"Die!" Xander heard someone say.
"Dammit!" Xander yelled, thinking a demon or devil must have found him.
He quickly phased into his mirage realm. He knew he wasn't invincible in his mirage realm; while it would take around 10% of the damage away, he could still easily die while in the mirage realm. He just wanted to make the demon or devil miss as he started his dodge.
He quickly dodged to the left, the demon or devil's sword barely grazing his right arm.
"Ahh!" He let out a short yell of pain but was happy to be alive.
Xander finally had time to turn around and look at his attacker and was more than surprised when he was face to face with a blonde-haired, blue-eyed human.
[Human - G-rank - Low]
Xander quickly phased back into reality, held up his hands in a show of peace, and said, "Stop, I'm human!"
The young man didn't seem to hear him or just didn't care because the second Xander finished his sentence, the guy was attacking him once again.
"What the f***! Didn't you hear me? I'm a human! Stop!!" Xander yelled once again as he dodged to the side while blocking with his katana.
"Shut up before more of those beasts hear you," the young man said as he continued his attack.
Xander knew the crazy dude was right, so he lowered his voice and asked, "Why are you attacking me? We're both human."
The young man scoffed and let out a small laugh, "Does that mean I can't kill you? Are there any rules here on this stupid f***ing planet the tower sent us to? Are there any laws or government officials here to stop me? Just shut up and die so I can take your things."
"What? You'd really kill a fellow human just for my stuff? You don't even know what all I have," Xander said as he continued to block the young man's onslaught.
"You read the tower's notification. We have to learn to survive and to do that, I need everything I can get. So I'm going to take what I can while I can," the young man said.
"Fine," Xander said with finality. If the young man wanted to fight to the death... the more he thought about it, the more he realized he didn't really care.
With that thought planted in his mind, Xander stopped his defensive role and went full offensive.
He phased into the mirage realm just long enough to throw two throwing knives, each charged separately with death and lightning qi.
He phased back into reality at the same time the throwing knives did and watched as they each planted themselves into the young man's shoulders.
The death-charged knife ate clean through his shoulder, leaving a gaping hole, while the lightning-charged knife stopped him in his tracks for a split second, giving Xander enough time to thrust forward with 'lightning dash,' speeding up his movements, and a beam of 'necrotic blast' hitting the young man in the chest, digging deep into his body.
Then with 'wraith's touch' and two 'death spikes' hitting him from the front with his katana and the back with the spikes, Xander had the young man on his last legs.
With his katana still deep inside the young man's stomach, he overloaded it with death qi, which started to quickly eat through his stomach, causing him to scream in pain.
"Ahhhhhh!!!"
"Stop! Please stop!"
"I'll stop attacking you! Truce! Please, a truce! I surrender!" the young man yelled, hoping Xander was kind enough to let him live, but Xander had no such kindness.
Xander pulled out his katana and, with his entire body charged with lightning qi for extra speed, he sliced forward and cut deep into the boy's neck, killing him on the spot.
Xander didn't hesitate for a second. He bent down, took off the boy's ring, dug out his core, and then bolted out of there, knowing the loud noises from the young man's screams could be heard from all over.
***
Ten minutes later, Xander had found a resting place and was sitting on the ground. After healing himself with lightning's 'vital spark,' he started going through his new loot.
And he was very disappointed.
'No wonder the guy wanted to kill me for my stuff,' Xander thought. The kid's spatial ring had even less than Xander's. The kid was either broke, or he didn't keep all his valuables in his spatial ring and was teleported over to this planet, leaving all his stuff behind.
"Phew." Xander let out a breath.
'Wow, I really had to kill a human for no reason.' While he had killed the three guys before, they were trying to sell two kids into slavery. While this guy he just killed was just trying to survive. Of course, he tried to kill Xander first, but he sort of understood that stressful times call for desperate measures. But when he expected to feel a little upset about it, he found that he didn't really give a f***.
"Oh well," Xander shrugged his shoulders, then stood up, knowing he needed to get out of this beast-filled cave system before he ran into more crazed humans, demons, devils, or worse, F-rank beasts.
***
Four hours later, Xander felt just as lost as he was when he first entered the cave.
He had thought, after all this time, he would have found his way out by now, but here he was with no end in sight.
"Dammit," he muttered under his breath as he pulled out another beast core from a G-rank titanscarab.
He was fed up with this. He just wanted to get outside where he could breathe some fresh air, not this bullshit stale cave air.
"Stop!" Xander suddenly heard what sounded like a girl yell deep in the distance, but it was hard to tell with the echo of the cave walls.
"Ha ha!"
"Die for me!" he then heard two different sinister, scruffy voices.
Xander, thinking someone was in danger, decided to go see what was going on before it was too late, so he sprinted forward.
As he ran forward, he continued to hear the sinister voice yell what sounded like cringy evil lines from a movie, and before long, he could actually hear the sound of battle.
As he neared the room the fight was in, he phased into his mirage realm, then rounded the corner and was surprised to see a half-step G-rank demon fighting against a lone Korean-looking girl.
[Demon - G-rank - Half-step]
[Human - G-rank - Low]