Book 1: Chapter 53: The Hotel’s Sponsor Part I

Book 1: Chapter 53: The Hotel’s Sponsor Part I

Scarlet

After spending about an hour or so letting my mana regenerate back to halfway full which was helped by me raising my mental stat again with free points and therefore increasing my mana I begin to make my way through the eleventh floor. But not even a few minutes in, I start to hear the cries of a child along with panicked screams of a few adults somewhere down the hall. So I begin running in that direction, clearing out the two spawn panthers that try to stop me along the way.

Soon enough, I find a huntsmen aiming his crossbow at three adults and a young girl who looks to be only about six or seven years old.

|Demon Huntsman Level 15|

My eyes narrow as I find the huntsmens fingers gravitating over the trigger, about to fire before I use blood boil on it, making the creatures blood begin to boil beneath the surface as it cries out in pain and staggers, making it just barely miss its shot. The bolt going straight into the wall next to one of the adults a woman who is currently hugging onto the child head.

Everyone including the demon turns to look at me, but Im already rushing towards the huntsmen with my blood claws out and ready to strike. The creature raises its crossbow to block, but I just push through, shoving the crossbow into its chest and knocking the air out of it in the process. I then kick out at it while still using blood boil, making little bubbles of blood pop across its skin before I eventually tear out its throat.

{Level 15 Demon Huntsman defeated. An EXP penalty has been extracted for killing a creature below your level.}

{One Skill Point is awarded for killing a demon.}L1tLagoon witnessed the first publication of this chapter on Ñøv€l--B1n.

[Blood Thirst Effect applied. Stack is now 1]

I try to catch my breath while I climb back to my feet from on top of the demons corpse before wiping my forehead of sweat, only to grimace as I realize there was blood on my jacket sleeve. So I deal with that by using the clean skill.

A few more seconds pass and we turn down another corner, only for a young voice to sound from behind me, making me turn my head to find the child reaching for me as she says, Touchy!!!

No, Sara! You cant touch her ears! the mother immediately understands what her daughter is wanting to do before looking at me with worry and saying, Please dont mind her. My daughters just turning six today, so shes probably feeling a little spoiled.

Lemme touuuchhh!!! the kid begins to whine, making both my eyes and ears twitch a little in irritation. But right before the mother is about to admonish her again, I let out a sigh and stop moving, my ears twitching as I find no demons making any sounds nearby. Then I walk up to the mother-daughter pair and lower my head to her while saying, Just this once. But only if you stay quiet until you get to a bunker, okay?

Yaay!!! the kid practically squeals in my ear, making me wince before she roughly grabs them and starts caressing them, making me wince again at how sensitive they are.

I let her do it for about three seconds before I pull away again and immediately turn around.

Never again.

Its like someone tickling the bottom of an incredibly ticklish persons foot. And Ive always had rather dull senses when it comes to that sort of thing, which only makes it worse when its that bad.

We continue walking through the hallway with the kid now silently mumbling about how soft my ears were with a very pleased expression on her tiny face, to the amusement of her mother and the other women who I noticed shifted their attitude towards me from a respectful but distant one to a slightly more casual and free attitude.

Maybe I shouldnt have done that. But at least shes quiet now, giving my ears a break from her whining.

Because if theres one thing I hate, its the whining of little kids. Its just so annoying.

My thoughts pause as I stop in place, the sound of shifting feet echoing in my ear from the bunker.