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—!

arose next to Melissa. Despite her

'Crap!'

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

—Spurt!

Turning her head around, she spotted Jin

Jin coldly looked

Shiiiiiik—!

looking villain a couple of meters away from her. Slitting his throat the villain instantly

"Haa...haa..."

was extremely rugged. Staring at

...

should be

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

'I'm screwed!'

knew that his days were numbered. With the plan failing, he knew that all responsibility would

"Fuck, what went wrong!"

everything according

and installed all of the devices that he was given. Nothing should've gone

how could the blame fall on him if

manager, not

"Who's there!?"

blue hue mixed with black threads emanated from

came in

appeared fifty meters away from Professor Thibaut. Scratching the back of

seeing you here Professor, you

youth was in fact

wasn't actually that hard. Despite its flaws, drifting steps

Professor Thibaut ran, I caught up to him

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

"Huh? Who are you"

Thibaut intensified. Alarm

How did he find me? He looks

hurts. It's me

appeared on my

for eight months and he completely forgot everything about me? Was my charm still

remembered, 'That's right, isn't he the youth that appeared all over the news? The

flashed a brilliant smile, "Ah, it's you. What are you

be stupid of me if I

smile, I shrugged my

so...you came at

a thought struck Professor Thibaut, 'What if I killed him? Would the higher-ups pardon me for today's

This seemed plausible.

fact, the more professor Thibaut thought about it, the more convinced he was

him, there's a chance that I not only will get pardoned but awarded

the death of such high-profiled talent, the Monolith would surely reward him. Recalling

[Target]

[Name : Ren Dover]

[Rank : E+]

[Age : 16]

: Dead

: 5000 merit

bounty list and staring at the reward

should be

used a system called merit points. With them,

hope. 5000 merit pints was more than enough to save

had to seize this chance at all

what are you

Professor Thibaut's

least hide that smile

"Me? Nothing..."

out of it, Professor

Shiiing—!

question, Professor Thibaut pulled out a saber from his dimensional space. Having

the pressure coming from his body was nothing

you're a professor. You need to be more

raised my hands and protested. Why must people

just

"Shut up and die!"

imbued

Wiing—!