Horic. A medium sized town and a territory of Nattunnia. A well known hub for adventurers that came from Kingdom of Zelestre that wish to explore the Savagery Forest, thus the town is bustling with adventurers and towns people alike. Two knights deligently guarding at the main gate as they look at the vast field in front of them. This is just a routine for them but sometimes, work can be a little bit boring so they casully have small talks to waste time while wating for any threat that wish to enter Horic. "Do you remember the adventurer earlier?" The slimmer adventurer asked his friend. "Be specific. We always see all sort of adventurers every day." The buffed guard casually talks as he still looking on the same field. "My bad. I mean the young girl with a red hair. Wearing a black cloak." "Oh what about her?" "I don't know why but I feel like I seen her before?" "You think so? She's looks like new to me." "No not her face. I feel like I seen her outfit before." The buff knight scoffs. "Of course you feel like that. Every assassin/scout-type adventurers always wear the same dark attire for stealth reasons." "Of course I know that. It's just her particular clothes feels like I see it days ago." "You surely remember the weirdest things. Don't overthink it." The young knight sighs. "Maybe boredom really just hitting me hard that makes me overthink." The two knights then hear a loud screech which makes them look up. But they don't look afraid but instead confused as they look on the the bird with a height half of a human slowly descends and lands in front of them. "Is that thing a Carrier bird? And thay insignia, it came from Nattunnia." The young knight asked. "Yes. To think they sent a giant falcon to send something means that it's a very urgent matter." The buff knight respond as he walks towards the bird. Then he goes behind the falcon, pulling a small knife and remove a small package tied on its back. After the entire procedure, the falcon fly away. The captain then appears behind the two while still looking on the flying falcon. "They used a giant falcon huh? The Kingdom only use them on Kingdom-to-Kingdom transfer due to their speed and capacity. But if they sent giant falcon just to deliver something, it must be urgent." The Captain's serious words. "Should I open it Captain?" "Do it soldier." The buff knight then rip the thick paper covering the package, revealing a stack of wanted posters. But his expression of shock is not focused on the sizable reward but on the picture of the young girl with a red hair." "N-n-no way." "What's wrong soldier?" The buff knight pulls one poster and show it to the Captain and young knight. The Captain is surprised that a young girl have a bountry comparable to a High Gold monster hunt. His first instinct is that the girl is a danger. "I remember her face. She's already inside the town right now." The buff knight remembers. The Captain becomes extremely serious as he walks back inside the gate. "Soldiers. Distribute those posters to the entire town. I'm going to prepare the knights for an upcoming combat. If you see the suspect, don't ingage and call for back-up. "Yes sir!" The two shouts as they give a salute. After the Captain salutes back, the Knights quickly picks the posters and seperate them in half. Thus, the three scatters and do their job knowing that a dangerous criminal is lurking inside Horic. ~~~~~~°~~~~~~ "Not again." Dereia can't even manage to eat her food as she can feel the murderous stares of people around her. But still, Dereia tries to finish her meal despite how uncomfortable her situation is. Thankfully, the people inside the 2nd floor of the restaurant just continue to observe her until she finished eating. Dereia cleans her lips with the a towel as she observe the people and their weapons. All she can see are close combatants with few clerics. But she also notices that literally everyone around her are observing every move she makes while pretending to eating their own food. The tension is getting stronger, the single thread of normalcy is closer on snapping out. After drinking a glass of water. Dereia stand up and address all of her stalker. "Guys. Why just observe me instead of making the first move?" Dereia asked like the situation didn't bother her at all. The Adventurers flinch and look at Dereia. Finally realizing that their cover is too obvious for their target. All of them stands up and unsheath their weapons. "Are civilians nearby finished evacuating?" One of the female adventurer asked the bulky man beside her. She grip her sword even harder, prepared for the tension to finally explode. "Yes. Only adventurers are outside of the establishment." "Good. I thought we can just wait for her to leave the town to minimize the damage." "It's also our fault for underestimating the target and being to obvious." A slim man holding two daggers criticize the lady with a sword. "Are you going to arrest me or what?" Dereia taunts her enemies. "Bold words for someone already cornered like a mouse. Your bounty is for my group to claim." The lady retorts with a smug smile. "Don't get cocky! The bounty is going to be mine!" A soloist adventurer screams. "Shut up bounty hunter! The bounty is for us Rock Lions to claim!" An iron clad adventurer screams. His fellow party members screams in agreement. As the adventurers debates for a while. Dereia points her finger pistol