The Top Omega Hunter Wants a Quiet Life [BL]-Chapter 42: Ch : Ace is back - Part 4

"I think you have the wrong person. I just came here to look for my lost cat. I am not someone dangerous."

I told the person holding that sharp edge against my neck. My voice was also getting filtered by a mask, so I was sure I looked just as suspicious as the other person did to me.

There was no answer from the person behind me, but I did not mistake that silence as them letting me go.

Instead, I braced myself and threw my body forward as soon as I sensed danger. My hands touched the ground and I instantly rolled toward my right before pushing myself back on my feet and kicking the knife away from me.

"What the-"

The person who tried to intimidate me seconds ago looked shocked at what happened, and I used that opportunity to reach out and grab him.

The only things visible from behind the mask were those eerily red eyes that looked familiar. Those were the same eyes that had been looking inside my room before. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"Let’s see who’s beneath this mask."

I grabbed the mask and pulled. But instead of a human face, all I saw was a mass of something that quickly tried to run away.

"Tsk, do you think you will get to run away that easily? You have nowhere to hide."

I took out a system tool from my inventory called the trapper and used it. A transparent shield covered myself and the area around me.

Now, both me and that black mass were trapped in here.

"Would you open your mouth and tell me what you are, or would you like to get a beating first before you open your mouth?"

I asked the creature, electricity cracking at my fingertips as I neared that black mass.

The mass panicked and did not know where to go or what to do. But once it saw me come close, it suddenly looked determined and decided to jump toward me.

"Give us your body. For the sake of our lord, we shall find him-"

The black mass hissed, but I used the electricity I was controlling to attack first, and it caused the black mass to twitch as it tried to control itself, but to no avail.

I gathered the black mass in a bottle that I carried and decided to take it back with me for now. Leaving it all alone like this was too dangerous.

But it was not like I intended to keep the black mass for long either. Once I was done interrogating the mass, I was going to hand it over to the hunter’s association... or maybe a guild.

"W-Where are you tak... ugh... it hurts..."

The black mass tried to speak, but ultimately was too hurt to do that.

I had a few more minutes of my barrier left, so I decided to interrogate the mass.

"Hey, I will let you go if you answer my questions for me."

I told the mass, and it tried to raise its body to look at me, but ultimately failed. It flopped around and answered in a sluggish voice.

"Stupid human who cannot even recognize the greatness of our lord, do you think I would answer you? Ugh, fine, I will. Just stop torturing me like this."

The mass asked me when I shook the container it was in. I sighed in relief and thought of my first question.

"What are you and where did you come from?"

I asked, not asking why he was here. The mass had already answered that question for me—he was here for his lord.

"Ugh, can’t you tell what I am? I am a great being, a follower of my lord from the place you humans call dungeon #36. My only purpose here is to find my lord and bring his reincarnation back home... that reminds me, you smell like my lord. Have you seen him anywhere, human?"

The mass asked me, and I felt a small headache coming over me.

Many of the things the mass spoke were the same as that shaman, but the fact that he said he was from dungeon #36 was a shock.

After all, dungeon #36 was the dungeon that was to be used for the hunter’s championship.

’Is that a coincidence, or something else? Should I investigate things?’

"Hey hunter, did you go to the dungeon with a gatekeeper? That is the only reason you can smell like our lord without directly meeting them. What a lucky creature you are, to be gazed at by our priest. But how are you alive? Anyone who ventures there usually dies... unless... are you a believer of our lord as well? No wonder you felt familiar..."

"Shut up and stop yapping for a minute... ugh, you are giving me a headache..."

I complained as I shook the black mass. The more he spoke, the more nonsense it sprouted.

But one thing was for certain, dungeon #36 was hiding secrets. Perhaps, even of that creature that sent me back.

’Is a new threat to humanity coming? If so, then I cannot really sit back here and wait for humanity to perish. Tsk, looks like I would have to get involved in the hunter business anyway.’

This made things awkward for me. Ideally, I did not want to do anything with hunters anymore.

But could I truly sit back and do nothing when the threat was not only to the hunters but to the whole human race?

"Tsk, you humans don’t know how good you have it. You are the closest things to our lord’s imagination of a perfect race, so you also have the potential to be the closest to him. But all you do is fight against our lord’s generosity. You all should die-"

Once again, the container shook and the black mass went quiet. It was beginning to give me a headache, so I decided to deal with it the old-fashioned way.

I opened the lid that contained the black mass before sparking some powder in there.

"Hey, what’s this? Ugh, I feel a little sleepy. Hey human, what did you give me-"

The black mass complained before it fell asleep. I finally breathed a sigh of relief after that.

’Finally, some peace and quiet. I can finally hear my thoughts again.’

The sleeping powder I had given the black mass would work for about a day, and that was the amount of time I was left with to decide what I wanted to do next.

One thing was for sure, dungeon #36 contained a lot of answers that I wanted answers to. So that was where I needed to head to next.

But I had already told Lee Minho and others that I didn’t want to participate. What should I do now...

I suddenly had an idea about what I could do.

If I could not participate as the ’civilian Kyle’ or ’Ace,’ I could always borrow the identity of my back-up hunter ID that almost no one knew about.

It was time to bring back Manet. Manet was an ID that was not supposed to see the light of day after that one mission it was created for. But thankfully, it was still fully active.

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