Chapter 43 - Monster's Wife??

The city gate was down in minutes and the wall started to be overrun but there was still no prompt…

She had killed 4 more; making a total of 8 since she arrived at this level but there was still nothing. 

In the previous level she had only killed 2 before she achieved basic clear.

Soeyoon was getting nervous and the City Lord ordered everyone to retreat to the main Castle.

In the main hall, Soeyoon waited in silence as she heard the roars of the Orcs and screams of the dying citizens outside.

Everyone in the hall was armed and were waiting nervously for the Orcs.

As she was thinking of how to maximise her kills, she heard banging on the door. The Orcs have arrived.

She looked around and found that the City Lord Damien, his son and the Chief of Guards Argus were missing.

She felt panic rising and realised that she had been left behind as bait.

Before she could think for a way out, the main gate to the hall was breached and the Orcs started pouring in.

She rewarded the first Orc to enter with an arrow in its skull and the rest of the soldiers started to attack.

She saw an Orc Hunter grabbed and raised a soldier over its head, ripping into two bathing itself with the spilled blood.

Repulsed, she released an arrow at the roaring Orc's mouth killing it.

Then she was relieved that finally the system prompt came up:

"Level passed!!

To leave please say:

[Leave Level]"

Knowing she had no way of saving the rest of them, she continued to fire her arrows.

Her arm burns as she had never fired so many arrows at such a fast pace. 

She did not know how many she had killed and when most of the soldiers were dead, Soeyoon was already standing on the throne still shooting her arrows.

Just as the last few soldiers in front of her were caught, her arrows ran out.

She felt powerless and guilty. Dejectedly, she called out: "Leave Level now!!"

Soeyoon spawn on the tower hall.

She was wounded and her quiver had been empty.

A few men recognised her and before she even got her bearing, she was caught by a bunch of hooligans. 

She had understood on the second level that the world had changed.

For now there was no law or order. She would be amongst the most vulnerable people out there.

She had to stand up for herself or she would be trampled under their foot.

Lacking better options, Soeyoon threw her bow at the hooligans and ran towards the pillar where the man with grey hair was. 

Due to her agility and self-defence class she undertook when she was a star, Soeyoon was barely able to get away for a while, but 3 more hooligans blocked her way in the direction where the grey hair man was. 

She had hoped he could return. No such ruthless man should be able to survive and she had hoped to charm him to protect her but he was still nowhere to be seen.

The 8 men surrounded her and started to tease her. Soeyoon shouted for help from the surrounding onlookers but no one came forward. 

She fought back with punches, kicks and even bites when one of the bigger men grabbed her.

That animal didn't even bother to be gentle with her holding her shirt with his left hand, he gave her a hard slap which made her tripped onto the ground ripping her shirt off.

The rest of the animals were howling and hooting. 

Another hooligan grabbed her around her waist and tried to pull her pants off.

Soeyoon threw her head back hitting the bastard at his nose and stomped on his toe. She heard a sickening crunch behind her and screams of pain.

She tried to run but another hooligan tripped her and sent her rolling down.

With the help of another man, 2 of the hooligans ripped her pants off.

Now she was left in her underwear and bra.

She had never felt so much fear and anger.

Then she saw sparks formed a silhouette of the man she had been waiting for.

She was slightly relieved that he had arrived and rushed scrambling towards him in tears begging for help.

The grey haired man was actually a young boy. He was smiling but his eyes were dead;

He simply said;

"There is no free lunch. I can protect you but from now on you belong to me."

Wait what?? Another conceited young man who had gone crazy.

Whatever, she needed to survive first.

"Sa..save me, I'll do whatever you want."

Soeyoon replied while trying her best to hold back her tears.

This got to work, Soeyoon thought. Men were weak to women's tears.

But this beast eyes did not even waver and instead he looked straight into her eyes with his dead bleak eyes and evenly said:

"You will be mine. You lose your freedom, body and soul. From now on you will obey every single thing I say. Are you sure?"

Wait he was for real wasn't he. Can he walk the talk though??

Lets' test him, she thought while trembling in pain from the pain of the burnt wounds she got from defending the city.

"YES!!! I'll do anything, please save me."

She had understood the thought process of these weebs. 

She understood the logic that there was no free lunch, but when the payment was her body it left a bitter taste in her mouth.

Despite her sultry sexy image, she was still a virgin okay!!!

Let's see how this plays out, she thought.

"No one hurts my property and gets away with it."

That man actually said such cringey stuff.

Hold on for a sec, was he for real???

She was now grossed out by the 'hero', these kinds of fools usually die first.

'Sorry young man, I'll pray for you'

She nervously prayed.

Then she heard him said:

"I'm the strongest for now. So I make the rules. 

I do not allow rape. Punishment death"

In her mind she could already picture the boy being beaten up to a miserable state, instead what she saw next was completely out of her expectation.

She heard a whoosh, then the sound of the blade cutting through something sickening with a plop sound.

She had been shocked and she saw 4 men had been cut into half from their waist and were screaming in pain.

Following that, the monster cast fireballs from his left hand towards the other 4 hooligans.

They started burning and despite rolling on the ground and flailing about, the fire was not going out.

Those men were dying a painful death. Half of them were writhing on the ground with their intestines out while the other half was being cooked alive.

Smell of blood and burnt flesh assaulted her nose. Wretched screams of the men begging for mercy ringing in her ears. The bloody and brutal sight of those men in front of her. Left chills up her spines.

Everyone around him was terrified, people were screaming and she could feel and see everyone was hurriedly trying to get away from him like he was a plague.

He wasn't kidding, his warning no longer felt cringey. 

It was a simple solid statement of what he would do.

She saw that handsome smile transformed into the cold smile of a ruthless and merciless cold-blooded monster.

Initially she had thought of using him to be a distraction so she could sneak away.

However, the states those men were in made her shudder at the thought of what he would do to her if she were to run. 

She remembered when he had warned her, her freedom, body and soul was now his.

He wasn't a sadist right? She questioned herself, wondering if she had sold herself to the devil.

This was a monster in human skin!!

What had she got herself into??

Did she just become a Monster's Wife??