Hunter’s Blade - Chapter 6

[Demon Hunter’s Blade Chapter 6]

Gephne avoided Dalton, letting him leave in a fit of rage.

“Valun is really a demon?” Ciel looked in the direction of the camping stone.

“There are similar rumors that Warren was mentally destroyed to a certain extent by staring at the demon’s appearance for too long in one operation… But I believe he can control himself.” Geoffne confessed in a low voice.

There is a devil among us!

The thought made Ciel shudder, thinking that last night, they and Warren rested together just a step away, and Warren strangled me by the neck. Maybe Warren really wanted to kill me.

He frowned, worried.

Gephne took a long sigh and took Ciel back to the camping stone. Frederick and Valen were talking closely about something. It seemed that both sides were trying their best to restrain their emotions. Etienne interjected from time to time. I didn’t talk to them too much.

“Dalton’s gone!” Jeffrey announced. “Look at you. Thanks to our wonderful teamwork attitude, we are getting fewer and fewer people. There are only four hunters and one recruit left.”

“Are you really a demon?” Ciel dared to ask Warren, desperate for an answer, hoping someone would tell him that they were still a team of humans trying their best to hunt demons.

Warren gave Ciel a terrifying smile and didn’t answer.

“Okay, let’s talk about your affairs when we return to the temple.” Master Frederick waved his hand, signalling to stop discussing this topic, “What I want to say is that the spell I used to hunt down the devil has responded, and we I have finally located where the Blade Demon is and can attack at any time.”

“So the plan went into effect,” Gephne said.

“Yes.” Frederick nodded, “The blade demon didn’t escape in time.”

A series of very different reasoning occurred in Ciel’s heart, and these thoughts flowed through his heart, causing a shudder.

Wait…the blade demon didn’t escape, why?

Because it stopped, its action was slowed down.

Why was it so slow that it didn’t escape the siege of the demon hunters?

Because it met the demon hunter, because it had to stop temporarily to fight the demon hunter, it had to set up traps and trap the hunter.

It succeeded, it did kill the hunter, but it failed decisively because it didn’t escape the hunters’ siege, it stayed so long that we could just use a locating spell to catch it…

Ciel’s breathing became rapid.

He looked at Etienne pleadingly: “Denver…Denver is dead because we’re going to delay…Blade Demon?”

Etienne nodded coldly, admitting Ciel’s conjecture.

“He died with a weapon, he fought bravely, he was a good man, as you say.”

Ciel turned to Master Frederick with a terrified look on his face. Frederick is our mighty leader, how could he make such a cruel decision?

He should……

Frederick didn’t avoid Ciel’s gaze, but answered bluntly: “Son, you should know that sacrifice is also a virtue.”

Ciel looked at the others again, expecting a reassuring answer.

“Yes, yes.” Warren’s tone exaggerated, “We will do everything we can to successfully hunt demons. Isn’t that the kind of people we are? It’s the first time you found out? Blade demons are in hell. It is also a powerful demon god of high rank. When we catch it, how many martial arts songs will the poets write praises for us! Countless people in future generations will be grateful for our contributions. In comparison, hey! Two deaths count what?”

Gephne looked at Ciel’s distressed and confused eyes, and comforted: “Charle, we have a disadvantage in chasing demons. Hunters in other regions have inherited spells suitable for tracking and hunting, but we don’t have them. We can’t ride horses either, you You know, animals will be invaded by demons in an instant, we can only rely on humans, rely on us hunters themselves. This battle proved to be a success, we delayed the escape of the blade demon, as long as we successfully brought it back to Sanctuary after the battle Don, Denver and Julius don’t die in vain.”

“Did you know that from the beginning?” Charles looked back at Etienne, his master, who brought him into the hunter trade.

“Julis and the others are so unlucky.” Etienne’s voice was dry, as if he didn’t want to face his apprentice.

“They happen to be the most unsuitable group to fight with the Blade Demons, Julis has limited skills, and Denver… Denver is much worse than you. If the Blade Demon meets the two of us, meets Federik , encountering Gephne, Warren, and even Dalton…the Blade Demon couldn’t have caused such a neat kill.”

Is this luck… is it God’s will, or is it the extreme means of the hunters?

They secretly made a plan from the beginning, sacrificing the weaker among us to delay the Blade Demon.

Now that I think about it, maybe half of us are in the dark.

Thinking of this, Charles felt absurd.

