Monster Hunter Gathering

"Your sun-like power is due to your breathing, right?" Akaza said. "You can melt a demon's flesh in an instant. No wonder I let you two fight me alone."

"What a hassle!" Er Qiao complained, "I didn't kill you even in that situation! Now it's going to be another tangled fight!"

"But as long as you don't plan to run away, it's fine!"

Er Qiao resumed her fighting stance and shamelessly declared, "I hate people who run away from battle!"

At this moment, Er Qiao's words were also heard by several other hunters through the assembly communication that was always open.

"You have no right to say such things!!!"

Nie Chiwu, who was fighting with Douma at the moment, suddenly said this without any context, which made Douma a little confused.

"Who are you talking to?" Douma said this while controlling several crystal children around him and releasing a large-scale blood demon art together.

Ever since he realized that the blood demon technique that destroyed the lungs was ineffective, Douma focused all his attention on large-scale attacks.

These people in front of me... undoubtedly possess the strength of a pillar, including the two who look particularly young, Inosuke and Kanao.

Especially Nie Chiwu, he is...

While Douma was thinking this, a hunting insect broke through his defense again, sucked blood from his body, and then returned to Nie Chiwu's insect-controlling stick and lit the third lamp.

"Attack! Speed! Defense!"

Nie Chiwu said excitedly: "All three lights are lit! My insect stick is calling me to victory!"

Chapter 17 Douma's Provocation

"Attack! Speed! Defense!"

Nie Chiwu repeated the three lights on his bug stick: "Douma! Now... it's time for the hunters to go head-to-head!!"

The next moment Douma became alert, he saw Nie Chiwu once again using the pneumatic device on the strange weapon to jump up, and the whole person had jumped above the blood demon technique released by Douma that looked like a giant Buddha.

Then, as Nie Chiwu turned around and smashed down, the giant Buddha formed of ice was smashed into pieces by the insect stick and shot in all directions.

It wasn't that he relied on swordsmanship to break it, or that he found the weak point of the blood demon art. Douma could clearly feel that his blood demon art was being shattered from top to bottom by pure brute force.

"It hurts!"

At this moment, after smashing the ice sculpture, Nie Chiwu was hit in the face by the flying fragments. He screamed in pain and rushed towards Douma. The insect stick in his hand swung into a shadow, shattering all the ice created by the blood demon magic.

Among the four people he was fighting at the moment, Douma felt that the most troublesome one was Nie Chiwu, who called himself a hunter.

Although the other ghost hunters all possessed Pillar-level strength, their physical qualities could only be considered human. However, this Nie Chiwu...

As the lights on his strange weapon continued to light up, his physical abilities strangely increased. Now, relying solely on strength, Nie Chiwu was able to break his own blood demon technique.

"Akoza, haven't you dealt with those two humans yet?" Douma really felt the pressure of being killed at this moment, but Akaza in the aura was still moving around in that area, probably still fighting with those two humans.

Douma faced the siege of five people under tremendous pressure. Although his large-scale blood demon art was very suitable for dealing with such siege situations, the opponents soon found a way to deal with his blood demon art.

Nie Chiwu almost withstood most of the blood demon magic attacks by himself. He seemed to be very clear that he could not deal a fatal blow to the demon without the Nichirin Sword, so he was always clearing the way for other members of the Demon Slayer Corps.

In just a few short exchanges, although the swift Kocho Shinobu was unable to behead Douma, her rapier repeatedly bypassed the blood demon technique, using the method of exchanging injuries for injuries, leaving several holes in Douma's body and injecting a lot of wisteria flower venom into Douma's body.

Exchanging injury for injury... Before tonight, Douma had never thought that such a thing would happen to the Demon Slayer Corps.

"Damn it! Doesn't she feel any pain?" Inosuke said this in a loud voice, and nimbly avoided the attack of a piece of broken ice.

His skin is very sensitive, and he will instinctively dodge when an attack comes... Until now, Inosuke has not yet adapted to this kind of battle where he has to recover after being injured.

But... Shinobu Kocho and Giyu Tomioka have gradually become accustomed to this way of fighting.

