Hunter Of The Six Realms
Chapter 54: Losing Emotions

Chapter 54: Losing Emotions

Chapter 53

Thirty minutes later

"How? I’ve never once lost a fight. Just how the hell did this happen?" The girl breathed shakily. Kaizen had her neck pinned against a tree trunk, her mouth bleeding and her eyes wide with shock. And as for Kaizen, he seemed oddly calm for someone who’d just fought nonstop for thirty minutes his eyes were cold as he glared at her, his fingers tightening around her neck.

"You were overconfident, that’s the reason you lost." Kaizen replied, his eyes which had previously turned blue now slowly clearing up.

He hadn’t won with any flashy techniques. He just focused on speeds and raw strength. He needed to destabilize the focus of the eyeball, make it unable to predict his attacks. And the only way to do that was to attack without a target in mind. Just destroy everything in his path.

And during the fight, he discovered something he never knew he could weild, lightening.

He avoided using any elements and just focused on strength and speed, but suddenly, he felt something new cursing through his veins, something much more powerful than any of the elements he weilded, and that was when he decided to let go and stop holding it back.

Instantly, his speed doubled, his eyes became shaper, turning blue as his hair stood up like he was being electrocuted.

The tendrils couldn’t keep up with his speed, and the power of his punches were doubled, leaving double the damage they already caused. The earth cracked, and the girls face had lit up in horror as she tried hard to block his attacks till she eventually gave up.

As Kaizen held her pinned against the tree, she suddenly bursted out laughing. "So you think you’ve won? Think again little boy."

As soon as she said that, several tendrils pierced through her and straight into Kaizen’s heart. It was so sudden, and he didn’t even sense them coming, least of all did he expect she’d pierce through herself just to get to him.

Kaizen coughed, spitting out blood as his fingers instinctively released from around her neck, letting her lose will the other clutched the wound on his chest.

"You, that’s a cowardly move, bitch."

"Anything to win." She smirked, wiping blood off her mouth as the tendrils withdrew and the wound on her chest began healing.

"So, how do you feel? The poison might take some time to act but, very soon...you won’t feel your limbs anymore. You might be dead before then though, that no way you’d survive that injury." She said with a mocking nonchalant tone, walking closer to him, but then she stopped in her tracks, her eyes widening when she saw the large hole in his chest had already began healing, black shadows sipping through it.

"What the...what are you?" It made no sense, not even healers could heal injuries made to the core. The core of every magic weilder was inside the heart itself, any injury made to the heart also affected the core, unless it wasn’t deep enough to reach the core. But she had clearly pierced the tendrils deep enough to pass through and even come out from his back.

Kaizen’s system blinked before his eyes,

[DANGER ALERT: ONLY TWO REVIVAL CHANCES LEFT.

AFTER CHANCES HAVE BEEN USED, HOST WILL DIE FROM ANY MORE SEVERE INJURIES.]

[WARNING: WITH EVERY REVIVAL, A BIT OF YOUR EMOTION IS LOST.]

So three chances of revival huh, that’s pretty fair to me. But, my emotions...i actually feel, different.

The texts blinked and changed.

[HARMFUL POISON DETECTED, NOT LIFE THREATENING BUT IT WILL IMMOBILIZE HOST.]

[WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUILD IMMUNITY TO POISON?]

"Yes."

[PROCESS COMPLETE. POISON SAMPLE HAS BEEN ADDED TO SHOP ITEMS.]

Finally, Kaizen raised his eyes to look up at her, dead and cold. And instinctively, she backed away. "That hurt. I almost died you know."

Immediately, without wasting a second, she turned around, wanting to escape. No one had to explain to her what exactly she was up against, that thing, whatever he was...he wasn’t human nor beast. And she knew she stood no chance against him. But just as she tried to move, a shadowy hand stretched from Kaizen towards her, holding her shoulders and stoping her movement.

"I already counted you among my points, it’d be a waste to let you go. Why don’t you keep me company for a bit?" He said coldly, a smirk forming on his lips.

"Please... please don’t kill me. I admit defeat." Her voice trembled as she spoke, tears forming inside her eyes.

Kaizen manipulated the shadow, drawing her closer to him and turning her around to face him. "Well, didn’t you hear what I just said? What a waste would it be to let an A-rank Beast just go like that."

She stared at him, quiet for a moment as she observed him, then she spoke."What happened to you? You sound different, you seem different, you also evolved during our fight, only Beats can evolve, and that’s only after they consumed mana from hunters. But you, what in the world are you?" Her voice was barely above a whisper, trembling as she glared at him with both a pleading and shocked expression.

Kaizen’s expression softened when he realized exactly what was going on, what he’d just said to hee, that wasn’t in his nature. He has never felt pity for anyone who wronged him, he always made sure to pursue revenge with any chance he got, but the one thing that could change his mind was when one pleaded to be spared.

Be it human or Beast, his nature didn’t allow him to kill anything that conceded defeat during a fight with him. But just now, her pleading didn’t get to him.

He still wanted to kill her even though she’d just begged him not to. Something had definitely changed, and by all means, he needed to avoid being killed for a second time, or he might become something more heartless than he was already turning.

He quickly released her, withdrawing the shadow and turning away from her. "Go."