Sara screamed and stabbed the thing on one of its many hands.

It earned her its screech and a palm that almost hit her if she did not climb up the hand and swiftly went to one of the head, she grabbed one head as 4 hands went up to catch her and started stabbing it carelessly, the first was stabbed through the nose, then the forehead, then the mouth, then its left eye, then its left cheek….

Before long, a hand managed to grab Sara and it threw her across the hallway. Sara landed on a wall and she fell down with a loud thud, she gasped and tried to breathe but the pain was too much for her to bear, she gritted her teeth and started walking away while the thing screeched and pulled out the knife before throwing it at her.

She fell down and it hit her right on her knees.

The thing smiled with its thousands of teeth before slowly crawling towards her, its many hands pulling her closer and closer into its range. It opened its mouth as it held her in the air.

Sara froze in fear and despair, she closed her eyes shut and desperately prayed, prayed for a god, any god in this decaying world to save her, anything, even if its an evil god or a god who seeks to destroy the world, she didn't care, anyone, anything…

She screamed, "Save me!"

Bang!

A gunshot suddenly sounded out and blood started spilling, she opened her eyes in a hurry and saw Rueben standing on the hallway, he held Eve in his hand and a wooden stick in the other.

The thing was shocked by the sudden pain and hurriedly looked back, its eyes contorted in fear and let out a mangled voice, it resembled that of a broken record. "H-Human. B-Beast.!!!"

It then reached three of its hands and pushed it towards Rueben, who calmly threw the stick into one of its eyes and reloaded Eve to fire her again.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Six gunshots suddenly exploded.

Sara also felt that she was falling down and fell into the floor with a loud thud, she was in pain but she knew that the man had given her a chance to leave this place, she worriedly looked at Rueben before running away and hiding in one of the corners where she was sure that the monster wouldn't be able to see her while she was able to see them.

Rueben clicked his tongue as he looked at the little girl running away and let out a sigh, he took out his cane from his back and started slashing away. This time, he knew that he was Blood Drunk, so he controlled himself, to not lose himself from the bloodlust.

But seeing the blood that splattered everywhere, he couldn't resist smiling. But as soon as he realized that, he slapped himself awake and focused. He swiftly gathered his thoughts as he continued dodging the attacks towards him, he looked back and saw Sara crouching on top of a table and looked at her blindly.

The thing then hit him and the waist and he slammed into one of the walls, when he got up to look at the little girl again, she was gone. His eyes narrowed and he looked at the thing again before grabbing his cane and Eve and kicked Adam away towards where the girl was before.

He then ran towards the thing and gritted his teeth while slashing all the incoming hands that threatened to hit him. Blood started spilling once again as Rueben continued on, hoping that Sara would be able to guess what he was thinking.

'This is at least a Class S Monster…. Its skin is too hard for me to slice cleanly; I had to use the proper momentum and find the flaws on its limbs just to cut them off… Its senses are a little dull and it is probably due to that that I could survive this long… Monsters have a little bit of intelligence within them.'

Then he suddenly felt the attacks lessened and looked at the monster's dwindling arms.

It gritted its many teeths and softly muttered, "Human…. Beasts…. Why….. You….Stopping…. Us… Achieving….. Transcendence....!!!!!"

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It then shouted and its voiced cracked, if its voice resembles that of a broken record before, then now, it resembles a microphone in front of a speaker. It was loud yet also very gibberish.

Hearing the monster call him Human Beast again, he clicked his tongue as he couldn't deny it.

Monsters had always called Hunters "Human Beasts", nobody knows why and only a few individuals knew. Rueben was one of those people.

Monsters were once Humans but they were infected by the Pale Monster Disease and turned into monsters, yet these people have a strong will power as well as mental strength that they were able to keep their entire intelligence or some of it behind and control their new bodies. Most of these people were strong or powerful people in their own rights in the past, the more intelligence a Monster had, the more potential it had to grow.

This was what set the line between Monsters and Beasts.

