Life Hunter

"Why are you saying it like I"m going to do something bad?" Arima said

"So?"

"I don"t know. I don"t care about their petty war and I have no intention to stop it directly" Arima said "I"ve only came here to have fun, no to stop every war I come across. I"m kind, but I"m not that benevolent"

"Then what are you going to do?" Night inquired

"Simple, now that I discovered that I can steal life force, I"m going to hunt some strong people who deserve it. But because it would create an imbalance between each side, I"ll do it for the three of them" Arima explained calmly

"You aren"t going to anything to the humans? That"s not like you"

"Of course, I will bully them a bit, enough for them to lose, but not slaughtered" Arima said

"Your new t.i.tle really suits you" Night commented

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"When you"re not kind, you"re just a demon. That"s what I mean"

Arima"s expression darkened "Can you stop that? In my world, being called demon can be cool but to most it"s just embarra.s.sing" and said

"That"s true isn"t it?" Night tilted his head "When you"re lazy to help them, then you just plan of a way to kill people in a way that don"t disturb their fight too much"

"Yeah, yeah. If you want" Arima said and waved his hand "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" And suddenly asked

"Why are you asking me?" Night was confused

"Well, I don"t know where to go first, even though we are in the monster territory there"s a lot of different places we can go, so I"ll let you decide" Arima said nonchalantly

Night wondered a bit "Then what about the Lilin territory? They are rumored to have a lot of life force and I"m quite curious about them" Night said

Arima smiled and nodded "Me too I"m curious, we"ll go there first then" He said

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The next day, Arima asked a map of the continent but they only had the monster territory which was depicted on it.

"That"s good enough" Arima said and memorized the content. He resonated with Night and directly flew to the Lilin territory.

That place is where the infamous incubus"s and succubus are supposed to live. Their own place in the monster hierarchy is pretty high because their abilities is basically controlling others.

Arima"s target there, is the succubus queen. Of course, if Arima chose her, that means that she deserves it, that queen"s hobby is seducing and enslave anyone of other races, and "play" with them in any way possible until they die.

Lilin people are humanoid monsters with intelligence, since birth they are doted of a great beauty and inducing pheromones. Their appearance is human-like with a pair of bat wings and a tail. They are considered as monsters in this world instead of demons.

Their domain was a thousand kilometers away. So Arima calculated that he would take around forty minutes to go there.

While he was flying, Arima"s eyes flashed, he looked at a direction and stopped. Soon, a huge wave of spirit pa.s.sed by him, he did his best to conceal his aura and presence and stopped his breath, all with a stone face like it was a habit.

"{What was that?}" After the wave vanished, Night asked

"A scan. Someone just scanned the entire country like I did before" Arima said after getting back to his flight towards his destination

"{How strong was that?}" Night curiously asked

"Above that sky dragon. I"d say that the user was at the tenth level" Arima said

Night kept his silence for a moment "{Can you beat him?}" And asked

Arima grinned "Of course. If he ever finds me in his path, then I"ll give him one of my strongest magic"s" He said confidently and flapped his wings, resulting on a blast of flames and thunder before he accelerated.

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Half an hour later, Arima saw a big gloomy forest and a high tower which exceeded the latter. Arima felt a detection array set across the whole area, so he landed outside the forest and ended the resonance.

Arima and Night hid their presence and aura and entered. The moment they stepped in, the surroundings changed "Illusion, huh? That"s fitting of them" Arima commented

"How do we break that?" Night asked in his wolf form

"We can"t, if we break this, we"ll be marked and we can"t see through the illusion and bypa.s.s it, because there is mindless monsters wandering around, and fights will reveal me" Arima sighed "We only have one choice" He said and started walking in the path that appeared in front him and Night followed him.

An hour later "…It"s a pain to infiltrate this place" He complained. They already walked in there for an hour and only found more and more different paths. They already turned to right or left at least a thousand times.

At a moment where Arima was really considering breaking this d.a.m.n barrier, he heard footsteps and voices from ahead. He quickly hid behind a tree and concealed his presence.

The footsteps came from a couple of persons. One was a men and the other a woman, both greatly beautiful, with wings and tails.

Arima smirked "(Lady luck didn"t abandon me)" He rejoiced interiorly

He silently walked out from his hiding and stopped in front of them.

The incubus and the succubus were surprised when they saw something walk in front of them but when they realized what it was their face brightened

"A human! How can one be here?" The woman said and waved her tail excitedly

The other laughed "Humans are pretty rare and this one is quite handsome, we could give him to the queen" He said "What a shame, it"s a man, he"s yours"

"Hehe" The woman laughed c.o.c.kily.

