[20:40:05]
Leaving the building, Maki Zenin's green pupils glanced at the sky, her bandaged left hand gripping the Soul Liberating Blade tightly, as this effectively relieved the pain.
Among the high-rise buildings on both sides of the road, black figures flickered in the windows, seemingly startled by the sound of gunfire from before.
Maki Zenin could also feel that she was being targeted, and not just by one person.
'Forming factions, huddling together for warmth, huh...'
Maki Zenin said to herself in her heart, this Culling Game had only started on the fourth day, and it was indeed suitable for the weak to huddle together for warmth, as they would quickly die otherwise, like that one she had just killed, if his body wasn't as hard as iron, his head would have been blown off by a single shot.
The fact that his own score was ninety-five showed how many people had died under his gun, if those huddling together for warmth didn't ambush her in secret, then Maki Zenin wouldn't have taken the initiative to pay attention to them.
But it was very obvious that in this dog-eat-dog world, lone individuals were always the priority targets of those weaklings huddling together, especially if there were people in that organization whose scores hadn't changed.
Looking at the girl walking alone on the street, the people stationed in the high-rise buildings also saw their own future, the convenience of techniques, the riotous world, man-eating monsters were everywhere, the sorcerers who didn't want to participate in the war had already died, and those who survived… were no different from those curses.
"Who's going?"
With only a little bit of reason remaining, a man in a suit standing by the window asked, seemingly the leader of this organization.
"..."
Everyone else was silent, in the ten-person group, eight people's scores hadn't changed.
"...She's still just a child, why don't we pull her in to huddle together and eke out a living? Everyone has come through it this way."
A man wearing glasses suggested, and it was very obvious that his kind suggestion was also approved by most of the people in the room.
Looking at the people nodding and saying "Yes," the leader's expression became rather gloomy, saying, "The organization doesn't have any extra food to support idlers, fifteen days from now, the techniques of those whose scores haven't changed will be forcibly taken back, without techniques, who can survive in this world?!"
This statement left those who had been nodding and saying "Yes" speechless, in this world overrun with curses, without techniques they would quickly become food and die, people were going to be killed sooner or later, it was just a matter of when...
The world was changing rapidly, if they stopped moving forward, they were destined to be abandoned by this world.
Their own death versus the death of others, none of them were people of high morals, they quickly had an answer in their hearts, and their gazes towards the girl now carried a hint of ruthlessness.
"Alright, we'll act together, you few whose scores haven't changed discuss who will deliver the final blow, we're an organization, so we naturally have to act together, minimizing casualties as much as possible."
Looking at the understanding leader, tears were almost flowing from the eyes of a few people, having just entered the Culling Game, they were naturally also the weaklings being hunted, not understanding anything, only feeling their worldviews being shattered to pieces, seeing for the first time that humans could actually possess the power to change the world by only relying on themselves.
"Menglong, let's leave the final blow to you, anyway, your technique isn't suitable for the front lines, \[Forcibly Stripping Cursed Energy from Others' Bodies], but the amount you strip is also practically nothing, although I feel that you'll definitely become very powerful before long as you grow, but right now..."
Tachi Menglong, looking at Mizukawa Ryuuga's hesitant expression, also knew that this was his excuse for not wanting to kill that girl, but someone had to be killed...
Saying, "Thanks, just give the points to me."
"No, I'm the one who should be thanking you."
Mizukawa Ryuuga patted Tachi Menglong's shoulder, moving to leave and follow the leader to attack that girl together.
As everyone left the room, Tachi Menglong helplessly sighed, saying, "What's going on, without techniques, you can only stand in place and wait for death, where did that harmonious and beautiful world from before go..."
The helplessness in his words was also the world's punishment towards them, a world of dog-eat-dog was about to arrive...
[20:45:55]
Searching for prey, Maki Zenin walked down the street, blood visibly dripping from her bandaged left hand, the black cloth strips dyed slightly red, however, Maki didn't have any means to treat the cracked wound right now, once she was injured, things would become troublesome.
"Hoo..."
Exhaling roughly, Maki Zenin slowly released her left hand, sticking the Soul Liberating Blade into the ground, looking at the black cloth that was dripping blood, preparing to untie it and re-bandage it, after tonight she would go to the hospital to get medical alcohol to disinfect it and then carefully clean the wound, after all, it was easy to get a fever if the wound was infected.
She didn't know \[Reversal Technique]..., no, she didn't even have cursed energy...
Surviving alone in this cruel \[Culling Game] was truly troublesome, feeling that being able to live and get out of here was just a hope, let alone... she was currently being surrounded.
Moonlight poured through the curtain, scattering across the wide street, from the crisscrossing alleys, people holding weapons gradually emerged, seeing the way they gripped their weapons, Maki Zenin knew, these people were all socialites who had just awakened their techniques not long ago, after all, the way they gripped their swords looked very awkward.
Gripping the hilt of the \[Soul Liberating Blade] tightly in her right hand, she said, "Those who don't want to die should leave quickly."
Maki Zenin's fierce gaze and stern warning actually scared away the hesitant six people for a time, they looked at each other.
The leader, looking at the six people who had started to retreat again, couldn't help but get a headache at this moment, leading a rookie team was truly difficult, but if the organization took in strong people, then his position might not be secure, scolding, "Is it you who die or her who dies?!"
This scolding caused those hesitant people to clench the weapons in their hands again, preparing to fight the injured girl before them to the death.