in one of the adventurers. . . . BANG! The adventurers are surprised on the sudden loud noise follow by a thud. They watch in horror as the body of one of the adventurers is now lying flat on the wooden floor. A pool of blood slowly spreads out on the fresh corpse. Realizing that the threat is still in front of them. The adventurers quickly focused their attention to Dereia who just standing, still pointing an invisble gun on the crowd. "You can say that i'm a cornered mouse. But a cornered mouse fights back." Dereia calmly speaks. The adventurers tighten the grip of their weapons. "I don't know what the fuck you did, but you going to pay for that!" Another adventurer wielding a sword launches herself to Dereia and aim to stab her chest. She's fast, yet not fast enough to contest Dereia as she effortlessly dodge the attack and shot the Adventurer to the head. The adventurer, now dead just continue to move forward until she hit the table and finally fall to the floor. Dereia then fires her pistol blindly to the adventurers who tries their best on protecting themselves. Some hide behind the thick tables that they tipped over, not knowing that such attempt are futile as the bullets easily penetrates them. "Shit!" Another male adventurer screams as a bullet hit his arm. "Clerics! In front, now!" The iron clad adventurer who seems the leader of Rock Lions shouts. The few clerics on his disposal quickly moves and summons large barriers to protect themselves. Dereia emptied her pistol magazine on the barriers to no avail. "Hmmm... Interesting." Dereia is more like curious than confused. The soloist adventurer, seeing the opportunity leaps above the clerics in attempt on decapitating Dereia. He makes a glorious and confident grin as her blade glints due to sunlight. "You're mi-" Before the soloist swing his sword, his head suddenly dissappear, turned into a mess as the blood splats on the cleric's shields to their horror. Dereia just move aside, not even giving a glance on a now headless adventurer. Dereia then reload her pump-action shotgun. BOOM! And shot the barriers... Reloads BOOM! Reloads and shot again... And again... The clerics getting pushed due to the intense power of whatever the enemy is doing to them. The other adventurers behind the clerics just watch in uncertainty. After watching the reckless adventurer's head blown into pieces. They're now conflicted as all of them are unsure on what Dereia can pull next. Then they watch Dereia seems emptied her invisible weapons. The adventurers gulps as they prepare to rush down. "Lets use our numbers to overwhelm her!" The lady swordsman shouts. Thus the clerics removes their barriers as they let the others to dash forward before Dereia even reload her shotgun. But instead of reloading, Dereia instead change her stance. Now she's some sort of dual wielding with only her index fingers pointing, to the adventurers horror. They don't know what Dereia is going to do next. But on Dereia's point of view, she's in zone as she prepares to fire her dual SMGs on a spray-and-pray action. RATATATATATATATA!! 3 adventurers falls down after recieving numerous invisible bullets. Dereia then proceeds to dodge numerous attacks from the adventurers as she fires back in return. On every attack she dodge, one or two adventurer falls down. It only takes a short moment and Dereia alread created a pile of dead bodies. "What are you?!" The sword lady screams in mix of fear and anger as she swings her sword consecutively, not a single one landed on Dereia. Dereia didn't answer her queation but instead spray her body with bullets. She drops to the floor and gives a final pained breath before finally succumbing to her injuries. Dereia's dodging brings her near the windows and the moment she see a glint outside, Dereia tries to dodge both the arrow and shattered glass yet the arrow still manages to graze her cheeks. Then a set of arrows follow, all targeted to Dereia who ducked behind the stone wall. The arrows hit nothing but furnitures and walls. Dereia quickly moves away from the windows and kills few more adventurers. The adventurers finally realize that they're losing decides to retreat back behind the clerics' barriers. "Shit!" The iron clad adventurer watch in disbelief as the dead adventurers fills the floor. "Fuck this. This is more than a Gold bounty hunt." The dual wield blader's final remarks then he jumps above on the barriers and finally jumps on the window. Leaving the iron clad adventurer and the others behind. Dereia meanwhile watch with amusement as the dark clothed dual wielder leaves the building entirely. "What a coward." The iron clad adventurer spits with anger. Dereia emptied out the magazines of her SMGs to the clerics' barriers. Dereia then stop doing her stance and just look at the adventurers hiding behind the barrier. "What's the matter? Not gonna attack me again?" Dereia taunts them. The Iron-clad adventurer meanwhile is full of thoughts as he looks on the dead bodies lying on the floor. "This is absurd! Why this girl possessed such power?!" Combat experience + Mysterious magic + Disregard to human life. The armored adventurer can't comprehend why such dangerous individual only given a gold ranked bounty. "I think we need to escape sir!" One of the Clerics suggested as she look to Dereia, observing on whatever move she would do next. "We can't escape. We are cornered." A male Cleric counters as he realized that all the posible exits are guarded by Dereia. Behind them is just a brick wall. The Clerics suddenly hear a crashing sound behind them. They feel a cold hair brushing in their neck as the brick wall behind them is no more. They look back and see a huge whole created by the Iron-clad adventurer as he punch the wall with his fist. "We're leaving. 