Chapter 69 : Evolution, Hunter!

Evolution, Hunter!

System: Detected evolvable elite unit 'Little Black'.

Would you like to consume Dark Power to initiate evolution?

This prompt sounded in Serea's mind. At this moment, she was somewhat dazed due to side effects on her body, but upon hearing the word 'evolution', her remaining consciousness still chose 'Yes'.

System: Evolution initiated, transforming material, consuming 300 Dark Power to begin evolution.

Within the estate of the Terance family, the assassins still had no idea what kind of existence they had provoked.

At this point, Menie led three assassins in a charge toward Doruru. Seeing this, Doruru immediately fled, while Soth and Aiefe looked toward the hole smashed into the house. They knew that the undead would not be dealt with so easily.

"Don't let your guard down. I can feel it—that thing is still alive."

"Yeah, but it's about to die again soon."

Aiefe responded to Soth, veins bulging on both their faces, looking exceptionally fierce.

"Lord Undead..."

Caught by the assassins, Doruru looked toward the ruined house smashed through by Little Black. She firmly believed that the 'Lord Undead', who had descended like a god to save her, would not be defeated so easily.

"Hmph, Lord Undead? I'll send you to meet your precious Lord Undead soon enough!"

Having lost four companions, Menie's tone was tinged with anger. However, they failed to notice that a pair of crimson eyes within the darkness had already fixed on them.

Character: Little Black (Undead, Hunter, Epic)

Level: 20

Status: Loyal

Spirit: B

Strength: A+

Agility: A

Endurance: B

Constitution: C

Charm: A

Luck: E

Skills: Blade Rend (Tier 1), Arm Blade Thrust (Tier 1), Block and Counter, Fear Roar (Tier 2), On the Hunt (Tier 2), Soul Reaping Sin Bone (Tier 4)

Description: An extremely rare special evolution undead, known as the 'Hunter'.

Among the living, he is seen as a god of death—wherever he passes, only slaughter remains.

On the Hunt (Tier 2): Increases damage by 10%. This effect lasts as long as he is not attacked; after taking an attack, the skill is disabled for ten seconds. (Parrying attacks does not interrupt the skill effect.)

Soul Reaping Sin Bone (Tier 4): Special skill with both active and passive effects.

Soul Reap (Passive): Killing a unit of level 5 or higher grants one stack of 'Soul Reap', lasting thirty seconds, up to a maximum of six stacks. Each stack grants the Hunter a 20% increase in any attribute of his choice.

Bone of Sin (Active): Extracts bones from the target to strengthen himself. (The strengthening effect depends on the method of extraction.)

System: Epic undead unit obtained. Gain one Death Crystal every four hours.

"Hmm?"

Menie seemed to faintly sense a murderous intent, causing her to be on full alert.

A claw plunged into a corpse. Using stealth, Little Black absorbed a white mass from the corpse—that was the effect of the "Bone of Sin" skill. After finishing, he suddenly burst out.

Behind you!

Spinning quickly, Menie raised her short blade in front of her, parrying the bone blade.

"Hmph, you underestimate—"

Pchht!

Before she could finish, a sharp pain struck. Menie felt a hot sensation in her abdomen, as if something was flowing out.

Blood!

She looked down to see a tail, resembling a spine, piercing her abdomen. When she looked again at the undead, his appearance had already changed.

The color remained pure black, but the soul fire in his eye sockets had turned a blood-red hue. A bone tail extending from the undead's coccyx was the very weapon that impaled her.

"Die!"

Seeing their companion ambushed, the other assassins hurried to assist, but just as one of them made it halfway, Little Black violently withdrew his bone tail and swept it toward that person.

Sssht!

A throat was slashed—in an instant, both she and Menie died together.

"That tail?"

At this moment, Soth also saw Little Black suddenly appear.

He and Aife were already rushing toward Little Black, but when they saw that unusually white bone tail in contrast to his entirely black body, they felt something was off.

Meanwhile, two other assassins attacked Little Black as well, prompting Soth to shout,

"Get back—it's extremely dangerous now!"

But Soth's warning came a moment too late. Seeing the two assassins charging, Little Black's bone blade stabbed into Menie and another corpse that had yet to fall.

Bone of Sin!

Spotting Little Black's opening, the two assassins coordinated their attack, slashing their short blades at his skull—after all, the soul fire was the undead's weak spot!

But they were overly optimistic. As they swung, Little Black had already withdrawn his bone blades from the two bodies.

A cold gleam flashed—the pure white exoskeleton armor coated Little Black's arms, and his single bone blade had morphed into a three-pronged bone claw.

Extracting bones, strengthening himself!

Clang!

The blade struck Little Black's white bone armor, leaving only a faint scratch.

Before the two could react, Little Black's bone tail pierced one's chest, and with his bone claws freed, he ripped apart the body of the other with one swipe.

Soul Reaping Sin Bone!

Four stacks of Soul Reap—two in Strength, two in Agility—transformed Little Black into a true assassin.

"Try challenging the deadliest assassin under the Queen's command. Failure, however, may mean your corpse won't remain."

After finishing off the two, Little Black provocatively glanced at the charging Soth and Aife.

A thick white paste flowed from the two corpses, coating Little Black's legs. Soon, a layer of white bone armor formed on his legs as well.

"Lord Undead!"

Seeing Little Black appear again, Doruru's eyes sparkled—he looked extremely cool now.

Black bone matched with an inky cloak, a pair of cold, murderous red eyes, topped off with pure white bone armor!

Uh...perhaps, by undead standards, it really did look impressive...

"Bastard, I'll kill you!"

Watching all her subordinates die tragically, Aife was consumed by rage and charged directly at Little Black.

"Don't be reckless!"

Seeing the situation spiral out of control, Soth wanted to stop his companion, but Aife had already reached Little Black.

Relying on the power of some mysterious pill, she believed she was strong enough to fight this undead.

"Haah!"

Her longsword swung down, but Little Black responded unhurriedly, simply raising his arm.

Clang!

Sparks flew; the tremendous force of her blow carved several trenches into the earth behind Little Black, but he remained unscathed—not even knocking off his "On the Hunt" effect.

"What! Impossible! With my current power, you shouldn't be able to block so easily!"

Slash!

The bone tail lashed out, the sharp bone blade at its tip aiming straight for Aife's heart. She hurried to dodge.

But the bone blade was already upon her, leaving her no room to escape.

"Stop!"

Soth arrived in time, knocking aside the bone blade with a single slash. He was ready to throw a knife—but not at Little Black. Instead, he aimed for Doruru, who Little Black was protecting behind him.

(To be continued)

-------------= Clacky's Corner -------------=

Damn, Little Black got so much aura...