Plundering in the Apocalypse



While Shin was still immersed in his thoughts. The family of three he saved approached him. 

"Excuse me?" The man called out to him.

Turning his head Shin looked at him in confusion wondering what's the matter with them, "Yes?"

The man and his wife immediately bowed their heads, expressing their gratitude. 

"Thank you so much for saving us."

Shin didn't think much about this matter. So he immediately replied, "My only purpose was to kill those demons. There's no need for any thanks."

They thought Shin was just being humble. This made their evaluation of him even better.

But hearing the word demon, their pupils shrank in horror.

"A-Are those monsters, demons?" The man asked while trembling a little.

Shin's eyes narrowed, observing his reaction. Looking at him suspiciously, he asked, "Yes, do you know anything about them?"

According to his knowledge, the information about demons shouldn't be known to everyone yet. But the man's reaction made him wonder.

"No, we don't know much. It's just a few days ago some people calling themselves demon worshippers came to recruit us." The woman answered in her husband's stead.

When Shin heard the name of that crazy group, his eyes became solemn. 'I didn't expect them to start recruiting people already.''

Now that Shin realized that the demon worshippers were increasing their members, his brows furrowed. 'Their increase in influence is not a good thing.'

The man said, "Those people frantically praised demons so much as if they are gods." Then he looked at the bodies of the demons Shin killed and uttered with horror written on his face, "But they are not gods, rather even more terrifying than monsters."

Shin looked at him sympathetically but didn't bother to clear his perception about demons and gods. Because none of them is necessarily evil or good.

This was something he understood as he came into contact with divine energy more and more.

But it was not the time to think about that. Shin walked over to the demon's corpses and activated his skill.

"Devourer's Touch."

The next moment he felt instantly refreshed and his stamina and mana, that used in the battle just now, recovered instantly.

Although Shin had a plan prepared but before starting that, he was going to kill all the nearby demons.

When the couple saw Shin's body start levitating off the ground, they immediately shouted, "Can you tell us your name?" 

But Shin's figure was already flying high by then. 

Sighing, the man said, "Maybe he didn't hear us."

"No, he heard us." The woman said.

The man was confused and then followed the gaze of his wife and saw on the ground. The purple-black flames burned on the ground, writing the word 'Shin'.

"Shin." They murmured in unison.

It was a name they would never forget their entire life.

"I've decided." The woman said.

"What?" the man asked.

"I'll name our child, Shin." The woman said, sweetly caressing the newborn child.

The man was taken aback for a moment, then gently nodded. "Yes, that's a good idea."

***

While flying towards the location of other demons, Shin couldn't help but think back on his actions just now.

He was extremely embarrassed. He wanted to look cool, but now that he thought back, his actions were a bit childish.

Then he thought of Alice and comforted himself. "Alice would have found it cool."

Feeling smug about something, he arrived at a park where the demons were munching on human bodies and a few children were crying, afraid of being the next one to be eaten.

The disgusting sight in front of him didn't bother him much. 'It feels I've become accustomed to these sights. But I have enough mental resistance to these things now.'

This made him a little worried, thinking, will the demon energy inside him affect his mentality?

'I need to go back to the sanctuary and have a talk with the adult Alice.' 

When Shin saw that the demon was to grab another child to eat, he immediately used Extreme Speed and sent a Lightning Slash chopping the demon.

The children didn't understand what happened, but the demons reacted immediately and vigilantly looked at Shin.

*Grrrr*

'Oh, these guys still retain some intelligence.'

But Shin didn't care. Shuttling at high speed, he appeared near all the demons one by one and killed them, chopping them in half with Lightning Slash.

*Graaah*

*Chop*

*Zzzt*

***

[You have killed 4 Lesser Demons.]

[You have gained experience.]

[Plunder activated]

[You have absorbed 7 stat points.]

[You have absorbed a fragment of Demonic Core X4.]

***

His attacks also roasted their dead bodies.

The children were still shocked and afraid. Shin felt bad for them and didn't know how to comfort them. So he immediately used Mind Control on all of them to relax their nerves.

His trick did work, and their fear and tension gradually subsided. But it turned into admiration as they looked at him.

Shin wondered, 'A child's mind is so simple. It was so easy to control.'

But he didn't have any ideas about that.

Shin wasn't worried about leaving them here. Because he had already scanned the area. Moreover, he was going to kill the nearby demons, so staying here won't be dangerous for them.

So he left them and rushed toward another area. There, he found eight more demons causing havoc.

But there were no people nearby, and the demons were destroying the buildings.

Shin thought of something and used Water Magic and Toxic Ninja to create a drizzle of poison rain.

It didn't seem much different from normal rain. Just like transparent water. But only Shin knew it was an extremely potent poison made by his ability.

Soon the poison rain fell from the sky, and those poison drops splashed on those demons. It didn't even arouse their vigilance.

When Shin saw this scene, a smirk appeared on his face, 'Hehe, they are treating it just as simple rain.'

Shin patiently waited for the poison to take effect and not even a minute later, those demons were writhing in pain. 

Soon their roars and screams echoed in the area, and finally, a few minutes later, it ended.

***

[You have killed 8 Lesser Demons.]

[You have gained experience.]

[You have leveled up.]

[+10 Bonus stats for leveling up.]

[Plunder activated]

[You have absorbed 18 stat points.]

[You have absorbed a fragment of Demonic Core X8.]