Capítulo 23: ch. 23 Demon Guild
Johns magic quickly stemmed the bleeding as he limped away from the Injured Boss the moment it tried to get closer, having to use flash step the moment the Boss did so as well.
By the time he had healed himself back to combat shape, he only had a little over half his mana left.
"¥°¢÷%^!" While the Boss Knight spoke in an unintelligible language, John knew everything he needed to know, he was obviously flustered!
He probably didn't expect John to have such a high level of swordsmanship while also being capable of using 'Healing magic'.
John gave a lifeless and hollow chuckle, his abdomen still slightly sounded.
Don't be too shocked, i'm actually a regular healer and swordmanship is just a hobby of mine".
They couldn't understand one another, but John's sarcastic joke had broken through the language barrier and infuriated the knight.
"?_!3%!$!" The knight cried out sharply.
But with his broken leg, the knight couldn't close the distance as quickly as before or at all for that matter
"The opponent has lost their mobility," the observing Rishubalt explained.
'I really need to have a serious conversation with Rishubalt about shutting up, even Roel knows not to talk to me unless I talk first during a dungeon.' Despite appearing cool, calm and collected fight the now wounded Boss, John actually felt vary nervous and on edge.
'Despite being injured the Boss can still use flash step, he attacks much faster and is stronger than me. The only advantage I have is better swordmanship and that i can heal, the longer the fight goes on, the more of an advantage it is for me!' John quickly surmised.
He could use his 'Heal' to treat his injuries but his opponent didn't have that option. John focused on that point, and used it to his advantage!
'Ill just have to chip away at him, finishing him off when he's too weak to fight back!'
John closed the distance and the two repeatedly crossed blades, blocking and dodging each other's blows. Their auras crashed against each other's, as they exchanged attacks.
During the flurry of attacks, John saw the Boss knights sword piercing towards a non vital part of his chest. With a smirk on his face, John attacked at the same time the knight did.
"Argh!"
"Ugh!"
The knights blade caused a sever gash in John's stomac area, While John's attack barely created a shallow cut on his shoulder as the Boss had used flash step on his uninjured foot and jumped to the side just in time.
Despite this, John happily jumped backwards "Heal!".
The knight could no longer easily pursue John due to his broken leg. "!%$%!$!", So it could only curse.
John spent a few minutes healing himself, as he watched the knight continue to pant heavily as a small pool of blood started to gather under him! His 'Bloody Cross' causing the bleed effect.
The Boss had torn off his fancy sleeve and used it to help stop the bleeding as he did this he also began to slow his breathing, causing his pounding heart to slow down which also helped with the bleeding.
'This is the difference between a knight and a Hunter! Even without any medicine or potions, he already naturally countered the bleed enchantment. I wonder how I'd fare against him if he was fully geared up for battle....'
John watched the pale knight's legs quiver inside of the small pool of blood beneath him, taking a step forward on it's broken leg, the Knight immediately started panting from just that little movement.
John saw such action with suspicioun and immediately unsheathed his dagger and threw it, only for the knight to deflect the blade with quick reflexes.
"I knew you were just faking it! Return!" As the dagger returned to him, John once again threw it and was once against deflected. John kept throwing his dagger at the knight, only for him to deflect it every time.
Surprisingly John felt his throwing technique get better and better the longer this went on, and a new idea popped into his head.
Taking out his harvesting dagger, John threw 'returning hatred' at a slow speed mid air, and threw his harvesting dagger at it. As the harvesting dagger slammed into return hatred, the trajectory of the daggers changed mid air as both dagger ending up aiming at the knight.
The knight hit the returning Hatred dagger behind him, as the normal harvesting dagger landed and created a shallow cut on his arm. With a smile in his face, John said "Return!"
The dagger that the knight had hit behind him started levitating for a second, before flying to John's hand a cutting the knight on his exposed cheek.
John was engrossed in his throwing technique, using mana cores from the C ranked dungeon he defeated to deflect his dagger.
Every time th Boss used flash step to get closer, John would use flash step to move away. By the time John felt like he mastered this new trick, the Boss covered is deep cuts and he decided to end the fight.
With return hatred in his hand, John through the dagger directly at the Bosses torso and as he attempted to slash it to the side, John suddenly appeared before him.
With no other choice in the matter, the Boss coated his sword in Aura to defend against Johns blade, leaving him completely vulnerable to the dagger.
With his perfect accuracy and planning, Johns dagger had somehow landed between the Boss's ribs and stabbed directly into his heart.
-Verifying assault, measurement complete. B-rank dungeon, clear.
Collapsing to the floor, John saw the pale face knights deceased face of anger and felt guilty.
'Sorry but I'll only fight fair when theirs an actual forest chance I could actually win, in not suicidal.' If the knight had been weaker, or if John had been a little stronger, he wouldn't have resorted to such a cheap method.
"Absorb" feeling the powerful sting if his growing Mana container, John eased the pain with healing magic
-Verifying the existence of a new item.
His pocketed measuring tool responded right after he absorbed the knight's mana.
"The ring on his right hand seems to be the item, My lord." Rishubalt observed.
Rishubalt was able pinpointed the location of the item without needing to scan the entire body. John plucked the ring off the knight's finger and brought it to his measuring tool.
B-rank.
Unknown.
