Chapter 65 – Promise (8)

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The monster in front of us was a yeti covered from head to toe in white fur.

The legendary-class monster, the Snow Giant.

As far as I knew, it was a bastard that should not be here right now.

‘Why because that guy is not one to attack humans.’

Since humans were too small, they did not even serve as a snack for that guy.

Usually, it was a monster that lived far from the zones eating large-class monsters, known to control the weather through a gem located in the center of its forehead.

‘Then was this sudden blizzard also that guy’s doing?’

A creature closer to a sacred beast than a monster, possessing the supernatural ability to control the weather.

Why did such a creature come all the way here to target the new officer bastards?

‘Is it really a player?’

Just in case, I turned on the Character View on the Snow Giant.

If it were a player, Character View should have worked, but the system did not respond.

‘That means it is not a player…’

Until the distance closed, the fellow stood still without the slightest movement.

‘It’s looking at something.’

If it had discovered something in this snowy field, it would be the new officers.

I jumped off without reducing the motorcycle’s speed.

Anyway, because my leg length was insufficient, I could not even stop it safely.

The motorcycle kept running and crashed straight into the guy’s butt, but the fellow did not seem to take any damage, merely scratching the bumped spot a couple of times with his densely furred hand.

Still, I did not need to worry about being unable to deal a blow to the guy.

‘Because no matter what, it’s just a monster.’

After rolling a couple of times on the snowy field and balancing myself, I took out the largest firearm from my inventory.

Instead of being incapable of rapid fire, this gun contained bullets specialized in melting monster flesh and hide, making it a weapon that could easily penetrate a monster’s thick chest if aimed properly.

Even if it was the Snow Giant, as long as its body was that of a monster, the area hit by this gun had no choice but to melt helplessly.

Of course, no matter how strong the destructive power was, it would be useless if the gem was not hit, which was why they had to wage large-scale subjugation battles even after developing such weapons.

I had not expected that even if I taught them the determination method to read the gem’s location, no one except CornerHoney would be able to utilize it, though.

The only silver lining was that this guy’s gem was on its forehead.

The misfortune was probably that this guy’s forehead was located way up high.

“Get down!”

Shouting, I aimed at the guy’s abdomen and pulled the trigger.

A bullet like a giant nail cut and melted through the guy’s skin, piercing out to the other side.

“Roar!”

Perhaps feeling pain this time, the fella shuddered violently. Looking through the hole created in the center of its body, I saw Lucas with a shocked face and Bones with a face smeared with tears.

I swallowed a hollow laugh the moment I saw Bones’s face.

Toward me, Lucas shouted.

“Lord Haydam! Above!”

Since the gun I was currently holding did not allow rapid fire and needed reloading, I discarded it without regret.

And I took out a smoke grenade from the inventory and shot it above my head.

As a thick cloud formed above my head and blocked the monster’s view, the giant hand that came down through the cloud failed to catch me, merely clawing at the empty air.

In the meantime, to join the new officer bastards, I ran close to the fella’s body toward the opposite side.

During that time, I was able to understand the reason the guy had been called out all the way here.

‘Are those… the bastards from earlier?’

Among the organs melted by the bullet I fired, the half-digested corpses of large monsters were seen trickling down.

Those bastards had crossed the crevasse zone to flee, but they seemed to have run into the Snow Giant on the other side.

They fled back toward our zone to avoid being eaten by the Snow Giant, and the Snow Giant, moving while eating them, had reached all the way here.

‘In the end, I won’t be able to find out about those strange monsters.’

If there was anything I found out, it was that this Snow Giant was definitely not a player.

Because if it were a player, there would be no food left in its stomach.

However, as if proving that the guy was a monster from outer space, the hole I had made was rapidly healing.

The fellow was floundering about in the cloud smoke as if searching for me until I went around to the back, but while the fella was distracted by something else, I ran with all my might and joined the new officers.

“Lord Haydam!”

Lucas greeted me with a bizarre expression mixed with gladness and dismay.

Unlike Lucas, who at least held a firearm in his hand, Bones was lying face down, bleeding from his shoulder.

“Why is that bastard still lying flat on the ground?”

“Ah, that is…”

As Lucas glanced at Bones with an awkward look, Bones spat out in a crawling voice.

“It is fine, so quickly abandon me and…”

Before the words telling me to run away could even come out, I slapped Bones across the cheek just like that.

When I slapped the wounded person, Lucas stared at me with a shocked face.

“Lord Haydam!”

“Stop exaggerating, Bones. You can still move.”

Even after being slapped by me, Bones hung his head instead of being aggrieved or angry.

“Because I am this kind of guy, isn’t that why father abandoned me too.”

“Bones.”

Instead of slapping him this time, I placed my hand on Bones’s shoulder and said.

“Do you really believe that Lieutenant General Max, your father, tried to kill you?”

At those words, Bones looked at me with a face that had snapped to alert.

“Are you going to doubt your father just by listening to that crazy bastard’s words?”

“T-Then…”

“I do not know the truth either. But at least I will verify it myself. Whether my father really abandoned me.”

In fact, I had been suspicious ever since I heard the Team 2 leader’s words.

Because as far as I, the conqueror of all zones, knew, the leader of Team 2 had never done anything to be blackmailed by Lieutenant General Max, and had been a very loyal pro-Hayden executive while I was clearing the Cola zone.