Seeing this, Maki Zenin also knew that they were people who should be killed, but in this \[Culling Game], who shouldn't be killed after all?
She didn't know either, but what she did know was, these guys were hunting her, so... they had to pay an equal price for this, which was to be prepared to be hunted...
The \[Soul Liberating Blade] was drawn, blood visibly sliding from the fingertips of her cracked left hand, dripping onto the ground.
"Ten, if they're all sorcerers, then the score is fifty points, plus the five points from before, it's fifty-five points in total, the mission progress is halfway done in an instant, after all, non-sorcerers don't have techniques at all, and there's no need to worry about the problem of techniques being stripped."
Maki Zenin muttered, but in everyone's ears, it was as if they had become prey, they who occupied an absolute numerical advantage were being looked down upon by a little girl...
"Attack!"
The leader took out a mask from his pocket, putting it on his face, the pattern on the mask was a red-faced, long-nosed tengu, starting to mutter, "Cover my face, please allow the god to possess my body, \[Spirit Descent Technique], prove my supernatural powers!!!"
\[Spirit Descent Technique], could be understood as a spirit summoning technique, although sorcerers had a probability of awakening the same type of technique, the spirit descent target was completely different, in the records of the last thousand years, apart from bloodline inheritance, no two people who had autonomously awakened a technique were the same, it could also be understood as a superior-subordinate relationship of the same technique...
The red-faced tengu, as a creature in Japanese mythology and legends, possessed a tall and long red nose and a red face, holding a round fan, a feather fan, or a treasure mallet, with a tall stature, wearing yamabushi clothing, with a pair of wings growing from its back. Possessing unimaginable monstrous strength and supernatural powers, even able to summon fire and wind, with a katana suspended at the waist, it was an extremely mysterious creature.
And at this moment, the man was requesting for this creature to possess him, blood-red cursed energy covering his body's surface, the mask attached to the surface seeming to come alive, terrifying pupils circling around the eye sockets before staring straight at Maki Zenin not far away. His suit shattered, a pair of red wings grew out, his slender arms instantly becoming thick, veins bulging, as if he had become a different person. He gripped with force with his right hand, a red feather fan appearing out of thin air, even with a gentle fan, a violent storm could be felt assaulting the face.
"Hoo..."
A rough breath was exhaled from the tengu's mouth, yellowish-brown teeth exposed, saying to the girl, "Become a sacrifice."
The rough voice echoed on the street, at this moment, everyone else had also prepared their own techniques, \[Item Reconstruction], \[Car Engine], \[Technique Nullification Against Self]...
"Buzz buzz buzz!!!"
A deafening car engine sound echoed on the street, visibly, car tires grew out from one person's feet, the sound of friction transmitted, one person charged out from the crowd, clenching a steel rod in both hands, a look of excitement mixed in with the expression on his face as he shouted, "Don't blame me, little girl, we have to live too!!!"
"Clang!!!"
With a distance of twenty meters, visibly, the man wearing a helmet instantly arrived before Maki Zenin, swinging the long staff in his hand, its speed so fast that it could fracture a person's bones in an instant, after all, speed = power...
The long staff directly attacked Maki Zenin's legs, preparing to cripple her legs first, leaving the rest to those without scores to deliver the finishing blow.
But bullets couldn't pierce Maki Zenin's body, how could a steel rod cause her any damage, and besides, his speed wasn't very fast either.
Maki Zenin raised the \[Soul Liberating Blade] gripped tightly in her right hand, accurately placing the blade horizontally at the attacking man's neck, and the man, who didn't have time to dodge, naturally also had his head sliced off in an instant like cutting tofu, the iron rod hitting the thigh made a crisp sound.
The iron rod bent, the corpse fell, Kogane's voice echoed on the field, "Five points have been added."
"One."
Maki Zenin's expression was cold, striking an attacking stance, facing the two-meter-tall tengu before her, compared to those weaklings beside him, this guy would be more troublesome.
"He's dead... just like that, the demise of a life right now is like an ant..."
The people said to themselves in their minds, looking at the man who had been smiling and joking with them not long ago now turned into a corpse retaining warmth, while that seemingly weak girl had turned into a person of slaughter without emotions.
Accepting reality... even the underage girl was like this, their cowardly decisions were like an idiot at this moment, becoming the last straw that broke their backs.
"Kill this demon!!!"
One person roared, saliva spraying from his mouth, a fireball rapidly brewing in his hands, bombarding towards the girl standing in her original location!!!
The rest of the people, who had been stirred up, also didn't hesitate in the slightest at this moment, facing a murderer, they couldn't have any pity towards her, their hearts were admonishing themselves in this way.
And the tengu at the head, looking at his team already taking that coward's step, slightly raised the corners of his mouth with a smile, violently swinging the feather fan gripped in his right hand, transforming it into a slender katana, shouting, "It ends here, let me end your sinful life!!!"
"You guys were the ones who came looking for trouble first, right?!"
Maki Zenin pulled out the \[Soul Liberating Blade] stuck in the wall, dodging the attacking arrows, saying, "Don't talk about that hypocritical righteousness in front of me, you and I are just in a hunter-prey relationship, you're truly hypocritical, not at all suitable for this tengu who has a bold personality and likes to be alone."
"...You, are courting death!!"
The tengu's face turned red with anger, but nothing could be seen under his already red face, only his anxious tone could be felt.
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