"A monster formed by absorbing some kind of mysterious power?"

David's vision clearly showed the thing's life energy value: 5,000 points.

That number wasn't exactly shocking to David, but he had this feeling that you couldn't just measure this thing's strength by its life energy alone.

"Just a ritual monster. Plus it's mixed with all kinds of weird powers—some from the sea, and some from those scumbags who like playing with flesh and blood."

Freud grinned, showing a pretty vicious smile. "Lord David, looks like your intel was spot on..."

With that, he actively moved toward the monster. With each step forward, that invisible barrier applied more and more pressure on it.

But this time, the monster held up under the pressure. Even though it looked like it was struggling, all those fish tails flapping on its body seemed to be splitting the force field apart.

Like fish tails parting water, the barrier's invisible force field got forcibly separated!

But Freud quickly blew David's mind again. When this hunter fought, he was nothing like some refined doctor—more like a terrifying monster...

His long blade moved so fast you couldn't even see afterimages. The terrifyingly quick strikes filled the space around him. In that instant, David couldn't even count how many times he'd swung.

The fish-tail monster's body was already trapped by the force field's repulsion, making it super clumsy. Under that kind of assault, it didn't even have a chance to fight back. In the blink of an eye, it got cut into countless pieces...

Over already? Just like that?

David froze for a second.

That was way too fast... he hadn't even had a chance to sneak off and grab his arm yet!

Just when David was getting worried, he "happily" noticed the monster's nearly empty health bar suddenly starting to rapidly recover.

The dead fish on the ground were flowing into its body, replenishing its life energy...

"Nice! Keep it up! Hang in there a little longer!"

Seeing this, David immediately started cheering for that tenacious monster in his head, while also charging forward himself like some reckless idiot.

The newly revived monster got Freud looking even more excited. He was about to swing his blade again when he saw David rush right past him, looking super brave and totally brainless...

Sure enough, the monster slapped David away with one hit as he tried to get in close to shoot.

The doctor's mouth twitched. He rolled his eyes, then moved and appeared at the monster's side, blade slashing out.

"CLANG!"

A slender arm covered in scales suddenly blocked the hunter's blade. The clash sounded harsh, even struck sparks.

Freud froze. That arm blocking his strike was incredibly hard—nothing like the feel of cutting the monster before!

Looking over, he saw an even taller figure with a long, snake-like body had suddenly appeared next to the fish-tail monster...

This new elongated monster was also covered in scales. It looked like countless fish bodies twisted and coiled together into a sea serpent. Its body looked smoother and longer.

The monster's long arm swept out, explosive power erupting, actually slamming Freud hard against the floor.

"I see... it split? One to separate my barrier, the other to overpower me with strength..."

Freud braced himself on all fours. That heavy hit made blood spray from his body, but if David had been there, he'd have seen it didn't actually hurt him much.

Bones hard as steel and muscles packed with surging power supported the high-tier hunter's body. He didn't care about this level of attack at all...

Just then, a brilliant bullet shot in from outside the warehouse entrance. It traced this dazzling white line, piercing straight into the monster pounding on Freud.

BOOM!

A miniature sun exploded from its body!

That was a Blazing Sun bullet.

Lucio, who'd been watching the battlefield the whole time, finally found his opening. He fired the most powerful attack from that long rifle of his.

Just one shot, and that elongated fish monster with 5,000 health got its body blown apart, its health bar dropping by half instantly!

Freud seized the opportunity to push up from the ground. Taking the two monsters' counterattacks head-on, he roared and swung his blade...

While the high-tier hunter battled the two fish monsters, David, who'd gotten knocked into a corner, quietly got up. He casually dusted himself off, turned around, and slipped out through a side door.

After leaving the warehouse, David deliberately took a roundabout route. He took off his hunter coat and hat, then pulled out a featureless mask from inside his jacket and put it on his face.

When he passed by a wall behind the warehouse, this call from deep in his heart broke through his senses and made him stop.

"Right here..."

David looked at the wall as the blue Monster's Claw materialized behind him...

...

In the small room at the back of the warehouse, the Shattered Church cultist was listening to the sounds of battle up front. The Order's hunters seemed pretty tough, but things also seemed to be going beyond expectations.

Not that the hunters were too strong—more like they weren't strong enough...

According to the high priest's calculations, the Order should have sent way more people. Now it looked like only two of them could actually fight. That was kinda dangerous.

The monster being controlled by the forbidden object had been fused with that weird chunk of meat they'd found... that was genuine evil god stuff—a tentacle from the "Mother of Flesh"!

If the hunters couldn't deal with it, the high priest's plan might run into trouble.

The cultist felt nervous. He was just considering whether to evacuate this dangerous warehouse early when suddenly the wall behind him made this loud crash. The violent shaking almost knocked him to the ground.

A huge hole appeared in the wall, and light from outside poured in.

Through the light, the cultist saw this tall figure. His eyes, used to being in darkness, got all blurry from the sudden brightness.

He couldn't see who it was clearly—just this terrifying arm...

"Is... is that Lord Divine Envoy!?"

Without giving him any chance to speak, the pale arm thrust from the light into darkness. Six fingers gripped his face.

The next instant, his thoughts sank into numbness. Everything in his mind seemed to lose all color, becoming even paler than that arm.

Touch of Folly!

David used the Heretic's Arm to control the cultist from nearly 15 feet away. Without anyone needing to tell him, he'd already noticed the black box behind the guy.

The Hand of Divine Corpse was calling to him!

He yanked the cultist out of the room and grabbed him with the Hand of Monster, then hurled him hard toward the distant sea.

The poor cultist still hadn't figured out what was happening when he got dizzy and ended up like a drowned rat.

David didn't kill him because he still needed to cooperate with the Shattered Church on the next step. His ambitions didn't stop at just one Hand of Divine Corpse.

Either way, David finally got what he wanted.

He rushed in and opened the box. Inside lay a deep red arm.

Identical to the one he already had...

[Hand of Divine Corpse discovered. Initiate Limb Grafting Ritual?]

Such a beautiful prompt made David's spirits soar!

"Yes!"

The moment he made his choice without hesitation, the deep red arm was rapidly absorbed by his body and disappeared completely!

Power... flooded into his body.

The divine flesh seemed to carry a trace of divinity that mortals couldn't comprehend. In that moment, something David couldn't perceive also entered his body along with it.

The Hand of Divine Corpse on his panel immediately changed.

[Hand of Divine Corpse II: Requires variable amounts of psychic energy or life energy to activate. Can release both arms. Cooldown: 60 minutes.]

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