
— 18 —
Depending on the iron rope, I installed the Repeater crystal on all five sides of the large hole. In that hole, it made me shudder in horror at the thought that this iron rope broke and I fell. Therefore, after installing the Repeater as planned, I quickly climbed to the surface. However, sitting on a falling electric pole, Khanza looked at me with his skull mask.
“In the morning right, I saw all the expedition team had arrived at the city periphery. You're not coming with them, Chrysant?” ask Khanza.
“Part of Predators I finished yesterday, the only thing keeping them from leaving is The Repaer. But it turns out, Malice kept her words yes,” my lips while worrying about my equipment.
“Hmph, I told you, Khanza always keeps his word. Besides, what good is it that I attacked them. My target from the beginning was Emillia,” said Khanza who jumped down and noticed the trap I made,
“Let see, if not mistaken. tool that was used by Dagger to fight the Predator. A repeater? Automachina that mimics the rhythm of the magic crystals around it. Hmm, the five repeaters are arranged concentrically, supporting a Magicite of two classes of Adamantium that is imbued with wind and water magic…
Ah, is it possible that Chrysant would tear down this one city by destroying the foundation of the city?”
“That's the plan,” answered me who pulled my knife and saw the condition. Ah, shit, I forgot to ask Dagger to fix the crack on the Twin Princess that I got from my fight with Khanza.
Khanza laughed and ruffled his stomach, “Gosh, Chrysant, you never bore me with your creative ideas. Not only did it take out the entire Predator, but you could injure Emilia at once. Brilliant!” his praise.
Uuuhh... confused me, should I be happy when praised by my own enemies? I breathed my breath and said,” Provided you don't get in the way of my plan, Predator isn't a problem.”
“Hahahaha! Chrysant is confident. But was it because of that confidence that you decided to choose to protect Dagger from this suicide mission?” ask Khanza.
“After fighting a Predator, I think they just won the number of doang. Ruin Hunter works best alone. That way, I don't have to worry about someone getting hit by my magic,” said I who remembered the sleeping pills I had tucked in the Dagger ration. If I knew I would go on this dangerous mission alone, the stone head would definitely insist on coming along.
… Seeing the people I love get hurt is the last thing I want.
Pointing out my two blades, I activated Magicite that floated in the middle of the hole. Storm typhoons also appear to scatter the water that plagues the entire hole.Maybe in one minute there are times ten thousand gallons of water flowing there.
“This is not a suicide mission, I have to go home. Someone is waiting for me,” I said.
“Khanza likes your answer, Chrysant. How about we make another promise? If we make it through this fight alive, Chrysant should buy me ramen!” khanza said patting me on the shoulder.
“H-Ha? Why should I have—“
“It has been decided yes! Uuuuwww, I usdah can't wait to feel my ramen, hihihi,” said Khanza who disappeared like a storm as usual.
My breath, “Cih, you little Malice. Just be careful if it turns out he lost, hmph!”
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“Chrysant... Chrysant... where are you?” call for the Predators who are walking along the city streets. Carefully they peek behind the windows of tall buildings like looking for a lost toy.
But then, the shadow shot. When one of the Predators was climbing up the building, a storm blew. Without the monster coming to its senses, its body had been pierced by a fierce bow. The monster fell to the ground, groaning in pain before it stopped breathing.
“... Someone was killed... Someone was killed!” other Predators said they were swarming on the victim. Like angry dogs, they growl with fangs sticking out of their bodies, shaking and voicing scales calling for the roar of death.
“Mother says... Don't kill... before being killed.. Sapiens ... Sapiens it..... killh!!” shouted one of the Predators who spread its horn petals, greeted the cry of another Predator. The red eyes of the monsters were fixed on Chrysant, who was standing with his bow in the tallest building.
Smiling myself fishing the monster, “Here you are, little bird.”
ZUUSHH!!
A Predator throws a dense magic energy into the building where Chrysant stands. But I spread my magic wings and flew in a stab, slashing the Predators with one deadly dagger dance. It then stood on top of its fallen prey, arrogantly challenging the monsters in front of it, Chrysant,
“The Hunt Begins!”
The roaring of the predators shook the ground. Some fired black lasers that razed buildings, hitting some predators for their recklessness. Blindly, the Malice ran after me as the wind, occasionally turning around and shooting lightning arrows that hit their hearts.
