Chapter: Chapter 103: Avoiding DebtAfter nearly an hour of running, the forest finally opened up into a small clearing. Talon slowed to a stop, his chest rising and falling as he caught sight of figures ahead. He blinked in disbelief. Magnus. Renard. Xara. Raeve. Brythan. All of them—elites of the Blue Devil Guild, and apart from Brythan, they were all at the Warrior level. A cluster of carriages and horses rested just off the path, their reins tied loosely to trees. Clearly, they had been waiting here for some time. Talon’s surprise showed on his face. Magnus noticed immediately, his sharp eyes catching the flicker of confusion. “You’re wondering how I knew you’d come this way,” Magnus said calmly. “It’s my other Profession—Discerning Mage. I foresaw we would cross paths here if I waited long enough.” Talon’s brows drew together. Something about Magnus felt… different. Stronger, heavier, like standing near a mountain. His curiosity rose instinctively, and before he realized it, he had cast his gaze inward toward
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Chapter: Chapter 102: Meeting Familiar Faces By now, Talon had stripped the tiger of its value like a merchant intent on squeezing every last copper from a trade. Bones, claws, sinew, even fragments of hardened marrow—nothing escaped his practiced hands. The forest floor around them looked more like a butcher’s yard than a monster’s den. He moved with surprising patience, his black blade occasionally flashing as he sliced through tendon or carved neat lines along the hide. When at last he stood upright, his arms dusted with dried blood, the pelt folded carefully over his shoulder, he exhaled in satisfaction. “That should do it. Between this and the core, we’ve got something worth a decent pile of coins.” Reaching into his pack, he drew out a folded pamphlet—creased from repeated use, its inked pages a hunter’s crude guide to the region’s notable beasts. He ran his eyes over it, tapping a fingertip against the section detailing Warrior-level monsters. His expression hardened, a spark of ambition flickering behind his gaze.
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Chapter: Chapter 101: My Life Wasn't MineTalon stared at the dead Redbone Tiger for a long moment, then glanced into the shadows between the trees. “If we work together, we can kill warrior-level monsters,” he said suddenly. “Why don’t we hunt a few more?” As he said it, the logic clicked for him. That was why hunters teamed up. Alone, most adventurers hit their limits and had to avoid anything too strong. With a partner you doubled your chances, cut the danger, and increased the reward. It was simply more efficient. Veyra let out a low groan—half annoyance, half resignation. “Fine,” she said. “But if we meet something with weirder tricks than that tiger, you take the lead. I’ve got enough to worry about.” She wasn’t exaggerating. Underneath her calm, she was still fighting the blood-forged shackles that lived inside her soul. Every fight chipped at those chains and left her unable to use her racial powers fully. On top of that, her level had been forced down to Warrior, which l
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Chapter: Chapter 100: Warrior Level Monster Core Talon slid down the rough bark of a tree and let himself drop to the ground, the weight of fatigue pressing down on every bone and muscle. His chest heaved with ragged breaths, sweat plastering his hair to his forehead. The Redbone Tiger lay sprawled in the clearing, its once fearsome body now nothing more than a broken carcass. Its lifeless eyes glared at nothing, jaw slack, tongue hanging out like a discarded banner of defeat. Across from it, Veyra stood unsteadily, her figure pale even for a vampire. Her right femur jutted grotesquely from her thigh, the bone piercing through torn flesh. Dozens of jagged bone shards stuck out from her torso and arms, tiny spikes that pulsed faintly with residual aura. A normal person would have been dead ten times over, but Veyra’s physiology was a strange, stubborn thing. Already, the shards were being pushed back out as her body began knitting together torn muscle and sealing ruptured veins. Still, the sight was gr
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Chapter: Chapter 99: Facing the Redbone TigerThe fight with the Redbone Tiger quickly settled into a rhythm of danger and restraint. Veyra, despite being at the peak stage of the Warrior level, found her strength strangely muted before the Tiger’s bone-control ability. In theory, her higher cultivation should have allowed her to brush off such tricks as if swatting a fly. But in practice, she discovered that the beast’s manipulation pressed against her body like invisible chains, constantly tugging at her frame and bones, demanding a portion of her concentration simply to remain unharmed. She could resist it, yes, but not with the same effortless mastery Talon displayed. For her, every forward step came with the fear of her own ribs suddenly splintering against her will.So she took a cautious stance, eyes sharp, shoulders tense. She played the spectator’s role, orbiting the battlefield rather than diving headlong into it, searching for the opening that would never come freely. Her strength was shackled not by la
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Chapter: Chapter 98: The Redbone Tiger They moved through the forest in silence, still running on leftover adrenaline from their last fight with the Bulwark Team. Their steps were careful now, breaths steady, senses sharp. The path to the Ironwood Plains stretched ahead like a tunnel of fading light and rustling leaves. Two kilometers from the previous battlefield, the trees thinned, and the quiet grew heavier—the kind of silence that meant something dangerous was nearby. Talon stopped suddenly, his senses catching something. Veyra froze beside him, recognizing the way his body tensed. He didn’t look around. Instead, his focus shifted into the Mental Plane, as naturally as slipping a hand into a pocket. There in the Firmament, a new light burned bright and fierce. “Warrior Level,” he said quietly. He could easily recognize the threat level based on the size of the 'Mental Star'. Veyra sniffed the air, her instincts sharp. “Smells like iron and old bone,” she muttere
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The Revenant Mutation
In a world devastated by the Revenant Virus, chaos reigns as the infected transform into relentless zombies, and plants and animals mutate into monstrous predators. Amid the apocalypse, a rare few humans evolve into powerful beings called Revenants, but at a grim cost—they survive by feeding on human blood. Victor, haunted by the loss of his family during the outbreak, awakens from a plane crash to find himself changed. Once weak and powerless, he’s now one of the Revenants, with incredible strength and speed. Yet, this transformation fills him with self-loathing, leaving him struggling between his new found powers and the terrible downsides.
But, in a world where humans are almost as dangerous as the monsters, and trust becomes a luxury, Victor must come to terms with his new identity and the responsibility it brings. What begins as a personal mission grows into a fight for humanity’s survival, forcing Victor to rise as a reluctant hero in a world teetering on the edge of extinction.
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