Chapter 182 : It’s a Melee

[It’s a melee! Kuhahahaha!]

Along with the creeping voice, the black robe that seemed like it would be touched by the iron chain disappeared.

Instead, what occupied that spot was the giant gorilla with its right arm cut off and its offspring(?).

“Kyaoooooh!”

‘Are you listening to the orders of the guy who cut off your arm?’

It was absurd, but the giant gorilla’s eyes, burning red, were clearly glaring at him.

Is there perhaps magic that can control a stage 6 monster?

“Kyao!”

Kwaaaaaang!

Ureureung.

Dodging the guy’s neurotically stomping attack, Muno sharpened the nerves of his entire body.

‘Where is the guy?’

He shouldn’t get confused. The target is the mage, not this gorilla.

He mobilized all his senses to search for traces of the vanished mage, but.

He couldn’t feel even a bit of the black robe’s traces that had melted into the massive magical ‘Domain’.

And, he wasn’t given much time to focus like that either.

“Kyao!”

“Kyareureuk!”

Miniature versions of the giant black gorilla.

From ones reaching 7~8m in height to ones about 1m tall, monsters that were faster the smaller they were, were pouncing from all directions.

“Tch!”

Jjeoeok.

He swung his blade to bisect a small one aiming for his side.

Chwareureuk.

He extended the iron chain just like that, wrapping it around a relatively large one and extracting its demonic energy.

“Kyaaak!”

Immediately jumping up, he dodged other gorillas attacking from the rear and sides, swinging his blade again.

“Kkireuk!”

One gorilla dodged like the wind, but the huge greatsword that stretched out wrapped in gray and red flames cut it down.

Jjeoeok.

‘It’s heavy.’

It looked like it was cut easily at a glance, but the guys’ metallic silver fur left a tremendous resistance in his grip.

Damn it.

“Kyaa……!”

In the midst of that, an urgent voice was heard.

“Endure it! Gale!!”

Turning his head sharply, he saw Karina stumbling.

Movement that was visibly slower compared to the beginning of the battle.

‘This is…….’

Chwareureuk.

Muno reflexively extended an iron chain in that direction, wrapped it around a conspicuous tree, and pulled just like that.

Ujikkeun.

As his weight had increased, the trunk of the large tree was gouged deeply and made a rupturing sound due to the sudden load, but Muno’s body, which had already gained momentum, flew like the wind and rushed to Karina’s vicinity.

Chwareureuk.

“Kyaak!?”

“Keureureu.”

Four strands of iron chains extended soon after, wrapping around four small gorillas targeting her at once and sucking in their demonic energy.

Seuaaaa.

As expected of monsters, demonic energy of lower quality than expected was sucked in, but that alone was enough to maintain the current ‘Double Acceleration’ and ‘Brute Strength’ a little longer.

At the same time, landing by her side, he cut the largest one vertically from the head.

“Hap!”

Jjeoeokeok.

Kung.

“Are you okay!?”

Karina, who gained a moment of respite, took out something like a red glass bottle from her bosom without answering and drank it all at once.

Jjaenggeurang.

“Thank you!”

“No need to thank me……!”

That’s my line.

Fortunately, color returned immediately to her pale face; it didn’t seem to be a normal potion.

As he gained some peace of mind, many questions came to mind, starting with how she was here, but there was no time for that.

“Kyaaaaak!”

Even at that moment, silver gorillas were rushing in with red eyes.

Paaaaang!

A strike of Wind Slicer swept the front.

Pubububuk.

“Kkeureureu…….”

Karina’s rapier pierced the necks and vitals of the gorillas approaching from the rear, leaving behind a blue light.

‘This is enough.’

Chwareureuk.

“Kyareuk…….”

Seuaaaa.

Muno extended the iron chains again to extract the demonic energy of the small gorillas, resolving the overload placed on his body.

“Kyaoooooh!”

Kwaaaaaang!

Soon, he saw the middle-aged Red Iron Knight blocking the giant gorilla on his behalf at a slightly distant place.

That side seemed to still have some leeway as well.

And the real enemy isn’t these gorillas.

Chwaaaak.

“Kkeureu…….”

……Where is he?

He sharpened his senses while dealing with the baby gorillas.

