8 Fighting Hunters

<Ding! Watch out!>

The next moment and before Aroon could get what his system was referring to, a strong hit came directly to crash his body and halt his advance.

Aroon was hit hard and without any alarm. He lost his balance and kept rolling violently on the ground.

His body smashed violently through small trees and some rocks before finally stopping almost a hundred meters off his course.

"Damn it!" he shook his head off while standing with some dizziness in his mind. "Is this a hunter?" he couldn't help but ask.

But before he could get an answer, another hit came all of sudden from the front.

"Boom!"

This time he was prepared for it, slightly. He turned to the left and tried to evade the incoming dart but he was a fraction of a second late.

And his body was sent to the air again before rolling fiercely on the ground.

Thanks to his netvor, such attacks had little effect on his body. However, all that falling and rolling made him feel unwell.

"Yeah, it's a hunter," he stood up again and this time he didn't even wait for his mind to grow clearer as he ran around the place.

He recognized the classic print of his new enemy and his mind recalled instantly how to deal with it.

It was simply by running all over the place and not stopping at one spot for any reason. Stopping for one second would get him attacked fiercely like what just happened.

"How come a hunter be here?" he couldn't help but ask, "isn't it a grade E dungeon? Hunters are only present at D and higher dungeons!"

<Ding! It's a grade E-II dungeon, only one level away from being D dungeon. not rare thing for hunters to be present>

Aroon didn't like the answer of the system and felt that stelsel was hiding more info from him. "I need more answers," he said.

<Ding! You ask things you already know the answers to, right?>

"What do you mean?"

<Ding! What draws any stronger monsters to lower dungeon?>

Suddenly the eyes of Aroon widened up as he already knew the answer. "It's... me! I'm now a stelsel owner," he softly muttered while never stopping running.

And he could hear the sound of many darts hitting his trail, hitting nothing but thin air.

<Ding! That's correct. Now you need to know there are at least five hunters and I believe can be ten>

"Any more surprises? Soul hunters? Shadow walkers? Silent killers?" Aroon shouted while barely escaping a combined attack of five darts at the same time.

Hunters were a fierce type of monster that he hated to deal with. They loved long-ranged attacks, with attack range extending to reach almost five miles.

And that alone was something he hated much about dealing with them. For five miles he had to deal with such unexpected fast and brutal attacks. Any mistake would cost him time and even would bring him some injuries.

<Ding! Why aren't you listening to me?> the system suddenly reprimanded him.

"What do you mean?" Aroon was already getting overwhelmed after crossing two miles with much difficulty. He had no time to waste as the clock was ticking.

It took roughly half an hour to cross that distance. That left him with hardly enough time to reach the dungeon entrance and kill any monster there.

He knew how hard it became while getting closer to those hunters. Their darts would be fiercer and faster, harder to predict or evade.

<Ding! I told you before, can imagine any form of weapon and wield it!>

"Damn! I forgot that!" Aroon cursed while glancing at the distant horizon, "can I picture a rocket launcher then?"

<Ding! Don't be ridiculous! Since when can your pathetic firearms do anything to them?>

"You... have a good point," Aroon nodded before jumping high in the air, rolling around himself many times before finally landing on the ground. "Then I have to get some kind of a weapon to kill them fast from far... What about a bow?"

<Ding! You are hopeless> the system sighed, <Ding! Think, what would be better for you? A weapon that surely miss the target or a shield defend your life and buy you much time?>

Aroon's eyes widened as he realized the wisdom in his system plan. "Sure, I'll do that," he closed his eyes for a brief moment and imagined something.

The next thing that happened was for his sword in hand to vanish and a giant hexagonal shield appeared instead.

The shield looked thick, rough with pointed angles. He imagined something he saw once in a movie before when he was a child.

And now he had the chance to obtain such a giant shield and run while wielding it to defend himself from any incoming darts.

"Boom!"

"That was… like a weak girl throwing ice balls on me," he laughed the moment his shield took the first dart and he felt nearly nothing at all.

"Time to get serious," he didn't hesitate any more and started to run fast, as fast as he could, towards the dungeon outer perimeter.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Through his running course, he kept receiving a lot of hits but they did nothing to him. The distance he imagined to cross in one hour under heavy fire was crossed in less than ten minutes.

"Surprise," he jumped high in the air before landing heavily in the middle of the stationed forces here. "Sorry but I need this spot," he waved his shield and used the sharp pointy angles to crush one of the hunter's heads.