Alfonso opened his eyes slowly, blinking for a while until his brain began to work properly. His eyes widened and he shot off from the ground, looking around while taking a fighting stance.
It took a moment for him to prozess where he was, 'I'm back in Hattingen? How? Wasn't I killed by that person...no that wasn't a person but an entity!' He found the Leader of the Scavengers lying near him, his head pointing at the sky despite his body lying on its stomach...
'He is dead...' Realized Alfonso, it alarmed him even more but his senses didn't pick up anything 145 meters around him.
'Wait, there is something!'
Alfonso walked carefully towards a destroyed building. There he saw a trail of blood leading away. "One of them survived?"
Alfonso stayed alerted while following the trail of blood, he didn't walk far until he found one of the Scavengers crawling slowly away.
"Damn! You are like a cockroach!" Said Alfonso who was surprised that the Scavenger survived his with Seismokinesis powered blow, he made a mental note that Berserkers are tenacious and not easy to kill.
The Scavenger froze for a moment before shaking and staring back at him in horror. His mouth was filled with blood and it was apparent that he couldn't use his legs as they were limp. Alfonso looked at his black eyes with red pupils that reminded him of the great taboo that the Abyss Slayer Union strictly warned about.
'That's what happens when you devour another human...' Those red pupils were the result of someone devouring a human and they would be hunted to death if found by the A.S.U...
He wanted to open the mouth on his right palm to take out his blade but Alfonso was confused when he looked down. He froze when he found out that no longblade came out but a familiar looking object made of a single black bone instead. He realized that it was a rifle. Alfonso was confused, picking up the rifle from the ground and observing it.
It was a bit over 1 meter long and had a similar design to a Kar 98k. Alfonso was a soldier in his past life, he immediately saw the parallels between the rifle in his hands and a Kar 98k. Most of it was made of a single black bone, only the part in the middle where the bullets would be put in was made of flesh that was slowly pulsating. It didn't have a scope but iron sights instead, well bone sights in this case...
'What the hell?' Thought Alfonso while looking at the strange Kar 98k in his hand.
What confused him even more was that he couldn't take out his longblade, no matter what he did...
"What the hell is going on?'' Alfonso himself. He recalled what the strange entity did to him and paled, he thought for a moment that it took his power away from him but Alfonso sighed in delight when he still felt the familiar heat moving inside his body.
'Can I only take out this Kar 98k?...I'm a Weaponmaster and know how to create all kinds of weapons but I can't do it right now. It's like that ability was erased...'
'That strange entity did something to me...Is that the reason for this situation? But why did it spare me?' Alfonso was too confused and began to speculate.
He tried things out, glad that everything was fine with his Seismokinesis but he couldn't create any weapons beside the Rifle in his hand...
"You...I choose you..." The last words the strange entity said to him echoed through his mind, making him think about it.
'It chose me...For what?' Pondered Alfonso, 'I'm still a Weaponmaster but whatever it did to me made me unable to create anything else than this Kar 98k. Thank god that everything is fine with my Seismokinesis...'
He sighed in defeat, accepting his strange situation and putting it aside for another time. He turned towards the Scavenger that was still trying to desperately crawl away...
Alfonso looked at the Kar 98k in his hand and then back at the Scavenger.
'I don't have a place to feed it bullets...maybe...' He put his right hand on the handle and the vertical mouth in his palm opened on its own, fusing with the handle. A strange feeling spread across his mind and body, like the Kar 98k suddenly became part of him. Alfonso let himself get a feelling of it before aiming at the Scavenger who was still trying to crawl away...
He felt some of the heat inside his body flow into the Kar 98k that seemed to become alive. The middle part of the Kar 98k made of flesh began to pulsate a bit harder...'That's how it works...interesting.!'
He pulled the trigger, followed by a loud sound and a bone bullet blasted easily through the chest of the scavenger, shattering the ground...
"This power..." Muttered Alfonso while looking at the level of destruction his Kar 98k caused. Alfonso laughed out, blasting the remains apart with a shockwave from his fist. He did the same to the other corpses from the Scavengers before departing from Hattingen.
He found a secluded place deep into the woods where he could think about everything.
