<1 day after Auto left the ruined village>
July 14, 2030
In a busy office filled with papers, printers, accountants, posters strapped onto walls and doors. People bickering about the latest topics and discussing with their co-workers, two men who judging by their uniforms are officers who are heading to the detective's office with stacks of paperwork on both their hands.
"Aye mate, sure hope the boss won't scold us off here." The round-shaped officer chatted to his co-worker.
"Nice one wid ya' the boss is a hot head ain't he?" The skinnier officer exchanged small talk with him.
While walking they overheard people speculating about the recent rumors regarding the Jinju massacre.
'Did you hear about the massacre at Jinju village?
Oh yes Sherry I did hear about it! It's frightening really!
Hehe I know right? What kind of monster would be able to take down a whole village all on its own?
Just thinking about it makes me shiver.'
The round and fat officer looked at his comrade and scoffs "Sure is a hot topic ain't it brad?"
"Aye' Stanley, it's got the ladies shivering under their seats maybe I could be their knight in shining armor." The skinny one joked as they laughed all the way to the detective's office.
They knocked and a loud voice tells them "Come in watcha' got for me?" It was their boss; Detective Farrow, also known as The tracker.
The officers were about to reach open the door handle when the door suddenly slammed open startling them as they dropped all the paper work to the ground.
"Ah, sorry about that. Hurry up and pick those things up and come get yer' ass over here." Detective Farrow hurried them.
Quickly, they gathered the fallen pieces of paper and piled them up on the table.
"Here sir." The skinnier but more nervous guy said.
"Er... What's this?" The detective asked curiously while inspecting one of the paragraphs, "It's about the Jinju massacre sir." The round one told him.
"Ah, the massacre huh? I thought all I heard was just rumors." Detective Farrow chuckled while giving a smug look, "Hey I'm gonna need 50 more of these. Nona' these papers hardly to show me any information to activate my shit!" The detective demanded.
"Sir those are the only papers we have, we hardly have any information regarding this incident let alone the culprit's face." The round one nervously answered his superior.
"Barely huh? Didn't they send a search team for em' What were they doing there? Slacking off like maniacs?" The detective shouted angrily.
"Y-y-yes boss, th-they d-d-did send a search party for him, there's even a news article for him." The slightly more scared skinny one told him.
"Hmm... Alright, hand me the paper." The detective calmly requested.
"Of course sir." The skinny one said as he unfolded the news paper that carried the most information currently available.
"Here sir! According to this article the culprit killed an entire search party along with burning a whole village, none of the search party made it out alive but from the remains it seemed that the culprit was at least a silver-rank of the potion class for being able to perform feats such as this." The round officer carefully explained.
"Hmm... I know it's already been mentioned but what about the shit head's face?" The detective calmly asked for.
"They called him the faceless monster, from what it seemed the culprit hasn't had a hard time fighting the search team so he could very well be a gold rank who put a very powerful spell to cover their face." The round officer explained once again.
"Tch. No leads, I can't even use my ability to track him down without a face or name." The detective clicked his tongue as the officers gulped in fear. Seeing this the detective gestured them to leave from the front door.
"Close the door for me will ya' he told them before pretending to doze off. "Augh this job's stressful." The detective said as he covered his eyes with a playboy magazine.
<4 days after Auto left the village>
July 17, 2030
After 2 days of lingering in the woods he finally made it to a kingdom, the kingdom closest to Jinju village; The Kingdom of Reese, before being able to enter he had to face many complications along the way such as the basic IDs and such that.
But finally after 4 days he managed to get accepted into the kingdom, and has now been assigned with a task of hunting down a Cyclops guarding a mineshaft near a mountain.
He ventured deep into the wilderness in search of the cyclops, damaged or not too damaged as long as it is eliminated it can take away the risk of having to fight one in the mountains keeping people safe. While if it's not badly damaged its membrane could be used for other things such as potions and enhancing armor's magic durability.