“Kyaaaaaak!”

Kwaaaaaang.

“Kkirurururu!”

Peobeobeobeok.

Kwang!

Chwareureu.

“Kkireu……!”

Teolsseok.

A situation where he had to endlessly move his blade and iron chains while keeping his senses sharp in a battlefield becoming even more chaotic.

There was no way he could focus, but.

‘Huh?’

Jjeoeok.

The moment he disposed of another baby gorilla, Muno read a subtly changed flow of demonic energy somewhere in the air within the domain.

That flow disappeared in an instant, but he remembered the location.

Pbeoeok!

“Can you, hold on!?”

“No, problem!”

Pushusyuk.

“Kkireu…….”

To Muno’s question, Karina answered by piercing holes in the whole body of a small(?) gorilla that seemed to be 5m tall rushing from the front.

Immediately extending an iron chain to hook a tree again, Muno flew toward a point in the air about 100 meters up in a single breath.

That subtle flow wasn’t felt again, but.

‘Check!’

Chwaaaak.

The giant sword cut a part of that space, but as expected, nothing was caught.

Instead, the enemy’s exclamation was heard.

[You can feel even that in this situation? As expected, a fascinating fellow.]

A voice ringing from all directions, impossible to tell where it was coming from.

That voice was still full of composure.

‘This bastard…….’

Kuuung.

“Kyao……!”

Jjeoeok.

Cutting down a gorilla approaching as he landed, Muno gritted his teeth.

‘It won’t work like this.’

A horde of small gorillas popping out endlessly from somewhere in the forest.

He didn’t know how long it would last, but even if he disposed of all this gorilla horde, what meaning would it have?

If this is the guy’s ‘experiment’, rather than letting this experiment end peacefully.

‘I have to wreck it.’

Muno’s eyes naturally turned toward the giant gorilla, the lead actor of this pandemonium.

Chwareureuk.

The forest lined with huge and sturdy trees made his three-dimensional maneuvering very easy.

“Kyaa……!”

Using the gap when the giant gorilla’s gaze was focused on the middle-aged knight, Muno soared up to above its head.

‘If he controls it with magic…….’

There must be something inside the head.

Chwareureuk.

As soon as the extended iron chains wrapped around the giant gorilla’s head, a reaction came.

“Kyaak!?”

The giant gorilla neurotically raised its only arm above its head.

But.

‘Not a chance!’

Muno’s other iron chains wrapped around the guy’s neck, resisting the gorilla’s brute strength.

Of course.

Udeudeudeuk.

‘Ugh.’

It didn’t mean it was easy to withstand that brute strength.

But he wasn’t alone.

“Hmph!”

Jjeoeok.

As if to show what happens if one ignores a Red Iron Knight, the middle-aged knight slashed deeply into the back of the giant gorilla’s right knee.

“Kyaaaaaak!”

Pushushusyuk.

As a large amount of blood spurted from the back of the knee where hard metallic fur was relatively sparse, the giant gorilla’s gaze turned to the middle-aged knight.

And at that moment, Muno, concentrating his whole mind on the guy’s head, caught a foreign magical power moving in an indescribably complex pattern within that mind.

‘This is it.’

Uuuuung.

Of course, it wasn’t as small as the piece of magical power that resided inside the evil cultist’s head, but.

‘I can do it now.’

Wageujak, Wageujak.

The magic absorption power of the iron chain that gained a ‘mouth’ after evolution was on a different dimension from before.

‘There’s no need to absorb it all either.’

Kuuung.

Just by disrupting the pattern of demonic energy existing inside the gorilla’s head, the magic lost its effect.

And.

“Kyao……oh?!”

He saw the giant gorilla, which seemed like it would devastate everything with its burning red eyes, momentarily making a bewildered expression.

Of course, even so.

“Kyaaaaaak!”

The iron chains wrapping around its head and the knight in red armor fluttering in front of its eyes became the guy’s targets again, but.

‘Saw it!’

Muno confirmed that the demonic energy was disrupted somewhere in the air again at that moment.

Paaaaak.

He jumped from the gorilla’s shoulder just like that and extended an iron chain toward the point where the flow changed, but.

Chwareureuk.

Paaaaang.

‘Damn it.’

