BXBX NOVEL Chapter 180 - Night Hunt
Chapter 180: Night Hunt
[The portal has closed! ]
"We\'ll start from here," I said.
"Here?" said Emma with a frown. Her feet stepped forward and her eyes swept around the place. The place was very quiet, it felt like the demon could not possibly find its prey there.
"Yes." I put on the cap I brought from home and took out my Demonic Spike. But instead of using it to the max level, I only took out a quarter of it. Five of my black lances appeared and hovered around me. Casually, I reached out my hand and took one of them.
"You want to learn this, right?"
"Yes." Her eyes watched my smooth movement.
"Try it," I said. Actually, I was quite confused about why she asked me to teach this easy movement. I meant, didn\'t she just need to catch her lance? But maybe I could do it easily because my system let me controlled my lance more freely.
She turned to empty space, her hand stretched forward as she used her Mana Strike. Her palm glowed in white and her white lance came out of it. Quickly, her other hand moved to try to catch that lance, but the lance that came out of her hand launched forward and stuck into the ground ten meters in front of her. An irritated sigh escaped her mouth. This time she changed her position by placing her hands close together which allowed her to immediately catch the lance as soon as it left her palm. Again, as soon as the lance came out, Emma tried to catch it with her other hand but failed.
\'I see ...\' I quickly realized what our differences were. Speed. I forgot that my agility was far above normal humans, besides that my eyes could also perceive the other\'s movements as if they were moving in slow motion.
\'I guess I\'ve gotten used to living as a demon so I forgot that other people are different from me.\' Yes, this was the first reason why I could win against Bern and be able to fight the rat demons even though I had never fought before.
After she failed to catch the third lance, she turned to me.
"Why does everything look easy for you?" Her annoyance was clear from the tone of her voice. Her eyes looked at me with a frown, as if I had cheated her.
I held my laughter upon her expression as I cancelled my Demonic Spike and walked towards her casually.
"You just need to concentrate and practice more," I said that because after I watched her, instead of using her other hand to catch the lance, it would be more effective to catch it with the same hand since she could feel when it was coming out of her palm. Besides, since Mana Strike and Demonic Spike were both made of the caster\'s magic power, it wouldn\'t hurt us even though we touched the tip.
I stood behind her and pressed the front of my body against her back, my right hand held her right hand.
"I\'ll show you," I whispered. My hand overlapped her hand from behind gently, feeling her smooth skin and raised it. While my other hand held her waist. Even though her face was facing forward, I could feel her heart pounding. I chuckled.
"Don\'t be too nervous," I teased. Of course, I knew why she was like that, especially after what we just did.
She answered me with a nod without saying anything.
"Now use your Mana Strike and pay attention to your palm," I said.
As her hand glowed in a white, I could feel the heat on my palm that was behind her. Then as the lance almost left her hand, I moved her hand to catch it in one swift moment. She was stunned, her eyes fixed on the lance in her hand. While I quickly took my hand away from her since the hot sensation of the lance bit my skin like I was holding a glass filled with hot coffee.
"See? It\'s not that difficult. The most important thing is you have to catch it as soon as the lance starts to come out, not after the lance is completely out," I explained.
"Thank you for teaching me." She turned, a smile appeared on her face. Then her eyes shifted to look at the lance. This way she could fight more demons since she could save her MP.
"Now, shall we start our hunt?" I said. My hand stretched out to her as I activated my Demonic Form. Of course, I never intended to patrol on foot in the first place. My goal was to raise my level and increase my skill point to face Miguel and Myra tomorrow.
She turned to me. As she saw my form, she cancelled her Mana Strike and walked over to me.
"Let\'s go."
My hand embraced her, pressed her body against mine as I flicked my wings and brought us to the slightly cloudy night sky.
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"Do you see them?" I asked as our eyes watched several demon locations from the top of the tallest building there. Like before, even though I could fly, I still had to be careful about using this ability since I didn\'t want to get caught. Especially if the military thought I was an unidentified flying object. That\'s why instead of flying around, I decided to look for the demon\'s location from this building. Besides that, I also had to make sure of the demon hunters\' positions.
"I can see it," said Emma. Different from before, her eyes were filled with anger, showing her grudge against the demons clearly.
I needed to admit, Kitty was right. Even though this area looked calm and peaceful, the demons were hiding everywhere. In fact, at least we could find the three demons\' locations in less than 5 minutes. We also saw a demon hunter fighting three other demons at the fourth location. Luckily, they weren\'t high-level demons like the Hounds before or the Swamp Demon, but only the Shadow Imps and Rat Demons, even Emma should be able to beat them.
"Get ready." I hugged Emma and flicked my wings to fly to the first location. As expected, we could kill them easily despite their large numbers. Besides that, I also closed the crack near them with ease since the crack was much smaller than usual. I didn\'t even use any of my offensive skills. While Emma barely took out her Holy Chain. Also because the demons were hiding in a dark alley and other hidden locations, I was able to fight them openly.
My kick landed on the shadow Imp\'s head before me and turned him to ashes. While Emma stabbed her lance at the last Imp in front of her.
*Ting!*
[All enemies have been defeated!]
[You Have Gained EXP!]
\'It\'s not enough ...\' I thought. This was the third location and they were all low-level demons. I wouldn\'t be able to level up with this.
\'But I have to admit ----\' I glanced over Emma\'s head and realized she had gone up a level even though we had only started our patrol for 10 minutes.
\'This should be considered as a lot of demons for a demon hunter.\'
"Emma, how many demons did you kill every time you were on patrol?" I asked. This was quite intriguing to me since I just realized, the demon hunters had been spending their time on patrols longer than me, yet their level was much lower than mine. An advanced demon hunter like Ruby was only level 31 and even Mrs Clea just got level 52.
I understood one of the reasons was because the crack had just appeared a lot more recently, but I wanted to know how big the difference was.
"Usually we only kill 2 to 3 demons every night. Sometimes none at all. But since the demon attacks have gotten worse lately, we usually kill around 4 to 5 demons in one night. Some can kill up to 8 demons," she explained.
\'That\'s why ...\' 2 to 3 demons a night was a small number. Besides that, I was guessing, the demons who fled to the human world were usually just the Shadow Imps and Rat Demons. That\'s why the demon hunters could handle them easily. Now I understood why the association wasn\'t prepared for large-scale demon attacks.