Chapter 180 - Night Hunt

Chapter 180: Night Hunt

The Incubus System Chapter 180. Night Hunt

When we came out of the portal, we arrived at a deserted unfinished construction where Ian and the others took me last week.

[The portal has closed! ]

"We'll start from here," I said.

"Here?" said Emma with a frown. Her feet stepped forward and her eyes swept around the place. The place was very quiet, it felt like the demon could not possibly find its prey there.

"Yes." I put on the cap I brought from home and took out my Demonic Spike. But instead of using it to the max level, I only took out a quarter of it. Five of my black lances appeared and hovered around me. Casually, I reached out my hand and took one of them.

"You want to learn this, right?"

"Yes." Her eyes watched my smooth movement.

"Try it," I said. Actually, I was quite confused about why she asked me to teach this easy movement. I meant, didn't she just need to catch her lance? But maybe I could do it easily because my system let me controlled my lance more freely.

She turned to empty space, her hand stretched forward as she used her Mana Strike. Her palm glowed in white and her white lance came out of it. Quickly, her other hand moved to try to catch that lance, but the lance that came out of her hand launched forward and stuck into the ground ten meters in front of her. An irritated sigh escaped her mouth. This time she changed her position by placing her hands close together which allowed her to immediately catch the lance as soon as it left her palm. Again, as soon as the lance came out, Emma tried to catch it with her other hand but failed.

'I see ...' I quickly realized what our differences were. Speed. I forgot that my agility was far above normal humans, besides that my eyes could also perceive the other's movements as if they were moving in slow motion.

'I guess I've gotten used to living as a demon so I forgot that other people are different from me.' Yes, this was the first reason why I could win against Bern and be able to fight the rat demons even though I had never fought before.

After she failed to catch the third lance, she turned to me.

"Do you see them?" I asked as our eyes watched several demon locations from the top of the tallest building there. Like before, even though I could fly, I still had to be careful about using this ability since I didn't want to get caught. Especially if the military thought I was an unidentified flying object. That's why instead of flying around, I decided to look for the demon's location from this building. Besides that, I also had to make sure of the demon hunters' positions.

"I can see it," said Emma. Different from before, her eyes were filled with anger, showing her grudge against the demons clearly.

I needed to admit, Kitty was right. Even though this area looked calm and peaceful, the demons were hiding everywhere. In fact, at least we could find the three demons' locations in less than 5 minutes. We also saw a demon hunter fighting three other demons at the fourth location. Luckily, they weren't high-level demons like the Hounds before or the Swamp Demon, but only the Shadow Imps and Rat Demons, even Emma should be able to beat them.

"Get ready." I hugged Emma and flicked my wings to fly to the first location. As expected, we could kill them easily despite their large numbers. Besides that, I also closed the crack near them with ease since the crack was much smaller than usual. I didn't even use any of my offensive skills. While Emma barely took out her Holy Chain. Also because the demons were hiding in a dark alley and other hidden locations, I was able to fight them openly.

My kick landed on the shadow Imp's head before me and turned him to ashes. While Emma stabbed her lance at the last Imp in front of her.

*Ting!*

[All enemies have been defeated!]

[You Have Gained EXP!]

'It's not enough ...' I thought. This was the third location and they were all low-level demons. I wouldn't be able to level up with this.

'But I have to admit ----' I glanced over Emma's head and realized she had gone up a level even though we had only started our patrol for 10 minutes.

'This should be considered as a lot of demons for a demon hunter.'

"Emma, how many demons did you kill every time you were on patrol?" I asked. This was quite intriguing to me since I just realized, the demon hunters had been spending their time on patrols longer than me, yet their level was much lower than mine. An advanced demon hunter like Ruby was only level 31 and even Mrs Clea just got level 52.

I understood one of the reasons was because the crack had just appeared a lot more recently, but I wanted to know how big the difference was.

"Usually we only kill 2 to 3 demons every night. Sometimes none at all. But since the demon attacks have gotten worse lately, we usually kill around 4 to 5 demons in one night. Some can kill up to 8 demons," she explained.

'That's why ...' 2 to 3 demons a night was a small number. Besides that, I was guessing, the demons who fled to the human world were usually just the Shadow Imps and Rat Demons. That's why the demon hunters could handle them easily. Now I understood why the association wasn't prepared for large-scale demon attacks.