Life Hunter

That day, in the human capital, in a special room of the castle, some were gathered together. Most of them were the people Night had selected while the others were those who heard about this strange gathering and invited themselves. Among those, three of them were important figures, one was the Human King, another was the Elven Priestess and the last one was the Demon King, literally.

"The reason I gathered you here is to talk about something" Drannoc talked, seated at table, and everyone turned to look at him. Behind him, Fayla stood silent "To be exact, I want to talk about someone" The prince said

"Is that about the person who did that to you?" His father, the King, spoke, he looked a bit old with some white hairs "I heard you were spreading rumors about a certain individual since you came back"

Drannoc nodded "Yes, like you may have heard already, his name is Arimane Blade, to be honest, I never met him personally" He said

"You never met him?" A tall and burly middle-aged man, with horns and dark pupils, raised his voice. It was the Demon King "Then why are you talking about him?" He asked

The prince looked at him seriously "(That man is said to be the strongest individual on this continent)" He said in his mind "(I didn"t expect for him to come)" Drannoc kept a stone face and faced the Demon"s eyes "It"s true I didn"t meet him in person, but, I met his soul beast" He said

"Oh" The Demon King exclaimed in slight surprise and interest

"What kind of soul beast?" The Elven Priestess asked

Drannoc smiled "A dragon, a n.o.ble dragon at the late ninth level" He said and everyone in the room fell silent, the other people in the room that were already suppressed by the three huge figures and couldn"t even gather the courage to speak were even more pressured "As a proof, that dragon beat Fayla in a one versus one fight" Drannoc added and pointed his hand at Fayal behind him. The latter nodded and everyone was convinced

"Where did that happen?" The King asked about the biggest wonder he had in his mind

"In the Spirit realm of course" Drannoc answered "It seems that they were some guest there and we finished by having a clash. It was a that time that the dragon used an odd magic and brought us to a strange place to fight" The prince explained by adding some lies he came up with

"A strange place?" The Demon started pondering "Is that maybe dimensional magic?" He asked

Drannoc looked at him "Yes, that"s what I was told" He said

The demon grinned "Interesting, even I can only use that kind of magic for a few minutes at most, but a soul beast alone managed to create a dimension long enough to fight in it. That"s impressive" He praised and everyone was shocked by his words. The words of the Demon King carried a lot of weight on this continent "What"s the name of that soul beast?" the Demon asked in curiosity

"He said he had been named as Night Bahamut" Drannoc answered

"Mh, I see" The Demon nodded in satisfaction

"So, why did you gather these people here, does that have anything to do with the reason that soul beast didn"t kill you?" The Priestess asked

The prince smiled "Yes, it is. First thing I need you to know is about what the dragon told me: "Arima is indeed at level ten, but his full strength is much higher"" He quoted "So we can imagine that man is otherworldly strong, the reason why I gathered these people here was because he asked that to me, in exchange for my life" He explained

"Gather us?" "Why?" The people from the original list finally began to panic "What should we do?" "We"ll just to kill him, let"s see if he can survive an army!" They began to speak like that

"Silence!" The King spoke and his aura shut the mouth of all of them, he looked at his son "What does that mean?" He asked

Drannoc breathed out "That means I accomplished my job" He said and closed his eyes like he was exhausted. The people in the room were confused by that reaction. But then, a clap resounded in the room, then a second and a third, among the people here, someone was actually clapping.

The three important figures had a drastic change in expression and their eyes expressed disbelief, they turned their heads slowly towards the corner of the room.

There, a man, wearing black clothes, was leisurely clapping while eating a chocolate, and a big wolf was sitting beside him.

Every partic.i.p.ant in the gathering looked bewildered at the scene. Fayla and the Prince raised their head to look at the man who they didn"t get the "chance" to meet while they were in the Spirit realm. The Demon King looked at him and grinned in excitement, the Priestess looked deeply at him like she was trying to see through him and the King was solemnly observing him.

