“It is cold” that is what any human who travels through the abandoned ruin would say. Despite the heat generated from just looking at the fire pillar, the dragon makes from afar. The quietness and the loneliness haunt the small village that smell of rotten meat from death corpse make your spine go cool like in a middle of winter. The occasional rock falling noise startles me. If you image the cat who is slashed with water and cower in fear, you just have to image it on human and you get me, a coward who cursing every step I move.
“Damn it, damn it” I mumble in fear, wish I would recollect the courage when I watch the horror movie. One thing I learn is reality is always different. Sometimes the fire meteor from the sky hit the ground, and come with them, a dead body. Suddenly there is noise behind me, it sounds like a footstep. My heart stops, I feel my throat dry. I feel the sweat cover my face, but my spine is as cold as ice. The noise approaches closer and louder. There is no choice now, I must do something. I turn my back, and my knee is in ready mode, I jump up toward the source of the noise.
“Are you serious” the slime icon gasp in shock toward my action.
“Ah, forgive me, I am sorry, you can do anything to me, I have no money and you won’t get any experience for killing a useless person like me” I believe this is the first time I beg that hard. I even feel the hard surface of the rock, which is spiky and tough. My leg doesn't feel any better since it supported the weight of my body.
“Hahaha” *the intense machine gun laugh* the slime’s laugh alerts me.
“It is a mouse, you idiot” I put my head up. I feel my face as hot as possible.
“You beg a mouse for your life, I can’t hold my laugh, stop kill me, this video is a treasure” The slime laugh even harder as it sees my reaction.
I look at the mouse with rage.
“Seem like we have mouse meat tonight” I smile as an evil lord is ready to slaughter the whole kingdom.
Since I am not a hero, there isn’t even a feature I can access, not even potion creation or stats, and what else do you think, I don’t even have a map. I can’t image how many time I can save if I can see the huge mountain on the map, it would save me so much walking. And I can’t even access bag, which I should receive potion and beginner’s tool. Same thing applied with food.
“I am not equipped with this feature, I can say what it does, but I cannot access it” The slime speaks with a carefree attitude.
Back to the first battle, mouse vs me. I raise my rusty sword up since that is only thing I can use. How ridiculous, that most of the weapon drop here is around 100 lv and up. It is a sword; can’t I just hold it up and use it. So, I stuck with my Rusty Sword, how nice. And of course, as expected, with the accuracy stats almost hit zero, I hit straight to the ground and my hand shakes from the impact.
“Critical damage: Retreat recommend” What the heck, how useless I am.
“Ha-ha, you can’t even handle the recoil, are you kidding me, this is gold mine”
“Shut up, can you do something”
“Of course, I can, at least as a Fairy, I can handle some basic skill”
The slime activates the magic with the rune run around her, and onto the ground.
“Freeze” the slime cast a spell, and quickly the mouse freeze.
“The fairy is usually scaled with the hero, lucky for you that this is the most basic spell regardless we have a hero or not”
“Lucky, I am hungry enough to eat even a mouse” I rise my sword and point it down, like a centimeter away, you can’t dodge a second time.
“Accuracy 1%( + 10% for each unit (distance) the attack start) = 25%”
“How the heck, like I am 1 centimeter away, and still 75% missed, this is reason RPG die off” I scream.
“Well, quantity make up quality “I point the sword down like 10 times before one of the attacks hit.
“Yes, the attack hit” I scream in pride as the hero just defeated the demon lord.
“Whoa, you hit, I shouldn’t be happy, but somehow I feel sad that you hit a mouse would make me so proud” the slimes show a thump up emoji.
“That was a good match, Mickey, you are worthy opponent” Not a goblin, not a slime, a harmless animal, is the only one I can defeat, I cry inside.
“Mouse 12: Gains 214000 experience, level up 1 -> 50” The hologram word float on the air.
“Wait what happens” I tilted my head in disbelief.
“Noland is defeated” the word float on my head.
“What the heck”
“Click here to see your death” I click on the button.
