Hunter’s Blade - Chapter 5

[Demon Hunter’s Blade Chapter 5]

Always well-trained, always ready, always capable of rivaling any terrifying demon, and surmounting every obstacle in the world, Ciel aspires to be like Master Frederick.

The thought of meeting the master soon made Ciel look forward to it.

Jeffrey leads the way.

“Have you encountered the Blade Demon? I didn’t.” Gephne sighed, “If I encounter it, I can weaken it by at least 50%, so that it won’t kill Brother Julius and poor Denver. ”

“The blade demon is a nightmare,” Dalton said gloomily.

“Specially scare cowards.” Warren mocked Dalton’s cowardice.

Dalton gave Warren a hateful look.

Gephne turned her head because of this brief quarrel, just to see the place where Etienne’s waist was cut, and the place where the linen covered the wound was bleeding and dyed dark red.

“You’re hurt,” Geoffne said.

“We have reason to respect the Blade Demon, a strong opponent,” Etienne said.

“Yes…” Geoffne nodded without asking too much.

Only the last charr saw that the old hunter was wrapped in a cloak to cover the injured part.

This made Ciel feel sad for a while. Although he was only seventeen years old, he could vaguely understand the concept of “powerlessness”.

Chapter 6 Quarrel

Charles remembered the scene when they set off, and he was in high spirits.

Eight demon hunters were assembled at a place called the Pea Mill, and when people saw that Charles and Denver were young, they ordered them to clear the table and search for candles and meat and wine, and then Charles stood at the table in awe, watching the people solemnly He swore to the god Loman that he would drive the blade demons that descended into the real world back to hell.

The situation was solemn and heart-warming, and he felt that there was no greater cause in the world than the hunting of demons.

“I can’t take it anymore.” Warren’s shouting broke Ciel’s memory. “We don’t even have a chair. Are we going to make plans standing up?”

“This is a camping rock, not a hotel.” Only the words of Master Frederick could restrain Warren a little. He was dressed in black, smartly dressed, with a long sword on his back, his face was thin, and his red hair was neatly combed back. , his beard is neat, and it seems that he has time to tidy up his instruments during these days of hunting, which is in sharp contrast to the other people who are embarrassed.

The six surviving demon hunters stood in front of the camping stone, each with different expressions and thoughts.

Ciel felt cold, the cold wind in the forest was bleak, and his clothes were thin, without armor, and his shorts were stained with mud spots and blades of grass.

“So Julis is dead.” Federick looked at the empty seat. “…really annoyed.” He noticed the emerald-gold necklace around Charles’ neck. “You took his necklace?”

“Yes.” Ciel nodded to Master Frederick.

“Very good, inherit his spirit.” Frederick sighed, “I still remember a sentence Julis said, ‘Be careful and make others depend on you’.”

Ciel took it to heart, and the necklace around his neck seemed to be heavier.

“In this way, you are the only hunter recruit in the Upper Loman area.” Frederick paid close attention to Ciel, his eyes moved to him, especially solemn, “You have to know what this means…”

Ciel felt a little terrifying, it sounded like some kind of great responsibility, a responsibility he didn’t know yet, but it was definitely very important.

“I’ll…” He didn’t think his tone sounded very confident, so he repeated it again, this time more firmly, “—I’ll try.”

“We all need to work hard, especially in this dark time, our country is suffering from unprecedented chaos. As we know, the king ignored the government for a long time, and only sent those special envoys with eccentric styles to monitor the places. So elves, barbarians , flying dragons, ancient threats… Many chaotic evils are growing rapidly. The sooner we destroy the blade demon, the sooner we can return to the civilized world and continue to clean up other crises that may exist. This is our mission as a demon hunter, and the gods witness.” Federer K’s tone is steady.

“We are only one step away from failure.” Contrary to Ciel’s expectations, Etienne began to speak, and Ciel thought that the old hunter had to wait and see the situation, and finally spoke.

“You are right, we are very dangerous and easy to lose. But have we lost? Even if the odds are only one in ten thousand, we have to use all our fighting spirit to chase this slim probability. You don’t know the Hunter’s Sanctuary. Faced with how deep the crisis is, if we can’t make some achievements quickly, we will be dragged down by our own debts.” Frederick always speaks with an indisputable meaning, and Ciel is eager to learn this. This way of speaking seems to enhance his persuasiveness.

“We’ve lost because the devil is among us,” Dalton said with a pale face.

“Rare accusation, what do you mean?” Frederick frowned.

“It’s him.” Dalton pointed at Warren with a trembling finger. “Are you so slow to perceive the evil aura in him?”

Warren broke into a rude laugh uncontrollably, and stepped towards Dalton.

Frederick reached out and stopped among them, lest Warren catch Dalton, with a grim face: “It’s better not to make a fool of yourself, both of you.”

Charles did find Warren an unpleasant feeling, a fierce and notorious man.

