Saya sat on the ground hugging the child tightly to her chest, as she looked at the man before her looking like a divine predator standing in the dimly lit cave as his golden eyes shone brighter than ever while being showered by the giant's blood whose head was crushed by him.
“Are you okay?”
The man opened his mouth and addressed her in a monotonous voice as he turned and faced her. Saya wanted to answer him but as soon as he focused his attention on her cold sweat formed on her back and words got stuck on her throat as she trembled, she was overwhelmed by the aura that not even those creatures could emit.
“Oh, ma bad”
Luo seemed to realize something as he quickly retracted his killing intent.
“You good now?”
“Huff, Huff, w-who are you?!”
“Me?”
‘Be friendly!’
Luo remembered what Sarah told him before heading out, so he smiled and pointed to himself before saying.
“You must already have an idea, right?”
Saya felt shivers run down her spine as unlike what Luo thought his smile now looked more like one a psychopathic murderer would have coupled with the golden irises. He looked scary, but Saya held herself together as she answered.
“So that means, it was real, I wasn’t hallucinating”
“Yeah”
Without saying another word, she put down the child she was holding as she trying suddenly tried to punch him.
“WHY!!”
Surprised by the sudden assault, Luo frowned as he easily caught her fist.
“What are you doing?”
Although he sounded chilling, Saya did not seem intimidated this time around, punching with her other hand while shouting.
“WHY HAVE YOU COME SO LATE!!!!”
“IF YOU HAD ARRIVED SOONER NONE OF THEM WOULD HAVE DIED”
“NONE, NONE”
Luo unconsciously held her other fist but he was surprised by what he had just heard.
“Huh, What do you me-”
*Catch*
Luo was trying to ask her what had happened, but as soon as he tried to do so, Saya fell unconscious.
“What does she mean by late?”
“NO, wait why is there a giant here at this time?"
Luo caught Saya as he spoke to himself before realizing something.
“FUCK!!!”
He shouted as he placed Saya and the child inside the gourd. As he dashed deeper into the cave, he deployed his Origin sense to scan his surroundings. Before long he detected something as he stopped in his tracks. The thing he dreaded was before his eyes.
Although he was unable to see beyond the wall, he could detect it even if he had put off his Origin sense, the pungent scent of sweat and saliva along with those loud as$ breaths, it was a fallen giant.
“These pieces of sh#t”
Luo covered his hands in an energy claw as he tore a bigger spatial tear than he usually does.
*Swosh**Catch*
The giant standing behind the wall was confused at what his prey was doing. When he spotted Luo, he hesitated to approach him as he could feel the danger he emitted. He decided to stay hidden for a chance to ambush him, but suddenly the space before his face tore apart as a violet energy claw caught it.
Luo pulled his hand back through the tear pulling along the giant’s head who was struggling frantically but to no avail. It was being completely overpowered.
Soon the giant’s head passed the tear and he met Luo's golden irises. As he gazed at them he felt something for the first time ever since it has been born ‘Fear’, his skin tingled as it started trembling.
For a creature that has a low level of intelligence it felt the ruthless desire the being in front of it had, the ruthless desire to take its life.
‘Predator!’
It realized that the prey wasn’t the creature before it was the one being preyed on.
Luo oozed of killing intent and desire to kill he couldn’t feel any other emotions at the moment. He kept pulling the giant’s head until it passed through the tear until it reached the neck, only then did he retract his energy.
*Swst*
As soon as his energy pulled back the crack, the latter closed on the giant’s neck separating it from the body as blood oozed from the wall where it hid like a fountain through the cracks.
*Thud*
Luo threw the head to the side as he headed even deeper inside the cave. Along the way he met a few giants which he ruthlessly slaughtered but still hadn't found a single survivor. As he dived deeper, he started spotting shreds of clothing thrown on both sides of the path even some broken toys could be seen but the most disturbing thing was the blood spots here and there along the road. Before long he reached the site where the group was first attacked.
‘So this is the place’.
Despite not being there, Luo easily concluded that it was here where the group was attacked by the gruesome sight before him. Mutilated dead bodies were everywhere he looked, from lower bodies which had their torsos bitten to small feet belonging to children which still had their shoes on.
