Marked

Hayashi's party was driving back towards the school an awkward silence filling the car, Yoshida being the first to speak up.

"Dude...you...were like an action hero, from the Yakuza!"

"Honestly, The Yakuza might be more just than the police left in this wasteland" Hayashi drove en route to the school as he gets out of the car to open the gates before receiving an emergency mission.

"PING" The God of Hunting and Cavalry has marked you.

"Damn...You guys go ahead..." Hayashi threw down most of what his inventory was storing but stored low amounts of materials in the car, except for [Zombie Fangs]. "Nishiwaka or someone, drive the car," Hayashi told him as he looked at the palm of his hand. "[Mark of The Black Star] Someone just had to mark me...I gotta get out of here!" He jumped away from the car using [Hunter's Footsteps] looking at the white outlined black star as he ran into an abandoned building before hiding and looking as winged people would pour from a hole in the clouds before staring in his direction, one making direct eye contact with the metallic gray haired kid.

"There!" One of them said before rushing to Hayashi's exact location and slashing down the wall he was hiding behind.

"Damn!" He rolled out the way, exposing himself to the Valkarie who had exposed him. "Who the hell are you!?"

"We're your hunters!" the Valkarie said as she raised her sword. Hayashi got a good look at her, she seemed to be a little girl, about 13 years old, holding a sword larger than herself.

"Jeez! The gods hire children now?" Hayashi summoned [Jade Tempest] and spun the blade by the safety ring to show his mastery.

"Meaningless Provocation!" The girl swung her sword at Hayashi, who avoids her blade by jumping above her sword, stabbing the ceiling, and kicking her face.

"Out of here..." Hayashi mumbled as he withdrew Jade Tempest and made a mad dash towards an open space with 7 winged individuals chasing him before stopping as soon as he turned around. "My domain, my rules! Come fight me here if you dare!" He said as the winged and armored soldiers lands and the little valkyrie tried to hit him from above but were dodged before summoning [Dragon Scale Handguards] and making his counterattack.

"Ow!" The female valkyrie yelled as she suddenly found her cheek and shoulder cut and bleeding from Hayashi's strike.

"I won't hesitate to fight you, all of you can continue to try and fight me at the same time!" Hayashi said before getting into his stance

"Valient warrior, instead of being hunted, you dare to retaliate. I commend your courage." A larger male is holding an open tome. "But that's about all..." The larger male said before blasting Hayashi with a light blast.

"AGH!?" He was confused and realized that this man was a [Light Mage]. Not hesitating anymore, he summoned his [Ronin] before he continued running away while holding his side. "I can't fight them all...And my bluff failed so I gotta get into an area that restricts their flight!" Hayashi sped through the streets before looking back seeing as the armored individuals were still following him. "Good... CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!" Hayashi loudly shouts at them before hopping into a parking garage and running into the second floor before nearly getting struck by a thin valkyrie male holding two longswords.

"Impressive you managed to run this far...but we're tired of these games." The swordsman said as he rushed Hayashi swinging both his blades at Hayashi who manages a block.

"T-This...Is my...Chance!" Hayashi loaded the slingshot half of [Ronin] and shot an <<Infectious Buster Round>> right in the swordsman's eye making him shout in pain.

"AGGHHHH!!! MY EYE!!" He held his face as blood poured from the wound. "YOUR DEAD! [SPEEDING BLADE!]" The swordsman shouts his skill out before he begins to slash the surrounding area before Hayashi withdrew [Ronin] and kept up with the dual swordsman with [Eye of the Hunter] before getting punched in the face and sliding across the floor before recovering.

"PING!" DEF +10 VIT +4

"Damn...I thought those from the heavens don't attack at the same time!" Hayashi said

"Awww~ what made you think that?" a menacing figure walks over to Hayashi

"Tsk! [Eye of the Hunter]!" Hayashi's eye mutates into that of a wolf's eye as it used its appraisal function to learn the class and name of the person who just attacked him.

"Speed Brawler...Toshiko Shun"

"Hm? You know me?"

"Nah..." Hayashi took out a bottle and drank the juice in it as his wounds heal and summons [ Aritaeus] while standing up. "[Elemental Attunment]! [7 Element Channeling]! [Hunter's Footsteps]! [Chain Rush]! [Strong Shot]! [Blade Aura]! [Fighting Spirit]!" Hayashi desperately rushed at the fist fighter before getting blindsided by a spell but did not fall but slid across the floor. His elemental aura symbolized earth before rushing the fist fighter himself, his eyes were filled with determination as if he were locked onto this fist-fighter. "Come over here..."

"Wow, he doesn't give up..." Toshiko said as he reeled back before punching Hayashi in the face, as the grey-haired boy smiled holding his loaded slingshot as [Strong Shot] had been held back by Hayashi then he suddenly let it go as it pierced through the fist fighter's gut as he jumped back, injured.

"Who is this guy!?" The little girl with the giant sword enters the battle again making solid eye contact with Hayashi who was now glaring at the group attacking him sending shivers down her spine. "That guy is scary..."

Hayashi's elemental aura changed from earth to lightning "don't run now..." Hayashi said as his determination changed to wrath as lightning flashed around him. "HAAAA!!!" Hayashi charged the mage, to everyone's surprise, and socked him in the jaw at lightning speed before rushing over to the little girl with the sword and promptly attacking her only to get blocked.

"Not this time buster!" The girl blocks his attack before Hayashi gets blown away by another sudden attack this time managing to dodge it, but could not dodge the impact causing him to make some distance between himself and the seven who were attacking him, before noticing a male and female armed with a bow and crossbow.

