𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕣 𝕊𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕔𝕜 ₒᵣᵥ (Discontinued)

Chapter 12: Defeating the Ichthyosaur Pt.2

I took a scrap piece of cloth floating around the waters and tied my spear onto my back using it. At least, it would serve as a temporary way to secure it to my body instead of just holding it.

As soon as I finished tying a knot, small holes lining the top of the stomach wall opened simultaneously, just like sweat pores on human skin. Then putrid, bubbling liquid poured out. I assume this was the digestive fluids.

"Kuweek!"

The demonic people who had survived in the stomach started letting out ear-piercing shrieks.

I watched, partly in horror, fascination and disgust as the skin of the demonic person started burning off before the entire person was dissolved in the liquid. Splatters of acid hit my exposed skin that wasn't covered by my hoodie and I hissed in pain. Now wasn't the time to start gawking, Lee Byeol! Focus!

However, the digestion of the Ichthyosaur had only just begun. The Ichthyosaur's digestive juices quickly mixed with the river water and quickly and effectively started to melt away at the concrete and other floating products.

"Byeol! Follow me!" Dokja-ssi yelled as he jumped from the platform and onto the edge of the stomach. He grabbed a large flesh bump that extruded from the walls of the stomach before he started climbing up the wall like he was rock climbing, with me following suit.

After a few desperate minutes of scrambling upwards for my life, I could see the outlet of the digestive juices was right above our heads. Dokja-ssi placed the thorn in his mouth and grabbed a pocket of the suspicious-looking mucus.

The mucus of the hammer sea horse, was it? He poured the mysterious dark blue liquid onto his hand and applied the mucus carefully from the tip to the end of the thorn before swinging the thorn towards where the digestive juices were coming from, effectively blocking the main flow of the digestive liquids. However, some still leaked out and burnt Dokja-ssi's arm.

He hissed in pain before gritting his teeth and bearing it. He took a few deep breaths and was about to repeat the same step with the next thorn, but I stopped him.

"Dokja-ssi... take a rest. Let me do it." I held the thorns and followed what I had seen Dokja-ssi do before.

Perhaps it was because all my stats were tens, but I did it almost three times as fast as Dokja-ssi did. A minute later, the most of flow of the digestive liquids was blocked.

[A few constellations admire your calmness.]

There were some left, but the small openings didn't release large amounts of digestive fluids.

There was one thorn left in the top tightly tied around Dokja-ssi's body. All that was left was one thorn and two pockets of mucus.

Dokja-ssi used one bag of mucus on his skin and clothes, then gave me the other bag. Even though it was for protection, I still couldn't help but shiver at the cold, slimy liquid making contact with my skin.

It was around five minutes afterwards that the entire stomach started trembling.

Screech-!

I cringed at the obnoxiously loud scream of the Ichthyosaur, tightly gripping onto the walls of the Ichthyosaur so I wouldn't slip. The blood vessels on the wall of the stomach were squirming like trapped maggots. The thorns were visibly expanding, impaling and jabbing into the blood vessels.

Thus, able killing the Ichthyosaur from the inside out. The stone hog's thorns wouldn't stop expanding until the Ichthyosaur was completely dead.

It seemed like from now on, it was a waiting game. But, I still could use my skill to speed up this process, couldn't I?