Chapter 586

In Marvel, Working for the System

Bang!

The Red-Eyed Black Hound stopped dead in midair.

Like a baseball struck by a bat.

It flew backward.

Geralt remained calm.

He worked the lever loop → ejected the spent casing → pulled the lever back, chambering the next round.

Bang!

Geralt repeated the sequence and fired again.

Bang!

The whole motion flowed so smoothly that he made an old lever-action rifle sound like an automatic.

The Red-Eyed Black Hound whimpered a few times, went still, and dissolved into a cloud of black mist invisible to the naked eye.

A notification sounded in his mind: [Demon Hunter level experience +10]

A bookmark floated in the air.

Another notification sounded in his mind: [Bookmark discovered. Pick it up?]

This time, Geralt did not pick it up immediately. He focused on its contents first.

[Item name: Dog's Friendship.

Category: Bookmark

Effect: Canine affection +50% for 24 hours.

Note: Woof, woof, woof!]

"Pick it up."

Geralt had grown used to the bookmarks' absurdity.

"Fly King."

Geralt summoned the vacuum cleaner.

It was his first time summoning a magical tool in front of anyone, and Fly King's strange appearance startled Megan and Luke.

Geralt was in no hurry to explain.

There was a first time for everything.

Luke would probably assume Fly King was a secret art of the Winchester Family.

"Devour it, Fly King."

The fanged maw opened. Its tongue swept out and licked up every trace of black mist.

"Hm?" Geralt was puzzled.

There was no notification of an attribute increase, nor had the Red-Eyed Black Hound been recorded in the Book of Proverbs.

Then he remembered that the hound had yielded only ten experience points, and it made sense. Not every monster could strengthen his attributes, and not every monster could be