"City of monster hunters? I thought this territory was nothing but monsters and nature?""Yeah that"s what they were told too but monster hunters are a tenacious bunch. After multiple failed expeditions and a truly absurd amount of spilled blood they found a natural stronghold and established an outpost there. It"s expensive to stay and filthy as f.u.c.k, but we"ll be able to calibrate the reactors there."
"Sounds like you"ve been there before."
"That"s because I have. It was part of Ranger training."
"I see… Seems like I still have much to learn. Then let"s go with that option."
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Accepting that she still needed more knowledge about the world she was in Lux started understanding why she was not put in charge of the current mission as she brushed her white hair to the side and breathed a deep breath.
"I"ll be on night duty for tonight, just go ahead and sleep."
"But this is the 2nd week in a row you"re not sleeping Lux."
Showing a hint of worry Terra looked at Lux as if inspecting her condition.
"2 weeks are no skin off my back, and besides I need to clean my rifle."
"You sure do that every night huh? Well that"s fine, I need my sleep."
Saying goodnight with a wave Terra joined Iris and Lilly and went to sleep, leaving Lux that quickly found her way on top of one of the closed transports as she started looking at the moon.
Lux had lived her entire life being trained to be the best of the best. There was nothing she couldn"t kill, no weapon system she couldn"t master, no government she couldn"t destabilizes within a few days, she just needed to adjust.
"This area really is perfect for adjustments… ICI task eagle eye-1, give me a density plot of mana signatures in the area along with a high rez thermal snapshot."
[ICI CONFIRMS. BUILDING DATABRIGE, STANDBY….. REQUEST ACCEPTED, RECEIVING TRANSMISSION, SWITCHING TO TACTICAL MAP DISPLAY.]
With her ICI unit"s cold voice as a que Lux"s vision turned dark and white lines started drawing up the area around her with great typographic detail as a single red dot was placed in the middle of the map.
"Up resolution and display mana signatures please."
instantly the black and white world was filled with dust of all the rainbow"s colours, with darker colours clumping together in groups that indicated especially high density areas, or monsters.
"Isolate know monster signatures and download personal nav markers to my ICI unit."
[SCANNING FOR KNOWN MONSTER SIGNATURES, STANDBY.. SCAN COMPLETED, 54 EVENTS LOCATED, DATA SAVED AS NAVIGATIONAL MARKERS. TERMINATE TARGETS Y/N?]
"No just mark them for me only, terminate tactical map display and display the closest target on my compa.s.s."
As the black and white world disappeared Lux removed her jacket and unclipped her magazine belt as she rose to her feet and did a light stretch.
"All drones move to holding pattern G5, red."
[LOCKDOWN CONFIRMED, GOOD HUNTING.]
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"First target acquired."
Having found her first target Lux stopped breathing as he pulse shot up and her pupils expanded to their limit. She had found some sort of creature in the forest nearby, Lux didn"t care what is was, she only cared that for how to kill it.
"Aim for the chest…"
Rus.h.i.+ng forward while leaving deep cracks in the ground while abandoning all semblance of stealth and first strike she alerted the monster.
"GHAAAAA!"
Giving a ugly shout of aggression the monster raised it"s large wooden club above its head as it took a few steps forward while forming a smile on it"s pig like face. Even if the monster was not very intelligent looking it naturally understood the flow of battle, the puny human was aiming for it"s chest, but would be crushed before it would ever reach. Having closed to a range that could be covered in 5 steps Lux collapsed her stance and shot off to the side unexpectedly.
(As a fake out...)
Landing on the side of a large tree about 5 meters from the ground Lux formed a large bloodthirsty smile on her face.
"Then remove the head!"
Setting off from the tree with so much force that it shattered, Lux spun a half rotation in mid air and cleanly smashed the monsters braincase with ease.
"And that"s that… there should be a core somewhere inside that…."
Looking at the b.l.o.o.d.y mess that used to be a living being before she shattered it to pieces Lux thought about digging out the core for about half a second.
"But why should I remove the core, that won"t help my adjustments."
Leaving the copse to nature Lux went on with her night. Locating the next target quickly she briefly examined her opponent before continuing on.
"Clip the wings and pluck out the eyes, or was it pluck the wings and clip out the eyes?... Not that it matters."
Catching its spiked tail it flung towards her, Lux digged her heels into the ground and ripped.
"UUUUUUGAAA!!!"
Having disconnected multiple vertebra in the creature Lux charged ahead and buried her one hand in the monsters eye and used the other to hold on to the skull she ripped out the top part of its spine through the cranium.
"Ew."
Shaking off the brain matter as she threw away the spine she had separated from the rest of the body Lux washed of the worst of the blood in a nearby river Lux started locating her next target.
"This one seems special somehow… Oh well."
Looking at the horse like creature with countless horns and spiked mane Lux decided just go at it anyway. Jumping up a nearby tree before launching of that tree towards the monster with lighting speed.
(s.h.i.+!-)
Last second Lux realized the monster had already noticed her she s.h.i.+fted her body to the side as her arm was impaled with one of the monsters countless horns.
"f.u.c.king h.e.l.l."
Landing to the side of the monster Lux ripped of the spiked horn and kicked the monster in the ribs, to no apparent effect.
"What!?"
Opening up the range in response to something that went against her understanding of the world Lux kept her distance as she observed her opponent.
"I"m sure I put a decent amount of force into that kick… Is this "magic"? Not that it matters."
Inspecting her injured arm Lux pulled out the monsters horn.
"What was it again? To kill a turtle…-"
Looking at the horn as her arm healed a incatible speed, Lux flipped the broken horn into a reverse grip.
"- Take another turtle and use it to beat the other one to death!"
Closing the range instantly Lux stated a chain of attacks using the horn and systematically dismantled the monster with brutal efficiency.
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"Good morning Lilly."
"Oho~ Good morning Lux, any problems doing night s.h.i.+ft?"
Next morning Lilly woke up to find Lux still faithfully fulfilling her night.w.a.tch duty.
"Did anything happen this night?"
Showing a slightly concerned face Lilly floated up next to Lux as she asked in a serious manner.
"No, why do you ask?"
"Your arm."
Pointing towards Lux"s arm Lilly pointed out that there was a large hole in her s.h.i.+rt and a bright white mark had appeared.
"Ah, yeah I just made a small mistake."
"Really?"
"Yep, besides I"m not the kind of person you could kill just by stabbing repeatedly."
Listening to what Lux was saying Lilly took a few seconds to think before a smug smile formed on her face.
"So the perfect tool has areas where its lacking, and it wishes to return to a perfect state?"
"... Exactly. Is that so bad?"
"Nope~ I"ll help cover for you."
"Do what you want, in the end it doesn"t really matter."