Chapter 112 (1/2)

CHAPTER 11-2

“U-a-aaaaahhaaahh!!” Morissette’s scream slid out as his face stiffened

Shock Hatred Sorrow What he felt was none of these, only pure terror

—Not yet, not yet, I can still… such thoughts flashed through his mind I can do it, I can still do it

So he thought since his opponent was essentially unarroup iped out, even though the situation wasn’t ideal, even though his ankle ounded, even though his heart was broken, for what it orth, he still had his longsword

Kei turned his head and set his sights on Morissette

“A-aa-aaaahh!!” screamed Morissette as he stirred hie

However, Keilike water, Kei pulled an arrow from his quiver as he turned to face Morissette, and threw it

The arrow h that Morissette was able to knock it to the ground with a swing of his longsword However, Kei was already bent over picking up both of Rat’s shortswords

He threw theain, the attacks lacked any real force Morissette turned to dodge one sword, and swatted down the other as he closed in, but when he saw the next thing Kei picked up, the blood drained from his face

A bow

A vermillion bow

Even in the darkness of the nearly extinguished fire, the verlamorously

An arroas nocked

The creaking of the bow being drawn all the way back sounded like the gates of hell the

It was aimed directly at him

It was decided

Cold sweat dripped down Morissette’s face So much bloodlust poured from Kei’s body that it felt like the air itself was ready to burst

Anger Resentment Excitement Ecstasy Authority

Kei felt none of these, yet his face unconsciously curled into so close to a smile

The corners of his mouth were slanted upwards as he spoke, “—What do you say?[1]”

Faced with the question Morissette tried an obsequious smile, but failed Even so, he said with his almost-smile, “I’m sorry[1]”

Twang

At nearly the saht knee

“—!” Morissette silently screamed His kneecap and joints were destroyed and he lost the functionality of his right leg His leg folded over the wrong way and he collapsed to the ground “—ah! Oh—!!!” He screaht have writhed or squirmed, but the pain was so intense he couldn’t even do that

Kei paid him no heed as he pulled the next arrow from his quiver and slowly nocked it

He waited for a short time

Morissette was gasping, unable to get enough air Kei spoke to hiive you one last chance Answer my question”

At those words, Morissette raised his sweat covered face and stared at Kei while nodding over and over

“It’s a simple question Earlier, you said, ‘I have the antidote for the Enslavement Poison’ Is that true?”

“I-It’s tr-true!” Morissette stuttered as he forced his answer out

“So then, the poison you used is indeed ‘Enslaveht?”

“Y-yes…”

“Swear it”

Kei’s cold voice startled the tresword nearby, and grabbed the hilt “I swear… It’s true…”

“Say that the poison is ‘Enslavement Poison’”

“O-okay… The poison is without a doubt ‘Enslaverasped the hilt of his sith both hands and spoke as if begging God for His mercy

Kei was certain that he felt no bloodlust from the sword In order to use Stealth he would need his mind to be calm, so Kei deemed it would be hard for Morissette to use it now

With a weapon in hand, it would be extraordinarily hard to lie to Kei

In 『De was closely related to ‘bloodlust’

The bloodlust systeely divided into two parameters These weren’t visible numerically, but players still referred to them as parameters; ‘Threat Level’ and ‘Ill Intent’

Firstly, ‘Threat Level’ was an indication of the degree of danger an aggressor was

At least in the ga with a player had a predetermined ‘Threat Level’

In the case of a person, the value was at its lohen they had no weapons

However, if they were to hold a wooden club, a stone, or sohtly And if they held a knife, sword, or so else that was deemed ‘sufficient to kill’ then their ‘Threat Level’ would jump up

This parameter had a cohtly for mobs of sith and weight, if they used a weapon or their claws and if they had tusks or fangs Nonliving things, such as falling rocks, landslides, or other natural disasters also had a ‘Threat Level’

Next, ‘Ill Intent’ reflected how strong one’s bloodlust is The purpose of this paraely increase or decrease the predetermined ‘Threat Level’

For example, if a creature with a low ‘Threat Level’ incorporated a strong bloodlust[2] into their attack, then their resulting ‘Threat Level’ would also greatly increase

Alternatively, if one had a clear mind and was in a state of self-effacement when they struck with a sword, their ‘Threat Level’ would drop to nearly zero, resulting in the off an extremely weak bloodlust

By the way, happenstance occurrences that don’t have a will or intent to explicitly cause hariven a flat value for their ‘Ill Intent’ to adjust their ‘Threat Level’

In addition, the ‘Ill Intent’ para a lie

‘Ill Intent’ is, in essence, bloodlust

When so to deceive someone else, which was treated asa weapon, the ill intent was h the weapon

In a case where so a weapon their ‘Threat Level’ and ‘Ill Intent’ were both lohich resulted in a bloodlust so weak that even Kei couldn’t sense it with his Passive Sense

There was a ame