Ch#09 Quest
The man looked 6’2 with a solid build, the black leather suit outlined his chiseled body, with his red hair and red beard it created a wild and fierce air around him with a hint of darkness.
Looking at Brian’s heavily wounded body. The air around the man visibly sharpened, eyes shimmering with curiosity his mouth opened
“Hey Roxy you still getting the signal”
“Yes d#%khead where will it go”
“heh” opening his palm a black hue appeared around his red pupils what a pity, if not for her being possessed shed be quite a stunner
“Who!?” seeing the unresponsive behavior Brian shouted. He had been observing the man with his third eye, the one thing he confirmed was that the man is a lot more dangerous than the cat monster
The macron behind his neck was completely different, other than being completely black it had two horns protruding out of its skull with tentacles covering its whole body, 3 bright red flames were lit in the space between the horns burning the surrounding elements.
Observing the massive movement of dark elements above the man’s head Brian confirmed his hostile intensions.
Ignoring the cold emotionless pair of eyes he said, “No need to pretend, I’ll kill you then I am going to have a cold beer, you’ve had me running all day”
Unconvinced, Brian shouted once more, “How did you find me?”
“hmm” how come this low level wretched soul is talking so much, I remember them not being able to think much less talk but since the vessel is quite injured by fighting that low level beast, I’ll be finishing this quite easily.
“How!?”
“well dumb s!%t, because you ghosts are simply walking torches” losing his patience he finally responded… this ghost really is quite suspicious having such thoughts he remembered it being a mere lv 2 ghost.
Keeping himself vigilant he started to channel his Mana
Looking at the vortex forming above robin, Brian knew that he was out of time. Connecting the dots he had already figured out the reason for him being tracked. How come I didn’t notice, my soul should have been creating fluctuations in the elements. I’ll have to restrain myself from now.
“Can you tell me your name?”
“bas ruka shuu~~”
“Well what a shame” leaving his last sentence Brian jumped down the sewage hole
“f$%k”
“Rank 2 spell piercing tentacles” he shouted controlling the magic rune he sent the tentacles behind Brian
“Shit” sensing his failure he jumped down the opening, eyes burning with rage
SPLASH
Landing in the slimy, black water he looked up to see Brian limping off in the distance
“F#%king annoying” channeling his mana, the horns on the macron started to grow enveloping his whole body in a coat of black flame
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A large amount of dark elements started to gather in front of him to take the shape of a meter long spear.
Controlling the intricate rune on the tip of his finger he shouted
“Rank 2 spell dark spear, go”
Like a bullet the spear flew off piercing through the head bursting it apart like a water melon with brain matter splashing through the narrow tunnel making the headless body fall into the grimy water.
Making his way through the sewage water he reached the floating headless corpse.
“huuu” after inspecting the body and confirming the absence of any irregularity he contacted Roxy.
“Hey any signs”
“No nothing… well bravo d#%khead you finally did it after taking so long” feeling the naked mockery in her tone black lines appeared on his forehead
“It’s not my fault, this was a tricky one”
“heh, yeah totally”
“f$%k I should have noticed the hole” he muttered climbing up the sewage hole.
Running through the tunnel Brian let out a deep sigh. The dark spear had almost claimed his life. If not for his swift decision in abandoning the body he might not have gotten away with just a scratch.
“Magic truly is fatal” he lamented
Running through the dark humid tunnel he remembered the beast “previously I had been confused but, the park blocks the sewage water on Sundays for weekly maintenance”
Running for a while he finally came across a sewage opening, grabbing the rusted metal step which had turned a bronze orange the pendant attached to his soul started to quiver lightning up the dark tunnel.
“Quest: identify and remove the Demi human
Rewards: store opening”
Looking at the side he saw a map roughly depicting his location and a red dot indicating his target
“Store opening? Is it similar to spatial storage?”
At first he wanted prepare some equipment’s for a demon beast hunt, but considering the idea of getting some answers he decided against it.
“It’s a human right? I hope it doesn’t turn out to be another unintelligent beast”
Making up his mind he decided to follow the map towards to his quest location.
“fuu” coming out of the sewage hole, Brian took a deep breath. Following the map he had traveled to the suburbs of Tokyo. Looking around the sun was shining brightly on the clear blue sky. The roads were still wet from rain and little kids were jumping and rolling in the puddles their small giggles lightning the atmosphere.
Scanning the map he found the red dot consistent with the establishment in front of which the children were playing.
It seemed to be a single story house with the words ‘Christian Revival Church and Orphanage’ written on it
“A church”
The front door to the church opened, a man seemingly in his late thirties came out. With balding head and a beer belly he slowly walked towards the kids.
Spotting the man one of the kids cheered as he ran towards the man
“Uncle Masuno! Its uncle Masuno” seeing the little kid tottering towards him a warm smile appeared on his face
“hey little Taku, what’s you been up to,” he asked pinching the kids chubby cheeks
“ow!... hehehe… ya know, we are playing in water. Uncle Masuno wants to play?” looking at him with innocent eyes the chubby kid replied cutely
Ruffling the boy’s hair Musano faked a tough face, “alright enough playing, sister Kammie is waiting inside”
“You want to get adopted right?”
Hearing the word adoption, the boy’s chubby face jiggled a trace of panic showed in his innocent eyes
“oh no! I forgot, sister Kammie is gonna spank me” grabbing Musano’s had the boy started to plead with tear filled eyes
“Uncle Musano you gotta help me”
Seeing the kids behavior Musano smiled, “don’t worry sister is not going to spank you if you hurry, now go tell the other kids to prepare”
Hearing Musano the boy revealed a bright smile on his dirty chubby face “Yes uncle Musano”
Brian overlooked the whole situation with cold indifferent eyes, “I should possess the man considering his relations with the church”
Making his way towards Musano Brian with no hesitation threw himself into the man’s body. Musano’s soul shrank into a ball and started to shiver. Looking at the pitiful soul Brian tried to communicate with it
After a few tries he concluded that although he could not have proper conversation with the soul he could still make it move the body per his commands
He had went through the trouble of not creating a soul rune to avoid the Bureau’s radar
“though I don’t know their tracking method, it’s better to be cautious”
Opening his third eye he peered towards the church, seeing a large amount of dark particles hovering above the church creating a black cloud, the whole building was enveloped with a gloomy air contrary to what it presented.
“Let’s see what you are hiding”