Chapter 123: – The Lord Is With Us (44)

༺ The Lord Is With Us (44) ༻

The stench of blood permeated the silent cave.

More than six lumps of flesh were pierced by a sword, hacked down with a hatchet, or had their skulls shattered by a fist. Over half of the flesh seeds were killed by me.

In other words, while the other members killed around four, I had single-handedly killed at least six.

Such a feat should have been impossible with my current skills even if I had let my rage take control of my body. To think I had killed so many in such a short time…

It was probably due to exerting such an unthinkable amount of force that my muscles were sore and even my head was throbbing.

While enduring my body’s complaints, I thought back to what I witnessed. It was highly likely that what I saw in my trance was a memory from the future ‘me’ as there was no one else who could plant such unfamiliar memories in me.

Then, did that mean that was the certain end humanity would face if I didn’t follow the contents of the letter?

All the emotions from the memory lingered as they reverberated within my heart—the grief, the despair and helplessness, along with the seething hatred and rage.

All of a sudden, I staggered as exhaustion washed over me. Catching my breath, I let out a sign.

I trudged forward to pick up my sword and hung the hatchet back on my waist. Then, I looked deep into the cave.

Considering the fact that the dozen flesh seeds we just killed were only a drop in the ocean compared to the remaining flesh seeds and that the unknown monster called the ‘Flesh Nest’ was there, venturing deeper back into the cave posed too great of a risk.

As I was about to turn back, my sight landed on the lifeless corpse of one of the flesh seeds that Senior Delphine had slain. The face of another child peeked through the area that seemed to have melted off from her heat. The child’s eyes, filled with deep fear, pierced my heart.

Profanities flowed through my head.

I didn’t know who they were, but what they did was unforgivable. Thinking of the children suffering inside the flesh seeds, I wanted to immediately storm towards the flesh nest and destroy them all, but unfortunately, that was impossible in our current situation. There was just no way we could handle dozens of flesh seeds at once with only seven people.

In the end, I had no choice but to declare our next course of action to the rest of the party, who were still staring at me with fear-stricken eyes.

“…….Fight off any pursuing flesh seeds. We’re now retreating.”