Chapter 044 (1/2)
<strong class="bbc">Chapter Forty-Four
Despite having the blazing sun hanging right above their heads, Yuri and Sooyoung still found themselves engulfed into semi-darkness right after five steps they made into the forest.
The trees around here were tall and huge. Their barks were almost as thick as the size of a common well and their leaves were very concentrated. It made people wonder if these trees were more than a hundred years old, but that question was temporary put aside by the hunters who were eagerly following the stinky odor which appeared out of nowhere.
Sooyoung swung her axe for the umpteenth times as she leaped across the air by tapping her feet on the tall grasses and bushes below her.
“These leaves and branches are seriously getting on my nerves!” She swung her large axe at the thick branch which was blocking her view.
“Quit complaining!” Yuri replied with a shout without turning back. “We’re about to reach them soon. And perhaps you should change your weapon to something smaller and lighter after we’re done with this.” The only reason those branches were blocking Sooyoung’s way and not hers was because Sooyoung’s axe was too large to get through those little gaps in between them.
“Hell no!”
They continued to leap across the air and through the forest, following where the odors led them to for the next ten minutes.
The two hunters began to feel the presences of the mutants. The odors were a lot denser than before and even the atmosphere… though the forest remained in its same semi-darkness, but it was definitely different from where they were at ten minutes ago.
“Sooyoung!”
Yuri shouted at her partner as she pulled out her other gun from the holster and jumped high up into the air by tapping her feet on one of the bushes as support. Sooyoung was only two steps behind her. She did the exact same thing as Yuri, except that she leaped further into the patch of darkness rather than going into the sky.
Sooyoung rose up her arms high up above her head with her large axe in her hands. “m class="bbc" style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:14.44444465637207px;line-height:24.44444465637207px;">Combat smash!” She swung her axe diagonally downwards. An invisible force was released from the edges of her weapon and it sent explosion to the ground when her attack collided with the soil.
It immediately brought attention to the creatures that the hunters were here. A large group of mutants, which escaped unhurt from the explosion, lunged at them. Yuri quickly fired her shots at the mutants before they could come too close to her, but there were too many of them (and not to mention, these creatures were more nimble than the ones she last met at the village when she saved Jessica the other day), it is rather impossible for her to keep up with their speed with just two guns.
“Damn.” Yuri cursed under her breath. She ejected one of the guns’ magazines and replaced it with the other one which she kept the hidden pocket of her jacket.
She seldom used this during battles because most of the mutants she met so far were not as fast as the ones she was dealing with right now, but this time round, this magazine of bullets finally had to come on stage.
Yuri loaded the magazine into her gun and aimed at the feet of her targets.
“m class="bbc" style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:14.44444465637207px;line-height:24.44444465637207px;">Slime Explosives!”
Bullets containing green solution flew from the outlet of her gun and hit the mutant’s legs directly. The tiny container exploded into green slimy object as it touched the mutant’s legs. It wrapped itself around the mutant’s feet, slowing down the creature’s movement and eventually got it permanently stuck to the ground.
“Say goodbye.” Yuri fired her other gun, which contained normal bullets, right at the mutant’s skull.
On the other hand, Sooyoung’s situation was similar to Yuri’s.
“m class="bbc" style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:14.44444465637207px;line-height:24.44444465637207px;">Cyclonic slash!”
With her axe held in front of her chest, the blades facing sideways, Sooyoung twisted her body in an anti-clockwise direction and rotated her body 360 degree multiple times, along with her weapon, creating a tiny whirlwind around her. Many mutants were unable to avoid her attack in the nick of time. The twirling of wind sucked them towards its core and the edge of Sooyoung’s axe pierced through their torsos, dissecting their bodies into halves successfully before they got the chance to realize what was going on.
Sooyoung stabled herself on the ground and looked up to see how many more mutants had escaped her attack. However, she unintentionally noticed a mysterious figure – which resembled a human – running in the background right before her.
“Yuri!” Sooyoung shouted at her partner who was dealing with a couple of mutants surrounding her. “I saw someone! I will go after him! Take care of these mutants!” Without waiting for Yuri’s reply, Sooyoung quickly leaped off and chased after the suspicious figure while killing a few more mutants which were blocking her way.
*
Far away, but not too far from the battle scene, a figure wrapped in cloak from head to toes was sitting on one of the thick branches. She was observing the two hunters – specifically Yuri – battling with the mutants which she had brought with her after sneaking away from Sunny’s vision.
“Kwon Yuri…” Taeyeon narrowed her eyes at the gun hunter as she mumbled the three syllables name underneath the scarf that was covering half of her face.
She does not have the intention to kill Yuri certainly, but neither does she have the intention to let Yuri off so easily.
Nobody gets away from getting too close to her m class="bbc" style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:14.44444465637207px;line-height:24.44444465637207px;">girl. Tiffany is m class="bbc" style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:14.44444465637207px;line-height:24.44444465637207px;">hers and she allows no one but herself to do anything she wants with her.
“I’ve finally found you sorcerer! Return my father and friends now!”
Taeyeon was too immersed with her thoughts of Tiffany, and the battle between Yuri and the mutants that she failed to notice the uninvited guest who had just broke though her invisible barrier. When she finally noticed the person’s existence, she was already lying on the bottom of the tree trunk after a strong blow was delivered across her left cheek.
“Die!”