The video of mouse 12 vs Noland appear. The video show I hit the mouse, the damage even shows up, like 3 damages, but the mouse only has 1 hp.
Then I see the buff on my screen. “Rusty Sword: Receive all the damage you cause to your opponent”
“KO”
“Ha-ha” I smile and laugh as a maniac and hit my head on the ground in a ghost form.
“You can’t even win over the match against the mouse, I can’t hold this, this is too much, I may die from laughing”
“I should join you, what is that useless man, he can’t even defeat a mouse, ha-ha” my laugh quickly turns into desperate crying.
“Enough of trolling, at least we are able to resurrect you once”
“Just let me die, you are right, I am useless, who I think I am” I mumble depressing while hug my leg.
The slime stop talking for a moment. It approaches me as the fairy, and jump on my shoulder.
“You aren’t worthless” the slime whisper.
“Slime…” I feel the hope rise in my heart, maybe Slime isn’t a bad person, or monster.
“You are a burden to me, if you are worthless, then you can die without affecting me, but since you even cause harm to me, call you worthless is a compliment”
I take back that, my Fairy is the worst of all living being, not like I am better.
“At least I win, I told you I can show you who is more useless” I whisper while my tear still rolls on my cheek.
“I feel like you don’t plan all of this” The slime begins to cast a resurrection spell.
I revived. Look at my body, I don’t feel glad at all, or the happiness I should feel.
“Welcome back to hell” I mumble.
Suddenly the meteor hit the ground in front of me.
“That was close” I was send flying and lying on the ground.
“Look” The slime typed in a 3D emoji hand and point at the direction of the meteor.
“Mouse 12: Dead, Drop: Cooked mouse”
“Well lucky day” I come nearby pick it up and eat, anything can be good when you are hungry I guess.
“I will remember you Mouse”
“The mouse also drops a crystal heart, well it said we can sell it for couple of coin, why not” I put in my plastic bag that I hold couple of pencil and paper in there. I was on grocery trip before I was summoned here.
Quickly we resume our journey after winning the first battle, and the hardest one we face so far. All I can said is well at least I am half full, or not.
Can’t we just teleport toward the castle already, this walking is so tiresome. But I know there is no way I can even teleport in the first place, I don’t even can used any movement enhance spell, or any spell at all.
“ ****** “ Some kind of ancient language that I never understand. Yet through the tone and the fuss the source made, it sounds like she really wants something bad. My sweat run along my cheek, cool the heat that I generated from running. My heart race like a machine work in maximum power, even I can feel the vein bop out from my neck and arm.
“I want to find my hero, he will be my fiancée” The slime’s translation doesn’t really help me at all.
“Hey look, finally you can be a hero, and a pretty girl want to marry you”
“Are you kidding me, who want to be that kind of hero” I scream, realize it was too loud.
“***** “the soldier guard beside the girl in blond look toward where I am.
“Let find him and have milady and the hero have a first night”
“What the fuck, kill me please god, I can’t stay here, my virginity is in danger” I stand up and run in the maze. Even there is nothing in my stomach, and it have complained about while a long time, I can’t let myself to give up right now. Something is greater than death await me.
Behind me, a pretty girl, yes, I know a super pretty girl run behind me, chasing me, beg for love. Am I gay, that is questionable question, but no, I love a female as any healthy boy do. So, what the heck is wrong with this situation.
45 minute ago.
I look up at the castle and the dragon from afar. I swallow in desperation and hopelessness. Defeat a demon lord is one thing, getting there is another thing. With lack of food, and surely the desert doesn’t help me at all. It is more like dead land, no sand, nothing, few scrub, and mostly ruin or destroyed village with a smell that make me vomit anything left in my stomach. So, I avoid such a crowd place, plus it is wiser to not meet any monster. Since the Slime inform me this is the land that monster invade, and most of human either die or move out, I have no hope to find any human here. I began to feel jealous of the heroes who got to enjoy the first day in another world in peace and with companion of pretty girl. All I got is a rusty sword that kill me once, and a useless Slime fairy.
