Chapter 30 : Level 2 Test

After the battle with the super fast freak, Leo and Tom went to rendezvous with Evan who was separated to them when those humans arrived. Evan's still fighting the 'hohoho' guy.

"Evan's in a pinched, he's getting pushed back"

A few minutes earlier before they starts fighting.

"How about you come down here already? Your allies' all dead"

"Hohoho... it's my turn already? How useless of you my dear brothers!" He jumped down and kicked the dead body lying on the ground.

"Next time pick someone stronger.., wait there would be no next time 'cause you're dying now!"

Evan was the first one to charged forward to the 'hohoho' man (please tell me his name LoL)

Using his fist he attacked hohoho but he pulled something from his back and blocked the punch.

Evan leaped away after getting his attack blocked.

"A fan!? How are you able to blocked my attack with that!?"

Hohoho used his weapon to fanned himself with it.

"Hohoho... this fan was passed down by our ancestors to us, generation to generstion. It is our family's great treasure, it was said that this fan was made from the remains of the S+ medieval dragon that invades our world a long time ago"

"Then that would fetch a lot of money"

"Fool! This shouldn't be sold to anyone" hohoho folded his fan and charged in.

Evan knows to himself that he won't lose to a close combat, his forte.

Evan would aimed and punched everywhere in hohoho's body. He would lands an attack and received damage from the metal fan of hohoho, Evan would hit his fan instead, the battle continued with just that until Leo and Tom arrived.

It's a battle of endurance, stamina. Of course, it's Evan's lost because he's been fighting when they came in to interrupt.

Evan's starting to show signs of fatigue, his punches slowly decreasing its strength as their exchange goes on.

"Hey brother, shouldn't we help him?" Tom holds Leo's sleeve, Leo looked at him and pat his shoulder.

"Look at Evan, his face says not to interfere. Don't worry he won't lose" they continued watching as the fight goes on.

It went for another few minutes, and Evan's getting slower.

"Hohoho... are you tired? Then it is my win" he unfolded his fan and slashed through Evan's armor. A sharp fan that cut through and wound Evan, he doesn't have the strength to groan and grasp for air.

He was going for the kill, Leo threw his dagger, he parried the dagger and saw Leo clenching his fist.

"Oh no! I won't be able to dodge him"

Leo gave him an uppercut, hohoho was hit so hard on the jaw he lost consciousness in one shot. Leo then quickly come to give Evan some potions he bought. Leo lift his body and have him drink the potion.

"There, that should do it" Leo stood up, Evan's health was restored but he was still exhausted.

"Thanks... I owe you one"

"Yeah"

[There's roughly one hour left before the test end.]

"No... we don't have enough"

Leo remembered that those guys carry a heck lot of a moster with them inside their container. Leo went and search if hohoho guy has a container.

"Ohh! Found it" hohoho's coming back to his senses. "Better finish him off" Leo picke up the dagger and slit hohoho's throat. Blood spilling from his mouth and neck as he collapsed and die.

'I've killed humans, humans just like me. I want to puke, seeing their dead bodies, but why... WHY DOES IT FELT GOOD KILLING THEM!!!'

[Plus 2 levels...]

Tom can't look directly, he feel like vomiting at what he's seeing.

'Something has changed brother Leo, he's not like this before, such a kind-hearted brother became so cruel'

Tom couldn't comprehend what exactly change. Was it his behavior? His appearance? His thinking? Or maybe Leo himself become someone.

They decided not to go and hunt anymore since they had a lot.

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[Time's up, stop what you're all doing]

The settings had gone back to what's like before after the test.

[I'm thrilled that a lot of you had passed the test. I'll send out the result to your Cabal]

"Whoa! What's this? This looks like from a game!" Tom,Evan and Leo had received the result.

'Huh!? Tom and Evan can see it too? What's the meaning of this?"

[Ohh! It seems that someone's already have a Cabal]

'Was he pertaining to me

"Wow, looked at this result, the number 1 team caught 200 monsters" Evan scrolled down and saw their position. "We passed! Number 15 with, 89 monsters. Thanks to those bunch of nincopoops we passed"

'I'm not mistaken! They can clearly see it, the system! What's going on? What's Cabal? Wahhh!!! There's so many mysteries!'

"Evan, do you know about it?"

"Brother Leo, I'm level 14 now and my stats are high"

"This? Oh it's Cabal, it shows what's shown in there. I don't know the specific details, I wasn't told"

'So he doesn't know the full details'

"Ehh!? He ignored us?"

[Those hunters who have passed may now proceed to level 2 or fight and beat me. You'll get a big reward if you defeat me]

Evan looked at Leo, "We go down"

And so they went down to Level 2. Just like level 1's waiting area. Humans were waiting for the others to passed the test. They all looks strong, Leo looked around, heightened his senses and tried to search for the number 1 team that caught 200 monsters. He failed to find them to have a good look.

[Ahem! All of the hunters are now here, so I must proceed with the test. For the second level test it will be 'Monster Behind a Door'. The mechanic's easy, there's about 20 teams here and I have 21 doors of the same color. The team leader will pick a door and fight the monster inside that door. It is all based on luck, there's a door without a monster and there's a door with a S- monster. So please be careful when choosing.]

"I will be the team leader" Leo presented himself, the two followed him and went to see the doors.

'I can't sense what's inside those doors, it all came down to luck huh? I'm pretty confident that our enemy would be weak, but for some reason, I want to fight a strong monster. Someone I have to put my all on the line just to win'

Leo gathered the two to discuss what door they should pick.

"I can't sense anything behind those doors" other hunters had already picked their doors whilst Leo, Tom and Evan were sitting on the ground.

[Door 2, door 5, door 9, and door 21 has been choose. You lots can take your time what to choose.]

"Ugh! Why even bother thinking about it" Evan stood up, and went in front of a door. "Let's just choose this one" Evan pushed open the door, and entered.

"Ahh! You idiot!" Leo and Tom immediately followed Evan inside the door.

[Door 13 has been chosen, what an unlucky team...]

The settings of the level 2 changed as soon as they entered the door. It was an old castle, statues guarding the castle. They took the 100 step stairs that lead to the castle. The huge wide door was open, blood coming out of the castle and bodies were piled up.

There was a man sitting on the throne, holding his sword. He noticed their presenced and displayed his powerful aura. His aura emanated from him, they all felt it, it was filled with rage and bloodlust.

The man stood up from his throne, unsheathed his sword and then pointed it to them.

"Wha- what busi- ness do you- three have here!? Are you- also here- to steal my- my treasures!?"

He's releasing more powerful aura, trying to intimidate them by mental strength.

Tom felt shivers ran down his spine, Leo tighten his grip on his dagger and Evan seems like he regretted choosing randomly.

[King Artorius II, the selfish cursed king. (Rank A) Cursed by his own countrymen because of his selfish desire to gather and have all the treasure for himself. He's bound to protect his treasure eternally and can't leave his throne.]

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