The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 379
Episode 379: Taking Time (2)
“What is this, is this a person?”
“We don’t know either. “Once you see the blood-covered figure… it looks like it’s a person.”
When I finally came to my senses.
A murmur was heard nearby.
‘This place…?’
Let’s narrow our eyes.
A makeshift tent was visible.
I felt like I was lying down on a cot in the tent.
‘…Is this a simple treatment center?’
A treatment center hastily built inside the wall.
[The architect] was anxious to create as much of that barrier as possible, so the treatment center was roughly made out of a large tent.
Let’s slightly roll our eyes.
I saw people running around in a hurry.
There must be a lot of injured people besides me.
“It looks like it’s a person. “Actually, isn’t it like a monster sent by those guys?”
“That’s right. Those guys are ghosts that can take over other people’s bodies. “Isn’t there a high probability that the body of a monster with the ability to become invisible was stolen?”
“Besides, I was dying from the enemy’s attack…”
I looked away again.
People looking at me and talking about something.
And I looked around my body.
‘I wondered what you were talking about… [Environmental assimilation] was being maintained…’
My body was still transparent.
It was just the huge amount of blood that came out of my body that led me to guess that the figure was human.
‘That’s a good thing. I think I just fainted for a moment.’
Since it is [Environmental Assimilation], there are no buffs in terms of stats.
It lasted longer than other dishes.
However, there was no case where the effect lasted longer than two days.
It’s been about a day at most since I collapsed.
Anyone can see that I look closer to a monster than a human right now.
I don’t think it’s strange if they misunderstand.
I immediately opened my mouth to reveal my identity, but…
‘…no, no.’
Soon after, I changed my mind.
I opened my mouth, modulating my voice as much as possible.
“It doesn’t matter who it is….”
“Did you say that!?”
“Please bring just one leader-level person from the branch.”
At my words.
The three people near my cot muttered in confusion.
“That voice… have you ever heard it?”
“No, I don’t know who it is.”
“A person I don’t know who is asking me to call the branch leader…”
“Isn’t he a monster sent to assassinate a key figure?”
Although the voice was altered for a reason.
Those who immediately look with suspicion.
“No bad intentions… If that doesn’t work, it’s okay to be a chef in the kitchen…”
“Even if you say no.”
I tried to speak in a moderate way.
That look of suspicion never went away.
‘…isn’t that working too?’
My head started hurting because I didn’t know how to solve this.
Right at that moment.
“…Please bring a leader.”
“uh?”
“Wait and see. “I’ll bring it to you right away.”
“!?”
A man nodded his head at what I said.
The body was moved out of the temporary treatment center.
“Now wait a minute!”
“You’re going to bring me here!?”
The other two shouted in panic and grabbed his shoulders.
“You can’t believe it…!”
“You believe in this invisible man!?”
Although this is my story.
I also sympathized with their words.
Me too.
I was wondering why you believed my words that were so suspicious.
but.
“I don’t trust that guy.”
“what?”
“Even if that guy has bad intentions… it won’t really matter now.”
Unfortunately.
It wasn’t because he trusted me.
“Everyone is vaguely aware of it, right? This war. “We can never win.”
“….”
At that man’s words.
The other two were speechless.
“…Even the monsters from the Demonic World joined in. “If we fight well.”
“As long as we fight well, whatever.”
Fortunately, one woman retorted with clenched teeth.
In fact, the reason the allies were able to continue the battle without giving up were those demonic monsters.
Although it was a reasonable rebuttal in its own way.
“Everyone saw it. “Even the giant snake that seemed so strong was defeated by those guys.”
“….”
In the man’s next words.
Even the woman couldn’t refute it.
I only knew after hearing those words.
‘Did one of them get hit in the meantime?’
They didn’t kill them because they had to use them as bodies.
Those guys seemed to understand tactics and strategy.
“The elites of the raiding party play with the existence that they relived like a nightmare, like a toy, and tear it alive!”
The monster probably suffered quite a misfortune.
A powerful being who raised the morale of the allies.
The more miserably that entity suffers, the easier it will be to lower the morale of its enemies.
“Wow.”
It must have been quite a shocking sight.
Some people started to feel nauseous as soon as they remembered that story.
“Right now, only the monsters in the demon world are dying, but then it’s us.”
“Are you sure you don’t know? The last battle at the wall was similar, but Shin Yeong-jun stepped forward…”
“It was still the early stages of the battle at that time. There are so many injured people now that we don’t even have enough tents. “When on earth is that guy going to come forward?”
When the other two fell silent.
The man turned and walked out of the tent.
“Even if that guy is an enemy sent by monsters. “You just end up losing the battle a little sooner anyway.”
“….”
