Book 4: Chapter 51: Return to Battle

Book 4: Chapter 51: Return to Battle

Scarlet

I quickly begin tearing apart the demons down in the battlefield, not wasting a single second as I have every last one of my skills going full blast. And right away, hundreds of demons begin to die a second, most of whom are Class IIs and IIIs. But despite being the same Class as me, some of them are Class IVs, proving just how powerful my quadrupedal beast form is.

And all throughout this, I continue spreading my plagues throughout the entire demon army through both Blood Plague and Blood Rain. Plagues that begin to net me some credit for almost every single demon death in the battlefield, even if its only a bare minimum amount of credit.

My rampage continues on for who knows how long, and at multiple points I begin to lose myself in the slaughter. But every single time it happens, Tar manages to quickly shake me out of it. At which point I just continue my hunt, making absolutely sure that I dont kill any humans on accident.

Because that would reverse all of the goodwill Ive garnered from the humans over the past day.

From time to time I get System Messages mentioning me killing ten thousand demons, but I ignore them to continue my hunt. Just like Im ignoring all the thousands of attacks Im receiving, most of which are healing in an instant.

What I dont ignore though is when I feel my regeneration increase in speed, meaning Blood Regeneration just leveled up. Not that Im going to check my System Messages to make sure.

I dont have the time for that.

The slaughter continues for who knows how long, the vast majority of the demons Ive been killing being non-sapient ones, but every time I do find sapient demons they try to take me on with looks of awe in their eyes. And even as theyre dying by my own claws, the awe never fades.

Which I guess I should take as a compliment?

My thoughts slow to a halt when I finally focus on my hearing and the words being chanted from the human mages on the cliffs bombarding the demons.

Oh, right. Apex Predator is more than just a Title.

You Tar says, sounding shocked, only to blow out a breath and mutter, nevermind.

So I forgot it had a skill attached to it. I was a little busy dealing with the fallout of the Universal Notification to think about it much.

Now that I am though, it certainly explains why Im able to tear through everything down there like paper. Even the demons at higher levels than me out of the Class IVs. Which are netting me quite a lot of EXP, if I had to guess without opening my System Messages.

Not enough to bring me to Class V within the next week though, simply because there arent enough Class IVs here to do that, and the Class IIIs and below arent giving me any EXP outside of the tenths of a level that Im getting from slaughtering enough of them.

If someone else heard you thinking that Im pretty sure theyd pop a blood vessel, Tar mutters, but I just shrug his comment off.

Their loss.

Anyways, where can I find some better prey from what I can tell, this battlefield only has about a third to half of the demons Class IVs in it. And the Nobles are finally starting to eye me up as if they were just waiting for me to get back out there and continue hunting them on the battlefield.

So in that case

I grin.

how about I go back to hunting battalions instead?

They wont be expecting that.