When following Nie Chiwu and chasing Douma, an icicle pierced Tomioka Giyu's calf and fixed him in place. What Tomioka Giyu did was to swing the knife and cut off his knee without hesitation, and then use his regenerated calf to continue chasing Douma.

Not to mention Shinobu Kocho. Douma had no idea how many times he had been injured by her, but she seemed to feel no pain. She even used her hands to dig out the barbed icicles that had pierced her body, threw them on the ground, and then prepared to attack again.

That kind of madness is even worse than that of hungry ghosts pursuing their own kind.

"You guys are really a bunch of lunatics." Douma said this and also made a change, placing the two fans in his hands one above and one below: "What a chaotic way of fighting."

As Douma said this, a large number of ice spikes began to protrude outward from the ground with Douma as the center, and icicles gradually formed on the ceiling and then fell into the room.

This move, attacking from both top and bottom, almost covered the entire room. It can be seen that Douma has now wasted a lot of strength.

Kanao saw the way forward through the ice spikes almost in an instant. Before the ice spikes grew out completely, her body had already passed through them, and then she only cut off Douma's wrist holding the iron fan.

But the blood demon art that had already been activated was not stopped. In the next moment, Kanao was pierced through the body by the ice spikes that emerged from the ground and nailed there.

“What a hassle!!”

Just as Douma was about to attack Kanao, Nie Chiwu had already activated the pneumatic device of the insect stick and jumped twice in the air in front of Douma, using a move that was not suitable for hunters.

Boom!

A heavy headbutt hit Douma's forehead directly. Douma and Nie Chiwu's heads tilted back at the same time. The huge impact force and the angle directly broke Douma's neck, but Douma still swung the iron fan and chopped at Kanao's neck.

Nie Chiwu instinctively pulled Chanel back. Although she was still nailed to the ground, the pull caused her wounds to tear a lot, but at least she avoided the iron fan.

"What a monster... How did you give these Demon Slayers this kind of recovery ability?" Although his neck was broken unnaturally and leaned back, Douma simply used this large-scale blood demon technique to retreat to a safe area, and then looked at the icicles that had covered the entire house.

"Your companion... actually escaped." Douma frowned. "I originally thought he was hiding in this room, trying to interfere with our battle, but now it seems I was worrying too much."

"He Zhen is just like that. He's the first to run when something happens." Nie Chiwu swung the insect stick in his hands, smashing all the icicles around him. "But... why do you assume he's not in this room?"

"My blood demon technique has now filled the entire room." Douma said at this moment: "I don't know how he achieves that strange method of hiding his aura, but he shouldn't be able to dodge the attack."

"And you...are you really human?"

Douma pointed his iron fan at Nie Chiwu and said, "That insect must have absorbed my body fluids to extract power for you. That extraordinary power shouldn't belong to humans."

Douma said, "You absorb the bodily fluids of demons to become stronger... Are you guys who call yourselves "hunters" really human?"

Chapter 18: Full Launch of Catapults!!!

"Are you human? Or are you another kind of creature like demons that doesn't belong to humans?" Douma said with a smile: "The reason you want to destroy demons shouldn't be for revenge or something like that."

"You three... the guy at the beginning, the guy who hid himself with others, and you, none of you showed any emotion of revenge." Douma's voice rang out clearly in the huge room: "So what is your purpose? Do you want to eliminate the evil spirits, or do you want to eliminate those who are different from you..."

"Even if you cooperate with the Demon Slayer Corps and kill Muzan-sama, what will happen next?" Douma asked. "Are you saints who only want to help the Demon Slayer Corps and ask for nothing in return?"

"Or……"

As Douma was saying this, a figure suddenly flew over and interrupted him.

Before anyone else could react, Inosuke jumped over and continued to attack Douma, brandishing his two swords: "You're so annoying with all the noise!!! Why should I listen to your nonsense here!!"

Although Inosuke's attack did not cause any harm to Douma, it did interrupt the atmosphere of Douma's words.

"What a clever fellow! We are hunters, not saints who help others for free!"

At this moment, Nie Chiwu also grinned and pointed his finger at Douma: "Are you trying to sow discord between us and the Demon Slayer Corps? Then I'll make it clear here today."