“Look” The slime type in a finger point at the east, I assume but with the new world, I can’t trust where is the sun. I follow my eye and find a ruin. It is almost identical to other ruin I meet so far, but this time, there some other color except for red, brown and black. I see green. Immediately my mind fill with hope and my tummy too, but hope isn’t a calories food, so it quickly goes away, left me back to the hungry state.
“Let go other way” The slime points the finger to other way.
“What the heck, there is tree and plant there, I need food, Slime, maybe we can even find some people”
“Before you worry about meeting any human, you should be worry about losing to another mouse”
“Where is the mouse, where, don’t hurt me” I scream in jump in fear, try to look around me find a moving object.
“See” The slime looks in depressed face.
“Don’t scare me like that, you know how dangerous is a mouse”
“No, you are just too weak” The slime sign.
“Anyway, I am prepared to take that chance, I won’t die by starvation, it is too slow, I would rather die by some powerful monster kill me quickly”
“Suit yourself, I already begin to give up hope after see your first performance”
With no argument, we careful sneak toward the ruin, where we expect a lot of monster and hopefully human find it livable. Since the lack of food, I thought to myself, maybe that is illusion, but right now that is the only hope I can find. The growling noise from my stomach push the decision stronger. There is tree rise in the middle of the ruin.
“You have explored the Ruin of Acheron” the text pop up just like how game is.
“Achievement: The Explorer, reward: Cooking equipment, pot and cap”
“How the heck there is no food, and you give me a crappy cooking equipment, do you try to kill me with irony” I scream but careful not to let it go past my throat.
“Hehe” the slime hides its laugh.
“Man, I am super craved for a Sushi right now, guess that one good thing from Original”
“Are you mocking me, you think you can sit behind machine and just sit there eating while watching me starve to death”
“Apparently, I can, also sympathy with you won’t change anything”
“You” I hold the anger back, since it only used up all the energy that I have left.
“I hope there is low lever monster” I wish, but I see no point in even defeated anything stronger than a mouse. Suddenly I hear a loud noise, and the ground shake. A giant worm just shoots up from the ground and go back to the ground as it bites a bunch of monster and drag them down to prevent them from escapes.
“Monster Level: 69- 100 “
“Do you try to kill me” I give up, there isn’t even a mouse or something under level 5.
“You should give up, mate, this won’t work well” The slime advice to me carelessly.
I look down with all hope have gone, I look around the ruin as far as my eye can see, and there is no livable ruin, or hope. But there is one last option. I pull my shaking leg in front of other and repeat that motion, even slow. The slime looks surprisingly.
“What are yo……u doing” the slime tries to stop me nervously
“I have an idea, I am sure it will work”
“ Stop…” The slime stops short as it sees my eye of confidence sparkle.
“You mean, you, have … a plan” The slime still doubting my word.
“Of course, there is the way I can deal with even 100 lv monster, and got the ending I want”
I don’t want to waste my breath or changed my mind, so I quickly quicken my pace. I look ahead, the entry to the ruin is in sight. The only thing left is to go in.
“Maybe he can help me” the Slime look with hopeful eye.
I rush inside, with my eyes close, and breath in. I can do it, I know I can, this is all plan.
“ Come and eat me, Yeah, eat me while I am skinny and loss of hope, don’t let me be full and start to regain my sense and want to live” I yell out and I look at the slime. I use my finger to make a thumb up gesture toward the speechless slime.
“Told you, this reverb psychology will let me be full and die quickly, what is better than that”
“Of course, there is thousand things better than that, how about defeat these monster”
“Nah, no way that happen” I waved my hand with acceptance look.
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Suddenly the ground shake, and I feel the tree moving. I close my eye prepare for my full meal.
“You know that these animals don’t understand what you are saying right”
“Wait, what the fuck” I retort in surprising and desperation. As the noise grow louder.
“Oh well, I don’t want to die with an empty stomach” I scream in vain.
