Chapter 9: Chapter 8: Shikimaru
'Damn woman!' Rick thought angrily, dodging another blade of wind, 'I shouldn't have made her angry, well, no good crying over spilled milk.'
"Boy, stop! If you stop right now, kneel down and apologize, your sister will kill you quickly…"
"Auntie, you need to get some treatment for your head," he shouted, laughing, "I'm even ready to sacrifice my personal time and take you to a psychiatrist, maybe he can help you!"
"BASTARD! AS SOON AS I CATCH YOU, I'LL TIE YOU UP AND TORTURE YOU, FOR A LONG TIME! A VERY LONG TIME!"
"Auntie," he said in a serious voice, slowing down a little and looking at the woman, forcing her to pause a little and listen to him, "Maybe you're short on sex?"
"What?" Milinda was slightly taken aback, but having fully comprehended what he said… Her face turned purple, and a very heavy murderous intent descended on the entire clearing, "S-short on sex?! I'LL F*CK YOU NOW, I'LL F*CK YOU SO MUCH THAT YOU'LL WISH YOUR OWN DEATH!"
"Auntie, forgive me," he said embarrassedly, scratching his cheek, "But I already have a lover, and I'm not interested in old ladies, forgive me."
"YOU LITTLE BASTARD!" Dozens of wind blades flew towards Rick, he dodged seven, parried two, but the last one managed to catch his hand.
"I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU!"
"You really need to see a psychiatrist," the boy summed up, but the woman no longer heard him. For the first time in her life, she was so angry and at that moment she had only one desire, to torture and kill the boy, in any way.
While the woman was mentally imagining how she would torture Rick, he looked to the right, then to the left, looking for one specific mark... Another ten minutes passed and the boy began to get tired, and there were three more wounds on his body, one of which ran along his entire back.
The woman continued to scream and threaten him, but he had long since stopped paying attention to her screams and was completely focused on the search.
At that moment, he noticed two felled trees, crosswise.
'There!' Rick thought happily and ran straight along them to a small mountain, "Auntie, why are you so slow?! And you call yourself a wind mage!"
"I'LL KILL YOU! TORTURE YOU! CASTRATE YOU!"
"Why would you do that? Aren't you an innocent woman, wait….I don't think you have any innocence left." Rick shouted, laughing out loud. But the woman didn't answer, and continued to chase him, throwing spells at him, but the next moment he saw a grin on her face and she simply disappeared. It was too late to do anything. A strong gust of wind appeared in front of him, which blew Rick away.
Having crashed into a tree with his back, he tried to get up, but the next moment a foot with a sharp heel hit the trunk a centimeter from Rick's head, forcing him to freeze in place.
"This is the first time I've been so pissed off," her calm voice made the boy's blood run cold, "In all this time that I've been chasing you in my thoughts, I've killed you forty-five times... Of those forty-five times, twenty-eight times you begged me to kill you, ten times you committed suicide, and the remaining seven you…" At that moment, she suddenly fell silent, seeing Rick's grin.
"What kind of smile is that?" Milinda asked in bewilderment, "Are you crazy?"
"No, it's just that a guest has finally arrived," a giant shadow of a humanoid creature hung over them.
"A-guest?" shuddering, She slowly began to turn around, but before she could understand anything, the woman felt a sharp pain in the back of her head and began to fall forward, but a large hand caught her and threw her over his shoulder. In front of Rick stood a giant four-meter creature, with large pointed ears and a long chin, it was completely covered in green fur, except for its chest, face and hands, which were a mix of pink and purple.
"Female, female, female, my female! FEMALE!" shouted the Forest Vulcan and began to beat himself in the chest.
"Yes, she is yours, I do not lay claim to her!" Rick said, rising with difficulty, grinning. For a few seconds, the Vulcan looked at the boy with suspicion. "My female!"
"Yes, yours, yours!" Rick waved his hand, "Go ahead, take her and go, I still have my own things to do," Scratching his head, the vulcan jumped onto a tree and disappeared from sight in a couple of seconds.
"Good luck to you Milinda, I have a feeling you'll really need it." the boy said with a nasty grin. He remembered how he once got his hands on a book that described many monsters, Rick then memorized the entire book to be prepared if he ever encountered one of them.
There was also a description of the Forest Volcanoes and he remembered one thing for sure, it was marked in red and was intended for girls, that if they were not at least S-rank mages, then it was better not to wander into their territory from July to August. Since at this time, the mating season occurs and the Forest Volcanoes are especially greedy for human women. And if they fall into their hands then...
"Ugh, ehhhh…" he shook his head to get it all out of his head, "So, Eros said he would run to the biggest tree, we need to hurry," taking a step, he suddenly grabbed his side and fell to his knees.
"Old bitch" Rick hissed, "The wound is too deep, but…" overcoming the pain, he stood up again and wandered towards the tree, "He will not be able to defeat all three of them…."
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"Come out and fight fairly! Stop hiding!" Roni shouted, dodging another blow from a stone doll. As soon as Roni separated from the team, he ran at full speed to the nearest trap, but before he reached even a hundred meters, stone dolls as tall as a man began to crawl out from under the ground, and the enemy himself was hiding somewhere nearby, controlling them.
He simply could not do anything against him, and the dolls were made of stone, so fire simply did not affect them and he could only dodge every blow.
"Are you scared, huh? So scared that your knees are shaking or have you already wet yourself and are afraid to show yourself to me?" but the provocation had no effect, "Damn! Damn! Damn! What an inconvenient opponent! All I can do is dodge the dolls' attacks, it's good that they are quite slow, but I still won't last that long, half an hour or an hour and I'll be exhausted and it won't be difficult for him to finish me off."
