Kill The Dragons - Chapter 79

The Elu was tired. It had been such a long time since it had been captured to this underground facility that it couldn’t remember its life outside of this place. It mourned and lamented every moment from pain and suffering.

Humans dissected and experimented on its body. They didn’t have any mercy or ethics while commencing these experiments. At one point, it felt itself gain enough strength to escape, and planned its revenge.

It used its own memories of pain to reward the humans with the same pains and suffering.

“Keke.”

The Elu snickered as it thought of all the ways it killed these humans. It let its murderous greed completely free. It mercilessly massacred the humans and tore them apart from the inside out.

“Kak.”

The Elu who had been laughing, groaned from the pain coming from its stomach. Blood flowed from the gunshot wound. The humans that come here were different. There were psykers amongst them, and their response and actions were not ordinary. The hunt wasn’t going as smoothly as it thought. Instead, it was now the one in grave trouble.

Tadak, Tadak.

It heard footsteps from a distance. The Elu was getting chased. It looked all around in every direction. It found a place to hide. ‘I will ambush them from the hiding place.’ This was an Elu hunter’s main tactics. It breathed slowly, and let its presence disappear.

“Huuu.”

Han took a deep breath and aimed his gun forward. He went forward while postured so that he could shoot his gun at a moment’s notice. The squad split when the route split. They each took a different direction.

It would be an easy job to take care of an Elu whose psychic energy is near depleted.

‘There might not be another chance if we let it slip.’ Han fretted on whether he made the right choice.

‘Was my decision completely rational when I decided it was best to chase the Elu? Was my decision affected due to my emotional greed for revenge?’

Han felt it was hard to separate his emotions and judgement. It could be he wanted revenge for Herald and made up a sound excuse to carry out his greed.

“The reason doesn’t matter. We’ve made the decision to do so.”

His eyes hazed with blue light. Strong hatred and anger boiled from within Han’s heart.

He had stamped Herald’s death deeply into his eyes. A single error in battle would result in a loss of a life.

‘I’ve merely been lucky all this time.’

If Han had been the one trailing furthest behind, Han would have been the one to die instead of Herald.

Nobody thought that the Elu would be able to use the blink ability. If they figured out that it could use blink, then Herald wouldn’t have suffered such an empty death.

‘If only I figured it out faster… How come I couldn’t see that the Elu could use blink to move around?’ Wuxiaworld for visiting.

Han grit his teeth and paused at the next corner. The silence was so heavy that it seemed to consume even one’s breath. Han paused his breath from nerves.

The squad members divided into different routes to surround the place the Elu occupied. No matter how agile the Elu may be, it wouldn’t be able to escape all three of them. Its bound to meet at least one of the three.

‘Come.’

Han surveyed his environment as he walked forward. He paused at the break room.

Tap.

Han walked while making sounds with his footstep. He then silently took several steps backwards.

Kiiii.

He used minimal psychic energy to telekinetically crack open the door. As soon as the door opened, the Elu’s blade struck out.

Han was not standing at that place. Han had purposely made sounds like he was approaching the door, then silently backed tracked his steps before opening the door. Any Elu would be tricked with this degree of attention to detail.

Click.

Han pulled the trigger without a single word. The end of his gun flamed. The two were in such close proximity that he could easily shoot the other without aiming. A single bullet dug through the Elu. An ear splitting scream filled the corridor.

‘It’s not dead yet.’

The Elu flopped onto the ground. However, Han didn’t approach it. He pressed the body of the gun to empty out the magazine and insert a new one. The moment Han took out a new magazine from his hip pocket, the Elu abruptly stood and moved.

Pak!

Han struck the Elu’s head with the butt of his rifle like he had been waiting. He held the rifle with two hands and deeply struck down at the Elu’s head.

His exaggerated motions was like a professional baseball batter.

Kwajik!

The gun broke apart from the impact. The Elu’s head was split open as it gritted its teeth. It swung its arms with murderous eyes.

The knife skimmed past Han’s chest. Thanks to his under armor, only his battle gear got ripped. Han pushed the Elu back with a kick and took out the spear he had on his back. He threw the leather cover on the floor and held his spear. Blue light glowed from his eyes.

Puuh!

Han swung his spear aiming at the Elu’s head. The Elu’s skull made a cracking noise. Han stepped toward the Elu who was staggering in place.

“KAAAAAA!” the Elu screamed while convulsing.

“Shut it.”

Han leaped into the air and swung his spear with his left arm. The Elu jumped to the left and dodged. At this moment, Han swung the spear around his body and held the spear with his right hand.

The spear pierced into the Elu’s stomach, splattering blood onto Han’s face. The Elu staggered backwards. It put pressure on its stomach wound and attempted to escape. It ran away like a wild animal.

Woong!

The Elu gathered all its strength and attempted one last blink. It wanted to use all its remaining psychic energy to escape to the opposite passageway.

‘Blink. It still had some energy remaining?’

Han ran to chase after the Elu. The Elu’s body glimmered. Its appearance grew faint, then solid, then faint again. This was evidence that it was attempting to use blink even though it was at its utter limit. The Elu mumbled something.

Keeeng!

Han’s eyes glowed from psychic energy. In the end, it couldn’t muster enough psychic energy and failed to blink. Han struck his spear through the Elu’s mouth and past its larynx. The Elu looked aghast and died.

“Haa, haa.”

Han was able to stop the Elu after much struggle and sat down on the floor. He still had the Elu’s blood splattered on his face. Its blood looked red like a human’s. However, it was not human, but a monster.

Baduk.

Han shook the spear that was stuck on its head. He pressed its head down with his feet and pulled his spear out. He swung the blood off the spear and returned it back to its leather casing.

Step, step.

Han dragged his heavy feet to the break room. He found a vending machine there. He shattered the glass of the vending machine and took out a soft drink with some chinese words on it.

“So tired.”

Han mumbled and drank while seated. He endured the sting of the carbonation and emptied the can. The blood splattered around Han’s mouth washed down with the drink. The carbonation prickled his neck as he chugged down its contents.