The sun was setting across the many golden dunes of the desert bringing an end to the day.
Polemos was beaten and bloodied from his arms to his legs and he even had a couple more scars across his chest and stomach. But Polemos was grinning as he was able to get a lot done for the day but he still had a lot that needed to get done. Polemos still needed to clean himself, apply medicine to his wounds and wrap them in proper bandages, make some dinner for Rose and himself and reflect on all of his battles and learn from them.
"So much to do still but hell, I've never been more excited or happy before."
Polemos had a very small smile on his beaten and bloody face as he was lying in the sand waiting on the massive sand dune where both Rose and he left before they went on their own hunt. Polemos was able to tell when Rose was getting close as he was able to feel the ground tremble as it sounded like she was excited to see him.
Rose started to hiss to get Polemos's attention but, when she was getting closer and closer to Polemos she was able to see the blood and scars on his body she rushed even faster to him. And made a noise that Polemos never heard before.
Polemos wasn't even able to say hello before he felt his body leave the sand as he was placed atop of Rose's head as she took off for their camp in a scurry.
Polemos tried to say something but remained quiet as he was able to feel her shaking more than she normally did when she ran. Polemos was shocked as he felt a warmth spread to his heart, as this was the first time in this life that someone had cared or shown concern for his life.
Although both Elder Spear and Carl did care and showed kindness to Polemos, it was the first time someone showed any concern if he was going to live or die.
When Polemos felt the worry and concern from Rose, tears started to form in the corner of his eyes and swore that he wouldn't be as reckless as he had been in the past couple of days when he was on his hunt killing.
'I can't take the revenge I promised if I'm dead from my own lack of care of my life Gods, I'm stupid and it only took a centipede to show me that my life does have a sort of meaning. I also need to really thank both Elder Spear and Carl when I get back for the kindness that they have shown me.' Polemos just shook his head as the tears slowly fell from his eyes.
When Rose made it to the rock spire she quickly climbed the spire and entered the huge cave. The moment she was able to get inside the cave Rose grabbed Polemos from the top of her head with her forceps and clumsy but gently tried to lower him to the ground as she tried to clean the blood off him with her antenna.
"It's alright Rose I'm alright just, very, very tired and dirty I'll be able to get myself clean and fixed up as best I can probably. Just need to grab my bag and get the medical supplies out so I can clean the smaller ones and definitely cauterize the hole in my stomach." Polemos tried to comfort Rose as he held onto her antenna as he slowly got to his feet and walked over to his bag.
When Polemos was walking over to get his bag and medical supplies he also happened to see a huge pile of corpses in the cave as he stopped, shook his head, smiled, and just let out a defeated sigh.
"Haaaaaa, I mean I knew I would lose but, just not by that much."
When Polemos looked at the pile of corpses again as he looked inside of his necklace as he definitely wasn't able to hunt that many at all as he was able to hunt just twenty red horned bearded lizards giving himself 400 claws and a multitude of scales. But as it clearly looked like Rose was able to get more than 50+ red horned bearded lizards.
When Polemos was able to get to his bag he pulled out everything he would need and plopped on the floor and started to clean and dress his wounds as best he could.
Polemos then took out his dagger as he made a fireball in his hand and put the dagger inside of it. Polemos held the dagger in the fire till it glowed a bright red color like lava.
Polemos then untied his tunic from his stomach revealing the hole from his first encounter, Polemos made sure to avoid being pierced by the lizard's horns after he received this damn hole.
'Their horns hurt more than the claws.'
Polemos then took a deep breath and placed the dagger sheath in his mouth, as he prepared for what was to come next as he used the bright red colored dagger and cauterized the hole in his stomach.
"SSSSSSSSSSS!"
The moment the searing red dagger touched his skin, Polemos's eyes went wide, face went pale, and his teeth sunk into the leather sheath as he groaned out in pain but never let go of the dagger til the hole was closed.
The moment it was over Polemos fell face first to the ground breathing very heavily gasping for air.
When Rose saw Polemos fall to the ground she quickly crawled over as she reached out her antenna to see if he was ok.
"I-I'm o-ok girl, jus-just in a lot of pa-pain. Luckily the sun just started to go down as there is still enough time to get those claws, scales, and some meat. Plus everything else that needs to get done as I definitely should try and sleep early tonight so I can recover quicker but. Ahhhh, so much to do, but this is what I wanted anyway."
Polemos sighed as he shook his head but was still smiling as he looked over at Rose and grabbed her antenna to help ease her.
When Polemos was all said and done taking care of his wounds and that hole in his stomach, he got up very slowly from the ground then he slowly walked over to the pile of corpses and got to work.
As Polemos was working on the red horned bearded lizard corpses he had no idea that both Idiot A and Idiot B were finally called.
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The sun was just falling off the sky as the first moon started to crown over a Low-Tier Nomad tribe, as two unfortunate individuals were called into a very large and lavish tent.
Idiot A and Idiot B both looked like they hadn't slept in two and a half days, were as white as a pair of ghosts, and were still bleeding out of their wounds.
Idiot A's mouth was swollen, his nose was still smashed, and his right hand that was missing three fingers was dripping blood through the bandage.
Idiot B looked worse as his face twitched in constant pain as he was having a very hard time breathing, as when that purple eyed devil 'tried' to cauterize his stomach and back he definitely caused more damage as was intended.
But what was weird was that they weren't standing; they were both on the floor kneeling in front of the back of the newest Hunting Captain of the tribe, Alyan.
"Would you two useless dogs wish to repeat what you just told me again as, I swore you're talking about a ghost."
Alyan spoke, his back still facing the two kneeling on the floor behind him as he was staring at an old map that showed a very detailed map of the area the tribe was in.
Alyan wasn't the only one who knew of the existence of this map as only the Hunting Captains and the Tribal leader knew of it. If anyone was to even see the existence of the map they would lose their life, but both Idiot A and Idiot B did not know that and never would as their lives were forfeit the moment they entered the tent.
Idiot B spoke as Idiot A couldn't: "I-it was a p-p-pu-purp-purple eyed d-de-dev-dev-."
Idiot B couldn't even finish as his skull was pierced by a thin but sharp earthen needle as blood slowly flowed from the hole the needle made. As the needle went back into the sand, Idiot B's body just fell like a sack of potatoes.
Idiot As eyes went wide as he lost function of his bowels and a horrible smell came from his backside but he never moved as his mind was no longer functional. The whites of his eyes came up, his heart stopped, and he stopped breathing.
Alyan had no change in his appearance as another earthen like needle just poked through Idiot A's temple officially killing him.
'Both useless dogs can't even do things right.'
"Go and figure out Ellios's last whereabouts, report back to me as soon as possible, and bring me my second. We have things to discuss!!"
"NOW!!!!!"
Alyan roared in the end as he was very irritated as Ellios was supposed to be off on a hunt that left not that long ago to an Elite Red Horned Bearded Lizard nest.
But Alyan also smiled as he sent in a back up, or as he thought of him: bait.
But his smile started to turn into a small frown as his mind went back to forgotten memories of purple eyes and a rumor of a curse.
"Those who have eyes of purple are said to have death, continue to watch over them as they kill their first tribute towards her, and she'll watch over them as death is meant to walk with cursed eyes."
Alyan spoke of the so-called curse as he shook his head to try and erase the memory as his focus was that Elite Red Horned Bearded Lizard nest. As it was able to connect to the tribe's current location and make an intermediate tier oasis with a small water source in between, it would allow for an expansive growth for the tribe and increase its strength.
And even more importantly could make Alyan the next tribal leader.