Cosmic Patron System: 100X Return on Every Reward
Chapter 21 - 0 | ’You are Just a Prey’
The chat stayed silent for a moment, old viewers waited for Reyansh’s response. While new viewers were confused as to why the chat seemed less responsive.
[Anonimus_Assassin: What’s this bet about?]
[Fiery_Redina: Have you ever heard of Bet on Blood?]
[Anonimus_Assassin: Of course, no human should be mad enough to bet on blood against vampires.]
[Ellise: Well, this one did and won too.]
[Raisena_Forge: Holy shit! REALLY.]
[Raisena_Forge: I have only heard of handful humans ever winning the challenge set by Vampires. First time I am seeing one live, I am sold.]
[Anonimus_Assassin: Maybe the vampire who set the challenge was a moron or some kind of newbie?]
[Ramon_Night: Ohho...Why don’t you try it then?]
[Ramon_Night has spend 1 Cosmic Coins to highlight a message.]
[Ramon_Night: Are you ready for another bet, Human?]
[Anonimus_Assassin: No, thank you, I am fine.]
While chat talked about bet, Reyansh focus was on stabilizing himself against the shockwave caused by all three monsters. This was the only way they could keep Reyansh at distance.
However, the moment the shockwave effect reduced a little, he lunged his dagger at the nearest monster. With their slowed reaction, the monster couldn’t stop the dagger from piercing its weak point.
He punched at the second weak point simultaneously, effectively stopping its movement.
The next second he plunged the dagger in the second weak point, killing second Magma brute.
"Not so tough now, are you?" Reyansh taunted, sprinting towards two remaining monsters.
[Mr_Blue_Volcano: Magma brutes – Just kill us dude. Haha...This guy]
[Raisena_Forge: Getting cocky enough?]
[Ellise: That is his quirk too, thought he can back it up.]
Moving forward, Reyansh kept it simple. Piercing with dagger then punches at weak point then dagger again, leaving the Magma brutes only as crumbling rocks.
Just as he stabbed the last standing monster, a notification panel appeared before him. However, he focused on completing his kill first.
As the dead rocks started falling from the monster body, he looked at the notification, it read:
[Congratulations! Due to the repeated act of precision and force, you have created a Common Rank | 3 ☆ Skill, Pinpoint Stab]
A smile bloomed on his face but a moment later Sandra words reminded him of the situation.
’Well, I can’t do anything about the skill I gain automatically. First let’s focus on clearing this dungeon,’ he decided.
[You have killed Magma Brutes] ×4
[You have gained an E-rank Mana Stone]×4
[You have gained Molten Rock Plates] ×8
Reyansh bend down to pick up the Katana, he stretched his fingers from the curled up situation since he started punching. A stabbing pain shot through his hand as he gripped the katana.
He checked both of his knuckles, the burning skin and dried blood painted the brutal pain he had to go through. However, he noticed something else too, the pain was not as much he expected.
In the heat of battle, he just endured the pain but now, it only felt like minor bruise to him and the wound was already showing signs of healing.
’Those traits are really helpful,’ he wondered as he glanced at the number of viewers.
[Viewers: 187]
’Nice,’ he thought, just then a message that was glowing brighter than any other caught his attention.
He walked towards the volcano as he read the message from Ramon_Night. Suddenly, a deep and loud grumbling sound reached his ears, effectively stopping him in his tracks.
This sound alone caused his perception to make him on alert. He looked around just to make sure, if there are any monster nearby.
After confirming he was alone, he walked deeper on the narrowing path among lava pools and small lava rivers.
"No, I am not going to bet on blood soon," He responded.
[Ramon_Night: Why? Don’t tell me you are backing out due to fear.]
"On the contrary Mr Ramon, I don’t want to bully my viewer into giving away all his little treasures. Besides, I don’t want this channel’s image just to be based on Bet on blood." He explained, as he carefully walked deeper into the dungeon.
[Fiery_Redina: That’s it! Even when denying the bet, you make him look bad. Haha....I am in.]
[Fiery_Redina has subscribed your channel.]
[Ramon_Night: You sure have a slick tongue. Be careful, whenever you bet and remember your words.]
"Sure, Mr Ramon, and thank you Miss Redina for your support," he replied confidently.
[Ellise: Bro is trying hard to appear threatening but end up becoming a creep. #Tough life @Ramon_Night.]
While chat was enjoying the situation of Ramon_Night, Reyansh ended up facing a group of 6 Magma brutes this time.
