Life Hunter 28 ''Madman?''

Lanya was desperately fighting a huge goat like monster with a rapier. Even though monsters could be civilized, a lot of them still lived mindlessly in the wilderness so Lanya had to fight endlessly since the beginning and was quite tired. This monster looked like a goat on its two hind legs. He had some horns and was around three meters tall.

"Your breath is too fast, slow down your footwork, your steps are too far apart, you wanted to use a rapier stop trying to slash with it, fall back and pierce, your magic is Light, use it to confuse your enemy in close combat, if you are far away use magic before trying to rush at the opponent and you go after that…" Night ordered without any wasted breath.

For the entire time Lanya was fighting, Night just kept telling something, there was always something wrong. Lanya also chose to use a rapier as a weapon so Arima took out a random one from his storage, surprisingly it was of great quality. His storage already contained too many things, a rapier was just at the top of the pile.

While Night was taking his role of master, Arima was behind, sitting down on the back of huge lion he created. He was silently working on his bullets; this time he was directly engraving on the bullets to enchant them.

On the other side, Lanya finally pierced the head of the seventh level monster and fell on the ground panting. She was full of injuries but she was healing quickly. Actually, at this level, her inheritance only gave her a healing ability, more physical ability and the power of Light.

"We'll rest" Night said after looking at Lanya. The latter breathed in relief, she took out some food out of her own storage and began to eat.

Night headed in Arima's direction "Arima, can you help me a bit?" He demanded

Arima took his eyes off the bullets he was engraving "For what?"

"I want to try to awaken her inheritance but I think I need your help for that" Night said

"What do you me to do?" Arima smiled and asked

"When I was training with Jorga he told me that to awaken an inheritance, one need either time or talent. But he said there was a quicker approach. If the person is in a situation where the inheritance sleeping inside his body is shook by a strong external force, then it will awake" Night said

"Oh, Jorga told you that? Fine I can do it" Arima said

Night nodded "Then, you can do it in an hour or so" Night said and began to eat with Lanya. Arima observed the scene and smiled before going back on his work.

One hour later, Arima approached Lanya "You'll spar with me now, it's a proposition of your master" He said

Lanya slowly nodded without saying anything. The two readied themselves a hundred meters apart.

Night created a small fireball and launched it in the sky "When it touches the ground" He said simply and Lanya nodded and Arima just smiled

When the fire exploded on the ground, Lanya took the initiative and kicked the ground, but she froze in her tracks when she was about fifty meters from Arima. The latter had just released his aura with its full potential, the sky was already darkening and Lanya couldn't move under the pressure.

Night frowned at the sight but he didn't say anything to stop them. If Arima said that he'll do it then it was already the same as done.

Arima didn't move but released his second spiritual force, his mana pool. He expanded it, just in a two hundred meters' radius, but it could still be seen by people outside. The release of the mana pool creates a strange smoke around the user. Arima's pool was colossal, it was even enough for the G.o.ds to break in cold sweat.

Each monster who saw the extremely dense mana pool of Arima didn't flee but immediately kneeled and stopped moving while the stronger ones just avoided that zone and left.

It was the same for Lanya, she fell on her knees helplessly. Her body and mind were already being crushed by the aura, now it was her spirit, seeing that mana pool, she felt like an insect. When she heard why Night didn't want to go in Arima's soul, she couldn't understand, but now she perfectly knew why.

She already felt that she was going to fall unconscious in a few minutes.

"It's not over. Hold tight on your spirit, don't let it go, that's my only warning" Arima said suddenly.

Lanya barely heard him and braced herself. Then, for the first time since he came to this world, Arima released his killing intent.

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In the vampire castle, the 'Highness' from before suddenly stood up and had disbelief written all over his face.

"Your Highness…" A maid asked him weakly and slightly trembling

"That's impossible! That's not killing intent anymore! What the h.e.l.l is that!?" The vampire shouted

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In the beast territory, a land dragon opened his eyes and stared in the distance seriously.

Not far from him, a strange beast also did the same.

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In the human country, a man calmly visiting the guild quarters stopped moving. Around him, a handful of S rank and above mercs were also shocked

"This is too dense to be called killing intent" A calm old man said

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In an elven temple, a young woman was silently meditating until her face became abnormally pale.

"Priestess!" An elf elder barged into the room and shouted.

The 'priestess' waved her hand to calm him down "That would be an insult to call that killing intent" She said and stood up.

