40 Negative over Negative equals... Negative?

The entire group is currently heading south-west from Iliasburg within the car, in the very same positions they always took. It was not like they could pull any change, after all, Alice had to return to her human form if she wanted to stay inside, and even then, there isn't any space for her.

Thanks to Victor's enhanced agility that increased his reaction speed, coupled with his advanced driving skills, he was able to think elsewhere while driving without any problems. There are few things he'd like to obtain from the shop before reaching the Sephira Crystal that costs around 60 billion Gold…

Enhanced Mind to assist him with the problem regarding the Enhanced Senses.

Luck, just because he really needs it seeing how his life has been going these days…

As for the rest… Well, excluding the stuff that is needed to increase his monetary income, there isn't anything else that comes to his mind. Meh, he will think later…

Looking in the mirror, he had seen the state of everybody else. Penny is still playing with her pinwheel out of the window, Luka and Eva were blankly staring outside without anything to do, and Granberia was reading the novel he previously handed to her. As for Alice on the roof she was also observing the landscape on her surroundings, with a better point of view due to her being in the open.

Nothing weird is happening, everybody is spending their own time doing their stuff in a peaceful ambience.

*Knock!* *Knock!* Suddenly, Alice knocked on the roof of the car. Victor pulled down his window and asked. "Yes?"

"It's going to rain."

On cue, a drop of water fell on the front window, and Victor activated the windscreen wiper while speaking. "It's just a rain, it's not like a monster can get a cold, right?"

"Why would anybody want to stay under the rain? Do you take me for a Slug Girl?" Alice rebuked with an annoyed tone, forcing Victor to stop the car and sigh in exasperation.

It would take around 2 hours to arrive at Enrika if they knew its precise location in the middle of the woods, and around half-way from the road, the forest would begin. Since they are still on a clear plain, not even an hour had passed, and thus Victor was still too short in money to buy something that would help…

Everyone walked out of the car as the rain lightly poured over their heads.

"What are we going to do?" Luka curiously asked, making Victor sigh. "Let me think a bit…"

"Do it quickly, I don't want to get drenched." Alice commented with an annoyed voice as she used the tip of her tail to cover her head from the rain. At least, Penny, Eva, and Granberia weren't complaining…

Victor was looking through his store. Right now, he has 5'674 Gold Coins, so there isn't much he can buy except for umbrellas. However, he doubted Alice would be happy with that…

"...Look, get me 32'000 Gold Coins, and I can solve this problem immediately." Victor suddenly spoke to Alice. His target was to buy a bus, but he didn't have any intention to sell one of his skills just to make her happy.

"I don't have that." Alice casually replied, and Victor commented. "How the hell you don't have that amount of money? When did you become poor?"

Alice glared at him and asked. "Weren't you the one who could get rich by doing nothing? Where did that request come from?"

"I've used my money to buy stuff that benefits me more than you, what's your excuse?"

"I have all of it at home, and I don't have any intention to fly all the way to Hellgondo to get that small amount of Gold."

"Well, you will have to wait a quarter of an hour then." Victor commented before he bought a massive beach umbrella with 4'322 Gold Coins and used his super strength to stick it on the ground.

While everyone walked under the umbrella, Victor brought the car back into his inventory and joined the rest under the umbrella.

"What do we have to wait for?" Alice asked with an annoyed tone.

"I get large amounts of money every hour, and there is still a quarter of an hour remaining before it will become 13:00. Once the time comes, we can begin to move again."

Upon hearing Victor's response, Alice sighed in exasperation and settled down under the umbrella, watching the rain pouring down outside the umbrella.

"Victor, I'm sleepy…" Penny said as she crawled closer to Victor. Victor merely smiled in return and let her reach his lap, resting her head on one of his legs. Penny stretched her body and yawned, before she closed her eyes while Victor gently caressed her head to help her sleep.

"Fufufu~" Eva let out a chuckle upon seeing that cute scene. "You two look like siblings."

"Hmm?" Victor raised an eyebrow as he glanced at Eva. Upon realizing what she was talking about, Victor looked down on Penny's sleeping face and lightly smiled. "If only my sister was like this. That girl only knew how to complain the entire time."

