Aevintyr Elds

"HELP! HELP! PLEASE!!!! HEEEEEEEELP!!!!"

"Ah… Fuck."

Bjorn turned towards the voice. There, he saw a woman, more specifically, a cat woman, being chased by a pig headed monster…. An orc… 

The orc was a large monster, standing at atleast 2.5 meters. It is mostly known for being fat and ugly…

An Orc? What the fuck are they doing up here?

Bjorn readied himself, he unsheathed his sword again, and faced the incoming orc.

The cat woman looked at the man that was in her path. He noticed that instead of running away, this man was holding his ground, like a sturdy wall. 

As soon as the cat woman passed by Bjorn, she noticed that the man was not looking at her, but his sole focus was on the monster that was chasing her… She felt guilty… but, it is the duty of the fittest to survive… and her 'fittest' is to run away from danger….

The cat woman then looked what was behind Bjorn… Loads and loads of monsters… Her eyes glistened and were distracted by the phenomenon in front of her…. She thought…

Money!

So she immediately grabbed a knife and started to cut down the corpses for their cores… Stupid… yes… but her sole focus now was to get the cores for money… disregarding the fact that there was a fight behind her….

Going back, the orc that was chasing the cat woman changed its target to Bjorn… It noticed that instead of chasing an elusive woman, it was better to fight and kill the person that was standing still in front of it.

Bjorn, on the other hand, thought about something else…. His duty, on why he stood his ground and not run was because of the tons and tons of corpses behind him… To translate that… he was protecting his money… 

He did not yet see the cat woman dismantling the corpses, but rather, his focus was just protecting it from the orc… So he stood his ground, unaware of the voracious cat behind him…

However… Bjorn needs to finish this immediately… His 15 minute break was slowly approaching its end.

The orc, with its thunderous stomps that was slowly inching towards Bjorn. 

Bjorn stood still, his gaze upon the incoming orc. His heart is calm, like a bastion in the sea against the crashing of thunderous waves.

Once the orc was now close to Bjorn, the orc raised its club and brought it down, aiming to flatten the man's head in an instant… 

However, Bjorn moved forward towards the right. He then immediately slashed his sword towards the orc's thighs.

Blood quietly dwindled out from the wound, but Bjorn was not happy about it.

Hmm, too shallow…

Bjorn did not take into account the orc's thick skin, so he slashed as usual… 

On the other hand, the orc was enraged. It roared, making a slight vibration that spread throughout the dungeon… It then faced Bjorn who turned around and faced the orc again.

Bjorn thought about something.

I need to cut it at an angle… 

So Bjorn placed his sword across his chest towards his right shoulder. He anticipated again the action of the orc.

The orc immediately turned around and attempted to hit Bjorn by moving its club horizontally.

Bjorn anticipated this and immediately ducked, to the point that he was a quarter of a meter down to the ground. He then immediately moved forward towards the left, and spun while slashing his sword towards the orc's stomach area… It was effective.

This time, since the slash was at an angle, blood immediately gushed out of the wound. Together with the blood, were also pieces of internal organs…

Now, the orc was really enraged. It started to thrash around, hitting horizontally or vertically, making shards of rocks fly due to the intensity of the strike, as an attempt to hit the man that wounded it.

Due to this, Bjorn immediately jumped backward, however, the orc was persistent in chasing him. 

Bjorn had no opportunity to dodge again due to the sheer intensity of the orc's rage… So Bjorn attempted to find a way.

Time immediately slowed down for Bjorn… this is due to one of his skills activating… 

Bjorn analyzed every single detail of his surroundings… the rocks around him… the ground below him… the ceiling above him… even the cat woman that was looting the corpses behind him… however, he did not pay any attention to it for now… 

He analyzed everything and found a way…

Time flowed back to its usual pace… Bjorn immediately executed his plan.

[Burst]

Bjorn bursted towards his right, towards the dungeon wall. He immediately bent his knees and pressed his feet towards the wall.

[Burst]

Bjorn bursted again, this time, towards the orc.

The orc saw this and immediately attempted to hit the airborne man, and at the same time, putting its club against its head, as a protection against Bjorn.

Bjorn already knew about this, so he twisted his body midair, dodging the incoming club, and at the same time, slashing the orc's non-weapon hand… and it worked.

The orc's arm was slashed from the shoulder's down… 

Bjorn immediately bent his knees and pressed his feet down on the opposite wall…

[Burst[

Bjorn bursted again. His aim? The neck of the orc.

Before the orc could completely turn around, Bjorn was already near the orc's neck.

Bjorn immediately spun and slashed multiple times, like a beyblade, or a scout attempting to cut a titan's neck. 

Bjorn then landed on his feet, at the same time, the orc's head had dropped down… It's body then kneeled and fell forward…

Bjorn went closer towards the felled orc, and slashed its spine, exposing the monster's heart. Bjorn then slashed again, this time, exposing the core of the monster….

Bjorn immediately reached for it and grabbed it. He then looked at the disappearing corpse of the monster… You see, monsters in the dungeon would disappear after its core was extracted… No one knows why, but it is the way it is…

After Bjorn extracted the orc's core, he looked towards the cat woman who was also extracting the corpses of the killer ants that he had left.

