Chapter 4: Dream Start
Su Xiao stood up from the ground, shaking his slightly numb leg while flicking off a short segment of intestine.
As his foot landed, it directly left a bloody footprint.
"Such tenacious vitality."
Su Xiao stepped forward, passing through the broken gaps of several buildings until he arrived before the half-collapsed shopping mall.
The shattered concrete was pushed upward as Ertas rose from the building debris.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Ertas covered his mouth with a series of dry coughs, thick streams of blood seeping through his fingers.
Looking at Ertas's lower abdomen now, it had essentially disappeared. Large amounts of damaged organs were exposed, broken ribs pierced through the flesh and skin, as if a vicious beast had taken a bite out of him.
"Huff... huff..."
Ertas breathed laboriously, his eyes fixed tightly on Su Xiao.
"What... is going on."
Inside the consciousness space, the worker girl Xiao Ju trembled in fear.
"What's going on? Why do you think I agreed to flee earlier? Hunters exist to clean up people like us. Every hunter is the executioner among executioners."
This violator had been hunted by a hunter once before—that was his first taste of despair. If that hunter hadn't suddenly had something important to attend to and interrupted the chase, he would have died long ago. Since then, he had advocated for instant gratification, which led to the scene where he tried to forcefully have his way with Xiao Ju.
"Today, we die here."
Ertas's voice spread through the consciousness space, trembling slightly—a tremor of excitement. The mindset of a battle race was often strange.
"You're not... planning to keep fighting him? Let Xiao Ju take over the body; with her ability, we might escape. Going head-to-head with a hunter is just too stupid..."
"Shut up."
Ertas's voice was very low.
"I don't care about some hunter. This guy is a Shadow of Law Destruction. To fight a legendary Shadow of Law Destruction to the death—what does it matter if I die? Rather than dragging a broken body through a miserable existence, I'd rather die here."
A rough smile spread across Ertas's face as he roared, "Law Destroyer (Void Language)."
Hearing this special language, Su Xiao raised an eyebrow. He had already mastered the Void language during his previous battles in the Void Arena.
"Kaga Clan."
Su Xiao didn't speak in the Void language; the pronunciation of that tongue was still somewhat unfamiliar to him.
"Hahahaha."
Ertas suddenly burst into laughter, large amounts of blood gushing from the corners of his mouth. He didn't say anything passionate, but simply snapped off several severely deformed ribs to ensure he could continue fighting.
Ertas crouched low, blood already staining his lower body red, with a large pool of blood forming beneath him.
Boom!
Gravel flew as Ertas charged straight at Su Xiao. Due to the violent movement, blood from his abdomen sprayed several meters away.
Su Xiao stood still, his legs slightly apart, as his long blade slashed forward at high speed.
Clang, clang, clang...
A dense barrage of blade auras flew toward the charging Ertas—at least a hundred streaks, crisscrossing with no room to dodge.
The blade auras engulfed Ertas, but he kept charging forward. The sound of cutting flesh rang out continuously, leaving a trail of blood on the ground.
After unleashing over a hundred blade auras, Su Xiao stopped swinging. White steam rose from the edge of Dragon-Slaying Flash, generated by the high-speed friction between the blade and the air.
With a thud, a thick arm fell before Su Xiao. Even in his final moment, this Void creature hadn't given up fighting. He was a battle race, and battle race wasn't just a title—they were born for battle and willing to die for it.
Most people couldn't understand this will, but putting it in perspective, if a planet in the Void had been at war for years, it wouldn't be strange for a battle race to emerge. Their mission was to fight, to die fighting for the royal family, just as livestock's purpose was to provide meat for humans—cruel but realistic.
When Ertas first approached Su Xiao, Su Xiao had felt some doubt. Previous violators would hide as far away as possible, yet this one had come to him right at the start of the derivative world.
Undoubtedly, this was the fastest Su Xiao had ever completed a hunting mission, and the most effortless. He hadn't even figured out what time period this Hunter world was in, yet he had already finished the mission. He hadn't even had time to check the main quest. Though sudden, Su Xiao appreciated this straightforward "violator."
The reason for this was that this Void creature was seeking death. During the fight, Su Xiao sensed that the creature's body had suffered multiple irreversible damages. The kick Su Xiao had landed earlier nearly turned him into a pile of minced meat. The fact that he could still stand was purely due to willpower.
"Forgot to ask this guy's name."
For an enemy with this kind of personality, even if their stances were opposed, Su Xiao wouldn't despise him, even if the creature was somewhat ugly.
Su Xiao looked at the scattered flesh ahead. The Void creature was indeed dead, but the violator was not.
When three consciousnesses coexist in one body, the main consciousness dies immediately upon the body's death—that was certain. As for the other two consciousnesses, they could linger for a while.
Using his instinct ability to sense, Su Xiao soon noticed two severed arms lying quietly on the ground, "playing dead."
Su Xiao walked up to one of the arms. Just as he was about to slash it apart, a female voice sounded.
"Wait."
Su Xiao showed surprise. This thing could still talk?
"Worker?"
"Mm, mm."
"I'll give you one sentence to prove you're a worker."
"Huh?"
"Proof failed."
"How can this be..."
The worker girl's heart was shattered. At that moment, the arm she was in was enveloped by spatial power.
Space twisted rapidly, and the arm on the ground disappeared. From the description of the hunting mission, Su Xiao knew this worker likely wouldn't die. It probably involved some rule of Reincarnation Paradise, or perhaps this worker had been caught in the crossfire from the start, similar to Qiyu.
Su Xiao guessed correctly. This worker girl's misfortune was even worse than Qiyu's. She was now teleported back to Reincarnation Paradise, with all memories related to hunters and violators erased.
The violator's identity was now clear. Su Xiao slashed out several blade auras, shattering the remaining arm.
Still no prompt appeared. Just as Su Xiao was about to completely destroy the arm, a prompt finally came.
[Hunter has completed the hunting mission.]
[Evaluating this hunting mission...]
[Void creature eliminated, violator eliminated, worker survived (Evaluation increased by 1 level).]
[Total time taken: 5 minutes 36 seconds (Evaluation increased by 2 levels).]
[Evaluation complete. Final evaluation: S+.]
[Obtained Golden Honor Medal ×3. Due to final evaluation of S+, bonus Golden Honor Medal ×2.]
...
Five Golden Honor Medals in hand, Su Xiao was in a good mood. From this actual combat, he once again experienced how powerful the Dragon Shadow Flash ability was. If he hadn't obtained it, he would have had a tough battle with this Void creature.
But now, he had suppressed the Void creature the entire time, with the only injury being a scratch on his chin.
Having dealt with the violator at the very start of the derivative world meant Su Xiao could go all out in this world.
"First, determine the time point. If there's enough time, I'll take a trip to the Zoldyck family. Maybe I'll get some unexpected gains."
Su Xiao had a decent relationship with the Zoldyck family's elder, Zeno—that was Killua's grandfather. As for Killua's father, Silva, Su Xiao had also interacted with him. As for Killua's older brother, Illumi, the two had fought once.