My Last Hunt

Level Battles 12

"Where are you hiding? You coward. I never thought that you would use such petty tricks that are only suitable to us, scalawags." Son of Xura laughed, pathetically.

He has robbed five stronger stones for facing the bigger enemy. Seeing the situation turning tides after every passing moment; he was forced to use them.

Qiao snickered hearing this. He was seriously offended. This enemy has lost his worth in Qiao's eyes. He has standards when assuming someone as his enemy.

Son of Xura did not deserve to be his enemy at all. Qiao shook his head thinking about it. He was only dragging his insignificant and nonsensical aim.

Son of Xura became an aimless hunter in his eyes and so Qiao decided to not answer in his response. 

"Why the silence? Are you afraid of my strength? Or did you hear that I am stronger than you?" Son of Xura laughed, bitterly.

He looked like some lunatic trying to lure the target using the dumbest way possible. There was again silence in return. 

Qiao took the support of the tree and relaxed. He was sure that this would change soon.

Son of Xura would lose his patience. It was expected from all the hunters with the same mindset. Qiao wanted to know the limit of his patience. 

Son of Xura yelled the third time. "Come out you bastard. Stop using childish tricks and show up already or else…" he gritted his teeth and held one of the level eight stone. 

Qiao opened his eyes as soon as he felt the unbridled energy of the stone. He sneaked to see whether he was in the range of the attack or not.

Well, he was disappointed because Son of Xura lost his patience too early. It does not suit a level seven hunter to give in so fast. The direction was slightly off, this means if the stone put a direct attack, then the first one would go useless.

Son of Xura commanded the stone and the hundreds of meter area burned the trees and any living creature in its range. The second attack came in the same direction and it created a void in the ground.

It seemed that the ground of the island was unable to bear the attack. This time the attack was directed where Qiao was hiding. Qiao took a deep breath and leaped without creating any ripple in the air. The attack fell, repeating the destruction. It was evening and all the water creatures were relaxing in the water.

Consecutive attacks were bringing chaos and some parts of the streams got blasted. The water creatures came out to see the lunatic water demon. They were pretty familiar with the ways of the water demon however the current situation was different. 

They happened to see the lunatic hunter and immediately their temper flared up. Such a thing was prevailing in the third Sepedra. 

Son of Xura felt that Qiao perhaps changed his hiding position and he started attacking madly. 

"This maniac is going to destroy the island." Few creatures gossiped. Another explosion in the stream took place in the near vicinity.

Qiao did not mind seeing that the creatures were talking about this important uprising issue. He was instead trying to know what decision they would end up with.

"Someone should stop him already." One of them said sounding concerned.

"Where is the water Demon at this moment? Should it not show up by now? Usually, it keeps bragging about its superiority." The creatures were anticipating the presence of the water Demon. 

The water Demon was on the other side of the island right now. Before he could even reach here; the island would have turned into bits and hence the creatures were unable to reach a fitting decision. 

"We can also stop him ourselves. Just surround him and attack. He is a puny hunter with no one backing him up." They talked about it and came to an agreement.

Qiao only wished that they should not act like tardy democrats. If it happened, then the island would no longer exist for habitats. Once blasted by the stone attack; the ground takes hundreds of years to regain the potency for living. 

They ganged up and marched towards the lunatic hunter. 

Qiao was changing his hiding position again and again because the attacks were random, and he did not want to get caught in them. 

Son of Xura saw the creatures coming towards him from all directions. Instead of escaping, he started attacking them. 

Qiao got speechless to see this. Now it was exceeding his patience.

He remained on the top of the tree and attacked with the stronger stone. The chosen target was the heart of the hunter. 

The blinding light pierced through the heart of the ravenous hunter and then suddenly everything went quiet.

The scared and frightened creatures barely made it. Many were killed in the blink of an eye. This part of the island became deserted and there were big crevices in the middle of the ground.

Qiao jumped on the ground and reached the dead body of the hunter. He collected whatever precious stones were scattered and hung them on his waist; it was the property of the hunter association from now on. 

The creatures saw the hunter who killed the lunatic scalawag in the blink of an eye. 

Qiao was about to leave when his eyes fell upon the octopus creature. The octopus recognized him and threw its tentacles on the ground, bowing down to him.

"I admit you are stronger." The octopus said sounding somewhat weaker.

Qiao shrugged his shoulders and smirked proudly. The temporary grudge got resolved in a single day. It was nothing compared to what they just saw.

"Since you admit it, I will let it go." Qiao waved his hand after a nod of his head.

He was heading in the same direction where the second man left. This octopus challenged him the earlier morning and now took it back.

This let Qiao learn some of the aspects of the water creatures. They knew where to keep a strict attitude and where they should show leniency at least they were better compared to that maniac.

Finally, the chaos subsided though half of the water creatures living in the third Sepedra became homeless.

Qiao cannot help them under his present sources other than nature itself. 

Qiao had been going through a lot of things recently. It was enough to taint his path and astray him. He had seen how the scalawags can prove to be dangerous in the norms.

They could easily destroy the balance of power in this world. Hightown was fulfilling its responsibility. Only after seeing such incidents, he wanted to praise the efforts of the Hightown elders.

A grudge that could lead to such a disastrous situation like this. One should abandon such a grudge; it's not easily done but it was not entirely impossible.

Qiao had let some of them go free while a few of them got killed because of their crooked ways.

It was night and the fellow was alone. Qiao was heading in the same direction in the hope to meet the rumored water Demon.

He cannot procure or carve a path for the one who left the side of the evil. He could carve it better himself.

Qiao intended to take a look at the water Demon. If it was a stronger creature, then he would first visit the hunter association and hand them over the residual assets of the scalawag, then return after reporting his performance.

He wanted to battle the water Demon and if possible, get a hold on the rare stone. Every rare stone would be equal to a strong weapon against the wicked Hunter the deadliest enemy. Qiao cannot help considering this aspect. If a normal scalawag was so much obsessed with the rare stone then he cannot imagine the wicked and greedy hunter.

It was just his observation that was actually the truth. The wicked Hunter had been living from five hundred years and he had quite a taste for the rare stones. The rare stones were powerful enough for any hunter vye for them. According to the rumors; a rare stone has the power to influence on everything, be it ground, water or air. It can also force change the weather apparently.

This was one of strongest quality. In simple terms every rare type stone held complete world in itself matching the characteristics of the beast that took care of it. Qiao was slowly able to understand the rarity of these stones and the importance. Normally a low level rare stone was not considered threat or the beast that bears it. The maturity of the stone was actually the peak stage of a beast. This could explain why so many hunters never happened to see rare stones for many years of their life. Qiao was heading toward the other end of the third Sepedra.