He noticed that the corpses were now down to the last 40… He was amazed by how fast the extraction process was… It took Bjorn 4 minutes to fight the orc, but at the same time, the cat woman had managed to cut open 80 ant corpses…. 

You see, Bjorn's core extraction was not really slow, but rather at the fast region… however… he still has to leave some monster corpses… since he really has no time extracting every single one of them…

80 ant corpses… in 4 minutes… that means.. 3 seconds per corpse… damn… mine's at least 6 seconds per corpse…

Bjorn looked at the agile cat woman… it was definitely fast and dextrous… She knew how to properly extract the cores, even those of the killer ants', through flipping them open…

Bjorn looked amazingly at the phenomenon in front of him… it really was great… like a master of an art… He then thought about something…

After a few minutes, he noticed that the cat woman has now finished extracting each and every core, and is now attempting to flee from the scene…

However, Bjorn immediately came closer and grabbed the cat woman's neck collar…He then lifted her… Since the cat woman was small, it looked like a man lifting a cat on the scruff of its neck...….

"EEEP!"

Bjorn turned the cat woman around and looked at the cat woman with an expression that said "Really?"

"W-w-why?"

Bjorn's expression strengthened… 

"I-I-I am sorry! P-p-please put me down!"

Bjorn shook his head and said.

"Hmm…. let's see…"

Bjorn put his other hand on his chin, thinking about something.

"First…. You brought the orc up to this level…"

The cat woman immediately yelled.

"No! It was not me! It was already here, at the 8th level, when it started chasing me!"

Bjorn raised his eyebrows.

"Please believe me!"

"Alright, let's say I believe you… but… Second! You immediately left me after bringing that orc…"

The cat woman gulped…

"And you know what's worse? You left me because you started looting the monsters that I have personally killed…"

The cat woman gulped harder…

"Which brings us to the third reason… you even tried escaping… with my cores nonetheless! I could report you to the guild, you know?"

The cat woman shrieked.

"EEEP! I'm sorry!!!!"

"You know… sorry don't just cut it…"

The cat woman gulped again…

"W-w-w-what do you w-w-want?!"

Bjorn then looked at the cat woman up and down…

The cat woman immediately shivered. She immediately closed her eyes and grabbed her arms and started shivering.

"I-I-I am not in that kind of j-j-job!!!!"

She then immediately looked at Bjorn's face… Seeing that the person in front of her was handsome… and in her taste… she slowly opened her arms…

"B-b-b-ut i-i-if that's what you w-w-want! Then so be it!!!!"

Bjorn immediately raised his arms and chopped the cat woman's head… 

The cat woman immediately reeled in pain… her hands covering the site of Bjorn's chop.

"Owww"

"You stupid or something? I was just checking how fit you are."

The cat woman immediately was shocked.

"F-f-f-fit? Fit to bear your children?!"

Bjorn raised his arms again to chop her head but… she covered it with her hands immediately.

"A-alright… I'll stop joking now… W-why did you check on how fit I am?"

Bjorn slowly brought down his arm and said.

"I saw you dismantling earlier… It was fast… In line with that, I want you to be my exclusive supporter."

The cat woman was immediately shocked… She thought that the person in front of her would request something outrageous but…

"Please put me down first…"

Bjorn immediately put the cat woman down. He also confiscated the bag with the cores..

"Ummm… can you please let me think about this more…"

Bjorn immediately shutted her down.

"First…. You brought the orc up to this-"

"Alright! Alright! I get it…. I want to say that I'm sorry… you see, whenever I saw the chance to make money…. I just lost my mind….. Earlier, when I saw the mountain of monster corpses…. I was shocked… my eyes immediately started to shine, and the next thing I knew… I had already extracted the corpses...."

Bjorn put her hands on the cat woman's shoulder.

I feel you sister… 

The cat woman, on the other hand, continued.

"So… should we discuss my pay….?"

However, instead of answering the question, Bjorn said.

"Second, you immediately left me after bringing-"

"Alright! Alright!!... Is 30% of the loot enough…?"

"You left me because you started looting the monsters-"

"EEEP! Okay okay… how much do you want?"

Bjorn stopped and faced her.

"10%."

"GASP! 10%??? No please! I have mouths to feed!"

Mouths to feed really? That excuse is widely used huh?

Instead of answering her, Bjorn continued.

"The third reason… you even tried escaping-"

"Alright! Alright! 10%!!!! Please do not tell the guild… my license might be revoked…"

"Good. Pleasure doing business with you!"

The two shook hands, one happily, while the other reluctantly…. 

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Yow my people! Forgive me because I did not post any chapters these past few days…. It is because… my health is shit… 

Seriously. My health is shit. As you all know, or maybe do not know, I am a type-1 diabetic… Yeah, my sugar level was way too high these past few days…

You see, even though I input insulin… this time… due to the fucking weather… I was under dosing… 

Yes, I need to put more insulin that normal due to the fucking rainy weather… However, I did not take into account the additional insulin… 

So… My sugar level rose… I was bedridden for 2 days just because of that fact… Damn… I really want type-1 diabetes to have a cure.... Fuck. 

Seriously, if there's someone here who knows a test for a cure for t1d, even if it is in its testing phases, please tell me. I would gladly turn my life around just for that cure…

Hehe, so… that's me folks. 

Peace out!