Leo has been hiding for 10 minutes in the same place, trying to control his breathing so he didn't make so much noise.
He had returned to the area where the mutant cow had been. These cows were the weakest monsters around the city, and he wasn't going to actively seek to put himself in danger to try out his skill just yet.
Five minutes later, still hidden, Leo heard the sound of a cow coming towards him, but soon afterward he heard another footstep, probably also another cow.
'It's two cows… As long as they get close enough, I think I can handle them in a short time,' Leo thought as he looked around to find the cows.
A few seconds later the cows approached, but not close enough. By Leo's calculations, one cow was 50 feet from his position and the other was approximately 60 feet. But as they stopped to eat some grass on the ground, they would probably stay there for a long time.
'I need to act. I can't wait for who knows how many hours for them to come to me,' Leo thought, and jumped from where he was towards the cows with a knife in each hand.
The cows were startled by the noise and looked in his direction. Seeing that it was just a human, the mutated cows were unafraid and ran together towards Leo.
14 meters…
12 meters…
10 meters!
When Leo got within 10 meters of the first cow, without so much as a second thought he activated the Aim-Bot and threw one of his knives, aiming at the cow's eye as hard as he could.
Swoosh!
The knife flew at high speed towards the cow, but that didn't make Leo slow down. Quite the contrary, he ran even faster towards the other cow without even taking the time to follow the projection of the knife that he had thrown.
13 meters…
11 meters…
10 meters!
Moooooooooooo!
When Leo got within 10 meters of the other cow that was also running towards him, he heard the scream of the first cow and threw the knife from his left hand, also aiming at that other cow's eye.
This time he had enough time to pay attention to the trajectory of the knife, and in less than one second the knife went through the eye of this other cow and kept going deep until it hit the monster's brain. It took another second for this cow to understand what was happening and scream in pain as she fell to the ground.
Leo looked down at his hands and saw that both were shaking nonstop.
"Adrenaline…" Leo said with a smile on his face when he realized what he had just done. Because of the adrenaline from danger his body did exactly what he was imagining, and he managed to kill the two mutated cows very easily.
Even though these cows were just Bronze 1 Star monsters, still for an average person they would have been very difficult monsters to deal with without a Quirk. Even for Leo, if he didn't hit these cows in the eyes, their thick hide wouldn't be much affected by those thin throwing knives he bought.
"The investment was worth it," he said with a smile as he took the knives from the monsters' heads and started to cut the skin off their temples to rip off the horns.
He spent $200 buying his knife kit and camouflage outfit, and by selling those horns he would already get his money back for everything he spent. But he wasn't satisfied; he wanted more!
[Congratulations, you killed a Bronze Mutant Cow 1 Star. You received 10 Experience Points.]
[Congratulations, you killed a Bronze Mutant Cow 1 Star. You received 10 Experience Points.]
Looking at the pair of floating messages in front of his face, Leo smiled once more. He had asked the system how many experience points he would need to reach Bronze 2 Stars, and the System said that 500 experience points were needed. That meant he would only need to kill 50 more cows like that and he could reach the next rank, and that subsequently would make his body stronger.
"Or I can gather those 500 Experience Points and convert them to 500 Evolution Points and buy the Wall-Hack skill, or even spend 100 Evolution Points and level up my Aim-Bot… What to do…" Leo wondered while cutting the cows and removing the horns.
After removing the two pairs of horns, Leo put them in his backpack and went elsewhere to look for more cows. This time he found a cow standing alone. Not even bothering to hide, Leo ran up to the cow while screaming. The monster was startled by the scream and turned to see what it was, but just as she turned around, a knife slashed through her eye, killing the creature even easier.
[Congratulations, you killed a Bronze Mutant Cow 1 Star. You received 10 Experience Points.]
'This skill is truly Divine! I threw the knife before the cow turned around, but still the knife caught her eye perfectly the moment she turned her head towards me!' Leo was shocked.
