7 CHAPTER 7

"Gushaaaa" screamed a Sawguajin after I beheaded him with the axe's edge and shot a bullet toward a second one.

"Boy, this weaklings are just small fries that even a newbie level 1 in Orario could kill" said Aisha with a disappointed expression on her face.

"I know but this Dungeon is known for not be difficult; it's just an unformal test for someone to be recognized by others as a proper adventure" even though I was also a bit disappointed by the level of this monsters.

They were almost all Rank 2 and I saw only a Rank 3 on the third floor, so they gave me very few Exp, especially now that I was level 31; Aisha was more disappointed due also her race being battle junkies people that fucked a lot to leave offsprings behind.

I also learnt why people called the Sawguajin the acquatic version of the Goblins; they had the same height, similar ugly faces and equally stupid but unlike the green pests, the Sawguajins had a blue skin like a fish, some gills on their neck and a small fin on their back and fought mostly bare handed or with rusty and crude weapons

It only took us an hour to reach the last floor, where a big wood door was waiting for us, I wasn't even interested in fighting the Boss, given that with my level I could probably overwhelm him with my better stats alone, so I let it to Aisha who seemed pretty annoied until then.

"Thanks Boy, you know how to treat a lady" she said, planting a kiss on my cheek and heading toward the Boss.

It was called Sawguajin Rider due being a single bigger Sawguajin riding what seemed a turtle of the size of a big-size dog and weilding a short trident; it moved really slow on the ground but could apparently shot some kind of bubble stream that would knock out the careless ones.

Aisha launched an excited scream and rushed toward the Boss, not aiming toward the rider but swinging her sword toward the beast's shell.

A clear crack sound could be heard and on the shell of the creature was now forming a wide crack that was slowly spreading under the fierce assault of Aisha; the Sawguajin Rider wasn't even able to defend its mount due the difference in height so it had to go desperate and throw its weapon which was easily deflected by Aisha.

"Ahahaha, the shell of this beast is sturdy! Finally something fun to kill!" she said even more excited, swinging with greater strenght the cracked shell

The turtle beast died less than two minutes later and the surviving Sawguajin Not Anymore Rider tried to escape before being split in two by Aisha's last swing

" *Whistle* the little creature was weak but I have to admit that the big turtle was fun to break" she said, taking the coin needed as proof of clearing the Dungeon from the ground.

"Glad you have your fun, now get out of this smelling place;Aisha, after you hand the coin, take only E-rank quest to kill Rank 2 or 3 beasts for a month, after that we will make you ask for the promotion to D-rank, me and Aki will 'hire' you as our escort and headed toward a bigger city with more dangerous Dungeons and Monsters" I explained to her, while we ran to reach the Dungeon's entrance.

In the end it barely took us two hours between entering, passing the floors, killing the Boss and returning…and even without being seen by the guards; despite not having fatigued much, it was probably around 2:00 AM and I really wanted a long sleep, possibly without being woken up again by the bearkin owner who insisted on singing with his growling voice for all the inn in the morning.

The day after, I was running alone out of the city, searching for monsters to slain of a decent Rank due my current level being too high for monsters between Rank 1 and 3 to be usefull; unfortunately, that meant going a fair more away than I was used and I had also have to spend some Points to buy three small walkie talkie to keep in contact with Aki and Aisha, while explaining to the latter how use it due not existing in her world.

"Remember, use it only and only when you are alone and ensured that you are not seen or followed" I reminded them more times, especially glancing to Aisha who is looking at the tool with a confused look…Amazoness often are not usually 'subtle'.

I had ran with the speed magic for almost two hours and decided to rest a bit while from a safe distance I glanced to my current target: a nest of Wyvern, the known lower version of a Dragon.

Two legs and two front wings, the size of a van and reptile-shaped head, the Rank 5 Wyverns were a threat that hunted only in the territory around the nest and unless someone was escorted by a party of decent D-rank adventurers or a single C-rank, you could easily say bye to your life.

It was time to test my leveled up Poison Magic against these scaly wanna-be Dragons; after I had rest a bit, I focused on the magic and two purple magic circle appeared on the palms of my hand.

"Let's try first to weaken them, removing their mobility due the flying" I muttured pointing at two brown-coloured scaled Wyverns who were munching the corpse of a Mad Boar, a big ass Ran 4 beast.

