I Inherited a Beautiful Wife and a Territory - Chapter 24

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Inheriting a Beautiful Wife and Estate Episode 024

24. Kyuung VS Serpent

The tyrant of the Rajahara Sea.

The Serpent had dominated the nearby waters and this lake for a long time. Its accumulated power was immense.

Shaaaaak!

During all those long years, the Serpent had never experienced it.

An existence equal to itself, one that wouldn’t be intimidated by its own presence.

That existence had clearly flustered the Serpent.

But the opponent was a land creature.

It couldn’t do anything to him while he was in the water. The Serpent, thinking this way, was bewildered by what followed.

Shak?

The surface of the lake was freezing.

And the ice immediately became a path.

Kyuung charged toward the Serpent without stopping through that path. And its speed was faster than the Serpent’s reaction.

Kyuuung!

In the time it took the Serpent to blink a few times, Kyuung, who had raced across the lake, swung its front paw.

Splash.

The Serpent hastily plunged its head into the water.

Kyuung’s front paw struck the lake and passed through.

It seemed like Kyuung was gaining the momentum.

Shiiiiik!

The Serpent became enraged.

The Serpent moved its long tail. This time, the tail aimed at the bear like a whip from behind Kyuung.

Paang. Crack.

The surrounding ice shattered from that tail strike.

Various pieces of ice scattered in all directions, and cracks appeared in the ice supporting Kyuung’s body.

Kyu?

This time, Kyuung showed signs of bewilderment.

The Serpent didn’t miss that moment.

The Serpent had knowledge learned through long experience. Land beasts became slower in their movements underwater and couldn’t breathe.

On land, even a massive Serpent would have difficulty defeating a bear with an equally massive build, but this was water.

Shaaaaak!

The Serpent’s body instantly wrapped around Kyuung.

Applying crushing force, the Serpent dove underwater.

Kyuuuung!

Kyuung also resisted, refusing to give in, but it was useless.

There was no ice to support Kyuung’s body. Due to the tilted ice, Kyuung’s body fell into the lake with a splash.

A massive spray of water erupted.

Both Kyuung and the Serpent were that large in size.

And the lake’s depth was deep enough to embrace these two monsters.

Shaaaaak!

At this moment, the Serpent was certain of its victory.

‘Foolish one, land’s champion. No matter how great your power, in this water… in this water…’

What?

Gradually, the Serpent felt something strange.

Kyuung’s body being constricted by the Serpent’s coils, and the abyss of the lake deeper than most seas should surely bring death to Kyuung…

Shak?

Kyuuuung!

Kyuung was still lively.

The Serpent didn’t know, but the compatibility was bad.

Kyuung!

Kyuung wasn’t a bear.

It wasn’t a terrestrial creature either.

Kyuung was a spirit. And for a spirit, neither the snake’s intense constriction nor the oxygen deprivation underwater was a problem at all.

Kyuung wasn’t a being that lived through breathing in the first place.

Kyaaaung!

Yet its fighting style was similar to a bear’s.

Kyuung opened its mouth wide and bit directly into the Serpent’s body. Firmly grasping and fixing the Serpent’s body with its front paws, it took a big bite.

Shaaaaaaaak!

The Serpent writhed in pain.

The Serpent tried to release Kyuung and escape. It planned to abandon this lake and flee to the sea.

Against Kyuung, this strange land creature, the Serpent’s attacks didn’t work.

Kyaaang!

But this time, Kyuung wouldn’t let the Serpent go.

The Serpent struggled.

Kyuung froze solid the snake’s body that wrapped around it. The ice encasing it kept breaking due to the Serpent’s strong force and resistance, but it continuously froze again, preventing the Serpent’s body from escaping.

In that state, Kyuung leisurely began to swim.

It wouldn’t let it escape!

Kyuung steeled its resolve.

The moment it took a bite earlier, it felt it. This snake’s meat was very rich in nutrients(?).

Perfect as a nutritious meal for the weak(?) owner of this land.

That wasn’t all.

The strong energy the Serpent possessed.

Kyuuung.

Kyuung’s eyes sparkled as it recognized this.

Like a herb gatherer discovering wild ginseng, Kyuung happily swam toward the surface. The more Kyuung did so, the more desperate the Serpent became.

Sha, shaaaaak?

Its survival instinct issued an intense warning.

Unlike its initial overwhelming presence, the Serpent desperately tried to escape from Kyuung’s grasp.

But the moment it realized that wasn’t possible, the Serpent also steeled its resolve.

This time, the Serpent turned its body and bit Kyuung’s body.

Chomp.

Unlike terrestrial snakes, the Serpent had no venom.

It had no enemies even without such venom in the first place.

But again, the opponent was too unfavorable.

Shik?

The snake shivered from the intense cold it felt in its open mouth.

The snake that lived underwater had always grown in the warmth above freezing. But inside Kyuung’s body, there was none of that.

The body temperature that any living creature would naturally have.

It was reversed!

The Serpent found it hard to maintain consciousness in the cold sub-zero temperature.

Kyuung!

And Kyuung, annoyed by the Serpent’s continued interference.

Thwack.

Struck the snake’s head with its front paw, knocking it unconscious. Kyuung, holding the limp snake’s neck area in its mouth, raised its head back above the surface.

“Wh-what is this…”

The village people near the Lord’s Manor.

And the village people near the lake.

Also, not just the domain residents, but even the merchants who had visited this domain today.

“Gasp.”

They were all shocked.

It was a snake whose body length exceeded imagination.

Not only was it long, but its thickness was also enormous.