He had no choice but to lament watching the iron chain strike the empty air powerlessly.

But there was a gain.

‘Was this unexpected?’

Because the voice of the enemy full of composure wasn’t heard this time.

At least the flow he felt just now wouldn’t have been intended by the enemy.

Then.

‘If only I can amplify my senses much more…….’

I can find him.

And he had a way to do so.

‘I’m counting on you.’

– Grrr!

With the response of the Demon Devourer, Muno’s reason receded to a corner of his mind.

“Grrrrr.”

When a beast-like groan flowed out from Muno’s mouth inside the helmet.

Udeudeuk.

His body swelled slightly, and his armor began to split here and there.

Wageujak, Wageujak.

Just like the iron chains, a hideous change where giant metal mouths formed all over the armor.

This was the ‘Predator’ mode the armor obtained at the end of the fifth evolution.

A situation where the sense to feel demonic energy exploded more than twofold, and physical ability also increased by 1.5 times.

That exploded sense found the location of the real enemy hiding in the domain.

“Kyaoooo!!”

The roar of the Demon Devourer focused the attention of the battlefield.

Kwaaaaang!

The Demon Devourer, who jumped as if to explode the ground he stepped on, shot an iron chain like a ray of light toward a point in the air.

Paaaaang.

And as soon as it hit the air, he kicked off a tree with another iron chain and sprang out, extending a chain toward another point.

Paaaaaa.

Kung.

“Kyaak!”

Chwareureuk.

When that process was repeated a few times, finally, at the end of that movement, the black robe began to appear like a phantom.

[Hmph. So you became a beast. Interesting.]

He was feigning the same composure as before, but a voice that felt clearly different.

And above all.

“Kyaoooo?!”

The moment that voice was heard, the gaze of the giant gorilla pushing back the middle-aged knight also turned.

It seemed to instinctively recognize the enemy who cut off its arm and even planted magic in its head to control it.

Kung. Kwang. Kung. Kwang.

“Kyaoooo!”

The giant gorilla beating its chest and running toward the black robe.

At that roar, the movements of the baby gorillas roaming the battlefield also began to change suddenly.

“Kkireuk?”

“Kkirureu?”

“Kkiruru!”

They seemed to communicate something among themselves.

They cast their gazes toward the black robe following their dad(?) all at once.

Seureuk.

Paaaaang.

It was still the black robe disappearing like a ghost dodging Muno’s attacks, but.

“Kyaoooo!”

“Kkireuk!”

“Kkiruru!”

The moment multiple gorillas intervened, the guy’s voice also changed.

[Insignificant things!]

Annoyance settled in place of composure.

Soon, an invisible subtle wavelength of demonic energy headed toward the giant gorilla’s head again.

But.

“Grrrrr!”

Chwareureuk.

The Demon Devourer, the only one who recognized that demonic energy, disrupted that magic.

[You bastard?!]

“Kyaoooo!”

Perhaps sensing that subtle demonic energy, the giant gorilla roared and shot silver furs above its head.

Pababababak.

Furs like silver spears covering the entire space where the black robe existed.

Kwaaaaang!

When a translucent barrier rose on the whole body of the black robe, who had only been dodging like a ghost until now, blocking that attack.

The Demon Devourer was finally able to wrap the iron chains around the guy.

Kwadeudeudeuk.

Wageujak, Wageujak.

The large and small mouths of the armor and iron chains stuck right onto the mage’s barrier began to tear and eat that barrier rapidly.

[Too much, too much. For a mere test subject.]

When the green flame inside the hood distorted with annoyance and the flow of demonic energy was changing.

Muno didn’t stay still either.

‘This isn’t enough.’

Composure had only changed to annoyance; it was never panic or anxiety.

‘Let’s make him anxious.’

– Grr.

The moment Muno’s reason and the Demon Devourer’s instinct coincided.

Uuuuung.

Kwadeudeudeuk.

The corpses of the small gorillas fallen nearby, precisely the metallic furs of those corpses, were torn out as they were and began to gather toward Muno.

– Fusion Spell…….

The moment Spirit Arts and the Demon Devourer’s traits combined.

Kwadeudeudeuk.

Muno’s, no, the armor’s bulk began to grow significantly.

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