Capítulo 80: Expedition (II)
I shoot another shadow monster that attacks us. We have been traveling the Land of Shadow for at least ten hours, and our destination is the mountain in front of me. If Scáthach's information is correct, then that is the place where Cleric Beast is located.
Cleric Beast is the reason why they know about the side effect of God's staying in the Land of Shadow. The beast continues to grow every minute the Gods stay in the Land of Shadow, especially when a member of TUATHA DÉ DANANN inside the Land of Shadow.
If Scáthach is correct, then the Cleric Beast has the power of Ultimate class being, which is rather annoying to be dealt with as there are too many monsters around Cleric Beast that will also attack anyone that comes closer to them. So we need to prepare to fight against a Cleric Beast with the power of the ultimate class being and a few hundred low to mid-class monsters.
There is also the problem with the shadow monster that keeps spawning around the area, making the incoming fight more dangerous than before.
I snap from my thoughts when another monster leaps toward me. I quickly dodge the attack and shoot it with my gun and block another incoming attack from the shadow beast with the Sacred Blacksmith.
"Lady Scáthach! There is someone unknown fighting up ahead!"
Scáthach and I look at the location where one of the men pointed out and see it was a male in a grey duster coat, a black tricorn, and leather boots. The man holding a saw and a blunderbuss in his hand.
The second I see the iconic clothing, I know the identity of this man. This man is known as the Good Hunter. The main protagonist in the Bloodborne game.
Scáthach and I walk toward the Good Hunter while our people follow us behind. When we arrive near him, I see the Good Hunter point out his blunderbuss at us before saying.
"Who... Are… You?"
Before Scáthach could say anything, I walked toward the Good Hunter and said.
"We are the people of this world. Good Hunter, why did you come into the waking world?"
The Good Hunter tilted his head a little bit before saying.
"The dream is… Leaking… It tries to merge… With the Waking World…"
"I see. Is it still trying to merge with the waking world?"
"No… I fixed it…"
"So why are you here? The dream has already been sealed off once again."
"There is a beast… and… Hunter must hunt…"
I see, so he wants to hunt the remaining beast in this land.
"Then let us join the hunt, O Good Hunter."
"... Very Well"
As I look back at the people behind me, I see Scáthach look at me curiously while some of my men that I bring with me kneeling on the ground.
"Errr… Why you guys kneel."
For a few seconds, they didn' say anything before one of them look at me and says.
"My Lord. That man's name is Gehrman. He is the ancestor of all vampires. He is the first Vampire in the world. He gives his blood to create the first generation of vampires."
I look at the Good Hunter with a confused expression. Why did he give them his blood? Wait… All the Great One in the Bloodborne have an impulse to have a child. Does that mean the Good Hunter also has an impulse having his own children?
"You… Want your own child like the other, didn't you?"
After a few seconds of standing there looking at me with a blank stare, The Good Hunter nodded at me before saying.
"Yes… Now they are… Child of Moon and Blood."
I never knew that the Vampire originated from the Great One's blood, and they are the children of the Good Hunter. I guess that kind of weirdly makes sense. How was the vampire first created? There is no way GOD created them as they are creatures of the night and blood.
"Get up… You are the child of my own blood… You are a born hunter… And the hunter must hunt the beast…"
"Not… Human?"
Raised my eyebrow at one of the vampires from the former Carmilla faction.
"Human…? Why?"
"That phrase is not meant to be for a human?"
"No… We… Hunters are meant to hunt beasts… We are the ones that… Keep the beast at bay… Be it man of the real beast… As long as they have become a 'beast,' they are the prey we should hunt… We did not stain our weapon with innocent blood… If the innocent is your prey, then you are already becoming the beast that should be hunted."
I see… the vampire thinks the quotes of 'The hunter should hunt' mean that they should hunt the weak or, in this case, the humans as they are the food that can keep them alive.
However, if they are not meant to hunt a human, how can they survive without eating? Oh wait, they can still drink animal blood, never mind.
"I-I see. So that is the meaning of that word."
I look at the vampire that is still kneeling on the ground, but this time, I can see her eyes are filled with shame and, for some reason, determination.
"Come… There are still many beasts to hunt."
After saying that, I saw the other vampire kneeling on the ground began to get up. We then begin to follow the Good Hunter to the deepest part of the Land of Shadow.
On the way to the deepest part of the Land of Shadow, we keep encountering a horde of shadow monsters from all directions. Not only that, but the blood beast also increases in number each time we walk toward the center of the Land of Shadow.
Each horde contains at least more than a hundred shadow beasts. Now I know why the Celtic people begin to get overwhelmed by the shadow beast. Not only the man that fights the shadow beast will get tired and bruised by the attack, but the shadow beast that they killed will also spawn not too long after they killed it.
And with the presence of blood beasts inside the Land of Shadow, the Gods cannot help them cut down the number of beasts inside the Land of Shadow. With the Gods unable to cut down the number of shadow beasts, they will keep spawning more beasts and increasing the number of enemies the Celtic faces.
"Are guys okay?"
"Yes, My Lord"
"Good. We will rest here for a little bit. We already fight three hordes of shadow beasts in the span of an hour. You guys deserve some rest."
That's right. We are already facing three horde attacks in the span of an hour. Not only that, but we also fight more than two hundred shadow beasts each wave that comes at us. Sometimes more than three hundred shadow beasts are coming at us in one wave. So yeah, our man deserves some rest.
The only problem we have is how long we can last on this expedition. I don't know if we have enough supply. While the food is no problem as Amelia brings a few fruit seeds with her for an emergency ration. What I fear is the supply of potions. The damage the shadow beast causes are not much, but because they continue to come at us every few minutes, the people will always get injured by the beast.
While Amelia can heal all of the people in the group, it still takes time to heal thirty or more people at once. She didn't want to use her Angel Mosquito because it didn't have much flame, and it cannot be used for all of the people that get injured. So she needs to heal them manually, and it takes time to heal so many people.
If this place is Faysummit, I don't mind letting Amelia take her time healing all the people. However, after hearing Scáthach saying that the shadow beast is more active in the night time, I know that we should hurry up and go to the center of the Land of Shadow as much as we can. The faster we kill the Cleric Beast, the faster we finish this expedition.
However, before we can even drink water, we hear a roar coming from our west and by the sound of it, what even releasing that roar is not far away from our current location.
I look at the thick forest in my west and feel the ground begin to shake before suddenly a giant abomination jumps high from the forest and lands in front of our group.
"▂▂▃▃▄▄▅▅!"
The beast is a deformed, quadrupedal creature whose skin is peeled off and hanging from its back, and it also has a malnourished, skeletal appearance.
While our man creating a formation to defend ourselves against the beast, The Good Hunter walk toward the beast with a giant scythe he got from who knows where while saying.
"Blood-starved beast… What is it? The smell? The Blood? Or your instinct to hunt? It doesn't matter because..."
The Good Hunter then points out his scythe at the beast.
"Tonight, Gehrman joins the hunt."
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