Hunter’s Blade - Chapter 12

[Demon Hunter’s Blade Chapter 12]

Ciel smacked his lips and walked down the river, not long after he saw a stone bridge.

Finally there is a place to cross the river.

“Look, look, here comes our feast,” Gladiu murmured.

Ciel didn’t know what the demon was talking about. He walked to the edge of the stone bridge and smelled an unpleasant smell.

The whole stone bridge is flat, spanning the river, quite impressively wide, enough for two carriages to pass side by side, with the green hyacinth banner of the Lord of Ashtree Hall erected at the front and back, only worn out with time. Broken, almost invisible to the original color.

He heard the sound of rippling water from under the bridge, something was moving in the water, and Charles stepped back quickly, holding the knife tightly in his hand.

A terrifying creature appeared before Ciel.

It is covered in wet turquoise scales, constantly secreting mucus, its belly is creamy yellow, covered with disgusting bumps and barnacle-like parasites, its hands and feet are enlarged, and its arms are extremely long. Hanging down to his feet, with black webbed fingers between his fingers, he held a large soaked wooden stick tightly, and he looked strong and powerful.

Compared with the body, which is about two or three meters high, the proportion of the head is very large, the fangs are exposed, the eyes are cloudy and fierce, and the ears are very small, leaving almost only two gaps close to the skull. dripping water.

Charr knew what kind of monster it was – a troll.

Trolls have strong survivability, and as far as the charr knows, they can survive in almost any environment, and will evolve various traits to suit the surrounding environment accordingly.

According to the situation of the river, the river troll in front of him has evolved webs on his hands and feet, and degenerated his ears that get in the way.

Snow trolls are hairy, cave trolls have developed hearing, and there are countless subspecies.

Not only that, but trolls are smart.

“Road money.” It tapped the bridge beside it with a wooden stick and made a dull sound, “Road money!” It opened its ugly other hand and spread it out towards Ciel.

“What do you want?” Charles asked.

“Kill it! Let me eat it! I’m so hungry, I want to eat the soul!” Gladiu was eager.

“Gold, silver, copper coins, anything is fine, glass, jewelry, I want everything… food is fine!” The river troll opened and closed his mouth, and his voice sounded like he was rubbing a stone against the bark of a tree.

It has several skulls wrapped around its waist, and some of the skulls are still stained with uneaten dead meat.

“You kill?” Charles clenched his weapon.

“Kill those who are forced to break in… Do you want to break in too?” the river troll roared angrily, “No one can get through without the money to buy the road!”

“I want to go there. If you stop me, I will kill you.” Ciel threatened.

The river troll violently slammed the ground around him with his stick, and it climbed onto the stone bridge, holding the stone at the top of the bridge with one hand, while staring at Shire with hateful eyes.

“I want money! Hand it over! Don’t even think about going there!”

“Kill it, cut its hide, and pick out the flesh,” Gladius kept whispering. “Destroy it, subdue it with your power, and make it your stepping stone to power and honor, You can do it, you can do it.”

Xia Er’s heart was stirred with anger and murderous intent, but at the same time, his heart froze. He saw the eyes of the troll, and it was clear that there was a conspiracy of the beast lurking.

Chapter 15 Demon Insights

Ciel flipped the gray knife in his hand, and the blade surface shone brightly.

“Ow—” The river troll looked at the sharp blade in Ciel’s hand and cringed a little, “Then you can go over there.”

Ciel stared at the river troll and walked slowly towards the stone bridge. Frankly speaking, the river troll had a very strong deterrent effect on him. It was much taller than Ciel and was two or three times bigger than him. , can be regarded as an out-and-out monster.

When Ciel approached, the river troll suddenly erupted in attack.

It violently swung the wooden stick, took advantage of the length of its arm, and swung it towards Ciel from a distance, swiping through the air and whistling loudly.

Ciel hurriedly swung the knife to block, the wooden stick hit the sharp blade, and the stick itself was knocked into a gap, but the amazing force of the river troll almost knocked Ciel into the air. His legs were tensed, and his heart was beating wildly.

“Your strength is too weak! What a shame on my sharp blade!” Gladiu complained.

“Don’t complain, and teach me if you’re good at fighting,” said Ciel.

The river troll roared and approached the charr furiously.

Am I too weak?

Charles fought back calmly.

Demon hunters don’t just rely on strength to fight.

“Phantom power!”

The power spell summoned the airflow, thrust emerged from the air, and slammed into the face of the river troll. Its face was impacted, and it instinctively closed its eyes and covered its face with its hands. The charging situation was a setback.

Charles took the opportunity to rush forward, stabbed it in the stomach, turned it quickly, and then pulled it out.