“I wish in next life I am able to have a girlfriend” a wish that come way sooner and I would soon regret. I feel my body lighter and cooler.
“Hey, idiot, there is no one” The voice awakes me from the darkness cover me.
“Stupid, how pathetic you are, fainting from being scared, and you said I am ready to die”
“Why wouldn’t you let me die” I cry with so many up and down emotion.
“Aside from the joke that not even a monster wants to eat you, it is weird that there is no monster around here”
“That mean one thing” I stand up happily rush toward the nearest tree.
“I am not a fruit fan, but right now that all I need” I shake the tree.
“Apple tree: 0 apple available”
“Do you really give me a damn hope then just take it away, Nol, learn, you need to learn” I quickly regret the loss of control to my emotion to a small hope.
“There is no fruit on the tree, that mean the monster is just here recently”
“Apple tree, recover rate: Next spring”
“I would be dead by then”
“Of course, the monster must immigrate for food source too, the cycle makes sure the ecosystem still has chance to grow back, guess the monster just leave” the slime analyzes careful with bunch of useless information that won’t fill my stomach.
“Mommmmy, I am hungry, I want to eat” I lost control and wave my hand side to side like a baby.
“Shut up this isn’t time to do that” The slime look at me with pitiful look.
Something smell good, I snitch on the air. Since my body is so craved for food, my nose somehow become more sensitive and able to detect a smell of food.
“Over there” I follow the scene and arrive at the cliff where I look downward and see the source of the smell. There is a small camp fire.
“Now we know where are all monsters” The slime counts the number of monster that surround the camp.
“That quite many ogres to gather” we focus our attention toward the surrounding of the camp fire where a group of another monster gather.
“No way it is just another group of monster surround around a group of monsters” I turn my back away.
“That is human surround by monster, you idiot, just how much hope you give up to see human as monster”
“Stop kidding, these guy is obviously a monster, no way I am lucky enough to see a human around here, look these monster in a middle even steal human’s clothes and wear them, guess at least monster have style now”
“No, you are idiot, they are human, just read their bio, and race”
“Wait, they are really human, that mean one thing”
“We have to save them, I always dream of this for a long time, they even have a pretty noble girl, I may change this guy’s life after all” The slime gets excited for a first time and all fire up.
“Food, they will have normal food” I make a stance, ready to jump down.
“ Eh? What, that all you care” the slime makes a shocking face as I jump.
“Guard the Milady even that cost your life” the captain of the guard rises his voice, pull up a shield up.
The surrounding soldier create a straight wall line, mark a boundary between the monster and the campfire. The formation stops the range ogre from shooting the low arrow.
“Wall formation: Rise defense multiple by number of shield” the shield quickly buffed and rise in size in form of aura, to fill a small gap in the shield.
“The first line of Calvary horse charged in”
“Are they an idiot, focus on the front line” the Vice-captain point his hand up as a signal for the shield line to move up.
The classic tactic quickly stopped the advance of the ogre.
There is a few number of shield bearer if counted close to 4 or 5.
“this is why we hired high level Guardian”
“There is no need for praise, this is the minimum for a high-level guard” The mercenary reply with polite, careful with his word.
“As expect their demon is stupid as hell, to think their mind is corrupted like that, I feel sorry” The Vice-captain offer a few words of empathy, strangely to a monster.
Aura of guardian: The damage reduction increase with the half of the damage reduction of the shielded near it.
“As expect of the Gaudi’s Guild, able to get quite a good number of S class Guardian, unlike the hero this day”
“We accept compliment but any more of attention that come our way, this will be trouble for you and me”
“I know, even our milady’s wish is ridiculous, I hope we can work until the end, just do your part when it is time ok” The Captain calmly remind the pact that they make together.
The line uses the aura wall to stop the cavalry ogre to head in, the speed of the cavalry is so fast, they hit the wall and pop up like a water balloon hit the wall.
“Usha, CIS, Aliso” The ogre angrily mumbles an ancient word.
