Life Hunter 24 ''We're Off To A Great Start''

While he was flying, he suddenly spanned in the air and stopped his momentum forcefully, his sudden brake created a depression on the surface of the water.

There was a giant tentacle blocking his path. And after that, seven other tentacles surged from the water and surrounded him.

"d.a.m.n octopus" Arima said and looked just below, a shadow was getting bigger under the surface of the water and a giant circular mouth emerged and threatened to eat Arima "[Superbia]" the latter called his rifle and pointed it at the mouth "[Gun metuunt blasphemantes]" Arima chanted and he fired, a slightly bigger pillar of black light than before, pierced through the giant octopus, the latter died and his body floated above the water. Its body measured around thirty meters and each of his tentacles were twenty meters long.

Arima looked at the carca.s.s and pondered a bit before flying to it and landing on its head.

"{What are you going to do?}" Night asked

"Normally, he should still have his life force for a moment, I thought that I should try that" Arima posed his hand on the octopus "[Vita venari]" He chanted and his eyes glowed, he felt his body getting stronger a bit "It's miles away from the quant.i.ty I received from the Pope, maybe it was because he was a bearer of a G.o.d's power that I received that much at that time" He said, he looked at the octopus and stored him in his storage after freezing it.

While he was using ice magic, he suddenly felt something strange. And after that he froze in shock.

"{Arima?}" Night interplead him

"It isn't only my body and mana that changes, my affinity and ability with elements also improve, I just checked, my light magic increased by at least two fold and just now my water affinity improved a bit" He said

"{Then, doesn't that mean you could gain an absolute control over all elements?} Night also was surprised

Arima grinned "This power, I don't know how it works but it looks like it will be entertaining. But I think it's only really profitable when I absorb the life force of people as strong or stronger than me" He said and resumed his travel.

On his next two hours of flight over the sea, he met a few other behemoths of the waters, he killed them and took their life force afterwards. When he finally saw firm ground in the horizon he already had harvested seven big beasts and his water affinity increased by a fold.

When Arima arrived on the continent, he landed on the beach. Wherever he looked, he could only see a rocky area. He wondered if he should scan the continent now but gave up on the idea. From what he read, there is people on this continent that are without a doubt, stronger than him, apparently the ranks of the guild can go up to SS and SSS here.

Arima decided to fly deeper in the continent. From what he knows, this continent ia as big as Russia in the old world.

Arima continued to go further for around ten minutes, until he arrived in a jungle area. He frowned and entered inside, he met a few insect monsters in there, he just killed them with one bullet from Ira. Thanks to the orichalc.u.m, the power of his weapons increased by a large amount.

He advanced like that until he found a monster which could resist his bullets. It was giant arachnid, it looked at Arima like he was its prey, it opened his mouth and let out a screeching sound.

"Shut the f.u.c.k up" Arima said and shot a black beam at the head of the spider which exploded. Arima called back his gun which still had a few strands of electricity on it "I never liked spiders" He said and continued until he got out of the jungle and arrived at the border of a barren land, as far as the eyes could see, there was only a desert.

"What the h.e.l.l is wrong with the natural formation here? Is this a biome system?" Arima snapped but he still continued and stepped on the sand.

When he did, the ground trembled and huge amount of sand erupted. Arima couldn't see a thing until the sand fell, and his eyes narrowed. In front of him a giant centipede was looking at him and was ready to attack.

At that moment, Arima didn't think and just teleported away. He reappeared in the sky, almost a kilometer away from the ground.

"{Is it just me, or were you just scared right now?}" Night asked

"…" Arima was silent and just rubbed his face with his hands "You see that thing down there?" He asked

"{Yes, what about it?}"

"Imagine the same thing but a lot smaller, and suppose there is around a hundred of them, imagine that they are crawling on you and-"

"{It's okay! I understand your point}" Night interrupted him

Arima shrugged and looked at the ground, a normal person wouldn't be able to see the ground, but to Arima it was a piece of cake.

"I should have done that since the beginning" He said "We're off to a great start" He complained a bit and looked around and spotted a small town a few dozens of kilometers away from his position, just out of the desert.

Arima dived and flew in that direction, as he was approaching, his expression changed. He landed in front of the gate.

He looked at the guards and furrowed "What is that?" Arima muttered

The guards at the gate weren't humans. They were goblins, kobolds, gnomes, golems, lesser zombies and even skeletons. In short, they were the monsters cla.s.sed as the weakest's.

