This time, Jake actually did as he intended when he called it a speedrun. An hour after leaving the tower, he was already within another, with a new Mark of Blood in hand. Well, in his Hunter Insignia. Whatever.
He stormed up the tower, noticing many others already within it. There didn’t seem to be a singular faction that dominated, but just many smaller forces and parties, which was perfect. This was one of the towers still not consumed by mist, and it would contain a Count from the looks of it.
When he made it to the upper floors, he saw a great number of people grouped up before the gate. There were around thirty in total, and Jake saw that their levels ranged from 109 to 116. There were two people Jake couldn’t Identify without squinting a bit and penetrating whatever they used to hide their levels. Needless to say, their puny skills were nothing before the might of the mega-perception build.
Jake’s appearance wasn’t exactly unknown at this point, and everyone turned to him when he appeared.
Being a recognizable figure, a few people backed away, while others seemed to take up semi-defensive positions. It was a bit useless as neither of those would help anything if Jake had come to rob people. Luckily for them, he hadn’t, but that didn’t mean he was just going to leave them be.
”I’m here for the Count. Leave.”
To his surprise, more than half of the people there just looked at him for a brief moment before leaving without any arguing. A good bit of people did stay, though. It was the ones at higher levels. Fourteen people remained; all of them were above 112.
”Lord Thayne, do you have a Stake?” a man from the group of fourteen asked him. ”If not, we can offer one and work together on taking down this Count. You can have the key; we just wish to split the rest of the loot.”
”No thanks, just leave,” Jake said as he walked closer to the gate.
”Would it not be better if-”
”No. Leave.”
The man looked at Jake with an open mouth, clearly not entirely sure what to say. A party of five among the fourteen people behind him exchanged looks before they left. Half of the remaining eight beside the leader seemed to take this as their cue to bail, leaving only four behind him – probably his party members.
Jake threw him one final glance before he just summoned the Mark of Blood and the gate began to open. The man saw him do this, his eyes wide as he yelled for his party to run. While retreating, Jake heard him mutter something about Jake being an ”unreasonable asshole.”
He wasn’t really going to disagree on that one. But it only made sense. It was foolish to expect a hunter to be nice when you come between him and his prey.
As the door opened, Jake spun a web of arcane strings that he attached to each side of the gate, keeping it at the ready for when the time was right. It was ready just in time for the gate to fully open and a relatively small form appeared from the silver coffin with long tendril-like hairs expending from all over his body.
”Who are you? How dare mere livestock awaken this Count? I-”
*BOOM!*
”You’ll die,” Jake answered as Limit Break activated at 20%, his presence blanketing the entire chamber, blades, and arrows, poisoned, as he went forth, holding nothing back.
What followed was a lot of explosions, a vampire with oddly stretchable limbs and the ability to grow out hair that tried to grasp him and consume his blood – that one turned out well for Jake as the Count got a good slurp of Jake’s poisoned blood. In not that long, the Count was already on its last legs.
his arcane strings, and the gate slammed shut in the face of the fleeing vampire. The hairy bloodsucker screamed
caught up to the vampire and gripped his head from behind, and slammed the vampiric face into the gate as he began channeling Touch of the Malefic Viper. The Count tried to pierce his hands with
head of the vampire became more and more squishy from the Touch. The long hair tried to penetrate his body over and over again, but Jake either shrugged it off
Count of Blood was too weak, and with a final smash, the entire head popped like a watermelon
have slain [Count of Blood – lvl 155] – Bonus experience earned for killing an
[Avaricious Arcane Hunter] has reached level 135 - Stat
Second Count down.
The dagger and key
interesting drop was the heart -
Vampire. This type of vampire is a rare variant with high agility and controllable hair that is more durable
pretty neat. He did wonder why the Viscounts didn’t drop any
the altar and coffin, finding them both identical to the ones prior. He had no idea what
he began another important job… stealing the gates. Now that wasn’t very speedrun of him, but
second one. He was getting better, that was for sure. It did look a bit funny with the gate completely gone, faint marks as if something had torn it off from where
as he took flight, feeling like going by air this time around. He went over the battle again in his head as he flew while also sending a few mental messages back and forth with
arrogant piece of shit who thinks he’s better than everyone else,” the man complained loudly to the dozen, or so people gathered
are we even staying here when the dude is probably already dead?” another one chimed
first guy said, turning to
with the compass answered with a shrug. “I guess the vampire is taking its time
fucker dies and doesn’t leave like a
If he had just teamed up with us, the Count would be dead already. It’s been over a fucking hour, for fuck’s sake,” the first dude
we can capitalize?” the second guy came
one before, but let’s not risk things more
direction of the Count’s chambers. They saw the black wings and for a moment thought it was the
was that they didn’t see any hints in
each other in disbelief before they all took off towards the Count’s chamber. When they got there, they were absolutely dumbstruck. The entire chamber was completely ruined, and there was
did he
metal and knew exactly how tough it was. None of them could even leave a noticeable mark on it. And yet Lord Haven had
“He… is he human?”
I think I’m
any of you think he heard us? What
“What a monster…”
differed, one thing was certain… none of them dared shit-talk him ever again. In fact, they would prefer to never
Ever.
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