“You Monster!”…“Sigh! This guy….”Magnus placed the monitor back on the table with a sigh. The video clearly showed one of the guards screaming at the sky in pain, and no one asked who the man was screaming at. Everyone who saw the live-stream and everyone who watched the video knew the answer.Jason Hope left another man in pieces, and this wasn’t the first time he did this. “Chief… The program has started.”Iris turned on the tv in their living room. She felt a bit awkward when she said that. This living room had everything according to her desire, and Dane had very little say in it. She loved the arrangement of their house.Dane was still inside The Endless, and she had to act as the host for their chief. She logged out early because the chief wanted to meet one of them once the situation got out of their hands. Jason’s heartless actions had caused a massive trigger around the world. After Jason went on a rampage amputating the limbs of a city lord, another piece of news came t
“I am here to register for the Crystal Pulse.”“What is your name?”“I am Sato Mitsuki.”“Huh?”Dawn looked up in confusion as the name sounded familiar to her. Then she realised it was the same man she saw on the video. This was the man who came to challenge Jason and had a mental breakdown after losing. “Are you serious?”She frowned, and Dawn saw all the attention turning toward them. Even the NPCs knew about the man who challenged Jason. Even though they didn’t know the details of Sato’s mental breakdown, they knew this man had the audacity to challenge Jason Hope. “I am… There is nothing against me joining, right?”Sato looked at everyone with a friendly smile.“Why do you want to join the Crystal Pulse?”Dawn frowned a bit more. Coming here and asking to join meant Sato Mitsuki wanted to join the Crystal Pulse as an exclusive member with higher privileges. “I want to learn to fight like him. And I learned I can get more opportunities by becoming an exclusive member.”There wa
‘No! No! No!’Jason struggled to keep his sanity, but he knew one thing very well. He had to hold his breath at all costs or it would destroy his magic nodes leading to an unimaginable agony.After an unknown amount of time, Jason felt a scorching breeze against his skin.Jason slowly gained his vision, and he saw a familiar sight. A red light that brought him haunting memories. The acidic rain could melt his skin and creatures that would kill him on sight, a lonely world with no other being except monsters. However, he didn’t forget the knowledge he gained through all the hardships.Still, when he thought about the time he would have to spend without his small family, Jason felt a sense of loss in his heart.“How long do I have to stay?”Jason adjusted his breathing and inhaled the scorching air that brought a burning sensation into his lungs, but at least his magic nodes were safe.He looked around as his eyes burned with the scorching air. It was another wasteland, but there was a
‘Sigh. Is this all I can eat?’Jason failed to find anything edible in the surrounding area.He stayed hidden for almost two hours in the cave for something to happen, but nothing notable happened. The creature looked as if it was at the edge of its life, but it didn’t die, and no other creature came out until the end.He finally sneaked out of the cave when his hunger took its toll on his body, but he saw nothing in the surrounding that he could eat; except for the ravaged bodies of the monsters.‘Sigh. I can’t even make a fire. What am I supposed to do?’He wished he had his fire runes with him. There was nothing flammable in his surrounding, and the only choice left to him was to consume raw meat to sustain his condition. He knew eating this meat could mutate him, but he was already a mutant. The last time he finished the simulation, there was a message telling him not to mutate, but this wasn’t something he did, and he didn’t want to stay hungry. Jason started ripping into the mo
“Meow! Meow!”“I know it is getting dark! But what about it? We can light a fire but it makes no difference to either of us. We both can see in the dark. Wait! Is this the first time you are seeing the night?”Jason understood Nyx must be telling him about the darkness outside with her voice. In response, he voiced out everything as a growl since his words only turned into a roar or a growl. He felt surprised when he felt the nervousness in her voice.They weren’t close friends, but they relied on each other to survive. It had been over three months since he came to this world through simulation. A week ago, he was depressed to the point where he couldn’t eat or sleep and Nyx was the one who brought prey to him during that time.Jason wondered if it had become morning in Yuriel, and if Hanna was awake, looking for him. However, he knew he couldn’t just sit there for the time to run out. If he could use this chance to be stronger, he might be able to find them after returning alive, a
“My God! That thing… What is that thing…?”“Hush. Keep it down.”Lana warned the man in a low voice, but she also felt afraid. The creature they saw through the telescope was a type they had never seen before. It was around two-metre tall and walked on two legs. It had a unique body covered with back scales and sharp spikes sticking out of various places. The creature looked calm despite its horrifying figure, and she noticed something like a piece of cloth on its bottom half. It also carried something that looked like a bag on its shoulder, which made her even warier. This powerful predator was intelligent.It also had a companion white cat with black stripes. A creature that shouldn’t be walking around on the surface. There were still some cats left in their base because they managed to save some animals from mutation and starvation, but this cat was living on the surface of their desolate world. Which was quite unusual to her.They watched the creature easily kill a hunter by twi
“He is collecting books, again.”Lana whispered as she looked at the distant black figure. They observed him for over a month, and he ignored them as long as they didn’t get close. Of course, none of them had a desire to even do so, but they provoked him a couple of times after looking at him too much; which ended up with him one of the scout team members receiving serious injuries after a simple shove. After that, no one ever tried to bother him, and after Persley’s experience on the first day, no psychic tried to probe him.‘Night Hunter is traversing the old District 12 of City Z and collecting books. The mystical cat is tagging along. Both are moving toward the lair at the moment.’She read the note she just wrote in the logbook.Night Hunter; that was the name they gave him, and she didn’t know when she started calling it, ‘him.’ She thought it was a male, but there was no way for them to confirm. The council named the monster ‘Night Hunter,’ after they collected enough data and
“Sister, are you sure about this?”“Do we have anything else we can give?”Norma looked at her little brother.“No!”Hale shook his head, looking at the item Norma brought with her on the scouting mission.He knew they had nothing they could give him except this book, but that wasn’t what he was talking about. He was asking Norma if she was sure that she wanted to give a book to the monster that ruled City Z. However, his sister seemed to be adamant about her decision, and he stopped trying to convince Norma to not meet with the monster that killed hunters like ants. He knew Night Hunter saved their lives. It may not be intentional or it was simply looking for food, but they both lived because of him. No one had ever come face to face with a hunter and lived to tell the tale in the past, but they survived. Not only them, but even the other team members also survived because of Night Hunter. They had no weapon that could even hurt a hunter, and it could have exterminated their enti