Life Hunter

The latter"s appearance changed, he became taller and burlier, the scales on his body became brilliant. Each one of his injuries already had healed and his clothes were restored. Like nothing ever happened to him, worse, he seemed stronger than before he began to fight.

Arima smirked, he took a step and disappeared, his figure reappeared beside the king which he kicked and sent flying to the ground. The king flew and created a huge crater when he crashed. He was full of injuries and could barely keep consciousness.

All of this happened while the queen only had the time to turn her head to look. She was shocked and before she could say or do anything, Arima already was in front of the king. He beheaded him with Karma and stole the life force flowing out.

The succubus could only watch helplessly while her husband was killed. She suddenly realized that she was now the only one remaining in her family. The reality took her back and she started to cry "Why?!" She shouted to the man who killed all of her family.

Arima looked coldly at her "You don"t need to know why. But, you don"t have the right to cry for injustice when you did the same" His voice sounded ethereal, like he was talking from everywhere.

Those words struck her violently. She bit her lip and charged at Arima with all of her strength. She tried to create an illusion but Arima destroyed it with a wave of his hand, she tried to attack him with earth magic, but her attacks collapsed just before reaching their target and then she tried to stab him but the blade of her dagger broke when it touched his skin. From the beginning to the end, Arima didn"t move and silently watched.

"How? How did you become so powerful?" She asked weakly and dropped her dagger

Arima smiled "You don"t have any use for that information" He said

The succubus fell on her knees and closed her mouth. She decided to wait.

Arima was a bit surprised. He called back Karma and Ira and walked to her. He grabbed her by the col and raised her head to look at her eyes "Before dying, look at your own sins, [Penitentia conspiciunt]" He chanted and his eyes ignited with a blue flame, the queen eyes began to turn into stone and died after she shed her last tear.

Arima took her life force and ended the resonance, Night reappeared as a dragon and looked tired. Arima slowly rubbed his nose with his hand and looked at it, there was blood on it "As expected that technique is a bit troublesome"

The "One Hundred Parade" is a magic that needs both Night and Arima to work together. When the two are fighting, even their minds become one, which gives them the ability create a parallel thinking process.

This magic uses this ability, first, Arima need to concentrate his mana and soul, next Night conjure a hundred different enhancing magic and activates them all the same time.

In fight, Night keep the magic activated while Arima fight. The only problem with that magic, is the toll put on Arima"s body and Night"s spirit. At most they could use that technique for maximum an hour without breaking down.

After that, they rested for an hour. Arima burned every corpse in the dimension to avoid it being sent in the other side and discovered afterwards. Like that, the Lilin people will only think that they disappeared, but they will never reach the point where they are sure that they were killed by someone.

After releasing the connection with the dimension, Arima and Night returned to the silent and calm town, not totally destroyed by a fight, at all.

Arima teleported quickly to the room he rented. He laid down on his bed and slept. He didn"t care that Lanya was silently looking at him. Night laid down as a wolf on the floor and also instantly fell asleep.

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The next day, Arima woke up early, he looked at Night and Lanya sleeping and left the room. He climbed on the roof of the Inn with a simple jump and sat down.

He closed his eyes and checked on the life force in his body. He circulated it to stabilize his body.

He already realized that his body now was around the middle level of ninth rank. His mana pool became bigger by only a hundredth and his affinity with earth improved to the same level as his light magic.

While he was occupied in getting used to his new strength, the entire town was restless, the king, the queen and some of their children vanished and were nowhere to be found.

Arima had left some people alive in the tower, not by compa.s.sion, but after he carefully chose. First he didn"t kill the slaves in the tower and he also didn"t do anything to the children who were not bad or too young.

As for how he knew who was bad or good, it was thanks to the combination of darkness, light and mind magic. When one has bad emotions or the opposite, he would have a part of darkness or light bigger than the other.

Basically, with mind magic, we check the spirit, if there"s more darkness than light, then the person is bad. But that magic doesn"t work on everyone and isn"t 100% effective. But in the end, it kinda looked like Elia"s ability to see emotions.

So, now the royal family is broken apart but because there"s some children left, one of them will inherit the throne soon.

Arima thought that he should leave soon, he could easily teleport outside now that the queen was dead. Also, before, it was only to enter that it was troublesome.

