The sudden sound of an explosion reverberated within the depths of a large cave
“WHY THE HELL IS THE MONSTER SO DAMN STRONG!?” I screamed while running.
I didn’t take too good of a look at the monster before I realized it was too strong for me. taking a quick look back , focusing on its face, I saw it’s smooshed back, pig-like snout with two long tusks sticking out of the sides of its mouth. It’s eyes were the color of magma, the fiery hair on its 15ft tall body covered all of it, except it’s hands, feet, face, chest and abdomen.
“What. The. Fuck. WHAT IS A FIRE YETI DOING IN A CAVE?! GO BACK TO YOUR VOLCANO, YOU ASSHOLE!!” I said while using my earth magic to close in the walls of the cave on the fire yeti. Just to see them melt like butter.
“Damn it. I’m gonna have to actually take this seriously if I don’t want to fucking die” talking to myself once again, I start to use the earth below me to launch forward while also trying to trip the fire yeti. Seeing that it might now have to work for its meal, the fire yeti began scooping out the dense rock cave walls like it was made out of mud. It then turned them into magma balls right in its hand and hurled them at me.
“This was supposed to be a shitty low C-tier human dungeon. Seriously, what the hell is a mid B-tier dwarf boss doing here? Let’s hope I can escape this with my dumbass core” I use the wind around me to create air currents to propel me forward along with using earth to launch off of. I wanted to use fire magic to attack that damned fire yeti, but I know damn well how that’s gonna end.
Desperately trying to not fucking die, I make spikes in the ground behind me to make the fire yeti slow down. It worked for a solid two seconds. Until the bitch melted the ground below him into magma and started to slide on it at an unbelievably quick pace.
“SHIT! OF FUCKING COURSE!” I yell as my core begins to hurt a tiny bit. Out of ideas, I think about how I got here. ‘Those damned trashy humans lied to me’ I think, not wanting to waste any more energy. remembering the dirty ass humans I killed on the way in, I knew I had no choice but to use it.
Going as fast as possible to the entrance, I started to see a light. The fire yeti was not giving up though, especially since he was utilizing that magma slide trick.
I pushed my magic usage to the max, I needed as much time as possible to safely use this skill. Reaching the entrance, I saw three humans with their throats sliced clean in half. ‘I really didn’t feel like putting up with these ones. Haha’
I began hearing the hiss of earth melting as the fire yeti came closer. “I’m going to fucking brutalize this damned fire yeti for making me do this.” I say with an immeasurable amount of poison in my tone as I finally reach the human corpses
“Focus. Focus. Focus.” Focusing on the fading life cores of the dead humans, I absorb one into my core to restore it. I use the other two to perform the technique. By forcefully breaking the outer layers of the life cores and utilizing the energy, i shroud myself in raw life energy, I start to glow with a dark blood colored aura. My black hair turned into a flame crimson and felt a warm tingle on my skin. My vision tinted red, and I was immediately reminded of the reason I despise humans with every fiber of my being. “I’m going to kill this bitch yeti”
Feeling the connection being completed, I ran back into the cave. “The connection won’t last long since it was only two weak ass humans, but it should be enough to kick this fire yeti’s ass” I said aloud while running. Being able to go so fast, I reached the fire yeti much quicker than it took for me to get away.
Once the Fire yeti felt my presence, the pressure from my current life force and sheer bloodlust must’ve scared the hell out of it. Considering It fucking bolted Right in the opposite direction of me.
“HOW YOU DARE FUCKING RUN! YOU BETTER GET BACK HERE YOU SON OF A FUCKING BITCH!” I scream as I sprinted after it, at a pace 4 times faster, I’ll say. Once I got to the fire yeti, I grabbed his big ass head by the hair and smash it into the wall. Creating a crater half the size of the fire yetis body, inside the crater laid a good amount of blood and half a tusk. The fire yeti let out a helpless groan. Seeing the fire yeti in such agony put a smirk on my face and warmed my heart a bit. I smashed its face into the wall three more times, expanding the crater by a few more feet and completely breaking off the other tusk. I made spikes erupt from the other wall and threw the fire yeti into it.
