My Last Hunt

Chapter 186: Quest For Three Stones (37)

Quest For Three Stones (37)

Bagel;

You are my perpetual enemy from now on

The attacks of the rocks decreased greatly; this cleared the dense air from the attacking rocks. Rucha noticed the change and looked toward the supposed hill and it was no more there instead the foolhardy Rumble was looking at the previous place of the hill with foolishness in his eyes. Rumble was amazed as to where did the rocky hill disappear. The ground was plain again and there was no sign or path to follow up. He looked from one place to another only to notice the extreme defense smooth down. 

The ground was plain and there was not a single wrinkle on the ground to guess the direction of the stone. He looked toward his buddy and from afar he could feel the furious glare; though he was attacking his enemy however he did not forget to scold the teammate. Rumble got worried and hurriedly bent down and started sniffing like a dog; he was moving and sniffing on the plain ground. "Rumble stop being puny. You are increasing the shame on you." Rucha rolled his eyes to see this action of his trusted team member. 

Rumble stood up and walked toward him. Now the hunter king was alone and Rucha was attacking; the third team member was standing idle because the rocks were no more intruding the pace and there was nowhere the destination under the expanded vision: really nowhere. The third team member and later Rumble hinged; now the question was whether to join hands with the team leader to kill the hunter king or wait? It would be called shameless act to go three against one but everything was fair for diggers in norms moreover there was no one around to witness the level of shamelessness a digger bears. 

The third team member firmly closed his fist for the reason that he could see the current scenario. Until now Rucha did not order them to combine the strength; he would not do it actually because it would simply present him weaker in front of the team. Just a hunter king and he have already killed many; so he was willing to bet some time more. "End it up little fast buddy." Rumble reminded him that they were here for the stone. "There is no hurry; the second hunter is a low-key and he is running behind the stone currently. I am sure he won't be able to get it." Rucha spoke confident. 

The hunter king did not bat his ears at their conclusions about the young hunter; he knew his capability very well. The young hunter has forte like grit which does not easily dwindle however he cannot fight for long against this experienced hunter king who had been wandering from decades. Though he himself was of few hundred years still does not match to the experience of the oldie. It was also difference of the will. Rucha was here to snatch so definitely he would use all means. 

He only wished that the young hunter could smash the stone before Rucha could reach him as for him: he would put all his effort to stop them. "Rumble; you need to take my place. I am going to follow the stone before it disappear." After some time when the aura of the stone started to fade; Rucha thought to hand over the hunter king to his team member. He cannot set him free; also killing was not so easy, it takes time and effort against a hunter king. The stone fleeing faster than he imagined perhaps it sensed the presence of the diggers. 

The hunter king got worried because the oldie was aggressive and furious; if he caught the young man then he cannot save him no matter how many lives he got to stop them confronting each other. 

Qiao was running after the stone and when the underground cave started to shrink; he got to know that the stone had been fleeing under the surface. One of the stone which was assisting him before was still there so he thought using his personal stone for attack. It was the only stone above level five and suitable for command attacks. 

With the help of his level five strength and the stone; he wished that his plan stem successful. He smashed his fist taking a long slide toward the fleeing rock. He did it several times and the upper layers of the rock started to break apart. Now there was only three spans thickness of the rock; inside the stone was hidden and it was still moving with the same pace. Qiao felt a sudden wave behind and understood that the enemy was reaching at his head very time soon. He gritted his teeth and slide forward accumulating all his strength in his fist and crushing the rock. 

The stone had been fighting and attacking from a very long times it had been three days that Qiao was confined inside along with other hunter kings so it was natural for the stone to get exhausted after using number of attacks and the illusions for defeating the targets. It was also restricted with the level eight defense type stone which was assisting Qiao all this phase. 

The punch landed on the rock and it broke into smithereens; at the same time Rucha reached there. With the right amount of strength behind the attack; a loud scream was heard and then the silence enveloped suddenly because Rucha engulfed all the available space with his aura. Qiao turned behind only to see half furious face. He was still unclear if he had had crushed the stone or it was still alive then he closed his eyes to feel the certain aura and sure it was no more there. His head was no more hurting, only the cracks were present which perhaps needed some healing. "How could you little rascal?" Rucha immediately attacked in his anger.

The ground above their heads shook and a hunter landed right in front of Qiao. He was the third team member from the digger's team. He was thousand percent sure that the team leader would kill the second hunter so he made a hard decision which ruin the rest of his life but he cannot let this happen when he was around. It was no more battle between monster and hunters. It was battle of egocentric thoughts and the right path of pure hunter. There were always two choices for a hunter during all the years of life; first to choose ego and second to choose the right decision. Of course egocentric behavior was not the right choice for a hunter who picked his path already. 

His chains created a never ending ricochet and the active stone stopped the attack. Rucha got furious to see that his own team member was standing to protect the low-key. With the stone breaking apart all types of illusions ended and Qiao was dragged back in the barrier during the time when the third hunter stopped the attack. When the attack met the other stone; it created an explosion and the whole ground shook breaking apart. Both Rucha and the third digger looked behind and the second hunter was not there. 

Rucha forgot to attack again and madly looked around to find the low-key but he was nowhere. Rumble and the hunter king both got a shockwave of the attack outburst and staggered backward. The hunter king hurriedly went to see what happened with the young kid and he heard the furious shouting, "Where that rascal disappeared?" he was mad out of wit. "I swear you little rascal; you are my perpetual enemy from now on." The third digger came to the hunter king and patted his shoulder, "Your team member disappeared after crushing the stone and the team leader has failed to kill him too." 

Saying this; the third digger took his path to leave this team. It was his many times ever that he was leaving a team because he did not like their way of dealing situations. In his view; a hunter was blessed with higher level intellect to think a better way in all types of tough situations; if still he chooses dominant path then he was not worth following. The hunter king looked at the one who told about the events and walked beside him. 

"I am going to report to the Hightown as it is my responsibility. Do you want to come along?" the hunter king side smiled and asked the digger. "If brotherhood is not burden then I am willing to follow till the end." The digger nodded his head and slapped on the chains twisting around his waist. "Haha; brotherhood is what never give burden if it is selfless and noble." 

Rucha was roaring like a wounded beast and Rumble was standing at some distance waiting for his buddy to calm down and then ask what happened. Qiao opened his eyes and he was back in the barrier to see the rotten corpses of the monsters. He was bounded with barrier until he gets the three stones.