“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
“Pathetic! Is this how they train their so-called psychics? No wonder they are so weak!’Jason felt disappointed after reading the book. The content was great at first. The description he saw looked exactly similar to what Hanna experienced, and he thought he received a treasure; that was until he saw the actual training method.He didn’t know any mental training methods, but he knew what training was, and this was the most useless training method he saw. It was worse than baby steps, and Jason felt it could almost do nothing to improve someone who had mental power. This method had zero focus on using mental power on any physical object, and Hanna even controlled her own hair without a conscious effort. These psychics had no such power mentioned in this bookHonestly, despite not being a so-called psychic, he could point out many factors that could improve this training at a fundamental level. ‘Sigh! Is this some kind of prank? But why would they try to provoke me? The girl looked
“Sister… You don’t have to do this… I will plead with the council.”Hale felt desperate as he followed the escort, leading his sister to City Z.The punishment for his sister’s crime was going to meet with the Night Hunter once more. “No, Hale. I must do this. Even if it wasn’t the punishment, he was looking for me. There must be a reason, right? I can’t risk everyone because of my mistakes. Promise me one thing. Stay away from him.”Norma felt a pressure she didn’t even feel when she faced the council as a criminal. At that time, only she had to pay for her sins, but it turned into a completely unique event. Her mistake had dragged the attention of Night Hunter. A predator that could be on par with demons that roamed their world.‘What does he want?’She hurried her steps, feeling conflicted about everything.They had no other safe travel method except walking. Old vehicles or animals would drag the attention of monsters and mutated beasts, and it wasn’t safe. They had to walk, run,
“Norma! You can start!”Ryder gave the instructions and observed the situation of the isolation centre below them through the thick glass. It had been two weeks since the Night Hunter wanted to meet Norma and they safely brought her back to the base. They didn’t have much technology or people left over the two centuries because of the lack of skill and the depression caused by mass extinction. People only tried to survive day-to-day life instead of planning for the future. The birth rates dropped and their community declined, yet they still had the equipment and knowledge to deal with a situation similar to Norma’s case.They immediately isolated and decontaminated Norma, keeping her and the documents Night Hunter gave her out of reach from the others. Only after a week of observation from their remaining scientists and doctors, they confirmed Norma wasn’t in danger and she wasn’t a threat to anyone.Only then they asked Norma to study the given material and give them the details. I
“Why do I smell humans?”“Meow!”“Yes, I can smell them, too.”Jason phased through the buildings like a silent ghost. It had been months since he started dealing with humans in this world. Of course, they didn’t exchange much, but he received his weekly share of books. It was Norma who brought them to him most of the time, and sometimes it was the girl named Lana. He learned much more about this planet and its history. Also, more accurate and deeper information about the invasion from the aliens. Unlike the people of the world he was in at his previous simulation, these people focused on defending and hiding, rather than fighting back. Jason wondered if that was the reason for their survival, but he didn’t know if there were any survivors in the world he stumbled upon in the last simulation, either.According to the history books he read, this world had a rich magic system in the past, but the more he read, the more he realised it was long gone. The historical books revealed about
“Meow!”‘Hm?’Jason looked at Nyx who was curled into a ball. She seemed to be talking in her sleep.‘Is it because of Mana?’About a year ago, after one and a half years since the simulation started, Mana started to slowly return to the world. Although it was a slow process and people might not even feel Mana at the moment, Jason saw it coming and he felt it. Each day he felt the slight breeze of Mana, brushing off against his skin like a passing wind. Sometimes it lasted for hours while sometimes it just blew away from him in a haste. Either way, Jason saw Mana entering the world from the distant sky, and it gave him the idea that Mana wasn’t something belonging to a world. It could be a universal thing that existed everywhere. He had no idea how long would it take to fill back this entire world with Mana, but he felt it could be decades or centuries, yet he had a hunch that it would happen. As for why Earth didn’t have it, he wasn’t sure. However, Jason assumed that the invaders
“Should we go up?”“I guess he is coming down.”Norma looked at the spiral stairway with expectation. The first floor of the building looked completely different from what they saw a week ago. It was clean and had no debris left. There were several chairs and desks in the corner they hadn’t seen before. It was apparent Night Hunter had prepared this floor as their training ground. They arrived at District 15 as soon as possible in the morning to show their agreement to the conditions given by Night Hunter for the cooperation. It took their chief and the council over two weeks to agree to the conditions written by Night Hunter on further cooperations, but the things humans received as benefits were too tempting for anyone to give up. Night Hunter even promised to offer them Mana Breathing, a long-lost technique of accumulating Mana inside the human body. However, his demands included some very sensitive things for them; advanced mechanical knowledge, stationeries and some power sou