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"Hiss?"

The cave monster clearly hadn't expected to stumble upon the "crime scene."

In its understanding,

Traps are used to capture prey, and there are two types of prey:

You can eat it, or you can't.

The upright-walking creature before me was small and posed no threat, but it smelled unfamiliar, looked strange, and made a sound I couldn't understand...

Logically speaking, it's edible.

"Hiss~" it hissed in confusion and scratched its thigh with its big bone club.

"Good evening."

He casually tossed the reptile into the trap, dusted off his hands, and gestured about five centimeters above his head.

"Have you ever seen a bipedal creature that's about this tall, a bit talkative, and carrying a sword?"

What are you babbling about?

In fact, its brain capacity was completely incapable of processing such a long sentence; its gaze focused on Ren Yi for half a second—

No fangs, no claws, just grab it and see what happens.

"hiss!"

The gray-skinned monster threw away the large bone club, and stretched out its thick arm covered with sparse hair, reaching out to grab at Renyi.

That's incredibly arrogant!

She held her breath slightly, looking utterly disgusted. "I won't cooperate."

The next second, a bright silver light streaked across the darkness, cutting in from the side.

"Pfft."

A dull cracking sound rang out, and half of the gray-skinned monster's mask, along with the back half of its head, was embedded in a gleaming axe.

The body, still propelled by inertia, took two steps forward, still carrying the axe.

He then collapsed a few centimeters in front of any athletic leather shoe.

[You have defeated a Lv3 Cave Dweller and gained 15 Evolution Points]

Ivan emerged from the shadows, stepped onto the monster's spine, and with a forceful pull, yanked the axe embedded in its skull, sending up a cloud of green and white dust.

"This thing seems much brittler than the ones from the sea."

He flicked the blood off the axe.

"It's Lv3, just like those green-skinned monkeys, but it costs 5 more evolution points."

"So weak?"

Don't underestimate them.

He casually poked at the corpse's arm with the tip of the knife—

With rough, thick skin and long, curved nails, he seems to be good at digging.

"Boss, what do we do now?"

I casually touched the monster's cold skin.

[Decomposable target detected: Level 3 Cave Dweller Corpse]

[Disassembling yields: 30 grayish-white meat chunks, 1 shrunken (damaged) brain, and 1 rough skin]

"..."

What are all these things?!

In his experience, raw meat that has been broken down but has no expiration date is inedible; it's either poisonous or contains enormous amounts of energy that would cause you to explode if you ate it.

This useless monster clearly belongs to the former category.

He abandoned the attempt to dissect it, stood up, silently wiped his hands on his pants, and turned to look in the direction it had come from.

The plants over there had just been brutally trampled, leaving a path strewn with broken branches.

"This way. Since Klaus has already been 'warmly' invited, he probably won't refuse a few more guests."

......

In the dimly lit underground tunnel, the air was filled with an indescribable, yet nauseating odor.

Rotten food, old excrement... and the earthy smell of the cave monster.

"Pfft."

The sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh echoed in the passageway, where only the dripping of water could be heard.

With a blank expression, he drew his katana, drawing a dark green line of blood.

To his lower right, a cave monster, attempting to ambush him, clutched its pierced throat and convulsed before dying.

"The thirty-second one."

He numbly flicked the blood off the blade.

"Boss, how many of these gray rats are there?"

Ivan walked ahead, his heart stained with green blood so dark that his original color was no longer visible, and his body was filthy beyond recognition.

Aurora followed at the back, precisely ending the suffering of the monster that was still breathing.

Her nun's habit was now stained with monster blood, but since it was originally black, it still looked alright.

Who cares?

He casually stepped over the corpses on the ground and said in a light tone, "If we can't find anyone, we'll kill everyone here."

This is an attitude.

The airflow ahead noticeably increased, the passage gradually widened and rose, and faint sounds of roaring and the pounding of hard objects could be heard, while the smell of barbecue grew stronger.

At the end was a double door made of bone!

He stopped abruptly, made a 'shush' gesture, and lowered his body slightly.

"We've arrived, Ivan, go!"

"receive!"

Ivan took a half step back, his leg muscles bulging, and delivered a flying kick to the simple door made of some unknown pile of bones—

"Bang--!"

Bones flew everywhere, and dust splattered.

Amidst rising smoke and dust, three blood-soaked figures, exuding a murderous aura, strode into the underground cavity before them.

"Hand over Klaus! Or I'll chop you all into pieces..."

The instant he saw the scene before him, Ivan's roar abruptly turned into hesitation:

"...Smell... son?"

It wasn't just him.

Even Ren Yi, who was ready to unleash a massacre and whose rapier was poised to strike, froze on his cold expression.

Aurora rubbed her eyes even more.

"Lord...please grant me the eyes to see through illusions..."

This is a spacious natural cave, with moss torches emitting a fluorescent glow sticking out of the surrounding rock walls, illuminating the place brightly.

In the very center of the cave is a stone that looks like a very important "sofa".

Klaus Schmidt, the hostage whom one might imagine to be "uncertain of his fate," "dismembered," or "cooked," is now sitting properly on the stone "sofa" in the main seat.

No missing arms or legs...

Not a single strand of her hair was messed up.

To his right, several hideous, brown, humanoid monsters were respectfully holding out a few leaves.

It was filled with purple wild berries, chopped pieces of unidentified meat, and clear water contained in a skull.

Whenever Klaus moved even slightly, the humanoid monsters would raise the plate even higher.

To his left, there was a long queue.

Yes, a long line.

Dozens of brown, humanoid monsters held various kinds of scrap metal in their long arms—

There were deformed bone axes, cracked stone hammers, and the crudely made bone spears that they had just discovered, broken in half.

They lined up obediently.

One by one, they approached Klaus, offering their weapons with both hands.

Klaus's brow was so furrowed it could trap a fly.

He held a short bone axe, which was respectfully offered to him, its fingertips gleaming with a faint blue light.

"Tsk, trash."

Klaus muttered something in Hanscat language, using his sequence ability with a look of disgust.

The axe, which was originally so dull that it could only be used to crack walnuts, suddenly became smaller in his hands, but the blade became smooth and sharp, and an elegant blood groove was added.

He threw the axe back without any hesitation.

The cave monster that retrieved the axe hissed excitedly, gave Klaus a strange salute, and then ran away with the axe in its arms.

The next caveman immediately stepped forward, offering a bent wooden stick with expectant eyes.

Blood was still dripping from the trio's bodies.

Renyi wiped the green blood from his face expressionlessly.

Damn it, who's the monster here?