“A, a Serpent…”

Just seeing it was enough to shock everyone. And there was a bear that had appeared carrying it as if it had just returned from a light stroll.

‘No, what exactly is this bear’s identity?’

Tom trembled with surprise.

Though not as much as the Serpent, Kyuung’s size wasn’t that of an ordinary bear either.

It was at least three times larger than a regular bear.

But what confused him more than that was the fact that this bear had brought the Serpent in its mouth.

“Is it… dead?”

Someone cast a forbidden revival spell.

But even with such a spell, the snake’s limp body couldn’t move at all.

Thud.

The bear that had been carrying it dropped the snake’s neck from its mouth.

Thump.

A heavy sound rang out.

It was a snake so massive it could remind one of a dragon.

Such a snake lay sprawled on the ground without the slightest movement.

“Kyuung!”

Kyuung, who had caused all this, called for the lord of the estate.

“Well, I’ll be. I knew it wasn’t ordinary, but…”

People still couldn’t approach near Kyuung.

Not only Kyuung, but the massive corpse of the Serpent that appeared to have been bitten to death was equally frightening to approach.

Snakes are creatures with strong vitality.

If they approached and that snake happened to wake up…

‘Even I’m scared…’

Even Cliff felt burdened to approach the snake’s corpse, not knowing if it was alive or dead.

But ultimately, he had to do it.

And at some point, Cliff walked toward Kyuung as if he wasn’t scared at all.

“You mustn’t. You should be careful. If there’s even a bit of life left in that thing…”

“Ah, it’s fine. It’s dead. There won’t be any threat at all. Even if there were, Kyuung is here, so it’s okay. Right?”

Kyuung!

Kyuung nodded as if to say that’s right.

Even without that reaction, Cliff could clearly tell that all threats had disappeared.

The messages he saw in the blink of an eye during this absurd scene.

-You have eliminated a major threat to the estate.

-The estate’s level increases.

-The lord’s level increases.

-The estate’s level increases.

-The lord’s level increases.

…

Certainly, the Serpent, the tyrant of the Rajahara Sea, must have been a tremendous being.

He had leveled up explosively.

‘Is the estate level 8 now?’

On top of that, the lord level had risen to 9.

All rewards gained from eliminating a single Serpent. Considering the Serpent’s danger level, the reward was certainly appropriate.

However, the reason Cliff was bewildered now.

‘I actually didn’t do anything…’

Kyuung had done everything.

The Serpent had suddenly caused a commotion, and Kyuung had rushed in and bitten the Serpent to death.

“I couldn’t see any way to eliminate this thing no matter what…”

Cliff muttered while looking at the massive snake’s body.

The lake and the river canal that flowed out through it.

It had been a situation he’d given up on, though with lingering regrets.

But suddenly, Kyuung had solved this problem.

Seeing that made him think.

“Hey, I really am amazing.”

“Huh?”

“If I hadn’t held the festival in winter, Kyuung wouldn’t have been born, right? Without Kyuung, how could we have caught such a massive giant snake?”

Beginning, development, turn, conclusion – his own achievement.

…is what he wanted to say, but.

‘This should really be seen as God’s grace, right?’

Kyuung’s birth was God’s divine power.

In other words, the Serpent’s defeat was also God’s divine power.

Cliff said.

“Truly, God provides a way out of trials we cannot handle.”

The Serpent wasn’t a trial they could overcome.

It seemed God thought so too.

However, Cliff also stopped this theological thinking. There was something more urgent to do now.

“…They say Serpent meat is incredibly nutritious?”

Cliff’s eyes swept over the Serpent on the ground.

Teobaldt also came to Cliff’s side.

“That’s right. They say just drinking its meat soup makes strength surge up.”

“How wonderful, wonderful. This one happens to be plump and well-fattened too… Kyuung, are you going to eat this?”

Cliff looked at Kyuung while swallowing his saliva.

“Kyuu kyuu.”

Kyuung shook its head.

Kyuung didn’t particularly need meat.

“Then we can eat it?”

“Kyuu!”

The generous Kyuung nodded. Then Kyuung went to one part of the snake’s body and bit down with an “ahng.”

“Huh?”

He thought Kyuung was giving it all away, but did Kyuung also want to taste the meat after all?

Cliff, who was thinking that way, soon frowned slightly at the scene that unfolded.

Kyuung was breaking through the snake’s scales and hide to extract something from inside.

It was a red organ dripping with blood.

“…It’s the Serpent’s heart.”

He heard Teobaldt’s voice from beside him.

Kyuung immediately divided that heart into four pieces.

Three of those pieces froze solid in midair.

And the remaining piece.

Kyuung brought it to him.

“Why this…?”

“Kyuu!”

“You want me to have it?”

“Kyuu kyuu!”

Kyuung nodded vigorously.

Teobaldt looked at this enviously and spoke.

“…The Serpent’s heart contains powerful magic, though not as much as a dragon heart. It’s a top-grade elixir that anyone who practices magic would covet.”

Cliff knew that much even without Teobaldt’s explanation.

‘Ah.’

Cliff’s pupils wavered.

The Serpent’s heart that Kyuung was offering.

In other words, a spiritual medicine.

‘I… magical power…?’

Cliff had actually wanted to become a mage.

However, his magical power was ridiculously insufficient to become a mage. Because of this, the mage who had taught him at the Duke’s Mansion had sighed.

-Perhaps because of your low magical power, your magic concentration is high and pure. It would have been good if your magical power was just a little higher…

Cliff reached his hand toward the Serpent’s heart.

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