JULY 8. 3567
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The southeast forest also known as the "Forest of Graves" was a forest full of hatred.
In the past, rumors says that forest was once a large graveyard where frequent grave robbing occured almost every night.
When the meteor landed on this planet, the mana from that meteor gave the spirits of the graves that has been robbed an ethereal body.
Making them able to haunt the one who stole their items.
However they're ethereal body was also able to produce negative energy of anger which produce a lot of demonic creatures known as Hatred.
"KWAllaLAlalAlaLKak!!!"
Four hatred charges at me.
NAME:
RACE: HATRED
STATS:
STR: 15
DEX: 43
END:12
INT: 18
SPD: 25
DESCRIPTION: A demonic creature born from hatred. They have the body of a human, has long and dirty nails and tiny feet and moves faster than any running human. Their hand is the only thing they can use for both moving or attacking their enemy. Prefers staying in a 1 kilometer radius from their place of birth.
I dashed left and dodge the first hatred from slashing me.
Before I slash the second one I quickly dash back.
I knew that it had better DEX than me so I didn't risk it.
Instead while I was dashing back I quickly turned around and killed the first hatred.
Then using my left hand, I created a layer of mana around the other three hatred.
Three illusion of myself quickly dashed around them tricking them and try and slash behind them.
I quickly slash the second one and tried to go for the third one however it realize that it was a mere illusion and was already charging me.
It only managed to scratch me, I wanted to get into a better position before I attack it but I quickly realized that the fourth hatred was behind and also started charging at me too.
I didn't want to take the risk so I tried to reposition instead using my illusion however, the hatred was slashed at the illusion and the fourth one noticing my true current position, quickly slashed my shoulder.
I quickly slash the hatred after slashing my shoulder and when the fourth one tried to follow up.
I prepare myself to block the hit however Cynthia already shot it before it reaches me.
When I look back, I saw Caroline and Cynthia panting for a bit.
Cynthia had her rifle in her right hand while her sabre to the left.
They were surrounded by about 7 dead hatred.
"You both okay?"
"Yeah you?"
"Just a scratch"
"You got hurt? hold on for a sec!"
Caroline tried to heal me in panic.
"I'm fine, tend to Cynthia first"
"Oh right!"
Cynthia smiles awkwardly.
She had to do all the fighting to protect my sister so I wanted to take care of her first.
After healing Cynthia, we looked around the area.
"This is weird, hatreds never like one other so why are there so many of them in same place"
"By their actions it's definitely not by choice, all of them were moving for their own purpose"
"Then are you saying that there is something more dangerous in this forest"
"Probably, I don't really know yet"
"Then let's-"
"Were already far into the forest, we would just waste our energy trying to go back just for me"
Caroline quickly said, however all I hear is excuses to go with us.
I looked at Cynthia, it seems she noticed too, she nods and gave me a reassuring smile.
I was thankful that she decided to journey with me back in netherlin since I know she would protect her.
'Thank you Cynthia'
"Alright fine, but you need to contribute too"
"Your our eyes and support in this party, your job is to keep a lockout in our surrounding and heal us when needed before, during and after battles, got it?"
"You can't just stand around, waiting for Cynthia to kill them all"
"Well I'll try"
'Don't try, do it'
I wanted to retort to her like that but I know that I have been doing action that doesn't have any risk in it.
I didn't want to take the chances and because of my mindset, I got myself hurt.
We head deeper into the forest killing another 8 more and after some time, reached the very center of the forest.
I expected a strong creature to be lurking around here however there was nothing in the area.
I looked around the area where a few graves was sticking out and found a small hole in the very middle.
I chose to retreat and tell the others about it but before I could go.
The earth shook violently and the earth beneath me collapse.
Before I could fall, Cynthia grabs my arm and yanked me up and we quickly ran to safety.
"YAhshShshSHhshShh"
Three Necrom appeared in front of us
NAME:
RACE: NECROM
STATS:
STR: 50
DEX: 12
END:15
INT: 1
SPD: 10
DESCRIPTION: A tall mutated ghoul with a high amount of strength due to mana condensation. Because of its dead body, the limits of a normal living body became broken and due to that it allows them to condense an infinite amount of mana.
Two of them slowly approach us, their giant fist already held up while the third one slowly follows.
I unsheathed my katana then I readied myself.
Cynthia shot their head but it only stopped them for a second then I used my mana to create an Illusion.
However I neglected the fact that these three specifically didn't have any eyes since they were still ghouls, an old at that.
Unlike zombies, where time is detrimental to them, ghouls have the ability to condense mana although slowly which makes them dangerous with time.
That's why most ghouls who have lived for 5 years are given to silver or gold ranked hunters.
By estimation this three should have at least lived for 5 years too.
While I was imbuing my katana with a fire resin, the illusion that I created was simply ignore and my heavy breathing made me expose my position.
The first one immediately slammed down his fist shaking the ground.
After dashing back, I looked back behind me, the hole that was expanding quickly was behind me already so before the necrom could lift its hand, I climbed onto his arm and quickly jump to the second necrom.
I stabbed the head of the second necrom and after a few seconds, it's body finally dropped.
When I look back, the first necrom seemed to have fallen into the hole.
Cynthia and Caroline was in front of me, facing of against the third necrom however Cynthia's bullets only goes through it's brain.
I use illusion to creat a fake shining light.
Since it only had a INT of 1, I manage to trick it into thinking that this light was real.
I quickly dashed through between his feet and slash it cleanly.
When it fall down to the ground, the ground shook and me and the dead necrom fall to the giant hole but before I could fall, Cynthia grabs my hand again and saves me.
I took a glimpse below me, it was looked very deep.
However the body of the three necrom was clearly visible, it looks like the ground was some sort of pitch black goopy substance that was absorbing them.
The hole also stopped expanding.
When I was pulled up, I could hear a voice
"๐ ๐ด'๐ป๐ป ๐ฑ๐ด ๐ ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ ๐ธ๐ฝ๐ถ ๐ต๐พ๐ ๐ ๐พ๐ "
When I looked back at the giant hole, there was nothing there.
But before I could get a better look the hole started expanding again however we before the hole manages to catch up with us again.
a ray of galactic beam descended upon the giant hole and soon the hole starts getting smaller and the beam quickly disappeared
< ... >
We head back to the checkpoint and reported what was happening.
The guard there then sent a message to the adventurers guild about it.
The guards in this city have always been trained in psychic magic, more specifically lie detection.
They didn't doubt a word about what I said and let us through.
Even though we were only able to kill around ten of them, we still got paid for it.
We all went home confused not knowing what happened.
'What the hell was that black thing?'
'Was that the one that said that?'
These questions ran around my head when I was eating lunch.
The day ended with nothing much happening after that.