8 Hunting 2

[[Please put your hands on the creature and the system will absorb it for you.]]

[[Essence: 700/550]]

[[Absorbing...Complete.]]

[[Essence: 800/550]] He used 300 Essence to create the stone he hurled at the Ent but he only got 100 as a return, he felt really disappointed about that but he can't do anything about it, It's been used already.

"If I only know that the stone would be thrown at high speed I shouldn't have created a stone that big, next time warn me about those kind of things" He said to the system.

[[.....]] The system didn't answer him.

[[User, There seems to be a corrupted creature not so far from your left, please absorb its essence.]]

"Why are you changing the subject?"

[[.....]] The system went silent again, it always goes silent at times like these.

"...alright if you aren't going to warn me about it then I'll just be careful." he turned to direction that the system pointed out then started running on it, soon he saw the corrupted creature.

This time it was a bear with red eyes, covered with black fur making it look ominous, it noticed his presence and looked at him from afar.

[[Corrupted Red Eyed Bear, Class C monster has noticed your presence]] A notification popped up.

He wasted no time and gathered essence immediately, forming a stone then pointed his finger towards the head of the bear.

"Shoot!" The stone pierced through the skull of the bear, dropping down the ground dead, it had no time to recognize him as a threat because of his creation speed and attack speed.

"Corrupted creatures can see me?" The Ent had no chance to see him since he attacked it from the back with a huge stone.

[[A creature can see a god if they use their essence in their eyes, a corrupted creature has essence all over its body including its eyes therefore it can see gods.]]

"...I'm purely made out of essence right now right? does that mean I need to use essence to see a god when I get a physical body?"

[[Yes]]

"I see... well time to return at hunting"

His actions soon became repetitive, Search, Kill, Absorb, Repeat.

After searching and killing for a while he found a pack of wolves fighting a corrupted two headed wolf.

"Why are they fighting?"

[[Corrupted Creatures are usually violent towards every living being, they are trying to protect themselves from it]]

Lucio decided to help out and threw a stone at it, but the wolf dodged it.

[[Corrupted Two Headed Wolf, Class A Monster]]

The Two Headed wolf noticed his presence and focused at him instead of the other wolves, Lucio backed away and started creating stone again, his first shot was a waste but now he can't afford to miss.....

Swish!

Bang!

The stone hits the Two Headed Wolf head on but it just shattered upon contact, there was some kind of barrier surrounding its fur, the Two Headed Wolf noticed his attack and looked at his direction, while the Two Headed Wolf was distracted the rest of the wolves tried to attack it, but the Two Headed wolf easily dodged all of them.

"What was that?!" It was the first time that something survived his stone shot, so far every creature that he fought was one shotted with it.. mostly because he attacked them from behind.

[[User, a rank A and above can create a barrier to protect themselves from projectiles and harm, I suggest making your attack stronger.]] The two headed wolf noticed that he was the biggest threat and decided to get rid of him first instead of attacking the other wolves, It lunged towards him and bites his arm.

[[Essence: 700/550]] - 20

[[Essence: 680/550]]

[[Warning, A corrupted creature can damage your essence, please try to avoid its attacks]]

"How am I supposed to make those stones stronger?!" He started dodging the wolf's attacks, if it can see him, surely it can harm him, some wolves that were fighting it before tried to help him but the two headed wolf's speed was twice as fast as them.

[[Essence: 680/550]]-20

[[Essence: 660/550]]

The wolf bit him again.

He had to think of a technique to make his stones stronger than it is without using too much essence, suddenly he remembered about how a bullet spins. he created a stone and ordered it to spin high speed, firing it towards one of the two headed wolf's head.

First shot broke the barrier, noticing that it's barrier broke, it howled loudly paralyzing the nearby wolves that were attacking it.

"Alright one more!" He didn't get affected by it since he doesn't have a physical body, he created another stone and made it spin at high speed, shooting it at the head of the wolf.

One of its head had a bloody hole on it while the other one was howling in pain, It was weakened significantly with that attack slowing it down with the head injury, giving chance to the other wolves to attack it.

They started chomping the double headed creature down, once it was dead the pack stopped attacking it and looked at Lucio's direction.

"Can those wolves see me?"

[[They can't, but they can sense you.]]

The wolves bowed their heads and started running away.

"They're intelligent for a wolf."

[[.....]]