Blood Assimilation

238 We Meet Again

At this point, Randy thought of his incarnation, which had been incapacitated from the previous fight. His incarnation was another asset that he obtained from his outing today and would be more useful in the future, even if it was not created to perfection as he has initially hoped.

After all, even though it was flawed and lacking extremely, especially with its inability to use some of his skills, it still had the power to transcend its limits with the Body Strengthen skill that was derived from his Grip skill.

Furthermore, as of the moment, his incarnation depended on divine points to fight since there was barely any energy in its body after its inception. There was also the matter of trying to heal it to see if it would wake up.

However, he was not certain if it was possible to heal it with his abilities since he didn’t have any healing abilities.

‘Maybe I should find some creature with healing abilities and assimilate with its blood...’

Randy thought to himself as he walked through the forest on the trail that he blazed to not get lost in the forest.

Naturally, he kept his Dimensional Sense skill on in case there was an ambush from a magical beast or anyone. This was why he was not bothering to run back this time, as he was too tired to do so.

Moreover, he might make an amateur mistake if he weren’t careful enough and decide to run through the forest in his current state.

A few minutes later, Randy was almost at the entrance of the Meistic forest when he saw a man in a black cloak standing over what seemed to be the bodies of the Dungeon Hunters that he came across a while ago.

.....

They all had pale complexions on their faces as they laid there, seemingly unconscious.

Even the green-clothed young woman was among them, which was not only surprising to Randy who witnessed her prowess in battle but also understandable, considering her state before they separated.

The black-cloaked man was currently fighting the black-haired girl, who seemed quite skilled herself, as she executed her skills and instantly appeared behind the black-cloaked man with the intention to cut his head off with one strike.

However, the black-cloaked man casually dodged her supposed deadly attack with ease, without even looking back, and then mocked: “A bug like you dared to touch me! Know your place!”

Bang!

Right after he said this, he had already turned and waved his hand sideways, knocking the black-haired girl a considerable distance away, almost like he was swatting at some annoying fly.

Boom!

The black-haired girl continued to fly in the air before knocking against a tree on her side, coughing up some blood afterward.

Despite that, she still forced herself to stand back up shortly after with her cold expression unchanged. It appears that she was not willing to back down, especially after seeing her team members rendered into such states on the ground, making them look as though they had lost their vitality.

The black-cloaked man was extremely annoyed when he saw this persistence from her and wanted to immediately kill her off, but he abruptly halted his movements when he suddenly sensed someone approaching him from behind.

On the other hand, as if surprised by something unexpected, Randy raised his eyebrows when he saw this scene, but he didn’t say anything and proceeded to watch on with a dazed look.

Meanwhile, upon sensing the presence behind, the black-cloaked man turned around with a vicious look in his crimson glowing eyes. An evil smirk appeared on his face when he noticed the dazed look on Randy’s face.

The black-cloaked man interpretated his expreession as him being shocked senseless from the mere sight of him.

He then laughed sinisterly and said: “So you are another lamp to the slaughter?”

His words sounded like a question and not a question at the same time, as they carried an ambiguous meaning from the way he uttered them.

He had no idea why there were so many Dungeon Hunters in the Meistic forest, but he could now finally unleash some of his stress by slowly killing some of them off to sate his stress.

However, Randy was still dazed as he looked at this man for a while before snapping out of his daze.

Suddenly, the black-cloaked man felt an uncontrollable chill down his spine as all his senses spiraled out of control, and he immediately search for the source for his sudden reaction, and to his surprise, it was coming from the young man in front of him.

At some unknown point, the young man in front of him was smiling as he continued to observe him.

‘He is smiling...? Has he gone insane from fear?’

The black-cloaked man thought that something wasn’t right with that conjecture.

At this point, the black-cloaked man narrowed his eyes at Randy for a few moments before his eyes abruptly widened with shock: “Fuck! It’s you again!”

“Hello, we meet again. How have you been? Did you miss me?” Randy opened his arms wide and casually said with a smile on his face, seeming quite amicable.

This situation left the black-haired girl, who also just noticed that the one who spoke just now was the young man from before, dumbfounded.

‘What is he doing here? Wait, he actually came back unscathed after diving into the forest like that? I thought he was just a reckless fool when he ignored the warning from us. Don’t tell me he was that ‘young man’? The one that saved the Leader?’ The black-haired girl wondered as she leaned against the tree beside her.

She then took out a recovery potion from her pouch and gulped it all down.

After contemplating for a bit, she decided to observe the situation for now as she recovers from her injuries since it appears that that young man knew who that man was, and from the looks of it, they were not friendly with each other.

Undoubtedly, Randy recognized this man.

This was the vampire man that attacked him the other day when he came out of the dungeon of beasts’ entrance portal. He thought he wouldn’t encounter him again, but fate would have it otherwise.

Since the other party brought himself to him, there was no need to hold back in repaying the debt, right?

Thinking about this, the friendly smile on Randy’s face grew wider and wider, and eventually, it started looking slightly sinister and yet still appear friendly. It was a very strange sight to behold.

When the man saw his friendly and smiling face and his gaze which contained a trace of wickedness, he instantly broke out into cold sweats before taking one step backward in apprehension.