Her dress couldn’t be any more of a rag than it is. I was done removing the metals and stopping the bleeding. Even so her life is still slowly fading. She had lost so much of blood. … What now? Such a waste to do all this and then she dies. I unbuckle the belt of the small back around my waist. I know the viles in there were broken. I didn’t really check only the wet sensation on my trousers told me so. Carefully, I open it. Here’s to hoping for something of a ‘miracle’. Would you look at that. How convenient. She has luck. They were really smashed but a couple viles weren’t completely shattered and still had a little potion in. A little of the weird looking potion and the greenish-blue one. They weren’t plenty but they should help her to some extent. With how potent the potion should be it should be able to stall for quite a bit. From what the old woman said either applying it to the wound or ingesting would do. One for general and the other for concentrated and quick healing on
“Reporting.” The man, in his latter 30’s, clearly not startled, looked up from the papers before him to the one who had just appeared without a sound. The slightly muscled man in a dull colored shirt with only a light armor breastplate strapped to the right and another strap over his left shoulder down to his lower right which held his sheathed sword. He didn’t look like one you would peg for having a skill synonymous to an assassin. “What is it?” “The one the former mayor had met was a young teen. Speculation was he may have been some young noble but upon further questioning it was highly likely he is a young hunter.” “We had no notice of a noble coming here. In any case as you sure he is the very same the spy had seen at the docks?” “Yes sir.” “…Hmm” He looked like one in thought. “I have a question. Are we not reporting this?” “It was Grenjad’s own foolishness to have done something like that but it made it easier taking over … I would have love to kept it under wraps. But t
It didn’t take long for her body to calm and look a bit eased…Nothing to do, rather a little in mind I stood up and got close to the pond, staring straight at the island. The place was calm except for the ripples caused by the still falling water.The flame didn’t look like it would go out even when I distance myself and as the elf was in the open she would still be in my line of sight. I train my sense on her in case any wandering monster saw her as easy picking.A foot into the water, then the other going deeper in. Half submerged I lower myself swimming towards the island.I aware myself of my surroundings, but didn’t feel anything stir beneath the water…It was a little distant. Drawing closer I saw the land which the tree stood was quite large, so too the pond it seemed, and the tree which stood away from the center, its trunk really wide. It was in bloom. Leaves long dried, and some losing their color, scattered around on the roots and laying in the grasses.I stood on its shore
Just like that four days went by. There was no sign of life around me, no monsters nearby. The caves where just quiet. Thought two days ago there was slight tremors which I thought could have been the giant worms moving about a little far away or probably another collapse above.I wonder if the elf is okay. She has been asleep for a long while. Wouldn’t she be hungry for sleeping that long.The caverns seems far reaching. No matter where we went the size barely changed. Instead there were many branches and chambers that seems to go on. If it wasn’t for its natural look one would think it was man-made. I wasn’t using the flame after drying up because there was no need in the first place. The caverns was slightly illuminated by moss which grew on the walls and stuck onto some boulders.I’ll be honest I’m on thin rope because of my hunger. My consideration of eating the elf grows stronger and if I don’t find prey soon, I would definitely eat her. I think I can only hold on for a while lo
… Suddenly my feet stop not wanting to move anymore. The elf between my pit fell with a heavy thud. I have no time to care for her right now. I had ignored the hunger that was gnawing that I missed the reason why I sought to keep myself sated. even at minimum. And now it seems, it is trying to take over once more.How foolish of me. I staggered away finding it difficult to balance myself. To my knees I fell. Half my sight turned dark. It wasn’t that I couldn’t see from it, no, I could, rather exceptionally clear just with a darker hue, it was more like it wasn’t mine to use.Try hard to resist the take over.“Ugh!”I felt the change from my teeth. I’m starting to lose myself——The elf! I force myself to turn to her. I can’t let myself get taken over. I know I said she is an investment but if I do get taken over again who knows what might happen. I push myself to crawl towards her. The smell that came from her, how enticing.If I eat her it’ll settle and I will gain control again. I g
Why is it so? Because their smell is all over the place so much that I can’t tell where I’m heading, tracking. It’s no different wandering in here. And Iya. They seem to be moving in a pattern, in a peculiar direction for a while now. And I can’t dedicate time to finding my way out without running into monsters, if not, probably end up lost, since I have no clue where to look. Will think of what to do after I deal with these scorpions closing in. The stingers on them are the most annoying, having to handle their pincers and then they attack with it. I just have to pay extra attention to them, cut them, deflect or distance myself if I can’t, keep them from so much as scratching the elf or me. It’d kill her, but only slow me down which would make it easier for them getting to her. Don’t let them circle around me. They had been since the begin, so I should instead escape the encirclement and prevent any from closing in from behind. Their bodies are tough. To cut through takes a lo
… After a long climb the reach the top. The sun had set only the orange glow remain, slowly dimming. "We should make camp here." The blond hair companion said. "… No, just the rest is okay, we should move deeper in." Lira rejected. "You can go on, right?" She directed at Allora. "Yes, I've got lots of stamina to spare." "Fine by me…" The blond young man accepted. "I was trying to be a bit considerate since you're girls. Guess there wasn't the need to you two pretty much handle yourself well," His companion said. "as well as many others. Time really have changed. I forgot about that." He muttered to himself. "Then we rest for an hour then move on." … When they finally settled for the day it was long deep into the night. As the dark sky was slowly swept away by the dull blue the party was already up and moving… "Looks like we have company. From behind." The blonde young man suddenly spoke. They all stop and turned. "You…" The blond young man's companion voiced. A few meters
The concrete chips crunched under a pair of boots that trudged.Somewhere on the sands, where where only what seemed to be once walls stood, now lay to the sandy floor as chips and blocks.The person slowly moved through the rubble.At the corner of his eyes he spotted a figure leaning on a slab her head dropped.“To think I’d find someone out here…” He drew closer. “A dead hunter.”They took a knee to her side looking at the wounds on the corpse(?), blood soaked into the sand.“Doesn’t seem to be from a monster… Bandits? No. They would have taken everything on her. It would be a miracle her corpse was left unsullied.Infighting, huh. She looks pretty dead, but, just to be certain…”Reaching their right hand to their back they grabbed a short weird stick and with the left placed it to the corpse’s neck.“… I was right… Just barely alive. Sure is tenacious.” He took his hand of her and the weird stick, looking around.“Was she abandoned and left for dead? But what would they be doing ou