"...The fuck..."
Benson, a fully grown male, an assassin type awakened, A B+ ranked awakened...was freaked out.
It was hard to scare awakened hunters, They were people who fought monsters every day and dealt with tragedies the normal mind would find hard to comprehend.
But even he, a veteran...was creeped out.
The inside of the room was a mess, with blood stains everywhere, the furniture destroyed, and wrecked, claw marks everywhere, the bedding ripped apart, and the metallic frame of the beds torn to shreds.
And also...on the bed was flesh...a small piece of dark red flesh.
Benson approached the bed, took out a plastic bag, and put the flesh inside using his dagger.
"...what the fuck happened here...and how did no one know?"
Why was there no information about this?! Nothing...Dozens of children residing in this orphanage disappeared...and...what attacked here?
A monster? No Askolt city's mana detectors would have detected it instantly...
"I should check the others..."
Benson muttered, and then exited the room, and entered the other rooms.
All the same...completely wrecked apart, destroyed beyond recognition.
Blood stains, Dark red flesh pieces... and also a finger...
"...Whatever ate them... it didn't like dark meat..."
He said as a dry laugh escaped his mouth. He was trying to compose himself.
After all, who wouldn't get spooked in a situation like this?
He examined the doors of the dorms...and thought.
'They tried to hide, but whatever it was found them and broke the doors down...but what kind of demonic creature was it?'
And how did it go undetected...Askolt city was one of the main cities of Humanity...losing out only to the Capitol, and even then only by a bit.
It was the city where the Headquarters of the Association was located, along with two of the top 10 guilds' headquarters. And also the home of Shield!
It was one of the, if not the most secure and protected cities on Earth!
"...The smell of rotting flesh...2...no three weeks old."
It hasn't been long.
Benson said, examining whatever the 'thing' left behind of its victims.
*CRASH!*
Suddenly, A sound was heard which Alerted Benson and made him on guard.
He brandished his twin daggers and activated his Skills.
[Eyes of the night has been activated]
[Mana coating has been activated.]
'...It was far away...'
He thought, backing up towards the end of the hallway.
'But it's getting closer.'
He could hear it moving with his heightened senses.
He moved to the end of the Hallway, back against the wall.
Whatever was coming, it would come from the entrance of the hallway and it would give Benson ample time to react.
"..."
The tension was high...as footsteps could be heard.
And then...it came...but it was entirely different from What Benson expected.
"A...child?"
He muttered, keenly observing the child that had entered the hallway.
Black eyes, A bloodied dress, and a crooked smile, and blonde hair, are the main features of the 'girl'.
Her mouth, hands, and feet were covered in blood...
"A...toddler huh..."
Benson said as the toddler moved forward towards him slowly.
Benson's armor slowly appeared on him, and as it was, this was the cue. The 'girl' transformed.
Her skin ripped apart, and tentacles of flesh, the end of which had a blade appeared to form her back.
Her eyes bled, and then an amalgamation of flesh was born, completely different from the little girl.
"KYUA!"
It ran towards Benson, And Benson calmly waited at the end of the hallway, brandishing his aggers and coating them with mana.
And in an instant, he made his move.
*SHWING!*
He moved as quickly as the speed of sound, and cut the amalgamation into dozens of pieces.
He didn't know if decapitating its head would kill it, so he opted to cut it into pieces instead.
He walked over to the corpse and found the head of the girl buried in the chest, soulless.
He rummaged through the pieces and found what he was looking for.
"As expected...demons were here."
Within his hands was a purple crystal, A chaos crystal.
A mana crystal corrupted by demonic energy, the energy of chaos.
"Rest in Peace."
He closed the girl's eyes as he prayed.
He took out his watch and immediately called for reinforcements.
[Benson Here, I need reinforcements of hunters and forensic experts. Bring Light Awakened as well.]
[Got it.]
He closed the call. And just as if he was planning to wait for the backup to arrive, he heard it again.
*Crash!* Along with a screech.
"KYUAAHHH!"
"..."
A shriek reverberated throughout the building, and Benson heard the wriggling of flesh behind him.
The flesh of the amalgamation wriggled and moved underneath his feet and left the hallway...
"...Shit it knows where I am."
He said...and immediately went to go search.
Fuck Backup, whatever it was, it knew where he was...and he didn't know where it was.
That didn't go well with him.
He went upstairs...trying to figure out where the sound came from. And entered the highest floor.
The floor was devastated, like the ones below it.
He wanted to follow the pieces of flesh first, but they moved in different directions...and something felt off.
His gut feeling told him not to follow it...so he didn't.
"The office of the manager...what was her name...Penny?"
He opened the door to the office of the Orphanage manager...and surprisingly...it...was clean?
"Weird...the outside is wrecked but the office is fine?? The door isn't damaged as well..."
Why was the office untouched?
He rummaged through the office and searched every nook and cranny. He took out some documents from the desk and went through them, although it was hard for him to look in the dark room.
There was nothing inside...that was for sure...except for him anyway.
[Files of Joshua Sanders, adopted...]
[Melissa Firk....]
[Alan Peccator...]
"Aha..."
He found Alan's file among them...and looked through it.
It was a different copy to the one Twilight had...very different.
[High priority subject, offspring of experienced hunters. Is caring, which can be used as a weakness. Sister is useless, her disability serves for naught....]
"What the heck..."
He read the files of multiple 'adopted' children except Alan.
[Good host]
[Excellent Host.]
[Fodder.]
"...affinity? Host? to what element and for what...?"
Benson wondered...but then his spine shivered.
'It' was here...on the top floor.
*CRASH!*
It broke through the door...and Benson Immediately hid using his most prized skill.
[Stealth of Assassin of Darkness has been activated.]
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