Roni tried to get out of the encirclement again, and when he almost succeeded, another doll appeared right in front of him and he had to quickly retreat back.
After half an hour, Roni began to show signs of fatigue and it was this moment that the enemy chose to attack.
Once again dodging the doll's fist, a fist-sized stone flew out of the ground and hit him right in the side and, momentarily distracted, Roni received a blow to the face and was thrown back.
"B*tch!" he hissed, holding his side. But overcoming the pain, he quickly jumped onto one of the trees and again ran towards the nearest traps. Perhaps this was an act of desperation, since Roni himself understood that the traps would be useless against this magician until he got out of the ground.
"What to do?! Think, think, think!" He looked to the right, to the left, and also back, but there were no signs of the enemy, "I need to lure him out, and to lure him out I have only one way..." the man felt a slight tremor down his back.
Sighing, he accelerated slightly. Another five minutes passed and his speed began to drop, one of these moments the enemy chose for a sudden attack. Stones began to fly out from under the ground at high speed and Roni simply did not have the strength to dodge, several stones hit his legs, others hit his side and head.
Roni fell to the ground and did not move anymore. An orange magic circle lit up next to him and a two-meter man with dark short hair crawled out from under the ground.
"Minus one," he said quietly, pointing his hand at Roni, an orange magic circle lit up on it, but before he could activate the spell, a red magic circle appeared under it and the giant's entire body was enveloped in a bright scarlet flame.
"YOU FUCKING COWARDLY BASTARD! DIE ALREADY!" Roni screamed, intensifying the flames... At that moment, a giant shadow loomed over him and before he could even turn around, he felt a sharp pain and lost consciousness.
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'Damn! Damn! Damn! Fucking Shikamaru!' Eros thought angrily, dodging the spikes that were constantly jumping out from under the ground, "I definitely won't last that long, and while he's in the shadows, I can't reach him!" Having felt something, Eros jumped back sharply.
In the place where he stood, the next second a silver arc passed, cutting a branch, and above it stood a man with short green hair, holding a sword in his hands. "Indeed, your reaction is excellent, but how long will you be able to dodge?" with a smirk on his lips, he asked.
"Stop playing around, we need to finish this quickly," their leader, Juro, appeared next to the green-haired man.
"What's the hurry?"
"Idiot," the leader sighed and shook his head, "Do you think they just set the forest on fire?" He asked with a grin, "They are trying to stall for time while waiting for help."
"I see," the man with the sword said thoughtfully, "If so, then we need to speed up, sorry kid," the green-haired man disappeared from sight and the next moment appeared right above the surprised Eros, but Eros quickly pulled himself together and managed to take out a dagger, blocking the blow.
But the force of the blow was too strong, so he was thrown off the branch and began to fall to the ground. "Strong! What the f*ck is this injustice!" but he did not have time to complain about life, shadow spikes appeared on the ground.
"YOU'RE KIDDING ME!" Eros turned sharply, cut the spikes, and simultaneously fired several dozen Bullets of Destruction at the remaining two on the tree, but they easily dodged and stood on both sides of him.
"Give up, I feel sorry to kill such a talented child," Juro said in a calm tone, "Our guild needs people like that."
"Sorry, but I refuse." Eros said with a grin and abruptly walked back, cutting the rope, a small rustle was heard to his right and several dozen wooden stakes flew straight at the two dark mages, but when they were a meter away from them, they abruptly stopped, "Huh?"
"Too bad, then die," Juro chuckled, waving his hand, the stakes turned around and flew straight at Eros, but when he dodged them, they abruptly turned around and flew at him again. "Even I was wondering how many times I repeated this phrase in the last three hours, but... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" Eros exclaimed in despair, walking away, but the spears continued to pursue him.
"Hey Juro, you're the one playing with him!" the green-haired swordsman exclaimed with anger in his voice, "And you forbid me! It's unfair! You can just pull him to yourself!"
"If I could do it, I would have done it a long time ago," Juro answered, frowning, "But my magic doesn't work on him!"
"Doesn't work?"
"Yes, most likely it's the dagger."
"The dagger, right?" an anticipatory grin appeared on the green-haired man's face.
"First the spikes of this shadow scum, now spears, what will happen next?!" At the moment when Eros exclaimed this, a giant black wall appeared in front of him, into which he crashed with his whole body, "The wall huh?" He said with weariness in his voice, slowly sliding off it and falling to the ground.
"Now you're trapped rat, kid, now you can't escape," a grinning dark mage crawled out of the shadows and approached the lying Eros.
"Well, what do you say before you die?" Eros' lips slowly moved.
"What, I can't hear you at all, speak louder!" Having said this, he came closer to the boy's body, but to protect himself, the dark mage tied his hands with a shadow. "I'm saying…"
"What?"
"Die, fucking Shikamaru," the next moment, the dark mage's gaze was filled with horror when he saw a silver magic circle on Eros's tongue, but it was too late to dodge and the next moment, half of the mage's head disappeared.
A large fountain of blood suddenly splashed out, completely covering Eros, and the standing body of "Shikamaru" began to sway and fell next to him, "Really, you idiot," he tried to get up, but he had no strength left.
The previous wounds made themselves known again, as did the new ones, and general fatigue fell upon the boy's body.
"Hey, Juro! Look at him!" a surprised and at the same time cheerful voice sounded above him, "This kid killed Darky, and he's even smirking!"
"I can see this without your call." the calm voice of the leader of the magicians sounded, "Maybe you'll think about my offer? Such ruthless and talented people are very much needed by our guild."
"I have to refuse," Eros answered dryly.
"Too bad, then die," the next moment the wooden spear that Eros prepared against his enemies pierced his chest. 'Am I really going to die like this?' Eros thought with a forced smile.
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