Translator: Kris Xian
Translation Checker: 7qqy
Editor: yuki_shuichi
Eris landed on the third-floor balcony of the abandoned factory building. A dark figure was also crouching on the railing of the cooling tower about 20 meters away, appearing to be an alpha with the light behind him and facing Eris. A tail covered in gold and green scales emerged behind him.
The man opened his eyes abruptly. A pair of red-orange eyes gleamed amidst the rainy night, his pupils elongated into a vertical line like snakes, and his thin lips slightly opened, revealing his scarlet mouth.
“Cursemaker.” The alpha’s stern gaze scrutinizingly observed Eris. “Full mimetic envoy type… It doesn’t seem impressive at all. Hehe. Is your main body actually a teru teru bozu?” He extended his slender dark golden arm, his gnarly claw-like fingertips wrapped around a crude teru teru bozu doll made of scrap twine and a white plastic bag, and waved it in front of Eris in disdain.
“Who are you?”
“3316, Velociraptor, A3.”
Velociraptor’s neck was fastened with the Research Institute’s special locator collar, which could track the subject’s position at any time. If the subject went berserk and did not obey, the locator collar would inject a high dose of anesthesia or even an infection agent into the back of its neck.
“Dashu, it’s a Voodoo doll. Such a rinky-dinky teasing, are you still living before the industrial revolution period?” Eris looked up with his light green pupils to stare at him in doubt, shouldered his shotgun, and pressed on the barrel. He tilted his head and smiled, the corners of his bright red lips splitting deep into the hollows of his cheeks.
Velociraptor’s eyes flashed with a ferocious glint. With a kick using his developed and powerful hind legs, he climbed over the guardrail and jumped toward Eris’ position. Eris rolled over, leaped back, and readily shot towards Velociraptor’s landing point. Velociraptor failed to approach Eris when he landed and stood firmly on the balcony railing with steady feet.
Eris snapped his spherical-jointed fingers. His J1 differentiation ability, Misfortune Arrives, was quietly activated. The railing under Velociraptor suddenly collapsed, making him unsteady; he forcefully leaped before grabbing the narrow edge of the building. Using his muscular, strong arm, he flipped his whole body back to the balcony.
Velociraptor wasn’t able to get a chance to get close to Eris, and silently grumbled as he faced the other’s long-range weapon. He knew that envoy-type experimental subjects were able to use their corresponding controller. Generally, these controllers could cause severe damage to experimental subjects and take a long time to heal.
While he was thinking about countermeasures, Eris suddenly poked his head out from the balcony on the upper floor and shot him.
Velociraptor got startled and hid behind the old iron door. The shotgun shells dispersed into tiny, loose beads, making loud and small vibrations on the iron door. However, the inflicted damage wasn’t as strong as Velociraptor thought it would be.
“It’s not a controller…?” Velociraptor swept the dust off his shoulders and pulled out the bullet embedded in his thick skin. His body was so tough that ordinary firearms couldn’t penetrate it at all. His movements were extremely fast, and his strength was far beyond that of Sarcosuchus.
“Look, it’s a toy that Knicks gave me.” Eris leaned over the balcony and grinned at him. “Controller? You don’t deserve to see his works of art.”
A rustling sound came from behind him. Eris slightly turned around and belatedly realized that there were two more people behind him without knowing it.
Both experimental subjects had the Research Institute’s locator collars fastened around their necks.
“Hm? Even bringing back-ups… isn’t that too much?”
Eris didn’t give a damn about the other M2s and just spat his tattooed black-lined tongue out at Velociraptor in front of him. “I’ve killed more than one A3 before.”
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Velociraptor was Xiao Yang’s craft. His physique followed his previous preferences—huge, burly, and powerful, with a height of more than 2.3 meters tall. Although he was not as tall as Gargantuar, Eris, despite being similarly an alpha, was slender and tall and not on Velociraptor’s weight level.
Velociraptor’s expertise was close combat, with all his three differentiation abilities enhanced in this aspect. He kicked the ground and leaped up. His bowl-sized fist hit Eris’ face heavily, who raised his forearm to block it. Nevertheless, the rushing force was too strong, and Eris was pushed a few meters away due to the violent strength.
Not giving him a chance to breathe, Velociraptor swiftly turned around, and his thick and powerful golden dinosaur tail made a whistling sound as it slashed toward Eris.
Velociraptor’s J1 differentiation ability, “Hurricane Dinosaur Tail.”
It was as if his tail swept through like a ravaging hurricane. With just a burst of harsh wind blades, it could cut a person in half.
The dinosaur tail supplemented with A3 grade’s tyrannical power swept towards him without giving anyone the slightest opportunity to avoid it. Eris was hit head-on. The hurricane collision issued a piercing roar, and flying debris from the balcony scattered in all directions.