More than once, Ciel wondered why such a person would make it to the ranks of Demon Hunters, but Warren does have a place on the hunter roster.

If the church records history in the future, the scribes will also count Varun’s achievements in hunting demons.

“Is Valen a demon?” Charles asked Etienne.

“Silence.” Etienne’s lips moved in a small voice.

“Would you believe this kind of nonsense?” Warren stared at Federick with a grim expression.

“Frankly, I do get a lot of accusations about you. People say you…” Frederick turned to Ciel. “Ciel, get out of here.”

“Why?” Ciel was both shocked and surprised. Is there any reason for him to leave the hunter meeting?

“What we are going to talk about needs to be highly confidential.” Etienne urged, “Come on. If you hear what you shouldn’t listen to, in the future you will fall into the hands of wizards or demons, and they will torture you to steal secrets.”

Ciel went outside in dismay, and they just didn’t believe me that I still wasn’t part of the hunters?

Or do I feel like I’m just too vulnerable to reveal all my secrets when questioned?

However, Ciel knew they were serious, and if he did fall into the hands of the enemy, ignorance would be the best protection.

He moved away from the camping rock and couldn’t help but start wondering what the hunters were going to talk about, the accusation against Warren?

Heard that Warren has a nocturnal habit and can communicate with animals, it is indeed easy to accuse Warren of these dark habits, and it is reasonable to think that he has an affair with some dark witchcraft.

In fact, the thought of Warren’s mean face made him suspicious.

Humans are beasts driven by desire.

Warren said so.

But does this sentence explain everything?

Don’t people also make selfless devotion and make lofty sacrifices, these things cannot always come from the primitive impulses of human beings.

Ciel climbed to a stone wall that had burnt and melted marks.

He believed that these feldspar walls were once straight and solid, but now the surface is covered with water-like lines, the surface is rough, undulating, and the rocks form waves.

A fierce quarrel came from the direction of the camping stone, attracting Ciel’s attention. He saw the shadowy figures of the hunters in front of the stone. They were getting closer to each other, and they seemed to be shouting, scolding, and even shouting at each other face to face. Collision, only Etienne’s solitary figure is far from the center of the chaos, and seems to be disdain to join this kind of debate.

After a while, Gephne left the camping stone, walked to the two stone walls outside, saw Ciel, and greeted him: “Recruit.”

Charles jumped down and greeted Geoffne, “Tell me to go back?”

“On the contrary, I couldn’t stand their quarrel, so I just walked out.” She shrugged, “I don’t like this.”

“What are they talking about?” Charles asked.

“Some trivial matters, Valen tried to prove his innocence, but the more he described it, Dalton was about to collapse. Federick wanted to understand what happened before making a decision, and your master didn’t want to intervene in the argument.” Climb to the stone wall and sit down.

She is very beautiful, tall and thin, with green eyes, red hair in long braids, wearing a tight leather armor that is easy to maneuver, carrying a camping bag, and wearing a thin silver sword around her waist.

“Warren says that Master Etienne has lost his emotions.”

“It’s our way, all hunter spells cost souls, you know why?”

A pessimistic thought rose in Charles’ mind.

“Because we have nothing but souls.”

“Ha.” Gephne was surprised by Ciel’s answer, “Don’t think so, we still have a lot of things, such as partners, equipment and skills. In fact, it is also beneficial for us to burn our souls.”

“It’s worth exchanging our hearts for?” Ciel was a little incredulous.

“Of course. The vision of the devil is different from ours. In the eyes of the devil, all living beings are bodies carrying souls. The more powerful the creatures, the more vigorous the soul flame is, enough to make them go all out to hunt down. And we The weaker the soul is, the more inconspicuous it becomes in the eyes of demons, almost to the point of being invisible to the demons’ senses.”

“Then I should use more spells and lose my soul early.” Ciel thought thoughtfully.

“That’s another thing. At every stage of life, we have different things to do. Once you are middle-aged like me, or old like your master, our life path is already doomed, except There is nothing else to do to hunt demons, so we have no worries. Since every day in the future will not be different from today, we will live each day as the last day and dedicate ourselves to the hunter career. .”

Ciel felt uneasy. Being a demon hunter meant that he could only hunt demons?

Such a life is too bleak.

“Look, don’t you feel bad? This is the advantage of being young. You are still young, you can pursue any ideal you like, wealth, status, food, sex, you have thoroughly experienced every happiness in the world. After that, you will understand that the world is precious and worth selling our souls to protect.” Gephne smiled.

“I understand.” Charles nodded solemnly.

“How many spells have you mastered now?” Gephne asked.

“Only Yafen flames.”

“Oh, Yafen flame… powerful spell, I respect your master, he inherited this legendary spell. Now let me teach you a new spell, very simple and important, although not like Yafen Fire is as famous, but not as consuming as it is. Pick up a rock and throw it at me.”