"We are monster hunters, part of the ecosystem. The world is very simple...hunt or be hunted, but there are also special circumstances, which are..."

"You guys are destroying the ecology."

Nie Chiwu pointed at Douma and said, "As hunters, we must defeat monsters like you who destroy the ecosystem... Of course, these are just nice words!"

"The reason we're attacking you is, of course, to gather materials to craft new equipment. Also... at least all of our current hunters are really annoyed with you evil spirits!"

Nie Chiwu said, "You want to sow discord among us? How can you be so qualified?"

"Dōma, the founder of the Eternal Paradise Cult, was unable to understand human emotions since childhood and was later transformed into a demon by Muzan... It should have been fifteen years ago that you took in a woman named Kotonoha Kotohira, right? Later, she discovered your cannibalism and fled with her child."

Nie Chiwu pointed at Douma and said, "She fled the temple with the child in her arms, and Douma also caught up with Qinye. Before Qinye died, she threw the child off a cliff and let it drift down the river..."

Nie Chiwu said, "Even if we hunters weren't here, you deserved to be killed by her children."

"Habitahira...Kotoha?" Shinobu Kocho was stunned for a moment: "Is that...Inosuke's mother? So Inosuke was adopted and raised by a wild boar?"

"Ah, that's true." Nie Chiwu reminded Douma of the past. "You actually know something like this? I'm even more curious about your origins. However, since you put it that way..."

Douma glanced around and finally set his sights on Inosuke.

A gust of cold wind blew directly towards Inosuke. Inosuke swung his sword to block it, but although the cold wind was dispersed, it still blew off Inosuke's hood, revealing Inosuke's face that was somewhat similar to that of a girl.

"It really is exactly the same as Kotonoha." Douma's words also supported Nie Chiwu's words, causing veins to bulge on Inosuke's forehead.

"But I haven't done anything wrong to Kotonoha." Douma said nonchalantly, "Even if she goes home, she will still be abused by her husband and mother-in-law, or die in the wilderness with this child."

"Her life was so unfortunate." Douma said with a neutral smile, "But don't worry, I didn't leave any of her body behind, not even a single bone."

Douma's words made all the Demon Slayer Corps present feel deeply disgusted, and Inosuke also realized what Douma had done at this moment.

"It's this completely unhuman way of thinking that makes me want to vomit." Nie Chiwu hefted the insect stick onto his shoulder. "All of us hunters feel that for someone as insignificant as you... it would be a shame for us to come here if we let you take anyone away."

"A ghost like you is not worth anyone's life, so."

Nie Chiwu smiled and said, "We have specially prepared a plan for you, a plan second only to Muzan's."

"Don't worry, you will be the Upper Rank who dies the most lavish death in this Infinite City."

Nie Chiwu said this, pointing his finger behind Douma to the right: "For example, that one... is prepared for you."

After Douma confirmed that the distance between him and everyone present was not enough for them to launch an attack, he also looked back following Nie Chiwu's finger, and then saw...

Kazuma's figure appeared at the wall at some point, and placed two huge barrels of explosives smelling of gunpowder on the wall. Douma didn't even know where Kazuma took these things out from.

But what made Douma feel the most strange was that he had just confirmed that Kazuma was not on the battlefield. When did he appear again?

"When..." As soon as Douma opened his mouth to say these words, he heard a spraying sound in his ear. Then Douma felt a sudden pain in his neck. A hook that seemed huge for a human body flew out from Nie Chiwu's left hand and was fixed directly on Douma's neck with a chain.

As Nie Chiwu's claws retracted, he quickly approached Douma. Before Douma could react, Nie Chiwu was already riding on him.

Douma instinctively wanted to throw Nie Chiwu off his body to attack, but he saw that Nie Chiwu had raised his hook again and used that hook... to punch Douma hard in the face.

The sharp claws pierced Douma's face, leaving the skin and flesh exposed. Douma also felt his body turning uncontrollably, and the next moment, Douma heard Nie Chiwu riding on him and excitedly aimed the projectile on his arm at Douma's head.

