Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 255

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Chapter 255
I was heading toward ‘Terra,’ the critical device of this facility that Loreille had explained to me.
If that alone were destroyed, every system in this research facility would collapse.
‘I can feel an enormous power.’
Now that I’d descended into the underground where ‘Terra’ was said to exist, I could sense where it was without anyone telling me.
Strangely, it was an energy that resembled the force that erupted when a dragon went berserk.
But how should I describe it? It felt like a power that had lost its master and was raging madly.
Yes, as if they’d created it by killing a dragon itself.
‘How far have these bastards sold their ethics and morality?’
For ages, dragons had been revered as sacred beings. Even those who didn’t clearly understand what role dragons played in this world or what they truly were—
naturally accepted them instinctively as sacred entities.
The Crown Prince was undoubtedly an apostate who trampled the holy ground that had been like a white snowfield, and a cruel invader.
‘I could believe it even if a dragon before Ekion was killed by the Imperial Palace’s hands.’
Feeling an unpleasant taste in my mouth, I stomped my foot down.
The hammer strike created a massive hole, and simultaneously, water flowing from the hammer swept through this place entirely.
Water dripped from various places. It was common sense that water entering mechanical devices would destroy them.
The complex machinery here was no exception. The space was already in ruins from my attack. As I walked, I felt no presence of people.
They’d all fled.
‘Well, the end of that escape won’t be pleasant for them, though.’
My target was Terra. But after destroying Terra, my next targets would be the researchers in the laboratory.
Finally, I was able to discover ‘Terra.’
There was a massive cylindrical coffin. Inside it, a bright red mass of energy undulated and settled.
Looking closely, it was red, yet scattered into multiple colors.
“H-hieek!”
It seemed they couldn’t abandon this, as monkey beastkin who hadn’t managed to escape were visible around Terra.
“Were you afraid to bring the beasts here?”
The relationship between beast beastkin and monkey beastkin was complex.
The monkey beastkin didn’t possess strong military power, but through intelligence and research results, they’d seized superiority in authority, becoming arrogant fools intoxicated with their own sense of superiority.
Sometimes they even disregarded the beasts.
They must have been reluctant to reveal the energy source ‘Terra,’ which had granted them such great power, to the beasts.
So they’d buried it deep underground like this and only came and went themselves.
It was obvious without even looking.
And they probably never imagined an intruder would appear like this.
‘Oho.’
Among the trembling monkey beastkin, I spotted one who stood alone in silence.
A person covered in various devices on their body, glaring at me. The face was familiar.
‘Roland.’
The leader of the monkeys and the director-general of this research facility.
“Are you Calypso Aquasiadel?”
The bespectacled man pushed his glasses up with a furry arm.
“A fish that reeks of brine.”
I couldn’t help but laugh.
“…You’re laughing?”
“Ah, it’s been so long since I’ve heard such nonsense. It’s almost nostalgic.”
“….”
Roland’s expression twisted for a moment. It was filled with contempt and rage.
“If you stop here, I’ll grant you a merciful death.”
I couldn’t contain my laughter.
“I know exactly what you’re like. You always spout such arrogant drivel when cornered, don’t you?”
At my snickering voice, Roland flinched. How many comrades had I lost to the research results created by that bastard’s hands?
It was a grudge from the past, an old wound. But they had managed to make me furious once again in this new life.
“How many of my comrades went into that bone armor you’re wearing right now?”
The equipment Roland wore was made from whale bone—what they called ‘bone armor.’
Whale bone, capable of withstanding the crushing pressures of the deep sea, was impossibly hard.
Inheriting such properties, the bones of whale beastkin were equally resilient.
The monkeys had exploited this, kidnapping aquatic beastkin and using them first as experimental subjects.
After death, they repurposed their bones in this manner.
In truth, Camula herself would have suffered further indignities after death had it not been for Loreille.
The more I thought about it, the more my hands trembled with rage.
“…Did you know of our magnificent research?”
“Magnificent? You bastards who conduct human experimentation? You’re nothing but vermin that should disappear from this world. Nothing more, nothing less.”
I glanced at Terra.
