Fake Saint of the Year: You Wanted the Perfect Saint? Too Bad! Volume 3 Part 1 by kabedondaikou

Author:kabedondaikou
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 48: Oct, the Archmonster

The shadow—Oct—was an archmonster who served Alexia. He’d been born in the Gonzales Sea, in a place so deep under the surface that not even the rays of light could reach. The sea he’d been born in had been named after Sir Gonzales, a fine knight who’d thrown himself in the sea after he’d fought the first witch alongside Alfrea.

Oct was a puppet octopus—a species known to be as smart as three-year-olds. Puppet octopuses’ brains were larger than other octopuses, which gave them a disproportionately large head and made them comparatively slower and clumsier. The most notable thing about them, though, was the ingenious—yet dreadful—strategy they used to hunt. Puppet octopuses made up for their lack of fighting prowess by creeping up on their target silently and attaching themselves to their victims. They’d then use the secretion from their suction cups to turn them into obedient puppets they could control however they liked. They wouldn’t immediately eat said puppet, though. They’d force it to hunt for them until it died of starvation. The puppet octopus would then devour the corpse before looking for its next puppet.

One day, many years ago, one such octopus was carried to the shore by the waves. Griselda, the witch at the time, had found it and turned it into a monster. That was how Oct had come to serve the witch.

While Oct was smart, he was no use in direct combat, and Griselda hadn’t cared much for him. If he controlled another more powerful monster, he could be useful, but she’d failed to see the point. Why would she have gone through such a convoluted scheme when she could have simply ordered that monster to do her bidding?

Having Oct enslave key figures to deal a blow to the humans from the inside could have been helpful to some witches, but Griselda hadn’t had a need for that. She’d already been so powerful that she hadn’t needed to create dissension in order to attack. Lilia, the only person who had been able to challenge her, had gotten herself killed foolishly. Griselda knew that her dominion would be unchallenged for years to come. All she had to do was grow her army of monsters during that time, and she’d be untouchable.

Griselda had believed herself so superior that she hadn’t feared the next saint in the slightest. In the end, her arrogance had caused her downfall. Her failure to plan had left her at Alexia’s mercy, and she’d died just as foolishly as Lilia.

Back when Griselda had been alive, she hadn’t given Oct a second thought. She’d simply turned him into a monster and left him to his own devices.

As for Oct, after he’d become a monster, he’d followed his new instincts and started attacking humans. Oct had originally been an octopus, which meant that he’d never seen a human before. He’d assumed that, since they were much bigger than he was, humans had to be strong and defaulted to his usual strategy. He’d

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