Hereditary powers [8]

"we need to do it early! we need to-

"We?! You're the one who suggested that you idiot!!"

"the more we argue the closer they will come!!"

"i know that! You don't think that every! Single! Fucking day! I don't think about them!"

"good! Then you do know...

I heard them arguing again, the ear bleeding noise penetrated my young ears but it's not like I even knew what they were even saying.

"they will kill her in sight! We need to go!"

The young Egam only listened to them for a couple of times but that old habit changed as their sentences were unnatural and odd compared to normal arguing, the words her parents exchanged were mostly directed towards the naive young Egam which is why her habit of listening ended as soon as the arguing emerged.

It was 4 years of constant arguing and nagging between her parents, the toxic environment changed Egam's personality however not much as she found some ways to avoid all the conflict.

Level up, level up, level up was constantly appearing in her computer. The game was addictive and it took a lot of hours from her lifetime but it was definitely better than growing up constantly listening to your toxic parents, at this time she didn't even bother listening to their arguments as the words that came from their mouths were now becoming gibberish to her.

Unfortunately she was kicked out that same day at a young age of 16 and the last thing she saw was the front door as her parents already closed it, the authorities came to investigate but they found no traces of her parents other than a few missing objects, the house was eerily clean as if no one even lived there in the first place.

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(stop arguing! Please focus everyone!) Egam thought but she couldn't bring herself to actually say it

"we need to run! it's the boss!" some hunter said with a shaky voice

"tsk, we can't... That's a fire lizard, it's fast but it has poor eye sight and hearing so everyone stay still" the leader exclaimed with his body completely frozen despite the tight situation they were facing right now

"what do we do?! Should we run back to the outside?!"

"we can't, that thing can catch up with us in a minute... There's a hundred innocent civilians out there waiting for us to clear this gate, I don't think they're prapared if a massive lizard would start slaughtering every single person without any warnings, now don't move a muscle unless you wanna die"

The lizard was about the size of a cow which was still huge however that isn't the problem for the raid team, it's length was the real deal as it was about the size of a fully grown anaconda. Attacking the head wasn't an option since it was covered in extremely thick hide which could probably take in all the kinetic energy of a bullet, even its back was protected since it was covered in spikes especially the tail since it could practically destroy your legs if the lizard whipped you with its tail.

The lizard stared at them but it didn't show any hostility at the moment, the hunters would've attacked by know but with only 9 of them it wasn't an option.

"for you new hunters.. Its only weak spot is the soft skin between its scales, it's a small spot but it's enough for any blades to punch through it like butter... Just be sure to not get stabbed" the leader informed without much confidence

"just stay still until it's leaves... After that we will run back to the outside world and call for emergency backup"

It was a hard situation indeed, not moving in front of such a dangerous creature was near impossible for new hunters. As the lizard suddenly moved quickly to head to the next room, it was misunderstood by one of the new hunters as he thought that the lizard was coming towards them.

"fuck it's coming!!"

"idiot!! Don't run!"

Just as the unfortunate hunter started to run, the lizard was already sprinting towards him like a bull. It went past the hunters like a speeding train not even paying attention to the rest, it only had one goal...

"aaah!!!!-...

With its thick and armored head and that incredibly fast speed, the lizard rammed the poor guy like a fist punching through paper. The last thing they heard was some bones breaking and a lifeless body that was thrown at the wall from that hard ram.

"shit.. Now! Attack its back and be careful!"

All of them charged despite the clear danger that was looming over their shoulders, Egam was the only one that hesitated.

Since the lizard had poor vision, the hunters did not need to worry about the lizard seeing them from behind but the lizard definitely felt the presence of people just from touch.

"stop! Don't get on top of it!"

"what-

-splat-

Although the newbie managed to make a deep stab on the lizard's back it didn't mean that he would get any retaliation from the dungeon boss, blood splattered everywhere, his head was busted open as the lizard bent its spiky tail towards the hunter standing on its back. There was no longer any face that resembled a human after that gruesome attack.

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The group faught with their lives on the line for as long as they could, retreat wasn't an option as that could lead to horrific civilian casualties and running away was futile for them. Guns couldn't do anything as the scales blocked the bullets and the kinetic energy from those bullets only pissed the lizard off more. Egam only managed to get in a few good stabs but that wasn't enough to end the fight.

(am i going to die?! I can't fight that thing alone!) Egam thought while her body was fully focused on dodging

It wasn't only deadly spikes that threatened them, a couple fire breaths here and there were also bothersome for them as one of the hunters didn't dodge quickly enough, third degree burns covered most of his arm but since he was an experienced hunter he knew how to take pain well.

The battle continued but it was a one sided slaughter as one by one each raid member was put out of battle which only left 2 people.

(how am I still alive?) Egam thought

"don't space out! Keep dodging it will bleed out soon!" the leader shouted as his voice started to weaken from all the shouting he did

Don't space out, the lizard definitely listened to the advice as it started to shoot out fire like a flame thrower from its mouth without mercy to whoever victim receives the super hot gift.

"aarhg! Keep dodging I'm fine-

The lizard whipped the hunter with its tail but luckily as if he had a four leaf clover on his leg, he was only hit by an area of the tail with no spikes but it did dislocate some of his bones which immediately knocked him out of combat.

"fuck! (I'm too exhausted! For this!)"

Her halberd was still sharp but not her body or her senses, the only thing left that was keeping her alive was the adrenaline rush which gave her enough reaction time to dodge any of its attacks.

(urk... Think! Egam... I don't wanna die, I came here to earn money! Not death!) Egam stiffened her resolve although the reason was questionable

(!!) she reacted when a sudden pain erupted from her head

Suddenly a spark of unknown instincts covered her mind when she swiftly and luckily managed to grab a rifle on the ground which still had some ammo.

(my body! What's happening?)

She avoided one of the tail whip attacks easily, it was a clear sign that the boss was already halfway to losing its strength. She somehow accurately stabbed its golden soft spot and on the neck at that, all that was left was too...

-ratatatatatatatatatatattatatatatata~~~~

She used her halberd as a wedge to push away the scales in order to widen the weak spot, after that she jammed the gun in there and began unleashing hell, the recoil was great for a normal human being but as a hunter, recoil was the least of her concerns. The bullets punched straight into the brain like hot knife slicing butter, what happened next to the lizard's brain was obvious because high speed bullets bouncing around inside your skull surely wasn't a pleasant feeling. For a second she thought about how lucky she was right now, surely there's gatta be some drawbacks right? She thought in just a split second.

{Warning! Excessive use of locked mana will result in death or permanent body injuries, automatic shutdown of mana will occur in 10 seconds to avoid any further harm}

{Warning, neurological damage is a possibility, blocking off hereditary instincts to avoid harm}

At that moment her entire body suddenly lost control as if she was paralyzed, she could move but for a moment she couldn't feel anything as if she didn't know how to walk or move as if she was in a new body.

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