John tilted his head. This was the first time that the measuring tool had failed to appraise an item.
"My lord…" Rishubalt, who had been watching from the side, carefully said, "…I think I'll be able to deduce it's affect."
Rishubalt summoned itself from John's Ring and approached the knights ring and began released his mana and encompassing the ring. The ring absorbed the blue mana and sparkled with a sheen immediately.
"This ring has the ability to exend the duration you can use Aura by storing Mana in it, filling the ring should allow you an additional 30 seconds of Aura"
"Extending my Aura!?" John examined the ring closely and saw the number 500 engraved on the side of it.
To able to use aura for thirty more seconds, the very same aura that could cut through steel like it was paper, was certainly a tremendous effect!
"You are finished with the Awakening Dungeon. Returning." Rishubalt raised his hand and John's surroundings melted away, as if it were a mirage.
A tremendous amount of mana flowed into both John and Rishubalt as well when the awakened Dungeon was completely finished. When he finally got a hold of himself, John was back in the empty C-rank dungeon Boss Room.
'Time to go home!' John had spent over fifteen hours in the dungeon and Awakening Dungeon, he felt mental fatigue.
Lifting his hand up John saw that on his calloused right hand, the ring that had the number 500 was displayed on it.
"500.… this seems familiar…". He had seen that ring somewhere before from his memories.
"You should, you had those rings created after all. It was the duty of the Thirteen Knights to personally guard you and fight by your side in battle, but the top 500 in your army had the privilege of join the knights Brigade and obtained the ring. The knight brigade was the absolute elite of your army" Rishubalt spoke proudly.
As he said this, memories began to appear in his mind corroborating Rishubalt s words.
"Since this ring has the number 500 on it, can I assumed that that I just fought the weakest knight just now."
"Your correct, My Lord."
'The weakest Knight in the Knight brigade is as strong as a B ranked Boss, meaning the weakest Knight is about as strong and fast as an A ranked hunter! I only won this fight because I caught them unprepared by attacking first, if they had time to prepare for battle... Id have probably lost!"
While John didn't wear heavy metal armour because he couldn't find armour good enough to wear in the modern world, this wasn't the case in the Otherworld, Gaia. Roukels thirteen knights had armour made of special materials that could hold out against Aura, as time went on even the higher ranked brigade Knight gained similar armour!
"It looks like the Knight Brigade is filled with monsters." John said in slight despair
"I won't deny that..." Rishubalt said, after a moment of silence he reentered the summoning ring.
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Looking at his bank account that was now over $1 million due to him just selling his crystals at the Bureau, finally felt comfortable with amount he had and decides to put off hunting until Walters treatment.
Two weeks from now Walter would undergo the experimental treatment that will either cure his cancer or began transforming him into a monster, killing him in the process. John planned on spending as much time in those two weeks with Walter....Just in case the treatment fails.
"Let's go home, I need to pack some things before i head over to Walt." John said as he exited the Bureau doors.
"My lord's residence… I'm looking forward to it," said Rishubalt with excitement in his voice.
"Don't expect too much," John retorted, before he got in his jeep and went home.
Eventually, John arrived at the giant apartment complex where his one-room apartment was located
"As I expected of you, my lord. I thought you'd own and live in at least a building of this size." Rishubalt said with pride in his voice.
"....." John really wanted to sell the ring but couldn't.
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The high-rank guild, The Great Demon, was busy as usual in their office.
This guild was notorious for its Extortion and Blackmail, the Executive Branch manager Jane Maxwell, walked in her high heels to the Guild Leader's Office.
"Come in," a chilly voice rang out.
Jane opened the office door with slight hesitation and went still at the Guild Leader, Edgar Mathews, gaze.
"Did you call me, sir?" Jane said as she pushed her glasses up, a nervous tick she had. Edgar raised a document that was on his desk.
"Read it." Edgar loud authoritative voice range out
"Yes, sir," Jane promptly replied.
Jane went up to the desk and took the document, silently reading the larve file within seconds.
"A supposed B ranked Healer who healing powers are more to A ranked healers and his combat abilities is estimated at B rank? He's also beat two records? Who is this?" Jane said in slight astonishment.
"I'm sure you've heard of him. He's already world reknown for the his legendary healing powers, for how bad it is, or at least was." Edgar replied .
"Ah! The legend!" Jane eyes beamed with recognition as she remembered John, she often told her underlings that they were worse than the legendary healer during a raid.
Edgar smirked. His creepy smirk was enough to cause goosebumps.
"This is the man who captured that worm Ron and and killed the others, I heard through a little birdy that he's working for the Bureau to kill or capture PKers. For now, Im planning on sending the Chief Recruiter to invite him to the guild…but based on how he refused the Phoenix guild and the Hound guild, we can't expect any good results," Edgar said casually.
"Then aren't you just sending Chief Recruiter Ken on a fool's errand ? If you want, I could just send some of my men to persuade him." Jane said as a creepy smirk appeared on her face.
"We can't do that, we have to use our words first."
Jane smiled sadistically. "And what should we do if we don't get through to him?"
"Well, if the carrot doesn't work, we'll just have to use the stick, now won't we?"
"I'll tell Keith, he's working a Job over in England so he'll only be available in a few weeks, but he's perfect for the job... "
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