“Disappointing.” Velociraptor laughed.
The smoke slowly dissipated, and Velociraptor’s expression suddenly changed.
Eris was actually holding his thick and heavy golden dinosaur tail.
“A mere Grade 7 mature subject dared to have the guts to challenge me? Did that old woman Aileen give you such confidence in your abilities?” Eris caught the dinosaur tail with his bare hands. He twirled the tip on his wrist and yanked it hard. Velociraptor staggered, and with such a huge body like his, he was easily shaken by a skinny doll.
The two M2-grade experimental subjects behind them rushed toward Eris, who turned his head 180 degrees. He stared at the opponents with both his head and back facing them and gave a sinister smile.
Two golden threads flew out of Eris’ mouth and wrapped around their necks like venomous snakes. The cursed threads were invisible and untouchable. They couldn’t be removed once they were attached to the targets. At this point, the only way to get rid of them was to create a distance between them to pull it apart.
The two experimental subjects gave each other a glance and ran off in different directions.
Eris suddenly released his grip on Velociraptor. He once again used Misfortune Arrives, and the balcony above Velociraptor’s head shattered and caused it to collapse.
The other end of the cursed thread was wrapped around Velociraptor’s strong ankle.
Cursemaker’s associated ability, Cursed Thread, would expose the target to attacks with equal strength. The golden thread could connect up to 10 targets at a time, and the connection would only be broken when the distance between each target was too great (more than 100 meters).
Eris shifted his barrel to change the bullet. A shot burst into one of the M2 experimental subject’s heads,and its skull exploded, and blood burst everywhere. The other M2 experimental subject attached to the cursed thread screamed on the ground at the same time, still paralyzed on the ground.
Velociraptor was knocked down by the falling debris. He felt a sharp pain similar to an explosion on his head. He barely managed to open his dazed eyes and saw a golden silk thread tied to his ankle.
Disgusted with the slow rate of shotgun fire, Eris removed a long white ceramic bone from his calf, which was a long bone blade, and tightly clutched it in his hand. He aimed and stabbed at one of the experimental subjects.
The experimental subject was suppressed by Eris’ A3-grade pheromones and could not move. He frantically struggled to crawl away, but the continuous knife stabs, as dense as the rainfall, made him unable to hide. His sorrowful wailing was silenced by the relentless storm.
Eris laughed maniacally amidst the torrential rain; the experimental subject crushed beneath him almost became a puddle of minced meat. The blood mixed with the broken pieces of flesh and blood was washed away by the ravaging rain, flowing down the drainpipe of the balcony, dripping down from the spout to the ground, and then spreading slowly with the stagnant water into numerous large and small crimson puddles.
Simultaneously, the other M2 experimental subject that was connected to the golden thread, despite having no obvious injury, its whole body was broken, its pupils were slack, apparently already lost its vitality. The minced experimental subjects were completely dead. Although it could rely on the experimental subject’s strong ability to heal, it was impossible to recover for a short time.
Since one of the targets connected by the Cursed Thread died, the golden thread automatically disappeared.
Velociraptor struggled to get up from the ground. Suddenly, his throat felt hot, and he fiercely coughed out pieces of blood clots. Given that his skin was tough and thick, it was difficult for an ordinary weapon to externally injure him. However, Eris’ Cursed Thread didn’t cause him surface damage, instead, it caused him to bear the injury suffered by the other fragile experimental subject, which was undoubtedly a fatal hit to Velociraptor’s weakness.
Eris rose from the plummeting rain; his silver hair was dyed crimson. Blood and water muddily flowed down his arms as he tossed the long blade of his calf into the air. He extended one leg when it fell, and the bone knife was once again attached to his leg’s ball joint.
Eris turned back around and smiled. The black and red cross lines on his face bent and undulated as he stuck his tongue out; his exposed tongue emitted a glistening shimmer.
“Like the… Abyss.”
The dark sky was like a blinding curtain in which the shadows of the abandoned factory balconies and towers deeply shrank, and the bottomless pit leading to hell was spreading open like a fissure.
Cursemaker A3’s differentiation ability, Like the Abyss, could cause the ground to sink in the shadow within its range, and those who fell into it would be forever sealed, facing the worst fears of their lives every second inside.
Velociraptor turned around and jumped. His physical strength was not yet exhausted, and he darted in the rain with speed and stamina. Given this, he was able to outrun the spread of the Abyss of Hell and withdrew a hundred meters away in just a few seconds.
Eris used Cursed Thread to shuttle and jump through the stacked buildings, chasing after Velociraptor and suddenly releasing a strand of golden thread, which wrapped around the running Velociraptor’s wrist.