[Raisena_Forge has issued a challenge of 5 Cosmic coins.
Challenge: Defeat the 6 Magma Brutes in under 2 minutes.]
[Would you accept?]
[Storm_Knight: Easy, go for it brother.]
"Happily," he agreed remembering just yesterday, he took almost a minute to kill three goblins in Sandra’s challenge. However, even in face of 6 elite monsters, he was confident today.
[02:00]
[01:59]
As the clock started, Reyansh took a deep breath as he focused his eyes on 12 glowing weak spots on monsters in front.
He sheathed his katana and curled up his fingers into a fist. With dagger in one hand and his half healed fist, he charged forward.
[01:57]
He punched the nearest monster on the weak point with his full strength, followed by stabbing it in second spot.
This reduced the movement of monster, taking the opportunity, he stabbed the other weak point and left the monster to crumble away.
[01:53]
Saving himself from the punch from behind by ducking, he rolled forward, nearing his second target. Following the same process, keeping it simple and precise, he eliminated the second monster.
[01:47]
While moving to next target, he kept the sense of his position and readied himself for the shockwave punches of Magma brutes. The only attack that could jeopardize the challenge.
[Fiery_Redina: You got this, just five more.]
Just as his fist was about to connect to the right shoulder, weak spot of third monster. His eyes caught two monster about to punch the ground.
Instead of punching, he opened his fist and used the palm of his hand to push himself upward. A searing pain invaded his hand as lava burned through his soft skin and tissue.
He almost removed his hand but at the last moment, he endured the pain to push himself in air as a shockwave covered the patch of land they were fighting.
[01:39]
[Daoist_kun: That’s painful brother, stop harming yourself.]
[Ellise: My hand is in pain just from watching it, look after yourself.]
[The Blazing Sandra has gifted you a Rare rank | 4 ☆ Healing Potion.]
[Would you like to apply Quality or Quantity amplification of Perk 1?]
Gritting his teeth and dagger in one hand, he ignored the message and stabbed the third monster twice, the moment he landed.
As the third monster crumbled away, the pain and thrill of fight caused a adrenaline surge in his body. The moment he looked at the remaining three monster, all of them stopped momentarily.
[01:36]
Even without any sentience, the instinct of all three monster were screaming to just run. As the intent radiating from every cell of Reyansh’s body was conveying just one thing, ’You are just a Prey.’
Reyansh under the combined effect of thrill of the hunt and adrenaline, ignored all the message and just moved like a killing machine, made to hunt.
The nearest monster among the three, didn’t even get a chance to defend properly and died in seconds.
The second monster tried to throw a punch but Reyansh dodged it like a child’s punch and stabbed him, making him almost still.
[01:29]
After finishing the second monster, he blitzed towards the last monster. Without even wasting a second, he took out his katana and stabbed both weak points with his dagger and Katana together, killing the last monster.
[01:26]
[You have completed the challenge.]
[You have gained 500 Cosmic coins] (Perk 1)
[Red Falcon has donated 10 Cosmic coins for your Gritting Performance.]
[You have gained 1000 Cosmic coins] (Perk 1)
[The Storm_Knight has donated 5 Cosmic coins]
[You have gained 500 Cosmic coins] (Perk 1)
[Fiery_Redina, Ellise & Diamond_King has donated 5 Cosmic coin, each.]
[You have gained 1500 Cosmic coins] (Perk 1)
As the chat showered him with Coins, Reyansh ignored all the message as he remained in hyper focused state as his perception looked for monster.
[Raisena_Forge: Just What the hell did I witness?]
[Raisena_Forge: Within like 30 seconds? Just what are you StarWalker?]
[Fiery_Redina: He was like in a zone, this was so thrilling. I knew I made the right decision.]
At the same time, same deep grumbling sound reached Reyansh’s ears, louder this time.
The sound broke his hyper focused state however, instead of fear or cowering, Reyansh only smiled as he found his next target.
[The Stellar Emperor: Splendid. He is a True Hunter.]
[The Stellar Emperor: The longer he fights an opponent, the stronger he becomes.]
Reyansh glanced over the message and donation notification but didn’t react much as his mind was solely focused on taking out the boss at the moment.
"Onto the Boss then," He stated, as he gripped the katana with his burning palm. The pain in his hand was only fueling his intent to hunt as he sprinted towards the Volcano.
[AN: The book has more than 20 Chapters now, so I request to the readers to give an early review of the story till now. This will aid me in betterment of the story moving forward and also help the story grow on the platform. Please leave your review, it will help a lot.]