Chapter 130

At my shout, Lord Octopus Tentacle laughed out loud.

Every time he laughed, the space shook, and every being in Zone X was crushed by his majesty.

Painful groans could be heard from here and there.

Everyone was utterly weak. I alone remained unharmed and gazed at Lord Octopus Tentacle.

I had desperately hoped to see him in person, but I could not believe that my dream had actually come true.

I was deeply moved by the fact that he had come to see me while possessing the body of a subordinate.

My face flushed at this miraculous moment.

Strange things kept popping up before my eyes, but I ignored them.

There wasn’t enough time to worry about such things; I didn’t even have enough time to take in Lord Octopus Tentacle.

I tried to approach Lord Octopus Tentacle, but something held me firmly.

When I checked what it was, I saw a hand gripping my shoulder.

His hand, with its tendons and bones bulging to the brim, was convulsing pitifully.

I slowly raised my gaze to check the other person’s face.

‘Ah, it’s Captain Kwak.’

I had momentarily forgotten him in the joy of meeting Lord Octopus Tentacle.

I looked at Kwak Hanmuk with a questioning gaze.

Kwak Hanmuk was dripping with sweat, his face pale white.

I was puzzled by his inability to suppress his instinctive fear and revulsion.

What could be making him so afraid?

Lord Octopus Tentacle is such a magnificent deity.

To even see Him appear in person was an honor I could not have achieved even if I devoted my entire life to it.

I had no idea why he was trembling like this.

"Fuck…"

Kwak Hanmuk spat out a curse with difficulty.

Clack… His prayer beads slowly unraveled.

The prayer beads, reaching out with a staggering sway, wrapped around my wrist.

“Cough!”

Red blood gushed out. Kwak Hanmuk collapsed face down and spat out blood again.

In an instant, a puddle of blood formed on the floor.

At the metallic smell of blood, I drooped my eyes in sorrow.

If only I had modified his body long ago, this wouldn’t have happened.

It was all my fault.

With the prayer beads wrapped around one wrist, I approached Lord Octopus Tentacle.

As I drew closer, his neon-green eyes shone with a ethereal glow.

Finally standing before him, Lord Octopus Tentacle smiled faintly and asked me.

“■■■■■■■■■?”

It was like a funeral dirge sung from deep within the ocean.

The muffled sound pounded against my brain, but I could not understand a single word.

As I looked up at him with a bewildered expression, his laughter deepened.

“You…ng.“

I could hear it this time, but I didn’t understand the meaning. It didn’t seem like he intended to call me a lamb.

Does he mean I am young?

After a moment of contemplation, I thought of Dominic.

Dominic always used to speak to me in a way that implied I was young, too.

‘Come to think of it, Lord Octopus Tentacle should be able to see Dominic.’

Even Infernum, who wasn’t a god, saw Dominic.

Lord Octopus Tentacle would surely be aware of Dominic.

Since they are fellow gods, they should at least exchange greetings, but it was strangely quiet.

I glanced sideways at Pudding Slime.

Lord Octopus Tentacle followed my gaze, but showed no particular reaction.

As if he did not recognize Dominic.

Could it be that Dominic had hidden himself?

I couldn’t understand why he had gone out of his way to disappear out of sight of Lord Octopus Tentacle.

As I pondered for a moment, Lord Octopus Tentacle called out to me again.

“Little… Lamb.”

His shadow cast at my feet squirmed, even though there wasn’t a single breeze.

What had been human-shaped gradually split into strands of tentacles.

Then, it broke free from the shadow and took on a three-dimensional form.

The pungent smell of the sea pierced my sense of smell.

Tentacles oozing sticky mucus squirmed and wrapped around me.

I smiled pleasantly at the sensation climbing up from my feet.

It felt as if I was slowly drawing closer to the deep sea.

Ah… I wanted to cut off my useless limbs and attach Lord Octopus Tentacle’s…

It was just then, while I was immersed in a hazy state.

Crack.

I felt a stinging sensation.

A small blue spark was flying from the wooden bracelet wrapped around my wrist.

Seeing the bracelet chain stretch long behind me, I turned my head to look.

Before I knew it, the surroundings were covered in tentacles.

The waves of the tentacles rippled like the crashing sea.

I spotted a red head in a gap between the tentacles.

The man, slowly being crushed to death, called out to someone.

“Goyo… Han Goyo…”

He was bleeding from his eyes.

Speaking with tears of blood, as if he had seen something he should never have seen, he said:

“That’s a god… f*ck… snap out of it…”

Crackle.

Sparks flew repeatedly from the wooden bracelet, and the red-haired man spat out a gush of blood.

For some reason, I couldn’t take my eyes off the sight.

It was when I was staring intently at the man.

“■■■■■■….”

A faint hint of displeasure mingled in the voice of Lord Octopus Tentacle.

It seemed as though I had been staring at others too much. Even though I was standing right in front of God.

A sticky tentacle touched my cheek.

The Lord Octopus Tentacle made me look at him and smiled softly.

But…

I glanced at the Lord Octopus Tentacle for a moment, then turned my head back to the man.

He was dying, crushed by the power of God.

Just as the man was about to move his lips…

“…!”

He let out a pained groan.

The Lord Octopus Tentacle’s tentacles tightened as if to crush him to death, and the man vanished in an instant into the waves of tentacles.

Like being swept away by the deep sea.

Now, the only thing in my sight was the endlessly undulating tentacles.

The wooden bracelet wrapped around my wrist lost its grip and slid off.

Instantly, the wooden bracelet, too, was buried in the waves of tentacles.

I… felt sick.

The tentacle touching my cheek froze.

Along with that, I felt a cool breeze.

I looked up.

