Black Killer Whale Baby - Chapter 270

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Chapter 270
It wasn’t strange that the Crown Prince remembered his past life.
Strictly speaking, it was like an ‘accident’ caused by the mixture of Calypso’s regression and Ekion’s power.
Just as Bellus and Atlant remembered their past lives. They had merely recalled the memories.
Calypso was the only true Returner.
Calypso herself knew this instinctively.
It was highly likely that people had become entangled in her regression and remembered as a result.
So the Crown Prince was under a strange delusion. And driven by his ideology, he had slaughtered countless people.
How many had died in his experiments?
But the problem didn’t end there.
The ground rumbled, and massive spikes erupted from various points—the same kind that had killed a beastkin earlier.
It was the power of the earth itself.
Fortunately, however, these weren’t ordinary beastkin gathered here.
Each one was either a Matriarch or possessed enough strength to represent an entire clan.
After a moment of shock, they all began to respond.
The second wave of spikes claimed few lives.
“Hahaha, my dear friends. I fully understand how difficult it is for you simple folk to accept all this at once. Do not worry.”
As the Crown Prince gestured, the stone walls blocking all sides cracked open, and new beastkin poured through the newly formed gates.
“I shall kill every last one of you without exception.”
Beast beastkin flooded in, and among them, the black panther beastkin stood out distinctly.
“After I’ve killed you all, I shall regress. Perhaps we’ll meet again in a better world next time.”
Calypso was shocked for the first time.
What in the world were those black panthers doing, following such insane ravings?
She’d figured it out from the moment she saw how he controlled Lili with overprotective restraint.
A parenting story? This was a festival of psychopaths!
“Gather together! The wounded and non-combatants fall back!”
Fortunately, the beastkin worked together and managed to hold back the flood of beast beastkin.
But the real problem lay elsewhere.
“Calypso, the numbers are too…”
It was a matter of numbers. The numerical disadvantage was immediately apparent to the eye.
Moreover, the terrain was the worst possible matchup. One of Calypso’s specialties was area-of-effect attacks.
But the distance between enemies and allies was too close to sweep them away with a massive wave.
She couldn’t use it without risking her own side.
And the biggest problem of all was…
‘The water source is too far away.’
That was it. With her innate power and talent, using water’s strength in abundance posed no difficulty.
But the water being so distant created a limitation even for Calypso.
Just as Calypso knew the Crown Prince, he knew her.
Of course, not as thoroughly as Calypso, who had observed three lifetimes. But he had surely learned something from at least one life where he suffered a complete defeat.
Even sensing instinctively, the water was far too distant.
All that remained here was a drink in a cup.
‘The best option would be to lift everyone into the air, but that would consume too much power.’
Meanwhile, those who wielded the power of earth flew about freely. Besides, the imperial palace was a building blessed by the earth’s power.
It would be the optimal battlefield.
‘What do I do? Maybe I should just break through the wall and escape.’
But if there were more troops outside, this choice would become the worst option.
“It’s been a while.”
Moreover, the situation took a turn for the worse.
Debana Panterion, the leader of the Black Panthers, and his successor Asel Panterion had appeared.
I could see that cursed Debana Panterion greeting me.
It was clear.
Despite the distance between us.
Their appearance meant the Black Panthers had brought their full strength here.
The Beastkin gathered here were certainly strong, but the Black Panthers weren’t called one of the strongest for nothing.
“Whale, you go back and look after the wounded. I’m counting on you to protect the non-combatants too.”
“…Understood. Don’t push yourself too hard.”
It was when my water power pulled the wounded back while sweeping away more of the beasts ahead than anyone else.
Thud! Thud!
A small sound amid the chaotic battle. But why did my head snap around?
I distributed my power to create a spear in my hand. Then I hurled it with all my strength toward the wall.
The moment the spear pierced the wall, it exploded with a bang!
Something burst through the collapsed section of the earthen wall.
It was a massive blue serpent.
“Tus?”
The moment I spoke, the serpent coiled around me, and simultaneously I felt a surge of power.
Ah, water.
Since Tus’s origin was water, he was no different from a living spring.
Just as Tus had once swallowed about half a lake’s water on the way to the Dragon’s castle.
Tus contained an immeasurable amount of water within him.
The serpent, now smaller, settled on my shoulder.
-Calypso!
A clear voice, slightly lower than I remembered, but I suppose that means he’s grown?
I smiled, forgetting the urgency of the moment.
“It’s been a while, Tus.”
And thank you. At my soft whisper, the serpent’s tail swayed gently.
“Good, reinforcements with strong energy have arrived. Now let’s do this properly.”