After a long venture to the mountains he finally reached the mineshaft where he spotted the cyclops taking a snooze in the afternoon, Auto taking his opportunity splashed a speed and body reinforcement potion onto his body.
"I should be careful not damage his body too badly, the membrane could prove useful to me in the future. Of course I wouldn't want to share it for some measly gold coins, if I can use it for something much more useful in the future." Auto gave a devilish grin as he charge with his daggers.
Double time
Rush hour
Potiondisperse
These three combined formulated an extravagant burst of velocity with the blast potion boosting Auto to speed that break supersonic mach 40,000. He kill the cyclops in one fell swoop, but with the overflowing momentum he crashed into a mountain, causing a devastating explosion and resulting a tumultuous explosion destroying more land mass than the cyclops would have been able to cause.
Auto shot off so far he flew 140 kilometers away from the original mountain, "Shit I went a little to overboard with the speed." He clicked his tongue.
He crash landed on the foot of a large mountain sized guardian golem who did not look to be very welcoming as Auto shattered his left foot from the sheer impact. "Gorum not happy." The golem the charge a light beam attack and Auto dodged "Dang that was close." Not even half a second later he shoots another one this time it hits Auto. Auto was sent hurdling off and flying, through trees and vines and is now entangled in a swamp.
"This could not get any worse, I was caught off guard and now this?" He complained but he wasn't able to have a moment of rest as the swamp was home to a large amount of poisonous snakes, "Oh great it just got worse." And yes it did get worse.
Just as he thought it was over a ginormous 50-meter elder snapping turtle came to have a nibble of his juicy insides, before he got bit he managed to wiggle off the vines in time where he had to face off against the large hoards of venomous, and also poisonous snakes all at once.
After he takes one out it's followed by another, a fire nor flame potion won't work in this environment neither would a poison or venom potion. Though he managed to take out 36 snakes in 6 seconds there were still hundreds if not a thousand snakes left. He didn't even have a minute to think about the golem and snapping turtle waiting to crush him at any moment, "Ugh it's time to test out a new ability." He sighed.
Potionshatter
The potions were converted into an explosive form, and the already explosive potions were empowered into have much stronger explosions. The potions were spawned out of thin air with in a 30m x 30m radius, washing out a large majority of the snake along the way.
"Hah shook them off, fighting a hundred snakes is better than fighting a thousand. Plus I still have rush hour and double time on, I can craft potions in my ingredient menu without having to use a cauldron for a whole hour, I got this in the bag." He smirked and acted with confidence.
Although he seemed arrogant and brazen he managed to defeat a whopping 104 snakes in 8.9 seconds. The snapping turtle was no longer a frightening adversary, the small fries are gone and now it's just a stand off against Auto and the elder snapping turtle.
Auto rushed, dispersed acidic potions onto the elder's shell. "It might seem stupid, and it's probably a waste of potions to some people but aiming for it's head is a big mistake. These pricks make you think it's unguarded parts are easy to take out, but if you try to go for the legs they shoot spores and regrow, making it harder to fight. And if you go for the head this annoying prick will spin its head at mach speeds like a chainsaw now clashing with your weapons and deflecting your projectiles with neck spikes."
Wasting no chance as the elder's shell had melted and the interior was now visible, Auto did not go for the heart but the lungs. "Hah, I hope you die a slow and painful death, I'm sorry but this will be a valuable ingredient for me. Taking it out right now might drop the quality so I'll wait a bit."
The elder turtle eventually passes out from the lack of oxygen, Auto had been able to relax for 5 minutes and with the thunderous stomps approaching he could tell that the fight was inevitable.
"Let's get dancing you golem." He gave a confident smile as he used leaping and charge potions to air dive and disperse rotting and acid potions onto the golem. Auto scoffed looking at the golem who seemed to have regrown it's leg "What hassle it regrew it while I was having a break, bummer." But he quickly shook it off and shattered a charge potion mid-air and landed on the golems shoulder.
