Fight

Lucien had already spent more than one month in this place.

When he came, it was rather hard to adapt to the surrounding, where nothing else existed besides demons and blood. But as time went on, he already started to be familiar with the entire valley and net of tunnels and caves.

His kill count was only more than a hundred. The reason was that the stupid badge started to count every ten Claw Demons as one kill. They were too weak to be calculated separately. Lucien was firstly mad, but soon he chose not to think about it. But the good news was the fact that he had already achieved Kakuja V3.

Now he had two-layered armor. It was basically the same as version 2, only that now he had a mask and his body armor had another protective layer around it. The second layer was extremely thin, so one couldn't even say that it was another armor layer.

His mask covered his entire face and had two horns popping from his forehead. He looked like a demon.

His RC Level was now something over six thousand. But sadly, blood essences made from Claw Demons already started to lose effect on him. Now one blood essence from several Claw Demons only increased his RC Level by ten or twenty points. So Lucien was forced to hunt for some stronger demons or hunt Claw Demons in hundreds.

The second option was out of the question, so only the first one remained. Lucien chose as his target Red Demonised Orcs. In this valley, there were a lot of them, and now that Lucien had Kakuja V3, he could probably kill it in close combat.

He didn't use kakuja V2 in a fight against the first Red, Demonised Orcs; he fought because he knew it would take a long time to kill it cause in kakuja version two, he was similarly matched with the orc. But in version three, he was somewhat more powerful than it.

Lucien exited the cave he was sleeping in and went hunting in the valley. The valley was an extremely desolate place with only dead trees there, and the ground was cracked, revealing huge craters everywhere. It gave a vibe of a dead place where nothing life was present.

Lucien was searching for his targets for ten minutes before he found one. Alone. One Red Demonised Orc was walking in the opposite way to him.

Lucien immediately turned on his kakugan as his iris turned bright red and sclera black. Then he activated his kakuja and the third version of it.

Armor materialized around his body and covered every part. Nothing was left out. Mask covered his handsome face, and katana materialized in his right hand. Then another extra thin layer of armor covered the entire armor. The armor looked very similar to that of Corpse Collector Kirishima Arata.

Lucien felt a huge boost in his physical abilities as he was now clothed in kakuja armor. He felt like he could kill even the army of Claw Demons and Red Demonised Orcs. He looked at the Red Demonised Orc that was walking in his direction and gripped his katana strongly in his hand as he rushed to the orc.

The boost provided by kakuja armor was really huge. The poor orc didn't have any time to react as Lucien was already before him, slashing viciously at his hand, which was holding the weapon — severed in a mere second. As the hand of the orc was sent flying, Lucien performed a kick aimed at the orc's belly, blasting him several tens of meters away.

When Lucien came to the orc, it was already dead. Lucien was very surprised at how his kakuja armor was strong. He guessed that his current strength was weaker, Greater Demon, which was pretty impressive.

He knew that he was already nearing a point where he would enter 4th-Star, and it would take a long time before he could use Kakuja V3.

Lucien then inspected Red Demonized Orc, and he killed to see how much damage he had done. Then he used Blood-Essence Extractor on the orc and continued to hunt.

***

Lucien had already killed another four Red Demonized Orcs. He searched for those who were alone before killing them in surprise attacks in one hit.

This was a very good strategy; blood essences refined from these creatures were a little better than those from Claw Demon.

One blood essence from one Red Demonized Orc could increase his RC Level by twenty points at least.

Now Lucien was already ready to go to sleep as he was tired from the usage of his kakuja armor for several hours in a row. It was still tough to use continuously for a long time as it depletes much stamina. But as he was already leaving for his cave, a temporary home, he suddenly saw something interesting.

Two Red Demonized Orcs were fighting against each other. Both of them were heavily injured, and we're going from the last as soon as Lucien saw that, his eyes sparkled. He immediately activated his kakuja version three.

He waited for a moment when the last clash between two Red Demonized Orcs would clash before he would attack them and killing in one hit.