Blood of the Hunting God

"Thank you for saving me... Damn, if you fail like this, Sally's illness... Isn't it..."

"I'm sorry, I may have talked too much... just, haha... Forget it, anyway, we have failed. We came here to find [Goddess's Blessing], do you know this thing..."

On the way to save the man named Disma and take him to the library, Disma, who had not yet fainted from blood loss, babbled a lot of things.For example, his team came from a prosperous place called [Starry Sky Town]; for example, the two people who died in the battle were called Jason and Liz, they were both his friends, and they were taking care of the town together with him. The orphans of the dead in the last battle; for example, they ventured into the dangerous area this time because a child was seriously ill, and the nuns and priests in the town could not cure it and had to find another way.

[Goddess' Blessing] It is said that it is a blessing from an old god who once led the people. It is a rare treasure that can heal all injuries.

From the outside, that thing looks like water in a glass bottle, but when you hold it in your hand, you can feel a strange warmth even through the bottle.And as long as you drink this water, no matter how serious the terminal illness is, or the extensive body damage, it is even said that even if only your head remains, as long as your consciousness does not completely disappear, drinking this water will immediately regenerate a body return.All kinds of rumors, true or false, made this thing seem very miraculous, and Disma and others, who were desperate to save the seriously ill child, finally made an attempt to find this thing.

But unfortunately, they failed to find hope. The outer area of ​​the church area found nothing, and the inner area encountered an incomparable and terrifying enemy before entering, and ended in an almost annihilated ending.

Before entering the library, Disma begged the hunters not to fight them in a low voice.

The news of his death was sent back. At that time, the man must have realized that his injury was too serious to survive. In fact, although Abigail tried his best to rescue him, Disma's condition was indeed deteriorating rapidly. .He probably regarded the hunters as other exploration teams from Starry Sky Town, that's why he made such a request.

"..."

The hunter did not answer Disma at that time, but kept silent as always.

However, he already knew what Disma was talking about.

[Goddess' Blessing] seems to be the healing water with the blessing of the old gods. He once got a copy of that thing, which is outside the church area.It was during the first week that he and Abigail came to this weird place. It seemed that some animals were not adapted to the hunters. Abigail fell into a strange disease on the third day and sometimes fainted Falling asleep on the bed, talking nonsense, sometimes barely able to move and walk, but soon fell to the ground due to weakness.

The hunter searched around the town in order to cure Abigail, and finally entered the church area, and even tried to enter the inner area, but was killed once by the terrible knight who was half-body mutilated.It was also during that expedition that the hunter searched the entire outer area of ​​the church area and found the last copy of [Goddess' Blessing].

After drinking the blessed water for Abigail, the girl regained her health, and began to be able to eat the twisted and mutated animal flesh like a hunter without physical problems.

In this way, the deaths and injuries of these people were actually because of the hunter and Abigail.If there were no hunters who took the last potion, there would be no need for Disma and the others to go deep into the more dangerous inner area of ​​the church, and they would not have suffered heavy casualties but gained nothing.

This kind of thinking is actually very unreasonable, not to mention that Abigail, who was sick because he was not used to food, did need medicine. What happens while leaving the person he protects alone.However, after realizing that his actions had actually played a certain role in the current development, the hunter felt somewhat emotional amidst the silence.

Perhaps it was because of this that he decided to step into danger?

Holding the lantern emitting a faint light, the hunter came to the outskirts of the church area.

More than a week is enough time for the hunter to figure out the terrain structure of this place, so he can easily avoid those unconscious wandering monsters and move forward safely. This seems to be some kind of talent, but it may also be formed by acquired training?The hunter couldn't remember his past, so he couldn't come up with the correct answer, but he didn't mind this kind of thing, as long as it could help his hunting, no matter what happened, he would gladly accept it.

squeak-

Gently, he pushed open the door of a dilapidated hut.

There used to be a bloodthirsty person in this room who was so weak that he couldn't stand up.I don't know why, but the bloodthirsty man's desire to attack is not strong, and the resistance to the hunter's attack is not considered fierce, and he just howls and passively defends.

During the process of discovering this place and fighting that monster before, the hunter noticed that this monster was unwilling to leave here, as if it wanted to stay around something hidden in the dark.When the hunter tried to get close to the dark corner of the house, the weakened monster attacked crazily, which almost made the hunter lose his luck.But in the end, the disparity in strength caused the monster to have its head and chest crushed by the meat saw, and fell to the ground weakly, unable to get up again.

The hunters then found a dilapidated baby carriage in the dark, covered in dust and unoccupied for a long time.

He wondered if the little thing had done its job, and if it had, the Hunter hoped the answer would be no.

This little house was the nearest safe point to the church quarters, so the hunter stopped here, stretched his hand that was carrying the lantern forward, and let go of his fingers.

The lantern emitting a faint light did not fall from the mid-air, and the branches that emerged from the illusion fixed the lantern on the ground, and some pale little creatures made prayer gestures around the lantern, as if they could hear it in silence. Words of prayer.

