My Last Hunt

Quest For Three Stones: 

Opus;

What help I can render? 

The sword pierced and the apparently strong looking monster could not stand it anymore. It fell with a thudding sound and Qiao jumped to create a distance. It was alive but the back was seriously injured with this attack. 

The huntress was standing speechless to see this. When he asked her to hunt along she thought that perhaps he wanted to use her for distraction and take advantage by attacking without coming in front but to see this; her complete set of thoughts changed. He did not ask her to do anything instead brought down the monster alone. He was looking like a monster too in her eyes. 

Qiao stood to see how much damage has done his sword to this monster. He was waiting for the monster to stand and attack. At least glare once but it did not. The monster knew that it was under the barrier but after this hunter attacked now he knew why the human was under the barrier. It was a mad decision to test the hunter. 

Those would have been remained words if it could have escaped alive but the nature of a monster was useless to think that a monster was more powerful compared to the hunters. 

After waiting for little; Qiao thought to attack and kill the monster and see if it bears the specific stone. And he remembered that there was someone else there too. "Oh, why are you standing there, come and attack it to get experience points." He casually pointed and walked away. 

Unable to digest what was going on, the huntress only followed his words. She was only attacking already defeated monster and it was once in a hundred occasions which was rare for a hunter to do this. When it died; Qiao returned to check for the stone.

After dissecting half of the body he found two but none match to the stated characteristics. "Take this one." He handed her share and then again started waiting for a monster to appear. He was sure to get frustrated soon. Living under the barrier and wait for luck to send a monster and then finding no desired stone after hunting it was definitely going to be frustrating.

The huntress took the stone and felt the frustration in his words. Qiao was looking at the cut open carcass of the monster and thinking what to do to clear the dead body. He picked the dry dust and threw at the body but remained the same. It was just an illusion of his eyes that there was dry dust. "It might not work." The huntress prompted him. 

"Can the other monster sense this dead body and come for feast?" he asked expectantly. "I am not sure." She answered with flat face. Perhaps she was also getting tired of the presence of barrier or she was observing the young man. 

One part of the sphere belonged to the forest and other part was attached to the phantasm region of the third continent, it was strange but truth. This region was famous for creating hallucinations for humans especially hunters who wanted to venture it. "I wish the monsters come sensing the presence of this body." He anticipated. 

Outside the barrier a team of hunters was latching onto a monster and it was unable to fend them off because of the numbers or for other reason. It was odd sight for someone who never happened to witness it, the monster was recklessly moving to find a way to get lost these suckers of blood but they were not ready to let it go. The monster dragged and entered the barrier in hope to win against them. Qiao immediately stood up when he felt the dust scattering randomly. 

And what he saw completely shattered his ideas of human mannerism. Those were actually a team latching onto the monster and kissing the monster? He shook his head to see clearly. The monster was running around to get rid while they constantly remained fixed on the body. He wanted to alarm the huntress by saying PG thirteen but she was already looking with wide opened eyes as if not ready to miss the sight. 

Worried he moved toward the monster but she stopped. "Don't go near them: they are blood suckers and don't like normal hunters to bother with the hunt." She warned suddenly. Qiao was speechless to hear. It turned out they were type of vampires though the concept did not belong to this world. 

"Blood suckers?" he asked. "There are some places which are mysterious for normal hunters to venture or hunt. It is not because the monsters live there but actually humans. The humans who thinks the best method to defeat the monsters is to suck their blood and kill them. This way the monster would be dead and they would be able to absorb the true nature of strength of the blood. Thinking it would make them stronger just like monsters but it turned them insane to the point where they no more liked normal humans. So if you go near them; they would take you as an enemy." The huntress explained.

Qiao got little interested because some of the aspects really matched with vampires. So this world also has vampires just that they were called blood suckers which was a little rude term actually. 

They should be named decently perhaps it could decrease their hatred. But it was immature idea. So he walked and stood near the dead body of the monster which he hunted recently. He did not look toward them. Slowly the movements of the monster stopped and it no more struggle to get the bugs. 

Half of the team was done and they looked around only to see the wilderness and a fresh body of the monster. The blood was seeping from the fresh big injury which tempted them to take a look. They have no interest to get the stone because they don't need it to use as weapon, their large fangs were enough of a weapon to tackle the hunt.