Hunter of the Perished World

The journey down the Mekong River tributary did not start with monsters.

It just didn't come, but it did.

“What's all this? ”

Duck, puck!

Leona's eyes widen as she looks at the splashing fish attached to the raft.

“A fish called sawtooth. A monster.”

“How small is this? ”

“If you throw one of the dead beasts, they'll leave no bones for two hours. They are the most common and dangerous underwater monsters. ”

Leona is watching a swarm of sawheads swarming dangerously close, but she doesn't say anything because she knows Jean won't be attacked anyway. Leona glances at the nearby splattering saw teeth without revealing them.

“Are they here to see me, not you and Ramsay? ”

“Maybe so. If he was here to attack, he would have bounced up. ”

Just because the saw fish that was boiling around it popped up out of the air, it seemed like they were flirting to be a bit misunderstood.

“Hmm…. ”

Leona wanted to do an experiment. As I was submerging my hands in the water, I immediately noticed that Leona had a saw saw around her.

“Ugh, ugh! ”

However, the sawheads rub their faces into Leona's hands, not revealing their teeth. Leona smiles strangely at the sight of the fish, although it may seem quite disgusting to some people.

“There's something... Cute.”

Bubbling

It seemed strange to rub hard like it would be good to touch Leona's hands.

It was as if Leona's pet had become his own. Jean was rowing at the edge of the raft, looking at the fish and Leona hanging around.

‘Has something changed since the incident in New Hong Kong…. ’

Assuming that monster individuals have different empathy, Sawtooth Witches will have excellent empathy. It was still difficult to actively use the power, but the power as a witch itself must have been slowly opening its eyes.

If this isn't just a monster attacking, and you want to show your appreciation,

Leona was confounded by the feeling of being conveyed whenever convenience came to her.

I got it!

He saw me! ’

All right!

"Ooh!"

Though it is not the right language, pieces of emotion have been conveyed in Leona's mind how the saw saw tooth is feeling right now. Now those senses are becoming more and more familiar.

How much do you know if you touch it? ’

Obviously, there was a clear sense of something being conveyed every time the fish reached. The swarms of sawheads swarm over and over, almost pushing the raft away. After a few more tests, Leona was convinced.

I was about to tell Gin that.

Boom!

The distant surface almost explodes, and a giant salamander pops out of it. Leona was the only one interested in saw teeth, but other monsters were likely to target gin and ramfil on the raft.

Monsters may not have the intelligence to say Leona drowned when the raft broke. Gene yells lightning as he sets his oars.

“Hostiles!”

Ramfil has been awake and armed with the L20 since the newborn emerged. I was about to shoot a large salamander with a laser rifle.

Kiehek!

A number of saw teeth under the surface rush towards the Salamander.

Kick! Kick!

“What, what? ”

A swift rush of sawdust clings to the giant salamander and begins to bite it with sharp teeth. A giant salamander half the size of an elephant could not even see his face because of the sawtooth sticking in so quickly.

The vigorously bouncing salamander already fled below the surface of the surface, and the saw saw what they were doing under the surface of the yellow light, but the slumber seemed to have gone to eat the salamander.

Leona, Jean and Ramfil were all staring at it dazed.

“Now…. Are you trying to protect us?”

“I think so.... ”

I was in a state of panic when I didn't expect it. Sawfish that were infested everywhere remained surprisingly calm, whether they went to punish the attackers. After a dozen minutes, the sawheads start groaning again, and Jean bursts into a ridiculous laugh.

“Looks like we got ourselves a guard. ”

An ally who didn't even think it was a bunch of sawheads began to help South Korea.

Sawteeth were originally fearful when terrestrial organisms entered the water, but they were significantly lower ranked in the food chain below the surface. Sawteeth that form small groups are about the size of a child's forearm, and they were about the right size of a carp compared to existing fish.

Small groups, of course, were not able to hunt collectively, so there were more victims in the food chain.

