Hearing his absurd suggestion, Draken couldn't help but blurt out unsparingly,
"Are you an idiot? Why in the bloody hell should we do that?"
"I don't know. Maybe something interesting happened?" Casanova responded while shrugging his shoulders.
"We've barely escaped them alive and have almost reached the town, and yet you're saying to me now that you want to go back to them?"
"Uhh… Well, when you put it like that, it does sound like I'm being stupid here."
"You're not being stupid—you are stupid. Now shut up and come on. Let's get quickly to town before any mishaps occur."
Draken was about to turn around and take off running again, but he stopped himself when he heard his partner's next reply.
"I'm sorry Draken, but you said it yourself. I am stupid."
Casanova flashed him a cheeky grin that was a prime target for punching before taking off in the direction of the loud noise earlier.
"Sh*t! That f***ing dumba**!"
Of course, he couldn't possibly just leave his best friend to die alone; that would be the ultimate dick move by his standards. So, in the end, he decided to run after him—all the while cursing out loudly along the way.
"That son of a b**ch! I swear there will come a day where I'll kill him for his goddamn antics!"
…
A powerful swing from a wooden club was about to hit Solis, who was charging directly towards it; but before it could clubber him, he moved his feet sideward and dodged it by a thin margin.
Boom!
The wooden club made a loud noise as it crashed into the ground, and the ogre who was swinging it was rendered momentarily open for an attack—and Solis sure as hell wouldn't miss that opening.
"Die."
Without any mercy, Solis stabbed the side of the ogre's neck before digging his dagger across to its front. And with that, Solis saw the last bit of remaining HP from the ogre deplete to zero. The ogre naturally fell forward and lay sprawled on the ground, a puddle of blood slowly seeping out of its body.
"Phew~" Solis let out a breath and looked around him.
From his surroundings, he could see the bodies of several ogres lying deathly still, and as he was scanning the area, he happened to spot the last ogre that was still alive.
"Who-! Who are you?!" The ogre screeched while his legs trembled. How unmanly of him.
"Me? I'm just a random guy that you happened to mess with."
Solis played with his dagger as he approached the pale-faced ogre in a leisurely manner.
"Dam… Dammit to hell! FIREBALL!"
A scorching hot ball of flames barreled towards Solis with the ogre's words. Funnily enough though, the ogre missed his target.
Solis walked completely unfazed as the fireball was seemingly coming towards him. However, the fireball's trajectory was just slightly off and missed him, shooting away past his left side before hitting a tree.
"Wow. Are you seriously that scared right now?" Solis grinned all too menacingly at the ogre's failed display of retaliation.
In response, the ogre gritted his teeth so hard that it made a crackling noise. Meanwhile, he tightened the grip on his great sword one last time and then bull-rushed at the hated enemy with all the strength and courage he had left in him.
"HAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!"
"Heh." Watching this, Solis couldn't help but snicker. "The AI's really something else in this game, huh. Even normal mobs like you can show such a frightening expression upon knowing their impending death. Amazing."
Solis gave an appreciating remark to the developers of this game and also rushed forward to meet the enemy and their desperate last-ditch attack.
Fwiiiiing——
In the end, they both passed by each other in tantalizing fashion. But ultimately, only one of them was left standing a second later; the other one unfortunately dropped dead on their knees.
THUD.
"Thanks for the satisfying brawl, you ugly f**ks…"
That was all Solis could say at that moment after successfully winning a 5 vs. 1 fight.
With the battle finished, Solis stood up straight from his bent poise, and that's when he realized that the metal dagger he always had as a weapon was no longer in his right hand.
'Did my metal dagger break?' He naturally thought. 'Well, considering that it was a basic starting weapon it probably didn't have that much durability. In fact, I should count myself lucky that it didn't break before the battle ended. That would have been pretty bad.'
Solis then turned around to start collecting all of the loot that the ogres dropped. But then, he suddenly heard somebody speak at that instant, which scared the hell out of him and almost made him yelp out in shock.
"Woah, dude… You're f***ing cracked."
Solis snapped his head in the direction of the voice, and over there he saw two familiar figures staring at him with unbelieving expressions.
"It's you guys…" Solis regarded them as he narrowed his eyes. "What the hell do you two want? You didn't come here to rob the prize from its winner, ey?"
"What?" Draken replied blankly, but it only took him a second to realize what he meant. "Oh, no! We're sorry if this looks kinda bad, but we really didn't come back here with that intention."
"Yeah," Casanova supplemented. "We just came to check things out if there was anything interesting going on after we left since we suddenly heard a loud, furious roar from over here."
"Is that so? Well, I take it that you've seen everything there is to see now. So why don't you two buzz off, or would you two have liked to experience what you both witnessed first-hand?" Solis asked them in a grim voice.
"No, thank you! We'll just be on our way th—"
"I'd be down to do it," Casanova said while raising his hand. "But you don't have a weapon though. I'd feel kinda bad beating an unarmed foe, not gonna lie. It just wouldn't be fair a fight."
"You absolute dumbf**k. You can't be serious right now..."
"Hoh? A man of chivalry, are we?" Solis couldn't help but chuckle at his wonderful comment before responding, "Don't you worry about that. It won't take a lot out of me to defeat a single person. Trust me."
Seeing him grin so confidently with his teeth even showing, Casanova offered no other words to persuade him.
"I see... Well, alright, if you're so sure of yourself, then let's get 'er goin."