Chapter 4: Monster Slaughter

"Urgh, I finally finished it." Lars felt that his jaws were tired. Eating a hard stone was as exhausting as expected.

"This crazy kid..." Alfia shook her head in exasperation.

The stone was definitely heavier than him, but he ate it all in one sitting.

"Alfia, I'm hungry again." Lars gave her the puppy dog eyes, but unfortunately. It didn't work on her.

"Then let's go hunt for more." She picked him up through the scruff of his shirt.

"Hey! This shirt is all I have you know? Be careful." Lars huffed at her and she didn't care.

"Don't puke." She said ominously and he was about to ask why. But she suddenly ran like the wind.

"Ahhhhh! Slow down! Slow down!" Lars cried out.

His eyelids were being blown away by the wind and his mouth opened up like a windblower was aimed on his face.

Alfia just smirked and she smacked him. "So noisy, be quiet." He lost consciousness at the hit and he would surely be crying for CPS later.

With her breakneck speed, Alfia arrived at the 40th floor in just a couple of seconds.

The monsters then craned their necks towards her and they started charging after starinh at her for a second.

It was a sight to behold, hordes of poisonous plants, large ass bulls, worms that could swallow orcs whole.

The myriad of monsters looked like a monster train.

Anyways, she started blasting. Walls of oscillatory waves and vibrations hit them with a single word out of her mouth.

Their bodies exploded and fountains of guts and blood showered everywhere.

"Shut up, noisy monsters. Your noise irritates me." Alfia furrowed her brows.

Lars then opened his eyes and was about to complain. But he suddenly saw a monster in front of them explode into red mist.

"Fuck! What the hell is happening!?" Lars shouted in shock and he was smacked once again.

"Stop shouting, we're farming right now." Alfia huffed at him.

"Urgh, seeing a bull explode like a grenade is definitely not something I want to see when I regain my bearings." He glared at her.

"Not my problem." Alfia just casted her magic like a machine gun and made a river of blood.

"Aren't you like an amazing person?" Lars watched her carnage.

Alfia's eyebrows twitched at his insinuation. "Are you saying that I'm a 2nd rate adventurer?" She squinted her eyes.

"Don't put words into my mouth." Lars whistled and he started sweating.

"Hmph, now... I'll teach you how to be a supporter. Pick everything up." Alfia threw him towards the carnage.

"Ahhh! Crazy woman! I'll get dirty!" Lars saw that he was about to drop onto guts and blood.

"That's your job, get dirty and pick up the items." Alfia smirked at him.

"Fuck, where's child protection services when you need them? This is child labor." Lars grumbled.

"Hmm, did you say something?" Alfia heard him loud and clear, but she feigned ignorance.

"Violent woman." Lars grumbled again and Alfia smirked at him.

"Chop chop, supporter. You're too slow." Alfia was definitely having fun in messing with him.

He was going to be a powerhouse, she needed to collect blackmail as much as possible.

"Yes, boss lady." Lars sighed as he picked up the magic stones and putting it in his inventory.

The drops were also noticeable, as they weren't bloody at all.

He then tried to think of putting them in his inventory. Alas, it didn't work like that.

"Tch, an automatic collection system would've been nice." Such is a human's greed for convenience.

After he gathered everything, Alfia thought that this is quite inefficient.

Monsters take too long to spawn. So she decided to go to a special place instead.

"Come, we're farming too slow. I don't like it." Alfia carried him again and he surrendered to his fate.

Alfia ran back to the 39th floor. And she continued going upwards, until they reached the 37th.

They then arrived at a place that looked similar to something in Lars' previous life.

"A colosseum?" He looked at the eerie atmosphere of the place.

It was darker, and the colosseum looked gloomy.

"Here, monsters spawn infinitely." Alfia pointed at the arena and there were all kinds of monsters inside.

Skeletons that looked like gladiators. A floating skull of a sheep that has a coat over its torso.

A wild looking monster with two curved horns. It was also 2 meters tall. Some bipedal midget werewolfs. And a serpentine dragon with poisonous looking spines.

"That's crazy, they're having a free for all." Lars pointed out.

"And they spawn infinitely, a good place to farm." Alfia jumped down and she looked cool.

"Did she just do a superhero landing?" Lars chuckled. But what happened next wasn't hero-like at all.

She grabbed the serpentine dragon and she used it as a damned club.

Its long body and spines was a nice weapon to use.

Alfia swung it around like a madwoman and the monsters died in droves.

She then used her magic to gather the magic stones as it floated right towards Lars.

"T-this is definitely more efficient." He smiled wryly at Alfia's display.

It made his blood boil, wondering if he would get that strong as well.

"Alfia! I'll start consuming them! Magic stones I mean!" Lars took out the smaller stones.

And it was just the right size for one bite. Alfia nodded at him and went closer to him to protect him.

Lars then started munching on magic stones like it was popcorn.

And due to the Balor's stone changing his body massively, he didn't really feel much.

Some drops also arrived and Lars looked at the fangs and head shell of a worm that Alfia killed earlier.

"Hesitation, is death." Lars started eating them and he suddenly felt his gums ache.

He also received a headache. "Urgh, do I gain their attributes?" Lars wondered.