"Fickleling Decompose"

From my magic circles two green-purpish globes were shot at a medium speed but without emitting any kind of loud noise and the moment they touched the Wyvern's back, they exploded in a small cloud and the poison took effect.

The wings of the beasts started to rot fast and clear excoriatures could be seen on the exposed skin where before there were the scales;they started to scream out of pain but I immediately took out the Thunderer and by charging the poison magic on the bullet, a little trick I discovered due the bullets being made of my raw Energy, I aimed to their throat.

The poison instilled on the bullets was a parasyte mushroom-like that rapidly expanded inside their throat and blocking the respiratory tracts.

Now Poisoned, affected by decomposition and chocking due the parasyte on their own blood the two Wyverns fell motionless on the groun declaring my victory.

*Host have killed 2 Wyverns (Rank 5); Host gained 4000 Exp*

I looked at my Exp bar, noticing it was now past 70% of the 65k necessary to reach Level 32, and I then saw from distance that there were some other beasts that were reaching the battle ground and I recognized them: they were Sabertooh Tiger, Rank 4 beasts that despite being a rank lower sometimes hunted a single Wyvern while moving in a pack of five.

They were way bigger than normal tigers, I would say slightly bigger and longer than a brown bear but that despize their size were pretty fast…albeit not as me.

Unfortunately they were already too near and I didn't have the time to cast again poison magic so I took out my axe and dagger, charged my 'High Speed' magic and started a melee hunt.

*Quest: the Alpha Tiger*

*Kill the pack of Sabertooh Tiger*

*Kill them only in melee range (optional)*

*Reward: 500 Points*

*Optional Reward: 700 Points*

A bit meager on rewards this time,uh? No matter, Points are Points and I really need a lot of them.

Thanks to my Magic, I had the raw speed advantage but the forest was pretty an obstacle for me, while these kittens fed with steroids were nimbler and well used to this kind of enviroment but despite my small size, I had enough strenght to send an orc fly for a good height with a punch and combined with my increasing level in the Skills of my weapons, I could instinctively knew when and where slash and stab the bastards whenver they tried to flank or jump on me.

After a long hit and run battle between me and them, only one remained with the others being fallen way dozens of feet back.

I had barely received a scratch but it was mentally tiring to fight in this way while the survivor Sabertooth was fulled of stab and slash wounds on the torso and even an eye was missing due a stab with my dagger that passed side to a bite and hit with accuracy.

"Let's finish this, so I can take the fucking Magic Stones, make Aisha claim the money and have a bit fun with her and Aki" I muttured while dashing for the last time and give a full strenght swing with my axe splitting the beast head.

The nice extra 1200 Points from the Quest were the nice commemoration of a long day of hunt, even though a thought passed through my mind.

"Now I even have to go back to claim the Wyvern's Magic Stones, fuck!" I lamented while walking back.

Unfortunately for me, I had miscalculated the position of their Magic stones because I found them all half-melted,therefore useless, and so I could only gather the Sabertooths's Magic Stones and headed back to the town.

However, when I was just walking at a certain point to let my Magic restore, I heard some scream and saw that a group of ten bandits was assaulting a carriage and three dead body of probably adventurers could be seen.

Honestly it wasn't my problem or corcern so I was to just lay back and do the classic 'live and leave others living' but unfortunately it seemed my day had another turn off for me.

"Boss, there is a brat in the woods!" shouted one of them

"What?! When these bitches let him escape?! Gurt! Move your fat ass and catch it" screamed the boss, a man weilding an halberd and with a face full of scars to what seemed the most orcish man I have never seen.

"Gurt…play with…baby" said the giant idiot, with a retarded expression on his large chubby face

He was almost 6"3' tall, completely bald, with a slow and stupid expression on his face; his arms and hands were really big and weilded in one hand a what I first thought was a metal log but it turned out to be an iron club.

Unfortunately for them, I had no intention of end up like child Gatsu so with my trusted Thunderer full loaded I emptied all the six bullets on his face, reducing it a hole butchered lump of bloody meat.

"What the hell was that sound?!" screamed another, before I threw to him with a swift and lethal aim my poison covered dagger in the neck.

