Night Hunt

"Eleven invaders. Ten were about the same, but the last one seemed a little stronger."

The moment Mo Shuying left the police station, he put away Madman's Pride and activated Presence Concealment. His presence rapidly vanished, causing the monsters originally heading toward the station to lose their target.

Meanwhile, Mo Shuying could roughly sense the monsters' locations and presences. The sensation was strange, as though he had formed a connection with the surrounding space. The Singularity space he protected was helping him lock onto the monsters' whereabouts.

This situation, where the enemy was exposed while he remained hidden, greatly benefited Mo Shuying. This was probably the Way of the Assassin.

"Spiders? What huge spiders!"

Two kilometers was not a long distance, and Mo Shuying quickly discovered the true forms of the intruders.

They were a pack of enormous spiders the size of small dogs, each one like a little millstone, with pitch-black bodies and crimson compound eyes. They scurried across walls and rooftops, constantly searching for something.

Mo Shuying knew these spiders were looking for him—or rather, the Class Card within his body.

The monsters invading this world had only one objective: kill him, seize the card, absorb the earth veins, and become powerful Geomantic Beasts.

When these spiders first appeared, they had been able to sense Mo Shuying's location. But now, they could no longer detect him at all and could only search blindly.

Their leader, a huge spider standing a meter tall, slowly walked down the street. Drool dripped from its mouth, corroding small pits into the sturdy pavement.

"Did this big guy grow that huge from eating fertilizer?"

Hidden in the shadows, Mo Shuying silently mocked it. He did not act rashly, because he had no idea how strong these spiders were.

He was only level one. If these spiders were high-level, charging in recklessly would only get him killed. So—

He needed to test them first!

Mo Shuying glanced at the sporting goods store beside him, and a plan formed in his mind.

"Chitter—"

Wolf Spider One found a dark alley. Its red eyes could see body heat through darkness, but after scanning the alley and finding nothing, it prepared to leave.

"Clang—"

A faint yet crisp sound suddenly rang out from within the alley. Wolf Spider One froze, then turned to look deeper inside.

The sound had come from the depths. It became alert, stepping into the alley on eight legs. At the far end, it found a crushed can.

"Chitter."

Wolf Spider One extended a foreleg and poked at the can. Just as it wondered what was going on—

"Whoosh!"

A sharp whistling sound suddenly tore through the air! Wolf Spider One did not even have time to react before a baseball bat smashed viciously into its head!

"Pff!"

Wolf Spider One's head burst open in an instant! Several of its spider eyes were smashed apart. It was not quite dead yet, so two more blows followed!

"Ding! Congratulations on killing a Lesser Demon Spider. Experience gained: 5."

It was dead!

"That's it? Not strong at all. Looks like this A+ Presence Concealment is incredible. I got right next to it, and it still didn't notice me."

Mo Shuying revealed himself behind the Wolf Spider. Although Presence Concealment could hide his presence, it automatically disengaged when he attacked, and Mo Shuying could not control that.

Still, he only needed to activate it again afterward. Mo Shuying flicked the slime from his baseball bat and glanced at the Wolf Spider that was vanishing. Though surprised, he did not stop moving. He quickly left the alley, because the other Wolf Spiders would soon gather there.

Sure enough, after their companion died and Mo Shuying's presence surfaced, the remaining Wolf Spiders swarmed toward the area. They quickly found the place where their companion had died, but by the time they arrived, not even ashes remained on the ground.

"Hiss! Hiss!"

The enormous Wolf Spider Leader shoved aside its subordinates and looked at the ground. Then, its foreleg violently pierced the can on the ground as it let out an enraged shriek. The other nine Wolf Spiders immediately scattered in all directions.

Not far away, Mo Shuying watched the scene through binoculars, a smile curling across his lips.

"Come on, then. Let's see how I pick you off one by one!"

Through that earlier ambush, Mo Shuying had discovered that these Wolf Spiders were not very strong. At the very least, they could not withstand a sneak attack from him.

That made things easy. Who was he?

Assassin! Sneak attacks were professional skills—nothing shameful about them!

On this battlefield, his own territory, he would make sure these enemies who dared invade had no chance of returning!

And so—

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

A skirmishing campaign of ambushes began. Mo Shuying appeared everywhere like a phantom. As he had said before, he could clearly sense the enemies' locations, while they could not detect him. Under such circumstances, this was simply torture for the Wolf Spiders.

Half an hour later, another five small Wolf Spiders died one after another. Besides contributing 25 experience points, those five Wolf Spiders also dropped a small item.

Web Orb: A one-use throwing item. After being thrown and striking an object, it spreads into a sticky spiderweb that lasts for up to 30 minutes.

"It can even drop items? Is this really Type-Moon?"

Looking at the little white sphere in his hand, Mo Shuying felt utterly bewildered. Why did it feel like he was playing an online game? Killing monsters, leveling up, and getting equipment entirely through drops.

Though puzzled, wouldn't it be even better if items could drop? Mo Shuying quickly persuaded himself to accept reality, then continued his ambushes.

However, after half an hour of assassinations and sneak attacks, the Wolf Spiders seemed to have learned their lesson. The remaining four small Wolf Spiders all gathered around the Wolf Spider Leader. The leader no longer dared act rashly, slowly searching while guarded by its four subordinates.

"What a coward."

Mo Shuying looked down on the Wolf Spider Leader's behavior. It was already this timid, yet it still dared come here and cause trouble? Was it looking down on him, an Assassin?

"Since you don't dare come at me, I'll come to you."

Mo Shuying glanced at an Izakaya by the roadside and sneered. He walked in, and when he came back out, he carried two homemade Molotov Cocktails.

The Wolf Spider Leader was extremely anxious. This was unbearable! It had charged in full of ambition with ten subordinates, intending to kill the guardian and seize the earth veins.

But who would have thought that after more than half an hour, it still did not even know where the guardian was, while six of its subordinates had died?

Looking at the four remaining losers beside it, the Wolf Spider Leader panicked. It did not believe those four subordinates could protect it.

Just as the Wolf Spider Leader's thoughts ran wild—

"Whoosh—"

A flaming liquor bottle came flying toward it!

"Hiss?"

The Wolf Spider Leader had never seen such a thing before, but it knew this was an ambush. It had to be that damned guardian! A despicable wretch who only used underhanded tricks! Shameless!

The Wolf Spider Leader let out an angry hiss. Its head, as large as a soccer ball, lifted as it sprayed out a stream of venom!

The venom shot through the air like an arrow and burst the bottle apart. Then—

The shattered liquor ignited in the flames at that height, turning into a broad rain of fire that fell over the five Wolf Spiders. In an instant, all five were scorched by flames, hopping frantically across the ground and running around like headless flies.

Not far away, Mo Shuying secretly gave the Wolf Spider Leader a thumbs-up.

"Bold! I was worried the bottle might be too thick to break, but you actually helped me out so much."

As he praised it, Mo Shuying lit the other homemade Molotov Cocktail and hurled it with all his strength.