ALL NOVEL Chapter 936
<936 – Rolling Oknodie (4)>
Typically, professors’ retribution is gentle enough to match the students’ levels, like a casual Sunday stroll.
“Hey, Bixton!! You’ve tossed aside your assignment to gallivant around! You’ve got so much oomph in you! I’ll drain that energy with a punishment of hauling 100 tons up to Professor Plato’s mountaintop training ground!!”
A merciless punishment that turns into a rigorous exercise regime—carrying 100 tons of weights up to the peak!
“Rosgini, since you got a boyfriend, your talent for setting fire to others’ hearts has really blossomed! You dared to smear lipstick on the edge of your submitted assignment?”
“Oh, no! How did that even get there?!”
“No excuses! If you like starting fires that much, you’ll be setting one at the rare metal smelting furnace for three hours at a scorching 4500°C this weekend!”
Under the scorching fire of the professors’ burning lessons, Rosgini finds herself forced into a grueling punishment, transforming into a human furnace!
“Jezel, why did you take the mirror from our classroom?”
“Um… I’m sorry! Students reported strange phenomena seeing someone else’s face in the mirror, so we were investigating it…”
“You made our little ghost shiver for an hour and turned back without being able to return to the Middle Realm! Pay me 10 million points as compensation.”
“I’ll pay the compensation of 100,000 points as per regulations.”
“Tch. Another maniac who read the regulations book like a pervert. Sucking money from the academy sure isn’t easy.”
Caught in the act for trying to gouge points from naive underclassmen, now receiving a slashing punishment with mere pocket change!
Usually, punishments are combined with training, and the regulations protect students from excessive punishment. But when an incident occurs in the ‘Research Dimension,’ the rules go out the window.
“You can’t be protected by academy regulations and can do whatever mischief you want! You can face a professor’s ‘private retaliation.’ Isn’t that fun?”
Alex’s face turned pale, darkening as if he had a bruise.
“About that private retaliation… If a researcher who planned to become the ultimate monster with tons of monster cells implanted suddenly runs away from the research dimension, how does that apply…?”
Oknodie gasped, covering its mouth with both hands as if witnessing a terrible disaster.
Alex felt like crying.
“Really, you have nothing to say?”
“Senpai, just go die!”
“…”
A dark cloud began to loom over Alex.
But the first casualty of that cloud wasn’t Alex but someone completely unexpected.
*
Commander of the Holy Central Empire’s Chimera Legion.
Director Heinrich.
Originally, he was a candidate for Great Evil aiming to one day strike a catastrophic blow against the empire and the Southern City-State Union.
No matter what one’s dreams may be, people often end up with positions far removed from their aspirations, based on their accomplishments.
“Director! The grizzly bear from our beast department just mated with the Underworld black bear and gave birth to three Power Black Deli Bears!”
“Our Mamok department’s century-old Mamok just evolved into a rare ghostly tree after mating with the corpse-eating tree! We’re preparing a special treat to celebrate; if you have a suitable corpse, please send it our way!”
“Hoho. It seems the best achievements have been made by my department. The Dark Princess has awakened the [Experience Drain Fairy] that had been in hibernation for hundreds of years in the Underworld. The Chimera Legion’s fighting strength has substantially increased thanks to my department!”
Babysitting.
Child-rearing.
Words that are light-years away from the candidate for Great Evil have naturally settled in.
The reason is simple.
Because of Oknodie.
“I can’t believe this! What in the world has gotten into these crazy monsters? Why are they spawning like this?”
“Hahaha! Don’t say that, Director! Isn’t it great to have more monsters to command?”
Instead of the screams of humans turned into food, there were the sounds of newborn monsters filling the lair.
Monsters busy munching on the nutritious protein bars and energy drinks provided by the empire instead of human bones and flesh.
Monster tamers systematically training the monsters following the imperial educational guidelines, from brutal murder skills to recognition training.
These were not just Great Evil candidates, just loyal Chimera Legion commanders of the empire.
In fact, it was getting hard to call it a Chimera Legion.
Creatures of the Underworld.
Monsters that became strays after the foundation evaporated.
Rare monsters that Oknodie picked up from around the world.
On top of it, monsters that Masti gathered and passed onto the empire as well.
