"Looks like our first group got torn into bloody jerky."
"FUUUUuuuuCK!"
Exclaimed the man as he and his teammates observed the gruesome scenery in front of them. Within charred ground and half-burning woods lay a single intact corpse of the thing surrounded by mangled and crushed bodies of the first group.
"Poor guy used to joke about his new toy."
The tallest guy in their group pulled out a large machete that nailed the severed head of a man on the tree trunk. "Heh heh, he won't be needing that anymore." the smiling man took his newly found prize.
"Jaesang! stop looting the corpses and come here!" yells an amplitude-bodied man, one who is a little shorter than the one called Jaesang; he is standing around an unknown corpse. He seems to be the culprit of the massacre.
"Captain Ash, what kind of thing are we seeing ?" Asked a lean man with green and white camo paint on his face as he tried to touch the thing in front of the group.
The thing had the appearance of an almost naked tall human with no hair and a long face with a lean muscular build and a staggering height of over two meters.
"Shen, don't touch it! Damn, is that a child soldier?"
"Yes, feel that skin. It feels like touching the skin of a little kid, fucking creepy. "
But despite having such a body, one could see the thing's uncanny resemblance to a five or six years old child. As if someone took a child and forcefully grew its body.
"Wow, look at the size of this thing!" A man with a black mask placed his gun on his holster and reached towards the weapon lying beside the thing.
"Sheesh! What kind of gun is that? This thing is almost thicker than my torso. A Rifle?" exclaimed the man placing the gun on the ground and comparing its size to his body.
"Heck no, Pierce! Look at its stubby barrel and stock. That looks like some kind of an smg." said Shen while pointing at the weapon's short barrel and rifle-like stock.
"SMG?! Shen? Have you ever seen an smg use a bullet like this ?" Pierce tried to pull the cocking handle of the weapon and show its bullet. *Huck?!* but failed to pull the handle and ended up stuck mid-way.
"Heh, give it here Pierce and let me handle it. It looks like they finally understood how to make a gun for real men like me." Seeing Pierce's hand start to shake as it lost its strength, Jaesang took a step forward and, with one smooth motion, pulled the charging handle of the gun, ejecting the bullet.
Grabbing the ejected bullet in mid-air, Pierce took one look at its size, which was the size of his palm, and replied, "Bullshit, we all know you got a passive body strengthening skill. But damn, this thing is big."
"Hey, Kintoki. Do you read anything with your skill?" Ash asked the last member of his team.
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"Nothing, captain. Appraise skill shows a screen with completely blank space with no information whatsoever." Said Kintoki.
"That is some horror movie shit, right there! It must be the work of that second earth society. I heard they began to search for a way to hunt us 'Hunters' after the appearance of the dungeons. This thing must be their latest weapon against hunters. Yes! that must bUCK!!" Ash gave a hard slap on the back side of Pierce's head, halting his weird thought before it went out of control.
"Shut up, Pierce! I always warned you about going easy on that bullshit conspiracy theory! There is no such thing as a secret society that controls countries from the darkness. Because of our mission."
They are a unique team made up of hunters chosen by the Hunter Association to destroy hidden facilities made by the collaboration of the US and Chinese governments working on a secret project that is a solution to the ever-growing 'problem' of hunters and hunter associations.
But they quickly faced a problem as they were supposed to meet up with the first team and agent and then raid the hidden facility, according to the intelligence. But the so-called first team they were supposed to meet was turned into ground beef by a slender man looking thing. Now he could only pray the agent was still alive.
"Oh yeah, what is the project they are working on again ?"
"It's called project Patriot."
*Pffft!* Immediately, they began to laugh as if they had heard the funniest thing.
"Hahaha! The fucking hypocrisy of these freeloaders."
"True, true. Even now, it's still funny hearing these maggots have the audacity to use such a word."
"HEY! HEY! IS THERE ANYONE HERE?" Hearing the voice, the team immediately sprang to action and pointed their guns toward the source of the sound. They only saw an empty space.
"Kintoki!"
"Yes, sir!" Quickly Kintoki swept the area using his 'Appraisal.' but found nothing.
"Sir, I !"
"It's No use, soy boy." In the following sentence, a faint humanoid figure materialized in front of the team, eventually becoming a man dressed in a near-transparent cloak.
"Who the hell is this guy?" Jaesang lowered his weapon and asked Ash.
"Name is Willheim, C+ rank hunter from Europe's Hunter Association. Skill is 100 faces." the man took off his coak showing his half-beaten face.
"Hey, then what's is that coat you were wearing ?" his other team members asked, curious about the coat Willheim was using.
"Oh, this? It's part of something called tactical recon armor. I stole it from the armory on my way to escape."
"So you are our agent, then do you know what that thing is?"
"It must be Patriot, right ?"
"Oh, that thing on the ground? That thing is something called Bandersnatch. It is something they made using leftover parts from the main project. Because it was something made in a hurry by a bunch of lunatics, it went berserk and killed everyone in the base before escaping into the forest and ended up facing the first team."
"Bandersnatch? That's a stupid fucking name for glorified trash."
"Yeah, sure, it's made using leftover material, after all. But! It's left over from a project funded by two of the strongest nations on earth. This thing is a genetically engineered biodroid with a shit ton of experimental bionic augmentations."
"Reinforced skeleton made of a new type of alloy called Meldium, a mix of Titanium and Mythril, enhanced muscle fibers, a second heart, and a bunch of other shits wrapped up in a skin made of shock absorbing material with a special defensive cream under it. Small and medium arms and explosives won't do jack shit! Unless you get lucky and hit its eyes or inside its mouth, which you won't!"
"Then how come your so-called biodroid is lying there, dead ?"
"The thing's faulty brain literally fried after overworking itself." Willheim moved the thing's head to the side and showed a trail of dried blood on each of its ears.
"But there are three more back in the facility."
After hearing there are three more of those things in the base, Shen asked in confusion, "Can't we just bomb those things along with its base?"
"Nope, not gonna work. You know the reason behind all of us being C+ rank hunters is because there is an invisible barrier around this place that is made by those lunatics which completely insolates any kind of electronics and cripples Rank B Hunters or those with more than two skills."
"Now, let's go to that facility. I got a plan."