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A thing with the same outline as a human body but different from a normal human appeared in front of me.

This thing has purple skin with some snake scales. The height of this thing is more than 2 meters. The bulging arms show their immense power in them. The terrifying aura emitted by this creature is way more compared to Officer Ross. Without a doubt, this is a powerful opponent.

Well, poison has some damage to it as some of its skin has corroded and some areas are still getting corroded but it can not cause the instant death I wanted.

The creature looked at me and let out a wicked smile. It speaks in human language but its voice has a mixed beast-like sound.

" so this was your plan. Killing me with poison. Too bad if any other person besides my faction is in my place they will die for sure but I belong to the greedy faction. Our camp commands over poison and curses.

This is my true form. I am a fallen human. A humble servant of my lord. If things had gone according to my plan I could have received my lord's favour by sacrificing that girl with a shadow elf bloodline. Well, things are not out of hand yet. After getting her location from you I can still catch her and sacrifice her to my lord. Now, which part of your body should I cut first?" (Officer Ross)

" do you know the true identity of Judy." ( David )

"of course, I know her true identity. She is the daughter of the city lord of Spring City. Her real name is Nora Smith. Due to a curse, her bloodline got sealed and her potential dropped too. Do you want to know the most interesting part of the story? The person who cursed Judy is none other than my brother. Yup, you heard it right. It was my brother who cursed Judy in exchange for his life. Now her bloodline has recovered to some extent I can sacrifice her to my lord to get more powers and avenge my brother. Anything else you want to know kid." (Officer Ross)

" Like I said before all villains are the same. All they do is chit chat all day. I just wanted to say Judy it's time." ( David )

Suddenly a transformed officer Ross looked in a certain direction. Before he can do anything else a powerful arrow appears right in front of his chest.

Officer Ross used some defensive skills to defend against the arrow. Just as he successfully defeated the first arrow second arrow appeared with more power. The barrier failed to withstand the impact of the arrow and crumbled.

Officer Ross used his fleshy body to stop the second arrow. Officer Ross got some injuries but still managed to stop the arrow. Compared to his current body these injuries do not affect him.

Before he can relax the third arrow appears in front of Officer Ross. Finding the death in front of me Officer Ross decisively took something out of his storage item and activated it.

A barrier appeared in front of Officer Ross and protected him from the third arrow. After 3 arrows no other arrow appeared which may have relieved Officer Ross's hanging heart. He looked in the direction of attack.

Just as he was about to chase the attacker a new danger approached him.

 I know Judy's attack will be strong but not enough to kill this thing. Now Judy has exhausted all of her mana and stamina so everything is left to me. Fortunately, I prepared something for this situation. I realized that the poison plan would not work after knowing the faction of the fallen human I hunted.

I know that greedy faction members have high resistance to poison elements so I prepared some extra backup plans. Judy forced Officer Ross to his limits. Now the final strike and it will be finished.

For this chance, I took a huge risk and directly consumed that dangerous poison. I got 100 points after devouring that poison. I used those points to raise my level of skill in shadow art and shadow strike to cause one deadly blow to my enemy.

Here goes nothing.

I activated both skills. A powerful feeling rose from my body. My shadow art skill gives me an increase of 100% while the shadow strike gives me an 80% increase in my battle powers. My shadow ring also gives me some increase. So if I combined all these buffs I get a super effective attack but the only problem is that my body can not handle that much power.

So only one strike is my limit. If I even try to perform the second one I will die immediately. So its do or die situation.

Officer Ross let go of his last barrier after seeing no more attacks come to him. His situation may not be good but it is enough to catch 2 weaklings.

With a smug expression, he looked at me and spoke.

" anything else kid. Come on and try it. I might get killed by your next attack so why not try again." (Officer Ross)

" well if you are asking this nicely how can I decline. Here I come" ( David )

I activated all of my skills and used my talent for the first time. A huge amount of power gets poured into my body. I can feel the power running madly inside my body.

Officer Ross also felt the dangerous breath his opponent was releasing and decided to end this battle fast. Before he moved he found out something tied his feet to the ground.

Officer Ross looked at the source of his problem and saw a dense shadow element turned into a solid form and captured his feet. Suddenly the tentacles made of shadow elements rose from the ground and tied his complete body.

I used shadow domain and restrained Officer Ross from moving. I gathered enough shadow element mana to perform the perfect shadow strike. I charged at Officer Ross who still trying to untie or break the shadow tentacles.

I manipulated the shadow element to provide some cover for me. Officer Ross tried to attack me but his poor vision due to lots of shadow tentacles and other stuff made it hard for him to attack me.

I arrived in front of Officer Ross and used my ultimate move. I moved my sword many times and passed by Officer Ross.

As I got some distance between me and Officer Ross a long scar appeared on my chest that sprayed lots of blood. Well, everything has a price.

Behind me, Officer Ross seems to be fine. Before he can smile like a winner multiple cuts appear all over his body. Lots of blood is sprayed by those wounds but serious damage is done to the neck.

Officer Ross's head gets detached from his body still maintaining that half confusion and half-joyful expression. Even In the last movement, Officer Ross can not believe how can he lose to some unknown ranker way weaker than him in everything.

A detached head let out its last voice.

" this time you win kid but let me tell you this is not the end. You have started the game with my death and it will only end when one party dies. So be prepared for the trouble that will come in the future." (Officer Ross)

I interrupted the last talk of Officer Ross.

