Chapter 32: Bandit Attack (Part 2)

Swish!

Evan heard the sound of an incoming arrow and, with sheer reflex, slashed with his sword in front of him.

Kachh!!

Evan's sword clashed against an arrow and cut it in two instantly. After cutting the arrow he quickly looked at Dean and James and saw that both of them were fine.

Dean was covered in earth armor, so the arrow wasn't able to pierce through it, and James also cut down the arrow using his spear before it could reach him.

"What the hell is going on?" Evan asked while looking around their surroundings.

Just as Evan asked, suddenly a light yellow barrier appeared around them.

"Damm! It's a trap barrier, it must be the work of bandits," George said while taking out the arrow from his shoulder.

"David, didn't I tell you the archery of this bastard is complete trash? Look, he wasn't even able to kill those trash hunters who were not aware of us," suddenly Evan and others heard a gruff voice and turned around.

When they looked behind them, they saw three men who were smiling like third-rate villains coming towards them. The man who just spoke was two meters tall, and his head was completely bald.

The man was holding a light yellow crystal that looked strangely similar to the color of the barrier in which they were trapped.

"Whose archery is trash, you bald head? All of them are D-rank hunters, and I even managed to wound one of them," a short man who was holding a bow rebutted when he heard what the bald man said.

"Hey, David, I don't think we need this bald head who just activates the trap barrier whenever we rob someone. We can do this on our own, why don't we just kick him out from our group?" Oliver, the short archer, said.

"Stop fighting and get back to work," David, the leader, said in a cold tone, and both Oliver and Drew shut their mouths.

Evan looked at the bandits with cold eyes because if he hadn't reacted on time earlier, the arrow would have pierced his head. He was sure that even with his current strength, it would have been very difficult for him to survive from that kind of injury.

Among the bandits, Oliver and Drew were D-rank, while David was D+ rank.

Evan came near the barrier and touched it. "Shit!" but just as he touched the barrier, he felt a electric shock and quickly removed his hand.

"It's not going to work. We can't go out before the energy of the trap is exhausted, or they remove it using the controller," Evan heard Dean's voice who was looking at the bandits with grim expressions.

"Quickly, turn back and move towards Oklima City." When Henry saw how Evan and others were trapped in a barrier by bandits, he decided to ditch them without hesitation because he knew there is nothing he can do to save them and he would die meaninglessly if he did not run away.

Just as the driver started the van to run away, Drew, the bald man, took out a strange black device and pointed it towards the van.

After pointing the device at the van, he clicked the only red button available on the device, and suddenly the barrier that was surrounding the van disappeared, and its engine also shut down.

"Do they think we are stupid?" Drew said while looking at the van with mocking expressions.

"What happened?" Henry asked in a panicked voice when the engine of the van suddenly shut down, and the barrier disappeared.

"The engine is not working," the driver said in panic.

"Oliver, bring them here," David said to the archer after Drew shut down the barrier of the van.

"You bastard, remove this barrier and fight with me head-on," George shouted at the bandits while holding his shoulder that stopped bleeding after he drank a healing potion.

"Are you stupid? We trapped you inside because we wanted to rob without a problem. Do you think we will remove the barrier just because you asked?" Oliver, the short archer, said with a sneer and went towards the van.

"Don't worry; we will remove the barrier soon. After all, it cost us too much energy to maintain it," Drew said with a sinister smile. When Evan and others saw his smile, an ominous feeling bloomed in their hearts.

"But I don't think you guys will be able to see us remove this barrier," Drew took out a small bottle filled with dark green liquid.

"Poison of the swamp python," James said with a dark look on his face when he saw the dark green liquid.

"Oh, you know about this?" Drew said in surprise when James recognized the poison. "Then you should also know what I am going to do."

"What kind of poison is that?" Dean asked James since he didn't know about it.

"The poison of the swamp python will turn into gas as soon as it comes into contact with air. If he throws that bottle inside this barrier, the air around us will become poisonous, and we will die," James said in a despair-filled voice because there is no way they will survive if the air around them becomes poisonous.

"They will have to remove the barrier if they want to throw that bottle inside. Can't we go out at that moment?" George asked when he heard this.

"I don't think they need to remove this barrier. If my guess is correct, anyone can come inside the barrier from outside, but you can't go outside after entering the barrier," this time Dean answered with a helpless voice.

"Please let us go; we don't have anything. You can check our van," Henry said while pleading when Oliver brought him.

"We already know your van is empty, but I don't think your bank account is also empty. Just transfer two million credits into this bank account, and you can go," David said while showing a bank account number.

Henry's face turned white when he heard this and he said, "I am just a normal merchant; how can I have two million credits in my bank account?"

"Do you think we are fools? Just by looking at your van, I can tell that you are not an ordinary merchant," David said in a cold voice after hearing Henry.

When Henry heard the cold voice of David, a chill ran down his spine, and he looked at Evan and the other hunters who were still trapped in the barrier.

"Drew, kill them," David said when he saw Henry was looking at Evan and the other hunters.

When Drew heard this, he smiled sinisterly and looked at Evan and others.

"Wait, I will transfer the money; don't kill them," Henry shouted when he heard what David said because if Evan and the other hunters died, there is no way he would be able to safely reach Astrate City.

"Do it fast; my patience is limited," David said with an indifferent voice and showed the bank account number to Henry.

"Ahrghh!" Suddenly, David heard the scream of Drew and quickly looked back.

When David looked back, he saw one of the hunters who were trapped inside the barrier was looking at him coldly while his sword was plunged into the heart of Drew.