Arima finished his sweet and suddenly raised his hand, except the two who met Night and the three others who didn"t fear him, everyone took a step back and used all of their will to not take a second one.

Arima smiled so naturally that it sent shivers down the spines of everyone here. He put his thumb against his middle finger and snapped them. At that moment, every person Night had selected before, disappeared from the room and the place became really empty in an instant.

The Demon frowned, the Priestess narrowed her eyes and the King furrowed. They already understood from Drannoc"s explanation what would happen, they were not fools, they didn"t know why, but they could deduce that the people who just disappeared would never come back alive.

Arima put his hand down "[Heus, hic comedetis] (Hey, come here to eat them)" He chanted but it sounded like he was calling something.

"[Qui carnes ad conflandum ob.u.mbratio] (Shadows that melt the flesh)"

"[Vashta Nerada]" Arima then used a magic he already had tried before, but this one was a hundred times stronger combining death and darkness magic.

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In another dimension, around thirty people were panicked because their surroundings fell in complete darkness. The ninth-levels tried to break that darkness but couldn"t disperse it at all.

It didn"t take long before the first scream jolted the minds of the people there. They couldn"t see what happened, which raised their fear to the extreme. A few seconds later, another scream resounded and it continued like that for a minute.

"What"s happening?! Answer me!" The strongest one there shouted, hoping to get an answer. But he only received screams that never stopped. Then, he tried to take a step and move but he felt something was strange about his legs, he couldn"t see but he still had his sense of touch, he tried to touch his leg and his thought process froze completely.

He used his two hands to feel the state of his legs, but the more he did, the stronger his panic became. No matter how he did it, he could only feel bones, he couldn"t feel any flesh or skin, it was just hard and slim as a… bone.

The man finally screamed like others and then the strange impression reached his hand, he moved them slowly and made them touch together and a strange sound that shouldn"t happen when you join two hands resounded.

The sensation raised to his neck and suddenly stopped. The ninth level almost sighed in relief but then it began to raise faster than before. At that moment, all of his mental fort.i.tude disappeared and he screamed until the moment his vocal cords disappeared, but his last cream was a pathetic one in the absence of his lungs.

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On the other side, Arima stood up and suddenly disappeared which surprised the remaining people who were watching but they then realized Night was still there, they thought that he would come back soon.

Arima entered the other dimension just to retrieve the life force. After he did that, his strength raised one more time along with his affinities. He then looked around the room and observed the clothed skeletons, some were standing and others fell on the ground.

"It worked pretty well, I found another way to use this place" He smirked and said.

Actually, Arima just used what you could call a trap. He prepared his magic on the other side, then he just sent his targets inside and directly arrived in the middle of an already prepared magic. After that, Arima just had to activate it to eliminate the people in the area of effect.

Just after, Arima came back into the original room. He snapped his fingers one more time, the dimension broke and the people he "abducted" came back.

Skeletons appeared on their original seat before falling on the ground, there wasn"t any flesh left on the bones, which scared the last weaker people in the room, they gave up on trying to resist the fear and rushed out of the room.

The only ones left in the room were the three big figures, Fayal, Drannoc, and of course Arima and Night.

The Demon approached one of the skeletons and bent down to touch it "The clothes are intact, there"s also absolutely no sign of injury on the bones" He a.n.a.lyzed and commented

The elf did the same, she slightly bent down and grabbed a hand of one of those skeletons "These people died quickly while feeling absolute fear, to the point it became engraved in their bones. I also sense death magic hovering around them" She did the same

The King glanced at those skeletons and looked at Arima "For not killing my son, I won"t blame you for this, in the first place all of these people were just some trash, I came here just because I was curious why my son, who had become so gentle now, had called them, now I got my answer" He paused "But, I can"t ignore everything. So, I still need to ask, what is the meaning of that?" He asked with a strong tone

Arima chuckled, he grabbed his chair and brought it at the table in the center of the room. He sat down there and looked around the room "Let"s talk" He smiled and said