Chapter 151 - The Hunt For Landlord Has Began! (2 in 1) (2/2)

”You heard the man, MOVE!” Pure Muscle means was always rougher as he pushed and kicked those before him.

Within a couple of seconds, the area was emptied, leaving only Mastermania and Hound Stench near the gate.

”Based on the heavy burnt off smell your body is emitting, I believe you fought with Landlord and lost. Right?” Hound Stech asked.

”None of your business.” Mastermania glared at him.

”I wasn't asking you to tell me about how it went, but to know if you managed to touch him during your battle....Wait a second, you did touch him right?” After seeing that Mastermania was avoiding having eye contact with him, Hound Stench's expression turned a bit unsighty.

'How can he be this incompetent? What a waste of a fine assassin bloodline.' Hound Stench gave him a disdainful gaze and asked, ”As long as you reached 5 meters, I can still create a smell mark.”

Mastermania's eyes light up after hearing so. He remembered that he was paralyzed exactly 5 meters away from Felix.

”Go ahead, start using your ability.”

After hearing a positive response, Hound Stench sighed in relief and ordered him while opening his brown coat, ”Look here.”

A bit humiliated to get ordered around, Mastermania gritted his black teeth while staring at Hound Stench's Stomach with a hint of fear.

The spectators who had no idea about Hound Stench were stupefied at the sight of a large dark hound's head merged with his stomach!

The Hound had long white fangs protruding outside of its vicious-looking mouth, a spherical black nose with three nostrils, sharp hairy ears at the top of its head, and lastly, its eyelids were closed shut, not letting the spectators see its eyes.

The spectators didn't know if the thing was alive or not, however, Mastermania who had it in front of his face, knew that it was alive and kicking. Its nasty breath kept assaulting his nose each time it exhaled a breath of air.

”Wake up lazy head!” Hound Stench smacked it right in its scalp, yet only a soft growling sound responded to him.

”If you don't wake up in three seconds, you could forget about eating dinner tonight.” Hound Stench twisted both of its ears just like a mother does to her child.

”Oohoo!!” The hound cried pitifully while opening its eyelids, exposing two bright red eyes, emitting a dangerous vibe.

”Stop whining, it doesn't even hurt that much.” Hound Stench gave a gentle smile, as he gazed at his partner in arm acting like a drama queen.

Some spectators almost throw up in revulsion at such a messed up sight. They didn't have the guts to continue watching Hound Stench talking to that beast stuck in his stomach like it wasn't a big deal.

This was probably the first time in their life to see a player who obtained one of the rarest top mutations.

Rebirth!!!

That's right, the hound had its own consciousness and thought process! And not just an active or passive ability.

Such a rare mutation could happen only one in a million times. Plus, it had way too many strict conditions to just have that one chance of getting it. The first one was to awaken or replace a bloodline using at least 30% at once, a quite difficult hurdle to achieve but not impossible. The second one was to have at least a 75% affinity rating.

Those two conditions must be met first if one wanted to have a chance to awaken the consciousness of the beast he merged with. After all, the bloodline itself had pieces of dormant consciousness, memories, and such. If it wasn't for so, humans shouldn't be able to integrate with beasts.

That being said, Hound Stench's mutation resulted in having the Hell Hound's head protruding from his stomach. Probably not a lot of bloodliners would hope for that to happen.

”Use smell absorption on this idiot.” He pointed his finger at Mastermania and added, ”Absorb only the smells he was met with between 40 minutes to 60 minutes ago.”

Lazy and muddled, The Hound yawned widely with his tongue dripping with saliva, sending a wave of nasty stench towards Mastermania, causing him to gag and almost vomit his guts out.

Coco brought his nose close to Mastermania's face and abruptly inhaled a deep breath through it. Colorful particles with multiple different colors came out from Mastermania's body and went rapidly inside Coco's nose.

No one was able to see those foggy colors, except for Hound Stench. Coco kept repeating inhaling through his nose and exhaling through his mouth until nothing was coming out of Mastermania anymore.

