Chapter 289: Chapter 289 Beast
old building  “Shop”.

A permanently blind man spent three Strange Tales Points at the shop to exchange for a samurai sword.

Not long after he took the samurai sword from the ‘boss’.

His ears seemed to have heard something…

“Ivanoff was defeated!? In a one-on-one combat… Even though Ivanoff, who is proficient in Sambo, might be inferior to the opponent, he shouldn’t have been defeated so quickly and completely incapacitated.

It seems like we’ve run into a tough one right from the start.

There only appears to be one person coming to the old building, but in reality, there are three others lurking in the dark.”

The leader of this convict team, who possesses an almost abnormal hearing ability, seems to be able to hear every piece of news.

“Use your ‘methods’.

Take advantage of the young man who is alone downstairs and hasn’t recovered yet, quickly deal with him…whether he dies or lives is not important. Just weaken the fighting power of the opponent’s team.

As for the three lurking in the dark, I’ll keep an eye on them.”

“Okay!”

Han Dong stared at his opponent, who had turned into a ‘vegetable’.

Quickly, he produced a delicate syringe with a pure gold flower pattern rim from his palm, extracting the ‘Cell Essence (Convict – Ivanoff)’.

Han Dong planned to find some free time to study this guy’s cell structure properly using lab equipment.

The series of abilities Ivanoff had just demonstrated, not to mention his fighting techniques, showed that his physical functions had far outstripped those of a normal human.

It felt like he was in the world of the fighting anime “Baki”, fighting various fighting monsters.

Without using special techniques against such fighting monsters, Han Dong would find it very difficult to deal with them.

With his latent visual perception, Han Dong sensed that another convict was coming.

“Is it coming… One? No, it’s hiding its presence! There are two…”

Just as Han Dong was distracted by the footsteps from upstairs.

Bang!

The door to a side room was kicked open!

The thick security door was heavily slammed against Han Dong’s body.

Then, a hand that was longer than an average human’s, suddenly stretched out from behind the security door, grabbed Han Dong’s neck and lifted him into the air.

“Strange… Ivanoff was defeated by a nobody like you? It appears you must have some ‘special’ means, right?”

The one holding Han Dong was also a convict from a Russian prison.

The difference is.

This person’s body wasn’t as robust, but his limbs were unexpectedly long… His rough face gave people a sense of an ape-man.

Meanwhile, another Russian man, clearly smaller in stature than Ivanoff, walked down the stairs holding two claw knives… there was a chilling evil Qi looming in his eyes.

“Apxy…get on with it! The boss said we don’t need to leave any survivors… this kid is a bit quirky.”

“Got it!”

Apxy, the convict with unusually long limbs, pulled out a hand axe from his waist and directly smashed it down towards Han Dong’s head.

At the critical moment.

A shadow [The Eye] flashed by.

A claw!

A kick!

Ding! Sparks flew!

The hand axe that was about to hit Han Dong’s head collided with a claw blade from the side.

A wave of power passed through the axe handle, forcing him to let go and the axe flew out.

Apxy, the convict with unusually long limbs, had a shocked look on his face, and without hesitation, blocked his face with his arms.

Smack!

It blocked the side kick straight on, but the power forced him to retreat three steps.

A distinct footprint of a wolf’s paw was imprinted on his arm, some fresh blood dripped onto the ground.

“Oh… didn’t the boss say he would take care of the three hidden people? How did he let one get through?”

Apxy stared at the white-haired youth who had suddenly appeared in front of him. Not daring to slack off, he immediately assumed a fighting stance.

Exactly.

It was indeed [Abe . Rhein] who stepped in at the crucial moment.

Although he was held up for a moment by the ‘eyeless convicts’ upstairs, he arrived just in time to protect Han Dong.

“Abe… These guys are masters of various ‘anti-human’ techniques, unlike any life-forms or creatures we’ve encountered outside the city… be careful.”

“Don’t worry, I’m also good at this.”

Abe’s white hair had grown to the back of his neck, the white mist covering his body vaguely suggesting the forms of a white wolf and a giant bear.

When it came to ‘anti-human,’ Abe was not lacking at all.

Abe, who received ‘one-on-one’ training every day, experienced most of the real combat.

Members of the Behemoth Knight Group are not very fond of theories, they prefer to teach directly through combat.

In the first few months Abe joined the school, he would end each day of learning with several bumps on his face and fractures all over his body. Sometimes he could only rest in the nearest stable, swiftly healing his body with his unique Hundred Beasts Constitution.

The sparring with the teachers only stopped short of killing him, they never held back.

Breaking bones, piercing the body were quite common situations.

Though it was hard for Abe, he persevered…and honed his fighting skills.

Mastering the ‘routine’ of fighting people.

“Haha…such skill at such a young age! You all must have been trained by some assassin organization, right? But it’s a shame you haven’t lived long enough, so your experience falls short.

Like for example! Once you establish an advantage… you should not give the enemy a chance to breathe.”

Apxy, the convict with different length of limbs, suddenly pulled out two hand axes from behind him and threw them at Abe with a unique technique.

The path of the spinning axes is quite eerie.

Abe had to dodge while also facing them head-on… Swish! A light slash appeared on the back of his right hand.

And while Abe was concentrating on dodging the axes, the convict – Tugenev, who had been standing in the hallway with his claw knife, moved.

Two convicts attacked, forming a front-and-back siege, locking onto all of Abe’s vital points.

“Such strong killing intent…”

Definitely a different feeling.

When Abe sparred with the knight teachers, he did not feel this kind of killing intent, nor did he face lethal moves.

But…

To beasts, the situations are all the same.

That is, who is the prey, who is the hunter.

Strands of white hair floated on Abe’s body.

「Wolf Shadow」

Aided by beast perception, he dodged quickly! Creating some distracting illusions on top of his original moves.

He evaded the flanking attack by the two convicts with incredible moves and launched a fierce counter-attack.

Swish!

Blood splattered on the spot.

The claw knife hit the ground.

The wrist veins of the convict – Tugenev were entirely severed by Abe, rendering him unable to wield his weapon… he was forced to back off temporarily to stop the bleeding.

With the loss of an attacking convict.

The significantly relieved Abe jumped up directly, tightly grasping the collar of the convict Apxy with one hand.

「Power Palm」

The phantom image of a giant bear emerged behind him.

He delivered three consecutive strikes to the convict’s head.

Several fractures appeared in the skull,

Eye blood vessels burst,

Severe concussions.

After falling to the ground, Apxy tried several times to support himself but slipped again and again.

This was the close combat ability of the [Hundred Beasts Abe], considered the strongest among the Apprentice Knights.