chapter 6

It's been day that Hunter left the Imperial City of Graham and just now they stopped to rest, after setting up camp on a hill, Hunter along with some soldiers is preparing dinner, he doesn't know how to cook but with the help of Loras, he can roasting a rabbit he killed with nathan, the meat is greasy and juicy to the eyes, hunter puts the meat on a fire made with the spark of the hunter's spear tip, after a few minutes he and his brother are eating the delicious rabbit ,seph shared a canteen of water with them after the meal is over,

Hunter and Nathan didn't talk to the soldiers during the 1 day trip, only silence came from them when nathan tried to start a conversation, they were now talking to each other and excluded the brothers, they didn't complain about being excluded, they were used to suffering it in the palace, the servants and servants only fell silent when the brothers socialized with them and they just obeyed orders and nothing more, over time the brothers got used to the solitude, even with Redfield visiting them and training them, it was at least 1 once a week when the king didn't fill the task commander

So the brothers set up a bonfire for them away from the other soldiers and went to sleep, if they weren't welcome then they weren't welcome either, Hunter and Nathan stayed awake until it was time for the soldiers to sleep, so that was the plan since nathan fell asleep a few minutes later, Hunter didn't worry and let nathan sleep in peace, he stayed awake all night thinking about the karmic baptism, wasn't he supposed to feel pain?, why didn't he feel it?, the only thing he felt it was the changes from flesh skin to karmic skin, otherwise he just felt his flesh fighting Karma and that's when he stopped Refining, the only thing he's sure of is that it was all caused by those strange energies that popped up. from nowhere inside his soul and then coming together and forming a purple sphere that glowed brightly at the edges and had a creepy dark in the center of it, he felt that dark once, when he activated the killer intent, the int assassin is an energy that a warrior exudes after killing a large number of people.

But he hadn't even killed anything back then and his murderous intention was as strong as that of the soldiers he was traveling with, what was that purple glow?, he asked the 2 voices and they also couldn't answer, the only thing that they said that it was at the same time beneficial for the hunter and harmful for him as an energy as powerful as it was uncontrolled, the considerations would be disastrous for the Graham empire if not for the Heru continent, that energy is a two-edged sword, it would have to find a way to control her completely

While lost in thought Hunter, Nathan, seph and the soldiers hear a howl followed by several chain howls, it was a pack of wolves and they weren't ordinary wolves, they were karmic demons of skin refinement, they all knew this because of the direction where the pack came, a huge concentration of karma came along, the group had no chance against such a large amount of wolves, they would need at least 30x more strength than the current group has for them to at least match, it was suicide to attack

As the group watched the direction of the howling, one of the soldiers secretly pulls a knife and throws it towards the horse's head hunter and nathan, Hunter sees the knife going to the horse's head but he can only see the trajectory as his body was not prepared, his reaction is slow and useless, the knife hits the horse's head and he dies instantly, Hunter realizes that it was a trap and quickly grabs the [foxtail] and makes a firm lunge towards a specific horse ,the group's backpacker's horse, he knew that even the soldiers didn't stand a chance against the horde of wolves coming towards them and to delay the group, he hits the group's most precious possession, the horse that carried the supplies, even if they found a way and transferred the materials to another horse, the horde of wolves would be close and the smell of the riders would still be impregnated in the ground and finding them would be extremely easy for the wolves and if a chase started, the lo Bos would win easily, as being karmic animals in skin refining, their speeds would be thunderous as they would not have to worry about hitting a Rock as the Rock would break very easily

When the hunter's spear hit the horse's belly and went straight to the heart and broke the heart in 2 and traveled to the other end, blood stained the ground and the smell of blood was a welcome to the beasts and a wish. of death to the soldiers, Hunter and Nathan

When the horse took its last breath, Hunter nimbly withdrew his spear, then tapped Nathan on the shoulder and yelled, "Run, Nathan!!!"

From the death of nathan and Hunter's horse to the death of the backpacker's horse, only 6 seconds passed and in those 6 seconds the horde of wolves smelled the blood on the horse and a chain reaction occurred.

