Forest Adventure

After leaving the murder scene. I reverted to my physical form and headed for the woods. I entered it through the back of the mansion, after entering the woods. I took off my bloodied butler clothing leaving only my white undershirt, and black shorts. Yes, I always like wearing an extra set of clothing. Since you never know, when you might kill again. Sure, I have my values. I don't kill anyone, who doesn't offend me. Of course I would never kill children either since they have their whole life ahead of them. I don't really differentiate between gender and age though. Since an elderly woman might me a super strong mage.  Letting my guard down will only bring about my death.

After all the Adventurers I defeated are barely above E rank and were only able to meet with the Master due to their connections. You might be wondering how I know that, but during the training I overheard some of the other slave's gossiping. Plus E rank adventurers are barely above the bottom. SInce the rank's are from F rank to A rank. The only Rank above A rank is S rank. Which are extremely rare. Even the three great empires only have a few S rank adventurers. Even forgetting S rank. A rank adventurers are uncommon too. Most adventurer's are around D and C rank. While the more experienced ones being at B rank.

Again forgetting adventurer's, magicians have a different ranking system. From being at a first circle mage to a 10 circle mage. Most mages are around 3rd circle or 4. Since the leap from a fourth circle mage to a fifth circle mage is too great! A fourth circles mage can destroy about 100 people from a distance. While a fifth circle mage can level a village. Above fifth circle mage are monsters, they can destroy armies from a distance. Even close range they can stack defensive skills to fight warriors at D or C rank.

Right now I'm not ranked but if I were to guess my strength, it would probably be about C rank. Even though in my mist form, I'm impervious to physical attacks, a skilled magician could probably use magic to bind me or seal me. Even a warrior at C rank also could probably beat me, if they attack me in my current state. So the first order of business is to get stronger. Then I would go to the city and get an adventure license.

My future planned I enter deeper into the forest, I stealthily move around avoiding vines and other blockades. After hours of searching I find a nice clearing and start to set up camp. I enchant my knives and cut off the branches to create an indian style hunt. I was planning to set up a fire, but that would just attract animals so I didn't bother. I gather a path of grass and entered my hut. I then laid the grass down and slept

The next morning I was awoken by a low growl, groggily opening my eyes I exited my hut. Facing me was a 2 meter long snake. "Oh shit!" I said and threw a knife and fled. I even forgot to enchant it so it did little to no damage. Running I saw several other snakes. Hiding in the bushes or branches. "Just my luck to, make camp in a snake den." I thought to myself. I could defeat the snakes easily, but they had poison fangs. I don't know much about the poison in this world. So if I were to get poisoned, I would have no way to deal with it.  

After a hour or so I was able to lose them. They weren't particularly fast but were many in number. The only problem now is that I'm lost. Yeah..........I'm lost. Completely lost, I never had a good sense of direction but running for your life makes you forget you surroundings.

Currently I'm surrounded my a bunch of trees and a large rock? Noticing how out of place it was, made me wonder if it was another animal. After all they might be able to change shape or or uh......ugh this world is definitely dangerous. I might be a killer but I still kinda feel scared of these animals. I'm used to humans but animals are a whole different story.

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Scratching my head I think about the silliness of this moment. Here I am a professional killer being scared of a rock. "Unacceptable!" I thought.

Feeling ashamed I start to defiantly walk up to the rock and notice another odd thing. There was an engraving on the rock. I try to read it before I realise, I cant read. Sure I can talk in this world's language but I never learned how to read. After all we weren't exactly rich. Sure there were some books around the shack but I never liked reading.

Mad at my incapability, I kick the the rock. Yeah I like to take my anger out on other things. Don't blame me since I am a killer.

Turning to leave, the earth started to tremor and a loud voice boomed.

"How dare you desecrate my home, you insolent brat! " roared the the voice.

- Looking back at the voice I saw a 2 meter brute appear out of the large rock. He had green skin and flat nose along with small beady eyes. He reminded me of an overgrown goblin.

"Huh! Too scared to respond brat!" Shouted the brute again.

- Arching my eyebrows. I reply cooly "I have no need to reply to my next victim, but I'll make you an exception." Taking out two knives. I let a smile creep onto my face and activated < Blood Lust >.

"What! You dare threaten the guardian of this forest!" replied the brute.

-  "But aren't you just a goblin, how can you be the guardian?" I asked interested.

"How dare you call me a goblin! I'm a mighty warrior of the orc race known as the GREAT Ron!"

- "I'm Ken, so if your the guardian you should know your way around right?" I asked amused at his exuberant replies.

" Of course! I am the guardian! I know this forest inside and out!"

- "Would you be willing to show me around then?" I asked innocently. Unfortunately I still didn't deactivate my < Blood Lust >

"Huh? Why should I a great guardian help you! Replied the orc viciously.

- "So if I defeat you, will you then be willing to show me around." I asked coldly.

"You'll have to defeat me first!" Yelled the brute and started charging at me with a club.

I didn't want to kill him. Since then he would be useless, so I put my knives back and unsheathed the bastard sword. I surround it with a thin layer of mana and got into position. The orc was surprising agile, he arrived where I was in a couple of seconds. Swinging his club down with fearsome strength. Using my reflexes I barely dodged but had no time to counter. Since the orc followed it up with a another strike. I adjusted my sword so it deflected the blow and countered with a diagonal slash. The slash pierced the the skin but got stuck.

Pulling with all my might, I manage to pull it out in time to defend against the next blow. The power was beyond my expectations. It broke the fucking sword in half and blew me back across the forest. Using my mana I focused it into my fist and rammed it into one of tree trunks, stopping myself. Not letting up the orc followed me and prepared to strike again.

I then activated my last resort skill < Mist form >. It was a last resort since I didn't master it and the time it took to turn into mist and back was a whole 5 minutes. Luckily I was blown far away so I had time, so I retreated deeper into the forest. While the orc ran after me. When my mist form was about 60 percent completed. The orc was about 20 meters away. Trying something new, I tried to incorporate mana into my < Mist Form > To increase the speed of the transformation and a message suddenly appeared in my head.

< Unlocked hidden Phantom skill 'Mana Mist' >