My Last Hunt

Level Four (17)

Fork out a plan or die:

The situation was tense and the monster was advancing to eradicate the whole team of hunters who dared to come bother its slumber. 

"Rest of the team, listen carefully to me. Cover your ears with cloth and bind them tight, then cover it with the layers of mud, hurry." Qiao spoke. 

The chasers could not understand immediately what he was implying, so Qiao just shook his head and voiced out, "Follow after me." 

He then cut off a piece of cloth from his fleece and bind around his ears. After that he picked up the thick mud and coated it on the cloth. The mud would help to secure their ears from the resonance and the fleece would keep it at the place. 

The chasers saw the young chaser's action and followed to do as him. Meanwhile they kept distancing themselves from the monster and this made the monster angry, which opened its mouth to create the resonance again. The chaser got terrified to see that it was again going to attack and they wanted to run away but Qiao strictly reminded them. 

"No need to get frightened, double coat with the mud if you still hear it." He was done preparing and was ready to face the monster. 

The team leader was a little unclear but the only way was to follow this youth. This idea was unheard before and they would have never come up with such an idea, but they thought to trust and follow him. Before this also, he had been coming up unconventional ideas.

It was also because of the fact that Qiao himself was not moving away from it, he was standing at his previous place and observing the monster carefully, looking for an opening. 

This gave them some hope that perhaps they could hunt it. 

"If this monster has developed a long ranger attack-form that means it should have lower defences against short-range attacks. If this this true then nobody is allowed to move back but instead walk forward." His next instruction reached them because he was giving instructions with gestures. 

The chasers and Shiguan got shocked with this instruction. They were unsure and asked again with the same gestures to clear their doubts. 

This time Qiao looked with angry eyes, if this continued and the team hunters kept asking again and again then he was done for. No time could be wasted. They were at some distance from it while the monster had already pointed its mouth toward him because he was the only one standing still on the previous place without moving. 

They saw his anger filled eyes and got even frightened more than what they feared from the monster. Without further ado, they walked forward. 

Qiao heave a sigh of relief, what if these chasers chose to abandon him and runaway? The he wouldn't be able to do anything to stop them. He would be left at the most dangerous point, alone to face off the monster. Yes, he was at that point already and the monster was glaring while opening its mouth wide, as if to perhaps frighten a kid? 

No matter what it was, Qiao probably could read the expressions it felt. It was making fun of him or getting happy at their situation or asking what he would do now that he was right under the Hull? 

Whatever it was, Qiao gulped to relax a bit before the chasers could attack at once. 

The team leader was the first to attack the monster to wash away his guilt. After all he had been the one who caused this trouble for everyone. 

But something surprising happened then. 

This monster had learned how to protect itself from sudden attacks by forming a resonance that would remain around its body and worked like sensors. It worked like active sensors and when someone wanted to surprise attack, the sensors would immediately give it a signal and it could use any possible means to fend off the attack. 

As soon as the chaser reached it rear, the monster kicked up a load of mud toward him and he almost sank in the mud. He desperately waved his arms to get rid of the mud. Qiao was proved wrong as this monster had a way to detect attacks even without moving its eyes away from him. 

Shiguan got rid from the heap of mud and furiously gestured at others to simultaneously attack without planning or slowly moving forward. No matter how capable its attack ability was, this monster could still cannot stop multiple attacks. 

The monster seemed to understood why this lone chaser was not moving. He was ordering others to attack and this further triggered its anger and its huge mouth opened as if trying to gulp down alive this chaser, but it was only attacking with resonance. 

Now Qiao could not wait for others to render sudden help. He brought his hand to his back and pulled the level five sword sharply as it appeared in a flash. It did not stop until Qiao had stabbed in the opened mouth. The resonance was much strong but because he was prepared, he was able to hold on. 

His fleece waved strongly and his face skin seeped to rip apart with the impact of resonance despite the sword stabbing it in the lower jaw of the monster. A team who heard some shouting came to witness what was going on in this part and they were agape to see the scene in front of them. 

They were also a strong team, but not to this level of grit. Only a very strong grit can save a chaser from going insane over what was happening to that young chaser. 

For Qiao it was just another monster, the difference was that he was not playing any games currently but actually hunting a monster with all his available experience and so-called hp. If he was just spilling out his frustration at the monsters of a game then it would not be much different from his days of past. But killing that scum monster was his aim right now.