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.
Chapter 34: Loot
"Arghh!" David screamed in pain and fell to the ground while holding his severed hand. Because of the pain he was feeling, David started to roll on the ground.
The severed hand of David fell two meters away from Evan, when he saw the severed hand of David, Evan's eyes trembled for a second, but they returned to normal very quickly like they never trembled.
"Bastard, I will kill you," David shouted with blood-red eyes while trying to stop the blood that was coming out from his severed hand.
Evan did not say anything and slowly walked towards David, who was looking at him with blood-red eyes.
"Didn't I tell you, you will die today," Evan said in an emotionless tone.
"Die, you bastard," David shouted and suddenly the spikes that were coming out from his arm flew toward Evan like bullets.
"Shadow Walk," Evan muttered and evaded the spikes by using the shadow walk skill. He appeared behind David using the shadow walk, and with a swift motion beheaded him even before he could react.
Thud!!!
A head rolled on the ground, and everything came to an end.
Evan looked at the headless corpse of David and took off the storage ring that he was wearing.
After taking David's storage ring, he went towards the body of Drew and picked up the barrier crystal as well.
After picking up the barrier crystal, he threw it toward Henry while saying "deactivate the barrier."
After saying this, Evan silently went inside the van.
No matter what, it was the first time he killed a human, so although he wasn't feeling guilty because they were the first that tried to kill him, he still felt strange that he just killed two humans.
''Well, it was bound to happen someday after I was transmigrated into this world,'' Evan muttered to himself and stopped thinking about everything that just happened.
After ten minutes, George and others also came back into the van after Henry freed them from the barrier. George and others already killed Oliver when Evan threw him inside the barrier.
When George and the other hunters saw Evan, who was leaning back with his eyes closed, they didn't say anything and quietly sat down.
Soon the driver started the van once again. The effect of the black device that Drew used was canceled when he was killed by Evan since it requires mana in order to stop the functions of the van.
Time continued to pass, and soon night arrived. The driver stopped the van in a good area to spend the night and take some rest after what happened earlier.
During this entire time, no one talked about anything. Evan was busy with his thoughts, while George and the other hunters were also quite shocked because of the earlier event.
They knew that if not for Evan, they all would have died there without being able to do anything.
"Let's spend the night here," Evan opened his eyes after hearing Henry. He came out of the van with George and others and stretched his stiff body a bit.
"I will go look around our surroundings with James," George said and went to look around their surroundings for any monsters.
Henry and the driver also got to work and started to cook dinner after settling their signature outdoor barbecue.
George and James returned after twenty minutes and continued to monitor their surroundings before the dinner was cooked.
"Dinner is ready," Henry shouted and called Evan and others for dinner.
"You guys can eat; I will keep guarding," Evan said to the other hunters since he was not in the mood to eat anything.
George and the other hunters looked at each other and after shrugging their shoulders went to eat dinner.
When George and the others left, Evan took out the storage ring that he got from David and used a drop of his blood to link it to himself.
After linking the ring to himself, Evan looked inside to see what he got after killing those bandits.
When he saw the things inside the ring, a smile appeared on his face. 'At least they were not totally useless,' Evan thought after seeing ten D-rank cores and sixteen E-rank cores. There were some other things as well like healing potions, mana potions, and some other minor things.
'I should be able to push my prime core to E+ rank with all of these cores,' Evan thought happily after seeing the cores. One of the things that he hoped for before completing the mission was to gather enough cores to push his prime core to E+ rank , and because of bandits, his goal completed without any problem.
'I wonder what will happen when my monarch core will reach C rank,' Evan thought because whenever a person reaches at C rank they will get a job class.
Evan was not sure what will happen when his monarch core will reach C rank because other people only have prime core and they get a job class after reaching C rank.
'Will I get a job class when my monarch core will reach C rank?' Evan wondered while thinking about his monarch core 'but if I got a job class when my monarch core reaches C rank then what will happen when my prime core will reach at C rank?'
Evan had a lot of questions about his monarch core like the black energy that is mixed in his mana and his class and many more but he knew he will eventually get his answers when the time comes.
''Let's stop thinking about these things and focus on the things that are important for now,'' Evan muttered and his mood, which was a little down after killing those bandits, finally improved after seeing enough cores for his advancement.
'The next thing is the practical exam of the hunter academy,' Evan thought and looked at the half-moon in the sky.
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