85 The Hunter World (2)
Chapter 85: The Hunter World (2)
"Aie… I'll get us out of this…" Seraphina crawled to the fallen friend and dropped flat, unable to make a move forward.
But even though she was this tired and wounded, Seraphina bit her lips and forced even more leftovers of her energy reserves to leave this place.
She couldn't tell when enemies would co past them… she couldn't tell what this vast corridor's purpose was and what it was actually connected to.
But she knew that she had to move, that she couldn't lose consciousness.
Otherwise, it was really over.
"You silly woman…" Aie opened her eyes and lifted her torso, embracing Seraphina. "That wasn't an act, was it?"
"Huh?" Seraphina opened her eyes wide in Aie's nest, slowly connecting the dots…
Sensing that Seraphina had been serious all this ti and that her tears were genuine, Aie berated herself before getting up to her feet.
She then pulled Seraphina up and lent her her shoulder, helping the crimson-haired woman move toward the other end of the corridor. Aie also pushed a dicine into Seraphina's mouth before taking most of her weight onto herself.
"You're fine… which ans…" Seraphina whispered, her face turning ashen.
Aie sighed, "Hunter butted in the middle of my fight against the demon, then feigned a serious attack which he actually used to just send away from them… and then he made his spectacle."
"B-But…"
"We can't fight against him… at least yet," Aie looked ahead with bitterness, aware that people who had just beco hunters couldn't hunt the real monsters of this world yet.
In the anti, Seraphina replayed what had just occurred, reading into Hunter's words. Soon, she realized she was mistaken and stupid, carried away by her emotions.
Although it hurt her that she had reacted this way, warm tears slid down her cheeks. Hunter had done all this to keep them away from the demon's lair. It was now their turn to survive this predicant and notify others of what was happening there.
The strong hunters could only peek into this issue!
Still, they could not easily overco the last hurdle of the monsters scattered around this domain. There were so many of them, and the boss might also be on the lookout.
It was all a matter of the demon's whims.
However, Aie pointed out that Seraphina's hiding skill. It was an astonishing skill that was their only hope left.
Which ant that Seraphina needed to regenerate her mana to use it.
"I can share it with you. No, I must share it…" Seraphina made a decision.
"Can you? And you sure? It's your sister's present," Aie asked.
"Yes… we're friends and team… I want the three of us to hunt together again… I want to… apologize to Hunter, too," Seraphina held back her cries, "So we must survive this hell!"
Taking out one of her earrings, Seraphina passed it to Aie and whispered, "Take this… there's a skill book for The Invisibility Mantle Of Loki inside it. I always kept it close to myself… and the skill book has one more use, aning my elder sister must have predicted I would share it in the future."
Seraphina couldn't be more grateful.
But that was as far as the predicant of Aie and Seraphina went.
Noticing that soone was coming in, Aie put the simple and not eye-catching earring on before peeking into the darkness looming ahead of them, where steps had been rippling.
Soon, a woman whose face Aie had seen on the tablet made her appearance, flanked by two knights wielding long and black spears.
The woman in the middle was the owner of Region Fritz, Susan Valkoch. Unlike her knights, she was donning a long gown flowing gracefully on her figure, with her hair knitted by exquisite hairpin.
She didn't co here for a battle…
She wasn't even dirtied by blood or the forest…
The sa went for her knights.
'Those eyes!' Aie inwardly shouted, realizing what her stare ant. 'Just like those bastards back ho, she thinks we're already done!'
And then, her heart jumped to her throat as Aie sensed the knights' spear movent. One of them was going for her while another was aiming for Seraphina, who still failed to process that Susan Valkoch wasn't on their side.
Soon, blood was spilled once again.
"A-Aie!" Seraphina scread because Aie had leaned forward, catching the black spear with her hands, stopping the assault to save her...
Which ant that she didn't stop the spear thrusting for her vital spot.
Aie sneered with blood trickling down her chin, "She's gone through a lot already. Don't wound her."
Susan Valkoch looked into her eyes, "Fine."
"What are you doing?!" Seraphina mustered all strength she had to shout at the noble woman, only to realize from her emotionless eyes that she was working with demons…
…for many years, probably.
"Is this… the hunter world?" Seraphina weakly comnted as her head hung low, feeling entirely hopeless and powerless in this scenario.
It felt like the entire world was against them.
That there were only sches and that they were playing on people's hands while believing they were doing a good cause!
"This is The Hunter World," Susan Valkoch replied, "The world where people like you hunt until they hit an impregnable wall and get devoured by the stronger. Since you ca here with the famous male of this yearly exam, you were never ant to be the strongest."