"It doesn't seem like you had a good relationship with your sister." Eva commented, making Victor snort.

"If I have to make a comparison, we are as friendly as Alice and I were before reaching Happiness Village."

"That doesn't sound good at all…" Eva muttered with a cringe expression, and Victor simply shrugged back at her. "What can I do about it? She is just like that."

After that, everyone went silent again, waiting for the quarter of an hour to pass. However, in the middle of the waiting, Alice suddenly groaned in annoyance.

Victor expected her to complain about something else, but instead…

"Seriously, why can't those girls take this moment as a break too?" After saying that, both Alice and Granberia stood up and walked away from them, under the rain.

Victor paused upon seeing those two leaving from the umbrella, along with Luka. However, Eva merely sighed and stood up from the ground while holding her golden spear. "I'll deal with it this time…"

After a couple of seconds, Victor understood what was going on. They were under attack.

Victor raised his magic detection sense a bit and noticed five unknown monsters approaching their location through the ground. He also raised his vision to the level of a peak human, and noticed five monsters crawling in their direction.

Their upper bodies belonged to that of naked women with dark hair and two pairs of antennae, one sprouting from her forehead and one from the back of her head. However, the rest of her lower body was enveloped by a giant black slug-like creature with a frontal large mouth filled with tongues and the tip of her tail that resembled that of a devil. She also has many red dots over her monstrous body.

They should be Leech Girls if his memory serves him correctly… And there are actually some of them that were wielding swords, huh?

Well, now there is Eva taking care of them, even if they were ten times their current number it would be useless against her.

"We've got some travelers here, girls!"

"And only the woman is baptized, hehe, we got lucky!"

"Ahh, I am really craving for liquids… I'll take the big one."

"Be ready to get everything sucked out of you. As your whole body is wrapped in our mouths, we'll leech everything out of you."

Some of them were simply talking to themselves, while others were trying to tempt the three humans within their giant leech mouths. However, Eva merely sighed in return and twirled her golden spear around her left hand.

"Don't kill them!" Luka shouted at Eva as his voice was partially muffled out by the sound of the rain.

"Don't worry, I won't." Eva replied as she turned to face the Leech Girls. Three of them were surrounding her while the other two were approaching Victor and Luka.

"Fufu~"

"I'll suck everything to the last drop…" The two Leech Girls were menacingly approaching the two boys, but they only blankly stared at them before three heavy splashes attracted their attention.

Everyone turned in Eva's direction to see her still twirling her golden spear around, while the three Leech Girls who were surrounding her were knocked unconscious.

"Huh?" One of the Leech Girls was surprised at the split-second-long turn of tables and looked at Eva in surprise. Meanwhile, Eva simply looked back at them. "So, are you going to leave or will you two have to accompany your friends?

"You bitch!" One of the Leech Girls exclaimed as she crawled in her direction with a sword on her hand. However, Eva vanished from her current location for a moment and appeared in front of the Leech Girl, with the blunt edge of her spear shooting forward.

Not only did the spear break the sword in half with a devastating hit, but it also went beyond the sword and hit the Leech Girl on her abdomen, paralyzing her for a moment as saliva flowed from the corner of her upper lips. A couple of seconds passed before she also fell on the ground unconscious.

"Well, you are next…" Eva commented as she stared at the last Leech Girl standing, who flinched upon being targeted with her gaze. She retreated a bit and raised her arms with a trembling gesture.

"Umm… Can we please talk?"

"No." After Eva said that, the Leech Girl's sight turned black as she was knocked out by the golden spear rotating in her direction from a strange angle, hitting the side of her head with a fluid arc.

"...Alright, Luka, hit them with that weird sword of yours." Eva told Luka. "We don't want any surprises when they wake up."

"Ah? ...Y-Yeah…" Luka recovered from his surprise and quickly stood up on his feet, before attacking the unconscious Leech Girls with Angel Halo. After a couple of slashes, their bodies glowed and they became actual leeches of natural size.

Luka and Eva returned to the tent, carrying the pieces of a broken sword and a whole sword back in, which belonged to the Leech Girls.

