Dark King

Linda and reid were secretly observing them through the gap in the wall of the building where they were hiding. Their hearts were nervous while they kept breathing slowly to decrease their heartbeats in fear that they could catch attention of these bloodthirsty monsters.

“All right, all right … …” Reid clutching the hilt of his dagger kept praying: “They won’t find us, brainpeckers don’t prey on undeads. O, God of light, the Father, please bless your people… ”

Roar! Roar!

Herd lost their target so they kept wandering around the street in anger. Their snake-like smooth tails were twisting on the ground while they kept looking right or left for a lead.

Linda and Reid were relieved as they saw the brainpeckers didn’t come into the building they were hiding at. However they couldn’t relax yet as the brainpeckers were still roaming around. They were secretly praying in their hearts for the herd to leave as soon as possible.

In this tense moment when they were almost suffocating of fear, a sharp whistling sound echoed out as the arrow pierced into small building.

Linda and Reid almost jumped out of fear as they had ignored the newbie who was hiding in the dark.

“Damn!” Linda clenched her fingers into a fist as she heard the arrow hit the building. But she still retained a trace of reason and fastly came up with a plan. If he wanted to lead brainpeckers into the building using arrows then she was going to lead them back using a rock. She picked a stone, raised her hand and looked at the direction the arrow had come from.

Whoosh!

It didn’t take a moment for her to stand up and squat down but it was enough for her to throw the stone.

Bang! Crash! She saw that the stone she had thrown out had accurately hit the remains of glass window. The sound was particularly crisp!

The herd which had detected the sounds looked around and rushed over.

However, Linda was stunned because without exception all of the brainpeckers were running towards the building where they were at!

“This……”

There was no time to think about details as because of impact by the brainpecker herd’s attack this three-story building fell down.

In response, they quickly jumped out of the window next to them and fell on the other side of the street. They rolled up to minimize the impact from jump and stood up to ran away.

Reid was late to jump so along with the collapse of the building few stones hit him. One of the stones hit his nose and the next moment he touched his nose there was a bit of blood on his hand.

Brainpeckers locked onto him the moment blood oozed out of his nose and rushed over.

“No -” Reid panicked. He used his dagger to protect himself but the next moment of the brainpeckers was already on him biting his upper body. While the next moment another brainpecker was eating up his viscera. Blood was spewing out at a fast rate.

The other brainpeckers who saw Linda roared and rushed after her instead of focusing on Reid.

Linda’s face was pale as she clearly knew that even if fifteen silver level hunters were surrounded by the brainpeckers, none would survive!

She discarded everything as she ran, including the backpack which had the precious monster materials from the previous hunt.

Roar! Roar!

Brainpecker herd roared as they tried to catch up with her.

After they left, a small figure appeared from the small building. It was Dudian. He looked at the collapsed small building. There was nothing left of Reid but traces of blood on ground. He was feeling nauseous as it was the first time he witnessed monsters eating a human.

He retracted his eyes and looked at the arrow which he had shot before. The small bag of blood which he had tied onto it had blown up because of the pressure.

He looked at the discarded backpack. All of kind of smell belonging to different monsters was exuded from it. It should contain all the valuable materials collected by the Linda.

Dudian picked up her backpack and found few pieces of remaining dry food. He began to chew them immediately as for the last three days he hadn’t had any food as he was searching for the monsters.

While he was eating Dudian suddenly smelled the bleeding odor from Linda. He didn’t think that she would be injured so soon. It seems he had done a good job by finding these beasts.

“Direct kill.” Dudian whispered.

However, he suddenly smelled that Linda’s smell was mixed with other scents. The scents that were almost covering her smell were rancid and our. He couldn’t help but a think of the place where she had gone to.

The sewage network!

Dudian’s eyes narrowed as he smelled that monsters stayed outside in the street and didn’t go as their bodies was too large and was difficult for them to enter.

He didn’t expect that so many beasts that he had lead to here would fail to kill Linda. Intermediate hunter’s survival ability was really unusual.

He didn’t rush to catch up because from the smell he understood that Linda slowed down her speed in the sever. It seems she was aware the monsters didn’t chase her so Linda had taken the opportunity to restore her strength.

“She is ready now, so using arrows to ambush her would be very difficult and inefficient! The previous diversion plan won’t work too. It has been used once so she should not fall into it the second time” Dudian frowned as he knew the variables has changed again.

He had singled her out but taking the approach to attack would not work. “Is this really the end?”, Dudian murmured.

“If my archery skills were better than this I could have killed her with an ambush. Right now my range is 100 meters which means that if I fail or she blocks the shot I’m going to be beheaded the next few seconds.” Dudian clenched his fist,” Even if I want to improve my skills its not something that could be done in an instant. Spiralling arrows are useless too as they are not fast enough.”

“If there were firearms….”

“However, its been three hundred years so the guns in the police station would not be in good condition. I would deep-fry myself…”

“Oh!?”

Dudian was startled, “Guns can not be used but I can use the bullets. Ah! I can use the gunpowder from them and create a bom!”

He was excited as he thought of possibility. The police had a special storage room for firearms. Most probably guns and bullets are maintained in that room. If its inddors then even after three hundred years he should be able to find useful ones!

Dudian immediately took action as he went along the streets looking for police station.