Luo walked midst the corpses, the blood and all kinds of matters scattered around as familiar odors assaulted his nose, he could smell the fear and hopelessness these kids had gone through before they were devoured, with each step he took, Luo’s emotions were stirring. During his life as an assassin he had seen a bunch of gory scenes but this was certainly a first and probably of the worst ones he had ever seen.
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‘Damn it!’
Luo's emotions subsided as they turned into a desire to kill and destroy.
“HELP!”
Luo yanked his head in the direction of the voice he had just heard.
‘A child! Someone is still alive”
Luo launched himself in the direction of the call as fast as he could, throwing precautions aside.
At the place where the call came from, two baby giants were surrounding a group of four children and a teenage girl seemed to be enjoying torturing their prey as they had the teenage girl in their hand who apparently had a missing leg. The children were already sprawled on the ground two unconscious and the other crying in his pee. Only one of them stood before the giants trembling but he still courageously called for help as he tried shielding his friends.
“Human Weak Human Delicious” ( Fallen Giants Tongue)
“Don’t you dare touch my brother?"
The baby giants appeared to be especially amused by this kid’s behaviour trying to uselessly protect others. One of them extended his hand and was going to catch him but then a loud sound resounded in the cave jolting them to look in that direction.
*Boom*
[Explosive step]
It was Luo who had just used his explosive step to close the distance before the giants could react he had already arrived by the child side.
“Good you did great."
*Pat *
“I’ll take care of it from here on”
Luo patted the boy’s head while complimenting him and without waiting for him to respond he directly sent him inside the gourd along with the other kids.
“Human Dangerous, Kill”
*Dodge*
The giant instinctively felt the threat Luo emitted and tried to attack him when he had his back turned but without even looking back he easily dodged the incoming attacks. He instead caught both the hands and said with a menacing grin.
“You seem to enjoy playing right, so let me join in the fun”
Crack*Crack*
By the end of his sentence Luo increased his grip strength directly breaking both hands.
“Ghaaaaa”
Both creatures screamed in pain as the one holding the girl dropped her off. Luo went ahead and caught her leaving the infuriated giants behind.
“I would love to give you the most painful death I could thinkof,, so consider yourself lucky”
Luo this time didn’t wait for them to attack as he dropped the girl on the ground as gently as possible before teleporting right in the middle of their heads delivering stabbing kicks to both.
*Boom**Boom*
[Explosive Kick]
An explosion propelled his legs so fast that they stabbed into the target without any resistance causing both heads to blast as blood mixed with brain matter and bone shards spread in all directions but none of them managed to touch Luo as he directly teleported away.
“Eijaz, can you make something to stop her bleeding?”
Luo held the young girl in his hand as he looked at where her leg used to be. It looked like a badly torn paper as blood oozed out nonstop.
[She has lost too much blood, stopping her bleeding isn’t enough, she might need a blood replenishing tonic]
“Just make them both”
“Hurry!”
After getting permission, Eijaz directly deducted the necessary SP, and started the creating process.
[Deducting 250 SP]
[Creating an emergency first aid Pill...]
After around thirty seconds a white pill directly appeared in Luo`s hand along with a screen explaining details about the pill.
[Emergency first aid Pill, grade Half-order ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Effect: Stops bleeding (Effective only on Early Phase First Order and below beings)
Method of use:
Insert the pill into the desired wound.]
Information about how to use the pill flooded into Luo's head, so without needing to read, he directly inserted the pill inside the wound.
*Splatter*
Blood splattered on his hand but he didn’t mind as he inserted the pill in. Upon inserting the pill the unconscious girl had an immediate reaction as the blood gradually ceased coming out. The skin around her wound grew covering it in the process.
Luo didn’t seem to be the slightest bit relieved at the fact that the bleeding stopped and just when he was about to request Eijaz to make the tonic he suddenly pulled the girl closer as he directly vanished teleporting from his previous spot.
*Boom* *Tzzzz*
Just as he vanished an acid yellow energy orb hit the place where he was causing a small explosion and melting the ground in the process.
