Within one of the rooms within the Amber Palace, I suppressed my desire to feed as I gazed upon the results of last night’s hunt.
It was truly an exciting hunt that continued up until just before dawn.
All the prey i’d set my sights upon were powerful and quite likely to have special abilities I didn’t have or know of.
If something unforeseen happened there was the chance of sustaining severe injuries. Still, I was highly confident that my targets would be caught.
However, in the end there wasn’t anything unexpected and all five targets were hunted down and slain.
The five targets we hunted were the Otherworlder with 【Job - Magic Gunner】 and four others that were employed by nobles. There was a middle-aged man who wielded an axe and was the leader of another mercenary company, a young Dragonewt who wielded two swords, a male Gillman who used a trident and could manipulate water, and finally a Lion Beastman with a flaming mane.
It turns out that the young male Otherworlder was the easiest to kill.
When he attended the banquet and reunited with Female Samurai, he had actually dared to try and flirt with her. After giving her a cue, they drank alcohol together until he was heavily drunk.
She then brought him back to the inn as planned. At that point he was subdued without any trouble and didn’t even have time to feel pain. The other four targets took some time though.
The Mercenary Leader had to be separated from his mercenaries.
The young Dragonewt refrained from alcohol and remained sober.
The Gillman had snuck out from the banquet to swim in the river flowing through the Royal Capital.
Finally, the Lion Beastman had managed to remain alert despite being drunk.
With no other real choice, I had to mix in a sleeping poison into the ale the mercenaries were drinking to kill the Mercenary Leader while they slept.
A powerful diuretic poison was injected stealthily into the fruit the Dragonewt was eating. He had to then be kidnapped while he was in restroom.
The Gillman was caught using a brutal tactic similar to fishing with dynamite.
The Lion Beastman was the most troublesome, he had to be assaulted under the cover of darkness as he was returning to his room.
Since these four had connections to the Nobles Faction, this was killing two birds with one stone as their war potential was decreased.
I had noticed movement as we were hunting so I judged that it was better to hold off on the Otherworlder until after I dealt with the others.
This time it was the presence of the Dark Hero that proved the most troublesome.
Because I could constantly feel her presence hidden within the shadows, I had to concentrate far more on hiding than just hunting.
If it weren’t for 【Kidnap】 and 【Recognition Difficulty】, I seriously might not have managed to hunt in the first place.
I quickly looted the equipment from the five corpses and consumed them each one by one.
Ability 【Flame Leo】 learned
Ability 【High-Speed Swimming】 learned
Ability 【True Dragon’s Martial Arts】 learned
Ability 【Job - Magic Gun User】 learned
Ability 【Spirit Refinement Technique】 learned
Ability 【Divinely Forged Form of the Otherworlder】 learned