Chapter 12 - Hunting the Bloody Killer

It has been over a week, exactly 10 days, since Han Sen returned to the Sanctuary of God and was hunting primitive beasts recklessly. His daily life revolved around it, hunting practically 16 hours a day every single day, and only returning home on weekends. But he no longer intended to sell his Beast Souls purely for money or any elaborate plan. He was doing this for two purposes.

EXP and Connections.

The EXP part was something that didn't require much explanation. He urgently needed it to raise the level of his skills, especially the two new ones, Hardware Engineering and Software Engineering. It was extremely necessary for his immediate future, especially considering that the knowledge he had now couldn't necessarily be called supreme. A robotics professor from a regular college would know as much as he did, but not in such a comprehensive and profound way. He gained about 2740 EXP during this week. A total of 2856 EXP if you count what was left after updating the two new skills to level 2.

And as for connections, he meant selling and negotiating the things he earned on these hunts. Since he didn't need either the Beast Souls or the meat, he sold everything he could without affecting the market. This helped him get closer to many different people and groups within the shelter, obtaining a lot of necessary information.

What he couldn't sell, he fed to Little Snake. A fond nickname for his guinea pig. Or guinea snake?

Leaving his room in the Shelter, Han Sen walked through the busy streets and greeted some people he knew. As a charismatic person, and without a deplorable nickname like Ass Freak, he made friends with many people here and was recognized in society. Not much, but it was something.

"Super Novice" was his nickname, as it hadn't been long since he started hunting primitive beasts. It wasn't a rare thing, actually quite common among wealthy newcomers, but Han Sen was different because he was poor like everyone else. He quickly climbed the ranks without relying on his abundant wealth to do so.

As soon as he arrived at the gate, he saw a huge group of people gathered, clearly separated into three groups. One group had the beautiful Qin Xuan leading, the other had the so-called Fist Guy, and lastly, the least important of all, was the one speaking nonsense on an improvised podium: Son of A Pussy.

He was not an idiot and remembered what this was about. It was the beginning of the hunt for the Bloody Killer, a Blood Sacred level creature they managed to find. As it was a beast a little more powerful than usual, they decided to gather the three main groups of the Steel Armor Shelter to have a better chance of achieving the goal. After all, the last time didn't go very well and many people died on the hunt.

"As everyone is ready, let's move forward!" Son of A Cock immediately gave his command and summoned a mount Beast Soul, which had the form of a triceratops. He went ahead, along with Qin Xuan and Fist Guy, leading the way while others followed closely behind him.

Han Sen, silently watching all of this from the gate, felt something strange inside of him. His lips trembled a bit and he could feel a smile forming on his face. Soon this smile turned sinister and he almost couldn't control himself.

"I hate my greed..." He complained deeply.

And went after them.

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On top of a hill, Han Sen was watching the massacre taking place down below. He was wearing a completely black armor that hid him in the shadow of the rocks. He wouldn't wear the flashy golden armor just for the sake of it. The defense of this current armor might be low, but it was the best he had for hiding.

Meanwhile, the Bloody Killer was swinging his ax and chopping off limbs like it was a normal thing. With a cow's head, a human chest, and a horse's lower limbs, he was a powerful Sacred-Blood beast worthy of the rank.

In its frenzy, being surrounded and shot by several people, it ran towards the main source of pain, which was the Son of A Cunt, and used the double-bladed axe to try to kill this human. Slashing down, its rage mixed with a furious roar, using all the strength it had. But, to its misfortune, Son of An Ass used his own Beast Soul as a way to dodge.

"MUUU!"

BANG!

With blood and guts everywhere, the triceratops was sliced in half, meaning the Son of A Hole had lost a mutated mount beast soul permanently. His angry face was also enough to let everyone know that he felt this loss deeply. Or rather, his pocket felt it.

”Looking closer now, it really made sense when people said they were impossible beasts to hunt alone...” Han Sen was looking at the huge crack that was left in the ground after the Bloody Killer cut its axe there. Every movement of its body was explosive and deadly, just the air blown by the blows was enough to destabilize someone who had full mutant genes. This was the true power of a Sacred Blood beast.

While he was lost observing the power of that fusion between centaur and minotaur, it used the superior strength to crush its way out of the siege. With the amount of damage it was receiving from sword and arrow attacks, it knew it wouldn't last much longer on the battlefield. It was either flee or die.

"No way, you bitch!" Son of A Butt was furious with this creature for making him lose his mutant mount. And now it wanted to escape, under his nose? Not even if he were dead!!

Furiously summoning a green beast soul in the shape of an eagle, he transformed it into a green iron bow in the hand. Then, he summoned a fiery beast soul in the form of a giant wasp with six wings as his arrow. His aim was already set.

Qin Xuan saw that arrow and squinted her eyes. That arrow was a Sacred-Blood Beast Soul of a Six-Winged Wasp. They had hunted that beast together, all three groups, and Son of A Cockroach really hid that he had gained that one-time use Beast Soul.

"Son of Heaven, stop! It's a beast soul that can only be used once. If you couldn't kill it..." Luo Tianyang wanted to stop him, but it was too late.

Releasing the arrow from the bow, the sound of its powerful shockwave echoed in the surroundings as it was launched like a rocket towards the Bloody Killer.

Bang! Swoosh!

With a rumbling noise, the arrow quickly approached its target. At the last moment, sensing imminent danger and death approaching, the Bloody Killer prevented the arrow from hitting the heart. Instead, it pierced the center of the chest and ripped out all the flesh and blood there. With strength fading, its legs stumbled to the ground below and its imposing figure came crashing to earth. The life force was slowly leaking out, death already knocking at the door.

Qin Xuan, who was further back, wasn't too interested in finding out whether the creature had died or not, when she saw a black line hit the body of the Bloody Killer on the ground. And to her dismay, she soon saw two more lines, one gray and one red as fire. In fact, it was fire!

"How dare you kill my mount? There's no way I--" Son of A Pig was about to celebrate when a sound of explosion interrupted everything.

BAAAANGG!

With the dust cloud that was raised, the explosion made the surroundings confused and everyone covered their ears with the sudden shock. But not everyone had to do it, since some only felt a slight pain due to their high amount of gene points.

Son of A Horse was about to complain when he, along with everyone else there, saw a golden figure fall from the sky, its imposing figure suddenly rising over three meters high. With a swing of his axe, the dust cloud was torn in half and everything was pushed away. What was revealed was the Bloody Killer wearing golden armor, the sharp axe in his hands.

"MUUUUUUUU!!!" His roar was much more powerful than before, this time forcing everyone to cover their ears so they wouldn't go deaf. Only Qin Xuan, Fist Guy, and Son of A Cow were looking in pure shock at the beast that should be dead by now.

But when their attentive gazes finally analyzed the image properly, they saw that the body of the Bloody Killer was on the ground, dead as it should be. But if he was dead, then…

Before they could recover from the shock, the Golden Bloody Killer took the dead body from the ground and placed it on his shoulders, quickly riding away. It wasn't until a few seconds later that it all came to the mind of the Son of A Chicken and he shouted at everyone.

"Kill that fucking thief!!!”