2 of you, retain the barriers as the others jumps down." "Yes!" The three Clerics cancels their barrier while the other two decides to retain the barriers to protect their friends. The group make an escape until the Iron-clad adventurer is the last one jump down. But to his confusion, Dereia just watched them with no expression. The Iron-clad adventurer quickly stands up. "Cast the barriers again!" The clerics cast the barriers as they run away. "All of us in this town are Gold rank adventurers for fuck sake! Yet she still manage to kill a lot of us!" The female Cleric screams in frustration and wrath. "This is more like a mission for Platinum ranks. We have no business doi-" The Clerics suddenly hear a shattering sound similar to a glass breaking. One of the barriers got destroyed and the owner of said barrier is now headless. "Fuck! How?!" Back on the hole in the wall. Dereia is holding a large sniper rifle as she eject a shell. Ready to shoot another round. Dereia breaths heavily and aims again. BAAAANG!! CRASH! "Huh?" One of the Clerics is confused as his barrier breaks and he suddenly falls down. It only takes one look on his leg to realize what just happened. His left leg from the knee is decapitated. He screams in agony as his body finally feel the intense pain. Dereia watch the event unfold on her scope only her can see. With them leaving the headless body as they drag the now crippled Cleric with screams she can hear. "Hmmm... I assume only my Sniper Rifle can destroy those barriers easily." Dereia ponders as she returns the weapons back on her unknown stash. Dereia suddenly feels an intense pain inside her head. She almost slumped on the floor as the pain intensifies. "Shit! How you even manage to do that!?" Dereia screams in annoyance as she crawl on the wall. "Shut... up!" and she bangs her head really hard on the wall. The defeaning pain dissappears, replaced by stingy pain of her forehead which is now bleeding. After regaining control, Dereia hears a lot of footsteps coming up. She wobbly stand and change her stance. Unlike her stances before, Dereia is now like holding an invisible tube. She aims on the stairs and waits. A group of adventurers walks upwards with their weapons unsheated. But before they can even speak, Dereia starts to spray them with some sort of sticky fluid. It only takes a second for the same spray to turn ablaze. A very powerful and long flame continuous released on the nozzle of her flamethrower, burning the unaware adventurers. The hall is filled of panicking adventurers blindly flailing around as they seeks any sort of comfort for the burning hell they experiecing. Some falls down on the stairs while other burning adventurers manage to sprints down. "Water! Cast some water!" The adventurers desperately scream to any adventurers who also a mage. Few mages cast sprays of water to the burning adventurer. But to their horror, they can only extinguish the flames a little bit as the moment they stop. The flames just return to its hellish blaze. And the flames looks like sticked to the victims. Out of desperation. The mages summons large blobs of water and strike it to the burning adventurers with disregard on the victims. They manage to extinguish the flames but it's too late as the burn victims are either dead or hopeless due to their injuries. Back on the stairs. The adventurers continues to hid as the flames is still raging and they can't even manage to push. Dereia meanwhile can't move forward as there's still risk of the archers waiting for her to appear on the windows. Dereia can only stall the adventurers with her flamethrower. Unfortunately, the fuel of the flamethrower finally emptied out. The fire becomes smaller and smaller and now Dereia is vulnerable again. The adventurers got the courage to finally sprints as their opponents is open to attack. Or as they thought as Dereai changes stance again and sprays the dashing adventurers with her assault rifle. The small 2nd floor leaves no space for the adventurers to move around thus making them vulnerable on the bullets Dereia shots at them. Few adventurers manage to close the gap and their bloodlust is visible on their gaze as they prepare to slash and stab Dereia. Dereia manages to dodge the two attacks. He prepares to dodge the third attack but the intense pain inside her strikes back. "Not again!" Losing focus. Dereia barely dodge the stab, the sword cuts her side. "!!!" Dereia changes her stance back to pistol and shot the three adventurers to the head. She return her focus on the ladder and see another group of adventurers preparing to rush at her. "Goooo!!!" One of the adventurer screams. Dereia changes her stance but this time, she's like lifting something heavy with her two arms. ZZZZTTTTTTT! The adventurers flinch after hearing the omminous sound. BRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!! The adventurers quickly falls one-by-one after getting shredded by the minigun Dereia is using. The carnage only last for 5 seconds and the group