Thus, the sawheads were mostly scattered or avoided when predators appeared.

But now, he has become nearly a thousand, even more blown up in the South Sea, clinging to the raft and showing Leona boundless interest and affection.

Sawteeth, which were merely carnivores, were literally bioweapons when they formed a large group. If the lone aquatic monsters try to attack the raft, the sawheads bite and kill the predators without saving their lives.

Gene doesn't even have to row, as there are subtle saws pushing the raft behind him.

“That's comforting in ways I never thought I'd see. ”

Progress was certainly unpredictable. I set out to fight an underwater monster, but Leona is helping me.

Splash, splash!

“Hehe…. You guys are cute. ”

Leona grins and grins at the saw teeth rushing into her hands. When I revealed my teeth, I thought this fish was a monster, but it looked like a puppy, hiding a sharp tooth in front of Leona, prancing for a little pet.

The situation under the surface was more problematic.

With the ever-expanding confluence of sawtooth swarms, it looks like a moving island centered around a raft.

Gene is lost in thought, staring at Leona, who plays with sawteeth.

Only humans in the world are dangerous to Leona.

After realizing the obvious, Gene had to stare at Leona for a while.

“It's called contact. ”

Gene explained that when Leona said what she felt when she touched the saw saw.

“The most powerful way to communicate with witches.... But it's the only way to communicate with you right now. ”

“Is that it?"

Still, Leona was the only way to actively communicate with a witch that was intact because her power was weak.

Compared to the many witches in the memory of the White Witch or Jin, their abilities were very weak, but there was a huge difference between being able to be active and not being able to use them.

However, the witch made contact for the spiritual control of a fairly powerful monster. But since Leona's contact is only the most basic level of communication, she's still a long way to go. After hearing Gin's explanation, Leona lets out a sigh to make sure it's still a long way off.

At night, in the middle of the calm river, the raft was moving as the river flowed. Despite the winding stiffness, the saw saw saw was moving the raft to the center of the river as if they knew where to go.

“You know all about demons, don't you? ”

Ramfil asks Gin.

“I don't know everything. ”

Ramfil asked for partial positives.

“Which of the demons is the most dangerous? ”

“Hmm…. Why do you ask? ”

“Just curious. ”

Gene pondered for a moment and gave his answer.

“Well…. That distinction seems meaningless, because demons are dangerous in their own way. ”

“I want to know about the Devil. ”

What I said this time was Leona. He was a demon himself, but he didn't know what it was. That's why I wanted to hear it from Jin when I was so relaxed.

Boom!

The saw teeth rush towards you, perhaps approaching from beneath the surface. Sawteeth were protecting the raft on their own, as if they were auto-responsive turrets. Leona, to be exact.

“The dragon is the most powerful individual. It shoots clumsy cannonballs, impenetrable armor and heat storms from the mouth, Heat Wind. That tornado will tear and melt everything that's messy. Basically, killing dragons is almost impossible. If you don't destroy the molten core, you won't die, but it's almost impossible to penetrate the heart with the molten core. ”

“Magic is prone to slime and delusions, so it nullifies most physical hits while firing a deadly CP. Poison with both strong acids and strong basics cannot be defended, and the soil contaminated with them emits deadly poison gases. To get rid of them, you must hit them simultaneously with weapons that have the power and strength of an exorcist. With weapons like my phantom vane. ”

“Vampires are literally blood-sucking people. Powerful in practice, but as strong as the blood it sucks. Perhaps the most powerful demon in the world would be a vampire if the Vampire were still alive. Vampires simply suck blood, but most of all, they are free to deform. So I snuck into humans and slowly turned them into my own. It's not uncommon for a free city to be completely taken over by a vampire. Then it becomes Vampire Castle, and it attracts ineffective vampires nearby to form Vampire Clans. The most evil... You have to think of it as a very sociable individual. ”

I raise my hand as if Ramfil were curious about something. I lost my virginity to the attitude of a student in any class.