She walked to the elder "That's bloodl.u.s.t, ma.s.sive and pure. I don't know anything about the person capable of releasing something like that" She paused "But I'm sure he's terrifying enough to have the mindset capable of hating and slaughter the entire world" She pa.s.sed beside the elder and left the room

"That's just crazy" She said before leaving the temple

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Arima's bloodl.u.s.t spread around the whole continent. Every person on the continent shivered in fear, even if they weren't strong enough they would still be struck by sudden fear.

The elders to babies, every one of them felt it. The children would cry for no reason and the animals would hide in fear.

For the first time, and maybe also the last time, every single person in the continent was awake at the same time. They shared a common emotion, without exception, fear. Like there was a blade in front of their neck, forcing their instinct of survival to wake up.

But the more affected and in bad condition now, were Night and Lanya. Night was affected but was fine, he was created from Arima's soul after all.

But Lanya felt extreme fear, extreme weakness, extreme fatigue and extreme pain. She instantly fainted but her body moved on itself and stood up.

Her eyes were just a silver light and the same light began to light up from every part of her body. Her body began to transform, she became taller, her hair grew. Sparkling silver scales formed on her body until the neck, some even appeared around her eyes. She grew a silver tail and a pair of wings of the same color.

It really looked like the resonance of Arima but mostly in a different color. When Lanya finished her transformation, she stared at Arima with her dragon eyes. But her look was too sharp, and Arima knew it was not her

"…Human, you're more than terrifying. It's not that you are strong or invincible, you just are something that can only be considered as an anomaly" The voice that left Lanya's mouth sounded like an old man

'Lanya' pointed at Arima "In other words, you're just a madman" And said

Arima was stunned but he started as a chuckle and then began to laugh loudly "Me? A madman?" He grinned "No, you got it wrong. Didn't you say it yourself? I'm an anomaly. I'm not a madman, I'm just different. Since I was born, since I was able to think by myself to now, I've never changed my personality once" He said "I was born like this. I was more a than a madman already in the first fifty years of my life, I worked hard to be like what you're seeing right now, you know?" He shrugged

'Lanya' furrowed "Then aren't you just faking your own personality?"

Arima smirked "No, not even one of my emotions are fake, I just make them appear if I want to" He said "To release my killing intent, I need to unlock a certain part of my emotions and I already sealed it again" He said it like it was an obvious thing

'Lanya' and Arima stared at each other for a long time "I know it will happen, so I'll tell you right now. You're doomed to be chased by G.o.ds, Earthen G.o.ds and Heavenly G.o.ds; all alike" 'Lanya' said and the silver light vanished. The transformation ended and what was left was a beautiful silver haired woman on the ground.

"That's an interesting advice" Arima said after the silver light completely dispersed.

Arima already had stopped his spiritual forces to go wild and everyone on the continent breathed out in relief.

"I don't know so I'll ask. How am I supposed to react?" Night asked to Arima

The latter shrugged "Don't react, that's always the less energy-consuming way to react" He responded lazily and Night sighed

Arima walked to Lanya, he healed her and woke her up. When she saw Arima in front of her she paled and urgently took her distance but she lost her balance and fell because of her new body.

"It'll take some time for you to get used to that change" Arima said to her "And you should take this" He threw her a new set of clothes. Of course, because the clothes she wore before were now too small, and kind of failed to do their job.

When Lanya saw her body, she was stunned for a moment but then soon realized what was happening, she blushed and when she still had her mouth open to breath in, Arima conjured a black box around her which blocked the sound and image from inside.

"She'll be even more angry if you make her shout to nothing" Night commented

"I'll be annoyed if someone shouts at me for something that it isn't my fault" Arima said, he returned on his lion's back and resumed his work.

A minute after that, Lanya got out of the box in a grey shirt and black skirt and glared at Arima "You could have killed me with that" She didn't raise her voice that much but she still was angry

"That's why I warned you before doing it" Arima kept looking at the bullet he was working on "Anyway, if you had died I would just have revived you, don't worry" He said nonchalantly

"Sorry?" Night exclaimed and Lanya was speechless

"As long as your soul isn't destroyed or maybe already harvested by the Owl's, I can revive anyone as long as I do it in less than ten minutes after death. I tested it once, it takes ten minutes to a soul to degrade and disappear" He explained indifferently

"…Arima, you've gone too far. And what the h.e.l.l is an Owl?" Night exclaimed after a moment of silence and Lanya just stared blankly at an empty s.p.a.ce.

"'Original World Law', he said. Anyway, we'll depart in one hour; make sure she can use her new power by then" Arima said to Night

The latter sighed "Sure"