Chilla – Ciel heard the sound of the blade slicing through muscles and scales, and felt the pleasure of the blade in his hand unobstructed in its belly.

The knife is so sharp that it cuts down almost without hindrance.

The river troll was cut to the point of being gutted and bloody. It howled irritably, immediately opened its bloody mouth, vomited violently, and spewed a mouthful of disgusting viscous acid towards Ciel.

Ciel was startled, and hurriedly rolled on the ground in embarrassment, the acid splashed where he stood before, and the blades of grass quickly burned and shrunken, making a hissing sound.

“I’m going to kill you!” The river troll stood up in a fit of rage, continuing to swing his stick at Ciel.

Ciel gasped for breath and took a defensive stance to meet the stick.

This stick was so powerful that it was going to smash Ciel to pieces together with the knife.

boom!

The big stick and the sharp blade collided in the air.

There was a screeching cracking sound, and the whole stick of the river troll broke into two pieces because of the force.

On the other hand, Ciel was directly knocked to the ground by the force of the impact, holding the knife tightly, his arm was in severe pain.

“Go to hell!” Taking advantage of the troll’s loss of balance, Ciel quickly stabbed the blade up and into the river troll’s ugly jaw. The blade penetrated its scales like butter and entered its mouth.

“Ow!” The river troll waved his big hand and grabbed onto the ground, grabbing Charr all over his body.

Ciel felt a strong sense of weightlessness, his body was no longer under his control.

The river troll burst into strength, grabbed Ciel directly by the middle, and threw him violently into the distance, throwing him out like a pitch.

With a thud, Ciel hit the ground heavily and rolled a few times, rolling his elbows, legs and feet all over the ground, leaving fiery bruises.

“Hu… hu… hu…” Charles struggled to get up.

The river troll still had the knife stuck in his chin, trembling as he groped to pull the knife out from under his head.

The troll’s eyes were bloodshot, and most of its body was covered in blood. After struggling for a while, it squeaked, a large amount of blood poured out of its mouth, and its hypertrophy body collapsed.

“It’s over.” Ciel walked towards the river troll with difficulty, grabbed the knife, and pulled it out briskly. The entire knife was stained with blood and acid, but its hardness and texture remained undiminished.

Ciel looked down at the troll’s huge body, its eyes were dull and blank, its mouth was wide open, and blood was dripping from its body.

He raised the sharp blade in his hand, and a strong confidence surged in his heart.

With this blade, I can do anything.

The soul floated out of the troll, looming, flying into the Ciel, and it was Gladiu who was eating the soul again.

Charr suspects that it is taking the opportunity to regain its power. Demons are monsters addicted to souls. The more souls they eat, the stronger their powers.

“Is this a full meal… Delicious… Rich… This place is so good… There are bodies filled with souls everywhere…” Gladiu made a happy voice.

“Is there no soul in hell?” Charles asked.

“Why do you think so, the demons are full of souls, and the soul fragments of other worlds continue to pour into hell. Hell is a good place to kill and plunder each other.”

“Then why don’t you stay in hell and devour your kind? You have to invade our world.”

“Because that’s so unfair… If we were to fight each other without limit, it would evolve into a winner-take-all situation where only one of the strongest demons would survive and it would eat all the others. So rules are needed. ”

“But you were exiled for breaking the rules.” Ciel touched the place on his body that was scorched by the acid. A thin layer of skin was melted, but it was slowly recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye. This is also a witch potion effect?

Those elixir seemed to have permanently changed his physique.

“I don’t think much when I’m hungry.”

“You said before that if you don’t have souls to burn, you will die, so you keep attacking the mortal world? That’s why you keep plundering your souls.”

“Yes… The soul is the source of our strength, and the stronger the demon, the more soul burns in the body. That’s why we tried our best to find every opportunity to enter the mortal world to harvest, or stay in hell to deceive people to sacrifice for us. …”

Ciel couldn’t help but think back to when he was sold to a wizarding assembly.

The charr was among those wizards who had followed a terrifying fiend of hell, offering dozens of pitiful sacrifices in exchange for power from the demons.

If Etienne hadn’t broken through the market and rescued Ciel, Ciel would have been used as firewood in the belly of some unknown demon.

“Yes, if you are not rescued by that old hunter, it is your destiny to be absorbed and burned. The bigger the demon the more greedy the appetite, we will never stop, if we are not strong enough, we will be crowded out by other demons .”

“But don’t you have ‘rules’ to stop killing each other? Even weak demons won’t be killed.”