I was in a long asphalt jemabtan. Formed from a deep sinkhile, the place was filled with collapsed buildings swallowed up in that hole. In the map that Dagger made, this location is the midpoint when this city collapsed in our plan. I swallowed my saliva, I thought the Predator left was at least a dozen! In front of me was a crowd of hundreds of Predators who wanted to tear my body apart.
“GRAAAHHHH!” the jumping Predators wanted to pounce on me, but I avoided while shooting dozens of arrows hitting their arteries sticking out.. The blood that was endlessly pouring from their wounds was slowly making their movements slow down.
Not stopping, Chrysant jumped and stabbed a Predator right on his forehead. A ray of light appeared from the end of my blade as I chanted a spell,
“Black Company, the world's premier acahaya. Raise the fire of your light rebellion in my dagger. Blazing Strike!”
The hot light burned Malice's body from the inside. Tormented with great torment, the Predator thrashed until finally fell in a sinkhole and died.
".... This power... The warden? How could... How can?!" shouted a Predator wrathfully.
“Warden? Hah, I don't understand any of your bullshit. This is my power, granted by the Goddess of the Black Company. Remember the name Ruin Hunter, the youngest Pathfinder in history,”.
BOOM!!!
There was a sound of explosions coming from under the abyss around me. Giant hands appeared from there, many times the size of the Predator I fought.
“Retreat, my sisters..”.
Different from the shrill sounds of other predators, the monster that slowly appeared on the surface had a thunderous heavy sound. Surprised of me, seeing all the Predators had lowered their heads in fear.
As tall as a building, a Dragon's flesh crept out like a centipede. Blood poured from his horny head, staring at me with one of his big red eyes like a snake. But unlike Malice in general, the Dragon does not hide the location of his heart. That gigantic Magicite crystal was clearly sticking out in his head. S-S-Sial.. w-don't-don't this terrible monster is the real Predator?
“Why.... did you hurt us? Did...we ever bother you? We just want to play with Chrysant.. ” asked the giant Predator.
“Play? What nonsense is that. How can I let Malice like you live and threaten humans?.
Bending his head in confusion, the giant head monster asked, “There is a law written by our mother… must've killed one of us. Mom always taught us that. Forgive Sapiens, but hate their cruel deeds….
Eyes avenged eyes.. Blood avenged blood.”.
Ever since I wondered who the mother figure that the Predators meant? But my heart was more troubled by the hypocritical nonsense he said. Justice, for a monster that eats humans to survive? Hearing it, my nausea overcame my fear.
“Encuse? Those were the last words I wanted to hear from a rotten Malice like you!” I snapped who was aiming for the heart and shot an arrow there. Malice was knocked back, but of course such a weak attack would not be enough to destroy the huge Magicite.
“... Why... Sapiens.... always hurt us… ? Why would.. Mother... always protect Sapiens? WHY... WHY, WHY, WHY?!.. Though... we just want... live in peace..” shouted the monster with a vibrating body.
Sharp thorns of flesh shot out from his body, swallowing the entire small Predator around the monster. Then it grew uncontrollably, in an instant the monster turned into a disgusting lump of flesh. Fresh and thick blood flowed through the entire ground. Slowly growing out of that flesh, the nine heads of the snake dragon were staring at me full of anger. They opened their mouths and threw magic energy at me
“... Already... enough!! No. .accept, not accept, not accept, not accept! All... must change... This Sapiens slavery...!” yelled the Predator.
Almost, Chrysant dodged the entire magic lightning. He ran up to the snake monster and saw a golden opportunity to stab him. But it turns out it was just a trap. From the ground came the head of the tenth snake, pouncing on my body with its powerful jaws. Immediately mercilessly, the monster hit me many times on the ground and wanted to finish me off with a surge of magic energy.
BOOM!!!
Throwing myself up against the ping-ping of the building. My protective shield broke, along with the bursting of the protective crystal in my uniform. Y-kukh…! If only, I hadn't borrowed Dagger's magic protector, my body would have been crushed just now.
Smiling wryly at me, looking at the dragon monster with cold sweat,
“... Dagger, thirty minutes is still too long!”
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