[h3]The Hunter's Dream[/h3]
The first creature appeared to react quite strongly to Farren shooting it – much as one would expect from being shot in the head – and immediately sprawled back onto the ground. It did not appear to outright die from it, but even with Farren's relatively modest bloodtinge it seemed that it reacted quite strongly to quicksilver, and spent a couple of seconds convulsing while it worked to purify itself and regenerate the damage.
But turning his attention to the second entity, assaulting it with his blade, he would find that it did not cut nearly as deeply into it as he expected. Despite its feeble frame its body felt surprisingly dense – more so than any other creature he had struck since becoming a Hunter, to the point of it feeling more durable than even the darkbeast – and what had been intended as a slash to cleave it in twain ended up only producing a shallow cut across its body, which healed instantly.

Undeterred by Farren's attack, the abomination jumped up and attempted to grapple him with both of its hands, trying to dig its long fingers into his shoulders to keep him in place.

The Shopkeeper, meanwhile, approached to the one Farren had momentarily disabled with a shot to the head. They dismissed their cannon in a bluish flash, only for it to be immediately replaced by some manner of contraption made up of metal canisters and tubes. The next second a deluge of flame roared forth from the nuzzle of one of those tubes, eliciting a horrid screech from the creature as it was enveloped in a spray of fire.