Velociraptor was not afraid of him. He was a few dozen meters away and dashing fast. It was difficult for a shotgun to hit him, and Eris’ Cursed Thread could only be attached to living creatures, even if it was able to associate the same damage. Particularly, there wasn’t even a bird nearby. The Cursed Thread couldn’t hurt him at all.
Unexpectedly, the other end of the Cursed Thread was held in Eris’ mouth.
“Die for me.” Eris gave him a mocking smile before picking up the short-barreled shotgun and pulling the trigger against his own jaw.
The burst of gunfire was drowned out by the plummeting rain. Velociraptor only felt an unbearable agony coming from his jawbone, with half of his face seeming to be on fire.
Cursemaker’s madness made him terrified. Eris actually connected the Cursed Thread to himself and did not hesitate to hurt himself in order to injure his opponent.
Velociraptor froze on his feet, which allowed the chasing abyss to swallow him. He clutched over the edge and struggled to climb up. Suddenly, his left hand felt severe pain, as if it was suddenly broken. He howled in anguish as he fell into the bottomless abyss.
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Perched on the searchlight that had already been turned off on the observation deck, Bai Chunian was squatting like a cat to observe the situation underneath.
Eris also perceived his brandy pheromones in the air and looked up towards Bai Chunian.
“Why are you here?”
Eris’ jaw was shattered in half by himself with a shotgun, leaving only half of his face. Nevertheless, it slowly healed to its original shape, and a new left hand gradually grew from his ball joint and also recovered without a trace. He then twisted his wrist.
“You’re the only one who could injure the enemy a thousand times while also injuring yourself a thousand times.” Bai Chunian shook his lion ears buried in his hair and softly complimented, “Not bad, brilliant kitty.”
“Disgusting.” Eris shouldered his shotgun and lazily turned around. “Go fuck your seafood wife and get out of our way.”
Bai Chunian pointed to the communicator in his ear and said, “I’m not trying to get in your way, I’m just here on orders to see what you guys are doing. I’ve just received instructions to evacuate. Aileen has sent five A3 elite experimental subjects over. You guys can fend for yourself.”
“Hahahahaha! So what if there are five? I’ve also killed numerous elite experimental subjects in the Institute.” Eris turned his head back and stuck out his tongue at him. He abruptly stopped to rub his nose and said in a low voice, “As long as that fish doesn’t come, I can deal with anything.”
“I’ll withdraw then. Bye-bye.”
Bai Chunian turned around and jumped off the searchlight, jumping lightly with his hands in his pockets. Nonetheless, a pheromone with the smell of rust invaded the air, intercepting Bai Chunian.
Bai Chunian stopped and searched for the source of the pheromone.
Beyond the railing of the drying platform, a monolith-sized, greenish-black steel slowly emerged from the dark sky. It was engraved with dense patterns.
The thick piece of floating steel blocked out the only glimmer of light that penetrated the clouds, and the shadow loomed over Bai Chunian.
Bai Chunian looked up. Floating in the air was a greenish-black shield with a complete human spine embedded in its center. Blue and red blood vessels were integrated with it, and a powerfully throbbing gland was on top of the spine that seemed to serve as a ruby ingrained in the shield. It was from this gland that the rust-scented pheromones were emanating.
The shield approached condescendingly from above, and the heavy pressure made Bai Chunian feeling a little threatened. He was forced to retreat by the gradually approaching shield, jumped off the drying platform, and finally retreated to Eris’ side.
“Holy shit. She’s alive?” Bai Chunian stuck one hand in his pocket and studied the giant floating in the sky as he stroked his chin.
Eris ignored him, instead looked at the edge of the abyss in the distance and gritted his teeth. The scaly Velociraptor surprisingly slowly climbed up from the edge of the abyss.
“Did he manage to grab the edge with his remaining hand and not fall?”
“Don’t panic.” Bai Chunian took a photo of the shield with the miniature camera allocated to him by the IOA, took a photo of Velociraptor, and then took a selfie of himself with Eris on his shoulder. He collated them and sent them to the Tech Department. He left a message under the photo, Blocked and unable to withdraw, check the information of these few for me.
The Tech Department’s group of technicians replied, OK.
Bai Chunian patted Eris on the shoulder. “Good xiong-di, a da-ge for a day, a da-ge for life. Let’s work together for a while.”
Eris slammed the barrel of the gun and slapped it on the palm of his hand. The corners of his lips rose to his cheeks, and he raised his chin in excitement and replied, “Yep!”
Bai Chunian took out his mobile phone and sent a voice message to Rimbaud. “Honey, I’m done with school, come and pick me up.”
Eris, who had a gleeful expression, suddenly collapsed into distress.
[Staff’s Corner]
Kris Xian: Lol. Poor Eris. That’s what you get for calling my king ‘seafood.’
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