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The Absorber
Chapter 9 - The End?

Chapter 9 - The End?

*** Achievement unlocked Kill 100 People ***

Kill 100 people

Reward: 1 bonus soul which gives +10 to each stat in D rank

Huh what? Did I really kill 100 people. This is my last chance

I think this as the doors get broken and guards rush into the house.

"Consume all" I said hoping that my stats will become C rank

*** Absorbing the souls held ***

x10 Weak commoner souls.

x1 Low-Medium rank soul

Strength +17

Dexterity +13

Stamina +14

Perception +16

*** STATUS WINDOW ***

Name: Arcan

Title: The Failure, Pentakill, Insane one

Strength D (47/100)

Dexterity D (44/100)

Perception D (40/100)

Stamina D (38/100)

** LOCKED **

Aura F (0/100)

Mana F (0/100)

*** SKILLS ***

Absorber D (53% proficiency) - can collect souls from people, monsters or other beings you kill and absorb the souls to gain a bigger portion of their original power or store them for use later.

Shit i guess I will die here. I feel scared? NO I WILL KILL AS MANY OF THEM AS POSSIBLE BEFORE MY DEATH. MY GOAL IS NOT TO EACAPE, BUT TO TAKE AS MANY WITH ME AS I CAN BEFORE DEATH.

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"You have been cough. Surrender and face justice" One of the guards shouts.

I pull out my sword from its sheave and hold it in one hand, my dagger in the other. I quickly lunge at the guard who spoke. He blocks my sword strike but my dagger goes though stabbing his chest, killing him. I instantly consume the soul

Stamina +1

"The slaughterer chose violence. Attack him." A person from outside the house shouts. Probably their leader.

There only fits 1 person though the door at a time and there are around 7 guards already in the house. I lunge at the first guard who blocks my attack, then dodge the 3 attacks that come at me from other guards. I look at the one nearest me and quickly lunge again showing clear intent to use my dagger. My eyes start to bleed bloody tears. I dodge the Spear strike, it only grazing my left side and throw my dagger at the guys head. The dagger sticks in his forehead. He falls over dead. Before I can think about my next move a sword stab comes at me. I try to dodge it but as i had no time to reach the attack connects and my chest gets pierced. Not fully, but the guard is pushing his sword forward. I quickly move back as to not get fully pierced, but an attack from the side come, which I manage to partly dodge.

My shoulder gets quite a big cut, but i am still alive. I lunge at the one who struck my chest. while running at him I block 2 swords attacks which come at me and dodge a spear strike, as I get close enough I kick him and it connects sending him a bit back and to the ground. I quickly strike him down by cutting of his head. Then by a hairs breath dodge an axe flying straight into my head.

Oh my fucking god. Give me room to breathe god fucking damm it.

3 People launch their attacks at me at the same time. 2 of them connect, because I block 1, the first attack pierces my arm fully and the other goes into belly. Leaving 2 big wounds. Blood starts gushing from them.

I quickly strike down the 2 guard which struck me as they weren't expecting me to attack them straight after getting him and start running to the window, which is near the door, but I get hit in the side my my own dagger. While running I also manage to strike down 1 more guard who was just coming into the building. As I jump though the glass window into the outside. Glass shatters everywhere and I see around 30 more guards.

"The fuck. There's so many of you here" I say while my body gets covered with glass shards

My eyes dart around. The blood tears start pouring more.

Half of the guards were with drawn bows and 5 knights were blocking my path If i run past the guards. Also there were around 10 people on the roofs. Each with a loaded longbow pointing straight to me. I quickly started climbing to the roof. Awaiting the arrow volley. the arrows started flying straight at me. The sounds of arrows were coming from everywhere. In a desperate attempt to survive I jumped to the side. more than half of the arrows missed, but the ones which connected stuck in deep.

I also saw all the guards without a bow starting to run towards me and the knights also started moving towards me. My eyes started darting around more. And I quickly pulled out my grappling hook, then used it to get up to the rooftops. More arrows managed to hit me while climbing, and some of the guards that were running towards me managed to slash my back. But I managed to get up. Then I started sprinting trying to survive leaving the grappling hook behind. While springing I pulled out my dagger from my side and sheaved it,

How the fuck am I alive. That doesn't matter SURVIVE. IF I SURVIVE I WILL MAKE THE SUFFER.

I heard shouting behind me

"Quickly after the porcupine. He is wounded. He can't go fast and he can't blend in with so many arrows in him.

All the guards that were on the roofs stated chasing me, but thankfully the moon was covered by clouds so you couldn't see properly on the roofs. After getting hit by 1 more volley of arrows I managed to get a bit of a distance between myself and my pursuers. I quickly dropped down to the alleys and ran to the one which had my house. then quickly got in. and went to the basement. Close the doors behind me and hid in the corner of the basement. I heard many shouts and people running around roofs

"Where the fuck did he go?"

"We had him on our tail"

"He couldn't have made it far. keep searching"

"He probably will bleed out but commander said to keep searching

After the guards ran to look elsewhere and it went quiet my eyes stopped glowing red. and my vision stated getting blurry. The many wounds in my body weren't bleeding as profusely as before, probably because there wasn't much blood left.

"Huh, so I guess this is how it ends" I say to myself as my body starts to go limp