"Collect souls?! This is gonna be hard. And there is that penalty for failing, will I really be killed? From what I have seen, it can really do that?" Mizar was wondering how to collect souls. Most of the mages here were with elders of their clan. Unless he had a higher level than all of the people, it was impossible.
'Let me see if I can use my Necromancy skills. If I can it would be less difficult.' Mizar tried using the technique but it didn't work. If he had grasped the essence of the technique, he could have used it even without the system but unfortunately, he hadn't grasped it.
'What will I do now? Only using my Astral Magic, I have to kill 200 Magic Acolytes, 100 Adept Mages and 50 Junior Mages. This is going to be near impossible.'
Mizar climbed a tree and hid between the branches holding his [Infinity Bow]. Before when holding it, info of the item would be shown but now there us nothing. But the enchantments on the bow were still there.
Before the range of the bow was 350 metres but now it's range has increased to 800 metres. It has indirectly increased its power as it had an enchantment where farther the target was higher the damage it would deal. It was good news for him.
After waiting for a few minutes, his first prey appeared. Mizar was ready to attack at any moment. But the people were in a group. The person with the highest level was a Junior Mage. From his face, you could see he was a lecherous guy. He was putting his hands on private parts of a girl beside him who appeared to be his fellow clan member.
The whole group was perverted. There was only one girl in the whole group. She looked quite seductive. The guys behind her were occasionally grabbing her big butts. The girl appeared quite uncomfortable in this group. She looked like she was forced to be here. Even though the girl had a higher level than some of the guys, she was silently enduring it all.
Mizar didn't care nor he had sympathy for the girl. He wasn't a type of person to poke his nose in everything. He pulled the bowstring and fired the arrow. As the arrow went farther, it gathered more momentum and mana from the surrounding. It was fast as half the speed of sound.
As perverted and lecherous the guy maybe, he was still a Junior Mage. Not everyone could become a Junior Mage. The guy noticed the turbulence in the mana and knew some kind of attack was coming. The arrow was invisible as it was made of Mana but the guy still noticed the arrow and dodged it.
But today was his bad day. Mizar wasn't a skilled marksman. He had already pulled the string ready to strike another shot but the guy dodged the way arrow was coming. The arrow went straight through his throat.
The rest of the group panicked seeing their leader getting killed. During the panic, the girl escaped, ran away, and hid somewhere. Rest of the people also scattered in different directions. Mizar fired many shots but only managed to kill 3 peoples. The rest ran away.
[Souls Collected]
[1× Junior Mage
2× Adept Mage]
'Thank god. I don't have to collect the souls. I don't even know how to do it.' Mizar was a little happy about it. He jumped off the tree and went to the corpse to check what stuff they had, maybe they had his mask.
On the way, he saw the girl hiding with the corner of his eyes.
'Is this girl stupid? The blood would attract wild beasts here. She would only get killed by the beasts if she stays here. No wonder she got abused by those peoples.' Mizar thought as he pulled the string of the bow and released it. This time he was accurate and the arrow went through her stomach.
The girl had an ashen expression. Obviously, she wasn't stupid. Even if she ran away, she would either be killed by beasts or abused by Humans. She was waiting for Mizar, the man who killed the guy. She was willing to offer everything to him for his protection, even becoming his sex slave or anything. At least she wouldn't be played by all kinds of peoples like a toy and thrown away. She could get a stable ground but it was all a bet. A bet, whether Mizar would come or not, whether he would accept her proposal or not. She lost this bet and the price for losing it was her life.
Mizar searched the bodies of those people and found some potions, mana stones, and other equipment. The biggest things he got were a spell and a staff. But both of the items were non-compatible with him.
He went over to search the body of the girl but he found nothing of value.
He used this technique all day to hunt small groups. After firing arrows for a whole day, he became more familiar with the bow. Now, most of his shots hit the target. Fortunately, many groups and clans were here to investigate the gas and its cause. Some were drawn by the commotion but it worked out for Mizar either way.
After killing so much, people started noticing that peoples were getting killed. Some attacks on the victim looked like they were killed by an arrow and some looked like they were stabbed. Mizar killed all of them by an arrow but because some targets were far and some were near it looked different.
The news about mysterious killers killing peoples spread across the people which made his job harder. The quota for Adept Mage was almost complete and the quota for Junior Mage was completed more than half but the problem was Magic Acolytes. There wasn't even a single Magic Acolyte.
'System, can I substitute other souls for the souls of Magic Acolytes?' Mizar asked this question to the system many times throughout the day. He didn't get an answer but he still tried as he was thinking it was getting delayed like the notification about the soup.
Finally, Mizar got an answer but it wasn't the answer he wanted to hear or see. A familiar tab of the system came in front of his eyes.
[User must collect the specific souls given in the task. Any substitution wasn't allowed.]
The tab stayed in front of his eyes for no longer than 2 seconds but Mizar still got to read the message. Mizar was on top of a tree, leaning on a branch holding his bow when he saw his next preys. They were a group of 7. Mizar shot them one by one, this time all of them were dead.
"Found you. Wow nice shot, Mysterious Killer" A voice came from the right side of Mizar. Mizar was shocked, his pupils shrunk and he nearly fell off.
When he turned around to see who was speaking, the voice came from his left side.
"I'm here."
Mizar quickly turned around his head and he saw a boy who just stepped on his twenties.
"Haha... No hurry, I will not go anywhere." The boy said while he was biting on fruit while squatting on the branch. He was wearing a silver robe and had pitch-black hair. His eyes were brown and he looked quite handsome.
The scary part was Mizar couldn't even sense him until he spoke with his high senses. Even now he couldn't see his level. He could see the level of the Rung Clan Leader when he was still a Magic acolyte. But now even with his Junior Mage level, he couldn't see the boy's level.
Mizar stored the bow and took out a dagger he got from one of his victims. The bow wasn't made for close combat and the bow did less damage at close range. So it was better to store it.
The boy raised his eyebrows seeing how Mizar stored his bow but that was it. He still had a calm face which showed that he was not the least worried about this situation.
Opposite to him, Mizar's back was soaked in sweat. But opposite to his expectations, the boy raised his hand.
"I have a deal for you? I need you to come with me to kill someone. Don't worry, you just have to handle the cannon fodders. I will deal with the rest. How about it? I will give you some heavy rewards if you do."