The 21 year old Carolyn was dumbfounded starring at the man in front of her, for some reason, she couldn't see his face no matter how hard she looked through his hood but she was sure that this person wasn't older than 20 at most.
Being the leader of their 1st Order squadron with 3 stars under their name, she knew how dangerous what this youth was proposing, if they as a group couldn't handle it, how would this one man beat a creature at the top of the first order.
She looked at Leo with clearly confused eyes and his finger pointing straight at the Cyclops and her gaze wandered down to Torres who had fallen unconscious with both legs broken. A clear sign of helplessness and frustration in her eyes. The body of this man gave off the aura of someone who had definitely killed before, close to the aura of an expert.
"If you can kill that thing, you can have whatever you find but don't just..."
Leo didn't care about what else she had to say, he blasted forward at full speed towards the Cyclops with a rising battle intent. The katana in his hand trembled violently as it sent out ripples of Mana energy to the surroundings.
Roar! The Cyclops swung its giant club at the little human daring to obstruct its path, the club whooshed through the air at a terrifying speed that made Leo gawk slightly, For a creature of this massive size, being so agile especially with that huge club should be impossible.
Already running at full speed, he was unable to dodge in any direction as the club swept up even the hard cement into the air in one clean swing, Leo made a head on collision with the club with a held out fist, and was sent flying back about forty meters into the air.
The fallen squad members seeing the scene had their eyes open and their heads shook with terror and disappointment at the youths stupidity. Carolyn shook her head as she blamed herself for this youths impulsive behavior, she shouldn't have allowed him to face this terrifying existence head on.
The Cyclops staggered fiercely as he fell to the floor, a large chunk of wood from the giant club was blasted into pieces.
The squad members had their eyes grow wider in disbelief, someone was actual able to force this creature to stagger to the floor.
After a few seconds, the fallen Cyclops got back up on its feet and roared fiercely clearing wanting to vent its anger. The suppressive roar directly shattered a nearby building on the verge of collapse. The deathly pale faces of the squad members were clear resignations to their fate.
Swoosh!
The roaring Cyclops charged straight at the fallen squad members, Gale had reappeared in an attempt to save his squad mates from death.
Standing between his people and the charging train like monster, his knees felt weak and the daggers in his hands were shaking visibly, still he braced himself as he made his decision to die alongside his friends.
Flashing past him, a flying object tore through the air spinning vertically. The spinning katana radiating with small amounts of Mana energy made direct contact with the beasts eye.
In a split second, the rampaging monster that seemed like it was about to destroy the heavens wailed out loud miserably like a toddler while grasping its only eye which had a curved katana sticking out of it.
"That fucking hurt you bastard" Leos figure had already arrived before the Cyclops and a gist rammed straight into the belly of the beast. Before it could even properly topple over,
[ Demon Steps Activated ]
His body instantly swayed and rose into the air with a slight tap of his right foot that made it seem like gravity had no effect on him. He rose into the air and slammed downwards with a fist straight on the katana imbedded into the Cyclops eye.
Boom!
The effect akin to a small earthquake resounded in the area as the battle thirsty Cyclops instantly stopped moving.
The cease in its movements made the mouths of the squad members and even their leader Carolyn to have their mouths wide open. "What kind of terrifying monster is that young man".
Before the dust settled, the only thing left was the dead cyclops body as well as a massive hole in its head and shattered katana pieces. The violent youth who had saved them was surprisingly nowhere to be found.
......
Moving through an alleyway, Leo utilized demon steps to run up the ways of two buildings in a flash, jumping from place to place like a night ninja. He finally came to a stop on a normal rooftop far away from the scene of which he had performed what was akin to a marvel in the eyes of many.
On his right hand covered in green blood was a rune crystal which he had gotten directly from the head of the Cyclops. The reason why he had known that the crystal rested in the Cyclops head was fro. the intense studies he had imbedded himself in trying to understand the knew world society as well as how he would thrive if he ever one day managed to become an evolved hunter, after all he never had any thoughts that he would be a powerful one and manage to get his hands on a powerful Ability Stone.
So therefore he would need extensive knowledge to strike monsters in their weak points if he was ever to become a Hunter.
The reason he had gone through the trouble of fighting the Cyclops was because of the notification he had obtained once he got the Cyclops into his view.
[ Monster Examined; Cyclops level 11 First Order Monster Rank/ Special Abilities; Laser Beam/ Strength 39/ Agility 34/ Stamina/ infinite/ Uses: Rune crystal can be used to make special offense weapon; Kargans Gauntlets ]
What Leo needed at the moment was heavy offensive abilities and he doubted he would be able to get new skills if he didn't evolve and the chances of that happening soon were very slim, he couldn't even stay to absorb the shadow essence of the Cyclops for his evolution requirements as staying further would lead to him having to answer various questions which he considered a headache.
He really wasn't ready to be exposed in any way as only God knows how people would react if they found out that the monsters that they feared were actually able to look exactly like them and he was one of them.
Using Instant materialization, Leo casually changed into some ordinary casual clothes. He leaped from roof to roof to avoid being spotted in any way, it would really be a headache to explain to any police officer, Evolved Hunter or Law enforcement of any kind what a 16 year old was doing at this time of the night wandering the streets.
Leo suddenly realized that he was actually in a tier 2 city, the scenery was really to beautiful at night. After about 30 minutes of leaping cautiously from building to building, Leo finally arrived at the only place he could call home at the rundown Tier 5 area.
Not much had changed at all but then again, how much could change in three days. He walked into the building and headed straight for the second floor heading straight for his room, dipping his hand into his pocket, he realized that his key was gone.
Probably lost somewhere in Karos or in the forest when he was running for his life, he felt a lot of pent up emotions thinking about the sleeping Michael who had probably worried so much about him to the extent that he had sleepless nights.
He smiled while thinking about how their lives would definitely change for the better now that he had these supernatural abilities.
The smile on Leos face grew wider before suddenly freezing and turning into a large frown. After becoming a demon, his five senses had improved greatly such as his sight and hearing, and his hearing was currently telling him that there wasn't even a single heartbeat present within the room.
Without the slightest bit of hesitation, Leo kicked the door down leading to a loud bang and dust flying everywhere.
His acute senses were very correct, Michael wasn't in the room. The lights of a nearby room flipped on and a fat looking man burst through his door with a shotgun in his hands.
"Stay where you are or else I will.....". Before he finished his sentence, he was shocked to see the supposedly dead tenant of his standing inside his old room, his face turned pale as if he had just seen a ghost which to be honest wasn't far off.
Leo turned towards him and a murderous aura seeped out of his body making the landlord by the name of bill to instantly feel weak in the knees.
Bill was the nickname everyone knew him by because of his love for money, seeing the murderous glare coming from the youth in front of him, Bill felt like he had really stumbled upon and undead figure from his worse nightmares and immediately activated his Level 4 Runic beast based Ability stone which prompted him to increase in size and give out an elephant Luke trumpet.
[ You opponent has activated Level 4 Miophant Ability ]
Leo didn't even think and immediately reacted, his body instantly moved and akin to a ghost, be disappeared.
"So fast" That was the only thing he could think before a palm landed on his chest, he couldn't even react as he was sent flying from the room.
With silver quick movements, Leo moved with extreme speed that would make even a fierce cheetah bow down In shame. Bill who was supposed to crash into the wall at the opposite end was caught by Leos firm grasp at his back which slowly started clenching together.
Massive amounts of pain radiated from Bills back instantly dispelling his transformation.
"Am only gonna ask once, where is Michael?"