Luo reappeared thirty meters away and looked at the still melting hole where he was. It had gotten quite deep enough to bury a dozen people inside.
“You seem to have some skills for a thief”
A female voice resounded from far inside the cave as a voluptuous black haired woman entered Luo’s view. Following the voice, she just started slowly walking towards Luo.
“Who are you?!”
Luo asked in a cold authoritative tone. He had already sent the girl inside the gourd as he mentally spoke to Eijaz
‘Eijaz, make that tonic and use it on her’
[Got it, it will cost 350 SP]*
As Eijaz said that he took his spiritual form* and with Luo's permission he dived inside the gourd
“That is what I should be asking you."
The woman stopped walking ten meters away from Luo and extended her hand.
“Let’s not beat around the bush and just give back what you have taken and I shall grant you a painless”
She started exuding a strong killing intent towards him as she said domineeringly.
‘Deep Brown huh’
Luo ability estimated that the lady before him had the same level of strength as he does, Luo knew she wasn’t going to be an easy opponent but he still felt confident as this was his expertise, totally unshaken by the aura she emitted he got ready to attack looking for any gap in her defense.
In Luo vision strings started appearing on the woman body targeting various vital parts of her body, Luo didn’t wait for her to make the first move as he directly pulled his gun and started firing shots at her.
Bam Bam Bam
“Well it seems that aside from being a thief, you are also foolish."
The lady spoke as she put together black energy blocking all the incoming bullets.
As soon as Luo saw the shield blocking the bullets, he leaped sideways keeping the distance between them as he tried to get a better shooting angle.
*BAM* *BAM*
“This son of Bit#h”
The black-haired lady was starting to lose her patience as Luo kept pestering her by his bullets all aimed at vital points while maintaining his distance.
“Enough playing around!”
Eight acidic green spider-like legs came out of her back as they sliced the bullets in two from all sides. As soon as an opening in the bullet barrage was made, she leapt in the air as acid green energy bullets formed at the tip of her legs. She aimed them all at Luo who was in a mid-air leap.
Swoosh×8
As Luo swiftly turned his body, he dodged half of the projectiles as his golden iris calmly analyzed the patterns of the oncoming orbs.
[Explosive step]
After successfully dodging half the projectiles mid-air he smoothly landed and directly dashed in the black haired lady's direction.
‘He vanished!’
The distance between them wasn’t large as Luo vanished from her sight as she was unable to keep up with his sudden speed burst.
‘Where did h-‘
Swish
Her thoughts were cut off as the sound of air slitting came from behind. She hurriedly turned her face slightly to be faced with a shining blade covered in a violet hue. Behind it were two beastly golden irises that sent chills down her spine.
‘Sh#t, he was hiding his strength’
Time slowed down as her life flashed before her eyes up until the moment when she decided to betray her people and join the demons. She felt death getting closer to her with every millimetre the blade crossed. She who thought that she had become invincible among humans on this planet after getting the demon print and stepping into the peak of the first order although she had no fighting experience she still won against every enemy she met with ease but right now before this human that was clearly weaker order wise she stood no chance, she realized that she was being preyed on.
*Swish*
The blade didn’t stop as it directly cut her spider legs which she unconsciously put up pushing her back towards the ground.
Luo didn’t give her a single chance as he immediately dashed towards her as soon as she landed intending to take her life.
‘It’s the end!’
As he thought about that, Eijaz who had been inside the gourd for a while now suddenly came out and alerted.
[Luo! Careful! Back off!]
Hearing Eijaz, Luo didn’t hesitate as he immediately gave up his attack and stepped back as far as he could.
[Explosive step]
*Boom* *Rumble*
As soon as he vanished from his place a huge hand broke through the cave ceiling landing directly on the black haired lady.
“Oh, Sh#t”
Luo followed the giant arm upward with his eyes to be met by a skull-like face oozing black smoke from its eyeballs.
It was a giant and huge as$ one at that. From its aura alone Luo could tell it’s at least second order.
“What a good luck I have”
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Spirtual Form: Eijaz is now able to manifest himself inside Luo Origin Sense in a spiritual form that can only be seen by Luo.