“Look at your eyes.” Valen glanced at Ciel and shook his head disdainfully. “What is this, a ‘sense of justice’? Forget it, it’s disgusting. Frederick, use the Positioning Charm, we Set off.”

“‘The hunt is on’!” Federik shouted out the hunter’s spell, and a blue arrow flew out of his palm towards the east side of the forest. The end of the arrow pulled a faint thread, linking Federico and Goal.

The silk thread shook violently at first, but after a dozen seconds, it gradually stabilized.

“Right now, our Ash Tree Hall Church is going to become the most famous hunter’s sanctuary in the kingdom.” Frederick nodded contentedly, seeing that the silk thread was fixed, “All other sanctuaries, West Coast Branch, Qinghe Region, Xialuo Man… must look up to our legendary achievements. The ‘blade demon’, a real powerful demon, the main symbol of sharp blades, sharp objects, and many sharp weapons also belong to its jurisdiction. Such a concept covers a wide range and can A demon of great power, with a thousand weapons, has fallen into our net. Many wizards will also pay a great price for fragments of its power.”

Frederick took a deep breath.

“Go, Warren, Gephne, Etienne, all the hard work and hard work will pay off today.” He was fighting high, ready to leave.

“Charle can’t stay here alone,” said Etienne suddenly, “I want to stay.”

“…whatever you want, old man, but I remember.” Frederick shook his head impatiently. “You better know what you’re doing.”

Jeffrey gave Ciel an apologetic look, and soon they all left.

The sky was full of dark clouds, and it seemed to rain. Although it was day, the visibility was not high. There was a touch of moisture in the air.

The entire piece of camping stone remains pale and lonely in the dark clouds and autumn wind, and the two ring stone walls built by the ancients seem to be fragile and fall down when blown.

Ciel saw the others burrowing into the woods, and their figures disappeared.

“Charle, why are you acting so strange?” Etienne asked. “You seem to be afraid.”

“Scared… I sympathize with him, sympathize with Denver.” In fact, Shire felt chills.

“‘Sympathy’.” Etienne seemed to be lost in thought, “Speaking of ‘sympathy’…that was probably the first emotion I lost.”

“why?”

“Maybe because. Among all emotions, this is the most useless one.” The corners of Etienne’s mouth slowly twitched, and the muscles on her face twitched slightly, very strange.

It could be seen that the old hunter was trying to smile, but failed.

Chapter 8 Exercises

“You don’t think we’re doing well?” Etienne looked at Charles, making him nervous. “You don’t think we should sacrifice those of us?”

“No.” Charles hid his suspicions in his heart, he knew there were some things he couldn’t say to Etienne.

“I broke into the dark wizard’s market, made a lot of noise, and killed a bunch of wizards and witches with powerful mana. I came to the ritual altar in the middle and saw you tied with eight or nine other young children. Why did I only take you by my side and train you as a demon hunter?”

“I don’t know.” Ciel didn’t really understand. All the other children were released and sent back to their parents. Only Ciel, Etienne insisted on teaching him the techniques of hunters.

“Because you didn’t cry, you were the only child who wasn’t scared to cry.”

“I never cry.” Ciel was a little surprised. “People in the village said that I didn’t even cry when I was born.”

“We have only one criterion for recruiting hunters – firm will, and you meet that criterion.”

“Dalton… Dalton is also a hunter, but he escaped, he decided to go home, is he also determined?”

“People change, maybe one day in the future, you will be sad and cry because of something.”

“Will not.”

Etienne turned to look at the forest, then back to Ciel’s face.

“This is a serious problem, either we sacrifice one or two people to be injured or even die, and at the same time successfully suppress the Blade Demon, banish it, or imprison it in the sanctuary… Or we don’t sacrifice any demon hunters and can’t catch up to the Blade, Let it escape to other countries and regions… Think about it, as long as it appears in the eyes of the public, those mortals will have no chance to resist, and their hearts will be eroded and fallen into degeneration in an instant.”

“So… Denver is dead,” Ciel whispered. Denver had struggled to live.

“Yes, they died, but they also saved thousands of innocent people.” Etienne nodded, “That’s why I said that their deaths were of great significance.”

“What if one day it’s our turn to be sacrificed?”

“…I was placed in a similar scene, decades ago. Ciel. If you don’t have the strength to escape the fate that was arranged, you can only be arranged.”

Charles felt that they were in a predicament.

