Rebirth: The Shadow Of Greed

... Z shouted as he dodged to the left giving Soli full visual of the hunter.

Instantly, Soli raised her hand and gripped tightly, the ice started to form around the legs of the hunter making him struggle to try to get free. Having both his feet stuck in the ice, he fell backward onto his b.u.t.t struggling, but focusing her concentration on the hunter, the bug swarm broke through the defenses and attacked Soli, piercing her abdomen with a brutal attack, before Soli started freezing her wound and any insects near it.

The hunter laughed viciously

"I've had enough of you brats, did you think you could defeat me? I admit I might have underestimated all of you, but was this your last-ditch attempt at defeatin... Oof?"

The hunter immediately lost his breath as the huge Odrunn jumped and sat down on his body that was sprawled on the ground, that immense weight pressing down on his c.h.e.s.t, he was speechless and literally out of breath.

Z stood over the hunter, looking directly into his eyes.

"I... Give... Turn me... In to... The hunters... Asso... Let... Me... Receive... Punishment.."

The hunter squeezed out whatever he could say.

Z continued looking into the eyes of the hunter, slowly the look in his eyes turned into the look of pity like one had when he was about to slaughter livestock or cattle. Like a farmer sharpening his blade while looking at his cow.

Z tossed the rock in his hand and grabbed it, his eyes closed tight and when he opened it, if the hunter could speak he would swear that he saw a tinge of red run through the eyes of Z.

He stepped forward rock in hand, raising it to a height before swinging it down hard smashing against the head of the hunter, blow after blow he smashed the rock down as blood and cranial matter flew everywhere. Z's eyes turned emotionless as he swung the rock hit after hit even after the hunter had died.

Z was sapped of his energy entirely, he let go of his grip on the rock letting it roll aside as he lay sprawled out beside the hunter's mutilated corpse.

Odrunn had long stood up from the corpse and had already positioned himself at the corner of the cave, hunched over, he was vomiting as he purged all the contents of his stomach out, Soli stood in disbelief, hand covering her lips, pale from the blood loss.

Coming from nobility, Soli had seen bloodshed before, corporal punishment had been common for traitors and servants who go against the rules sometimes even executions. But this brutality was beyond what she had seen, it wasn't just the mutilation of the corpse, it was the sheer blood l.u.s.t that Z had emitted, how can a student around her age emit such a high level of blood l.u.s.t. What's worse is that even Z himself seemed like he had lost control of his blood l.u.s.t.

Z lay on the ground, looking up at the ceiling he didn't want to move at all, his hands and face sticky and warm from the blood of the hunter started to coagulate, leaving a stiff texture on his skin. As he started to close his eyes and drift off succ.u.mbing to his memories.

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"Welcome young, beautiful recruits, the years you spent training has led up to this point. You wouldnt want to disappoint big sister now would you"

Mistress Juliana said as she snapped shut a fan as she moved to the side of instructor Swet.

"You and you! head into the toy room now and prepare for combat!"

Instructor Swet pointed at 2 kids, standing next to each other as they entered the room.

As they headed into the room, the bright white light blinded them for a bit, making them squint for a moment. They stood in the center of the toy room, a smell of disinfectant assaulted their nose, it made them feel like it's a surgical suite, clean and pristine. The two boys explored their surroundings, looking around and exploring their surroundings.

The toy room was nothing like it's namesake, it was full of toys. But get the pictures of cuddly stuff toys and racing cars out of your head, these were toys used by assassins, weapons of every kind scattered across the room. Daggers could be seen implanted into a wall, while everywhere on the floor knives, swords, spears were just laying there waiting to be taken.

"Little recruits, this is your final mission! For one of you anyway, bid each other goodbye and use any one of the weapons in the room to get rid of your opponent." Instructor Swet said with a laugh.

They looked at the two way glass for a moment stunned, as the recruits in the hallway were still oblivious to what was happening.

The two looked at each other, not sure what they were supposed to do.

"Hey, there has to be a way around this, I don't think they'll just let one of us die like this after all that training right?"

The taller boy said, looking at his counterpart.

"Yeah, there has to be a way out of this, maybe this is a test, look there is a hole in the corner I think we can escape."

The shorter skinnier boy said, pointing to the corner, prompting the taller boy to run ahead and try to enter the shaft.

"puchi"

Blood started to drip from the taller boy as blood pooled on the floor.

"Don't hold it against me, brother, only one of us can survive, so why not me?"

The shorter boy laughed as he stood in the center of the room.

"Very good! You have succeeded in the mission, come out and let big sister give you a hug." Mistress Juliana spoke, her voice, hoarse as usual.

Instructor Swet walked out into the hallway and looked around, he pointed his finger and ordered,

"Alice, Zero. The both of you can enter the toy room now."

Watching Z and Alice walk into the toy room, Instructor Swet entered the control room to watch with Mistress Juliana.