Day 4 as an Adventurer

I woke up very warm… and with a tight grip around me, I started to remember that me and Azihana had to hold on to each other to keep each other warm. I tried making noise to wake her up, but she slept like a log. I then had an idea; I screamed, and it woke her up; then she released me, grabbed a knife, and looked around to see any intruders. She was alert as if someone touched her cub. She looks at me and asks "Nightmare?" I then replied, "Yes, it was a nightmare." She yawns and holds me a little bit tight. "I'm sleepy, and I want to go back to sleep…" She was about to fade into the dream world when Kaleb opened the tent and said, "Time to get moving! The Nightgard isn't a patient sword!" Azihana groans and lets me go.

We got out of the tent, dressed up, and walked back through the harsh cold of the mountain; it was getting harder to breathe as we moved up. Somehow, it started getting warmer. We continued to walk, and we arrived at the cave. Gregg looked at the light of the cave and said, "We are here; let's go." We entered the warm cave and I was prepared to fight, but there were no enemies in every corner and tunnel of the cave, and finally… we found it, and Gregg said "Here it is, the sword of the Nightgard, the soul of the previous user resides and tortured in it's never melting blade. It was said that the blade is so hot, it could make it feel like a warm home on this mountain, Which tells how cold the mountain is and how hot the sword is." Gregg continues to stare at it, and Kaleb asks him, "How long are you going to stare at it?" Gregg replied with a grin as he adjusted his glasses "Precisely as long as I want. And I guess it's a good time to cook some food before we steal this sword, because theoretically, the heat will be gone from the blade once we pull it out of the stone." Within a second, Azihana pulled out some wood from her bag and lit it on fire before setting up a stew cooking set over the fire. She pulled out some frozen tomatoes, Carrots, potatoes, Onions, Broth, Flour, black pepper Deer meat, and some spices of garlic, paprika, and salt.

Venison Stew

(Worcestershire Sauce can be included, but kept out for the time's sake)

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Azihana starts cutting the deer meat into small pieces, she then stirs salt, pepper, and flour together in a bowl, she then mixes the deer meat with the seasoned flour until it gets coated up.

She then puts the broth in and adds the meat inside the cooking pot. While the stew cooks, she starts dicing the vegetables, adding them to the stew, and then we wait for hours.

Meanwhile, Gregg was having too much fun swinging sticks at the blade of the Nightgard, which effortlessly burns through the sticks due to the high temperatures of the blade. He then uses the sticks and stones to make arrows for his bow, he rubs a flower that looks similar to mine on one of the arrowheads and it freezes it despite the warm temperature inside the cave. I went exploring through the tunnels and I found a small dark room with a bubbling water pool. But I'm not stupid, I have to make sure this is safe. I then tossed a small piece of meat in the water and nothing happened. So I undressed and took out my knife and started to stab the bottom of the pool to make sure nothing was down there.

I then laid down and relaxed for eight minutes until a naked lady came up from the water. Her wet black hair shines from the light of the tunnel, and her skin looked super pale like she became a human pickle for years. She was pretty, but looked famished. She looked at me with a sly grin and asked. "Aren't you a bit too young to travel in these tunnels?" I got offended at the statement, like, why does everyone think that I'm a kid or a teenager? I'm literally 5,000 years old. I then got up and yelled "Excuse me!? I'm not a kid! I'm 5,000 years old, you corpse!" She giggled and replied "Ahh… a Horganian! Well, you are going to be more than satisfying…" she clears her throat and she then continues "I'm here to devour your soul and it's going to last me a lifetime, because Horganians have a huge spirit that makes me lick my lips and have an urge to taste it." She then pushed me down got on top of me and tried to straddle me, but I punched her off and took off running as I heard the ear piercing screech of four thousand screams of rape, and I looked back and the woman was running with the legs of the Emu and swinging at me with the claws of an Gargoyle. Her eyes looked like the bottom of the abyss, and I was so distracted that I tripped on a rock. She pounced on me and dug her claws into my arms and tried to straddle me but an arrow flew to her eye before her skull got frozen and she finally laid down dead. Gregg then decapitated the body and smashed the head. Gregg turned to me and said "Just because I saved your ass from a succubus doesn't mean that we are friends, demon. Cauldron wants you alive anyways." He then walked away and said "and your little secret is with me, Jailbait." He yet again walked back to the main area and I went back to the pool room to dress up before heading back.

We ate some stew before going to sleep next to the sword. Ending the day with a blessing…