“THINK ABOUT YOUR DUMBASS ACTIONS IN THE NEXT LIFE! FILTHY BITCH!” I summoned a huge boulder and squashed the fire yetis skull, killing it in cold blood.
My aura begins to fade and my vision returns to normal.
“This life core would be pretty good to absorb, I also heard that fire yeti meat tastes pretty good since once it dies, it’s meat naturally tenderizes.”
“Life cores maintain a high percentage of the original life energy within an hour after the person or whatever dies. So, I’ll need to do that first” I have a habit of talking to myself to feel less lonely, since I’m basically always alone. I created a thick dome of rock to protect myself, since absorbing higher level beasts life cores takes a while and I need to be able to focus without the risk of being snuck up on.
Trying to extract a higher level beasts life energy and absorb it into your own takes a lot of time. Days, weeks or even years depending on the level difference. Although, if I can successfully absorb this fire yetis life core, then my core might be able to condense a fourth time.
By shaping my life energy with my will, I create a weapon of some sort to safely crack the outer layer of the core without it shattering or breaking. I also use my will infused life force to contain the energy for once it breaks. After it’s successfully broken and contained, then comes the assimilation process of using the energy to strengthen my life core and increase the amount of life energy I can contain.
After a couple of hours of the extraction and absorption process. All of the energy from the fire yetis core had been assimilated into my core. Getting me close to level 4, but not quite there. The feeling was still extremely exhilarating nonetheless.
“HAHAHA!! FUCK YOU FIRE YETI! AND ESPECIALLY FUCK YOU HUMANS!” I happily exclaim while pointing at the corpses of the fire yeti and humans. Well, since I was pretty deep in the cave, just in the general direction of the humans.
“Today was a pretty productive day, despite dirty humans lying to me and being forced to use… that.” walking over to the fire yeti to twist and break off one of its legs. “I got dinner and I almost got to level four. Damn. That means that I’ll need to go visit elder gramps.” just thinking that would send shivers down my spine, let alone saying it aloud.
“Let’s not think about that. The journey itself is going to take months anyway.” The walk out of the cave takes a good 15 minutes and it was around sunset time. A good time to set up camp, setting up a fire and chopping off enough slices of fire yeti meat for tonight’s dinner. I throw the rest away since I’ll just kill something else to eat tomorrow. I stick some yeti meat on a stick and over the fire, I eat it once it turns a golden brown. Since I’m a high level 3now, eating food right off the fire doesn’t really hurt. “Hmm I can’t say that it was the best tasting, but it was pretty decent. Probably cuz I haven’t eaten in a couple days. I’m tired now though so let’s go find a tree to sleep in.” It was dark at this point, but since I’m just in a human territory forest, I should be relatively safe with just a mana shield. “Goodnight world, goodnight fire yeti. I hope you aren’t so fucking stupid in the next life”
*A few hours ago*
??? POV
Me and my two teammates are scouts for the our medium sized guild. Our job is to roam the outskirts of the kingdom and report our findings. That could be anything from a new dungeon appearing, to warning the guild leader of potential enemy invasions. We don’t report directly to the guild leader, I just like to think I do to make myself feel better
“Hey Lana, recent reports show that there’s supposed to be a C level dungeon around here” I say to a woman of medium height. She is truly a beauty with her silky blonde hair that’s currently tied up in a tight ponytail. Her brown eyes seem to glisten like pools of honey in the sunlight
“I heard about a nearby dungeon, but C level? That’s pretty dangerous since there’s a village around. We should check it out, let’s just check out only a little into the entrance just to gauge its strength. Then report back to the guild” she responded in an authoritative voice. She’s the strongest out of our small group of 3 so I don’t rebuke.