"I got you now!" He smiled victoriously preparing to disperse 7 explosive potions at the golem's head, and indeed the potions exploded.
At Auto, the golem began spinning in upper body in a helicopter motion throwing Auto off balance and leaving him vulnerable for another attack, conveniently he was placed at the perfect angle to be swung by the helicopter motion, embracing for impact he shattered 3 body reinforcement potions and his only gold potion.
He was sent hurdling through two large mountains causing such devastating impacts, and he didn't get away scot free, his arm was fracture and his legs refused to work even with the help of the gold potion.
"Dang the gold potion's regeneration isn't fast enough, a healing potion will help but the DOMS will fuck me off later, healing potion is the only choice to live... But even if this dire situation. Why am I thinking about Aira? Why am I thinking about the village? It's not like I'm gonna die." Auto questioned as the golem walked closer and closer, it's helicopter motion slowly getting less mechanized.
"I might as well scoff at this, there's no shot I'm thinking about being human. Not in a situation where I have to fight." Auto popped 16 healing potions, aware he will suffer extreme tendon pain the next day, "But it's better than dying." he said, "I'm unprepared to die before saying sorry to her."
Using a quick and speed potion, he hawked with agility and nimble expertise, traversing the a rainforest jungle and swinging through vines like a maestro.
He splashed through a water wall, and broken through a cave. There he flew out revealing that the cave was on top of a waterfall, directly beside the golem that stopped spinning. Auto came landing on it's shoulder again, this time more cautious, he ran on its arms and shoulders and wisely used his potion maximizing his wits and intuition.
The golem's head spun in a circular potion with a light beam that disintegrated a large portion of the mountain and near by ecosystem.
Auto dashed from one side to another, but this time he's got one more trick up his sleeve. "If organic potions don't work on this bitch then what about corrupted ones? I only got 50 of them so time to make it out!" He smiled as he prepared his ferocious and unrelentless contingency.
"Throw 7 corrupted potions along with a blaze potion to the right arm side of the torso, another 7 to the left side and 8 to the rest of the upper body." Auto was dashing from one side to another, dealing massive damage to the golem forcing it to make a shout, it stomped on the ground and shattered 200 square kilometers of land mass.
"Dang this bitch ain't got enough abuse. Time to put an end to this." Auto said as he had enough fun and games, he used potion shatter and exploded the corruption potions on the golem's nape, the golem was no longer able to keep attacking as too much of its body has already corroded away from the corruption potions.
"Dang I used too many of this stuff, now I'm down to 12." Auto sighed acknowledging how far he went overboard, he checked his inventory to open a box, it's the box where he kept Aira's strings.
"Hmph. I can't help but smile seeing these two, these are the only remnants of her that I have. As much as I wonder what my purpose in life is... Is how much I wonder if she's doing okay." Auto said somberly smiling while holding the strings on a cricketing Dusk.
"I'm too far away from the kingdom, I might as well just store this in so that I don't die. And lie here fully prepared for the DOMS." Our Auto prepared for the worse with a tear sneaking out of his right eye.
"Hey get back inside my eye, I'm supposed to look manly." The tear retreated and I take back the words I said he did not cry pls don't kill me Auto.
"Good boy narrator." Yes me good boy sorry big boi.
Auto suddenly tensed up feeling a presence from the distance. "Someone's watching me" A hatted figure circles around the bushes, Auto assumes that it is an ambush. "Hey if you're here for an ambush then you're doing a bad job." Auto taunted, and as response the figure reveals itself to be a man wearing a black and white tuxedo, a comically long black top hat, white gloves, has perfectly white skin, and has a part of their face covered by a hazy fog.
Their eyes being the most predominantly hazy feature of them.
Who is this person?
And what could they possibly want?
Author notes: I made this story in royal road now I'm making it in webnovel to avoid professionals at all cost.