After that he made a decision. 'I won't be hasty and try to move up to Bronze 2 Star so fast. First I'll level up my current skill. If I can throw things accurately from even further, I can get even more Exp points in less time,' he thought.ρaꪁⅆa ꪁꪫꪚⅇꪶ
So Leo ripped the horns off his most recent kill and continued to comb the area, killing cows in ever more creative ways.
When Leo had killed his 9th cow, he only needed 10 more experience points for him to be able to level up his Aim-Bot. In front of him was a group of four cows. As he only had three knives, Leo was worried that he would have to look for a group with fewer cows, but since he started hunting, it became more difficult to find mutant cows in the forest, and he didn't want to go any deeper because monsters powerful enough for him to be unable to handle might show up.
However, Leo finally had an idea. With a smile on his face, Leo ran towards the group of 4 cows and threw a knife before giving a scream.
"Ooooo!"
The cows were startled like the others and looked at what was making the noise. When they saw that it was just a human running towards their group, they didn't think anything about charging towards him.
The first cow couldn't take more than a step before falling to the ground dead with a knife through her left eye. Soon the second cow saw a projectile coming towards her eye and tried to close her eye to try to protect herself, but the knife was faster and penetrated this cow's eye before she could use her eyelid to defend herself.
The third cow, seeing that the two cows in front of her had already died, saw that she would not have a chance against this human and tried to turn around to run, but the knife had already been thrown and the target had already been locked. Even with her body turned a little to the right, the knife still managed to go through her eye and lodge in the cow's head. Unfortunately, because this cow turned around just before she was hit by the knife, her brain only suffered a small scratch, causing her to fall to the ground screaming in pain, but still alive.
The last cow knew it couldn't get away from this human, so it closed its eyes and ran in a straight line. As it turned out, this only made the cow feel a sharp pain in her eyes before falling dead to the ground, dying even faster than her companions.
But unlike the other three cows that were killed by knives, this cow died with another cow's horn stuck in her head. If it had been a knife, maybe the cow's eyelid could have protected her eye, but unfortunately Leo had thrown at her another cow's horn, which was much sharper and stronger than an ordinary iron knife.
Leo took another horn from his backpack and threw it at the cow that was screaming in pain, ending the suffering of the pitiful monster.
[Congratulations, you killed a Bronze Mutant Cow 1 Star, you received 10 Experience Points.]
[Congratulations, you killed a Bronze Mutant Cow 1 Star, you received 10 Experience Points.]
[Congratulations, you killed a Bronze Mutant Cow 1 Star, you received 10 Experience Points.]
[Congratulations, you killed a Bronze Mutant Cow 1 Star, you received 10 Experience Points.]
Right after killing all four cows, Leo managed to accumulate a total of 130 Experience Points.
Having already made up his mind, Leo opened his Status interface and selected to level up his "Aim-Bot".
[Leonardo Lentz
ρꪖꪁⅆꪖ ꪁꪫꪚⅇꪶ Age: 17 Years
Rank: Bronze 1 Star
Talent: Hack
Experience Points: 30
Quirks: Aim-Bot Lv. 02: In a 20 meter radius around the user, anything the user throws or shoots will hit the target with 100% hit rate. With each level the distance and accuracy will increase.
After spending 100 Experience Points on Aim-Bot, Leo only had 30 Points left, but on the other hand, the radius of the skill's range was doubled! From the previous 10 meters, it was now 20 meters!
Leo wanted to kill more mutant cows before returning, but his backpack was almost full after he put in the 4 pairs of horns from the cows he had just killed.
Moooooooooooooo!!!!
But before he could move, a furious beast came rushing towards him. Leo became alert and saw a cow much larger than the cows he had just killed charging right at him!
[Alpha Mutant Cow: Bronze 2 Stars]
"Shit, it's a two-star cow!" Leo was shocked. He thought about running away from this cow, but this 2 Star monster's speed was much higher than his running speed, which was just that of an Awakened Bronze 1 Star.
With no other choice, Leo held a horn in his left hand and the three knives in his right hand. He had decided to fight this monster!