Beasts didn't retain any intelligence within them and fully turned into a wild animal, a beast that would hunt down its prey for who knows how long. They were cursed to forever hunt and kill anything that moves until someone lays their hands for them to rest.

Monsters are also like beasts but they retain some, if not, all of their intelligence. Their memories, wisdom, knowledge… Anything that they once had as a human, they have it as a Monster. This made them capable of evolving into an entirely new species that was capable of mutating into better forms.

Though, most Monsters have a stronger vision than humans and they have understood quite a lot of things that Humans could not understand or even begin to comprehend.

Of all the monsters that Rueben hunted, 99% of them had wanted to achieve what they called "Transcendence" and become a "God" themselves. Rueben believed it was all nonsense as he knew that there was no god, if there was one, then it had already abandoned them.

Kill.

Rueben firmly believed that the god that his people, the people who went through hell was already abandoned by the god that they pray to, the god that they worshipped to. He believed what his late master had told him, "God is Dead" to which he continued with a whisper while facing the maddened Monster, "For his people do not worship him wholeheartedly anymore."

Kill. Mutilate. Dominate. Protect.

He then aimed Eve at its core and shot one bullet right through its head. He then started running towards it with the intent to kill, his eyes glowing red, a sign of being Blood Drunk.

His mouth started arching upwards when he felt his cane stab through its flesh, pleasure came creeping on his back as heavenly bliss blessed his body. He laughed in an odd out of tune voice and started stabbing again and again, even dodging the hands that tried to catch him.

Laugh. Enjoy. Family. Dead.

The thing shook wildly and screeched, "How… Dare…. Human… Beasts…!!! I am... Chosen!!!! By…. Him!!!!! Byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy… Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????"

Giggle. Mother. Happy. What. Ten times ten is 90? Haha.

Rueben laughed and giggled, he replied with a grin on his haggard face, "By who? God? Oh! Then I am chosen by the Devil himself then!! Kekekekekeke!!!!!!"

Who. I. Am. Purpose?

Rueben didn't just slash and stab, he also used his mouth, his feet, his hands to claw its flesh, to bite off its skin, to kick its body. Rueben doesn't resemble anything that a human should, nay, he was just a beast right now. All kinds of voices started talking within his mind, arguing, talking, laughing, crying, shouting...

Dead. Gone. happy. Sad. Angry. Mother. Cry. Father. Bleed.

He ignored the screams of terror and agony from the Monster. He… just continued. Eating. Drinking. Biting the flesh of the Monster that now deeply wanted release from the pain and torture that it is currently going through.

Dream. Comfy. Sweet. Sour. Master. Dead. Tried. Killed. Me.

The control that he was desperately trying to hold on to, the little semblance of sanity he had was walking on a thing rope that was about to snap, just at it was about to snap, a gunshot sounded and it hit Rueben right on his chest.

'guuuhh!!??'

He coughed blood and fell down, he looked back and saw Sara holding Adam with her two tiny shivering hands, his eyes then widened as he remembered what he had done. He grabbed his cane and stabbed his leg with it, now rearing to take back the reins that he had just lost.

The wounds that he had were already healing because he drank and ate tons of flesh from the Monster.

He then looked at Sara standing just a few tens of meters away, holding his gun with both of her hands, her body shivering in fear yet her eyes bright with confidence and passion within them.

He looked at her before looking at the monster who was mangled by him, then he reloaded Eve and shot the thing dead once and for all. He then stood up and walked towards Sara, who flinched when he went near her. He saw the fear in her eyes and he gritted his teeth in disappointment, not to her, but to himself.

He vowed that after he finished this and escaped, he would lock himself into a room and start training his mind.

Seeing that, he let out a sigh and walked away, Sara looked at his back as well as the stick stabbed through his hand and worriedly followed behind him.

Yes, she was afraid, but she was not afraid of the man who saved her life many times, she was afraid of herself losing control. Losing control was very frightening to a lot of people.

After all, the respect and any emotions they had towards you will be gone the moment you lose control.