“To see a few monsters can still have their conscious intact, this is beyond cruel, this is hell beyond hell” The captain, take on the tag that once belong to his friend and hug it on his chest.
“Do you want to be back captain, I know this must be hard for you to see him” The noble girl surprisingly exits the cart.
“It is ok, Milady, it isn’t him anymore, and I know he want me to know that too”
“Anyway, the plan is still on right” The noble girl looks up with great hope and excitement. The captain, look nervously and quite unable to resist the cute look the lady offer.
“Well, due to our source, the hero is on the way, so they should make it time” The captain looks in the document he has on his hand.
“Yes, finally” The lady shows a little unladylike by jumping in happiness.
“Milady, before you are worried about if the hero comes by or not, first you need to fix your attitude” The Captain lecture on the lady on her attitude.
“Who care” the milady turns away and go back into the wagon. The captain quickly demands the Guardians to expand the layer of defense by also create layer of earth wall. The Captain switch his attention to the mage that already charge up magic buff skill.
“Magic Charge: The next attack will have double damage” The buff appears next to mage. It is no different than two consecutive spells, but in term of efficiency and time, the spell help lessen the mana cost and the time to cast each spell. Stats Intelligent: 123,156, 189, 200. The stats quickly increase as the captain cast a spell of buff. Since it doesn’t cost too many mana and to save the need to hired another buffer, the captain decides to fill the role himself.
And quickly a spell of fire spread the ogre in quick succession. Some soldier yawn in boredom. The group doesn't realize another threat is approaching.
“Human, stupid, think we no brain” The ogre surprisingly able to speak a human’s language, it is still primal and lack of cohesion or structure, but the ability to recognize each word and use in understandable form to human mark a great advance in their intelligent or a degradation of their mind. The group stand on the cliff and stare at behind the camp fire where there is no one defending. “We evolve, we aren’t stupid” the leader of the ogre whisper before waving his hand in signal toward the large group of well-equipped ogres who each have different decoration on their Dringer, the animal that look like a panther, quick but also wear a deadly figure of a wolf. Each skull on the Dinger’s head represent the successful hunt they have, and so far they haven’t been take down yet. Toward their rank system, they are able to focus the few to master the class they hold and become elite.
Back to the camp fire, the ogre quickly dies from the fire spell which is super effective in AoE. The fire even used the body of the orc to intensify the fire. With the rapid enhancement to the fire as it passes each orc, the fire quickly turns deadly.
Water wall: Nullified the fire the water wall stands in middle of those who burn and who don’t, quickly minimized the spread of fire.
“What are you doing” the guardian turns back and grab the magician and pull up. The Guardian's muscle under the high vitality and strength rip like a fruit that reach its point. With one hand, he easily pulls a fully-grown man up to the air.
“Gravity” The magician mumbles few spells.
“Gravity field target: Anis the Guardian, + 129” The rebuff appears beside Anis’s name tag. And quickly Anis is dragged down and unable to stand up. Each cell in his muscle tighten and perform at its best yet he simply is unable to stand up.
“How, this isn’t normal gravity field we train under” The Guardian struggle to even mumble few word. Each word he mumbles, the moan from the pain and exhaustion haunt on each second, he speaks.
“Stop trying to resist, it just going to get worst, the more energy and heat you generate, the more charge your body become, don’t think we just hired somebody that we have no way to fight back if they betray” the magician fixes the tie on his neck, calmly look down toward the Anis who is one moment away from fall flat to the ground and kneeling.
“It is so pitiful that your strength actually become your weakness, your body is now nothing more but a single charged useless piece of meat” The Magician spare few time to explain the mechanic behind is spell.
“Magus, free the spell, there is no use in fighting internally” The captain looks at Magus with serious face, calm and collective yet dangerous and fearsome.
“all right, he is the one who start this” Magus free the spell, left Anis struggle to breath since the gravity drag all the oxygen toward the ground, the lack of air in the zone due to the extreme gravity cause Anis to be unable to breath at all.
