Possessing Nothing Novel (쥐뿔도 없는 회귀)

Chapter 165 - Remnants (3)

"kuhk.."

Blood spurted from Aladdur's mouth. As he looked down at the bloody hand boring through his chest, his facial expression looked one of disbelief as he looked to see who had attacked him. He let out a gasp, choking on the blood coming up his throat, he cursed his pitiable death

"So... shitty...", Aladdur uttered with a broken voice and a miserable face,"This forest fucking sucks..."

With his last words, Aladdur fell forward and planted his body dead on the ground. The fighters who were watching him screamed, threw their dignity as they saw the gruesome sight. Henemy, the red headed monster licked his bloody hand with a smile forming on his pale lips.

[Hehehe... So many fun toys here.], the enemy mumbled incomprehensibly.

After meeting Lee Sungmin, the weakened and pale-faced Henemy, who wandered around the forest saw the warriors of 3 great families gathered together. There was no reason to hesitate. As monsters already do kill humans, the case was special for Henemy who was recovering his strength based on the fear lingering in the forest. As he killed the warriors he would consume their fear and add it to his strength along with eating his fill.

[It's the first time I've seen so many humans since I settled in this forest... How fearless kekeke..], Henemy continued to mumble, giggling to himself at the foolish humans.

Ever since his heart was pulled out by Kumiho, the Nine-Tailed Fox, he had continued to weaken and was dying by the day. Although he settled in the forest to prevent his looming death, it could not be completely stopped as he was just delaying the inevitable.

So killing these foolish humans was actually something completely necessary. If he had so much fear to collect by killing them, he might be able to gain enough strength to build upon by further devouring all the fear left in the forest. If he was able to do that, he would, in theory, be able to go back and kill Kumiho and retake his heart.

[Are you afraid?], Henemy asked with a cruel smile to the faces of the fighters dying in utter fear.

Fear was contagious. As it spread the more he killed, the better the outcome. Even though he was weakened, he was still at the apex of Predator in his prime. The fighters from the 3 great families would still be like swatting flies to him.

"Who are you?", Zhuge Taeryong said, trying not to fumble on his words and let his fear become present.

Henemy took a glance at the man holding his sword that was shaking, as if glancing at a new toy to play with.

[kekeke... Haven't you ever heard of the King of Monsters?]

"No... it can't be... Henemy?"

This time it wasn't Zhuge Taeryong who knew the identity of the killer, but rather Namgung Heewon. He had collected all the information on the monsters currently residing in the Forest of Temptation through Erebrisa.

"Ready your swords!", Namgoong Heewon shouted.

The order made the members of the Namgung clan come to their senses and drew out their swords. Seeing that he looked like a completely incompetent fool right now, Zhuge Taeryong shouted at his Zhuge family members to do the same.

[Ah resistance.. Even better! The more you try to fight back, the more despair you will have that will turn into fear. It's been such a long time since I've been able to have such a fulfilling meal.], Henemy spoke, baring his bloodied fangs.

Dang Ah-hui stammered and pulled out her sword. The blades of the warriors shot out in all directions, the dozens or practitioners attacked Henemy all at once.