“The lives of lower-level demons are insignificant, but the demons will fight each other, and each demon represents a concept… My enemy, the Metal Demon King, has always tried to integrate me, because ‘metal’ includes ‘blade’, if I’m too weak, so I can’t guarantee my independence. After I’m eaten by metal, I’ll become a ‘cut’ or ‘slash’ demon, and the ‘knife’ part is fused… a very complicated process… ”

“Then can you eat any other demons?”

“A nasty story, I vaguely remember the Prince of Blades and me fighting a lot, we devoured each other many times, and he was weaker than me, so in the end I beat him out. That’s why we have to stay strong… ”

“The number of demons should be getting smaller and smaller. If there is a ‘demon’ demon among you, wouldn’t it be possible to eat all the other demons?” Ciel became more and more interested in demon knowledge, and a demon came to himself. Telling the rules of hell is more reliable than anything else.

“Devils are not eternal. Once a demon god dies, it will spit out everything it devoured before, and regenerate into countless smaller and weaker new demons in hell.” Gladiu explained, “… …If I am destroyed, maybe new demon gods such as knives, swords, sharp blades, and sharp edges will be born in hell, and then they will fight with each other, and finally form…Bah, what am I talking to you about, these are superior demon gods The entanglements between you, third-rate hunters, most of the time, you are dealing with low-level and middle-level demons, you don’t need to know this. I tell you this because we share the same body.”

“It’s always good to know something.”

“Magic gods like me are very powerful! Can easily destroy reason and hold power! The power I once had is boundless!” Gladiu boasted.

“But you were knocked down and exiled here by kings. Who are the kings?”

Unexpectedly, this seemed to touch on a topic that was very sensitive to Gladius. It quickly fell into silence, and Charles could feel that Gladius was in a passive state in Char’s soul, and neither would respond. Ciel’s mind would not act either.

This feeling, like Gladiu suddenly died or disappeared, Ciel felt strange.

Blade Demon doesn’t want to talk about the kings of hell?

Charles thought.

Having said that, how powerful is such a demon god who can rule the demon domain and be honored as the king of hell?

Ciel understands it better now, the demons are all kinds of strange, but one thing is the same, if they come to this world, the purpose is not to travel peacefully.

They are here to hunt down human beings and devour souls…

If there is a demon with a big enough appetite and a terrifying ambition, like the demon monarchs mentioned by Gladius, if they successfully come to this world, they will have to eat several countries and tens of millions of people before they stop. down?

No, the more you eat, the stronger the demons will be. If no one succeeds in stopping them, their ultimate goal must be to clean up this place.

In other words, destroy the world and end everything.

The word sounded distant, but Ciel knew it could happen at any time.

In that place called hell, demons live in a completely different way from human beings, and they are always thinking about how to get their hands on the world.

Ciel walked to the river and washed the troll blood and acidic mucus from the sword with the river water. He looked down the bridge, his eyes stunned.

Under the bridge is the lair of the river troll. He saw a large pile of clay and thatch, randomly piled into a lair-like thing. The water flowed in between, but it couldn’t take the contents away. He saw that there were many in the lair. The things are yellow and clear, and they seem to be very valuable.

Bridge tolls…

The river troll has been domineering on this bridge for a long time without being defeated. Until today, Shire killed it. How many treasures will it accumulate over the years?

How many people pay for it to cross the bridge safely?

An unprecedented treasure is right in front of you!

Charles looked forward to it.

He undid the black cloak around his waist, put it on the shore with his backpack, and went into the water naked.

Chapter 16 Strolling

It was dark under the bridge, visibility was poor, and the river was cold, and Ciel struggled to get to the hideous, stinking lair, where the river trolls smeared mud near the piers, and it smelled awful.

Ciel resisted the smell and stretched out his hand to grope in the water. The river was originally very clear, but it became extremely turbid when he entered the muddy nest of the river troll, showing how dirty it was.

He felt a large pile of coins and the like, grabbed a handful of them, and brought them to the surface to look at.

Ciel opened his eyes wide, a little hard to believe what he was seeing.

gold!

It’s full of gold coins.

A gold coin leaked out of his hand, fell into the water, splashed, and drifted with the flow, making Ciel feel a pain in the flesh.

Money is life and hope.

Ciel walked to the shore, the wind blew, and his body was soaked and cold, but he didn’t care so much. He sprinkled all the gold coins on the shore, and then went into the water again, groping for what was hidden in the river troll’s den.

He got a lot of silver, copper plates, and three necklaces.

There should be more in it. Ciel saw through the dirty water that there was a cup or something. He reached out to touch it, but caught something squishy, which made him feel sick. He couldn’t imagine what it was. Get away from this foul-smelling cave under the bridge.

Moreover, the water in the late autumn was cold, and he stayed for too long, and his body would freeze.

He remembered that his mother had always told him not to go into the water with bare feet.

[End of This Chapter]