While Arima was meditating, Night woke up and directly jumped on the roof after a few seconds and laid down beside Arima.

"So where do we go now?" He asked

"Like I said, you choose" Arima said

Night mused for a moment "What about vampires? If you still want people with strong life force, it"s not a bad choice" He said

"No, I won"t do anything to the vampires. From what I see in the queen"s memories, they"re not angels but they aren"t corrupted or really dangerous. They usually stay in their territory and they also barely fight humans or beasts. They only do so to drink blood" Arima opened his eyes and explained. He finished refining the life force.

"Oh, I thought that you would attack them nonetheless" Night said

"Could you top treat me like a cruel selfish guy? Do you have any other suggestion?" Arima asked

"Mh, the undead territory then" Night proposed "One more time, in terms of life force, they are not bad. They are undead because they are driven by pure life force after all. Also, one more point is that the undead are mindless as they are cruel. And they also can gain comrades on other races" bodies, so it"s not a bad thing to reduce their strength a bit now"

"Good idea" Arima processed every information he had about the undead in this continent and said "And maybe I could gain some better control over death magic"

"Maybe" Night nodded

"That"ll be the last one in this monster country" Arima said

"By the way Arima, can I ask you to go there by foot?" Night asked

Arima glanced at him "I thought that you would never ask. It"s good that you already took the t.i.tle of master" He smiled "It"s okay, I"m not rushed at all, train that girl all you want, ask if you want any help" Arima said

"Thanks"

Arima stood up and returned inside the Inn, Night followed him. The former left to eat something in the town while Night went out to hunt for food himself.

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In a gloomy castle, a man, with white skin, black hair and red eyes, was silently eating and drinking blood. He was of course, a vampire.

During his lunch, a steward entered the room and bowed "Your Highness, I have something to report" He said respectfully

"Go on" The "Highness" answered calmly

"Yes. From a report I received, the succubus queen and incubus king disappeared without leaving a trace with some of their children. Soon, I think a new king or queen will raise to the throne" He reported shortly with a steady voice

The vampire, who was about to sip on his gla.s.s, froze. He looked seriously at his servant "Do you know how they disappeared?" He asked

"No, your Highness, there was nothing that explained what happened, we can"t be sure that they weren"t a.s.sa.s.sinated, but it"s unlikely, because killing them would be impossible without leaving a single mark of a fight if we think of their abilities. If someone really killed them, then I don"t know…"

The vampire drank his "beverage" silently. And then he smiled "What kind of person could do that" He continued the phrase himself "Interesting" He said and resumed his lunch

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Back at the Lilin town, Arima and Night rejoined at the Inn after an hour. There, Lanya was waiting for them.

"The training will start today" Night said to her in mannered way "We will head to the undead zone by foot. You"ll fight with every monster we meet; I"ll only help when you"re about to die" Night explained to her

"Yes" She nodded "Then what about him?" She pointed at Arima

"I"ll help Night teach you and if you ever fall in a situation where you"re both in danger then I"ll act. And the rest of the time, I"ll just stay behind, eat some sweets and do some enchantment while observing" He said with a smile.

"Fine" Lanya acquiesced

"Then let"s go" Arima clapped his hands. A circle covered the floor of the room and the three inside instantly teleported away.

They reappeared outside of the town and outside of the forest surrounding it. When they teleported, it took a few seconds for Lanya to react, the scene around her changed from an Inn room to a rocky plain. She was shocked and looked at Arima. She never heard about someone teleporting so far away, with other people, in just a second.

Now, she perfectly knew that she shouldn"t underestimate that man. She knew that something happened in the town last night and that was because of Arima but she didn"t get the chance to know what it was. She was gradually beginning to feel frightened by that man and she didn"t know why exactly.

Night looked at her "Don"t worry, he"s not bad, he is the type who knows how to use power" He said to calm her down

Maybe it worked, but she stopped thinking about it.

"Mh" Arima spun in place with a pensive voice and pointed in a direction "Go in that direction for… around two thousand kilometers. If I count, sleep, fight, and your speed, then maybe it will take around a week" He said to Lanya and smiled

"Eh?" Lanya exclaimed just after that