
You can’t make your already messed up body worse by eating other dishes.
So much so that I just had to grit my teeth and endure it.
And thanks to him.
[Freshness – Excellent]
[Freshness – Excellent]
“…It’s fresh.”
The corpses here were so fresh.
Just like food ingredients stored in the freezer.
And finally.
“…there are a lot.”
Each body possesses great power.
Those bodies are well preserved.
Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.
There are so many of them that they block the path.
The logic that passed through my mind was short.
The result was simple.
Sigh.
Like a monster I just fell over.
I quickly walked forward, reaching out to the corpse blocking my path and pulling it behind me.
And at the same time.
I slightly adjusted the position where the frozen corpse would fall.
Toouk…
Then.
Slurp….
the body of a monster.
It naturally disappears as if melting into my shadow.
“This is it.”
and.
Right at that moment.
-1^%!@$!@$!%@!ㅑ%$@(*!$(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-!!@?#!?!! !!!!!!!!!!??????????!!!!!!!!!!!
The souls who were stuck on that ceiling and had to just watch me.
They were shocked. started screaming.