All wolves turned to the direction of the group and ran at High speed

The roars of meat-hungry beasts resounded throughout the forest, the trees in the wolves region began to shake violently and on the hill where the horses and pack were, Hunter and Nathan ran to catch another horse and flee

Then one of the soldiers appeared in front of the horses to stop the brothers

It was then that Hunter appeared and stabbed with the spear, the soldier tried to defend with the blade and when the tip approached the edge of the sword

The soldier just heard seph yell, "You idiot!!! That's a crimson diamond!!!!

When the soldier heard this, the dread was born and then he remembered, the crimson diamond is a type of Metal that creates fire when rubbed with other metals, it was suicide to defend the thrust with the blade, but it was too late and the spear blade hit the sword and when the clash of blades occurred, the tip of the spear caught fire and destroyed the sword and the sword followed its course to the left side of the soldier's chest and then the spear impaled the soldier piercing his lung and part of the heart, the soldier felt his whole body burn inside as if he was being cooked, he saw little Nathan get to the horse next to him, but he didn't get on the horse and he told the animal to move, he took a dagger, went under the animal and delivered a sharp blow to his stomach that opened with violence along with a cruel sneeze of blood and guts and nathan went from horse to horse, passing under and hitting everyone in the same place and 32 live horses were killed 8, not for lack of soldiers going after ace of nathan and hunter, but every time a soldier was sent after nathan, the boy dodged and killed another horse

When there were no more horses without a soldier stopping him, Nathan went after the closest soldier and drew his sword and attacked the soldier protecting the horse, but when the soldier tried to defend Nathan's attack, his sword broke into pieces and he was gone. killed with his head cut off, a soldier trained in the middle of step 1 of skin refining was killed by a beginner in the beginning of step 1, many would not believe if they didn't see it with their own eyes

Nathan took the dead soldier's horse and went to Hunter, the soldiers couldn't pull Nathan off the horse and couldn't kill the horse to kill him, the horses were the only chance of escape and they couldn't waste that chance, and nathan deftly led the horse among the soldiers as he walked towards Hunter

While Nathan was killing the horses, Hunter plucked the spear from the soldier's chest not pulling it out but pulling the spear up and destroying the soldier's left shoulder and killing him in the process, after the soldier's death other soldiers came with wooden shields up. of Hunter, he laughed at the soldiers and attacked the shields with a series of thrusts and slashes with the tip of the spear.

He killed a total of 10 soldiers with his spear, he was also wounded with a punch to the face but he returned with a headbutt that broke a good part of the hit soldier's face and he finished with a lunge to the soldier's skull.

Then Nathan comes to his side and shouts: "HUNT!!! THE WOLVES HAVE ARRIVED!!!! UP SOON!!!!!"

Hunter listens and gets on the horse sitting behind nathan and leading the horse, he uses his legs to hit the horse and then the horse runs as fast as he could, when the horses felt the wolves, they stirred and wanted to run but not they could because they were tied to a rope attached to a tree, they weren't demons and they didn't have strength above the species, so Hunter and Nathan left

As they left the wolves invaded the hill and went after the bodies of animals and humans, until they saw prey already alive, they went after them, using a superior speed given to the refiners.

But it wasn't enough, most wolves had the strength of a skin refiner at the peak of the 1st step.

Then one of the soldiers screams because a wolf bit his shoulder and took a big piece of it, he couldn't move one of his arms after the shoulder was taken off, in a chain reaction all the soldiers went after the horses, there were many horses since nathan killed most of them but Hunter killed Even more men than horses and then there were horses left, they were hoping to get out of there alive and kill the brothers, but when they got close to the animals, they saw something that made them lose hope, 12 wolves were killing the remaining horses

In an act of unity, the soldiers drew their swords and fought the wolves, they didn't aim for the head or torso, but for the wolves' paws, they were experienced and knew that when cutting a wolf's paw, the wolves became more weak and would be more vulnerable, and they took advantage of the time they were feeding off the horses to cut off their hind legs, half the soldiers managed to cut off, but the other half met their deaths when their targets heard their brothers being wounded and attacked whoever was more next, they were killed when the wolves also joined and began another feast of blood and flesh

The others walked away as a gigantic horde of wolves followed them, they just heard the other soldiers and horses being killed by the enraged wolves.