Of course, when Arima arrived, he was still in his dragon form, he gave a lot of shock to the guards but they began to shout soon after.

"Enemy!"

When Arima heard that, his already strange expression changed even more. He heard them talk just now. He didn't really care about that fact particularly, after all, if they could build a town they sure had a way of communication.

What shocked Arima was that he heard them like actual humans speaking in a fluent English. He began to really think that the G.o.d may have given him something more outrageous than he thought.

"{What is all that about?}" Night asked, confused.

"{Looks like we ended up in the monster territory, maybe I deviated a bit from our original course while hunting}" Arima said. This continent was special in his territory repart.i.tion. Basically, it had three different territories, one was of course to humans and all of the other races, the second belonged to the beasts alone and the last one was the one Arima was in right now, the monsters' territory.

Arima ended his resonance and looked at the town and the stiff expressions of the monsters. When Arima ended his resonance, they were now left with a black dragon and a human, they almost fainted at the sight.

"Hey! If you have a chief, bring him to me, I want to talk" Arima shouted. He supposed that if he could understand them then they could also understand him.

As expected, the monsters became restless when they heard a human speaking their language but they still called their chief, because after all, they would have done it anyway.

In just a minute, a strange monster arrived, it was an old looking small monster with blue skin.

Arima recognized that monster as a sage goblin, a variant goblin that is intelligent and strong with magic.

"Why did you ask for me, human?" He asked unperturbed

Arima smiled "Nothing much, it seems that the books I read aren't enough to explain the situation on this continent, so I want to ask you some questions" Arima said

The old goblin closed his eyes and breathed "Come in" He said and turned his back to Arima and returned in the town.

Arima followed him and everyone kept their distance from him, Night also retuned to being a wolf, lately, he began to get used to this body to the point he felt like it was more comfortable than his dragon form.

Arima quickly observed the houses while following the goblin. They were all made of clay, stone or wood. It was just some rustic constructions.

The old goblin led Arima to a house only made of wood. Inside, Arima sat on a chair and the old chief was with him in the room.

"So, what do you want to know?" The goblin asked after throwing wood in the fireplace. He seated and waited for Arima to talk.

"Well, first, where am I right now?" Arima smiled and asked as the goblin's eyes widened.

"From there?" He said but followed by telling Arima where he was right now.

This town was named Rolec, it was situated at the rear of the country, the weakest monsters lived here. But, if you go deeper in the continent, you'll find stronger monsters who are fighting with the humans and the beasts every day. You could call it the front lines, but it's not really a war, it's just something that became natural, fighting at the frontiers.

"So you guys are the monsters who don't fight and stay in the back of the territory?" Arima said

The goblin smiled wryly "Yes, you could say that"

"I want to ask you something. You are a monster, I won't doubt what I'm seeing with my own eyes but, I never heard of monsters capable to be so civilized" Arima remarked

"You're not wrong but at the same time you are" The old goblin shook his head "We monsters are a kind which have a lot of carnal desires from birth and at first we lived by those rules, but something like that can also be said about humans, if you humans were to grow in the wild, you too would become like us to a certain extent. We became monsters in first place because we were treated as so by others" He said

Arima reflected about it for a second "Fair enough" He said and laid his back on the chair. He took out some sweets and began to eat "What should I do?" Arima uttered. He glanced at the blue goblin "Tell me about the motives of each side" And said

"Motives?" The goblin tilted his head

"The reason they're fighting against each other" Arima said while eating

The goblin thought for a bit "The beasts want revenge against humans because they wanted to use them as weapons, the monsters… also want revenge against humans, and like that, beasts and monsters also fight against each other because they're not always on the same page… I think that's the main reason" He said with a strange smile

"If you want say something, say it" Arima bit on his chocolate and said

The goblin became awkward "It's the fault of humans" He said

Arima began to laugh madly and Night sighed "That's funny" Arima stopped laughing and smiled "It's really funny how humans are always the problem of everything" He let out a lazy sigh "Why do I feel like I'm here to take care of them?"

"What do you mean?" The old goblin said, confused

"Forget about that, give me everything you have about the leaders of the humans, the beasts and the monsters" He said and smiled naturally.

The goblin took a deep breath and began to tell him everything he knew.