In my opinion, the leader of Team 2 targeted Bones while bringing up Lieutenant General Max just to screw over Lieutenant General Max.

Lieutenant General Max was an executive who possessed deep trust even among the soldiers because of his excellent personality.

If such a Lieutenant General Max had tried to kill Bones simply because Bones did not move according to his will, the other sponsored cadets would also turn away, so this must be viewed as a scheme engineered by the pro-Hayden faction.

Well, there was no way a mere colonel could have thought up such a thing alone…

‘That gentleman Josef doesn’t seem to plan on retiring quietly either.’

Anyway, as I told Bones, it was faster to return and verify this directly.

“Do some first aid with this for now.”

When I pulled out a first-aid kit from the inventory and handed it over, Lucas looked at me with a rather fearful expression.

“Where on earth did you pull that out from?”

Asking even though he wouldn’t believe it if I said I had an inventory.

“Just treat him. Because we have to go rescue His Excellency.”

“What?!”

This time, it was both of them who shouted.

Bones, who seemed to have regained his senses to some extent, stopped packing his firearm and asked me.

“Is His Excellency also in danger, by any chance?”

“He fell into the crevasse over there. Fortunately, he did not fall deep, so he is not heavily injured. We have to go and pull him up.”

“I will treat him quickly.”

“Hurry. Because our lives are also in danger right now.”

Despite the Snow Giant being right in front of them, Lucas turned pale at the news that the commander was in danger and almost poured the disinfectant onto Bones’s wound, to which Bones screamed.

“Fuck!! Are you trying to kill me?!”

“Did you not say to leave you to die earlier!”

Seeing them acting like that, it seemed both of their mentals had recovered to some extent.

‘The problem is the Snow Giant in front of us, though…’

Because Lucas and Bones did not know what the Snow Giant was, they could actually be calmer now.

Perhaps because they had seen me easily catch large-class monsters like a cat catching mice, they seemed to think that even if the monster in front of them was a bit too big, I could kill it.

‘But… it is impossible.’

Unless that guy bowed his head, shooting from down here to hit the gem on his forehead was close to impossible.

There was also a way to shoot its legs to make it fall, but there was no guarantee that we would not be crushed by the falling body.

Most of all, even if I could punch holes in the guy’s body, it was difficult to deal a blow large enough to make the guy lose his balance.

Even if I aimed at the legs, the first place I shot would heal before I could completely sever the leg.

‘What to do…’

However, an unexpected thing occurred.

The Snow Giant, which was frantically rummaging through the snow to catch me inside the smoke cloud, began to run with its heavy body toward the direction I came from, without paying any attention to our side.

“That fella seems to think you fled in that direction, Lord Haydam.”

“Fuck, that was a close shave.”

Bones, who had returned to his usual self before I knew it, spat out with a curse as if it was a relief that the guy had gone elsewhere, but.

My expression stiffened.

It was good that the larger the monster, the lower its intelligence, thanks to which it just passed us by.

But the fact that the guy headed toward the direction I came from meant that the commander was at the end of that path.

The other two also had faces that had realized something upon seeing my expression.

“Could it be that His Excellency is… in the direction that guy is going?”

I nodded, and no sooner had I nodded than Bones ran somewhere and began to pull out the motorcycle that had been buried in the snow after bouncing off from colliding with the Snow Giant.

“What are you standing around for! We must follow!”

That guy Bones, until a moment ago he was crawling on the ground and trembling.

Still, it was a relief that he did his part as long as his mental was intact.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been worth the risk for me to come all the way here to find him.

Entrusting the driving to Lucas, with me squeezed in front of him and Bones behind him, the motorcycle started as soon as we got on.

The Snow Giant was already that far away.

“By the way, what on earth is that?”

Bones shouted at the top of his lungs while riding the motorcycle.

“The Snow Giant! A legendary-class monster!”

“A legendary-class monster? Does such a thing exist?”

“It’s not originally from this neighborhood!”

“My eardrums are going to burst! Both of you, quiet!”

As we conversed while screaming at each other with Lucas in the middle, Lucas, unable to bear it, barked out.

The Snow Giant had a wide stride but its movement speed was slow, so we could catch up quickly.

The problem, however, was that catching up did not mean there was any particular way.

We parked the motorcycle at a slight distance from the direction the Snow Giant was walking and watched the guy walk.

“…How do we stop that thing?”

Lucas asked, looking up at the guy’s head, which was visible only after bending his neck quite a bit.

“Should we crash the motorcycle into it?”

“I already tried that earlier.”

After replying to Bones, I watched the fella quietly.

If this kept up, it would soon arrive in front of the crevasse where the commander was.

In fact, it might pass by without anything happening.

I had followed in a hurry fearing that the crevasse would collapse again from the earthquake caused by the fella moving, but the guy had slowed down a lot, looking around the snowy field as if searching for me.

‘It would be nice if it just returned to its territory without any trouble, though…’

We followed the guy slowly at a distance.

This was because I judged it was better to pray for the guy to return quietly rather than needlessly provoking it and collapsing the crevasse.

However, mocking my expectations, the fella who reached the crevasse began to reach his hand down toward the bottom of the cliff.

“What is that thing doing now?”

Lucas and Bones showed puzzled expressions at the guy’s sudden behavior, but I immediately recognized what that guy was doing now.

Since I knew who was in the place where the guy was reaching out.