The World Cataclysm - Chapter 99: Hypocrite

“What the fuck is it doing?” Richard asked in bewilderment. Having gravely injured it, Richard felt close to dealing with Devourer. He thought that, in another 10 minutes, they would easily kill it after tiring it down.

However, they had truly underestimated it!

After retracting its tongue back in its mouth, Devourer completely ignored them as it dashed towards one of the Giant’s corpses. Reaching it, Devourer opened its mouth, revealing its yellowish teeth, as it tore a huge chunk of flesh from it.

Devourer showed them its amazing capability to eat as it ate the huge Giant’s corpse at a rapid rate, gulping it down with its bones. Lastly, it pierced the skull bone with its tongue, sucking out the corpse’s brain matter. In mere seconds, Devourer had already finished with a low-rank Giant, leaving it barely recognizable.

As it wasn’t enough, the tongue shot from its mouth for the next time, yet now, instead of attacking, it wrapped around the corpse of a Hunter and pulled the corpse to its mouth.

Dave was greatly puzzled as he hadn’t even time to act since Devourer was too fast. In a span of a few breathes, it had already eaten two corpses of evolved zombies. No one understood what it was doing, yet a short while later, the shock was written on everyone’s face.

It was healing!

Wounds on its body started quickly regenerating as it healed at a visible pace. After eating two corpses of evolved zombies, small wounds on its body started disappearing as even grave injury left by Dave’s Cross Slash started closing itself.

No one could believe their eyes!

However, Dave clearly understood that he can’t allow it to eat more corpses around it. He shouted, “Attack it. Don’t allow it to eat more.”

Immediately understanding the severity of the situation, Rebecca subtly controlled Star to form more light blades as she sent flying towards feasting Devourer. Dave asked her instead of Brian since she could form light blades instantly around her with the help of Star.

As for Dave, he raised his hand with a Mana Bullet Ring on it and directed it towards Devourer. The ring shone with a soft blue light as mana started gathering around it, condensing into a bullet. In the next moment, Mana Bullet flew towards Devourer’s scalp. Dean Siphon didn’t also stay idly as she shot several bullets from her handgun.

At the time their attacks reached it, Devourer was able to put more corpses into its mouth as injuries left by small fireballs and light blades were completely healed. Only an injury left by a Cross Slash was still on its body, yet it was rapidly closing up.

Light Blades were first to reach it as they stormed him, leaving another series of small cuts on its body, yet it wasn’t enough to stop it. However, in the next moment, Mana Bullet hit the back of its head causing a great amount of pain to it.

Although Mana Bullet wasn’t able to pierce through its skull, the shockwaves from it still reached its brain. At the same time, more bullets hit its body, immediately alarming it of danger. It finally stopped eating, yet it had already healed the majority of its injuries.

Understanding that they can no more fight with Devourer in a surrounding of corpses, Dave issued a command. “Adam, take others and run towards the living complex while it chases after me. We need to take it to a place with no corpses around it. Don’t worry, I have a way to kill it. Richard, you’re with me.”

“But…” Adam tried to argue with Dave, but Dean Siphon quickly convinced him otherwise.

“Let’s go. We’ll become a burden if its attention shifts to us. He’ll have an easier time dealing with it without us around.” She said to Adam.

Although he was reluctant to leave Dave, Adam understood that they weren’t much of a help, so he could only grit his teeth and take others with him.

Seeing that everyone else had retreated, Dave heaved a sigh of relief since he didn’t want Adam to get caught up in it. At least, Dave was confident that he could escape from it.

Noticing that some of the humans were escaping, Devourer growled threateningly as it intended to chase after them, but Dave didn’t plan to let it chase after them. He used Flash Step to immediately appear near the Devourer and attacked it.

Double Chop!

Chop!

He performed two skills with each of his swords, leaving shallow wounds on its body. When he tried to send another attack, Dave’s scalp turned cold as he used Flash Step for another time to retreat towards Richard.

Having been attacked, its aggro immediately shifted towards Dave as it dashed at him. Successfully attracting its attention, Dave immediately ran in an opposite direction from Devourer.

‘Damn!’ Standing next to Dave, Richard paled momentarily as he had no choice but to follow after Dave. Hence, two people were running while a huge monster chased after them.

At first, they were 10 yards away from Devourer. However, several seconds later, the distance between them started gradually shrinking as Devourer was slightly faster than them. At this rate, it wouldn’t take much of a time till it catches them.

“Careful!” Dave said as he pushed Richard to the side. In the next moment, something shot past them, barely missing Richard. However, in contrast to their expectations, it was a green liquid. When it landed on the ground, it corroded the road, leaving a bump. It looked like acid was poured on the ground.

Seeing what happened with the road, Richard paled immediately as he madly ran forward. They sprinted through several large university facilities and had to yet meet any zombies on their way. it seemed that Devourer had already killed most of them in close proximity.

When the distance between them and Devourer shortened to 3 yards, Dave said to Richard, “We can’t outrun it. Let’s stick close to each other and kill it. I have a way to do so. Moreover, there are no corpses here.”

“Okay. However, my skill had already run out, so you can rely on yourself if you want to kill it.” Richard said as he steeled his heart. He already understood that they can’t outrun it. Furthermore, at this rate, he would be the first one to fall behind since he was slower than Dave. If they don’t kill it now, Richard would only tire himself out.

“Then, now!” Dave shouted loudly as he turned abruptly to face Devourer. However, Richard didn’t even pay heed to turn as he continued running.

‘Fool! Fuck with you! It’ll be better if you delay it for me while I escape from it.’ Richard thought inwardly as he planned to leave Dave dying. For him, it was just suicidal to face that monster. He had wanted to escape with others when he had time, but Dave deliberately ran towards him while escaping. He had no choice but to follow him.

But now, when he had a chance to escape, why did he need to risk his life fighting the monster. He would leave it to the brave ones. As he inwardly cheered how brilliant he was, a blue screen had appeared before him, causing him to immediately slam at it.

It was Dave’s Mana Barrier that he formed immediately after turning around. Although he wasn’t sure would Richard try to escape alone, Dave still formed one on Richard’s way in case Richard lied to him and only pretended to fight along with him.

“Well, after this, I may not worry about feeling bad about your death,” Dave said lowly, but Richard was still able to hear it since he hadn’t left far from Dave, only a meter away from him.

“You…” Richard tried to ask Dave what he meant, yet he was unable to do so as he felt strong pulling force, sending him in front of Dave.

At the same time, Devourer had already been close to them, only three meters away. Reaching an effective range, its tongue shot from its mouth for another time. Its target was Dave!

However, a thin thread of mana wrapped around Richard’s waist pulled him towards Dave, positioning him in front of Dave in a timely manner. As a result, it pierced through Richard’s chest, making a huge hole in it, while Dave promptly dodged the tongue which pierced through Richard. Even his defences didn’t enable him to survive Devourer’s bullet-like tongue.

“You…You’ve never intended to leave me alive.” Realization struck Richard as a light in his widened eyes dimmed. His last thought was about how he was fooled by Dave.

The mana thread was wrapped around him before he decided to leave Dave. It meant that Dave had wrapped it around him when they were running. From that, it can be understood that Dave planned on using him as a human shield right from the start.

‘It was all his plan!’ A thought resounded in his mind, as Richard dropped dead, his eyes expressing disbelief. Right before he fell to the ground, Dave slipped something into Richard’s pocket.

“I may sound like a hypocrite, but as I said, I wasn’t the one who killed him.” Dave heaved a sigh as it was the most effective way to kill Devourer.