New spell!

Charles was a little excited.

The most important thing in the camping stone ruins is gravel. He grabbed a stone and threw it gently towards the huntress.

She chanted a spell, and the stone seemed to be hit by an invisible force in the air, and then fell to the ground.

“There was a demon who lured the hunter in the forest and asked the hunter to invite the demon into this world. The hunter agreed. But at the same time, the hunter also asked the demon to give him wisdom.” The two stones were also unable to get close, and fell due to Gephne’s spell, “…then the demon agreed, and he gave the hunter his intelligence beyond mortals, and then entered the world with the help of the hunter. The hunter used the demon to share Given his infinite wisdom, he learned how to manipulate the principles of the world, developed a powerful spell by himself, sealed the demon in the secret temple, and predicted that the demons would continue to try to attack the world, so he created The Demon Hunter Organization.”

“Secret Sanctuary?” This was the first time Ciel had heard of this place.

“It’s in a faraway place.” Gephne said mysteriously, “No one knows its location, because the most terrifying demon is imprisoned in the sanctuary, and the original hunter was afraid that later people would enter the sanctuary and unintentionally release that demon. come out.”

“If there is no one to guard, what if the devil runs away by himself?”

“Yeah, just like our sanctuary, we all gather to chase the blade demon, and the demons in the sanctuary may take the opportunity to escape. But there is no way to do this, because a big man told Federer K has offered a lucrative offer…that we need to bring down the Blade Demon.” Gephne explained, “It’s all trivial, we’ll just do it. Anyway…try to release it with the exact same tone, tone and rhythm as mine. Cast this spell. It constrains the flowing air and commands it to flow in a given direction – ‘Phantom Power’.”

The light and shadow in the air swayed slightly, and this time Ciel could see clearly.

He memorized the spell, learning exactly the same way as Gephne.

“Phantom power!”

Ciel looked around, but didn’t see any response, so he didn’t know if it was effective.

To precisely control the application range, duration, and degree of the effect of the spell requires long-term practice day and night, and he may have only created a gust of air in a small place just now.

“Come on, I’ll try to throw a stone at you…” Geoffne wanted to practice with Ciel.

But the noise on the other side of the camping stone got louder and louder, and at last, Ciel heard a harsh curse from a distance, overshadowing everything:

“Fuck him! I quit!

Chapter 7 Sympathy

Geoffne patted Charles on the shoulder, still treating him like a child.

“It didn’t look like they were having a good time talking, so I chose to stay out of the way…because I expected it. Demon hunters are a mess, not everyone is strong-willed and well-trained, if you’ve ever had a problem with a demon hunter Misunderstanding, now what you see can correct your perception.”

Ciel stared intently in the direction of the camping stone. He saw Dalton angrily distanced himself from Master Frederick and the others, and walked out sullenly. When he passed Ciel and Gephne, he didn’t even say hello and left.

Dalton doesn’t talk to Gephne, but Gephne tries to stop him.

“Hey, where are you going?” Gephne rushed in front of Dalton, she was older and more majestic, forcing Dalton to stop.

“I’m going home,” Dalton repeated.

This made Charles think he was a coward through and through.

Each of us, leaving everything behind, gathered in the Dusk Forest to hunt down the Blade Demon, how dare you want to leave?

“You don’t know how dangerous it is outside, right?” Gephne advised kindly.

“It’s the same here, it makes me hairy to stay here, I shouldn’t be here!” Dalton yelled.

“We are demon hunters, we have a mission to complete.” Ciel couldn’t help but say.

Unfinished business, giving up halfway, is there anything more regrettable than this?

“Don’t fucking teach me, idiot.” Dalton scolded sharply, “You still take yourself seriously? Gephne is a hunter, you recruit is a bird.”

Ciel was scolded in the face, but his expression did not change.

He was sure that the other party was just scolding for venting, and Ciel looked down on such a vulgar person, and would not take these words to heart.

Seeing that Ciel’s expression had not changed, Gephne nodded.

“I’m a demon hunter with you, we’ve sworn to Loman in the same sanctuary, we’ve had a few good festivals, and we’ve celebrated some successful hunts, Dalton, you should know my advice Always dependable. One last time I advise you – don’t leave alone.” Gephne brought Dalton back to their careers as much as possible.

“It’s all madness, this place… it’s all bullshit…” Dalton sweated a lot. “It’s daytime now, and I can find my way out if I go all out in one day.”

“You know how big and pristine Duskwood is, and you’re going to get lost,” Gephne said.

“Aren’t we not lost now! We have proved that Warren has demonic imprints on him, but Federik refuses to arrest him! You, you can’t be trusted! It was Warren who suggested that we split up, you are so plain Can’t see the plot clearly, and wants to kill us?” Dalton shouted, “Get out of here!”

[End of This Chapter]