As the dark mist spread across the entire ground, it was started changing into grey mist.
The mist wasn't that dense though, however, no one could able to see anything clearly but crimson eyes that were pierced straight through the dark mist and the shadow as big as an elephant. It seemed that the monster transformed into the berserk form. Then, a howl that felt strangely heavy echoed there: "Howl...!"
After the howling, the hunters couldn't able to feel any presence of the monster, it seemed he disappeared from there. However, a few seconds later, there was everyone felt something uneasy going on with them: "what's this?, i'm feeling tired all of sudden!"
It was a skill of the monster,
[The Hell's Mist(S)]: it can weaken the opponents by absorbing the mana forcefully from whoever comes to contact with the mist. As the opponents' mana absorb, it'll become denser.
As time went on, the low ranking hunters started fainting due to the low amount of mana. Targeting the low ranking hunters whose mana depleted, the monster started attacking and dragging them one by one deep into his den. no one knew what happened with them.
There were most of the hunters trying to run away from there, but, whenever they tried the monster dragged them into his den. All the hunters who were present there frightened by his attack pattern. After some time, Raghav could able to understand his attack pattern, however, he also couldn't able to do anything but saw them hunted one by one.
Because, his mana also hit rock bottom, because of that, he couldn't use any of his skills. he loosed the hope to save himself from that monster, and waiting for his turn.
"We all of us fooled by the association, why had they lied to us about his rank. Haah...whatever the case, we're gonna die here anyway..... in his berserk form, we wouldn't able to make any scratch on him, even if we had full amount of our mana. He is atleast rank SS monster even higher." Raghav muttered while kneeling down on the ground.
And then Raghav looked at Tanya who was fainted on the ground at some distance from him, due to the mana depletion. he was trying to stand up but couldn't, so he dragged himself to Tanya. Then, he looked at a locket that he wore, that was an artifact and emanating emerald color mana.
[Reneisha's Locket]: when the wearer will be in a dire condition, it can transport the wearer in a random location in a range of 500 meters, it can only be used once in a day.
Then, he took off his locket and made Tanya wear it and said: "Sorry, Tanya, i was failed to protect the team members and failed to become a team leader. if you can, please forgive me..." he kissed on his forehead, and then she was transported from there to a random place near the camp.
The monster came behind Gautam who was knelt down on the ground because of the mana depletion, and about to attack, however, before his attacking, a mysterious dark fog started overlapping the mist...
[30 minutes ago...]
[In the camp],
"What do i do?, i have to find a way....hmm." Arun muttered while pacing inside the tent.
He startled and stopped pacing when he heard a strange voice yet familiar in his mind: "wanna my help?"
'What!,...telepathy?' Arun thought. "oh!.. still don't recognize my voice, what a newbie contractor you're?" at first, he baffled because of the voice, but after hearing it again, he recognized that voice and looked at his forearm where a another seal formed after his awakening.
He surprised by founding an another seal on his forearm and shouted loudly: "what! an another seal!"
There was everyone startled by his shouting and looked at him with annoyance. First, he calmed himself and sat on the bench that placed inside the tent. And then, he brought his arm near his mouth and whispered: "so, it means you have been here all the time inside this seal!, and i thought you have gone somewhere after freed yourself from that cave."
"What is he whispering with himself, i think his mental health becomes unstable after facing that monster." Other people who were there inside the tent staring at him, as he was someone who'd become mad after escaping the monster.
"You don't know anything about the spiritual form: while i was in spiritual form in that cave, i had used my authority to awaken your class, because of that i used up all of my mana. so for recovering my mana, i went in slumber and i couldn't able to communicate with you."
"Oh, is that so."
"You seems in trouble, wanna my help." the orb said. "Please do if you can, but i don't wanna reveal myself." Arun said quickly.
"First, tell me your mission's contexts." and Arun told the orb about his mission that came from the system.
"Okay, then let's go with this."
[Present...], [In the boss raid..],
"What's this?, an another skill?" Raghav muttered after seeing a mysterious dark fog which was overlapping the grey mist. That mysterious fog became dense as no one could able to see anything near himself. There was no one could able to understand the situation they were in, also they didn't feel the monster's presence.
At the same time, A man who wore a cat mask was standing infront of the monster, he was none other than Arun but he seemed different in personality and attitude. "My child, you have done enough, now you have not to do anything because i'm gonna free you from this harsh world." Arun said: his voice was gentle but different accent as psycho. It seemed like an another being talking besides him.
And then Arun used a mysterious skill: thousands of black leaves emerged, and started submerging with each other and formed into hundreds of arrows. "I show you the real power what it looks like." Arun said. And the arrows went towards the monster. But the monster reflect them with his skill, [Wind Reflection(A)].
Arun shocked to seeing his intelligence, "What!, he can use the skills that perfectly. I'm impressed."
Arun grinned widely and said: "You are perfect to serve me,... Do you wanna become my subordinate?"
But the monster transformed into berserk form again and started resisting the mysterious fog. "I think, it can't be help." And Arun used another different skill which he had not before. A hundreds of bone fangs that were black came out from the ground and pierced the monster.
After that, a window popped in the mid of the air.
[You have successfully completed the quest..]
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