I Became a Hunter with the Heavenly Slaughter Star Trait. - Chapter 78

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Episode 78

Episode 78

-Piiiiiiiiik!!!!!

As soon as I blow the whistle,

-Grrrrr….

Cerberus emerges from the shadows.

“…So you were acting cocky because you trusted your summon!”

Though seeming flustered,

the orc soon shouts and draws his axe.

The other bastards, swept up by that shout,

also draw their respective weapons.

No, why does everyone think I’m acting cocky because I trust this guy?

Judging by appearances alone, that’s not a good habit, is it?!

“I’ll slaughter you both!!!”

The orc’s roar echoes through the air.

-Kraaaaa!!!

-Uoooooo!!!

The bastards become spirited, as if they used a buff skill.

“Black.”

-Grrrrr….

“Drive these fuckers from behind.”

-Grrrrrr!

“If you let even one bastard escape, there’ll be no snacks or anything.”

At those last words, Cerberus swiftly leaps up.

-Whoooosh!

A massive shadow swoops over and past them.

-Kuuuung!!!

With Cerberus taking the rear after landing,

I drew the Severing Catastrophe.

“Kahahaha! Even your summon is tucking its tail and running!”

What kind of novel bullshit is this now?

“I don’t know if you’re crazy or what, but I admire your courage!”

The orc bastard grins, baring his tusks.

“As a reward for making me laugh, I’ll hang your head on the city wall!”

“Who will?”

“I will personally….”

“How?”

“Uh…?”

The orc’s eyes grow wider and wider.

And then,

-Pshhhh!!!!!

Dark red blood spurts from the bastard’s neck.

“Wha…t….”

The orc grabs his own nape.

“Ah, it’d be better if you didn’t do that.”

Then,

-Thud!!!!

The orc’s head rolls straight to the ground.

“…Oh my.”

That’s why when someone’s talking, you should listen to the end.

The cleanly severed head rolls across the ground.

With the torso still standing upright,

-Shaaaaaaak!!!!!

it sprayed hot blood high like a fountain.

Red blood soaking the snowy field.

“What the hell….”

“Wa, wait a minute….”

Bewilderment.

And terror.

That expression when something you never even imagined happens.

The remaining orcs,

and the faces of all the other races standing before me contort.

-Pshhhh!!!!

Next to the orc whose head was first severed,

blood spurts from the crown of another orc who was closest.

-Pshaaaah!!!!!

The belly of the smallest orc standing on the opposite side tears open, spilling his guts.

It all happened almost simultaneously.

-Thump!!!

-Plop!!!

The orcs collapse.

In an instant, the number of corpses increased to three.

“Wha, what?!”

“What the hell is happening?!!”

“R, run!!!”

The snowy field begins to turn into chaos.

They can’t help but be confused.

To their eyes, all of this must have seemed to happen simultaneously.

But strictly speaking, it wasn’t simultaneous.

3 seconds.

Actually, the first to die wasn’t the one whose neck was cut.

-Tick.

After stabbing the crown of the orc on the left to kill him, I activated [Killing Time].

-Tock.

Cut the neck of the spirited bastard,

-Tick.

Finally slashed open the belly of the remaining bastard.

-Tock.

Returned to my original position,

-Tick.

Until the bastards realized their own ‘death’.

-Tock.

I even waited for them!

I could follow the entire flow of time thanks to [Killing Time]’s effect,

but to everyone except me, it was a split second that ended in the blink of an eye.

Because of that,

to them, this could only feel like a natural disaster as sudden as lightning.

“Wa, waaaaaaaah!!!!”

Unlike when they each drew their weapons, now they were in complete chaos.

“Monster! It’s a monster!!!!!”

Screaming, the remaining remnants began to flee.

“Kill the summoner first!!!”

But it was all pointless.

Moreover,

there was something they were gravely mistaken about.

“We have to kill that guy to make the summon disappear!!!!”

They thought it was obviously Cerberus who had instantly killed the three orcs.

All sorts of bastards avoided Cerberus and rushed at me instead.

“Wow…”

I clicked my tongue watching that scene.

“…Their situational awareness is this bad?”

At this point, it was admirable.

“Let’s finish this.”

My vision flashed red.

Dizziness?

No.

It was because there were too many weak points visible thanks to [Execution Eye].

There were dozens of bastards charging at me,

and each one didn’t have just one weak point,

but at least five each,

so my vision had to flash.

-Thunk!!!!

I held my hand axe and stabbed my sword into the jaw of the lizardman charging at me first.

-Guhuk!!!

Blood piercing through his mouth.

-Thunk! Thunk!! Thunk!!!

I stabbed his heart several times just like that.

-Thwack!

Before blood could splatter, I kicked the lizardman’s body away,

-Kraak!

When I threw my sword at the forehead of a gnoll staggering after being hit by the lizardman’s corpse,

-Shaaaak!!!!

The gnoll couldn’t even make a sound and collapsed, spurting blood from his nose.

-…!!!!

The hobgoblin who froze seeing that scene,

-Slash!

I lightly cut his Achilles tendon.

-Kiaaaaak!!!

I finished by stabbing my sword into his screaming mouth.

Like that,

three more died in an instant.

-Hesitate…

-Flinch…

Seeing that scene with horror,

the vermin instinctively stepped back.

-R-run…

-Run away!!

As expected,

they turned their backs and began to flee.

‘…I knew this would happen.’

Sigh.

I let out a light sigh and

shifted my gaze far away

to Cerberus holding position in the rear.