”Okey we are done.” Hound Stench let go of Mastermania's head and took two steps back, putting some distance between them.

He closed his eyes and focused on the many smells that Coco just absorbed. The passive ability he was relying on was called *Smell deduction*.

It allowed him to memorize an arsenal of smells without getting confused in the slightest. The best part, he could differentiate between them even if the two smells were only 0.01% different!

Hound Stench made sure to memorize everyone's unique smell when they were standing on the stage during the game hall, including Felix! Thus, what he was trying to do now, was comparing the smells that Coco just absorbed with Felix's scent that he memorized.

Minutes passed by and still, Hound Stench had his eyes closed deep in his zone, eliminating one smell after the other rapidly.

The smells Mastermania was exposed to during that 15 minutes window was quite a large figure. Hound Stench had to make sure that he was error-free in his comparison, lest Felix's smell pass by him unnoticed.

”Come on, faster faster, faster...” Solar Mist kept murmuring under his breath while his eyes were glued to his AP bracelet clock, ticking continuously.

Who knew that It would tick for whole 5 minutes before Hound Stench finally opened his eyes with a satisfied smile.

Without further ado, Hound Stench waved his hand, singling for the players to return. Solar Mist was the first to dash forward, running as fast as he could, unbothered about keeping his classy calm image anymore. The rest of his party soon followed after him.

”Any good news?” Immediately after arriving, Solar Mist asked.

”It was a close call.” Hound Stench clarified, ”Landlord's smell that I picked was barely enough to create a tracking mark using my ability.” He smiled mildly, ”If we didn't have Coco, we may not even be able to use that mark.” He patted the happy Coco head, who was huffing with his tongue out, pleased by getting complimented.

Although they didn't understand what he meant by the 2nd part, Solar Mist and Spirit Visage still thanked Hound Stench over his effort like proper gentlemen.

”Alright, Mr. Hound can we go now?” He asked impatiently.

”We can move at any moment now.” Hound Stench pointed at the 22 players and asked, ”However, we can't take everyone with us. They might drag our speed down.”

Solar Mist nodded his head in agreement and clapped his hands twice, ”Listen up! Those who are confident in their speed or strength, join us in our hunt and you will be rewarded with a hundred million! SC”

Although the players got hyped up after seeing the reward gets mentioned up, not a lot of them decided to join the main party. Actually, only four players raised their hands, showing their desire to participate.

Despite the enticing reward, the majority of players still preferred to remain near the exit and especially away from the main party. They weren't frightened by Felix's strength, but by the main party itself!

Who knows they might actually fail to locate Felix successfully during their journey. Which meant, Solar Mist would lose his shit and start killing them like harvesting cabbages. They had no way to defend or resist him after signing that contract. Hence, in their eyes, it was much to stay as far as possible from them until the game ends and they regain their freedom.

”Useless pieces of trash!”

Irritated and irked, Solar Mist gave them a death glare and stopped bothering with them. He knew exactly what was in their minds, and he had no time to correct their thoughts by torturing some of them.

”If you are not coming, then you better make sure that no one opens up the gate!” He shouted, ”Anyone who reached 5 meters near the gate, cut his god damn head off! You hear me?!”

'Solar Mist's fiery personality started to show up more often.' Spirit Visage mused as he gazed at Solar's Mist losing his composure yet again. 'Heh, Landlord was right, fire element users shouldn't try to act calm and cold. It just does not fit them at all.'

Without waiting to receive their response, Hound Stench pointed at the Northern path and sprinted with his coat flapping in the air, exposing his stomach, which had Coco with its tongue out. The rest of the party swiftly chased after him.

Mastermania went to the nearest shadow in the wall and submerged himself in it, planning to chase after them while hidden.

A whopping 15 minutes passed since the moment Felix's announcement had passed. This meant they only had 45 minutes to reach Felix and kill him.

Plus, even if they did kill him before the game ends, how were they going to surpass Princess Bird, who was obviously above them in ranks?

No one knows what was their end game. Was it to simply kill Felix and wish that Princess Bird had died somewhere or they already had a plan to emerge as the winner after killing Felix?