“I heard that a vampire dies when he touches the sunlight. Is that a rumor?”

In fact, Wargrave has some knowledge of the Devil, so it's not particularly unusual for such a tradition to descend like a folklore.

“... The Vampire is actually nocturnal, but only to hunt for sleeping humans at night. It's a false rumor from there. If it's sunny, it'll be... eye-catching. ”

“Go on, keep talking. ”

Leona grabs the gin.

“Evil is the most terrible ghost of all... Ghosts can't kill humans unless they have twisted powers. It's hard enough to frighten or dazzle a human unless he has a suicide weapon or a suicide weapon. Ghosts are actually hard to eradicate, but there aren't many ghosts that are dangerous enough to eradicate. But evil spirits are different. It can possess dozens of people at the same time, or even possess monsters. Easy. If an evil spirit is malicious to a city, you can raid it with ice from a very powerful mob of monsters nearby. But even if the chief dies, the evil spirit survives. Of course, it doesn't work at all, and you can't kill demons unless you have a powerful shaman or a very powerful repellent weapon. ”

“Immortals, you know, are a people that never die. Virtually not that strong, but he never dies... That doesn't make you that weak. Once you kill it, it'll be back to its original state. A monster who can't lose, but can't win. Lucky for you.... Immortals didn't pay much attention to humans unless it was a special situation. But when you buy the wrath of the immortal, whatever it was, it was gone. No matter how many enemies you kill, you're just as scared as they are. ”

“Foreign body is the hallmark of tentacles. I have the most elusive appearance among monsters... In fact, tentacles can be used as a means of attack, but more importantly, their power. Those guys... We call it Void Power. Summons the Unknown Subspace and summons the Unknown Monster. It was the hardest to deal with, the most exotic. Among the demons, that number was the lowest after the dragon. Intelligence was definitely present, but it never attempted to speak with humans. Or maybe they've been talking to us, but we haven't noticed. However, the foreign body seemed to have no reason for that behavior. A creature of reason, but no emotion, that was the foreign body I saw. ”

“The witch... You know, monsters rule. The same demon cannot be ruled. It controls monsters through psychiatric waves, and it deals with powerful psychokinesis, psychokinesis. In addition to this, there were many other superpowers. Witches are superpowers that appear among Humans, and the first to evolve is the ability to control monsters, but there may be more superpowers... ”

After the explanation, Leona asked. Even though it included her story, Leona seemed unreal.

“Why were witches born? ”

“Just as we don't know why another demon appeared, we don't know. ”

As we did not know the origin of the other six demons, we certainly did not know why a witch had to be born among humans.

Ramfil was thinking about something else.

The demons are the ones who wield the terrifying power. And there were no seven demons left but Leona and a feeble white witch in front of her.

And Ramsay kept thinking that Gene was a demon-hunter.

“How did you hunt all those demons? ”

Despite thinking of other demon-hunters, there were only seven demon-hunters at the same time. The seven were too numerous to hunt demons, not singular.

Gene smiles bitterly.

“We did everything we could. ”

“What if...? ”

Ramfil wondered what all the available methods were. What the hell are all the available means? In an absolute heat and helplessness disadvantage, how the Demon Hunter wiped them all out of the world.

Perhaps the Darkborn has that much power.

“To answer your first question, the most powerful demon individually is the dragon or the foreign body. On the other hand, the weakest demon... A witch.”

Witches are humans after all, and even if they have superpowers, if they don't realize it, they're just ordinary people huffing around in the woods like Leona.

“But the most dangerous and powerful demons are the witches when they have the conditions. ”

Witches were the only devils capable of harboring an army of monsters, and were human beings at the same time.

Gene tells the truth of demon-hunting without even making a bitter smile, with an eerie stiff expression.

“The biggest part of demon-hunting was not the demon-hunter, but the witch. ”

He did not tell you what the role was, or what the demon-hunter did in that role.