The moment Evan and the group notice that the variant Evileye is awakened, the mercenaries move into their planned positions, and their goal of hunting begins. For this they needed to pass the group of evil eye to reach the variant, they had already thinned out this group as much as possible without alerting the variant Evileye.
The mercenary captain raised his hand, signaling his team to proceed. With silent precision, one of the mercenaries retrieved a small metallic cylinder from his pack. With a quick twist, the cylinder hissed, releasing a thick, translucent gas. Within moments, the area was shrouded in a dense fog and obscured vision.
Evan remembered the previous conversation with the Mercenary captain -"If you want to hunt an Evil Eye within its group, it'll be tricky, their perception range is ridiculous, so confuse them, use fog to obstruct its vision, it will be effective in confronting Evileye, it is best to avoid their view as much as possible."
Now every member of the mercenary team ran toward the monster group without stopping, striking and slashing every time they sensed the monster.
Evan was not ideal, it is good that their group consists of psychic powers users, through his help they could easily coordinate the position.
Evan is now only a few meters away from the variant. Evan uses the "The art of War Joker" to swiftly move without stopping even for a second, using every obstacle as a footing to leap toward the variant.
Just as he was a foot distance away from the variant Evileye, it used its black eye to produce blindness and Evan for a second, unable to see anything, missed the target, he regained his vision, Evan then tried to strike but wherever it tried to attack it was faced by same moments blindness, the monster was producing a noise as if laughing on Evan.
Evan then decided and run towards it again but Just as the monster prepared to unleash its attack, he feigned a direct charge but abruptly veered to the side, using the wall as a springboard. His movements were fluid and he leaped toward the monster.
The Variant Evil Eye, reacting to what appeared to be a straightforward attack, shifted its body to dodge the perceived trajectory. when Evan reached in front of Evileye still going with the force generated due to leaping using the wall.
But Evan wasn't finished. Mid-leap, he invoked the "Art of War Joker," a technique that seemed to bend the rules of physics themselves. For a fleeting moment, it was as if he found footing in thin air, halting his momentum abruptly. Using the newfound stillness, he shifted his center of gravity, coiled his body, and launched himself once again, a second leap impossibly sharp and precise.
The Variant Evil Eye had no time to react. Evan's blade plunged into the variant Evileye eyeball.
Movement the Evileye was stabbed, it started to deflate as if punctured and all its tentacles got limp with the thick green blood pouring out from the gaping wound.
"The Art of War Joker is a semi-grandmaster technique that grants the user unparalleled agility by enabling movement possibly on any surface. This includes the remarkable ability to move momentarily through the air by harnessing the force generated from prior momentum. But it seems I need more proficiency in it.
Even with the creation of three energy nodes within the Body Matrix, the energy output remains limited. At best, it allows for brief aerial maneuvers, sufficient only for a few critical movements., can only be utilized in a battle to startle the enemy by making a sharp turn in mid-air by invoking it for an instant"
After the hunt is over, everyone timely gets back to avoid any accidents,
Marconi-"Now that the task is over, and everyone has gotten their payment let's end our meeting"
Mercenary captain ignoring Marconi came to Evan - "If you ever need Mercenary for a hunt, please remember us and this is our card"
"No no, you even charged for the goblin corpse, and those fog cylinders separately, if I don't get the discount in the next commission, I will not hire you" -Marconi said trying to profit for himself.
Their argument lasted for a time and after that, Evan returned to his room to take a bath and freshen himself.
After that, he came to the hall and sat on the mat while taking out a few ingredients and magic core - fresh lake water, fruit of tree demon, silver level energy serum, etc. and arranged them in particular formation then, at last, took out the purple-green colored Variant Evil eye Monster core which he hunted, washing it with fresh-lake water then injecting himself with silver serum and using other materials in order at last directly swallowing the monster core, his body started to heat up, his temperature rising and blood began to flow faster.
Generally swallowing the monster's core leads to long-lasting body damage, the foundation being ruined, or even death but Evan is using the Primordial Core Triad Matrix(Soul Matrix) the moment he uses it, the energy from the monster's core which makes his body to go berserk started to divert towards the soul matrix and started to make the soul node, the body returned to calm but the immense focus was needed until the formation is complete, in the soul matrix the monster's core got completely absorbed and energy produces from it started to take shape of an eye with three pupils, then suddenly Evan started to feel light-headed as if forming this eye imprint is taxing but he continued and this process continued to stretch on.
After a few hours, Evan opened his eyes with a big smile on his face, one can be sure that it was a success. His body seems malnourished but his face tells a different story after that he gets up and starts to eat like he has not eaten anything in a month.
After finishing eating, Evan returns to bed and thinks about what he got, " I was able to make one of the three soul nodes which allows me to have that monster's ability whose core is utilized, first I had many options but I concluded that Evileye ability to sense danger is best for me in this unpredictable world, I was going to use Cyclops Eye to mutate Evil eye into a variant with great danger sensing but now this not bad though somewhat unexpected, it regrettable that I don't get that ability to make blindness but this trade-off it good.
In Evan's "Soul Matrix" when he focuses on the eye-shaped soul node. These are abilities that I acquired: Evileye variant ability -Minds Eye, Dynamic vision, Fear gaze.
Well, it's time for the battle Academy to start.
Evan started to prepare for it.