Solo Leveling: Ragnarok – 237



Episode 237

Have you ever thought that plants are disgusting in your life?

flower. leaf. stem. fruit.

Just imagine the fresh and beautiful plants.

The beauty of Mother Nature full of vitality.

…Such an expression was completely unrelated to the residents of the gap that invaded the demon world.

Wow!

Plants are also plants.

The sight of weeds straining to imitate humans by twisting and twisting their vines was clearly disgusting.

Kekekekekeekkeekkeekkeekkeekkeekkeekkeekkeekkeek!

Their structure resembled a kind of flower pot.

If the skull gourd on their head was an upside-down flower pot countless purple stems of plants sticking out from underneath were crawling on the floor like octopuses.

However when the battle began in earnest the stems intertwined and twisted and began to walk clumsily imitating their arms and legs.

Seeing that the demons felt a bit uneasy and attacked them.

“The residents of the niche are imitating us!”

“Stop it! “Don’t let me do it!”

Why?

From the moment the ordeal began the demons were at a loss as to their instinctive discomfort.

This disgusting feeling was felt equally by both intelligent and non-intelligent devils.

Isn’t this strange in the first place?

To begin with the demons lived without knowing the name ‘Inhabitants of the Gap’.

But the moment I saw them I instinctively recognized their names.

As if I knew it from the beginning.

‘There’s something strange about these guys…’

Esil found this fact more ominous than anyone else and felt alarmed.

For demons the sense of ‘instinct’ was a sense that should never be ignored as it was directly related to survival.

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In particular when information that was not in my memory suddenly came to mind like now it is information that is engraved in the blood or soul of demons…

“Aaaah…!”

“…!”

“Everyone be careful! If you touch these guys your mana will be sucked out!”

But there was no time to think long.

At that moment the demons who were fighting the residents of the gap at the forefront were seen retreating in embarrassment.

The purple vines that wrapped around their bodies sucked up their mana.

“Get out of the way!”

Do it yourself!

At that moment demon knights armed with demonic armor leaped forward with great force and tore apart the vines wrapped around the demons without hesitation.

But the vines were persistent.

Sigh!

The torn off vines twisted like snakes in the air and wrapped around the bodies of the demon knights.

“…Where!”

Thank goodness.

The evil spirit armor they wore prevented them from being sucked out of mana even if they touched the residents of the gap.

According to the guardian’s orders the armor that Harmacan had specially improved for demons played its role well.

But they move even more persistently and find a narrow gap in the evil spirit’s armor. Squash! And jabbed in the sharp thorny tentacles.

“These guys…!”

The demon knights felt dizzy and quickly tore them off then looked back at Esil and shouted.

“Esil! Be careful!”

“These guys not only suck out mana they inject strange poison with their spiny tentacles!”

They were truly like mosquitoes.

No they were a combination of the unpleasant aspects of mosquitoes and leeches.

Even if you touch or brush against a vine your mana will be sucked out.

If you get pricked by a thorn an unknown poison penetrates you?

“Damn them. “I’m going too!”

Crunch!

At that moment Esil also jumped forward wearing the evil spirit armor.

“asleep!”

Wedge – Kwasik!

The devil’s spear fired from Esil’s hand pierced their skulls and shattered them.

Then the vines that had been growing around the skeleton like flower pots lost their strength and fell down.

After confirming this Esil gave an order loudly.

“Your head is your weak point! Aim for the head!”

At Esil’s words the demons spread the message to their fellow countrymen who were scattered and fighting.

“Everyone aim for the head!”

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“Skulls are our weak point!”

Following that command the demons rushed in to crush their heads.

“If you wear armor your mana won’t go away even if it touches your body! Death Knights take the lead just watch out for the thorns!”

“I don’t know what kind of poison it is! “Never get pricked by a thorn!”

Kwasik! Flutter! Damn it!

Skeletons are helplessly broken by the demons’ attacks.

A full-scale battle began.

However even if the weak point was discovered the battle did not go easily.

From the beginning there was an overwhelming difference in quantity.

The number of those endlessly flowing through the dimensional crack was far greater than the demons under Esil’s command.

Esil gritted his teeth.

‘I should have gathered more demons…!’

I feel resentful.

If this was the demon world of the past there would never have been a shortage in quantity like now.

But what can you do?

Currently the demon world has been torn apart and is wandering through the gaps in the dimension and if all the demons scattered across the fragmented pieces of the dimension were gathered together…!

‘Each one of these guys is weak. But there are too many. ‘Where have so many of them been hiding for so long and then show up?’

“Ugh…!”

In the fierce battle the first casualty eventually occurred.

“Well ….”

The devil who had been wrapped in vines and had all his mana sucked out foamed at the mouth and lost focus in his eyes.

That moment.

Let’s go! Kihihi!

Suddenly laughter broke out.

A clear sound of laughter coming from a skeleton that had succeeded in eating a demon or rather from a weed.

“…!”

At that moment Eshil witnessed it.

The identity of the uneasiness I had been feeling from the moment I encountered those unidentified beings who lived in the gap.

Wow-

Suddenly vine plants wrap around the skull.

The shape seemed to be creating muscles on top of a skeleton and soon began to create a ‘complete body’.

“…oh my god.”

At that amazing sight sighs flowed from the mouths of all the demons including Esil.

okay. Something was strange from the beginning.

These creepy guys created limbs by weaving vines as if imitating demons…

The moment I sucked in a whole demon…

“Hehe! Kihihi!”

The nameless weed finally became the ‘devil’.

* * *

“…Is this the devil world?”