"Snipers..." Hayashi runs again to get away from the line of sight and recalls [Ronin] back to his inventory and pulls out [Kaiser] as arrows and bolts fly towards him he manages to retreat backward until he hits before meeting the final angel-like entity that was trying to hunt him down.

"Hyaaa!" A winged, dagger-wielding Valkarie runs up the wall from behind Hayashi as he ducks and threw him to the ground before jumping out the other side of the parking garage as the wounded swordsman had attacked him from the side.

"WE HAVE TO KILL HIM!! HE'S DANGEROUS!!" The swordsman pointed his sword at Hayashi

"I choose how I die, maggots," Hayashi told them as he got up again to start running but gets hit with a magic spell. "AGH! Bastards![Area:Morale][Elemental Attunment][7 Element Channeling][Fighting Spirit][Blade Aura]!" Hayashi powered up again before rushing to the nearest building until he hears a notification from his system.

"PING!" [Fighting Spirit]has leveled up! LVL5>>LVL6! [Area Morale] has leveled up LVL 5>>LVL7 [Hunter's Footsteps] has leveled up LVL 5>>LVL7 [Blade Aura] has leveled up LVL 6>>LVL 7[Elemental Attunment] has leveled up! LVL7>>LVL8 [7 Element Channeling] has Leveled up LVL7>>8 [Strong Shot]and [Arcane: Snipe] have fused into [Arcane: Powershot] [Eye of the Hunter]and[Chain Rush] have leveled up! LVL 9>>LVL 10 [BLOODLUST] has leveled up LVL 8>>LVL 9

"Powershot?" Hayashi thought to himself "It's time I take revenge..." Hayashi put a rubber string on the [Kaiser] weapon and continued to run from the seven who were hunting him, unable to completely get away from them until he gets into a ventilation system where they tracked him down to a large house as he looked at the palm of his hand.

"Hey, Big guy can you tell us where that guy went?"

"Unable to find the target..."

"Useless"

"Useless indeed... I'm being hunted by the gods, and they can't be infected by the zombie virus. Chances are I might die here!" Hayashi said as he loaded another round into the slingshot part of [Kaiser] and shot the [Light Mage] In the head, as he shattered into particles of light. "[Arcane: Powershot]!" Hayashi's skill drew out all the power he could making his innate abilities grow before releasing the shot.

"PING!" STR +1 INT +1 STR +1 INT +1

"Katakana! No!" The little valkyrie yelled before dropping to her knees

"Shh! He's nearby..." one of the other valkyries said covering the little one's mouth

"Heh, your turn next...[Arcane:Powershot][Area:Morale][Area:Enhance Munitions]!" Hayashi enhanced his power to the most he could without revealing himself as he shot down the little girl next piercing through what seemed to be the senior valkyrie's hand to do it before the one-eyed swordsman managed to see him.

"He's in this metal tube!" The swordsman said as he drew both blades and severed the metal vent in the middle but Hayashi wasn't where he slashed. "Huh...? How? I saw his power activate!"

"Maybe you saw wrong... let's keep looking for him, he could be anywhere." The first fighter said before leaving and holding his hand in obvious pain.

"Saw wrong my ass, you nearly caught me!" Hayashi thought to himself before exiting the ventilation system and hopping out a window and making his way towards a hotel. "Home free! Final stretch!" Hayashi said as he kept running before a bolt impales the ground. "Snipers, right..." Hayashi said as he took cover behind a garbage can. "[Eye of the Hunter]!" Hayashi locked on to the sniper making his first attempt at disabling them taking a shattering round and loading it."[Arcane:Powershot][Elemenal Attunement][7 Element Channeling]!"

"Hm...Predictable..." The figure dodged it by an inch before firing back and missed due to Hayashi dodging it and running.

"PING!" You have learned [Dash]! [Dash] and [Hunter's Footsteps] have fused into [Hunter's Sprint]

Hayashi had no time to think and dashed towards the marksman duo as each of their arrows cut his face and body, making him wince in pain. "This hurts...Another way! [Eye of the-]". His cast was cut short as a sudden impact hits his side causing him to slide and roll on the floor. "AGH!" he gets up, bleeding and bruised, but his eyes turn into that of a tiger. "That hurt...what was that...?" Hayashi looks at the maiden with the recurve bow and then looks at the male who was using the crossbow before slowly advancing and picking up an arrow from the ground and attempting to shoot the arrow back at them but ultimately failing before he got shot at again while he dived for cover. "I'm going to need a new weapon..." Hayashi takes out what little materials from his subspace and hides in a random shop using [Dismantle] [Create Arms] and [Refine] to create a weapon from whatever materials are in his subspace plus what he gathered by breaking a few objects. A new weapon was created as a shining light was all that it took for the two sharpshooters to stop attacking him.

"He's got something up his sleeve, I don't like it, sis..."

"Relax, It can't be that bad. He's only hard to hit because he's fast"

"That idiot is adapting! He's even tried to shoot our arrow at us!"

"And Failed didn't he?"

"True...But still, I don't like-"

An arrow was shot past the two who were talking

"NICE! HAHA!" Hayashi came back out with a new weapon in hand, this one looking less refined than all his other weapons.

"Crap! See what I was talking about!?" The male said

"Tch! I'll kill him with the next shot! Cover me!"

"Right!"

The two advanced the male distracted Hayashi as the female pulled ran in and activated a skill at point blank range.

"[Impact Arrow] This is goodbye~" The shot hits Hayashi in the chest and counts for a critical hit that launched Hayashi into a pair of stone doors as the doors open from the blood splattered on them, Hayashi does his best and crawls in, narrowly escaping the danger his life was in before dropping now knocked out.