Chapter 9: Lone Walker
At that moment, El noticed that the Lone Walker was chewing, eating the body of another infected it had hunted.
"Lone Walker is a level 2 infected, while my strength is equivalent to an intermediate level 1 Evolved human." said El.
It didn't take long for the Lone Walker to realize El's presence. The creature stared at El with bloodthirsty red eyes. "This is bad, it looks like I'm going to have to fight to the death."
Suddenly, Lone Walker's fist was right in front of El. Instantly, El was hit so hard that he spit out a mouthful of blood and was blown away. At that moment, El's entire body felt like it had been hit by a car.
Brak!
El stopped when he hit the ground and rolled several times on the sidewalk. His ribs were cracked, his left arm was broken and the skin on his back was scratched all over. The abrasions could be seen from the torn back of his shirt.
El tried to get back up. However, it was only a moment. Suddenly, the Lone walker darted quite quickly and stood in front of El while raising his arm, preparing to hit El.
With Rhiengan maintaining an insightful eye, El could see the Lone Walker's attack clearly. At that moment, El immediately rolled on the ground.
Brak!
The sidewalk shattered in one blow. El was shocked, thinking that if he had been hit one more time, he would have broken all of his ribs. But this wasn't the time to think about that.
Pulling the katana from the sheath, El moved and looked for a safe position to attack. El moved to Lone Walker's left, preparing to stab his temple area. However, Lone Walker soon realized that and hit El hard in the stomach.
Brak!
El was blown away, entering the building right beside him through the windowpane. This time, El vomited even more blood than before. Because his ribs were broken, causing his lungs and heart and other vital organs to be injured.
"Uhuk-uhuk, argh! Damn, my ribs." El was curled up on the floor, with broken glass all around his. He whimpered in pain with his whole body trembling from the extreme pain.
Even so, El tried to move his trembling body. His right hand opened the waist bag, taking out the healing potion as soon as possible. A normal person would have immediately lost consciousness, but El was not a normal person.
El stood up, he had time to look around and survey the place quickly. Apparently, this building was a restaurant. More precisely, El felt in the restaurant kitchen. If you see a lot of kitchen cooking utensils and hygienic white paint on the walls.
Glup... Glup... Glup!
Drinking the healing potion to the end, all wounds all over the body and including internal wounds would fully recover within 10 seconds. But, the Lone Walker outside the building wouldn't let El recover.
The Lone Walker immediately broke through the wall of the building and charged at El with its bone-hard body armor. Seeing the impending attack, El forced himself to dodge to the side.
Then El ran out of the kitchen, heading out of the building.
Because El moved suddenly when the healing potion hadn't fully taken effect, all of El's wounds didn't heal properly.
Some of the wounds that did recover were the abrasions on his back that had returned, and the fractured bones in his hand that had recovered. But, the cracked internal organs and ribs had only partially recovered.
"Ugh!" El growled in pain. But, he still tried to keep moving, raising the katana with both hands. Then, El stared at the building, the direction from which the Lone Walker would probably exit.
Suddenly, an idea came to mind. Immediately, El opened the bag containing the molotov bottles. Upon opening it, El saw that only 2 bottles remained and the rest had been broken.
"Two left?" El said in a weak voice. "It's okay, two is enough." Then, El saw that cars or other vehicles were parked carelessly, some even crashing into other buildings.
"Roar!" Lone Walker's savage room sounded. El immediately prepared, holding 1 homemade molotov bottle to throw at the Lone Walker.
Not long after, Lone Walker walked out of the restaurant. The expression on his face was savage, thirsting for blood. But, on the other hand, Lone Walker seemed to be mocking El's weakness.
"Tch, that thing must be mocking me!" muttered El with a serious expression.
As soon as the Lone Walker moved, it darted quickly towards El. Swiftly, El immediately threw a bottle of molotov that he hadn't yet lit.
Krak!
The molotov bottle shattered, the high-alcohol liquid spread on his body. For a moment, Lone Walker was a little astonished. The expression of astonishment made El suspect that the Lone Walker he was dealing with was a special case.
"Apparently, the Lone Walker who is my opponent has the potential to mutate to the highest level. Damn, I'm so jealous of the protagonist's level of luck!" El said coldly and flatly, focusing on the Lone Walker.
Not wanting to waste any time, El immediately took the lighter in his pocket and lit the wick of another Molotov cocktail. Then, El threw it towards a nearby car.
Blast!
The car immediately caught fire. With a serious look and a katana held in both hands, El's final round against the special Lone Walker began.
"Come forward, damn it!"
The creature seemed to understand El's taunt. Lone Walker, quickly darted towards where El was. The creature's right hand was raised, preparing to crush El's body.
Rhinegan's insightful eye ability activated, predicting the Lone Walker's movements with great accuracy and one step faster. This made the movement seen by El slow down, making it easy for him to dodge.
El took a step back just as the Lone Walker appeared in front of him because it was so fast. The Lone Walker's punch missed, El immediately lowered his body, El's katana swung with both hands.
Crank!
Blast!
The katana in his hand brushed the metal of the burning car. The sparks that ignited in the air formed a vertical line slightly curved like a red crescent moon. It quickly burned the body of the Lone Walker in front of his.
"Roar!" Lone Walker roared like a wounded lion. His entire body was covered in flames, making the virus in his blood boil.
Seeing Lone Walker roaring and struggling as his body burned. El hurried to run away as soon as possible, because according to the prediction, the car would explode in a moment.
Boom!
A loud explosion was created, throwing Lone Walker far enough to hit another car. Lone Walker seemed to have difficulty moving due to the impact of the explosion.
El ran towards the direction where the Lone Walker was, even though his body hurt all over. "Argh!" Moving the position of holding the katana, El intended to stab his temple immediately.
Crot!
The katana pierced his temple, but El still didn't want to stop another attack. With all of El's might, his katana whose tip was still stuck in the Lone Walker's head was lifted, along with the Lone Walker's head.
Fresh blood spurted out all around along with the bones of the back that El had pulled out of his head. In doing so, Lone Walker died at El's hands.
In the next second, a system notification echoed in his mind. The notification that said the side mission had been completed.
Ding!
[Beyonder with serial number 120,000 was successfully completed level B side mission, -Lone Walker-]
[+5000 points]