381 A Strange Way to Die (Part 1)
Crackle! Crackle!
In the pitch-black night, a powerful storm raged, illuminating the sky with mesmerizing lightning arcs that danced across the dark sky. With each blinding flash, the entire landscape of the wilderness was bathed in an eerie glow, revealing the trembling trees and distant mountains.
ROAR! ROAR! HOWL!
Fear filled roars and howls of the monsters reverted all over the wilderness, as amid the wind and lightning storm, a small army of black monsters was marching forward killing and destroying everything that came into their path.
Above the small army of monsters, a memorising figure, clad in a formidable, scaled black armour was floating. His very presence seemed to defy the laws of nature, for his body crackled with purple lightning, and a subtle yet powerful green wind seemed to swirl around him, as if drawn by an otherworldly force.
Suddenly the eyes of the figure floating above the monster army glowed with yellow lustre and he looked at the far distance.
"Trying to run." the man muttered and a five metres long lightning spear formed before him.
Woosh -!
Wind covered the lightning spear and it started to spin, the spinning speed of the spear was so fast that the space around it was wrapping and twisting.
"Go." the man waved his hand and the lightning spear shot forward turning into a streak of purplish green light.
Screech -!
In less than a second, the spear covered a distance of more than ten kilometres, and pierced the body of a B+ rank sky crawler who was trying to fly away after feeling their auras.
Crackle!
Among the small army of black monsters, lightning crackled around a wolf type monster and it immediately disappeared from its place.
Woosh -!
Five seconds later, the black wolf appeared beside the man who shot the lightning spear. A lightning chain was coming out of the wolf's body and the dead body of the sky crawler that was killed by the lightning spear earlier was tied to it.
"Good job Albelu." Evan patted Albelu's head seeing how fast it brought the body of the sky crawler to him.
His eyes shined with green light, and a sharp wind blade formed in his hand. He made a hole near the sky crawler's heart and smiled when he found a small core there.
Evan put away the core and extended one of his arms.
Suddenly demonic looking thorn filled vines came out of his hand and pierced the body of the sky crawler.
In just a few minutes, the body of the sky crawler turned into dust and Evan felt the rank of his prime core increased a bit.
He smiled when he felt the rank of his prime core and the lightning and wind around him disappeared.
Evan sat down on Albelu's back and looked at the shadow undeads below him.
"It's only been ten days since I started my mad hunt in the wilderness, and my Prime Core is already halfway to B+ rank," Evan muttered with a smug smile on his face.
It is been ten days since he called Sera, after dealing with the notifications that he received that day, he tried to contact her again but she never answered his call again.
Although Evan was disappointed, he didn't care too much about it because from what she said before, he could tell that she is planning to do something during the tournament.
He wanted to be fully prepared to face anything that Sera had planned, so he returned to the wilderness.
With the help of his shadow undeads, he killed many monsters in the past ten days.
He collected all of their cores to increase the rank of his monarch core and absorbed their bodies using energy devouring skill to increase the rank of his prime core.
After absorbing the bodies of all the monsters that he killed in the past ten days, his prime core is now halfway to B+ rank.
He was sure that it won't take him long to increase the rank of his prime core to A.
"I still have three days before we will leave for the central city," Evan muttered, laying down on Albelu's back.
The central city is the place where the tournament will be held. Honestly, now Evan had no interest in the tournament. With his current power, even an A+ rank hunter won't be able to beat him much less those students who will participate in the tournament.
He was just going there because he never get a chance to visit the central city, and to see if he can get some clues about Sera to finish her off.
"According to Sebastian that brain-dead woman will be back tomorrow," Evan said with a twitching mouth thinking about his gauntlets.
"I should have a good rest today and I will go back to the city tomorrow," Evan said looking at the night sky. He wanted to check his gauntlets as soon as possible so that if he found any problems with them, he could ask the blacksmith to fix them before he left for Central City.
Evan slept through the night in the wilderness and was ready to go back to the city the next morning.
He summoned back all of his shadow undeads who were guarding him the entire night and flew away from the wilderness going back towards the city.
ROAR-! ROAR-!--
Boom!!
While going back Evan suddenly heard some monster roars and felt the auras of around fifteen monsters.
Sensing the auras of monsters, Evan's eyes lit up and he immediately flew towards them.
"I can increase the rank of my core a little more," Evan muttered and soon arrived at the location from where he felt the auras of monsters.
But when he reached there and saw what was happening, his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
In front of him, a group of fifteen monsters was chasing after three B+ rank hunters.
In the front of the monster group was an A rank ice lion.
But he was not shocked because of seeing running humans nor he was shocked because of A rank ice lion.
He was shocked because of a small purple-coloured B rank cat. This B rank cat was actually sitting at the head of the A rank ice lion and was looking at the running humans with a smug expression on its face.
That B rank cat was looking like the leader of the monster group, and even the A rank ice lion was acting like its mount.
"What kind of B rank cat is this?" Evan muttered in a shocked voice, feeling stunned because of seeing how this small cat was using an A rank ice lion as its mount.
