The Primal Hunter

Chapter 509

This vision had definitely been on the shorter side, and compared to his last one where Villy got smacked around by Valdemar, it was also far less valuable. Then again, that vision had consumed two charges of the skill and allowed him to see two future Primordials duking it out with a focus on more than one of the Malefic Viper skills.

Jake was teleported back into the dungeon as expected and was excited to get to his new skill but noticed something was off. Draskil was staring at him weirdly, and Irin was flying over together with Reika and Bastilla. Reika looked surprised more than anything, while Irin and Bastilla looked utterly dumbfounded.

As he was still wondering what was up, Reika poked him mentally and informed him: “Whatever you just did released a wave of a presence or something… it was yours but different… I think they know you are the Chosen of the Malefic Viper.”

His brain took a while to process what she had just said as it clicked. Oh… fuck.

Path of the Heretic-Chosen.

When he used the skill, he tapped into his direct connection to Villy and momentarily seized it to gaze upon the Records of the Primordial. He hadn’t even considered what that could do as all he knew was that he momentarily disappeared… unaware of what he left behind when he did that.

Still unsure what kind of explanation he should try and come up with, Irin made him fully aware he was way past the point of explaining it away the moment she got close.

Without any hesitation, she kneeled in front of him and pressed her forehead to the muddy soil as she spoke in a voice that seemed both pleading and apologetic. “This one greets the Chosen.”

Fuck me,Jake cursed internally as he realized he had truly fucked up. As he was about to say something, a prompt appeared in front of Jake and everyone else.

Congratulations! You have cleared the Dungeon: Nine Floors of the Indigo Caverns

Objective: Defeat the supreme leader of the mushroom men: the Mushroom Man King (Completed).

Dungeon shutting down in: 00:00:03

He saw the three seconds left just as two boxes appeared in front of them. Jake was quick and opened them both, taking the items in his inventory before he was whisked out of the dungeon.

Jake and the four others appeared outside the dungeon, Irin still kneeling and Draskil still staring. Reika and Bastilla were both in the air when they had exited and were now standing unmovingly on the ground. The unmoving part was not something unique to them as everyone was frozen. Even the air itself had stopped moving.

“Just some simple time magic,” he heard a voice say as Villy appeared right beside him. Jake turned to the Viper, who patted him on the back. “Quite the pickle you just made for yourself. You know, every time you use Path of the Heretic-Chosen, you leave behind your anchored Truesoul… but that anchored Truesoul does not have the protection you worked so hard on making with Shroud. Not that it would have mattered as you tapping into my Records clearly leaves behind some traces, and those familiar with me are bound to notice. Now, what was the vision about? We can deal with this entire thing after, I care more about what you saw.”

Still uncertain what to do, Jake just gave the cliff notes. “About Touch. It was you with a party led by an elf in golden armor, killed a late C-grade beast, you poisoned all of them with flasks and poisons, killing them and stealing the corpse as well as everything they owned.”

a smirk. “You know I am not a believer in fate, but this coincidence is

you mean?” Jake asked, his brain still trying to make

vision of me killing my own party after a hunt and now find yourself in a situation where you must choose if you want to do the same,” the Viper said. “With them alive, I do not see you hiding for long. The girl from Earth managed to solve this issue by having all those humans she brought with her sign a contract, but that isn’t an option here. The demon is bound by a contract already, and signing one of confidentiality in this matter would go directly

said after hearing everything Villy said, not really caring about the last part. “Guess I am kinda screwed

can go through official channels and use some of that

chances of that happening are nil,”

their lives above your own secrecy?” Villy

just keep trying to hide or tell people to leave me the fuck alone or something. At the very least, ask them to keep it a secret. Also, you said Irin had another contract, right? Does that contract really require her to report any secret the

Viper said, putting up both his hands defensively. “But I am serious when I say you just made another weak point when it comes to your hidden identity. She will be forced to report something. Soon the cracks will spread, and your mask will

shook his head. “Also,

Localized time stops are pretty damn basic tools of the god toolkit. Anyway, you made your decision

that is what is happening,

a teasing smile. The moment he was done speaking, time returned to normal as everyone looked confused. Draskil’s eyes quickly

confused for a moment before Jake realized neither of them had seen the Viper in his human form before nor were Blessed and thus felt his presence. It was like with Meira, and they would only truly be affected

people call me the Malefic Viper, your pleasure

instant as Reika began shaking a bit before failing to stay upright, with Bastilla making an odd scared whining noise before just straight-up laying down in

a fraction of a second before slamming her head down onto the ground again. Not a single

in a tone Jake had never heard before. Rather than his usual domineering attitude and tone of confidence,

to play this casual, huh?” Jake muttered

a little and have some fun when meeting your little friends,” the Viper chuckled, clearly in a good mood. “And now that I have met them, I can’t be arsed to stay. Since you decided not to kill them, I shall leave the rest to you. See you again a bit later,

is?” Jake exclaimed with

leaving Jake and his party behind with only a final

in a glorious attempt to not address the elephant in the room, began talking. “So… ahem, we should discuss how we split the dungeon loot. I hurried to pick it up

and sweat pouring down her face, unable to be

either lying prone or kneeling. “So… yeah… I got the True Blessing of the Viper. We met under weird circumstances, got along well, and here we are. Sorry for keeping it a secret, but things tend to get weird when

utterly fucked, but he had neglected to consider that there already was one person in the group who knew

head. “The mere presence of the Malefic One is

and responded jokingly. “It’s mainly the Bloodline, but plenty of practice

finally looked up with questioning eyes.

answered. “Due to exactly what is happening right now. I want to actually have normal

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