After a few minutes, his teeth turned into daggers and he could also see heat.

The worm monster called worm well has a peculiar ability. Its mouth had sensors that can feel heat. And it transferred over to him.

Now, he has infrared vision. "I'm like the predator, goddamn." He looked around in wonder.

He then took some fur and some organs in his inventory. "Should I really eat this?" Lars ate some raw organs before.

But it came from a monster. He then shook his head. "I can't be giving up here." He munched on them.

His skin tingled and his insides burned. A qualitative change happened to his organs.

And when he thought of it, he could grow thick fur on his body. "This will be useful against sharp attacks."

Lars remembered that thick fur could repel blades. Even thin ones, like deer fur.

He kept rummaging around his inventory and now, he found a piece of obsidian.

"Well, magic stones are rocks too. Bottom's up." He bit into the obsidian that came from a warrior made of the stone.

His new teeth helped with cutting through it too. But he needed his molars to grind it.

Lars' skin began to tingle again and he swapped his fur with black obsidian.

"Thank you for the meal, Alfia." Lars clasped his hands as if praying. He has found his patron saint.

The neurotic and violent Alfia. The woman in question suddenly gave him a sharp look.

A woman's intuition was something else he thought. As he started sweating a bit.

So he decided to just keep on eating the delicious magic stones. Though the Balor's was different.

If the monsters in the colosseum taste like prime cuts. Then the Balor's was Kobe beef.

"I'm not complaining though, free food is free. Go lady Alfia! You look dashing!" Lars cheered her on.

Alfia frowned at him and he was definitely happy to ride on her coattails.

"Just you wait, I'll train you to the limit later." Alfia said with a dark expression.

'Ahh, I have made a grave mistake.' Lars felt a chill in his spine.

He continued eating the drops and magic stones. He never expected that monster drops will be tasty.

"Hmm, how can I make the ultimate meal with monster parts though? They turn to black mist after getting killed." Lars sighed at the dilemma.

"I guess I'll think about it later." He shrugged and the duo continued for a couple of hours.

He gorged himself with monster drops and they had an efficient system.

Alfia would kill as many monsters as possible and deliver their drops to him with her magic.

Lars will eat everything with amazing speed. His specs increasing, so he could eat them more quickly.

His golden eyes were glowing and Alfia could feel a qualitative change on him once again.

"Is that mana? He's leaking mana..." Alfia didn't feel him having mana earlier.

Now, he was starting to increase it like crazy.

'Such an insane growth rate. The only problem is his individual skill.' Alfia looked at him in wonder.

"He will grow weak if we just keep on doing this. He must gain his fuel to grow by himself." Alfia concluded.

She wasn't strong because of her magic and skills. Alfia is strong due to her ability to use them and her body to their maximum potential.

A level 7 adventurer that doesn't know how to fight will get taken down by some level 5's. That's why 1st class adventurers specialize in something.

Else, they will be forgotten. Overshadowed by more brilliant adventurers that have something unique, setting them apart from rabble.

Alfia decided to stop for now as Lars started to eat their spoils slower.

"Store them all for now, we will go back to rest." Alfia grabbed him after he did so and they went back to the 39th floor.

Alfia observed him and his stats ballooned towards the 500's. Just in a single day. He doesn't even have falna.

'He's an irregular amongst irregulars.' Alfia was still surprised by his growth.

It was most likely because he was just starting and she was carrying him hard.

But if he did have a falna, he can already level up to 2. Which was insane, she then had a thought.

'What if his ability and falna are additive?' Alfia shuddered at her dangerous thought.

'If that's the case, he could disguise himself as a level 1. But his stats can be any number. And a blessing will only make him stronger. What a monster...' Alfia could see it.

A hero in the making. "We definitely had a good haul~" Lars started counting the drops and magic stones.

Every slot had hundreds of them. It also categorized the magic stones.

'It's just like the old days.' He smiled, reminiscing the times where he would grind rpg's for loot.

'Though based on Alfia's explanation, exp here is ass.' Lars frowned.

Unlike in games, excelia has to be hard earned. You can still grind it like a true gamer.

But it will take years to increase your stats. Good experience comes from fights or feats that is hard for the individual.

That means he can't just grind like a madman. It has to be difficult to have meaning.

It will take too much time to farm excelia the conventional way. And that's for later anyways, when he gets into a familia.

"Alfia, here." Lars gave her some fruits and she started to eat them.

"You are growing nicely. But you know it, don't you?" Alfia squinted her eyes.

"Yeah, I don't know squat about fighting. I've seen the moves you did. If I could see it in the first place. They were elegant and calculated." Lars frowned.

"Umu, then this makes things easier. I will teach you how to fight." Alfia took some branches and formed them.

A sword, an axe, and a spear. The big three weapons that everybody uses.

'He could just specialize into another kind of weapon later.' Alfia wanted him to learn how to use them first.

"Training huh? Bring it on." He was inspired, Alfia's fighting style was brutal and elegant.

It was a man's romance to learn how to fight. And Alfia is there to teach him.

"Good words, en guarde." Alfia rushed at him and Lars prepared for a beating of a lifetime.

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