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Getting dragged by Susan's knights, Aie and Seraphina entered the vast underground world, with the fulgent lake expanding across most of it.
There was a small island in the middle of it on which a tall tree stretched toward the ceiling, rolling down its branches across the entire expanse of the shining lake, casting shadows on it.
But that was as far as the good part about this world went.
The rest was more than horrific and cruel.
On those branches were won hanging with their wrists tied, hovering their bodies above the lake. So were naked, while so were kitted out in their respective clothes.
And that was what differed people here. Those who were naked were crying and screaming in agony, constantly apologizing and wishing for death.
Those who were clothed were forced to listen to those cries.
"What is this… cruel place?" Seraphina asked as she couldn't believe sothing like this existed this close to the union… and below one of the nobles' lands, at that.
Aie remained silent but was also disgusted by the scene.
"Susan? What brings you here?" A male demon called out the noble woman and her knights closer.
Susan looked around and asked, "Where is Lothar?"
"Lothar? Sigh! I thought I'd have a noble pussy for a dinner tonight! It's been a while, Susan! You could think more of being confined in this boring cave without anything good in sight! You only sit on when you need sothing!" The demon complained, shaking his head. "Where's my soda?! I asked for this three tis already, you bitches!"
"Even if I ca with intercourse in mind, you can't leave this lake yet as it's overseer. Your break is in a week…" Susan ignored the man's order for soda, "As far as I am concerned, I need at least six hours to leave a bed content."
"Haha! What do you need this ti, Susan?" The overseer rubbed his hands, "More monsters? More of their habits to make an easy mode for hunters coming to your lands? More poison samples for your stupid researchers and villagers who can't even do fractions? You're so kind welcoming us here I will gladly share more information in exchange for that juicy snatch of yours."
And it was only so precious because they were working together.
Should Susan lose her noble status, she would taste worse than shit, for she had already been smashed so many tis.
The demon guffawed as he thought about it!
"Because I'm risking a lot by giving you the star of this yearly exam so early… what I want is more precious now," Susan spoke in a sharp and confident voice… as if that mattered here.
The demon leaned forward, only to turn around as one of his demonesses brought a plate with a glass of soda on it! He took it with twinkling eyes, drank it in one go, and then smashed the empty glass on the demonesses' head.
"Making call for soda three tis! Bitch! You better be in my bed when I get a break!"
"If I happen to be late, I shall kill myself to not soil The Queen Lilith's na, Master Gilmore!"
"Good bitch! You see how lucky you are that you fucking succubi finally got soone with a head on her shoulders?! If it weren't for Lilith, you wouldn't be one of the thirteen lineages of the Demon World! You would still be under Lord Asmodeus, and a piece of shit like you wouldn't have a chance to be in my demon unit! Now, turn around!"
The skimpy-clothed demoness turned around to receive a slap on her ass from her master.
And then, Master Gilmore harrumphed, "Fuck off my sight now." He turned to Susan, "So? As you heard, we will have so guests in a week. Now, tell what you want?"
"I want to expand my Region Fritz," Susan's eyes glead with a thirst for land.
Hearing this request, Aie narrowed her eyes, 'Yes… the royal competition is soon… they will fight for more lands in a friendly competition, with no sches behind it! As if I would believe it now… so this waste of a noble wants a demon's power to win so land…'
Gilmore had a similar thinking process, "I'll have to consult that with Lothar… he might join our bed, which I dislike, but your request is a little too much! It also depends on how good that man is. Anyway, these two are his companions, right? Let's hang them without touching them! See, Susan? Unlike you, won of this shitty world that is only treasure because of big brother Lucifer, we, n, have a few precious won in our hearts! If our new friend treasures them, he will grow to hate his seniors! I don't want that! I will keep them hanging intact on the tree's branch and have them talk with our little prey here! That much is fine! He will understand ! Haha!"
Following this order, the tree extended one of its many branches, scooping up Aie and Seraphina. They were soon hanging above the lake.
And one of their neighbors turned out to be quite loud…
"Susan Valkoch! Co up here! I will cast a curse at you! Y-you! You! You dummy!"
She was an orange-haired girl who had just turned of age.
Keeping most of her face hidden beneath the big hat, she wore a white witch-like attire inspired by a gothic the. She was much shorter compared to ripe Aie and Seraphina, and on top of her loud voice and childish curses, she acted quite spoiled, looking like their boisterous little sister.
"Just call her a bitch and be over with it," Aie complained.
"W-what?! It's unbecoming of a lady like to use such words!"
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