These small things seem to be called [messenger], they can only be seen by hunters, and they seem to be things that do not belong to this world.Although they can't communicate, they seem to obey the hunter's words to a certain extent, such as guarding this lamp here.

This hunter's lantern wakes up with the hunter, together with his meat saw and pistol, it seems to belong to him.As long as there is this lamp, no matter how many times the hunter dies, he can be resurrected intact beside the lamp.At least for now, this has always been the case. Whether there will be changes in the future is a matter for the future. For the current hunter, he will only try his best to make good use of the resources he currently has, and he will not care about other things.

Put down the lantern here, even if you accidentally die in a situation, you can be resurrected safely and enter the church area again.

Well, it's time to get down to business.

Sen Leng's meat saw reflected the moonlight, and the taciturn hunter took a step towards the darkness where the twisted monster was entrenched.

A new hunt has begun.

Chapter 8: Big and Weak

tick-

Fetid saliva dripped from between rotten flesh and fangs.

Whimpers and growls intertwined, flesh and blood

It was wriggling faintly, making a chilling sound.

Is that a dog, or two?three?It is absolutely impossible to appear under normal circumstances, and it is difficult to form a terrifying thing even if it is deformed. The flesh and blood are fused with each other, devouring each other as if they were alive, and several shrunken limbs are hung on the torso for support. Red blood vessels that looked like centipedes and earthworms squirmed on the forelimbs and hind limbs of the body, which swelled to the thickness of human thighs.

One of the three staggered dog heads is completely rotten, and maggots can be seen crawling in and out from time to time, and the other seems to have undergone a serious mutation. With densely packed eyes, the dog's head in the middle is the only one that is relatively normal, if it does not open its mouth to reveal the baby's head stuffed in it, and its tongue has grown together.

[Wow wow——]

The twisted monster walked staggeringly while making howls.

[Roar - woof! 】

Accompanied by the sound that came from deep in the throat, it was barely like a dog can make a bark.

It is said that at the moment when the filth spread across the earth, all the infected creatures had serious mutations, as if falling into the most twisted and crazy nightmare, flesh and blood grew wantonly, devoured each other, fused with each other, and turned into deformed and Terrifying existence.

This strange mad dog may be the perfect interpretation of this nightmare, a terrible creature that cannot be bred by nature, a dark minion that seems to be mocking the order of the creator, singing the praises of chaos with screams and wailing in the chaos .

pat-

A stone hit its torso.

【Roar! 】

In the roaring sound, it was this distorted monster that jumped up to a height of nearly one meter, and looked towards the source of the projectile with its blood-red eyes.

It saw a hunter, a hunter standing on a roof.

pat!

A second stone was thrown out of the hunter's hand and landed on the twisted monster.

【Roar! ! ! 】

Amidst the frenzied roar, it was this monster that rushed towards the building where the hunter was located. The deformed body brought great strength, and the giant dog, which was not inferior in size to a liger, leaped up and grabbed the building with its sharp claws. In the next moment, he jumped out of the outer wall to a height of five or six meters, climbed up to the roof with ease, and rushed towards the hunter in front of him.

In the crisp sound of clattering, the tiles on the roof were torn apart by the monster's claws, and fell to the ground like a rain curtain.

The hunter's footsteps slid and passed the giant dog, and the meat saw came out with sparks, and in the sharp crackling sound, it was directly inserted into one side of the giant dog's head, and then it was torn down all the way, like an addict. Like a ferocious beast of blood, a large piece of flesh and blood was ripped off from the monster.

【Roar! ! ! 】

No fear, only wilder roars.

The giant dog turned around and slammed its paws. Its sharp, blood-stained claws grabbed the chimney on the roof, and after a bang, it smashed the entire chimney into pieces.

The hunter had already rolled and hid in the distance. He jumped directly from a hole in the roof of the building and fell into the middle of the building.Immediately afterwards, there was a roar from the roof, and the giant dog directly smashed through the roof and landed in the middle of the building. The weight and strength shook the floor into cracks like spider webs, roaring, and immediately rushed to the nearby building. hunter.

Once again, the hunter who passed by rolled over and moved from this room to the corridor outside the door.

Immediately following, the giant dog behind howled and rushed forward.

thump—

Then it got stuck on the metal door.

It is quite an unwise choice to fight with monsters whose strength and endurance far exceed one's own, especially if one has a necessary goal to waste energy.

And, besides this, the hunter always remembered, but forgot where he heard a sentence:

Big and weak.

Well, this doesn't seem to be a complete sentence. There should be other similar content behind it, but I can't remember it for the time being.

【Roar! ! ! 】

Amidst the increasingly frenzied howling, it was the giant dog staring at the hunter bloodthirstyly, trying to squeeze out of the door with all its might.Cracks began to appear on the walls around the door, and began to crack bit by bit, and the metal frame of the door also showed obvious deformation. It might take a few seconds for this thing to break free and rush up again.

But the hunter will not give it this chance.

click-

The meat saw popped out again, and this time the hunter accurately cut off the monster's middle head.

