Luke continued down the road and slaughtered different monsters along the way. Unlike his previous location, this new area was filled with different species of animals. Snakes, dogs, cats, different rodents and other animals lined the streets.
Having run out of durability during the fight with the Beta Wolf Lord, Luke replaced his metal bar with a long machete from an already ransacked shop.
The new sharp weapon greatly increased the speed at which Luke was able to slaughter beasts. On average, the monsters were level 14, Luke outclassed them at Level 17 after killing almost a thousand monsters. Whenever he killed a monster it made his XP bar raise by roughly 0.5%. If it wasn't for the Lords that he killed then Luke would never been able to reach this level.
Luke only had 16 hours after he slept until he would be teleported to Kahtnet and he needed to find and kill another Domain Lord. He had been searching for nearly two hours and the only group of beasts Luke came across were a large flock of birds with razor sharp beaks.
"Crash!"
Inside a store to Luke's right, a shelf fell down and Luke could make out a human figure being surrounded by ten large tigers. The person surrounded by the beasts screamed in desperation.
"SOMEONE HELP!"
Her voice filled the silence that this destroyed city was almost always cursed with. Luke began to sprint towards her with his machete in hand. Due to his increased stats he had the ability to cross the distance in a second. One of the tigers began to pounce and Luke flicked his machete, the blade went cleanly through the big cat and sprayed blood all over the walls of the store.
The other tigers stopped in their tracks for a second, confused by the death of their brother. This single second allowed Luke to kill another two without resistance. Once the tigers gathered their wit they swung their claws with ferocity and tried to gnaw off his limbs. One by one they met the edge of Luke's blade as he slashed and hacked at their furry bodies.
Soon he was covered in brains and viscera and he looked like a harbinger of death. The girl he had protected was staring at him with both fear and reverence, he walked up in front of her and his 5,11 figure towered over her. He looked a lot more intimidating now that he had gained muscles and was covered in gore.
The girl was quite attractive in a conventional sense, she had blonde hair, was short and her hips were wide. Luke had never spoken to a girl as he was not allowed in school by the man who raised him, trying to play it cool he controlled his emotions and pretty much shut down his facial muscles. Only allowing himself to speak.
"How are you alive?"
Luke asked bluntly, due to the lack of people on the streets he had assumed that everyone died and his city was destroyed.
"Uh…Um… there is this place filled with people who are protecting others… but they needed food so a lot of us were sent out to find some, unfortunately the people I was with were killed"
Once she had finished, he looked around and finally noticed the corpses of people strewn around him, there were old people and middle aged ones but the girl he was facing was the only one roughly his age.
"Lead me to this place" Luke said without changing his facial expression. After killing almost non stop for two days, Luke had become completely desensitised to death so the grotesque state of the bodies around him brought him no fear.
Just as they began to leave, Luke heard a rumbling sound and spotted a large horde of various monsters heading his way.
"Fucks sake, why did you scream you idiot" he said as his bright blue eyes bore into her soul. From the weight of his killing intent, the girl crumpled and began to cry.
"You are of no use right now, go inside the store."
"We are going to die" The girl mumbled to herself as she ambled further inside the relative safety of the store. Tears dripping from her face, wetting the ground and marring her pretty face.
Luke brandished his bloodied machete and he smiled at the oncoming horde. There was roughly one hundred beasts that he could fight to his hearts content. With these beasts he might have a chance to level up, a massive wolf rushed towards him with its teeth bared in anticipation of a kill.
It was stopped in its tracks when a machete sliced through its open mouth and parted its top and bottom half's. This first kill would start Luke's macabre dance of death as he slaughter the horde. Every swing of his blade sprayed more blood onto the street and robbed another animal of its life.
Using only his fists and machete he whittled down the numbers until there was one left. By this time his body was littered with wounds and and his blood was mixed with those of monsters.
Luke roared at the last beast, his shout forced the wolf to its knees as it succumbed to the apex predator. It lowered its head in submission and Luke separated its head from its neck.
With his monstrous constitution, the wounds were already healed and he felt ready to fight again. He walked back over to the girl cowering in the shop, she stared at him with a look of extreme fear and hope. The girl believed he would be her saviour, she would do anything to stay by his side.
"Where is the place you were taking about?"
Where there is people there is information. He needed to find another Lord, nothing would stop him.
[Well done for surviving until now!]
[As there are 15 hours left until teleportation the Domain Lords will actively hunt you! Good luck!]
Well that makes things a lot easier, and it meant there are more than one more Lord for him to kill.
Now the real hunt was beginning and the Domain Lords didn't know what was coming their way