“My friend, I see you have a problem with our strategy”
“Yes, what the heck with the water, are you really try to kill them, I thought there is no personal feeling” Anis voice his opinion strongly even after a near death experience. It proves how fearless his guild has taught him, and how harsh is his adventure to find this kind of experience a new normal.
“That still stand, please be careful to not lost the life’s we just save”
“Lives?”
“Stop Anis, he is right, the Consecutive Fire is a strong spell, but it isn’t popular to use in group, or large raid, if it gains enough stack by steal the stats of the monster the kill, there is no way that stop it, and it will kill us too” Poling, the leader of the Guardian still holds the shied on since Anis left his post.
“Luckily, the fire can’t escape the maximum of the range, somehow like a living being, the fire doesn’t leave from their home, and without the bait to feed themselves, they die off” Polin explained the used of the spell detailly. The captain immediately find it amusing and he is quite captivated with the leader’s knowledge. The captain did ask once to have him on the permanent team, but Polin simply reject with the excuse that he prefer a wandered life with his friend, and the trip to above world is his goal for now.
“Anyway, Magus summon more water wall, also update on the number of stack the fire gain, don’t let it go over 20 “
“Don’t worry, this is a normal routine”
“No wonder you are the few clan to be able to entrust the spell “Consecutive Fire”, it is quite temptation skill to have in the clan, but the offer is still a no no” Polin smile as he still expands the shield toward the space Anis left. Anis realize his mistake, quickly move back to his post and resume his spell. “Wait until next time” Anis still held the anger that he is defeated. He is defeated more than dozen, he accepts it, but there is also one thing, he never accepts defeat, he works until he takes that revenge, he craved for winning, to be better, not to subdue to other. “Don’t worry about him, being too aggressive about winning and losing is also one of his good point and bad one, still he is able to improve a lot from that” Polin try to calm the atmosphere from the hostile toward friendlier. Poplin’s quick thinking and ability to bring peace to the table with just a few sentences prove how many year experience he has, especially, the member under him is once consider the most violent race in Aguste. The captain signal that everything is fine. The leader is necessary in many case like internal conflict, it is the figure people look up to analyze the situation. If the captain is weak will and easy to show his emotion, the underling would feel panic and easy swayed by the captain. The soldier around looks at the Captain’s confident lead and calm face realize the situation is resolved itself. The feeling of irritation and worrisome in the middle of the battle easily lift off. And again, the order return, the flow returns to its belong stream.
Quickly the orcs died off.
“Magus, review the signal of life, and send a squad to retrieve and eliminate the Consecutive fire”
“What a pain” Magus quickly order his underling, who specialize in scout, and few teleport spells is casted, in case of unseen event. Magus repeat the order and the order of technique to eliminate the consecutive fire.” It is also a monster, not a fire” The roar heightens soldier’s awareness and their morality, but not their patience. Even though the warning gives off the feeling of intense and stressful attitude, the order keeps the soldier confident and peace as they know exactly what they need to do.
“Patience isn’t coward, it is the most bravery one can do” The motto remind one of the most basic lesson that lead the clan into successful. Even in case of emergency, even it requires speed, the clan always train their member to be patience to list many option, for their first trait to achieve is wait.
“Wait” Magus quickly signal the team to be on guard, since the guard still rise the wall behind them. The team composed mostly light weight class, master in speed as both their attack and defense. It is logical choice in the high damage situation, if a heavy weight class come in, the damage per second damage would continuous drain their life. But if the class of speed, the speeder would easily move out the range of the attack. As a mage, Magus isn’t considering as mobile as his underling, yet his knowledge in baiting and few illusion tricks allow him to use the speeder as the bait for time to escapes. It is the strategy that allow him to be nearly invisible in the time he serve in the clan. Even under heavy raid, he can still retreat, but with high casualty. Magus bend know, his knee is wet due to the water collapse from the water wall. He picks up the few items to access the class and level of the monster, since he isn’t a hero, the ability to access such an information is out of his option, but the replacement spell and technique removes their handicap. It requires many people in the specialized class and time to cast. Magus decided it is wasted to unnecessary use the limited mana they have, it is wiser to look at the weapon and have people with known level to try it on.