"Go ahead and ram the wall! Sonic boom bombs... fire all your projectiles!"

A huge roar sounded in Douma's ears, causing him to lose his hearing in an instant. He could only feel his body uncontrollably crashing forward after turning.

In front of him appeared the two huge barrels of explosives that Kazuma had just placed.

The next moment...

Chapter 19: Douma's Death at the Hands of the Trap Hunter Kazuma

The huge roar of the explosives created a gust of air in the room that could be seen with the naked eye.

Giyu and Shinobu Kocho were even blown off balance by the blast of air from the explosives. In the end, Giyu stabbed the ground with his Nichirin sword and grabbed Shinobu Kocho's collar to prevent them from being blown away.

“What the hell! Where did this guy get that bucket from?” Inosuke exclaimed, while Kazuma raised his hands and shouted angrily: “Hey! Is this the time to be fussing about this?! Quickly, beat this guy up!!!”

Kazuma's words made the members of the Demon Slayer Corps realize that now was not the time to be surprised by unusual things, and they all rushed towards the huge smoke formed by the explosion.

When the smoke began to dissipate, Giyuu, who was rushing in the front, saw at a glance that the body was torn into pieces by the bomb, but the human-shaped body of Douma could still be vaguely seen.

Looking at Douma lying on the ground, Giyuu swung his sword at Douma's neck without hesitation, but Douma on the ground instinctively used his iron fan to block Giyuu's sword. When facing the Nichirin swords swung by other Demon Slayer Corps members, Douma was unable to focus on recovering his body.

Douma couldn't even take care of controlling his own blood demon magic. In order to save his life instinctively, he released the blood demon magic from his body with all his strength.

The huge block of ice wrapped up the fallen Douma almost instantly, protecting him from being killed by the Nichirin Sword. At the same time, the blood demon art ice crystals floating around Douma did not form the exquisite human shapes as before, and almost directly attacked the few people.

But the more times like this happened, the more the members of the Demon Slayer Corps became convinced that Douma had been forced into a desperate situation, and at this time... he absolutely could not retreat.

Giyu, Inosuke, and Kanao almost simultaneously used their most powerful sword skills on the ice that wrapped around Douma, while Shinobu Kocho, who lacked destructive power, concentrated her strength on one point and used a thrust to leave a huge hole in the ice.

But the hardness of this ice crystal gave several people a headache. Even when Inosuke used brute force, his two swords were broken away by the recoil force.

The blood demon technique released by Douma was constantly destroying the bodies of the besieged people. Almost every attack by the flying ice crystals would bring out a pool of blood and tear off a piece of flesh from the bodies of several people. Then, in the blink of an eye, those injuries would be recovered under the effect of the wide-area recovery medicine.

Ice crystals and flesh and blood were splashing around the huge ice block that blocked Douma, making the four people who were besieging Douma look a little crazy, and it was difficult to tell who was on the demon side for a while.

And in the short time when several people were besieging him, Nie Chiwu had already taken off again on the insect stick.

"Get out of the way!!!"

At this moment, Nie Chiwu had already jumped to the highest position on the insect stick, almost touching the roof of this huge room.

At this moment, Nie Chiwu shouted to Yiyong and the others, "Get out of the way!!! The Flying Giant Fuck is coming!!!!"

Nie Chiwu's roar made Yiyong and others take a few steps back, and after Nie Chiwu briefly adjusted his position in the air, he swirled and smashed directly at the ice block that Douma was using to protect himself.

At this moment, Douma in the ice seemed to realize that the person who posed the greatest threat to him was Nie Chiwu who was about to fall on him. The ice crystal blood ghost arts that had originally blocked other ghost hunters now all flew towards Nie Chiwu in the air.

But when those ice crystals came into contact with the rotating insect stick, they were shattered without any effect on Nie Chiwu. The other people heard a series of ice crystal shattering sounds and saw that the stick in Nie Chiwu's hand had hit the huge ice crystal.

The solid ice crystals were destroyed almost instantly. Those that couldn't be directly broken by sword skills were shattered by Nie Chiwu's sudden thrust. It was like a man standing in a crowd with only his underwear on, having his last barrier suddenly ripped away...