" enough old man. I know you are making a strong curse using your leftover lifeforce and strength so do not waste time telling me these cliché lines and be done already." ( David )

As soon as I finished my words a mana circle appeared under Officer Ross's body. A strange breath rose from that circle. Officer Ross chanted some sort of magical words of an unknown language.

I can only understand the last part of it as it is said in a common language. I guess Officer Ross deliberately wanted me to hear them so I get scared.

" o hear my call mighty one. Please accept my body and soul as sacrifice and cast a powerful curse on my killer. May he live his whole life in misery." (Officer Ross)

I did not try to stop the ceremony and patiently waited for the ceremony to finish. With the last words of Officer Ross ceremony comes to an end. A Being somewhere afar accepted Officer Ross's sacrifice. His body disappeared into the mana circle leaving behind his equipment.

A purple light rose from the mana circle and came in my direction. Without giving me any second to react it penetrated my chest and merged with my heart.

I felt unimaginable pain and some kind of shackle in my heart. The ceremony lost all its brilliance and the forest returned back to its previous state.

I kept on clenching my heart to relieve the pain but it got worse. A force emerged from my blood and enveloped my heart.

That force breaks down all the shackles of the curse. As its work is done it returned back to my blood. I used the skill devour to get some benefit from that broken curse.

[ you gained 50 points for devouring the curse the high-grade curse. ]

[ you gained 20 points for killing a < C - > rank fallen human.]

I smiled at the income I received by risking my life to devour that curse but as I read the points I got for killing Officer Ross my mood hit the lowest level.

I somehow controlled my rage and asked the system why is the point I received so low.

' you can not cut off my prices. How can a former < B - > ranker have the same points as someone of < C > rank? I demand an answer.' ( David )

[ ding ]

[ quest is generating...…]

[ quest name - devil hunting

Description - The host wants points so the best way to get more points is to hunt someone like seven devils of hell right?

Condition - hunt down one devil amongst seven devils of hell

Reward - 10000 points

Time limit - 1 hour

Punishment - death ]

[ Do you accept this quest? Yes or no?]

 I hurriedly rejected the quest in case of the system auto-selected yes.

If you do not want to talk just say no why scare me like this? Just wait til I get strong enough I will beat you and the creator of you.

I applied medicine to my wounds and brink healing potions. My condition is a lot better than I thought it would be. I am still in a single piece and can still walk on my own legs.

Just the side effect from berserk potions and using the power exceeding my body limit does cause some damage to my body but it will heal in no time.

I moved closer to the pile of things Officer Ross dropped and checked it. Thankfully there is no tracker on any of the equipment. I also checked the space storage device of Officer Ross and moved some valuable things to my ring.

Some things caught my interest but I decided to look at them later. I cleared our battlefield and destroyed all the evidence. Especially my mana signature and blood. I put Officer Ross's gear into my ring and headed towards the location I and Judy decided.

I told Judy to run as soon as her attack was completed as she had depleted all of her mana and could no longer fight.

I arrived at our last night's location. Judy is waiting at the cave entrance. Feeling something approaching she gets in her battle stance. Seeing me she did not lower her weapon.

" password" ( Judy )

" a hamburger." ( David )

Judy relaxed her weapon after hearing the correct password. She approached me and carefully inspected me. She touched the scars on my body and offered to bandage them properly.

I am still in my weak state and I need someone to properly bandage my wounds so let her do it.

I take out my upper clothes but still keep my broken mask. Well, all of my gear is damaged in the last battle. I am surprised that they are still in working condition. My mask is the most complete equipment of my whole set.

Judy applied medicine to my wounds and bandaged them properly. She did all this in silence. As work is done I wear my clothes back on. Now is the time to talk.

"Officer Ross is dead. After his death, he used some sort of ceremony to offer his body and soul to curse me but I managed to stop that ceremony but Officer Ross's body still got dragged into the ceremony.

I will keep the gear of Officer Ross and some important stuff as we agreed before. This is Officer Ross's storage ring. Check if anything is missing or not?" ( David )

" you should keep that equipment and if you are willing I can give you a high-level set. You just need to let me your true identity. Let me check Officer Ross's storage space. He still may have some stolen items from the museum." ( Judy )

I declined Judy's offer for more reward and handed her Officer Ross's storage ring.

Judy looked at it carefully and frowned. She looked at me in a questioning way.

" All things are okay but the main item is missing. The mysterious painting is missing. Tell me the truth shadow do you take it." ( Judy )

" what painting I did not take any painting from that ring and when I got this ring there was no painting in it. I am sure of it. If you still do not believe me take my space ring and check it." ( David )

Saying this I throw my storage ring toward Judy. It is the ring I got from the unlucky party that crossed my path. Judy seriously checked the content of the ring. I already moved Officer Ross's gear and some important stuff in to make it more acceptable.

Only high-level storage devices can store other storage devices in them without damaging anything. Judy inspected my whole body to see if I was hiding any other thing but to her disappointment, nothing was found.

Judy again requested me.

" If you have taken the painting please return it shadow. It belongs to Fath… I mean city lord Andrew Smith so please return it. If you want you can get a better reward instead of that painting." ( Judy )

I again denied that I have no painting and also did not see that painting till now. Sorry Judy but that painting is too good to lose.

Judy gave up after seeing my strong denial. She can not use force on her saviour, right? We both decided to rest till our weak state went off. I just lie down and fall asleep.