Versatile: Alternate World

She is quite sharp. She immediately noticed me following but hearing her words, I am quite sure she is just guessing and she was hoping for me to come out from hiding and go out to reveal myself. But I am not so naive as to fall into that. Activating [Stealth]. I quickly blended into the shadows while still continuing to observe her at a safe distance.

The woman frowned when no one came out even after her provocation.

"Looks like you are really keen on dying today huh?" she puts down her groceries and snaps her fingers, releasing a black staff in her hands. However, that intimidation does not work for me. I am not afraid of facing someone who doesn't pose a threat to me which made it hilarious for me to watch someone activate their threatening powers to snuff me out from my hiding spot.

She unleashed her abilities all around her and tried to use her magic spells to deal against me but it wasn't anything dangerous to me so, in the end, it was a fruitless attempt. After a few seconds, she stopped and frowned since there isn't any reaction at all.

"Am I just imagining things? No one is in here. I unleashed everything and no one died, that was strange. I am quite sure someone is following me."

She returned the staff from where she pulled it out and picked up the groceries before she started moving again. From the looks of it, she is about to go home. That's the time I found the right chance. I changed my Versatile Weapon into a Hook and Chain and throw the hook towards her neck.

It was all so sudden that she didn't even get to evade it. I pulled the hook and she is slowly being choked by the chains as her body is being lifted off the ground.

"GAH!"

She struggled as she tried to pull out her staff from earlier. She struggled with doing so as she can't concentrate on getting the staff with her neck being tightened to the extreme.

"ACK! G...GHAAA! ACK!"

Her breathing is getting real faint and she can't even scream with her throat being tightened too much by the chains. The blood on her body seems to reach her eyes and blood started to pour out of her mouth already.

After struggling, the staff she used earlier reappeared but I didn't let her have a good chance to use it as I tighten the pull of the chains to her neck. Tighter than ever before. Due to the tightness, the pull I did cause her to lessen her grip on her staff and she lost grip on it, ending up causing the staff to fall to the ground.

She wriggled a lot causing the chain to tighten a lot more and before everything ended, her struggles also stopped when she finally breathed her last. Dying from being choked.

I sighed after she died. The moment she died, the quest was updated and the count of the enemies being killed has been updated, revealing that I succeed in killing her. I lowered her dead body and returned the form of the Versatile Weapon back into a sword and sheathed it before I went down to check on the woman.

The first thing I did is to check her pulse. She might have breathed her last but I can't be too sure about it. There are some cases where even the system already declared that it is dead but it will end up reviving her. Thankfully, she really is dead and she is not gonna stand back up again.

Once the confirmation that she is dead is already done, I went to check out her clothes and a few parts of her body which allowed me to discover a few items that seems to be kind of relics. It had some dark aura to it, which made me think that it is cursed. I am not too sure if it was really cursed, but it seems to be a lot closer to that.

Next, I picked up the staff she had. At first, the staff tried to sting me when it tried to resist my hands but I am a ruthless guy and when the staff did that, I would immediately kick the staff a few more times with force before the staff stopped doing so and I can now pick it up.

Unfortunately, the staff does not reveal any sort of info meaning it wasn't even meant to be picked up by a player. This thing is a piece of exclusive equipment from the enemy. Seeing that, I pulled out the Versatile Weapon for it to devour the weapon but to my surprise, the Shadow Dragon that tries to devour almost anything denied the item and refuses to eat it.

In the end, I burned the weapon with Lucia's flames alongside with the dead body, leaving nothing, even ashes in its wake.

With the deed done, I returned to the gate of the Capital and started waiting for everyone to arrive. It's kind of bad of me to not wait for everyone to hunt down the first target but that is better this way, especially now that I have known what they are really capable of.

Those guys will probably have a hard time with them and since they are with me in this quest, I should at least help them get their group quest a success with them involved in it and not only me doing all of the quest objectives.

We have 4 targets left to kill. With one of them dead, I think they will immediately know that the 5th member of their group is already dead. They will become really cautious about this and things will not be as easy as before. And if my guess is correct, they will start hunting whoever killed the 5th member of them. But that is fine. Perhaps they really needed to learn that they are just gonna die at the very end. Whoever they are, all I needed to do is to kill them all.