Thanks to Tus flying in from outside, I could grasp the general situation beyond the walls.
Just as I expected, soldiers were positioned outside.
If I had rushed out recklessly, I would have faced an overwhelming majority.
It was favorable terrain for me, but not for my allies.
One fortunate thing was that the entrance to the imperial palace had erupted into chaos.
‘Someone’s coming.’
Could it be Father?
Calypso threw herself back into combat.
On the other hand, Calypso wasn’t using her full strength.
The Crown Prince wasn’t joining this fight. This uncertainty became a destabilizing factor.
Though Tus had joined them, without being able to turn the tide of numbers, more and more of our allies were falling or being subdued.
This was because those like Dana, the leader of the elephants, or Natasha, the leader of the snakes—those who, like Calypso, couldn’t fully utilize their special abilities with allies so close—were mixed into the fray.
Dana could use her ability to strike the ground and sink or push back the earth beneath her opponent’s feet.
But the affected area was too wide to use recklessly, and since Natasha’s specialty was poison, she couldn’t deploy it carelessly either.
Though more fell, the battle remained deadlocked. Calypso was holding back the Black Panthers.
“Ugh, seeing that disgusting face again.”
“….”
Asel Panterion’s face twisted sharply, but he didn’t respond.
As if he’d been ordered not to. His gaze seemed slightly hazy when observed carefully.
‘Did he take some kind of drug?’
It wouldn’t be strange if the imperial palace had something like Madrum’s research facility.
Calypso thought that as long as she could buy time until Ekion’s group did something about those who had invaded the palace entrance, things would be fine.
But then.
An instinctive sensation forced my head to turn.
Calypso immediately bound Asel Panterion with the power of water and hurled him away.
“Amphila! Handle this bastard for a moment!”
“Huh? Yes? Yes!”
Debana Panterion had definitely been facing Dana just moments before.
But Dana was now facing someone else, and Debana was nowhere to be seen.
‘Where did he disappear to?’
Soon, when I found the presence of the Black Panther leader among the many fighters.
‘No!’
Calypso’s form appeared before Debana.
A fist infused with the power of water crashed down onto Debana’s face.
Debana staggered backward.
Calypso didn’t stop there—she bound his legs with a stream of water, tied the other end to a distant pillar, and yanked him with all her might.
“Ha, already too late….”
Debana’s mocking words lingered as he was flung away in the distance. But there was no time to worry about that as I spun around in panic.
“Cough, Cal, ypso….”
A disaster. Whale’s information must have reached the imperial palace as well. If so, striking down the only healer in this war first was only natural.
That’s why I’d sent him to the rear….
“Whale!”
A blade was lodged in Whale’s abdomen. The dark staining suggested poison had been applied to it.
“I’m fine, I’m fine.”
“This—this isn’t the rear! Why are you here? I told you to fall back! Why are you getting hurt?!”
Calypso screamed while sitting in front of Whale. She knew moving Whale had to come first.
But the memories from the third cycle overlapped, and her mind felt like it was turning white.
In this life, she didn’t want to witness anyone’s sacrifice or death.
Calypso clenched her teeth and turned her head away.
The battle was still ongoing.
Soon, rain fell from the ceiling—an odd rain that even those fighting seemed bewildered by.
At the same time, water-made spines suddenly sprouted from the bodies of the Beast Beastkin who were struck by the raindrops.
“Cough!”
“Flee, get away!”
“Aaaahhh!”
As the enemy faltered and retreated or collapsed.
Calypso created a massive shield—no, a barrier made of water—at the newly formed boundary.
Because of that, her precious strength drained away significantly. But Calypso simply turned her head quickly.
“Healing, what about healing? Ah. I’ll just take you and—”
“I’m sorry…”
Whale weakly grasped Calypso’s hand. Her movements froze completely.
“…Hah, if many people die, you’ll be sad. That’s why.”
Whale spoke slowly and clearly despite his labored breathing. That he too had tried to save at least one more person.
“If your plan fails, you’ll blame yourself for it. Won’t you, Calypso?”
Whale had realized at some point that even if Ekion was the one Calypso felt kinship with and understood.
He alone knew Calypso better than anyone else could.
‘Why is your burden always so heavy?’
Whale had always wondered.
Even as her comrades and subordinates grew in number, Calypso always stood at the very front.
“I wish your shoulders weren’t so heavy anymore. Don’t think everything is your fault. I don’t understand why you think that way. Stop dwelling on failure.”
Whale assessed his own wound. It was quite fatal.
“Already… there’s someone alive here because of you.”
Whale gazed at Calypso, who said nothing, with hazy eyes.
“Me.”
I’m here, Calypso.

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