They talked, completely ignoring the human smiling in front of them. They treated him already as their possession. If they thought about it a bit they would doubt why this human would purposely walk in front of them, but they didn"t.

"Hey little human" The woman approached Arima and said with a sweet voice. She clung to him and tried to entice him with both her magic and pheromones. She didn"t realize the man she was trying to seduce didn"t change his expression a single time.

Truthfully, Arima"s eyes and mind just dazed for less than a millisecond. He didn"t even bother to use magic to defend himself, just his powerful spirit was enough to destroy the work of that succubus.

Arima"s eyes flashed with a cold light, he moved quickly and pierced the woman"s chest with his hand and directly destroyed her heart "Sorry, I"m not fond of people trying to fiddle with my mind" He said

The succubus stared in shock and the arm that was piercing her. She could still survive if she healed herself immediately, so she grabbed Arima"s arm in attempt to get it out of her chest.

"[Vita Venari]" But before that, Arima stole her life force and died almost instantly because of losing her power.

The incubus behind was frightened and tried to flee almost immediately but Arima grabbed him by the throat with his b.l.o.o.d.y hand "[Penitentia conspiciunt]" He took his memories and life force.

Arima first checked the life force that he took "It seems that it"s the truth, their life force is something, although they were weak so I didn"t get anything significant, but it"s sure that they have a superior life force" He commented

After that he looked in the memories of the incubus "Are you messing with me?" He suddenly said. To pa.s.s the barrier without being detected, one only needed to turn every time to the left "It"s not a f.u.c.king labyrinth!" Arima snapped. He took care of the bodies and began to turn left at every fork. It took him ten minutes to arrive at a big town surrounded by big trees. The whole time he kept cursing under his breath.

"Can you stop already?" Night said

Arima fell silent and looked at the town "How do I go in?" and suddenly said.

"Eh? What do you mean?"

"I"m a human, in case you forgot about it"

"Oh, yeah. I forgot about it, so what?"

"…If I go in, I"ll just be marked and chased before I can do anything" Arima said "They seem to be good with illusion so concealing my appearance is kind of hard" He glanced at Night "And you don"t help"

The latter looked away

"Can"t you just go in my soul?" Arima asked

"No" Night said instantly

Arima sighed and mused a bit and his eyes became blank and annoyed "I decided, I"ll just destroy the town first"

"Hey"

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In the end, Arima and Night resonated. Arima did his best to retract the scales without deactivating the resonance, the sleeves of his coat also restored in a second, Arima already had bound his clothes to his soul, so their enchantments had improved by a huge margin. After that, he used a projection, which is only visual, and the best illusion he could use to change his wings.

"{What about the tail?}" Night asked

"Can"t we just a grow a tail ourselves, a dragon one, and do the same as we did for the wings" Arima said

"{Now that I think about it, we never tried to resonate the tail}" Night realized "{We can try}"

Two hours later, Arima now had a meter-long dragon tail "That"s cool, I could use that in a fight. It can be helpful in a lot of situations" He said

"{Yeah}" Night agreed

"But, this one is too big to be concealed" Arima said

"{…}"

"…"

They took another thirty minutes to shrink the size of the tail and change it before entering the town. He didn"t pa.s.s by the main gate because they may ask who he was so he sneaked inside and blended with other people in streets.

"This doesn"t feel like a monster town at all" He said after looking around. The only thing that stood out were members of other races following succubus or incubus like they were some slaves, but most of them had satisfied expressions.

Arima wandered a bit, people looked at him sometimes because he was bit unusual but none of them realised he was human. Arima then arrived at the center area of the town and observed the tower which he had already seen before landing in front of the forest.

He estimated that this tower was around two hundred meters high and twenty meters wide.

From what he learned from the incubus he killed, this tower was, as expected, the residence of the queen succubus and the king incubus and all of their children.

Arima put his hand on his chin and pondered while looking at the tower "Although it was half a joke to blow up the town, but, this tower shouldn"t be a problem" He said in conclusion

"Half a joke? What do you mean by half? And why do you always decide to destroy the building if you can?" Night reb.u.t.ted

"What? I"m serious, it can seem like it"s a bad way to do things but it gives you the initiative and the first strike, which is the most important things in an a.s.sa.s.sination, but still, I don"t want the queen and the king to die by that or it wouldn"t be fun for me" Arima seriously said

"If you"re doing all of that just for fun then you"re crazier than I thought" Night exclaimed

Arima shrugged "I"m just a bit eccentric, not crazy"

"I don"t think that"s better, even more if you admit it"

"I think that"s better than if you don"t admit it. Anyway, tonight, I"ll try something that I still haven"t had the right opportunity to test" Arima said and grinned