Nature and shit

The world stood still in its continued presence it had found. The air would go stagnant, the noises of the world would cease, time would slow, and animal life of every kind would seem to disappear. This effect would grow the longer it stayed in an area until the point abyssal void would crack through the ground and start to consume all around it unless forcefully stopped by itself.

Which is why it was almost constantly on the move exploring this new and strange world it has found itself in. As long as it moved at a slow gait nothing would happen so it took its time looking at any and everything it could see and find.

From the maskless flying things to the also maskless walking things that all came in different and unique varieties. Some a magnificent blue twirling along its body with hints of red and greens. Others a reddish-orange color that were quick and agile hunters. Others yet were large things of a brown and black coloration with large jaws that opened wide, but seemed just as at ease eating plants and berrys as it were mauling its prey.

On and on these things went as it continued to explore this ever stranger world. It only got stranger from there though as it came across creatures that seemed different from there kin. Having strange glows, being larger and taller with seemingly more intellect. Their were some who looked quite alike to there lesser kin but with spikes and crystal fire.

Some were like shadow and void as they moved through the underbrush seeming to strike an instant connection to it. All these things and more were oh so fascinating that eventually after finding a nice clearing to settle down in it took out a small journel to write down the descriptions and traits of these many new beings that it had come across. Oh how this land exceeded his expectations and more.

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The thing in front of him was tall by any metric. At least 9 or ten feet tall if accounting the great horns on its mask-like face. The blackest black of its body sucking in light and sound like a maelstrom of un-noise cascades into his ears like great not-drums in an infinite silent sea.

Which is why the idea of killing the creature was quickly becoming more and more unrealistic. At first it was nothing more than a request by a village he was passing through to investigate the strange horned creature hunters would catch very slight glimpses of. Then as he followed the things trial it became obvious that whatever it was, it was not anything he or those villagers had ever seen or heard of.

Hell by this point he wouldn't be surprised if it was a new creature all together or the failed experiment of the demon king or one of his generals. Hell it could be a general itself for all he knew!

Though the fact he could see the thing writing apparently about the magical and non-magical beasts of the forests in a note book was strange. The completely unrecognizable language the thing was writing in didn't help either. Every time his enhanced eyes looked upon the writing he could feel his brain twist and turn to try to understand only for a massive splitting headache to assault his mind.

Eventually though he decided no amount of payment or praise was enough to take on the thing alone. No he would bring back up and help from the local guild. Which just so happened to be the one in the cursed city of Belzerg. While he would have rather not gone near that only recently not completely creepy city sometimes you had to make hard decisions in his line of work.

He just hoped this one didn't end up with him speared through by the long sword thing on the creatures back or running away from the cursed city.

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Kazuma Satou could admit that sometimes(most of the time) he was a cynical bastard who could be an asshole, but even he did not expect things to go as bad as they had when showing up in his so called "isekai" world.

Not only was he stuck with a annoying and plain dumb goddess as a side kick, but he also found himself smack in the middle of a gloomy and run down town that had apparently been cursed not too long ago. Which had Actually helped them would you believe it.

Work was never in short supply in this town and Aqua's talents as a archmage netted tons of money through healing the sick, desperate, and wounded. While not doing manual labor work the guild wall was seemingly flooded with jobs to do. Each of which payed a premium because of the relative lack of adventurers in the area.

All of this had compounded to making them at least middle class and with no outstanding depts by the end of there first month in this world. Things had only gotten better from there though- wait he should rephrase that. Things had gotten both better and worse.

Things had gotten better because they had two new party members to help them on quests, but things had gotten much worse because of the bullshit he had to put up with from them. Meguminn was a "master" mage as well as being a die hard loli and chunnybio with a explosion fetish while darkness was a raging masochist paladin who has absolutely zero ability with the sword.

The only other upside was they were good looking. He hoped to every god other than Aqua he wouldn't be stuck with them for the rest of his time in this world because if he was, he was 99% sure that something was gonna die. Be it himself from frustrated embarrassed annoyance or the women in his party because of the natural conclusion to said annoyance.

At least things were calm for now though and as long as they stayed that way he would be happy.

"HEY HEY I NEED HELP THERES A TALL ASS MAGICAL CREATURE I'VE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF BEFORE CLOSE BY!! ANYONE WILLING TO HELP GETS FIRST RIGHTS TO ITS CORPSE!!"

Of fucking course.