Thanks to eating and resting well during this time,

not only Geumjjok-i but also Lefty and Righty looked energetic.

-Grrrrrrrrr…

Three heads baring their teeth and growling as if warning.

“Black!!!”

I shouted toward them.

“Just scrape off some blood moderately!”

-Woof! Woof woof!

As if they’d been waiting,

Cerberus began tearing apart the different races with sharp claws.

Fortunately, whether they remembered what I said,

they didn’t kill them.

They were just ripping off arms and legs.

‘Since there are quite a few, it’d be easier to just sweep them all at once.’

Killing them one by one wasn’t bad either.

But if I processed them all at once for a quick clear,

the probability of getting an Achievement would increase.

Fortunately, I had the right skill for it.

-Slash!!

-Slice!!!

-Crack crack crack!!!

The mobs whose health had dropped to 30% or below

died instantly.

Corpses that couldn’t even scream rolled on the ground.

-Guhuk!!!

-Kraaaaaaak!!!

Even the ones who barely survived with over 30% health

weren’t in good shape.

Most of them already had their limbs torn off.

It might have been better to die from [Fatal Slash].

-Step, step…

I personally went around to the ones still alive,

-Stab!!

stabbing each heart one by one,

-Crack!!

and smashing each head one by one.

-Smash!

After crushing the last hobgoblin’s skull and looking around,

-Whooooo…

I could see the fierce snowstorm gradually subsiding.

“Phew.”

I took off the fire rat hat and put it in my inventory, then

“Black!”

I called Cerberus.

Cerberus came running over energetically.

-Huff! Huff! Huff!

All three heads had their tongues hanging out,

with incredibly excited expressions.

Hmm,

is this like some kind of walk?

I think I saw something like this on 【There Are No Bad Dogs in the World】.

They said you have to walk dogs every day.

That’s how you fulfill their activity needs to make them happy?

-Huff! Huff! Huff!

Cerberus wagged its tail enthusiastically.

Every time that huge tail wagged,

the corpses hit by the tail rolled around everywhere.

“Yeah, you worked hard too.”

-Woof!

“Thanks to you, we didn’t miss a single one.”

It was also funny watching those guys mistake Cerberus for the ‘real’ one.

-Rub rub rub!

I raised my arm high to scratch Cerberus’s neck,

-Thud.

I heard something landing behind me.

What?

I definitely killed them all.

-Swish.

When I turned around,

“Huh?”

It’s the Masked Person.

Right.

That person had telekinesis skills.

Just like they did for me, they must have come down using telekinesis on themselves.

-Clap clap clap!

The Masked Person clapped.

Is that praise?

“Haha…”

I laughed awkwardly.

Behind me were piles of countless corpses.

It’s definitely not a pretty picture.

-Clap clap clap clap!

But the Masked Person didn’t seem to care,

and continued clapping for me.

“Th, thank you.”

-Shake shake.

The Masked Person shook their head.

As if they hadn’t done anything at all.

“This is all thanks to you getting down safely…”

-Shake shake.

They shook their head again.

-Swoosh.

They pointed at me with their fingertip.

-Snap!

Then the Masked Person gave me a thumbs up.

“…The best?”

-Nod nod.

Haha.

Well now.

This is more embarrassing than words.

“But why don’t you speak…”

-BOOM!

That’s when it happened.

-Bang!

-BOOM BOOM!

Fireworks announcing the City Wall Team’s victory burst in the sky.

Ooh.

It’s even more spectacular than the Yeouido fireworks?

I looked up at the sky for a moment, then turned my head back.

“Huh?”

For some reason, the ‘Masked Person’ had already disappeared.

Did they already return?

‘Huh…’

I didn’t even get to see them open their box.

Why are they so fast?

“…Tsk.”

That’s kind of disappointing?

I should have at least asked for their name.

I was scratching the back of my head when,

-Shiiine!

A reward box appeared to console my disappointment.

“Ooh!”

This reward box is diamond grade.

That’s natural.

Literally, I swept the entire map by myself.

-Click.

I opened the box without hesitation.

“…?”

And I was confused.

“What is this…?”

An eraser.

A very ordinary eraser at that.

White and rectangular.

A cute little eraser that fits perfectly in one hand.

…I can’t really tell what it is just by looking at it,

but since it came from a diamond box, it must be good, right?

‘Should I test it…’

Let’s see.

A suitable item…

“Hmm.”

[Echo Walker] catches my eye.

Ooooh!!!

I can erase the [7-second cooldown]?!

Then that means I can teleport instantly without any restrictions?!

Wow.

Right now [Echo Walker] is probably around A-grade.

If I erase the [7-second cooldown], it’ll go straight to S-grade.

This is basically an upgrade, isn’t it?

“This is amazing…”

But wouldn’t it be a waste to use it on [Echo Walker]?

Even with the 7-second cooldown, it’s already a sufficiently good item.

“I’ll save it for later.”

I put the [Eraser] into my inventory.

The higher grade an item is, the more restrictions and conditions it has.

It would be better to save it for that purpose.

In the case of legendary items, most of them have racial conditions attached.

Especially,

there are many elf-exclusive legendary weapons and such.

If I get something like that and erase the condition [Elf Exclusive]?

Something like [Spirit Sword of the First Emperor] – I could wield that myself.

“Keuuu.”

Amazing.

Of course, I’d need to actually obtain a legendary weapon first to use it.

But anyway, that’s how good it is.

Kya,

this, this,

the harvest is way too good for just coming out to warm up lightly, isn’t it?

“Hehehe.”

I pressed the return button with a big grin on my face.

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