PATH OF THE STAR HUNTER

68 Chapter 68 Taunting the Beast

(Unknown POV)

I still remember the day when I went through the awakening ceremony as if it were yesterday, it was the best and worst moment of my life, on the one hand, I was glad to have awakened a unique and useful ability, but on the other hand, when the military They showed up on my doorstep with a mandatory enlistment notice I felt like my world was falling apart.

My only consolation is that the army is quite permissive towards Espers, especially those with unique abilities such as my healing ability, but that consolation was short-lived when I was transferred to a unit composed only of Esper last week, the leader was a jerk lustful and arrogant, if it weren’t for the fact that he was severely warned by the commander-in-chief, I’m sure the bastard would have already tried to **** me.

The defensive battle tonight was especially difficult, there were so many injured, no matter how much I wanted to help them all, the medical department could not save them even with my help. After everything was over, I thought I could finally go home, but it was not like that, orders came from above to invite and escort a person to a meeting of the high command, it seemed strange to me, but orders are orders.

When we got to the place that they pointed out to us, we found a man in a black robe, tall and a bit robust, he was wearing an orange mask with strange blue patterns, giving a sensation of mystery and oppression; All of this was only strengthened when we observed the massacre that took place on the north wall and we were told of the role that the masked man played in it.

Nothing special happened while we escorted him, he was quite polite and calm on the way to the meeting so he left a good impression on me despite the whole costume thing. After I left I thought I could finally call it quits tonight after signing some papers in the main office, I just wish that jerk Travice would stop hitting on me and not keep trying to get me to bed.

At the same time that I was signing some documents and trying to ignore my squad leader, a huge explosion was heard in the vicinity in the direction where the high command meeting took place, it did not take long for the extension of the communication in the room to ring broadcasting orders addressed to my squad.

Apparently, the masked man attacked the conference room for no apparent reason and then escaped from the building, he also somehow managed to plant some kind of explosive device that he used to collapse the entrance of the building and prevent the military forces there from pursuing him, our Orders were to capture the target and bring it back alive or dead. The moment I heard the orders I knew that the military had ruined it somehow and was trying to cover their butt by killing the other party involved, I had seen things like that before in the little time I have working for the army and what Little we knew about the masked man made it clear that he harbored no ill intentions, at least not at first.

But as always, orders were orders, we continued our way to the scene of the incident and as if it were the work of destiny, we came face to face with our objective while taking a shortcut to our destination. The reckless of our leader as always rushed to the attack, it was a thing of the pyromancers to be so impatient, his first attack was easily evaded and his second attack was surprisingly redirected back to us, this was even reinforced in some way because it manages to easily knock out the two defensive skill users in our squad.

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After managing to defeat two of us as soon as we met, he rushed at our leader with astonishing speed, a big beginner’s mistake in my opinion, despite what many might believe a pyromancer is even more dangerous up close than far, while I thought this fight would be over soon. I suddenly felt a sharp metallic object touch my throat at the same time that an arm took me from behind by the waist.

At that moment I realized that I had become the hostage of our target, I felt ashamed that I was captured so easily and angry that the masked man chose to go against the woman in the group first, of course when I hear the logic of my captor gaped, it was an incredibly shameless way to accuse someone of something you are doing at that precise moment, I also felt shy and embarrassed by the way he complimented my body.

The situation stalled for a few moments until the masked man seemed to realize that something was wrong and I knew exactly what had happened, one of my team members had used his stealth ability to approach us and free me. . . . at least I thought so until an overwhelming pain emerged from my left shoulder when I looked down I noticed a strangely familiar sword protruding from the area between my shoulder and my left clavicle, blood quickly stained my uniform, as doubt filled my mind, I almost thought that it had been a miscalculation that I was injured but when I heard the following words from my squad leader I realized that it had been used and discarded.

′′ You should have spread your legs when I ask Paulina, now I will have to explain to our superiors how you were killed by the masked man. ′′

A devious smile filled the face of the man who swore he would lower the sun, the moon, and the stars if I have a relationship with him, I looked at his expression with disgust when the sword was withdrawn from both me and the masked man who still had me held in his arms. For a second I thought he would kill me when he realized that I was no longer useful to him, just like my companions did just now, but instead, enduring his injury; He gently lay me down on the ground and places one of my hands over my wound to make pressure preventing me from bleeding.

My mind was filled with even more doubts than I had while I was betrayed, but oblivious to it all, the man in front of me stood calmly and slowly extending his right hand, removed the mask from his face, revealing a devilishly handsome man with ice-blue eyes and obsidian black hair, for a second I stood there watching him mesmerized by his attractiveness, only after I came out of my stupor, I noticed his expression and then came to a conclusion that seemed unfounded but seemed to me to make a lot of sense at that moment: somehow we had provoked a beast that we should not have provoked, someone who before was only playing with us, but who by removing his mask and letting us see his true face told us that the game was over.