As the surroundings became populated with slimes, the job of killing all of them was left in Nyx and Nadia's hands. As Amon and Bianca weren't all too keen with killing slimes while carrying the bag.
And another thing arose, that it was really obvious that they weren't used to dealing with numerous slimes at the same time.
"Nyx back them up," Nadia unsheathed her sword, she had to. Being in such a big group, she can't risk it. It would've been fine if it was just her and Nyx. But now she has two new more people on board.
Nodding, he sliced open a slime. "Both of you, take out your weapons."
"Copy." Amon took out his dagger without any hassle.
"I don't have a weapon! I fight bare handed." Bianca's hands glowed as she grabbed onto a slime. The slime's body evaporated and she killed it easily enough.
Sighing at the sight, she spared them another glance, before running past several slimes. Her blades hit some of them occasionally. "Listen, I'm sending slimes to you guys. Kill them." Nadia gave out an order. She didn't care if the others heard her or not, if they are going to follow her orders at all.
"What about you? Can you handle all of them?" Thinking that Nadia was being too arrogant Amon asked. His blade flashed occasionally, but it wasn't enough to get rid of all the slimes surrounding him.
"Just watch, pretty boy."
Smoothly, like an impenetrable fortress . Nadia's arrows killed all of the slimes that were surrounding the group without letting a single one breach her. Seeing the chance, Nyx, Amon and Bianca regrouped. They gathered fighting for their lives.
Nadia took about 70% of the burden of killing off the slimes. The monsters were tenacious, but Nadia was overwhelming.
⟨⟨«Stealth» Lv: 1 → Lv: 2⟩⟩
Nadia kicked, she pushed and she punched the ones that were annoying her in the trio's direction. The three, that was only fending off 2 to 3 slimes a minute were always caught by surprise whenever they saw a slime zipping through their direction.
Without any further delay, they finished all the slimes in the area.
⟨⟨MP›› 310 / 310→ 60 / 310⟩⟩
Nadia breathed, the battle was abrupt, but they weren't surprised. She thought about sneaking around while fighting at first, but it was obvious that it won't be happening anytime soon, when Amon and Bianca were panting that hard just by carrying their bag and fighting.
Nadia's hand that was gripping the hilt of the sword started to cramp with how hard she was exerting her strength when she was fighting. When she finally relaxed her grip she realized it was painful for her to do so.
"Y'all fine?" Grunting Nadia made her way to the trio. She played with the sheath of her swords trying to loosen her hand.
"Peachy," Nyx smiled wiping off his sweat. His brown hair was damp, but his frosty eyes were bright.
"Dying," Amon huffed, his eyes were closed and his dark hair was swept up revealing his forehead.
"Ugh" Bianca crouched down and grunted, and she almost toppled over by the weight of her bag if she hadn't balanced herself on time.
Arms shaking, Nadia plunged her sword to the ground and leaned on it tiredly. "Further up to town, there should be a daycare center right?" Nadia grunted and she sheathed her sword back.
"Yes," Amon nodded.
"Let's go there." Nadia said, "the place's playground was large enough to accommodate people. Let's go there before night falls." After saying that, she took a deep breath and started walking.
The rest followed, along the way they barely encountered slimes, so the way to their destination was without any major bumps. It didn't mean they dared to dull their senses though.
When they finally saw the daycare, it was as they expected. The building was in ruins but the foundation of it was barely standing. They hurriedly made their way behind the daycare, and cleared all the slimes that were roaming around the playground.
It was large enough, and just like the camp, it was surrounded by looming trees.
"Should we set up a tent?" Bianca spoke up looking around the area.
The swings and slides were filled with overgrown weeds. And it was apparent that it won't work anymore, fortunately the playground was just in a corner of the semi large field.
"Yeah," Amon nodded and proceeded to unpack his belongings. "Sadly, our tent would just be our comforters on the ground." He pulled out a comforter that was similar to what Nyx was carrying.
Nadia silently opened up her shop, and with a thought she searched up the things she was looking for. "No need for that," speaking, she pulled out a capsule out of thin air.
Nyx sighed in relief when he saw a familiar move of Nadia. It was like when she pulled a sword out of thin air back then.He was reluctant to lay on the ground from the start, so he waited for Nadia before he unpacked. Knowing that she would be as uncomfortable as him.
"No need for what?" Bianca already sat down on her comforter, seemingly pleased that she could finally rest.
Not replying, Nadia threw the capsule the size of a fingernail to the ground. Before the capsule hit the ground, it suddenly lit up. And like a plant, it grew into a large tent, enough to fit three people inside. The tent was elevated from the ground with a platform. The design of the tent was pitch black, and there was a button under the platform which Nadia knew that if she pressed it the tent would go back to being a capsule.
While the rest of the people hung their mouth in shock, Nadia opened to look inside the tent.
'this better be worth the 50 coins' muttering inside her heart, she peered inside the tent. There was already a thick mattress inside, and six pillows.
"What the fuck" Amon cursed, taken aback.
"Just leave it, you'll get used to it." Nyx patted the guy, shaking his head.
"Right." Bianca didn't even know what to say.
They clearly saw how the tent was made, but they could not wrap their heads around it.
"Are...are we gonna share that?" Bianca got up from her own comforter, the overgrown grass prickling her arms and legs as she did so.
"Share? No I'm not sharing this." Nadia scrunched up her nose when she heard what Bianca had said and outright said no. "I have three of these, enough for all of you." When she uttered that sentence, Bianca and Amon's was already eagerly opening up their palms waiting for Nadia to hand over the tent capsule. Only Nyx was silent waiting for Nadia's next words.
Sneering, Nadia slapped away their outstretched hands. "Why are you opening your empty hands like that? Did I say that it was for free?" Rolling her eyes, three more capsules appeared in Nadia's hands. Her heart ached for the lost coins, but she was already busy thinking how she could earn more.
"30 cores, for one of these." Nadia named her price. Bianca was hesitating, Amon was silent, and Nyx...Nyx was already handing over 30 cores that came straight out of his pockets.
Seeing that Nyx already paid, Nadia tossed out the capsule while converting the cores that Nyx gave.
"I can finally put down this bag," Nyx grunted out, and under the curious eyes of Amon and Bianca, the capsule grew into a replica of Nadia's tent. He leisurely took off his shoes, and plopped inside his tent. His bag is already thrown inside hazardously.
"Any takers?" Nadia teasingly sat on the entrance of her tent. She waved the capsule on her hand as if she wasn't holding the only comfort everyone around was wanting to have.
Amon took out a pouch, and tossed it to Luna. After feeling what was inside of it, she had no qualms and directly handed the capsule to him. Last was Bianca who rummaged through her bag, handed the cores, and finally got a tent.
The four busied themselves, to pass the awkward silence that hung on the air, Amon and Nadia talked about who survived and who didn't. The two found that it was easier to speak business with each other rather than to participate in small talks. It was then revealed to both Nadia and Nyx that the school became the center trading center where the main survivors turned to get resources, when all the supermarkets and convenient store were looted.
After a while, Nyx looked up finding that starting another topic was useless when the only person that was interested in talking was only him and Bianca."I suggest all of us go hunting," suggesting that aloud, he looked at the rest of the group that was just doing their own things.