His eyes were pitch black because it became night outside. Every Slayer could see in the night just as good as in the day after becoming a Slayer. Alfonso took out his spare clothes and threw the wasted ones away. He took out his Kar 98k, inspecting it.
He thought back of his encounter with that powerful entity, 'That thing was like a god...I assume that the place the black hole led to was the Abyss itself. The Scavenger was too desperate to escape, that's why he took the gamble and used the black crystal that led there. He had clearly no idea which part of the Abyss he would be transported to. He was unlucky. But why did it leave me alive...No why did it choose me and what did it really do to me...'
Alfonso was having a headache over all those questions and speculations, he felt like he was moving towards a boundary which normal humans knew nothing about and it was out of his reach...
'Forget it, now I need to focus on getting used to my new situation...All the hard training with the blade was for nothing now...'
Alfonso spent the next two weeks roaming through the woods far away from Dortmund. He collected a large number of Minion Exo-Seeds in that time while getting used to using the Kar 98k.
It troubled him that monsters would really show up shortly after he killed animals. A horde of minions came not long after he hunted a couple of deers. It seemed random if minions or elite monsters would come after him when he killed animals. Alfonso devoured their Elite Exo-Seeds, keeping 3 of them to sell them together with the ones from the minions.
It was at that time that he felt the heat inside his body going rampage for half an hour before calming down. It made him panic and everything he tried to calm it down failed. A strange familiar feeling reappeared in his mind. "This feeling!"
The rows of fangs closing the vertical mouths in his palms opened, revealing the darkness inside them. Two new objects fell on the grass, making Alfonso stare at them wide eyed.
"You gotta be kidding me!" Shouted Alfonso excited as he picked up the two pistols.
They were familiar to the Kar 98k, made mostly of a black bone but with the middle part occupied by flesh. Their design reminded him of Desert Eagle but there was a unique thing about the two pistols. They had both an additional gun barrel on top of the normal one instead of a traditional one gun barrel.
Alfonso didn't care anymore why or how he got them, he immediately tried them out. He shot at the nearby trees in glee. He realized how much he missed shooting guns again... It reminded him of his time in the army...
'Their raw destructive and penetration power can't compare to the Kar 98k but they have their own strong point and that is their rapid fire. The Kar 98k is like a sniper, and these two Guns are like Machine Guns despite their Desert Eagle-like look.' Analyzed Alfonso.
'I'm already using the Kar 98k like a Sniper...These two pistols look like Desert Eagles, let's see...Yeah I will call them Desert Eagles.' Decided Alfonso after thinking about it.
He was later ecstatic how well he fused Seismokinesis with his Kar 98k and the two Desert eagles. His Shockwave and Tremor Manipulation kept getting stronger thanks to him devouring monsters.
It became at the same time harder to grow stronger because Exo-Seeds from minions became almost useless to him, his body was like a bottomless pit...
Alfonso showed his ID card to the guards at the outer wall of Dortmund, entering the city and heading straight to the A.S.U branch in District 2.
He noticed that something was going on because of the level of activity inside the branch. Many Slayers were walking quickly through the halls, they all seemed to be in a hurry.
Alfonso found a Rookie Slayer he knew and took him aside, "Hey Benny, what is going on?"
Benny looked strangely at him, "Hey Fonsi, you don't know?"
"No I don't idiot, I was outside for the past weeks."
"Well, I don't know exactly what happened but all B and above Ranked Slayers have been on the move lately. There are rumors that something big happened in the Abyss but they won't tell us low ranked Slayers what it is. The A.S.U has dispatched a lot of Slayers into the Abyss across all Europe, they say it isn't only the A.S.U, other organisations around the world are doing the same. Whatever happened, it's huge." Explained Benny quickly before joining his squad.
Alfonso frowned, he asked around a bit more, finding out that it started two weeks ago...'That's around the same time I met that entity...I don't think that this is a mere coincidence...' Thought Alfonso, he recalled the massive army of colossal monsters that that entity controlled and gulped.
'Did that entity launch an attack? It would certainly explain this situation, and we would be doomed if we fought against it...' Thought Alfonso while recalling the terrible power from that person and the massive army of monsters it controlled...