“Bis, try this on” Magus throw the equipment that drop by the orc toward Bis, who is surprisingly and almost miss the catch, he tumbles for few time before getting stable again.
“Bis, pay attention, I know you survey the surrounding with high concentrated, but if it will block your ability to think, be relaxed, yet to be more careful, make the awareness a passive not an active”
“yes sir” Bis answer back nervously wonder if he just ruins his chance to be promote.
“Here we are carefully of what would happen not what happen, this way we never are surprise” Magus enjoy himself in lecture other, since a young brat, he always the top of his gang, but to think he would love a teacher position, he is surprise to himself.
“Equip: Orc’s Handles brace”
“So, it is around 20- 30 level monster”
“Sir Magus, why we do it again, I thought we are here to retrieve the Hell Fire”
“I wouldn’t consider calling it that name, it wouldn’t help our reputation anyway, and for the Consecutive fire, it is head toward us, in around 20 feet radius”
“What” The group gasp in slurping and quickly alert retreated to defending stance.
“We won’t have enough time to cast any capture spell, what should we do”
“Ah, that is easy” Magus grab Bis who still is a nervous newbie, and throw him toward the south, where the wall resides.
“Get that fire for me” As magus suggest, the fire appear from the ground in the corpse and quickly catch on Bis’s clothes. The image of the orc screams for their life quickly haunt Bis’s memory, it is now his turn to suffer the same.
“Noooo, save me, water cast, Waterfall, it isn’t working, why” Bis yell out try to cast spell but the basic water is unable to cool the fire or even touch the fire. The water that casted by Bis quickly evaporate in interaction with the Hell Fire.
“I don’t want to die” Bis finally give in to his emotion, cry for help.
“Stop, don’t help him” Magus wave the and prevent anyone try to jump in and help.
“Nsis, I don’t want to die” Bis turn his look toward his childhood friend.
“Stop Nsis” Magus order the scout to stop Nsis, who is ready to jump in and help.
“I am sorry, Bis, but this is also a lesson, and so far, you failed”
“No, Magus I don’t want to die, please save me” Bis feel his body melting and the heat rise rapidly.
He starts to remember the promise he made to Nsis, his lesson, his life quickly passes by his mind.
“Patience, never give in” the voice echo in his mind, somehow remove the fear of death in his mind. He doesn’t mistake it with acceptance, but rather the will to live to grow stronger.
“Bis, don’t die” Nsis, a young talented ginger hair girl, who have everything that Bis don’t have. Bis isn’t talented at all, the fact that he is on the same team on Nsis, because he serves as the Baiter, the person Magus casted an illusion on to bait the enemy while the group escapes. Bis always is jealous of Nsis, who always got to do what he dreams of, a scout.
“I won’t die, Gravity formation, Maximum output” Bis yell out loud struggle to fight his last breath. The surrounding area of Bis quickly turn darker, and darker, that his body start to disappear in darkness, Bis’s body quickly evaporated, His scream starts to disappear into nothing. Quickly the area around turn to ashes, a dark cube.
“No, Bis” Nsis finally is free and start run toward Bis’s body, crying.
“I was so happy that finally we are in same clan, I don’t want you to die” Nsis cry but quickly realize a warm hand is put on her shoulder.
“He did a good job” Magus signal the team to begin to travel back and left Nsis to grieve for Bis’s body.
As he begins to face toward the camp, he smiled. His unique reaction and strange behavior isn’t something new, the senior in the team give an indifferently look toward the cold and psychopath Magus.