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Chapter 33: Kill

Evan wasn't worried about being trapped in the barrier because he knew, he could leave the barrier whenever he wanted with his shadow walk skill.

---) Shadow Walk :- Your body will turn into a shadow and you can pass through any barrier or restrictions without being hindered.

But Evan was hesitating a little because of James who is also a student of the hunter academy. Till now he only showed shadow storage and haste skill to other hunters.

He didn't show them his shadow walk and shadow bullet skill because it will be too suspicious for him to have so many skills. If it was only George and Dean who don't know about him he can still use any skill without much problem.

But James is already aware about Evan that he is the weakest hunter in the academy. It is already quite strange that he can kill D-rank monsters without any problem while being only E-rank, now if he shows other skills it will be quite troublesome.

He doesn't want to reveal the existence of his monarch core to anyone or he might get into some problems because of it.

"Don't kill them I will transfer the money" Evan heard the shout of Henry and saw he was about to transfer the money to the bandits.

'Is this guy an idiot, it is already clear they will kill us even after he transferred the money to them' Evan thought while shaking his head because there is no way these bandits will leave them alive.

'Guess I have no choice' seeing he there is no other way he finally made up his mind and decided to use his shadow walk skill 'that guy is mute and doesn't talk to other students so I think it will be fine'.

Evan used shadow walk skill and suddenly turn into a shadow, he went towards the barrier and easily passed through it without any problem.

Just as Evan passed through the barrier he felt his mana decrease by a considerable amount.

'so it will take a large amount of mana if I want to pass through a barrier' Evan thought when he lost a large amount of mana after passing through the barrier.

"What the hell was that?" George asked while looking at the place where Evan was standing just a moment ago.

"Where is he?" Dean asked while looking around them.

"Arghhh" suddenly they heard a painful scream of Drew and saw somehow Evan appeared behind him and stabbed his sword in his heart.

"H... How" Drew asked with a trembling tone while blood came out from his mouth.

"Ask papa lucifer when you meet him" Evan said coldly and pulled back his sword. He didn't feel anything after killing a human because they were the first who tried to kill him, so there is no way he will let them live after they tried to kill him.

'I am not a naive person who will hesitate to kill someone just because they are human, monsters and humans are the same in this world. I will kill anyone who will try to harm me' he thought when he saw Drew drop to the ground and his life ended.

After killing Drew, Evan looked at David coldly who was looking at the cold corpse of Drew without any emotion on his face.

"You bastard" Oliver the short archer shouted and shot an arrow towards Evan. Evan used haste skill and easily dodged the arrow.

After dodging the arrow he first charged toward Oliver. Even before the archer can react Evan came before him and grabbed him by the shirt, after grabbing him, like he is throwing some kind of garbage he used his abnormal strength and threw Oliver towards the barrier in which George and others were trapped.

Just like what Dean said earlier, Oliver was not stopped by the barrier and crashed before Dean and others.

After throwing Oliver inside the barrier Evan ignored him and once again looked at David who was still standing in the same place.

"You are quite strong" David said after Evan threw Oliver inside the barrier.

Evan raised an eyebrow when he saw how David was still calm despite the fact that Drew and Oliver is already out.

"You don't look bothered by the death of your subordinates." Evan said after seeing David's reaction.

"They are just disposable tools for me" David said without changing his expression "since they are dead I will just find new ones".

"A bandit is just a bandit in the end" Evan said without much surprise because he never expected to see any loyalty among them.

"But you are wrong about one thing" Evan cracked his neck and said.

David raised an eyebrow and asked "what is it?"

"You will not be able to find any new tools because you are also going to join them" Evan said and charged toward David using haste skill.

Even though David was a D+ rank hunter, Evan's was too fast after using haste skill for him to react on time.

Evan clasped his hand and threw a punch at David's face, but just as his punch connected with David's face, Evan's eyes trembled because he felt like instead of hitting David's face, he just punched an unshakeable iron wall.

Evan looked at the face of David and saw his face skin take the sheen color of metal before his punch connected with his face.

Even before Evan can understand what was going on he felt danger like never before and without hesitation, he used shadow walk.

Just as Evan turned into a shadow David's fist which was covered in silver-like metal missed him.

Evan moved backward in his shadow form and after arriving ten meters away from David he stopped using the shadow walk skill.

When Evan once again looked at David he saw, somehow David's skin turned into a silver color metal and he looked like a metallic golem instead of a human. Spikes-like blades were coming out from his arms that looks quite sharp.

"Do you think I become the leader of this group without doing anything? What did you say just now you will kill me, let me see how you are going to kill me. With the defense that my skill provides forget about killing me you won't even able to leave a scar on my skin "David said to Evan while laughing.

When Evan saw how David turned into a metallic golem his expression didn't change and he looked at his nether steel sword with a smirk.

---) Nether Steel Sword (D-rank) :- A sword made from nether steel it is very sharp and can cut through even the hardest metal. Because of nether steel, the flow of mana is improved by 20%.

' Let's see if this sword can cut through his skin' Evan thought and without saying anything once again shot towards David.

According to details of his sword it can cut through even the hardest metal without even using mana. So what will happen if Evan used his mana that was even more powerful because of the strange black energy that was mixed in it.

Evan came before David who was still surprised because of his high agility and slashed at him while imbuing his mana in the sword.

"Fool stop struggling, you can't harm me" David shouted and used his arm to block the slash of the sword.

A light blue layer of mana mixed with a faint black layer shined around the nether steel sword and when it clashed against the metallic arm of David, a hand flew into the sky and red blood spurted out.

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