Free Web NovelChapter 17: Chapter 17: Murder
A sharp nip on his cheek from Lucy jolted Night awake but he immediately remembered their earlier tactical discussion and kept completely silent.
They had discussed how to defend themselves while sleeping since that was when he was most vulnerable.
He couldn’t leave Eve and Lilith out because of his pathetic EV pool and while Death took less energy she was simply too huge to hide in a small hotel room.
Surprisingly Lucy took even less energy than Death which led them to theorize about their synchronicity rate.
They guessed that if their synchronicity ever reached a full hundred percent the energy expenditure to keep her summoned might become negligible or disappear entirely.
Night remained perfectly still in his posture and forcibly normalized his breathing and heartbeat.
He was an absolute master at being still because of his past life memories regarding deep meditation.
He achieved this profound calm by shifting his perspective into an impartial observer to simply watch the various activities in his body which naturally stabilized them.
The sheer smoothness of the transition showed just how deeply ingrained the meditative arts were in his soul.
He executed it as simply as breathing even with the strange dissonance in his current personality afterall he didn’t feel much familiarity with his past life.
This observer state naturally amplified his awareness.
The intruder didn’t make a single sound and masked his scent perfectly so his physical presence almost seemed nonexistent but Night was still acutely aware of him.
He could physically feel the person step up to the side of the bed to observe him in the dark.
The intruder never took his eyes off the boy. Night’s Beast Instinct combined with the heightened awareness of his observer state made it absolutely impossible to ignore such a looming threat.
The man’s gaze wasn’t aggressively penetrating but rather eerily gentle yet that completely failed to fool the young boy. From the perspective of the observer Night could feel that this person radiated only one thing.
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Murder.
This was the first time he felt someone genuinely out to kill him besides that terrifying Ghost fellow back in the lab.
Who is this?
Are they from the organization and how did they find me so fast?
If it really was the researchers then it definitely wasn’t just a single person and an entire hit squad might be waiting right outside the window.
Shit... I thought this city was supposed to be reasonably safe from how Lucy hyped it up.
For goddess sake this is literally my first day here.
But a scary thought quickly crossed his mind.
What if it’s one of the Ghost’s friends?
Then I am in even more trouble.
Thousands of panicked thoughts flooded his mind but instead of causing a physical reaction they simply flowed past him like a river.
He flawlessly played the role of the observer to analyze the situation without any emotional bias.
He quickly reached a conclusion and formed a very simple plan.
He needed to survive this initial strike and somehow scream for Rogan downstairs before running straight out of the building. Despite the horrible chances of being unlucky enough to encounter a Devil in the night it was still much better than just giving up and dying in bed.
I absolutely cannot die without giving it my all to protect my friends.
Driven by an intense desire to survive he made his move instead of blindly waiting or trying to guess the assassin’s identity.
He violently thrust his tiny elbow upward toward the man’s groin while simultaneously opening three dark portals completely surrounding the intruder.
Acting entirely on his Beast Instinct he dynamically shifted the portal locations to perfectly box the assailant in.
The invader was caught completely by surprise since he never expected a sleeping child to detect him or escape his own heightened senses.
The man effortlessly shifted to defend his groin from the physical strike but he definitely didn’t expect three massive spatial portals to suddenly rip open around him.
He didn’t think even for a split second that a little kid could casually control three summons which led his mind to only one logical conclusion.
Someone else had just ambushed him. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
He immediately assumed he was facing a high-level Summoner. Although Summoners were wildly overpowered because of their high Nightmare affinity they possessed a very serious fatal flaw.
Their physical bodies were incredibly weak so if you managed to land a solid hit on them you could easily one-shot them assuming they didn’t have a high-grade defensive artifact.
But unfortunately, he really didn’t want to fight a drawn-out battle right now. He needed to escape immediately because he absolutely did not want to be caught causing trouble inside the crazy bald man’s territory.
That would be a fate far worse than death.
He made his desperate move by drawing a small curved black knife and swinging it in an impossible 360-degree arc hoping to kill all three emerging summons in a single devastating strike.
But Night when saw him take out a knife he had already canceled the summoning and the dark portals disappeared like a phantom illusion. He would be a fool summon them when a weapon is coming their way.
Because of the active skill’s magical backlash and the sheer speed of his strike stopping his arm mid-swing meant temporarily losing all momentum and crippling his own limb.
So the assassin chose to let the skill follow through to the end but that tactical decision was exactly what spelled his utter doom.
He made the fatal mistake of completely ignoring Night and the tiny dark shape that looked like a stuffed teddy bear resting on the bed.
At some point during the deadly knife swing the fluffy teddy had completely disappeared.
Since it was mostly dark inside the room with only a tiny sliver of pale moonlight filtering in through the window.
A massive pitch-black wolf head featuring a beautiful crystal horn silently emerged directly from the intruder’s own shadow.
It ruthlessly chomped down and engulfed the man’s entire head in its jaws.
The intruder didn’t even notice the deadly predator until it was far too late.
He never actually realized how he died.
All he felt was rows of razor-sharp teeth that elongated upon contact to seamlessly pierce his eyeballs and turn his brain into absolute mush.
[You have killed a Lvl. 10 Human | +550 EXP]