is no more. Dereia hear the voices below after the minigun sound fades. "Monster!" "This is something a mere lower gold ranks can handle!" "Everyone! Leave the building! The mages outside is going to cast powergul magic!" Hearing the warning. Dereia feel the panic of the remaining adventurers who leaves the establishment in hurry. Dereia also feel haste after knowing the announcement. She winds up and face the hole in the wall. Then run as fast as she can. Dereia leaps from the hole towards the the nearby roof. The adrenaline makes Dereia resist the pain of her wound. But that's only short live as she instantly feel the sudden pang of agony. Despite all the pain, there's no time for her to rest. She hide on the roof, in the slope where the adventurets would not see her. And Dereia watch in awe as the restaurant gets bombarded by both ice, rock and fire. The attack is so much that the restaurant is now in ruin. "Is my bounty really that huge?" Dereia asked to herself. She focus her gaze on the roofs in front of the now destroyed restaurant. Dereia can clearly see the 5 archers watching as they believe they finally got her. Dereia switch to her sniper rifle and starts to aim to the archers. "!!!" The adventurers on the ground got alerted after hearing the lound sound. Followed by another lound shot. "She's still alive?!" In the rooftop, the archers are also panicking as they see the others either their heads exploding or them suddenly falling. One of the dead archers falls far down on the ground for the other adventurers to finally realize what's happening. "She's killing the archers!" One of the adventurees scream. "But how?!" After the archers. It's the mages turn now as they fall dead to the ground. Pool of blood flows beneath their corpse. With only few adventurers remaining. Which either wounded, exhausted or realize they can't fight. Dereai proceeds to heal herself lightly before jumping down from the roof to the road where she can be clearly seen by the survivors. Wielding two invisible handguns, Dereia slowly walks towards the adventurers frozen in fear. "Still want to continue?" Dereia asked coldly. As if her recent murders are just another monday for her. The adventurers have no choice but to refuse. Some able bodied sprint aways with panic on their face after watching such carnage. While the others either limps away or starts crying as they watch their impending death slowing walking towards them. Because despite Dereia looking collected, they can feel the murderous intent on her deep abysmal eyes. Dereia is dead set on ending their lives as bloodlust and adrenaline still lingers in her body. She never feel such euphoria since her last day on Earth. She's in bliss yet she can't express it and just wish for the feelings to continue forever. "What the fuck is that thing?!" One of the adventurers screams. Completely in disbelief that he never see the girl in front of him as human anymore. "Goddess Vivvilly please save us." One of the female clerics starts to pray, crying. Dereia's steps are slow yet heavy. Sending emotional stress to the injured adventurers. "I guess this is the end-of-the-line for me. And I'm suppose to retire after this hunt." The older adventurer then scoffs, followed by him biting his lip hard that it bleeds. "What a terrible miscalculations from us and the one issued the bounty." Another male adventurer commented as he already accepted his death. In the distance. The Captain of the Horic soldiers just watch with guilt as he observe the adventurers fail. "Captain! Should we just really watch her kill everyone?" One of the soldier questions as his guilt also lingers. "Afraid not we can't do nothing. That's a threat that some mere soldiers like us can't handle. We just going to add more casualties if we try." The captain answered with pain on his words. "But Captain. Is this really the right thing?" The soldier asked with a frown on his face. "We did our part by evacuating the civilians within the danger zone. And adventurers did what they always love to do which is seeking thrill and fortune. What we can do right now is to believe that someone might appear and stop her rampage." As the soldiers are in gloom. Suddenly, one of them see something on the roads. "Spotted group of people running towards the danger zone! They came from the North gate!" "What?! Are they civilians?!" Another soldiers asked with panic. "No! I think they're adventurers! They wielding weapons!" The Captain change his focus and his eyes widen after seeing the group. "Grand Ecstasy?" "Grand Ecstasy? B-but... They're just gold ranked adventurers." One of the soldiers lost his hope after knowing the name. The Captain looks at the soldier with a serious look. "Don't underestimate them. They might be Gold but they're belong to the peak of that rank. Maybe this would make a difference." Back in the danger zone. Derea is still continuing her walk. Each step sending more anxiety and fear to the survivors that too weak to escape. But she suddenly interrupted by a scream. "Dereia!" Dereia halts and looks behind her. To her surprise, she see the group who only know her true nature. Grand Ecstasy, who is now looking at her with wrath. Mateo looking at the surroundings and feel sick to the amount of dead and destruction. And then he look on Dereia with his disgusted, full of rage eyes.

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