Book 4: Chapter 60: A Genius Idea

Book 4: Chapter 60: A Genius Idea

The Clearing

Oliver Stone has never regretted anything in his entire life or his career as the Leviathan more than his decision to attack the Apex Predator.

How did they underestimate the filthy half-breed so much?! Wasnt she supposed to have only just reached Class IV a little over a month ago?!

Oliver struggles to fight the blood lycan Princess, but all he ends up managing to do in the end is sit by after being launched across the clearing into a tree where he lands with half of the bones in his body shattered, leaving him to watch the rest of his team get slaughtered.

Shes a monster! Just how! How is someone that powerful?!

He watches on in fear while trying to use his enhanced regeneration skill to speed up his natural healing, but by the time he hears the cracking sounds indicating his bones realigning themselves, the girl has already finished tearing apart his team.

And shes heading towards him.

As she walks, Oliver finds her transforming back into her human form, her armor magically transforming along with her in a much smoother manner than any man-made magi-tech armor should ever be able to do. Which proves the rumor on the internet about her armor being made by a blood lycan and not a human.

Oliver feels fear freezing every single muscle in his body as his bones continue to heal. But even after theyve healed enough for him to run, he just sits there frozen, watching as the girl over eight decades his junior casually walks up to him while using the Clean skill to clean herself of his teams blood.

So, stalker, she starts, once more calling him a stalker, I think this is sufficient enough to prove to your employer that Im not to be messed with by now. Dont you?

Oliver instinctively nods his head frantically in fear, but the girl just continues walking up to him before stopping and kneeling down, sitting on her heels with her head tilted slightly. And Olivers fear rises even more as her glowing red eyes lock with his, seemingly staring straight into his soul despite the nonchalant look the girl has on her face.

Well thats good then, she eventually says, flashing him a rare smile that catches him off guard with her beauty. But then she transforms a single arm into the arm of a beast and begins flexing her claws slightly as she continues, I know your boss will be seeing all of this through a temporal manipulation skill to look into the past, so I wont be needing any prisoners.

Oliver blinks once, only to find himself unable to blink ever again, his last sight being that of her clawed hand reaching for his head.

Scarlet

After crushing the guys skull, which is easier than I expected, I stand up straight again and stretch my arm a bit.

Well, stalkers and murderers or not, they couldve at least made my trip back to the frontlines easier.

The device I used to teleport was a one-way thing and couldnt be used more than once. A disposable magi-tech item that probably cost them millions of credits to make. Maybe even a hundred or more million credits.

All wasted because some idiot decided to try killing me with some half-assed job.

Although, I did at least get some EXP out of it.

My eyes widen slightly as a grin stretches across my face.

Hey Tar?

No, he answers right away, not even letting me ask my question.

Oh, come on! You havent even heard my idea yet!

I dont want to hear it, he says from wherever he is in the in-between.

How rude. Im sure that luring in more idiots like these would give me more EXP than hunting demons on the frontlines would, so why shouldnt I?

Just no, Tar says, sounding both exasperated and like he wants to be anywhere but here. Even if you tried that, theyd have to be stupid to send anyone below Class V after you. And Im pretty sure there arent any Class Vs willing to attack you even if they were against your existence. Not with the war going on, and not with your mother. And especially not when itd be easy enough to track them down considering the limited number of Class Vs in the world.

I mean, yes, but it would make for good EXP, right? And itd clean up these stalkers too!

He stops responding, so I just kick a random stone, sending it flying straight through several trees by accident before I start walking.

Well, youre probably right about the whole no ones gonna likely go after me again after this thing. Doesnt mean I cant hope.

Anyways, time to start walking towards the capital.

This might take a while.