"...Well, at least we got something out of this." Luka commented.

"What are you doing?" Victor curiously asked, not knowing why Luka and Eva would gather the Leech Girls' weapons.

"We're going to sell them when we reach Enrika." Luka told Victor, making him raise an eyebrow. "Even if you can give us all the money you have, we still need to take care of ourselves. Heroes and adventurers usually make money by selling the stuff they find in the wild, we can get some money with these two things."

"If that's the case, you can pass them to me." Victor commented after understanding what Luka was getting at. "I can give you money based on their value."

"Huh? What do you want to do with this stuff?" Luka asked in curiosity, but Victor shook his head and elaborated.

"Just like I can buy stuff using money, I can also sell stuff to gain money. Besides, it will be better if you give them to me rather than some random shopkeeper in Enrika or elsewhere, because I can sell them for a greater amount of Gold."

"Oh! That would be nice, thank you!" Luka smiled as he handed the sword he got from one of the unconscious Leech Girls to Victor, while Eva passed the broken fragments of the second one.

Victor gathered them in front of him and sold them off to his system, gaining 521 Gold Coins from the undamaged sword and a total of 215 from the fragments, which he respectively handed to Luka and Eva.

The two were surprised by the big bags of Gold they received in return, and Luka in particular stared at Victor. "Are you sure this is the right amount? It looks too much…"

"I told you, everything costs a lot more with me. The sword would have cost me 1042 Gold Coins if I bought it back, and by selling it you have gotten the half of it by yourself."

"..." After some hesitation, Luka accepted the bag of Gold and placed it in his traveling bag. Meanwhile, Alice and Granberia returned back inside the umbrella's covered territory.

"At least that was quick." Alice commented before she spread her body and her entire tail around the covered area under the umbrella, relaxing on it while waiting for Victor to receive his hourly income, while Granberia simply sat down to read her novel just like she always does recently.

Once again, the peaceful atmosphere within the party returned, but the rain simply kept getting heavier with time.

After a dozen minutes, the time was up and Victor gently patted Penny's head. "Sweetie, wake up. It's time to go."

"Hngh…" Penny cutely stretched her back and yawned. When she woke up, she stared at Victor with half-closed eyelids as she lightly spoke. "...Is it time to go?"

"Yeah." Victor grasped her back and helped her stand up while she was rubbing her eyes. Meanwhile, everyone else also got ready upon seeing him standing on his feet.

They watched Victor loosen his legs first before he walked out of the umbrella's territory, standing under the rain while he was looking at his store while his gold counter reached 86'517 Gold Coins.

He just walked out of the umbrella when a flash of lightning suddenly struck him down.

"THE FUCK?!" Everybody stared at where Victor was in shock as lightning actually fell on his head as soon as he walked out. The lightning caused the drops of water on his shirt and his skin to evaporate immediately, causing an explosion of vapor that destroyed his clothes and left him naked. Meanwhile, around his body long streaks of black showed up as the blood on his blood vessels left and stained the insides of his skin.

Just as Luka, Eva, Penny, and surprisingly Alice worriedly approached Victor to check him out, they noticed that the black lines on his body were quickly turning red and soon they were healed.

It was fortunate that Victor still had the Nigh-Enhanced Regenerative Factor… Scratch that, how unlucky is he to get struck by lightning in that exact moment?!

"Ugh…" From the ground, Victor groaned as his regeneration saved his life from another handicap ending, and slowly got up. He massaged his head in pain before he gradually stood up, with his enhanced balance once again helping him from stumbling down in a stupor.

"Fuck…" He muttered as he stared up to the darkened sky in surprise. Who would have guessed, lightning actually fell on his head…

"A-Are you okay, Victor?!" Eva asked with a worried but also surprised tone, and Victor simply nodded in her direction. "Yeah, I was just surprised, that's all… Let me buy the vehicle."

Fortunately, there was no further damage from what was already shown, so Victor could be considered lucky from not getting some kind of amnesia attack.

He quickly scrolled through his store and bought a bus. In front of everyone, a large rectangular and long vehicle appeared, while on Victor's hands the key to turn it on materialized.

