Necrotic Assassin

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Another random idea I got, I like this one because of what I envisioned while being bored on my daily forty five minute bus ride (two ways, hour and a half). This may go somewhere, maybe people will prefer this over HAX, because that isn't going anywhere

Sorry for short length, I get bored after writing for about fifteen minutes, so I kinda hurried


Introduction

'Foolish, what some people believe. These urban myths, these fables children and teens tell to pass time, only to spiral into full legends of their own, upon which even men feel the grasps of paranoia when they walk the streets alone, cowering if they have the burden of even a minor crime, whenever they happen to hear an unfamiliar noise, or worse, none at all.

This is what the urban myth of the Necrotic Assassin is.

Necrotic Assassin, a name, a title, a status given upon the supposed figure who slays men who commit any crime. But not just what we label as crime, crimes in the eyes of any man, if the connections are made, and of course, if the price is right. Which is why this so called slayer of the street corner is so terrifying to some, it is said that any man can hire this assassin as a hit man, if they can pay up front.

Such moronic tales of an assassin, spun from a web of lies to make uneasy the populace of this place.

They say that the Necrotic Assassin is barely human. Oh sure, he may appear human, but on the inside, he's a rotting carcass of a man, a corpse, a zombie, living through the means unknown by man. No such thing can be possible. There are tales claiming that this assassin had been blown nearly in half from explosives, torn apart by automatic gunfire, even crushed beneath rubble, but yet weeks later, returned from his supposed grave.

Yes, I suppose some would claim that it's his heart and his brain. As long as his brain functions, like a zombie, he lives. As long as his blood flows to it, he can speak, he can think, so he needs his heart... but what of his other organs? Why is only his head protected? Oh yes, his head. Pieces of jagged metal, welded together, forming an archaic helmet, a full mask to his face, grated and sanded down to the smoothness of any metal we know. Only one eye can see from the mask, as they put it, his so called eye scope can magnify his targets by twisting it, much like a telescope, or even use it as a microscope to track his targets.

Such nonsense.

Think for just a moment. What do people need to survive? Nutrients. Fats, proteins, calcium, magnesium, all sorts of vitamins, all of that a human needs to even survive more than a few days. Are you going to tell me that he doesn't need to be hydrated, either? Three days is the estimated time before a human expires from dehydration, quite awhile longer for food, but still. How long can you go without food, before your stomach seems to gnaw at you until you give in to the urge and feed? So this assassin is somehow different than a man?

And what of his lungs? They say his heart and his brain need to function, but what of his lungs? Think. This is foolishness. Without lungs, the body can't distribute air to the muscles, brain, anything. You would die within minutes.

This whole thing is just foolish. I don't even know why I bother discussing it.'

I enjoyed reading that.

but on the inside, he's a rotting carcass of a man, a corpse, a zombie, living through the means unknown by man.

I liked how you described the assassin. I'm looking foward to be reading the next part.

Well, he's named so because it's a legend known by people, that's what people believe when you say he can only be killed by damaging the brain. Keep in mind that this is the views of a biased man who doesn't believe in this assassin