“Boss, we’re going to need bigger and stronger wood to hold the mine up.”
The shock was still visible on his face, he was also a superhuman but the strength demonstrated just now was absolutely terrifying. It almost caused him to soil himself.
He quickly closed his gaping mouth and turned to Lucif, “Alright kid, run to the northern forest. Ask them to deliver a thousand 30 meter trees. Don’t worry about making them planks we just need the trunks. Just make sure they are sturdy and strong.”
“Righto, boss man.”
Lucif ran at top speed towards the northern forest, it wasn’t hard to find because it was the only forest surrounding the entire city. It was quite the distance from the mine, it took him 20 to 30 minutes to get there.
When he arrived at the log cabin he was shocked to find it so empty. ‘Only ten girls here, how are they going to fulfil the order?’
“Umm, you gals are the northern forest lumberjacks?”
A thin beautiful girl walked forward and nodded her head, “Yes, we are. Who may you be?”
“I’m Lucif, I just came over from MYHO. Our boss asked me to come here and request one thousand sturdy 30 meter high trees.”
“Oh, old man Akylas wants some trees? Okay sure, we got some planks out back. I’m lexicon and these 9 beautiful girls are my daughters.”
Like she said they were all breath taking beauties, they were around 14-23 years of age but their gazes were fierce and harsh like hidden tigers and crouching dragons. The mother held a smile but she looked the most fearsome of all, it was her eyes that gave her away. They were red like blood and her fangs were longer than usual. She looked somewhat similar to a vampire from the old horror stories. She looked 25 years of age but she was probably 40.
Lucif clasped his hands and bowed in respect, “Nice to meet you all but we don’t need planks just the strong tree trunks.”
“Why just the trunks? Ah, never mind. Who knows what goes through that old man’s head. When does he need them by?”
“Ah, well. Now.”
“Now? Damn old man, always creating extra work for me. Alright then, girls grab an axe. Boy, you grab an axe too.”
The girls picked up an axe and threw it over their shoulder, Lucif went to grab one too but there was a problem. He couldn’t lift the damn thing off the ground!
“Um, sorry but my axe is glued to the floor.”
“Glued? It’s not glued it’s just heavy. Kid, are you not a super human? Tsk, how come a brat like you works at the mines. Alright then, just grab a normal axe over there. I don’t know how much help you will be but it’s better than nothing.”
‘Tsk, just you wait. I’ll show you, you old vamp!’
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As Lucifer muttered this to himself, she suddenly turned around and said, “Kid, just remember. This is the action to cut down a tree, you swing like this. Also, cut a wedge on one side and smash the other. You don’t want it falling on your noggin. We could take it but you’d probably die, just a fair warning.”
“Ah, maybe I shouldn’t help after all.”
“Hah, look girls he’s chicken.”, ‘Damn are all these old timers this fierce with their words?’
“Heh, I don’t mind being a chicken they taste delicious. You want a taste old vamp?”
Cough, cough… She quickly shut up. ‘Young kid like him and he’s already a huge pervert, better keep him away from my girls.’ She thought to herself.
‘Heh..I win this round old vamp.’
The girls all split off in different directions but Lucif followed after Lexi. She jumped forward and sliced a clean wedge on one side of the tree then swung her axe towards the other side.
Buck, buck, buck… 3 strikes and the tree was easily cut through.
“Timber!”
Creak, creak, whoosh, boom!
The tree slammed down to the ground and shook the surrounding trees, “Okay kid, did you get it? That’s what you have to do. Good luck.”
After that she shot off and start demolishing tree after tree, one right after the after. It took her only a few seconds to mow down 12 trees. ‘Tsk, these super humans are cheat characters.’
As his ears adjusted to the surroundings he could hear similar rumbling in the distance. “I can’t get shown up too much, I have to try and see what I can do.”
He ran over to a tree he assumed was around 32 meters high and started slicing it to pieces. After 15 minutes he finally managed to break through but it didn’t fall.
“Huh, what’s going on here?” He moved around to the other side and tried to push. The tree wobbled but it wobbled in the wrong direction. ‘Oh no!’ A sense of deadly crisis rose up inside of him as he madly dashed to the left. “Argh, I’m not going to make it.” Step by step he felt his body going into overdrive as he sprinted madly out of harm’s way.
Swoosh…
He could feel the air pressure from the tree pressing down behind him, “Argh!!” He sent his muscles into overdrive as he fiercely pushed off the ground.
Boom!
The tree landed behind him, kicking up dust and leaves into the air. Cough, cough….He turned around and looked down at the tree behind him. The trunk was touching his toes. He barely made it out alive.
“Northern forest? This is more like a forest of death!”