The Author's POV

—Spurt!

"Haa...haa...Damn it!"

Extracting the tip of her spear out of the corpse of a villain, Melissa cursed. This was the fifth person she had killed. With combat not being her forte, Melissa was obviously easily tired. Her breathing was rugged.

If not for her spear, she would've been in deep trouble.

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Name : Blood-line Spear

Rank : D

[Bloodlust control] - Helps users identify if there is any bloodlust directed towards them.

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With the effect of the spear, by feeling their bloodlust, Melissa was less prone to sneak attacks.

This was specially made for her since she did not have a battle instinct as others did. With her spending most part of the day inside of a lab, it was only natural that she didn't have a battle instinct.

Battle senses could only be developed through experience. Without experience, such a thing was not possible.

—Shuuuua!

Suddenly, Melissa's spear vibrated. Leaning back, the sharp tip of a reaper passed by her grazing the side of her cheek.

"Hup!"

Turning around, Melissa took a step back and swung the spear horizontally creating a beautiful arc.

—Spurt!

Blood spilled everywhere, and a female villain fell to the ground.

Ignoring the corpse, Melissa wiped the side of her cheek, and muttered, "Haa...that's the sixth"

Aside from the effect of the skill, the spear was extremely sharp giving her an advantage over opponents of the same level. As long as her opponent was not a lot stronger than her, she could hold her own.

"Haaaaa—!"

Before she could relax, a large blade slashed in her direction. Feeling the bloodlust, Melissa instinctively straightened her spear and blocked the attack.

—Clank!

Loud sparks flew everywhere and Melissa took ten steps back.

'Damn it, he's stronger than me'

From the initial exchange, she knew that her opponent was stronger than her. She might be in trouble this time.

—Swoosh!

"Haa!"

Without giving Melissa any time to think, her opponent slashed vertically towards her. Once again, Melissa straightened her spear.

'Damn it!'

—Spurt!

Just as Melissa was about to block the attack, a silver streak brushed past her and impaled the man in the head. Blood spilled everywhere.

"Haa...Ha...Thanks!"

Sighing in relief, Melissa turned around and nodded her head. In the distance, Amanda held her bow and repeatedly shot arrows supporting anyone she could. Her cold eyes surveilled the perimeter like a hawk. Nothing escaped her vision.

Standing in front of her, multiple students formed a protective shield. Like this, Amanda reaped through the lives of multiple villains.

Naturally, she attracted the attention of a lot of villains as well.

"Stop her!"

"Attack her!"

Whiiiing—!

sound arose next to Melissa.

'Crap!'

eyes wide open, the back of Melissa's hair raised. She knew that she was in

—Spurt!

going to die, she heard a splattering sound. Turning her head around, she

the corpse, Jin coldly looked at

Shiiiiiik—!

looking villain a couple of meters

"Haa...haa..."

extremely rugged. Staring at Jin's cold face in the distance, Melissa thought, 'Is he on his

...

be

Professor Thibaut caught his breath. In a matter of minutes, he had

'I'm screwed!'

that his days were numbered. With the plan failing,

"Fuck, what went wrong!"

according to

in early and installed all of the devices that he was given.

blame fall on him if

a manager, not a

"Who's there!?"

head snapped towards the distance. A blue hue mixed with black

came

a youth with deep blue eyes appeared fifty meters away from Professor Thibaut. Scratching the

you here Professor, you

was

Professor Thibaut wasn't actually that hard. Despite its flaws, drifting steps was a movement art that was

of where Professor Thibaut ran, I caught up to him in

that the mana consumption of drifting steps was no joke. About 1/6 of my mana was

"Huh? Who are you"

around professor Thibaut intensified. Alarm bells rang

he? How did he find

that hurts. It's

appeared on

he completely forgot everything about me? Was my charm still not high

the youth that appeared all over the news? The one

brilliant smile, "Ah, it's you.

course. It'd be stupid of me

smile, I

came at just

if I killed him? Would the higher-ups pardon me for

This seemed plausible.

it, the more convinced he was about his conjunction. A trace

I kill him, there's a chance that I not only will get

high-profiled talent, the Monolith would surely reward him. Recalling something, Professor Thibaut subtly turned his

[Target]

[Name : Ren Dover]

[Rank : E+]

[Age : 16]

Dead or

: 5000 merit

the bounty list and staring at the reward list, Professor Thibaut's

merit points? Yes, this should be

system called merit points. With them, all members of the Monolith could exchange

ray of hope. 5000 merit pints was more than enough to save

seize this chance at all

what are you

Thibaut's thoughts,

hide that smile off

"Me? Nothing..."

of it, Professor Thibaut smiled

Shiiing—!

Thibaut pulled out a saber from his dimensional space. Having never seen Professor Thibaut fight before, He looked a bit funny holding onto

his body

a professor. You need to be more civil about things.

Why must people always fight

just

"Shut up and die!"

and imbued his saber with

Wiing—!