White and black light seemed to flash by briefly, and then the ceiling disappeared.

Not even a rockfall occurred. As if literally erased, the ceiling was opened, revealing the night sky.

In the dry sky, which had been nothing but hazy with sea fog…

Flash, a fractal pattern was drawn in a deep blue light.

Followed by ear-splitting thunder, the sound shook everything around.

The moment I heard the roar, the sensations that had been nothing but ecstasy vanished as if washed away.

I felt a burning sensation in my heart.

Thump, thump, my pulse quickened, and heat welled up in my eyes.

Amidst the rapidly rising heat, I became angry.

Looking into the neon green eyes, I gave an order.

“Get out.”

The surging waves of tentacles came to a sudden halt.

The neon green light vanished from the Chief of Security’s eyes. Where the light had vanished, only an empty hole remained.

His body swayed, and he collapsed like a puppet with its strings cut.

The tentacles that had filled the surroundings vanished cleanly, like shadows in the sunlight.

“Captain Kwak…!”

I hurriedly ran toward Kwak Hanmuk.

Lying on the floor, he was covered in blood.

My vision narrowed, and my breathing quickened. With trembling hands, I checked his pulse first.

Fortunately, he had only lost consciousness; his heart was still beating.

He is alive.

I let out the breath I had been holding.

At that moment, a part of the prayer beads, which had been hanging limply, returned to its owner.

I watched the beads slowly wrap around Kwak Hanmuk’s wrist, then gritted my teeth.

Because the sight of him was so disheveled…

He is my subordinate.

I should have protected him.

My head felt like it was going to explode as all sorts of emotions mingled with rage.

I clenched my fists so tightly that my fingernails dug into my palms.

I wanted to burn everything to ashes without leaving a trace.

I wanted to split the deep sea, pull it out, and make them pay the price for laying a hand on my subordinate.

It was the moment when the surging heat was about to engulf me.

A loud scream was heard.

“Han Goyo!!”

Je Hyun-oh and CEO Cha jumped down from the gaping hole in the ceiling and landed right beside me.

CEO Cha, who was about to shout something at me again, flinched and froze.

“You… your eyes….”

Before he could even finish his sentence…

CRASH!

With a sound like an exploding bomb, the seawater shot up into the sky.

A massive tentacle, having pierced through the sea surface, obscured the sky.

It was not just one. Hundreds of thick stems surged up from all sides of the island.

Thousands of suction cups protruding from the surface of the tentacles sucked in air, emitting a chilling friction sound.

The tentacles all turned downward in unison and fell heavily upon the prison building.

The thick reinforced concrete crumbled like bruised fruit.

Following this, the tentacles tightly gripped the prison on all sides.

With a violent crunch and crackle, steel and concrete crumpled wildly, and the vast prison building was instantly crushed.

All of this happened in a mere few tens of seconds.

It was enough to make Je Hyun-oh scramble just to spread his metal wings to block the falling rocks.

But it was not over yet.

A bizarre voice rising from the deep sea was heard.

A sound like a scraping sensation was heard, and tentacles struck the island once again.

The ground crumbled, and everything began to fall.

Je Hyun-oh quickly put on his crow gloves and came out to grab Kwak Hanmuk.

There is an underground maze beneath the prison.

However, when I looked down, I saw something completely different.

Underground, a sea of ​​neon green stretched out.

The liquid, with colors so vivid they hurt the eyes, greedily swallowed everything falling from the ground.

Je Hyun-oh tried to defy the fall and climb upward, but it was impossible to protect both Kwak Hanmuk, who had lost consciousness while flying to avoid falling rocks, and me.

He gave up on flying and wrapped his metal wings around me and Kwak Hanmuk.

A massive section of the shattered building struck Je Hyun-oh precisely.

With a powerful impact, the fall accelerated.

Splash!

We fell into the neon green sea.

I was submerged in a thick liquid, yet I could not feel safe. Objects continued to fall into the sea.

With each heavy fall that struck the metal wings, I sank a little, little by little.

Je Hyun-oh checked on me.

I nodded to him to indicate that I was okay.

Neo is not water.

You won’t suffocate to death inside Neo. It simply changes for the worse the more you drink.

As the falling objects slowly stopped, Je Hyun-oh folded his wings, pressing them as close to his body as possible to form a shape resembling a streamlined form.

Then, using that, he moved forward above the surface.

“…Phew!”

The neon green sea spread out before my eyes was a mess.

I scanned the surroundings, looking for something to lean on.

I spotted a human prisoner perched on a wide plank.

“Lieutenant Colonel Je! Over there…!”

Je Hyun-oh immediately understood what I wanted. He fired a metal feather.

The human prisoner was pierced through the neck and died instantly.

I swam over quickly and pulled the body off, and Je Hyun-oh placed Kwak Hanmuk on the plank.

Only then could I finally catch my breath. I turned to look at Je Hyun-oh.

“Lieutenant Colonel Je, are you alright?”

He displayed an emoticon on his goggles.

He seemed fine. Although he was soaked in neon green, he certainly didn’t look injured anywhere.

‘Are all the creatures okay? What about Lieutenant Won?’

Of course, CEO Cha would be safe.

The creatures who had been imprisoned and Won Taebeom were the most worrisome.

Won Taebeom, in particular, must have fallen into the neon green sea out of the blue; he might have been injured by falling debris.

‘What should I do?’

It was a moment when I was struggling to find a way to break free from this insane situation.

Ding.

A broken system window appeared before my eyes.

i think this arc is finally wrapping up! it’s definitely the longest one by far, but i definitely like the vibe more than any other one, minus maybe CallOVo, i like creepy elements like that

the author announced that they will be changing the upload schedule, so instead of everyday, it’ll be every weekday. here’s the notice: