Volume 5 Chapter 15 Goddess Holy Church Seven Heaven Apostles 'ugly' Balthazar ⑥ - Balthazar Mutant
The boy was an 'ugly' boy since the day he was born.
He had a crushed-looking face, small eyes, a torn mouth, and he never grew taller.
This ugly boy was not loved by his parents and was bullied in the village where he was born.
He cried every day.
Who was to blame? Was it his fault? Was it his parents' fault for giving him such an ugly face?
There were no answers.
No matter how hard it was, the boy kept living.
He was hit with stones, and his parents, who didn't want to live with him, threw him into the barn, giving him only poor meals and treating him like he was almost nonexistent.
The boy's only friends were 'insects.'
In the barn, there were many insects.
Caterpillars, flying bugs, lizards, and worms.
The insects never called the boy 'ugly' or 'gross.'
The boy became friends with the insects.
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The 'Balthazar mutant,' which had part of its body turned into an insect, skillfully controlled its tentacles on its back and launched them at Elk.
Elk readied his blades in both hands, dodging the incoming tentacles while slashing at them.
"Take that!!"
"Hehehe, heh heh."
"───...What?"
However, the severed tentacles regenerated in an instant.
The Balthazar mutant moved quickly using the spider legs that grew from its body, crawling on the walls.
Moreover, huge 'wings' sprouted from its back.
"Buwaaaaaaaah!!"
"Ugh!?"
The Balthazar mutant spat out a large number of slugs from its mouth.
The shocking sight made Elk turn pale, and he used telekinesis to float his body and dodge at high speed.
Using 'Telepsychokinesis' to manipulate his body, he avoid the slugs that the Balthazar mutant spits out and point his right hand at the Balthazar mutant.
"What the──!?"
With a shockwave from his telekinesis, Elk blows the Balthazar mutant away.
It crashes into the wall, but the Balthazar mutant doesn't seem to care at all.
Instead, he shoots a thread from his rear and disappears to the ceiling in an instant, like a rubber band stretching.
"Is anything fair here!?"
"Heh, heh... 'Rain of Leeches'."
"Ugh!?"
The Balthazar mutant's mouth opens impossibly wide, and a huge number of 'blood-sucking leeches' are spewed out.
They fill the room.
So gross. But Elk doesn't panic.
He claps his hands together and activates telekinesis towards the falling leeches.
"How disgusting──..."
The telekinetic force gathers the leeches.
They form a mass and start spinning in the air.
"I'm sending this back!!"
Elk strikes a throwing pose with his right hand, and the mass of leeches flies toward the Balthazar mutant, hitting it as it hangs from the ceiling.
"Ugh!?"
"Here's another one!!"
The thread snaps, and the Balthazar mutant falls.
Elk leaps into the air.
He flies toward the falling Balthazar mutant and delivers a powerful counterpunch to his face.
"Ggh!?"
His fist, wrapped in telekinesis, hits the face hard, causing it to cave in.
Balthazar mutant crashes into the wall again, bleeding from his nose and holding his face while tears stream down. Elk readies his short bow with an arrow loaded in his right hand.
"Bu, gyuuuuuuuu!!"
But then, Balthazar mutant wildly controlled his tentacles, starting to destroy the room.
Elk shot a short arrow towards the ceiling.
The arrow, charged with telekinesis, flew in an arc and cut the chain holding the chandelier.
Elk reinforced the falling chandelier with telekinesis.
"Enough already!!"
"!!?"
The huge chandelier crushed the Balthazar mutant.
His body was half-squished, and he vomited out a caterpillar from his mouth.
"Eh, heh heh, heh heh... ugh, bleh."
What it spat out was a green jewel.
This was the dungeon's treasure, the 'Magic Insect Stone.'
Balthazar mutant spoke in a voice that was hard to tell if it was laughing or in pain.
"I lost."
"......"
"Um, um, outside... is the girl okay?"
"...Huh?"
"I called all the bugs in this dungeon. I tried to make them attack Elk. But, but... before that, I lost. Is the girl outside okay?"
"...Soara!!"
As Elk turned around, the door was blown off.
Elk instinctively got ready──but.
"...I used it."
"Soara...?"
"I didn't want to use it... ugh."
'Soara' spat out 'bug legs'.
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Skills have different ranks.
General skills, commercial skills, combat skills.
'Calculation' and 'Sewing' are commercial skills. 'Steel Form' and 'Accel' are combat skills. And 'Telekinesis' is a general skill. Among general skills, it is considered the weakest.
The reason it is the weakest is its level.
The maximum level of Telekinesis is 10. Moreover, it does not undergo 'Skill Evolution.' Therefore, it is the weakest.
However, there are special skills that do not fall into these categories.
Soara appeared unscathed.
In the room beyond the door, where Elk and Soara had just parted, there were countless 'bugs' lying in ruins.
This surprised both Elk and the Balthazar mutant.
"Soara. You're okay, right?"
"Yeah. I used my skill."
"Uh, why...?"
"...My skill is kind of gross."
When Soara opened her mouth, fangs were visible.
And on her tongue... there was a tattoo that looked like a crest.
"My skill, 'Gluttony'... I can eat anything. The more I eat, the stronger my body becomes. If I eat living things, I get really strong."
Yes, Soara had eaten.
She had used her mouth and her skill to devour the attacking bugs.
Skill 'Gluttony'
Currently, it is one of the 7 confirmed 'skills without level notation,' does not undergo Skill Evolution, and has fewer than 20 owners in the world. It is a super rare skill.
Soara looked down.
"It's gross, right? Me."
"Soara..."
"......"
Neither Elk nor the Balthazar mutant said anything. They couldn't say anything.
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