Half a month had passed since Kaderki's squad set out.
Splat—
Adekate pulled his spear from the Uridimmu's neck, blood splashing onto his body.
"Quickly use the grass juice to cover up the smell of blood. Don't let it attract a Mushhushshu later."
Uridimmu were red, dog-like demonic beasts. They possessed no special abilities such as breathing fire or spitting poison. Their greatest traits were their powerful bodies and eternal madness.
Like Bashmu and Mushhushshu, Uridimmu were also a kind of demonic beast born from Tiamat. And like Bashmu, the first Uridimmu had likewise been subdued by the gods. It was now a guardian beast used to protect homes, symbolizing domestic happiness—the complete opposite of Tiamat's original purpose in creating it.
Kaderki handed Adekate a small bottle of grass juice, while he himself looked at the slain Uridimmu with a complicated expression.
The reason Kaderki was so famous in Uruk was because of Uridimmu.
Back then, Kaderki had still been very young. He was a strongman in Uruk. One day, he encountered an Uridimmu attacking humans on the wasteland outside the city and rushed over to save them with his bare hands.
Generally speaking, an Uridimmu was far stronger than a human.
But Kaderki was a strongman.
He had beaten that Uridimmu to death with his fists, twisted off its head, and even drank its blood.
After that, he entered the forest and became a hunter.
"Can this thing's meat be eaten?" Another warrior came over.
"Yes. We'll eat it tonight. It's good stuff."
As he spoke, Kaderki cut open the Uridimmu's chest with his sword and handed its still-warm heart to Adekate, who was applying grass juice beside him.
Naturally, Adekate understood the custom. Without standing on ceremony with Kaderki, he accepted the Uridimmu's heart and bit down on