Now, there were even more monsters captured for research purposes by professors than there were Chimeras.
‘Stupid lower creatures with no self-esteem!’
The most infuriating fact was that Heinrich’s carefully crafted Chimeras were getting beaten up by these creatures and pushed down the hierarchy.
Even when a monster could not hold its filthy temper and slapped a Chimera’s face, the Chimeras would just growl and get slapped again.
Eventually, they would lie on the ground, groaning and clinging at their feet, only to be treated as the only beings that could withstand the body of a monster, used as tools for satisfying the monsters’ lust.
It was akin to seeing his lifelong research results being taken advantage of by some rootless, wandering, stray monsters that Oknodie found.
The most humiliating reality was that he had to recognize that those ugly monsters were superior to his Chimeras.
“Damn it. They’re perfect. They’ve evolved the ideal striving point I wanted for my Chimeras far beyond anything I could imagine!”
In his attempt to forget the miserable reality, Heinrich poured himself a shot of potent whiskey, wanting to drown in it.
Suddenly, alarms began to blare throughout the facility, signaling a state of emergency.
– High-Level Emergency Alert Issued. Immediate combat readiness is required for all combat personnel within the research facility.
– A high-risk Gold-class threat will reach the research facility in 60 seconds.
Is it Oknodie?
The thought entered his mind but was quickly dismissed.
Oknodie’s biological mana art had already been registered with the Chimera Research Facility.
Of course, Oknodie sometimes surprises everyone by twisting its biological mana waves in its own way and sneaking up from under the bed or the room, but it never directly threatened the facility like this.
Decode
Control
He quickly shook off the drunkenness and activated the close-range warp devices set up throughout the facility, gearing up to return to the situation room.
“Report the situation.”
“D-Director… we’re screwed.”
A long tentacle-like arm, grafted with chimera fusion technology, slapped the weak security guard’s cheek hard as he whined.
“Get a grip and report!”
“Multiple life signs from high-ranking creatures. They are rapidly approaching the research facility, tearing through dimensional barriers.”
“What are the response protocols?”
“The isolation and protection procedures for silver-class and below monsters are expected to be 43% completed, and we can gather 33 species of gold-class monsters.”
Even gold-class monsters alone are the kind of monsters that can plunge a nation into chaos.
The Dark Empress and Dark Princess had gathered every monster imaginable, and even that miraculous army felt ‘lacking’ for this grand invasion.
Just what powerful existence targets the facility?
Heinrich quickly grasped the answer.
Through a tear in the distorted dimensional flow, massive chunks of flesh poured out, covering the sky.
As gold-class monsters advanced, fleshy masses exploded in succession, spilling blood like rain, endlessly pouring continuously.
Eventually, the massive mass of flesh that filled the sky opened ‘eyes’ across the horizon.
[Grade 8 Dominator Type Monster]
[Monster Host Ankesenamen]
It was one monster.
And a host of many monsters.
Rooooar!
Dozens of large eyes formed red pillars on the ground, combining stored cells from its body to conjure powerful monsters on the spot.
[Grade 7 Swarm Type Monster]
[Monster Body 117]
As swarms of monster bodies swarmed from every direction, Heinrich continued to lead the charge, desperately augmenting the combat capability of their monsters, coaxing out their peak performance.
Activating the facility’s defense mechanisms and firing not just training lasers but real lethal lasers at the rampaging monsters.
Thousands of roars!
All those resistances were swept away and utterly obliterated by the colossal energy raining down from the sky.
As the fleeing legion screamed, the monster host snatched the newly recruited commander-class from the Chimera Legion, sending radiant beams of light towards the sky.
Detecting the reaction of the induction core, the monster host cast down another beam of light.
The monster bodies too.
Even the ‘monsters’ they had captured were forcibly dragged to the host’s side.
Eventually, after collecting all the monsters, the grotesque host thrashed and wrangled in the air, ripping through dimensions and vanishing into the void.
A paper airplane brushed against Heinrich’s feet, dazed and stunned.
━━━ Next is the ‘masterpiece’ retrieval. Please return voluntarily or perform tricks for me. ━━━
Director Heinrich picked up the communication magical artifact.
The destined calamity approaching Alex was conveyed through terrified voices.