Chapter 45

Ogres

A big city like Behengeru had a huge wall with a knight force with the lord and other soldiers . The people who lived outside the city had their reason why . They might have committed a serious crime, or they might just not have money to live there .

Sungmin had no idea why the people living here was here . There was no reason to know either though . Like Lude said, mercenaries were driven by money . He had a job and he was going to do the job .

“But it’s weird . ”

Lude muttered . He wrinkled his forehead .

“This forest . It seems wide, but it’s too small for a ogre to live here . . ”

Sungmin agreed to that . Sungmin didn’t have any experience of fighting with an ogre, but he had the basic information about them .

Ogres were strong monsters . They were on top of the food chain in almost every forest they went to .

But why were they in this forest? It was big, but not that big .

“Ogres are omnivores . ”

Lude walked .

“They eat everything . They eat things that don’t live . They don't’ judge . But they still have a preference . Humans are omnivorous, but they like meat . Ogres like meat as well . ”

Lude muttered and stopped walking . He looked at the fallen tree . It wasn’t because of an axe .

“Ogres are big . They’re about 3 meters tall, and there are some that are even bigger . They eat a lot … but there doesn’t seem to anything that would satisfy the ogre's taste here . ”

Lude muttered with a strange expression . Ogres liked meat . They eat humans or orcs . Even regular monsters . Ogres are such monsters that eat their own kind . Monsters were like that .

“The request came in yesterday?”

“Yes . And the ogre was spotted two days ago . ”

Lude muttered .

“It’s strange . There isn't anything in this forest like a monster village . There’s no goblins clans, you know? Ogres are… smart . They're violent, but they don’t attack humans usually . Of course if they see a human, they won’t just let him go . Just ogres don’t attack first . They don't’ attack a village first . ”

Lude was explaining his information to Sungmin . Lude viewed Sungmin to be a complete rookie at this . It wasn’t completely wrong . Sungin didn’t have much information about the higher ranked monsters . So, he listened carefully to Lude’s words .

“Do you know why? If they attack a village, that’s a huge problem . If they do, ogres know that a proper hunter would come and kill them . Even if this is a village outside Behengeru, it’s still people living inside the territory of the lord . The knights come and kill at the ogres . Monsters don’t want to die like us . ”

“But we aren’t knights . ”

“Yes . We’re mercenaries . Money . But the result is the same . We came to get the ogre . Even if they didn’t attack first .

“‘Strange . ’ I don’t understand what’s strange . ”

“It’s weird . There aren’t anything that would meet the taste of an ogre . There are animals… but it’s not a good place for an ogre to live for a long period of time . Ogre needs to live in a bigger place than this . There needs to be more food than this .

“Orcs and goblins?”

“Yes . Monsters can eat other monsters and no one would care . ”

“Maybe the ogre is here for a short amount of time?”

“That’s stranger . ”

Lude wrinkled his face again .

“There aren’t any close forests that are bigger than this . I thought maybe it was an old ogre that lost the fight for territory… but that’s weird too . You know? A ogre that lost the territory fight almost gave up on life . They attack villages and anything to eat . But the monster didn’t attack the village either . ”

“Is there a reason?”

“I don’t know . Honestly, there’s no reason why we should care . It’s a strange reason why this ogre came out of here, but we should think of not why the ogre is here, but how to kill it . ”

Sungmin nodded . He was already preparing his spear . It was the first time he was fighting with an ogre . It was a lie if he said he wasn’t nervous .

He wasn’t fear . It was more nervousness . It was the first practice after reaching the limit . The monsters that he killed on the way here was nothing compared to this .

‘3 years . ’

There were many signs of Ogres . Big footsteps, broken trees . While he was walking, Sungmin felt a bit of disharmony .

“It’s weird . ”

Sungmin muttered . Lude nodded his head .

“Its is . ”

“This monster, does he poop?”

“He does . If he eats something . ”

Lude wrinkled .

“Ogres are top of the class predators . They’re strong . They don’t try to hide that they are here . But… there’s no poop anywhere . ”

There was no evidence of food as well . He found something else .

It was a dead deer . It was more accurately said to be a dismantled piece of meat . A meat that was dismantled by the strength of an ogre, They both looked at the corpse .

“He didn’t eat it . ”

“Why?”

There wasn't evidence of eating . No bite marks . Just… dismantled .

There were many more bodies . Many animals killed .

“It’s weird . ”

Lude muttered . He had experience of ogre conquests, but there wasn’t any ogre as strange as this one . ”

“Is it even an ogre?”

That muttered .

Sungmin felt it in his skin . A feeling of something . Instead of his sense… Sungmin felt it in his skin . It was sign of warning in his gut .

Sungmin immediately pulled out his spear . Lude didn’t feel that . But he also immediately moved back and pulled out his sword .

Kung!

There was a voice that was coming from behind him . It was a sound . A strong… footstep

Creak! Kung! A tree was breaking . Where was something like that hiding . ? Lude and Sungmin looked with horror at the ogre .

No, was that even an ogre?

“ . . . what is that…?”

Lude muttered . It… looked off . It was an ogre by its size and looks .

But it was different . The lips were sewed together . It wasn’t just that . There were some evidence of other changed . Lude swallowed softly .

It was different as well . The right hand and left hand was different . The right was the hand of an ogre, but the left hand had narrow fingers with long nails . Sungmin looked at the string that was stuck in his left wrist . The muscles . The color of the skin . And the eyes . Both eyes were different color .

“ . . . Chimera?”

Sungmin muttered . Lude shivered at that . Chimera . It was a monster that was a mixture of two monsters . Not natural .

It was the result of a magic experiment .

“Let’s run . ”

Lude said . Chimera with a base of an ogre . He had never heard of something like that . If that was an ogre chimera, there was a small chance of winning . Even if Lude was a S rank, he didn’t have confidence that he could win against that .

Magic was inside a chimar . The point of the experience was to find the perfect species . There was a limit that a species could have . Therefore, the chimera experience started . To mix species together to create the best species that could even exist .

Therefore, all chimeras had other surgeries in them . It was only a ogre as a base . Its strength was different depending on what kind of surgeries it had . This monster… was something that wasn’t for S ranks .

“CCRRRRRR!!!”

Ogre screamed loudly . The scream turned into an echo . Now he knew why the ogre didn’t eat . It wasn’t that he didn’t . It was that he couldn’t . The ogre probably ripped apart the monsters because of the anger that he couldn’t eat .

Hunger made ogres mad . ogres started to run . They had to run . Like Lude said, Sungmin started to take a step back . But the ogre was faster .

Sungmin’s eyes looked at the movement of the ogre . It swung around its fist, heading towards his body . If he was hit with that, his body would be shattered and his chest would break .

He would die .

Now?

The training of the mountain passed his head . The walking everyday came into his mind . It may have been his unconscious . ‘Have to . ’ he thought, and he moved .

This wasn’t the Mountain of Mush anymore .

His body wasn’t heavy .

Shadowless- first step .

Sungmin’s body disappeared . Behind him . Lude’s eyes widened .

Sungmin was heading towards the ogre .