“Nothing will change just because he gets hit a little sooner here, so I believe that this guy is just a pitiful person dying and I will grant the dying person’s wish.”
It’s not because you trust me.
Even if what I say is a lie, nothing will change.
A man who listens to me with deep despair.
“That way… even if I die, I think I can die a little more comfortably.”
Looking at that back.
I had a mixed feeling.
* * *
“I heard you were looking for me. What’s going on?”
And after a while.
The man did as he said and brought a high-ranking awakened person.
I was wondering who would come.
‘As expected, it’s Han Yiseo.’
Han Yi-seo is a non-combatant awakened person.
At the beginning of the battle, buffs were already applied through sacrifices.
Even in the midst of a fierce battle, she is the only leader who has some composure.
“Everyone else… out…”
“Yes?”
“Only you…”
I said that, hiding my voice.
Han Yi-seo responded as if it were absurd.
“How can I trust you to be left alone?”
“….”
He was hiding his voice on purpose.
My body is invisible due to [Environmental Assimilation], except that it is covered in blood.
No matter how much of a shaman I am, it would be difficult to think of me like this.
“If you really want to be left alone… you have to answer my questions.”
It must have been quite suspicious.
It looked like he was trying to use [False Detection].
I opened my mouth calmly.
“Kalajind… spirit guardian.”
“…!”
OK.
Her complexion turned pale.
“…?”
“Knife what?”
Other people wondered what that meant.
“Can everyone please leave for a moment?”
“yes?”
“I have something to talk about with you.”
“Uh huh?”
She sent the others out for a moment with a serious expression.
“…I sent everything away like you said.”
“….”
“You… no, who are you!”
Let’s get people out.
She said, taking out a sharp knife from her bosom.
“What is it? Let’s take lightly the name of the great spirit who protects me…!”
“…That’s me.”
“uh?”
“It’s me.”
I quickly opened my mouth to see that he was about to do something dangerous.
Her expression distorts.
“This voice… no way!”
She shouted with a pale face.
“Mr. Youngjun!?
“…Shh. “I sent people out at best, but if you talk so loudly…”
“You suddenly disappeared from view, so I wondered where you were carrying out a strategy to turn the situation around, but what the hell is this…!”
…I thought they were executing an operation.
I couldn’t help but laugh inside at those words.
‘This is why I have no choice but to hide my voice.’
I spoke to her as quietly as possible.
“So you need to be quiet.”
“yes?”
“I don’t want other people to know that I ended up like this.”
“…!”
No matter what.
I have become a person of considerable influence in Gyeonggi-do.
-Maybe you don’t know…! The last battle at the wall was similar, but Shin Young-jun stepped forward…
– I wondered where he was carrying out a strategy to turn the situation around.
Same with those three people from earlier.
The same goes for Han Yi-seo.
‘Even among those who are fighting now… there are probably those who are hoping that I may come later and turn this situation around.’
Less so than in Legion.
There was something called expectation placed on me.
The expectation that maybe I could solve this situation.
That expectation may be the driving force for those people to fight.
‘If it were known that I came back a half-corpse.’
That driving force just disappears.
On the contrary, it might penetrate all the way to the floor.
so.
“Please… support me…”
“Yes?”
“We have to move. When I am in this transparent state…”
At least now, environmental assimilation is being maintained.
I had to move my body to a place where there were no other people.
“Rather than moving, you should get treatment here!”
“If the environmental assimilation breaks down here, I’ll be caught out for doing this… If I want to maintain the morale of my troops at all… I shouldn’t be here.”
“….”
Although I wanted to escape on my own.
There was only one reason to call someone.
‘I really can’t move my body.’
It’s a situation I can’t escape from alone.
I had no choice but to call someone I could trust.
“Whoa… raise your arms. “I will help you.”
“Thank you.”
She seemed to be lost in some complicated thoughts.
Soon he helped me.
“So where should I go?”
Even if you say a non-combatant awakened person, an awakened person is an awakened person.
She asked, lightly supporting me.
“To the place furthest from the enemies.”
“If it’s the farthest place.”
The monsters were approaching from the southwest.
Let’s say it’s a long way from there.
“Um… near the black barrier.”
“…Whew.”
Han Yi-seo sighed.
He began to help me towards him without saying a word.
“The injured have been transported! Therapists, hurry…!”
“also!? “Now everyone is flocking to the seriously injured, so there’s no time left…!”
While moving while being supported by her.
I could see people rushing around inside the wall.
“It looks like the situation is not going well.”
“…Yes.”
I don’t know how long I closed my eyes.
It seemed clear that the situation was not good.
“The number of monsters was numerous, but we didn’t have enough power to handle those giants.”
“….”
“At least in the middle, there came a moment when the power of the monsters in the Demon World suddenly became stronger and the power of those giants weakened, so I held on until now… but after the big snake was hit by the enemies yesterday, even holding on was impossible. “It’s done.”
She said with a dark expression.
“After that, the wires began to collapse rapidly. “It’s not only because we can’t stop the giants, but also because our allies and the monsters’ momentum has been greatly weakened.”
“….”
“They were ridiculously cruel. “I’m so glad I didn’t see that happen.”
By the time we arrived near the black barrier.
She continued, looking at the barrier.
“At least we are holding out as much as we can under General Cho Beom-seok’s command… but I think everyone has vaguely noticed. “If we continue like this, we will never win.”
“Is that so.”
“There was some talk about whether we should try escaping in another direction. General Cho said we should hold out here as long as possible.”
It seems that General Cho Beom-seok has adopted a holding strategy as I requested.
Thankfully, there didn’t seem to be many deaths.
“Whoops….”
“Damn it. Even Mr. Yoon Chang…!”
A significant number of awakened people were seriously injured.
Entering the treatment center.
Burbubbbbb….
“We’re almost out of shells!”
“…There is no time to think about later! Just shoot and see!”
The fire from tanks and artillery continued to fall without stopping.
The facial expressions of the people moving the shells were also close to the worst.
‘The defeat is already dark.’
Nevertheless.
The living continued to fight to somehow survive.
“I’m not sure, but General Cho told me to hold on!”
“If I hold on, something might change…!”
If I hold on like this, something might change.
Holding on to only a faint hope.
“…If you do it here, it won’t be visible to other people.”
“Thank you….”
He blurted out.
I sat down on the floor near the black barrier, supported by Han Yi-seo.
however.
“…This?”
There was an object touching my butt.
Han Yi-seo picked up the item and said.
“It looks like burned clothes…”
“ah.”
“This could be the result of someone other than Yeongjun who was in the demon world throwing themselves over that barrier to avoid the monster…”
Han Yi-seo opened her mouth in despair as she looked at the burned clothes.
but.
“That’s not it.”
“yes?”
I knew what that was.
“It’s similar, but a little different.”
“…?”
Only then did I know.
By chance, this place I arrived at with her help
was a place I had been to once.
I laughed to myself at that thought.
When I was sitting on the floor and looking at the battlefield.
Kwaaaaaaaaaa!!!
“!?”
From far away.
A tremendous sound and a large vibration resembling an earthquake resound.
And right after that.
Paaaaaaaa!
“Ugh…!?”
Humans wandering around inside the wall.
An unidentified liquid was sprayed over the heads of those people.
“What on earth is this!”
Those who were suddenly covered in liquid were puzzled as they did not know its identity.
I was at the very back and could see everything at a glance.
I was able to find out the identity of the liquid.
[Ingredients Identification (Enhancement)]
[Blood of a Mighty Beast]
[Freshness – Best]
‘Blood.’
Let’s look in the direction from which the sound came.
Suddenly there was a huge noise.
The owner of the blood splattered inside the wall could be identified.
Pasasak….
The barrier created by Kim Jong-du.
The wall was half collapsed.
and.
It was not an enemy attack that broke down the wall.
“Hey, the white lion….”
-Cruk….
The wall collapsed.
Between the cracks in the collapsed wall, there is a huge monster.
The white lion had fallen.
The guy who flew away after being hit by an enemy attack crashes into a barrier.
That barrier has been broken down.
-Crook….
Beetle….
His whole body was soaked in blood, so it’s no longer even called a white lion.
The guy seemed to have not given up yet and tried to get up somehow.
Kwasik.
-Kwaaeoeook!
Trampling on that body.
There were people putting their bodies on top of the collapsed wall.
-These are really tough things.
Exuding cold air from the body.
Colossal giants.
The giant who trampled the lion stretched out his hand toward the lion.
He forced his mouth open and grabbed his teeth.
Sigh!
-Croooooooo!
All of the lion’s teeth were pulled out.
-Don’t be too afraid, beast. We are those who know mercy.
-Cruch… Cough….
-Your body, which is nothing more than an animal, will be put to good use in our arms.
A white lion suffering in pain, completely losing its will to fight.
The giant lifts the body leisurely with one hand.
Coo….
behind that giant.
Other giants slowly approach.
“…not only a man-eating bird, but also a member of the queen’s household.”
The giants who appeared from behind
…
The unconscious [Torn Wings], [Black Claws], and [Light Scales] were being dragged across the floor.
“Actually, until now… I thought maybe I could win.”
“….”
“Maybe if I just keep holding on like this, maybe there will be hope. “But not anymore.”
She saw that.
Look down at me.
“That last hope has become like this.”
“….”
“I guess I have no choice but to admit it now.”
It was as if she had given up everything.
Grinning…
“We… lost.”
He said with a light smile.