-Vol 5: A New Life-

-Massacre(1)-

The bright yellow light emerging from the body of the little girl was a clear indication that she was going to awaken a skill. A very powerful and probably something magic related. But awakening a skill was always a dangerous process as it was a thing related to one’s soul. Often it was advised to have a clear mind when the skill was about to awaken, especially those magic skills. It would prevent the newly forming magic lines from going berserk inside the body and potentially damaging it.

Unlike those non-magic skills, the magic skill didn’t need an extreme situation to awaken. They would do on their own when the body was strong enough or under the assistance of another magic skill user. Akari’s was the same too, before completing her middle school, when her school had conducted a [Awakening Cerimony] she had awakened her skill under the supervision of a very powerful magic skill user. It was the same for many children, usually, the ruling government, whether it was a powerful guild or the DCB, they would always conduct these ceremonies to find talents for themselves.

Why?

Because; there could never be too many hunters.

Those at the top knew that if all the monsters from dungeons and openly roaming ones were to be added, each hunter would be outmatched at a ratio of 100000:1 and that’s a liberal calculation. Earth encountered its change for only a hundred years, compared to monsters whose breeding rate was yet to confirmed, humans had a fixed one. Sometimes, it also lessens…a phenomenon, seen in those people who passed a certain level.

It's not that they become impotent, quite the contrary, their seeds or eggs just become too strong to be work together with normal humans. That’s why when one reaches a higher level, finding an ideal partner was very hard for them. The ruling government of each region would always promote hunters to marry and have children before they surpass level 100. After all, everyone knew level 100 was the dividing gate that separates normal hunters and super hunters, down to their very genes.

From the look of panic on the girl’s face, it was clear that she didn’t know what was happening with her. She only wants to run away from here, to her mom and dad. Kenshin frowned when he noticed the worsening state of the girl, if he didn’t stop her and calm her down, she might probably die due to her current predicament.

“I have to help her!” Kenshin made his mind. He wasn’t a cruel person. Although he disliked getting involved in problems and being ordered around, that didn’t mean he wouldn’t help someone who was in need if he had the capability to. Clearly, saving this girl was within his capability, so he must do it. That’s the kind of mentality Kenshin was going with since the appearance of that weird umbrella that represented his evolved Intent.

With just a step, he appeared beside the girl whose eyes were glazed over due to her anxiousness and fear of something, Kenshin could guess what that fear was. But she was still able to run with all her might.

Extending his arm, he grabbed the girl’s shoulders and pulled her inside one of the classes before channeling his magic power into her body to stabilize her own. After pulling her inside the class, he noticed that she was already unconscious, but her desire to flee was driving her all this while and her skill to also had a hand in it.

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As his overbearing magic passed through the newly formed magic channels inside her body, the berserk magic in her body was forcibly suppressed and slowly seized to further damage her body and leak out. With her magic energy suppressed, all that remains was fully awakening of her skill. Kenshin waited patiently for the process to complete. It was not like she had a system that would insta-active her skill.

Kenshin sat beside the sleeping girl with his legs crossed and observed her facial features. She was indeed cute but not as cute as his sister. Besides, her face was also not completely Asian, she seemed to have some mixed blood in her veins. Either her mother or her father was a westerner.

He also bought a cloak from the system store and draped it over her while she slept. This cloak was an item that had the ability to soothe one’s magic fluctuations. This cloak only coasted him less than 10 golds. Despite that, the girl’s brows remained furrowed as if she had a bad dream. Kenshin was clear that she was at a critical stage now, knowledge about her skills was downloading to her brain right now. The skill would complete its awakening process anytime now.

“Hey! Did you see where that girl went?” a voice was heard from beyond the classroom, along with the footsteps of a few people. Opening his map, Kenshin found five people were in the hallway, moving erratically here and there.

“Negative boss.”

“Goddamit! Search her! She is about to awaken a skill, she can’t go too far. That girl, I want him alive…I will take revenge of this scar she left on my face.” The voice was angry as if the culprit had done some unspeakable sins to him.

“Yes, Boss!”

“Hmph! How far that weak little girl can run? I am pretty sure she was hiding at one of these classes, search everywhere.”

“Boss! Look there's light coming out of one of those rooms. She must be there.”

“What a foolish girl, she switched on the light even when going to hide. Everyone go and catch that girl for me.”

“Yes!”

In the hallway, a group of five people wearing only their underwears and showing their ugly and hairy, fat bodies were talking excitedly. Amidst them was a brown colored man that looked the ugliest. His fat and the chubby body were filled with long body hairs, like that of a gorilla’s. He was also bald. His face was also chubby, and his eyes were reduced to slits by his fat face. He had a black mole big enough to cover half of his forehead, hairs could be seen sticking out of it. On his right cheek was a big slanted scar that looked like it was made by something sharp. Thought it had stopped bleeding, the flesh within was completely visible to everyone. Yellow colored pus was also coming out of that scar, an indication of how frightening that scar was.

His mouth was filled with yellow teeth and probably smells a lot with how unclean it was. The others around him were also somewhat the same body structure as well as facial features. But, even though they were fat and chubby, none of them seemed too tired. Its as if they were simply walking ta their own pace.

The fatty with a scar signaled to one of his subordinates to go inside the room and bring him the girl. Nodding his head, the one of the underwear wearing man opened the sliding gate to the classroom and entered.

The fatty and his underwear squad were all held a sickening grin on their faces. They were thinking of how to torture this girl after capturing her, now that she had awakened a skill, they were also thinking of making her their teams pet. Nonetheless, they were all filled with immoral thoughts for the girl.

*Crack*Boom!!

With a loud booming noise, the man who had just entered flew back embedded into the opposite wall like wall paint. His body twitched for a few seconds before stopping altogether. Life or death was unknown.

At that time, from within the class, a man wearing soldier clothes and mask stepped out and looked at them while closing the door behind him. After that, he turned around and walked slowly step by step towards the group of underwear wearing men. Both his fists clenched as a red aura burst out of them.

This made his intentions clear as day to these people.