The Lord Who Levels Up by Devouring - Chapter 330

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Chapter 330. Extraordinary Circumstances (1)
Lilia blinked her eyes.
Adrian was still twisting his spine.
…He really was.
Adrian was methodically and precisely fracturing his spine with perfectly controlled rotations.
“Excuse me?”
Lilia thought she must have misunderstood what she was seeing.
Of course she had.
Breaking his own spine?
His own spine, no less?
Where in all of The Continent would such a madman exist?
Crack, crack-crack!!
The sound continued to reach her ears.
But Lilia refused to believe it.
It must be an auditory hallucination.
Thinking thus, Lilia rubbed her eyes.
Her vision cleared.
Before her stood Adrian, all four limbs intact and unharmed.
As if he had never fractured his spine at all.
He stood before her looking perfectly fine and magnificent.
Of course.
Lilia was certain she had misperceived.
Lilia exhaled a long sigh of relief.
At that very moment, crack!!
The sound of bone fracturing reached her ears once more.
Lilia flinched in shock.
And when she looked up, this time it was not his spine.
“His ribs?”
Crack, crunch-crack!
Splinter-splinter-splinter!!
“Wh-what??”
Lilia’s comprehension had left the building.
Before her eyes, in real time, his ribs twisted, fractured, crumbled to dust, and reformed—
“What??????”
Lilia’s sanity had abandoned her.
At that moment.
Adrian’s body swayed.
“Ugh—!”
His expression was clearly in considerable pain.
Of course it was.
To wreck a body like that—.
No, there’s no way it wouldn’t hurt when you’re destroying it like that.
These were injuries that should have killed him instantly.
And yet.
Adrian was laughing.
“Kuhahahahahaha…!!”
Like a madman.
“Ahak, ahakakakakak!!”
No—like he was enjoying it.
“Kuhak! Kuhakak! This is hahahak!!”
Adrian’s entire body convulsed.
The sight was utterly grotesque.
But Lilia did not scream.
Her mind simply stopped.
“Huh??????????????”
If he had been a monster, she could have accepted it.
But Adrian was human.
He clearly bore the appearance of a handsome human man in his mid-twenties.
Yet what she saw before her eyes now was….
Crack! Crunch!
Squelch squelch squelch squelch!!!
“Ah, wha????????????”
Lilia’s mind finally surrendered to thought.
* * *
The central district of Count Whitewolf’s Castle.
The Administrative Office at its heart.
The warm glow of the fireplace enveloped the interior subtly, and documents sent from various nations lay neatly organized upon the desk.
“I… beg your pardon…?”
Seraphia tilted her head to the left.
It was none other than Bernard’s report that had just reached her ears.
“A mysterious monster has appeared in Sylvandir Forest?”
“Yes, my lady. According to the testimony of travelers….”
Bernard hesitated for a moment before slowly opening his mouth.
“Some said it resembled a flesh-eating zombie—.”
“…?”
“Others claimed it was a ghoul that tore and devoured muscle—.”
“…??”
“Still others described it as a skeleton that gnawed upon its own bones—.”
“…???”
“And one witness swore there was a madman who opened his ribcage wide, drank blood, and laughed—.”
“…????????”
Seraphia’s face went blank.
It would have been strange not to be stunned after hearing that.
But at the same time, a thought flashed through her mind.
‘Could it be… the undead again?’
Last time, the Death Legion had attacked Whitewolf Territory.
Fortunately, they had managed to drive them all back.
However, since the undead were fundamentally the unkilled forces of the Death Legion, there was a possibility they had been resurrected.
“Kai has already gone to investigate, but—.”
“I’ll go take a look too.”
Seraphia rose from her seat.
She tidied her disheveled hair and skirt, then quickly boarded the Ether Carriage.
Sylvandir Forest, reached in no time.
The moment she stepped down from the Ether Carriage, what came into view was a devastated forest.
Snapped trees.
Torn undergrowth.
Earth gouged and shattered beyond recognition.
Traces of a massive creature’s rampage were etched everywhere.
Just then.
Crack, crunch!
Whoooosh—!!
Strange sounds echoed from deeper in the forest.
…It seemed there was still something there.
Seraphia swallowed hard.
She readied herself to summon her power at any moment, then cautiously moved toward the source of the sound.
And then.
She could see people huddled together.
Outsiders who had visited Whitewolf Territory.
They were hidden behind trees, atop rocks.
And beneath bushes.
All of them were paralyzed with fear, yet they did not flee.
As if watching some curious creature in a menagerie—.
“That’s supposed to be a person…?”
“That… that can’t be right….”
No, they stood frozen as if confronting a monster.
Seraphia turned her head to follow their gaze.
A landscape drenched in blood.
Within it, someone was clawing at the earth with their entire body.
“Hgh…! Haaah…! Yes…! Just a bit more…!”
What kind of pervert was this—.
What kind of lunatic—.
The moment that thought crossed her mind.
Seraphia’s eyes finally focused on his face clearly.
‘Brother…?’
Adrian twisted his spine with perfect timing and lifted his head.
The sight was… how to describe it.
A zombie devouring flesh.
A ghoul tearing and swallowing muscle.
A skeleton boiling its own bones.
Or perhaps, a creature with its ribcage splayed wide, drinking blood before laughing—.
“Ehehehe… Ehahahaha! Kehehehehehe!!”
A madman.
“Hyiiiiik!!”
“Kyaaaaaaak!!!”
People screamed and collapsed.
Utter panic.
That phrase described it perfectly.
“Hyeeeeeeh?!?”
Seraphia, shocked beyond words, leaped to her feet right there.
What on earth was that?!
Could Adrian have become undead?!
Thankfully(?), that was not the case.
“You’ve arrived.”
Someone whispered beside Seraphia.
A familiar voice.
She turned her head to see a golden-haired handsome man standing there.
It was Kai.
Seraphia asked him with a bewildered expression.
“Kai, what on earth is that?”
“I’ve been observing since a moment ago as well.”
Kai continued, watching Adrian, whose lower body was about to burst apart.
“It appears he is training.”
The minds of all the foreign visitors currently in Whitewolf Territory had come to a halt.
And now.
“Training…?”
Seraphia’s mind was beginning to shut down as well.
Kwaaaaaang!!
With a tremendous explosion, Adrian’s lower body vanished.
More precisely, everything below his waist evaporated entirely.
From the very center of it.
Only Adrian’s upper body remained, laughing.
“Ahahahahahaha!! This is it!!”
Seraphia found herself stepping backward.
Of course, she had known.
That Adrian’s usual training was far from normal.
But not to this extent.
“Hahahaha!! Krraahhh!!”
She had never imagined he would lose his mind to this degree!!
Seraphia slowly turned her head.
The expressions on the faces of the surrounding foreigners were uniform.
Shock, terror, awe, horror, panic.
Seraphia swallowed hard and asked.
“…Um, does Kai also train like that…?”
It made sense—Kai possessed an immortal body.
An absurd swordsmanship called immortal blade technique.
She wondered if he underwent such brutal conditioning to wield it.
Kai fell silent for a moment.
A very brief moment, as she had said.
“…Absolutely not.”
Kai shook his head firmly.
True, because he could not die, he did perform more intense training.
But it was merely intense.
He simply did not worry about sustaining injuries.
Adrian, however, was different.
How far can I survive without dying?
Huh? I didn’t die even then?
Then what about this?
It was human experimentation of that nature.
In other words.
This was not training.
“Ahhh! Ahahaha! Kraahhaha!!”
It was simply… self-harm.
He was a masochist who derived pleasure from mutilating himself!
Yet the reason Kai did not stop Adrian was—
‘He grows stronger with each passing moment.’
Within that self-destruction, Adrian was becoming progressively more powerful.
Growing stronger?
…No.
The phrase ‘growing stronger’ was not quite apt.
‘He is forcibly inducing his own growth.’
Growth normally occurs in stages.
Like climbing a staircase.
One step at a time, ascending slowly.
But each time Adrian destroyed himself, the stairs of growth shattered, walls crumbled, and he catapulted upward.
This was not becoming stronger.
It was not growth.
It was a leap that erased the process of growth itself and jumped directly to the result of strength—a rampage, pure and simple.
And so, now.
Kai could sense a ‘primordial presence’ emanating from Adrian.
* * *
The Imperial Central Intelligence Agency.
Beneath a room bathed in faint magical light.
“….”
Elowin, Director of Intelligence, found herself at a loss for words.
Elowin read the report again.
Again. And again.
Yet the contents written in the report remained unchanged.
==[Whitewolf Territory Anomaly Report]==
1. Primary Findings
: Adrian Whitewolf repeatedly detonating his own body voluntarily.
: Complete regeneration within approximately 2.3 seconds of destruction.
: Began laughing maniacally.
: Detonated again.
: Regenerated again.
: Laughed again.
: Detonated again.
: Regenerated again.
: Laughed again.
: Cycle interval approximately 7 seconds
: Detonation – Regeneration – Laughter estimated as one complete set.
2. Site Damage Assessment
: 137 foreign witnesses rendered unconscious.
: Nearby passing spirit lost consciousness.
: Forest ecosystem temporarily destroyed
3. On-Site Audio Recording
: Khhhh… haaaaah…!
: This! This is exactly it!
: (explosion)
: Ahahahahahahaha!!
: Kuhahahaha! Kuhak! Ahhuhak! Cough! Cough!
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Elowin exhaled a long sigh.
“…Did he seriously write this just now?”
Elowin massaged her temples.
Adrian Whitewolf.
Somehow, whenever anything involved him, she felt her intellect drain away.
Elowin pushed the report to the side.
She had no desire to look at it any further.
Besides, it was no longer under the Information Bureau’s jurisdiction.
Whitewolf Territory.
Adrian.
Neither of them fell under the Information Bureau’s authority anymore.
The Special Operations Bureau.
They had been transferred there long ago.
Currently, Elowin was devoting all her energy to tracking Invictus.
“The tail is finally starting to show itself.”
Elowin picked up another report.
Its contents were neatly organized.
It was a far more sensible report—utterly different from the previous one.
Elowin examined it carefully.
Just then.
—Deputy Director!! Deputy Director!! This is an emergency!!
An urgent voice called from beyond the door.
The next moment, the door burst open.
The Aide rushed in without knocking.
Elowin frowned and asked.
“What is it?”
“It’s—! It’s—!!”
The Aide caught his breath before speaking.
“All the Werebeast Forces under experimentation have escaped!!”

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