Chapter 50: A solution that doesn’t exist
Chapter 49
Inside the portal
The Beast chuckled softly in mockery, "I’m amazed at how you cling to that little hope that there’s still a way to survive this. Sorry to disappoint you but, there no antidote to my poison."
"Are you serious? Is this really the end? What kinda Beast are you for fucks sake? I never heard of poisonous ones."
"The beast realm is the biggest unexplored realm, I’m not surprised that creatures like him exist here."
"Save your strength hunter, or you’d die faster." The Beast said, and just as he said it...one of the hunters coughed out blood and collapsed to the floor, twitching as his face paled from death.
"We’d die anyway, what’s the use of delaying it by a few more minutes. Please, if anyone of you survives this, help me send a message to my family. Tell my daughter that I’m sorry for missing her birthday, I’m sorry I couldn’t make it back like I promised." One of the hunters pleaded in a trembling voice, his eyes, nose and ear already bleeding as he clutched his chest tightly. He could already feel his organs failing.
Kaizen exhaled softly, then turned to the beast with a cold gaze. "Your death is the only way to dispel the poison isn’t it ?" He’d figured that if there was no physical antidote, then it meant that the poison only worked by the Beast’s mana. With it’s energy, it could penetrate the organs of its prey and kill them from the inside. And that also meant the poison will seize to function once the Beast was dead.
The Beast remained quiet for a moment, like his secret had been let out, but it quickly regained it’s composure. "You’re wrong. Not even my death would save any of you. Give it up and stop trying to think of a solution that doesn’t exist."
Kaizen smirked, his eyes holding a hint of amusement, "You’re bluffing, and you’re a bad liar." And then he moved, fast. Extremely fast that no eye could follow, in a blink, he stood behind the beast, his dagger hovering above it’s heart and his other hand holding it’s shoulder as he leaned closer to whisper into the Beast’s ear.