“So exciting, to be able to react the gravity level of Mars, this is incredible, to use the gravity to suck the oxygen into one place, the fire would be able to continue, but to the point of sucking light, he isn’t a useless baiter, he is genius, a black hole as a first spell, how amazing” Magus laugh in pride,
“I love you” Nsis whisper into the black cube
Back to where black cube is, the light starts to escape the weaken blackhole, the oxygen starts to flow back into low concentrated area.
“Hey, Nsis, why are you crying” Bis show up harmless, even though his clothes suffer few burn mark, but for the rest, he is all right. But one thing that hit him hard is the sudden hug from Nsis that drag him downward to the ground.
“Wait” Bis blush and try to figure why Nsis hug him suddenly, but quickly he hears the noise of Nsis crying, he stops.
It last for a while.
“Don’t look” Nsis warn Bis, even throw a punch toward his stomach to prevent him from tilted his head sideway.
“Anyway, what did you said back then, since the blackhole suck the air, there is no vibration, I can’t really hear you”
“Eh, you don’t, when I can finally say it, you idiot” Nsis throw a stronger punch that knock Bis out cold and stand up hide her face.
“You up, good” the particle of color, no Bis look closer and realize the familiar Image bugs, start to show up a series of image of Magus.
“First, you fail, the fire can’t even kill you, it only stack to a level 20 orc, there is no way a baiter would die to that, also you are welcome, Nsis, finally show your true co.” Magus reveal a truth that bring Nsis and Bis to blush in embarrassment. The Image bug is interrupted by Nsis, who wave the hand to stop the image to form.
“Don’t say it, go away, Magus, I hate you brother”
“Wait what, I thought I help you confes…” The image is stop short as the thunder strike from the sky toward the image. Bis realize the caster was Nsis, who look in murderous intend.
“Anymore I will kill you, brother” Nsis show up the side that help her become one of potential seed to lead the division, cold and fearsome.
“I am sorry” Bis unconsciously bow down due to fear.
“No, I don’t you to see that” Nsis realize the side she just shows, start to run away blushing.
“Well good job, Bis, you just save me once there, I know bring you in the clan would spare me few lives I have left” Magus smile in relieve. Bis look at Magus pitifully and wear an expression of “Is he scared of his sister that much”, but then realize how a strong mage like Magus would fear for his life, Bis realize how lucky for him to not be dead yet.
“Wait, you said most of the monster is level 20, and not even any Elite, isn’t this suspicious, in the large raid, the Elite usually appear, and with this number, there is none? “
“Pretty sure that is coincidence, no, you are right, wait, no way that happen, the orcs aren’t that smart”
Suddenly from the camp fire, an explosion take place, shock the ground and bring Bis attention toward the wall.
“Magus, back, the enemy attack, they attack from the back” The noise from his amulet quickly alert Magus’s team.
“Tell the captain, it isn’t normal Orcs, they have evolved, they use the weak orcs to act as decoy and the elite pack combine to ambushed”
“No way, are you kidding me, are you sure, it is orc we are talking about” The vice-captain tries to reject such an impossible theory.
“I bet they all have ranked Dringer and various skull”
“No, they don’t have just that, they even bait The Dringer King here”
“What, this is hopeless, tell captain, we need to retreat”
“no time, we are already in combat” the signal quickly turns off as the mana now is used for fighting. The use of communication only wasted the mana.
“Bis, find Nsis and go back, be careful” Magus turn off the signal as he run back to the camp fire.
Bis look toward where Nsis run to, and start to give it a chase.
“Damn it, Nsis, where are you” Bis shout, but find something strange, while he expects Nsis to run away from him, she run toward him.
“Now is not the time for hug” Bis unconsciously blush and hold two hands out to show his protest,
“You idiot, who want to hug you, there is bunch of Ancient Goblin come this way”
“Are you kidding me, The Elite pack from other side and the whole Ancient Goblin come over here, we are pretty much dead”
“Wait The elite pack, this is screw”
Two of them begin to pick up their pace as the hungry Wolf was release from goblin to survey the area.
From above, the small camp fire is surround by large number of monster approach.
From the cliff nearby, a shadow of a man who is ready to jump off the cliff.