The huge body fell down weakly, and it seemed that there was no way to stand up again, but the hunter would not think that it would be over so easily, he cut off the three heads of this deformed big dog completely without hesitation Smash it, cut open the giant dog's stomach, and carefully confirmed the life and death of the thing in the foul-smelling plasma before choosing to leave with peace of mind. "

In the entire church area, there are about fifty or sixty monsters that seem to be mutated from dogs.

It is already very difficult to deal with this kind of thing one by one, but this thing basically moves in groups.

Only five are considered lucky.

But the hunter is still proficient in hunting. He uses the keen senses and curiosity that this kind of thing still retains after the mutation, and hits small stones to make a sound to attract these things one by one. Hunting was carried out in a narrow environment designated for the size of this thing, and several of these giant dogs that were as big as tigers were successfully eliminated.

Hunting is not a duel of honor, and a hunter doesn't think it's a bad idea to be insidious against an enemy like this.

After all, when you are at a disadvantage, don't think about being reckless and killing hard.

Unless it's an exploding hammer, chainsaw, cannon or something... Well, why do I think of such things when I think of Mang?Could it be that he has used similar weapons before?

Can't remember, or focus on the task in front of you.

The hunter has been to the church area before, and he already has a rough plan for the route here. As long as there are no mistakes, he still needs to deal with six to ten deformed giant dogs just now, as well as thirty or so believers holding weapons.

He will then arrive at the entrance to the inner quarters of the Church Quarter.

A small square that looks very peaceful, with big trees growing.

A place where he died once, and he lasted for a minute after being cut in half. He died in an uneasy place.

Chapter 9: The Skillful Hunter

Climb over the half-collapsed wall, then bend down and carefully pass under the dry bridge.

On the way forward, there is a locked iron door that cannot be opened, but the door is not high, and the bricks and tiles on the top of the door have collapsed, so just jump up and grab the top of the door frame and climb up to the door directly. the other side.

Because you can't find the key, you can't open the door, you can't get in a certain place, this kind of thing doesn't happen to hunters. As a seasoned hunter, when one road doesn't work, you have to find another road. Okay, after all, there is nothing wrong with his legs and feet.

[Gulu... Gululu...]

Depressed, like the viscous sound of some kind of liquid flowing, accompanied by the sound of footsteps in front of the road.

The entire church area is located in the center of the small town, and the overall structure is circular. The outer area and the inner area are separated by a round wall. There is only a small square that can enter and exit, which is the place guarded by the disabled knight.

The outer area of ​​the church area is mainly a variety of residential buildings and some buildings that seem to be for public use. It seems that they should be the places where believers and some town managers live and work. The hunters saw some places that look like city halls and seem to be hospitals. place.It's just that these buildings are already extremely dilapidated, and it's hard to find useful materials inside. After all, the hunters have searched here once, so naturally nothing will be left behind.

The outer area of ​​the church area extends in all directions. In addition to the four main entrances, west, north, south, and north, there are various small entry and exit points, obviously for the convenience of commuting and doing business.However, the inner area of ​​the church is obviously a more serious and private place. Not only is there only a small square at the entrance and exit point, but the hunter managed to observe from some heights and found that there is only one huge church building in the inner area of ​​the entire church area. There are no other buildings outside, and it seems to be a gathering place for pure believers.

Anyway, there is no [Goddess's Blessing] in the outer area of ​​the church area nowadays. If you want to try your luck, you have to go through the small square to the inner area. The Mysterious Church will do.

【Gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...】

Hiding behind some wooden boxes, the hunter waited for the distorted sound around him to fade away, and then continued to move forward.

From now on, unnecessary battles must be avoided.

The crippled knight wandering around in that small square was not someone who could be dealt with casually. If he wanted to fight against that kind of thing, he had to ensure a sufficiently complete state.

Even though he said so, the hunter didn't think that if he was in perfect condition, he would be able to deal with that enemy.

However, how can one become a hunter if one cannot even step out of the beginning?

[Gulu...]

【Roar……】

The viscous sound and the barking of the dog sounded together. A twisted mad dog that was about the size of a rhinoceros, which seemed to be a fusion of six dogs and a person, and two swollen figures holding rusty long knives stood in front of the road. Patrolling aimlessly, blocking the hunter's path.

Why don't they leave here, but keep wandering around all the time?

The hunter didn't know the answer, but he had guessed that maybe these things patrolled here during their lifetime, so even after they died, they turned into crazy and twisted monsters, they still had some instincts left, and wanted to protect this place.

But this is just wishful thinking, after all, they won't answer any of your questions.

There is no way to slip past, only to fight.

The hunter's gaze stayed on the surrounding buildings. There were many private houses here, most of which were open, and the gates looked rusty.After a little comparison of the sizes of the three guys in front, the hunter who had calculated in his heart then slipped into a house that was closer to the three things.

After a while, a stone flew far away and hit the ground behind a swollen figure who was a little more alone.

pat-

Crisp, harsh voice in the silence.

[Gu? 】

In the sound of a shaking water bottle, that thing turned around with some doubts.