"Mom never told you to not be greedy?" I commented while two of the bandits weilding bows, shot at me

I easily avoided and shot with the fastly reloaded Thunderer other two shots in their chest and then parrying a swing of the boss's halberd.

"What the fuck is this child?! Surround him, you idiots! That infernal metal wand he is using can't hit you all at once-!" but before he concluded his words, I parried other two times his strike and swiftly aimed at the legs.

He lost the balance and before reaching the ground, he found the edge of my axe splitting his head

"Boss! Fuck, I'm out! This kid is a monster!"

"Nah, it's just you who are trash" I commented, while other bullets hit the survivors that were now running for their life.

'Phew, thanks to the Gunmanship who is at a decent level and guided me, otherwise it would be far harder to one-hit them all' I thought while continuing my kill-streak.

With all the enemies now dead and to my surprise the gaining of Exp, albeit a bit low barely increased of two percent my Exp bar, I took a look at the inside of the carriage.

There were three people seemingly uncounscious: a woman with light green hair on her mid thirty, a small girl of at most nine years old and a stocky man with ruffled brown hair that was holding a small bottle in his hand and had a clear bump on his head.

When I gave a sniff to the battle, my instinct told me that it was a sleeper draught but only there were only two glasses near the mother and daughter: I think the man was a colleague of the bandits who drugged those two and the others would kill the guards and take the women.

They were dressed fairly better than normal paesants and even the carriage wasn't just a cheap wagon; I could kill the man while still uncounscious but than I came up with an idea.

If the man was an infiltrated for some kind of organization, I could find an use for him; after all he wasn't strong and blackmailing him could bring something usefull.

I recovered my dagger, cleaned my weapons from the blood and stole some food in the carriage's luggage and headed back to the town as fast as I could; I wasn't willing to guide that carriage for three hours of travel and risk to be recognized by the guards.

Once I finally reached Lodz's walls, I took out my walkie talkie and contacted Aki.

"Aki, how is the situation in the city; did Aisha gain that damned D-rank?"

"Not yet, Kuro-kun; they are investigating her achievements because they suspect she is hiding something, but I'm assisting on it so I will make sure she comes out clean and fast" replied her in a low tone voice

"Good, I'm currently outside the city's wall so tell Aisha to go to find an excuse to distract the gate guards so I can enter"

"Ok,Kuro-kun"

Few moments later, I could see Aisha heading toward two bored guards who were doing the evening shift and the 'excuse' was just heavy making out with them, so I easily walked why she took her time to 'taste' the guards.

When I was finally inside the city, I headed toward the new location of my group's residence; thanks to a new promotion that Aki received and the money gained due Aisha delivering the Magic stones of Rank 3 and 4 monsters, half mine and half her, we had now moved into a small apartment with enough space for us and, most importantly, a resemble of a bathroom, albeit it didn't have the wc and the 'wastes' just flew through a tube toward a ditch.

Once inside, I found Aisha who was shameless in her exposed outfit, on a couch with wide spread legs and Aki who was cooking.

"It would be nice to have some pasta or rice but unfortunately it doens't seem people know about them" I commented glancing at the meat and grilled vegetables cooked while I caressed Aki's butt.

"Welcome back, Kuro-kun; it's still unofficial but Aisha is gonna be cleared tomorrow from the investigation and she just needs to bring some proof of extermination of a monster of at least Rank 3 and she is gonna be promoted" said Aki, not protesting about my hand folding and playing with her asscheek.

"Finally, I was tired of being constantly approached by small fries wanting to 'recruit' me; once I finally obtain that promotion, are we gonna move from here, boy?" asked Aisha who had a bored expression on her face.

I took a map, obtained at the Guild's offices thanks to Aki, from a drawer and opened to show to her a point where a city was drawn.

"Here,Marthbar, at ten days of carriage travel from here; due its nearness toward what is called the 'Edge Border' it's usually swarmed by Rank 4 and higher monsters. It's gathering point for all ambitious adventurer and you will have your ample spare of beasts to hunt, me and Aki just need a bit of 'persuasion' for the transfering modules at that city's Guild" I explained while Aki fed me and Aisha was grinning fiercely at the prospective of an heavy hunt.

"Aki, Aisha; finish to prepare the luggages, in two days we get out of here" I told them while finishing my dinner and heading to the single big bed we three used to sleep