She’s extremely beautiful, if I was just stronger. I would have my way with her and have the most wonderful time of my life. The repercussions might be too great though. I'd probably have to kill her afterwards.
“Why do you even care about some weak ass poor people that bathe in mud and eat shit?” Said the third person in our group, Jackson. He had brown hair with a strong and intimidating looking stature
“Are you stupid, Jackson? Who are we going to exploit and sell to nobles if those people in the village die? Just shut your mouth and follow orders, idiot” Lana responded along with a mouthful of spite
“Okay, jeez. No need to get your skirt in a twist, beautiful. I was just asking a question” Jackson replies
In the distance, I see a small silhouette. Jackson and Lana started arguing after Jackson’s last remark so I guess they didn’t notice. As we got closer, I noticed how small the silhouette was. It kind of looked like a kid.
“Hey, does that look like a kid to y’all?” I asked out loud, which stopped the argument between Jackson and Lana. At this point, we were close to a cave entrance
“You're right, and a pretty good looking one at that. I’m sure some rich noble will thoroughly enjoy their company” a smirk appeared on Jackson’s face as he spoke “Ryan, you know what to do, right?” He looked at me
“Hmph! Of course. Fooling some dumb kid won’t even be a challenge. Even if he doesn’t believe us, we can easily overpower a child” I said whilst walking. As we got closer, I thought of a plan to get this kid to join us so we could later sell him off for a hefty amount of coin “Hey kid! Why don’t you join us, we know you kids aspire to be adventurers. Since we're feeling nice today, we thought that we’d show you the ropes. It’s a one time offer though, so think carefully” I made sure to add a bit of aggression in my tone to be a little more persuasive
The kid proceeded to walk right past us. I was a bit taken aback by being completely ignored by a child. Once I regained my composure, I reached for his shoulder “Hey kid! I’m fu-“ before I was even done speaking, I felt a sharp pain in my wrist and my body flipped over on itself. My breath escaped my mouth and I couldn’t take another
The sudden powerful attack left me in a daze, but I could still hear my surroundings
“Ryan, how could you let a little kid do that to you?” Lana said disappointedly
“Tch! Really Ryan? That was so fucking weak of you” Jackson clicked his tongue in pity “This kid has some fighting spirit though. Sorry guys, this is getting me too excited. I don’t think I can hold back” I could already imagine Jackson’s crazed face that usually accompanied that uneasy voice he has before he goes on a killing spree
I began to recollect myself and was starting to try and stand up before the sound of something getting slammed into the ground reverberated across the mountain and into the cave next to us. The next thing I heard was the sound of someone gargling water and Lana scream.
“JACKSO-“ another sound of water gargling resounded into my ears before Lana could finish yelling out Jackson’s name
At this point I had stood up, just to see my teammates both on the ground, in pools of blood. Jackson was to my left, his body was in complete dismay and in a small crater, filled up slightly with blood that still flowed through a clean cut across where his Adam's apple should be. Lana was on my right, she was writhing in put agony, holding her neck that was constantly spewing blood. Suddenly, her body went limp and her hands fell from her neck which revealed an extremely clean cut across her esophagus.
Then I felt a crushing pain in the back of my knees, causing them to buckle. I screamed out, but all I heard was the sound of water gargling. Just then, I felt the worst pain I ever experienced on my neck. Feeling it had been cut, I made the futile decision of trying to cover my neck. Maybe it would prolong my life a little bit.
‘I don’t want to die like this. I have so much I need to do, so many women to have my way with. So much money to make. So much power to attain’ these were my thoughts as my vision began to turn red.
Then, I heard footsteps behind me as a little kid popped into my view, looking no older than 13. The same little kid that we were planning on kidnapping and selling to some noble for some money.
“Stupid fucking human. Ptoi!” The kid spat on my face. And that was the last thing I heard before my vision went black.
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