Chapter 102 - The Black Thunder Hawk (2)

< Aiden, I think your theory is right but I don't think it would work if you tried to kill one of them. > Sera suddenly replied as the black-haired boy grinned.

'Then let's test.' With pro skills, he went ahead and sliced the wolf's head off.

But all the other wolves were still standing straight. The black-haired boy sighed at this as he started killing one wolf after the other.

He would retreat a little when flash's effects would run off before using the skill again and killing the beasts.

Artemis on the other hand was what someone would call a one-man army. Arrow after arrow was appearing in her bow, each one charged with golden lightning.

The moment the arrow would hit a wolf, the golden lightning would toast it. But if a wolf got too close to her, she would use her lightning and make sure that it could do any damage.

The hawk was looking at this from the above but made no advance to save the pack. It instead looked more interested in the duo as though he was trying to learn their moves.

The beast was intelligent enough to learn about this but he still couldn't communicate with demons.

This was because, unlike the moon wolf, he had no experience meeting demons and had been summoned randomly. He had first protested against the control of the summoner but had found out that it was useless.

The more the hawk had struggled, the more pain he had faced and because of that, it had surrendered to the summoner and had no choice except to attack the duo based on the orders he had gotten.

However, the hawk knew that the summoner wouldn't let him examine the duo for long and would soon force him to attack. But till the time that happened, he casually watched everything from above.

Its black piercing eyes were particularly attached to Aiden as he saw the teenager's weird strategy.

Aiden was doing the same thing over and over and it was working. All the wolves were getting blinded no matter how many times they saw the move occurring in front of them.

This was partially because the summoner could not control all the beasts together and since they originally had been expert D ranked wolves, their intelligence was quite low.

"Hey kid, should we go for the big boss soon?!" Artemis asked from the other side as Aiden nodded.

The silver-haired girl had seen him nod and looked at the remaining wolves on her side. Only two dozen or so wolves remained and after killing them, she turned to look at Aiden who was done too.

The duo then looked up at the black hawk who was slowly moving towards the ground. It released a low screech and set down on the ground while gazing at the two of them.

< It's trying to communicate with us Aiden. Do want me to communicate back? > Sera suddenly asked as the black-haired boy had a doubtful expression on his face. 

But regardless of that, he decided to say yes.

[ You… are not… normal demon… I… notice… you… have… strange power… ]

< The hawk doesn't know most of the things so it's trying to speak in what broken language it knows. > Sera added as more words appeared in front of Aiden. 

[ Look for… something… hidden… but right… in front of you. ] The hawk finished before it gave a loud cry and launched itself towards Aiden.

The latter had understood that the hawk had conveyed some secret message regarding the location of the one controlling it.

But the person had most probably heard the hawk and was now controlling it completely to make sure that Aiden couldn't find him.

This would have worked if Aiden was alone but he had a partner he could depend on.

"Artemis, take care of this!" Aiden shouted as he immediately vanished and appeared on a random tree.

The silver-haired woman instead notched and arrowed and released it at the hawk. As soon as the arrow hit, golden lightning moved through its body.

But the hawk didn't even seem affected and moved towards Artemis. The woman jumped rolled back as she avoided the hawk's claws.

She however had forgotten that the bird could use lightning. And she only remembered this when black lightning hit her directly.

She gritted her teeth and countered it with her own lightning.

While the hawk and Artemis were fighting each other, Aiden was trying to find the summoner's location.

'What is hidden yet right in front of me?' He asked himself while Sera also tried to figure it out.

< If it's hidden and standing right in front of you, doesn't that mean that it's invisible? >

'Perhaps but I have a feeling that the hawk was talking about something else.' The black-haired boy was thinking hard about what the hawk had said before a theory suddenly struck his mind.

'The summoner is underground.' 

He jumped off the tree and placed his hands on the ground. Aiden quickly used the one with the shadow skill and made the shadows seep deep into the ground.

He then turned them into vines and spread them out in the entire area.

The shadow vines moved through the entire ground at rapid speed before all of a sudden, it hit something or rather, someone.

Aiden immediately made the vines wrap around the person and pulled his body up. Breaking through the ground, the teenager's shadows pulled out a middle-aged man with a red symbol visible on his forehead.

Every summoned got a symbol on their forehead whenever they had summoned any kind or any number of beasts. This showed that the summoner and the beast/beasts were connected with each other.

The summoned beast/beasts would also have the same symbol somewhere on their body.

While looking at the symbol, Aiden made the vines wrap around the man's throat and started choking him. But before he could die, the man clenched the fist of his right hand and the hawk released another pained cry.

The atmosphere suddenly started to burn as black lightning ran throughout the hawk's body.

And it didn't look as though the beast was in control of the lightning.