As my gaze shifted, anxiety flickered across Roland’s expression.
I smirked.
“I’m one, and you’re many. And yet… even in that bone armor, you fear me?”
“Who…!”
Roland ground his teeth. As though it were shameful to feel fear toward an inferior being.
“The Crown Prince was cautious of your power, so we made thorough preparations.”
“Ah, the ones I crushed instantly?”
“….”
I examined each of the gathered monkey beastkin one by one, then gathered strength in my hands.
“You’d better not lay a hand on me. You’ll be the one who regrets it, fish.”
“What? I can’t understand such crude monkey babble.”
“…!”
I put slight force into my feet and moved in an instant. Roland seemed startled by my sudden appearance before him, but quickly extended his hand.
Roland was a monkey beastkin who knew how to fight.
But it was only “for a monkey beastkin.”
Crash!
The moment the bone armor’s fist met mine, cracks spread across it before shattering from within.
“Ugh, ugggghhhhh!”
“Every time I see this armor, my blood boils. No—it makes me sick.”
It was an object that perfectly embodied your filthy nature, exploiting everything we had for your own gain.
“This is far from enough. This is for my dead subordinates.”
I raised my fist again without expression. Crack! Boom! Two punches landed squarely in his abdomen.
Roland spat blood.
“This is for my dead family.”
The leader of the Monkey Beastkin collapsed after just three blows, coughing violently. Unable to breathe, his bloodshot eyes gripped my pant leg.
That hand was immediately crushed under my foot.
“Don’t worry. You’re short on suffering, aren’t you? Look forward to it—your death will be anything but peaceful.”
“…Ugh! Gasp, guh!”
After grinding Roland’s remaining hand, I stepped forward heavily.
“I’ll save my share for Terra instead. You should be grateful.”
“…!”
The Monkey Beastkin holding crude clubs slowly retreated backward.
The power of water surged into my fist once more. This time, far greater than when I’d destroyed the laboratory with the hammer earlier.
With all my strength.
‘Let’s see how many hits this can take.’
Boom!
One blow.
Crack!
Two blows.
I watched expressionlessly as cracks began spreading across Terra’s cylindrical prison.
“If you destroy that, you won’t escape unscathed either!”
“Stop!”
I ignored the desperate cries of the defeated ones behind me.
Boom!
When the third punch came down, I heard a sharp cracking sound.
Small glass shards flew out, cutting my cheek.
‘One more blow and it’ll shatter.’
I assessed coldly and raised my fist again.
The Monkey Beastkin tried to intimidate me, but it was useless. I’d already learned from Loreille what would happen if this broke.
“It is power taken from a Dragon. The moment it shatters, it will scatter into nature…!”
Ekion had said something similar.
The power of a dead Dragon could never remain confined.
So.
Crash!!!
As my final punch came down, the cylindrical prison containing Terra shattered into pieces with a deafening crash.
The crimson energy source contained within erupted outward like a violent storm.
My hair whipped about roughly.
“Aaaahhhhh!”
The Dragon Duke, as if to prove I hadn’t misread the situation, ravaged the surrounding machinery and people indiscriminately, much like when he’d gone berserk before.
Yet strangely, he inflicted no harm upon me. It was as though he were exacting vengeance solely upon those who had confined him all this time.
I turned my head, watching his power break free with an expressionless gaze.
‘Soon, it would be time for Ekion and the others to arrive.’
The timeframe I’d given Ekion and Atlant beforehand was drawing to a close.
Those who had already made the first entry would have escaped through the exit Loreille had indicated.
All I needed to do was leave with the second wave of personnel, my companions, and those they had rescued.
Fortunately, I sensed a familiar presence rushing toward me from the distance—not a moment too late.
Soon their faces would come into view.
Everything was proceeding smoothly.
Or so I thought.
“Gasp, gasp…. Terra absolutely, absolutely could not give up…!”
“….”
“Your Majesty’s words are true. You must not, must not, remain alive….”
Golden light poured forth from the ground.
‘A final death throes?’
Without panic, even finding it contemptible, the moment I tried to summon my power, a tremendous impact engulfed my body.

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