Chapter 33: The Road to Sleep

After John's head exploded, his body fell slowly to the ground, right in front of Stroph. But Stroph was looking at very different things at that moment, a multitude of system windows flashed before his eyes.

Let`s start with the least interesting, Stroph gained 10 common points and 50 history coins and the mastery of the Last Light also increased quite a bit, by as much as 5%, now it was 5.2%. The mastery of Snow White Darkness was once again increased by a ridiculous 0.00002%.

Next, the message about the successful completion of the quest came.

[Congratulations on completing the quest! Received 1000 wish points and 4000 history coins]

[Received rare level history - "Diligent Mercenary", effect - you will be trusted a bit more when giving out quests]

After reviewing the last notification, Stroph sighed slightly and said with a pain in his voice: "The history is great, of course, but I am sure I don't look like a diligent one." He was silent for a while then continued: "Shit, I don't want to get up, the whole my body hurts, my arm is broken, my ribs are broken, I'm covered in blood, that's fucked up..."

Stroph wanted to have a rest and just lying on the floor for a while, but after literally 30 seconds of inactivity the disgruntled voice of the "Snow White Darkness" sounded: "Boy, get up quickly! Finish your business... and let's go home... I'm covered in some weakling's blood... just awful."

Hearing his companion grunt, Stroph smirked slightly and said: "Ahahahahahaha, it`s wonderful, we are sitting around and grumbling like two old men... Okay, we really should finish this and go home."

Clenching his teeth, Stroph began walking up slowly, the pain was reverberating throughout his body but he would have to check if the goods were okay, otherwise he had fought for nothing.

Walking downstairs slowly Stroph thought to himself: <How good that I left my two Azure blades at home and put the ammo in inventory, don't even have to reload much, just shake it hand load it, then I'm ready fire, having inventory is definitely cool>.

After a few minutes Stroph reached the end of the descent and to his relief he saw that all the people were fine and nothing had happened to anyone, most of them were unconscious, the others were shaking violently with fear, they were terrified of the screams from above during Stroph`s fighting .

Stroph didn't talk to anyone, his task was done, he couldn't care about every person he met or even a bunch of strangers. He just turned around and walked away, heading slowly toward the car, which was still waiting for him at the entrance.

When it saw him nearby, the back door opened at once and Stroph sat down in the soft and comfortable back seat with great pleasure.

As soon as Stroph was inside, the door closed and the car began to drive toward his house.

Stroph wanted to rest and relax, but suddenly the screen on the seat in front of him turned on and he heard Christo's joyful and satisfied voice.

"Well done! You did everything right!" A couple of minutes later, once the car was gone, Cristo's men checked Stroph`s job, that`s why he was so pleased. The goods were intact and all the members of the group were dead.

Cristo wanted to continue, but Stroph interrupted him abruptly: "Those who you need are alive and the rest are dead, but there's one little problem... I'm a usual schoolboy and I had to fight a fucking fourth rank fighter!" Stroph was angry with Cristo for he had sustained numerous wounds and there was a good chance his corpse would have remained in that basement, at least, he should have been warned!

Through the screen he could see that Cristo was very surprised, he could not even imagine that Stroph was an ordinary schoolboy and he also had no idea that there was a fourth rank fighter there! According to his information in the worst case there should have been only a third rank fighter there.

After a few seconds of silence, Cristo spoke up, "I agree, it really wasn't good, I admit my fault, I just never thought you'd face such a dangerous opponent when you're not even a fighter, but be sure it was worth it!" Cristo didn't ask how Stroph had managed to kill so many fighters and even one particularly strong one, he didn't need to know that. The fact was that he had a chance to develop a good relationship with such a potentially powerful man!

After Christo's words, Stroph's still disgruntled voice was heard, "Yeah? And what could be worth the danger I went through just a few minutes ago?"

"Well, first of all, I will pay you as a mercenary for a perfectly completed assignment, you have been credited with eighty thousand sempets right now, also I can take you to the place where monsters live, you will like it, I promise. You can call me at any time and my men will take you there, and finally, right outside the door of your house, there is already a small gift from me, I hope you will be satisfied. See you later". After these words Cristo hastily passed out, he needed to think over the information he had just received and reassess how he should communicate with Stroph, he could be his greatest investment in the future!

Hearing about the money, the monsters and the gift, Stroph's mood improved, but he was still unhappy for his wounds.

< I hope, at least, the gift will be worthy... 80 thousand seems to be not enough for the killing of so many people... Well, fuck it, the most important thing is that I have access to monsters now! It's time to break the ice! >

Stroph was finally able to relax.

After a while he finally got home, all this time he was wondering what the gift was, he wanted something interesting and amazing.

The car stopped right in front of the house, whereupon, its back door immediately opened.

Stroph breathed a sigh of relief and finally headed straight for his house.

It was deep night, so Stroph wanted to sleep badly, he was tired enough from this long and eventful day and moreover he had been wounded and could barely make it out of the mess.

Right in front of the door, as Cristo had said, he saw his present. It was a small, ordinary storage box. Stroph was anxious to find out what was inside, so he opened it immediately without even going into the house.

He saw a large syringe with some white liquid inside and a note underneath, there was nothing else in the box.

Stroph didn't understand what it was, so he began to read the note. "This is my gift to you, it will heal easily something like the usual fractures and also make you a little stronger, just don't get too excited, with each use the enhancement effect gets weaker and weaker."

After reading to the end of the note, a slight smile appeared on Stroph's face, after which he sighed slightly and said in a satisfied voice: "It might even have been worth it."

He would use the syringe a little later, for now he needed to get some sleep as well as wash all the blood off himself.

Once inside the house Stroph was slightly surprised and said quietly: "О? Violet, what are you doing up at this late hour?"

Seeing her master covered in blood and visibly wounded, Violet just froze in shock and didn't know what to say.