Suho who entered the double dungeon through a crack opened his mouth in despair as he saw the demonic beasts swarming in front of him.

The Yongje shook his head.

“No it’s just a dimensional gap.”

“So what are these demons?”

“Well. “They are the denizens of the niche who prey on demons and prove themselves worthy of becoming demons.”

“…!”

Just as the Dragon Emperor said purple demons were now swarming in front of them.

[Devil in the gap]

[Devil in the gap]

[Devil in the gap]

….

Above their heads was a name tag clearly written as the devil but the substance was still weeds made of vines.

However the ones that were like octopuses living in a skull bowl were now creating their own muscles by weaving vines together turning into human models that would only be found in science labs.

No in terms of size and shape it was closer to the shape of a devil than a human.

Because there was even one with horns.

The problem was that this was not simply an imitation of the shape.

[‘Title: Demon Slayer’ buff takes effect.]

[All stats increase by 40% when dealing with demon-type monsters.]

“He’s a real devil.”

Suho’s eyes sparkled.

The fact that the title effect which only applies when dealing with demons was activated was proof that these weeds were real demons.

“You caught and ate a devil and became a devil?”

“okay. It looks like the fragments of the demon world scattered across the gaps in the dimension have been invaded by these guys. In short it is ‘contaminated.’”

Antares’ gaze as he looked at the demons in the gap was clearly displeased.

“As I said the residents of the gap are leftovers created by the Absolute. So these weeds always yearn to become something. Among them the most formidable are the souls of demons.”

Suho seemed to somehow know what he was going to say next.

“Is it because the souls of demons cannot go to the sea after death even when they die?”

“No the order is a little different. When a living being dies its souls wander the sea after death and are used as nutrients for the World Tree. That’s natural….”

Kihihi! Grumble!

The conversation stopped and a battle suddenly began.

Demons in the gap surrounded them and began attacking them from all directions.

“I’ll take care of everything!”

Because the area was wide open Seo Ji-woo took charge of Su-ho’s rearguard.

In response Suho swung Volkan’s horn at the demons in the gap charging in front of him.

Grumble! Kuwaan-!

However the reaction was quite different from the weeds we fought earlier.

The weeds named ‘??’ that had been fought earlier were helplessly burned by the guardian’s flames but the demons in the gap dodged the attack or even fought back with weapons.

“The way they react is the same as real demons.”

It was interesting but that was it.

[Use ‘Skill: Storm of Black Flame’.]

Wow!

[The devil in the gap has been defeated.]

[The devil in the gap has been defeated.]

[The devil in the gap has been defeated.]

….

As the battle became more intense the dragon emperor Antares spread his short wings and rose to land on the guardian’s head.

And he continued his explanation with a solemn expression.

“I think I should tell you about the World Tree first. The World Tree uses dead souls as nourishment to grow and bear fruit. And from that fruit a new soul is born. “Of those fruits the ones born from the most beautiful and pure ones are the soldiers of the rulers and from other fruits the souls of countless races you are familiar with are born.”

“Reincarnation?”

“well. Any expression can be used but no one knows exactly what functions take place within the world tree. Since the dead soul is nourished once and then reborn there is no way for anyone to confirm whether it is the same soul. Well whatever.”

Antares continued speaking while looking at the demons in the gap.

“As I said among the souls that fall into the sea after death there are quite a few souls that are caught and eaten by weeds before being eaten by the World Tree. “We express this as ‘mana being polluted.’”

Lee Chae appeared in Suho’s eyes at the familiar expression.

“…Mana is contaminated?”

“okay. Among the roles of the World Tree is the purification of dead souls. However if you get caught by weeds without going through the World Tree your soul will be polluted. Then the soul can never return to the sea after death.”

Kihihi!

Let’s go!

“…And then you become a devil just like these guys. “It is the moment when the dregs that were nothing finally gain an identity.”

Before he could finish his words something happened to come into Suho’s field of vision.

[Mana is contaminated and cannot be extracted.]

[Mana is contaminated and cannot be extracted.]

Su-ho realized the truth as he looked at the messages floating above the corpses of the demons he had just killed.

‘okay. ‘I was always curious.’

Every time I fight demons.

Every time I see a message that their soul cannot be extracted.

Suho was really curious about that.

-Why on earth doesn’t it work?

-Why can’t the souls of demons be extracted?

The more I thought about it the more I couldn’t understand it.

What is the difference between the souls of beast-type monsters bug-type beasts and other countless races and the souls of demons?

Well what a difference there is.

The Shadow Lord’s power to control even death does not work.

-Mana is contaminated? What on earth is it contaminated with?

If the meaning of pollution is ‘poison’ then it is a problem that can be deciphered.

If the meaning of pollution is ‘dirt’ then how dirty is it?

In the first place if the souls of villains favored by Harmakan a demon race were also evil souls wouldn’t they be extracted as shadow soldiers?

-But why are demons the only ones that cannot be extracted?

But only today…

Now you know the reason.

What on earth are the souls of demons contaminated with?

“Weeds are persistent. “Once they set their sights on prey they never give up.”

While listening to the Dragon Emperor Antares’ words Suho remembered.

“The souls of demons cannot go to the sea of ​​​​the afterlife. “They are already food for weeds not food for the world tree.”

Demon world.

Demons who have lived in a relationship of eating and being eaten by each other since the beginning of time.

“All demons were originally… residents of the crevices.”

The identity of the ordeal that Esil was waiting for…

It seemed like a proof of who was worthy of becoming a real devil.

But then.

Tiring!

A one-line system message arrived in front of Suho.

[Quest has arrived.]