1 Damn you!

A young boy, roughly sixteen years old, was sprinting through a dangerous forest of magical plants and monsters.

He seemed unconcerned about the monsters that lurked there.

He was already lucky enough to make it this far through the support he received.

His speed kept increasing and didn't appear to slow down anytime soon after what happened in the forest. He desperately ran to try to manage to get out to live another day.

But, his legs and body were already tired enough and looked like they would stop functioning anytime.

He had long black hair, dark black eyes, and a lean and thin body that was trembling as he ran. He looked weak. You see it, but this was making things worse.

He was breathing heavily while tears were flowing down his eyes. His heart was beating loud enough to be heard outside. He had a grave expression on his face filled with despair and sadness.

"Fuck, my body won't hold for long." He murmured, his body was already at its limit from the running.

He never bothered to get strong, so he relaxed his whole life. He never thought things could turn for the worse and he would ever have to run for his life like this.

He wiped his tears from his sleeves, but that just caused the blood on the sleeves to get rubbed on his face.

His body didn't have a single scratch, but his body was soaked with red blood. His black clothes did a good job hiding the blood stains.

"Howl... howl... howl... howl..."The howling of monsters was sounded all over the forest; the monsters were in battle themselves.

The whole forest was in chaos at this moment, with every animal migrating to a safer place. The world was going through a drastic change at this moment as a result of the death of a certain someone.

All the monsters were fighting the hordes of hunters in hordes throughout the forest. Magical beasts like ogres, demi-humans, and others were making a run for it to a safer place to get out of their range.

"Like hell with this chaos. I am just a normal demon, and what the hell with this hunter crap. I look just like a human anyways so how do they even recognize me." He cursed as he saw a swarm of hunters chasing after him, ready to catch up with him at any moment.

His legs were at their limits. He could feel the world going dark slowly as he was about to lose his consciousness.

He bit his lips with his teeth. Blood blurted out of his red lips, and the little pain made him hold onto his consciousness.

"They will catch me any second. My legs are going numb." He thought it was getting hard to even think calmly and he felt his willpower wouldn't be much help any longer.

"Ahh," he exclaimed.

He tripped off, he was dragged to the ground, and the hunters finally caught him.

His leg had just been fractured in the fall, and he couldn't even feel his legs.

His body had already given up and he just wanted to relax while his brain was too lazy to think of a way to get out of this problem.

'So this is it for me. My life ends here and now.' He thought the hunters in armor had already caught up to him while they held swords in their hands.

The Hunters have awakened, humans with magic power. A single hunter could overpower an entire force of humans, and every hunter had abilities.

As for the boy lying down on the ground, he had given up on his life. He was not a hunter since he was never a human, to begin with, although he looked like one.

He had gone through awakening, but he was never able to figure out his ability. The hunters instinctively knew what they could do from their abilities. There were devices and other hunters that could help them figure it out, but they never got any leads.

It was either he was never in a situation where he could use his power so he never attempted to learn any skill, to begin with.

"Kill me already. I don't have any plans to beg for my life anyway." He said that as he relaxed his body on the ground, he was completely defenseless.

He was a weakling, so resisting was out of the question, and now even his body refused to follow his command.

"I thought he was strong, but he is just a weakling."

"It is weird if I say so myself, but it makes our job easier." A massive hunter with a bulky reply replied to the other.

One of them raised his sword while looking at him with cold eyes that didn't have any sympathy.

"Cut his head off, we will need to verify that to get the reward." He stated as he looked at him raising his sword to kill him, "It will make things easier."

"Yes, I will do as you say, leader." He was about to cut his head off as he swung his sword.

So this is it. Sorry father, but this ends here. He thought as if he was ready for his life to come to an end.

"Roar, roar, roar..."A loud roar sounded in the area, a very loud and sharp sound that was very clear.

The sword that was about to cut off his head stopped an inch away from his neck. Every person present in the forest had their body paralyzed while each one of them was getting nervous with fear that filled their being.

Each of them looked at each other while moving their pupils, but they couldn't speak nor react. They were like statues and a baby would be able to kill them.

"Roar... Roar... Roar..."The sound resounded again, making the effects severe.

Breathing was not affected by what was holding their lives since it was a subconscious process of the brain.

They all spotted a massive figure hovering above them as it slowly faded, causing the formerly frenetic forest to fall silent.

The lower-level hunters and monsters were all rendered immobile, while the stronger levels of resistance fled as soon as they noticed the magical beast above them.

"Boom...Bam...Boom..."The figure landed on the ground just before the three hunters and him. They were still paralyzed, unable to move.

As they looked at the giant magical beast standing in front of them, they knew that they were done for and, worst of all, resistance was futile in front of this magic beast with their power since all of them were low-rankers.

'I won't die alone. Just eat us up already.' He had sweat running down his back as he was cowering in fear and thought in his mind.

It was a red dragon that had just landed there, and due to its presence, the monsters were cowering in fear.

It used "Dragon Roar" before to make the whole forest fall in fear.

[Dragon Roar]

[The sound of the dragon is frightening in and of itself.]

Is it possible that it came to save me? A sparkle of hope shined in his eyes as he looked at the dragon. He felt there was a chance of survival.

The dragon picked him up with his teeth and threw him high in the air.

'It is here to save me.' He was happy as the dragon threw him in the air as he prepared himself to land on his back.

The dragon looked at him in the air, and while he was falling on the dragon's head, it opened its mouth wide, swallowing him wholly at once.

"I thought you were saving me." He cursed as he fell into his mouth and was swallowed by the dragon.

"Damn you!"

The dragon moved toward the hunters that had managed to calm themselves from the dragon's roar. They held their swords to resist with the strength they had left.

"Why should we fear that we are hunters?" One of the hunters attempted to encourage them as he remained in fear.