11 BLOOD HOUND

"W-where are we" Rustain woke up slightly confused as he looked around.

"I don't have time to explain, we need to leave now, it seems the blood moon guild has been hired to kill you, things are getting out of hand--" Rouge said but then a loud explosion cut him off.

Rustain's eyes widen as he looks at where the direction of the explosion happened.

"That direction!! If thereafter I'm not far fetched that they will attack the hospital. Innocent people are there, we need to help them." Rustain rushed off leaving the Rouge.

"Tsk. Rustain comes back!!" Rouge immediately went after Rustain.

During the crisis, people started to panic one after the other as a series of explosions occurred all around the city mother and child cried as they tried to escape the collapsing building but later did they know this is not the only thing they need to focus their attention on. Over the walls of the city, the explosions caused one of the walls to fall apart exposing a vulnerable city to the dreaded land around them, this attracted bloodthirsty two-headed hounds, their bloodshot eyes, razor-sharp teeth, claws that can slice through rocks like butter and their thick fur making them impermeable to projectiles and melee attack.

The smell of death now inhabits every street from children to grandparents, human or Sidhe all can't escape the beasts as it slaughtered every living thing it meets, indiscriminately the beast would slash its claws to its victims while ripping off the head and the two head of the beast would share its meal from a single corpse.

"Ahhh!!!" A human mother shouted she is holding a baby while being protected by her husband a male side "HONEY LOOK OUT!!!"

The husband is holding a short sword but the beast only took one swing of its claws and slash it toward the man, the sword was cut in half like butter and so is the head of the man. Blood spewed out like a fountain as the head fell to the ground, it happened so fast that it made the body think it's still alive, the headless man took a few steps backward wobbling while messily swung the sword.

The body fell flat to the ground still spewing blood from its decapitated neck over the man's helpless family waiting for the beast to kill them.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! KEUK!! H-HELLP!!!" The women screamed even louder.

Rustain saw and heard this while on his way to the hospital, as he was closing in he saw the beast is about to munch the mother and child to half with its razor-sharp teeth. Rustain physically reinforced his legs and sprinted even faster, and towards the beast, he undefeated his sword and tried to one slash the beast but even though his sword was sharp it wasn't able to leave a scratch on the beast, it's furs are all hard as metal.

(CLANG!!)

"Stay!! Away from!! Them!!" Rustain shouted, trying to draw the beast's attention to himself.

Ristaim was thrown off balance after a rebound from when he struck the beast. The beast used its tail to shove Rustain away, and with its strong force, Rustain flew a few meters away. Rustain immediately tried to stand up but not a moment to spare the beast helped himself for dinner.

The mother screamed in pain while the baby cried in response to the chaos around.

"AHHH!! KUEEK!! IT HURT!! UGH!! STOP!!" The mother shouted.

The mother tried to squirm and with all her force he pushed herself away from the beast who is munching half of her body and blood spew every chew, the desperation of the mother to live almost succeeded but only for a moment as she ripped her torso away from her which is inside the beast mouth, she crawled away desperate to live while neglecting the reality around her and that Is she has zero chance to live.

Rustain who was on the ground had no choice but to watch as the mother crawled towards him but only took her last breath looking at his eyes.

Rustain saw again another death in front of him but this time he dares to fight back, Rustain stood up holding his sword with a strong grip, unknowingly he channeled his mana to the sword this made the sword even sharper, and this time he sprinted with all he got and slash the beast, the beast couldn't react faster.

This time he knows the difference between a human and a monster.

"Ahhhhh!!!" Rustain shouted in aggression towards the beast.

The slash managed to cut the fur and into the beast's flesh but it stopped a quarter away, this didn't stop Rustain and this time he placed all his strength and weight to the sword and chopped the beast in half.

"You could have just pierced its neck you know" Kuro immerge behind Rustain's shadow, Rustain looked at Kuro in exhaustion from the battle. "You took So long just to kill an inferior breed of a low ranked monster"

"Do you mean it's weak!!" Rustain looked at the cores of the beast as he clenched his fist. "This is not enough for revenge, I need more power" Rustain said with conviction.

Kuro walked towards Rustain, his eyes beamed with intrigue as he starred at Rustain and gave a cat smirk to Rustain.

"What a greedy contractor you are, Rustain," Kuro said cunningly.

"If that is how I can avenge my family then I don't care even if I am the bad guy who craves power, call me a psychopath, bipolar, or even the devil itself I don't care. after the fight with that monster I realized I'm too weak." Rustain grit his teeth and clenched his fist with anger in his heart.

"Became the devil, huh, /Oblivion/ say that spell, you won't regret it," Kuro said as he looked at Rustain with a serious stare.

"/Oblivion/?" Suddenly the corpse around Rustain released a black smoke and later made its way to Rustain. "Wait what's happening? I can feel a new surge of energy, but what's with this drowsiness," Rustain's senses slowly weakened and he can feel his consciousness fading. "Kuro?? What did you do?!"

"Kid this is fate, don't worry I'll never betray you, it's just fun to see you suffer." Kuro faded kike a smoke and so is Rustain's sight as he fell into slumber.

"K-Kuro~~," Rustain said wearily.

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The sound of sack dragging can be heard deep in a very dark forest.

Three men in dark hood walk to the edge of a cliff, their voices filling the dark devilish forest as they laugh.

"HAHAHAH. Can't believe our job is that easy, who would think we will just see him lying on the ground, Rustain Azital is now dead '' one of the men said amusingly.

Even their laughing face suddenly stood when they heard a sudden rustling in a nearby forest. The group suddenly fell into silence when the rustling became closer.

"What's that?? Who are you to show yourself!!?" A female voice said.

Out of the bushes in front of them, a creature of darkness emerges and starts to give off a sinister aura. Death was the only thing that awaits the three hooded people.

"W-What!!?? Is t-that thing!!!" The other one said as he pissed himself.

(Whoosh)

A gust of wind suddenly passed through the three of them and so were the claws of the beast. It was as silent and swift as the wind, the three of them suddenly fell to the ground and their heads rolled away from their body.

"There was no fun" The evil being said in a boring tone "Human is no fun, but except for this one my contractor, Rustain I wonder if you would wake up if I would give you a tiny push."

Kuro came closer to Rustain who was inside a sack and like what he said he gave him a tiny push but not like what he described it, it was a hard push that made Rustain fall from the cliff.

"Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Did you saw that Lilith?! That's what you call a tiny push" Kuro insanely like a mad man laughed as he started at Rustain bleed when he hit the cliff faces below.

"Was that necessary, will he be okay?? That was a few thousand feet below, he would reach the third realm when he hit the ground." Lilith the red-haired woman from before came out from the shadows and looked at Kuro with her deep blue eyes.

"He's dead anyway, hahaha haha get it his dead!!!" Kuro said insanely. "Well I better go. I could still fill the connection between me and Rustain. He survived the fall," Kuro said as he melted Thai Time to the ground.

"What a mad man, Kuro, or also known as the spirit of death, I wonder what will happen to your body from now on." Lilith then disappeared like a fog.

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