“—If Denver is dead, knowing the meaning of his death is called sacrifice. Let him die when he doesn’t know anything… What is this?” Charles stared at Etienne.

“Don’t have extra thoughts.” Etienne put both hands on Ciel’s shoulders, her cloudy eyes fixed on him, and she raised the volume, “On the stage where the devil and the hunter are fighting for their lives, just focus on ‘defeat the devil’ This ultimate goal is just fine, and all other ideas are thrown away for me!”

Charles was silent.

“Now I teach you another important mantra, memorize its rhythm, rhythm, and pitch to make sure it’s perfectly repeated, understand?”

“…Understood.” Charles nodded.

Etienne faced the clearing and uttered the hunter spell: “‘Exile to Heaven’.”

“‘Exile'” Charles repeated.

Etienne stared at Ciel, adjusted his cloak, and greeted Ciel: “You practice well here, wait for us to come back.”

“What? Monsieur Etienne, aren’t you going?”

“Nonsense, I stayed just to worry about you. I have to go, what a terrible loss it would be if we didn’t succeed in defeating the Blade Demon because I wasn’t there, and I will live in the shadow of failure for the rest of my life. You Stay here, never leave.”

Without waiting for Ciel to have a chance to speak, Etienne hurriedly turned her back, left the camping stone ruins, and headed to the depths of the Dusk Forest as well.

Ciel leaned on the camping rock, the rock was icy cold.

As a demon hunter, your job should be to hunt demons. Since you have decided to fight demons when you join the hunter, it is understandable to sacrifice your life to destroy demons.

But… Ciel shook his head vigorously.

Sadly though, it was not his turn to make the rules.

Like playing chess, Charles had seen gamblers in taverns play a game of kings, in which the two faced off on a board with wooden chess pieces, specially shaped, and people named them after knights, soldiers, or officers, But no matter how glamorous they are, they are all equal in the eyes of chess players, and can be easily moved, destroyed and exchanged, as long as the final victory is ensured.

Are Federik the chess player and we the pawns?

The more Charles thought about it, the more depressed he became.

Maybe they kept me in the camp as a tactic?

If the Blade Demon…

Ciel didn’t dare to think about it, and decided to eliminate the distractions in his heart and focus on practicing the hunter spell.

“Phantom power.” He focused his attention, and the words uttered in a special tone turned into a spell with magical effect, and the air flowed slightly, and invisible power flowed through the air.

How to use it?

According to Gephne, it’s a force that manipulates the flowing wind.

Charles pondered.

A good demon hunter can maximize the effectiveness of a spell, subtly altering its content through concentration, thereby changing elements such as the spell’s reach, strength, and so on.

Also using the Yafen flame to burn the soul, Ciel can only ignite his soul to wake him up, let it emerge from his palm, ignite the surrounding things, and create a soul fire without temperature.

But he has also seen Etienne use this spell to summon the golden flame of the soul, the fire covers the whole body of the hunter, and the supernatural golden flame can burn everything.

Ciel believes that if he can master the spellcasting rules of the Phantom Power, the potential of this spell is limitless.

The first is the method that Gephne showed him, “blocking.”

He picked up a stone and threw it hard into the sky. The stone flew up quickly, and then fell quickly after reaching a point.

“Phantom power!” Ciel chanted a spell, stared at the air directly below the stone, and concentrated his will to one point.

It’s there – surging.

Su… The stone landed gently and rolled on the grass, unobstructed along the way.

It seems to be a lot worse, do you want to continue practicing?

Charles thought deeply.

The hunter spell uses the soul as the original energy, so the practice must be calculated carefully. If the spell is used repeatedly in a short period of time, the consumption will also increase exponentially.

Reduce the use of spells and save your soul, so that you can live safely to seventy years old.

Practice hard, master all the details and techniques of hunter spells, become an expert at hunter spells, and become a soulless husk at forty.

Simply… practice!

Charles was heartbroken.

From what he saw, he realized that if he didn’t have enough power, others would see him as a sacrifice.

Otherwise, like Dalton, he has no ability to protect himself and can only escape.

But he is alone, and there is a high probability that he will not be able to get out of the forest.

Practice from morning to evening.

Ciel repeated a spell one hundred and twenty-seven times.

In the beginning, the effect of the phantom power was very weak, and the position was very unstable, and it was completely ineffective.

But as Ciel used, understood and thought about it, he understood the meaning of the whole spell more and more.

Ciel devised a way of recording spells himself.

[End of This Chapter]