Victor quickly stuck the key inside the lock at the side of the bus and opened the foldable doors, before gesturing at everyone. "Get in and sit where you want, there is enough space for everybody this time."

They all didn't make any more questions about Victor who had literally just shrugged off a lightning strike, and entered the bus. Meanwhile, Victor remained outside and scrolled through the store once again, trying to find a new set of clothes to wear.

Seeing him take his time outside, Luka asked. "Are you sure you are okay, Victor?"

"Yeah, yeah." Victor replied with an annoyed tone. "I am just looking for new clothes, wait a bit."

"Oh, okay…" Luka retreated inside the bus and took a seat. And while everyone was waiting inside the bus, Victor walked under the umbrella to decide what to dress.

This time, he might as well change style… He was only wearing modern clothes from his home, but now, with 48'929 Gold Coins in his inventory, he has more freedom of choice.

"Hmm…" Yeah, that was an actual problem… He has too many choices to pick from. He could have gone for the Praetor Suit, but it costs a whopping trillion, surprisingly more expensive than his target, the Ifrit's Sephira Crystal.

Well, he could buy a replica of plastic…

...Why this hesitation? Fuck that!

Victor immediately scrolled through the store and bought a set of light clothes first, to cover his body. And right after that, his body glowed in a small light that materialized the hard plastic version of the Doomguy's Praetor Suit. It cost 21'039 Gold, but it was worth it. Since he didn't have the perfect body for the Doom Eternal's version, he bought the 2016 version.

Yeah, he could probably break it apart with his current strength. Still, it looked badass on him, and he could freely move within it. He didn't buy the helm, though, since it was only made of plastic and it would be detrimental for his vision.

With the new moss-green suit that looked highly technological, Victor pulled the umbrella in his inventory and headed to the bus under the watchful eyes of the curious party.

"What is that armor?" Alice curiously asked, and Victor pridefully knocked on his plastic Praetor Suit. "My dream."

"It looks cool!" Luka complimented, which made Victor smile in return as he approached the driver seat.

"Alrighty, let's go to Enrika now!" Victor turned on the bus' engine, closed the foldable doors, and pushed the accelerator with a light stomp as the bus moved forward through the mud and the rain. Fortunately, Victor had an advanced knowledge on driving skills, or he would have immediately capsized the entire vehicle in a few minutes.

And just like that, the party finally resumed their trip towards Enrika.

…

Victor Luis' (future) Trivia Book: Orc Girl

Orc Girls are powerful pig-like monsters who live like bandits and raid human villages with a club in one hand. They have floppy ears, drill tails, and furry pink skin… Yes, she also tastes like pork, you better not ask how I know that.

However, while they are quite violent and act like thugs, they almost never steal precious goods. The reason why they raid human villages is for the men inside, that they kidnap and bring back to their den as trophies or simply for breeding.

They might be intimidating, but that is just an outer layer to keep up their easily-shatterable pride. Also, they rarely kill people, and merely use intimidation as a weapon to control their hostages.

While they act in groups every time, as soon as they are left alone, their personalities turn quiet and will even show a playful side, which is why I mentioned about their fragile ego before. Even as bandits, they have already set out a whole village where Orc Girls live in on their own, one for each region that controls other smaller settlements, like some kind of beehive.

They aren't smart, which is why it is easy to trick them. That's why there are almost no known raids registered in history, they have been easily solved.

First of all, you can show your allegiance to them by simply returning their special greeting that is used among beast monsters. (ES. Wolf Girls use 'Wolf', Bear Girls use 'Bear') Yes, it's very cheap, but as long as it works…

You are also able to join their bandit group by snorting like a pig in return when they do so, and if one gives you their club, you are basically considered as an orc all in all. Voluptuous women are also considered as orcs from their point of view, probably because their body shapes almost match… Don't ask me, it's fucking weird man.

So… they are stupid, they can be easily tricked, there is probably no Orc Girl that can read this book so I have no problem insulting them. Speaking of which, if you ever felt something offensive coming from here, you are welcomed to call my name and tell that to my face.