Realizing that an item had been obtained, Nagao immediately checked the description of the item...
*click*
[Congratulations! You've got "The Silent-Lethal Gas Grenade" with Normal level.
This weapon is an explosive weapon type that produces smoke. Even though it's just gas, the type-gas that is released has a lethal concentration level. This grenade will be active for thirty minutes, and during that time, the gas can affect your target's organs, causing death permanently.
Pros: Area of effect. Distance and weapons influence can be increased if some conditions are favorable. See the tips for "some conditions are favorable".
Cons: Gas grenades pose a lethal risk of self-injury.
Usage: Pull the safety pin—pin with attached ring—and throw the weapon towards the target. Wait a few moments, and the target will undergo body changes. The first phase is a sensory disturbance. The second phase is respiratory distress. The third phase is skin irritation and burns. The fourth phase is damage to the nervous system in the head. Above that time, have a good rest in the afterlife.
Warning: opponents or friends can experience the same thing.
Tips: Embrace the invisible trail, guided by elusory clues, and forsaking earthly waypoints.] X2
(Should the tips be like this?!! It's like a guessing game!) Nagao thought angrily as he sighed.
"To hell with that! As for tips, I'll try to review them while walking there!" Nagao immediately followed the directions. Even though the journey to the location was relatively fast, he had to go through several steep roads before reaching the location...
*Tap!* *Tap!* Tap!*
Nagao arrived at a small bridge. By the time he was in the middle of the bridge...
*ROARRR!*
Loud roars appeared, along with several figures at the other side of the bridge. Those creatures resembled a big cat-shape, predominately albino with ebony spots, until long cuspid teeth resided in their mouths.
Realizing the appearance of several creatures before him, Nagao immediately activated one of his features. From the activation of the features carried out, some information is obtained...
[Subject Name: The Albino-spotted Smilodon Gracilis.
Level: C
Condition: healthy with a high-hunger level.
Estimated: ±5 years, five months, ten days.
Description: It has seized ± 2 meters long and seventy-five centimeters tall at the shoulder. Weight ± 110 kg. They're currently experiencing high-level stress due to hunger urges. Beware of it.]
Not only was the notification from his feature, but a mission board appeared before Nagao...
[Side mission: kill The Albino-spotted Smilodon Gracilis .] (0/5)
"Hello, little pussy~!" Nagao immediately prepared several throwing knives with a sigh. "COME HERE, ALL OF YOU, BASTARD!" He screamed loudly and immediately dashed towards the monster herd. Meanwhile, the monsters simultaneously did the same thing...
*Tap!* *Tap!* *Tap!*
Nagao swiftly hurled throwing knives at the monsters. The attacks even struck their eyes and faces before they could react or dodge...
*Swoosh!* *Shroock!*
*ROAR!*
Seeing this as a game-changer, Nagao took out his dagger and stabbed several monsters' eyes. Although he was able to injure several monsters, Nagao still received bite wounds and scratches wounds on his left hand and thighs. Awaring the monsters' numbers and he crossed the bridge already, Nagao began to keep some distances from them. The Smilodon herd did the same things.
Their sharp gazes met as they observed each other's movements. The intensity was getting higher when the injured Smilodons started to stand up. Despite being outnumbered, Nagao's demeanor and expression didn't change at all...
(Two of five smilodons are already injured. Even though their attacks are monotonous, their numbers make up for it. There's no fear. This is... starting to get fun! The heart is beating fast!) Nagao thought, evil-grinning broadly.
Then, Nagao provoked the monsters in an open-body stance and stretched his right hand,
"WHAT A PUSSY ATTACKS ALL YOU HAVE! ARE THESE... THE C-LEVEL MONSTERS ATTACKS COULD'VE DONE?! WORTHLESS! EAT ME IF YOU CAN, DIPSHIT!"
Got these provocations, the monsters began to attack again. In fact, one of the monsters tried to pounce swiftly toward Nagao. Realizing that attack, Nagao sacrificed his left hand as a shield meat while stabbing the monster's neck several times...
*Stab!* *Shroock!*
The monster that pounced just now fell into a limp state. Immediately, Nagao gripped its hind legs. With all the muscles in his hand, Nagao slams another monster with its body. The impact was swift and powerful, rendering the two monsters helpless instantly...
*Bam!*
Meanwhile, other monsters also attacks Nagao. He immediately dodged by rolling to the side as he took back his dagger. After successfully evading, Nagao returned to attack the remaining monsters. The slams, punches, and stabs continued. Until finally, Nagao was able to kill all of those monsters...
[You've gained +50 exp and +50 stat points.] (1/5)
[You've gained +50 exp and +50 stat points.] (2/5)
[You've gained +50 exp and +50 stat points.] (3/5)
[You've gained +50 exp and +50 stat points.] (4/5)
[You've gained +50 exp and +50 stat points.] (5/5)
[Side mission: kill The Albino-spotted Smilodon Gracilis .] (1/5)
[Side mission: kill The Albino-spotted Smilodon Gracilis .] (2/5)
[Side mission: kill The Albino-spotted Smilodon Gracilis .] (3/5)
[Side mission: kill The Albino-spotted Smilodon Gracilis .] (4/5)
[Side mission: kill The Albino-spotted Smilodon Gracilis .] (5/5)
[Collect some exp points to level up your level.] (70/100)
After bandaging his wounds, Nagao skinned its skin and cut the monster's flesh into pieces. Heads, claws, and all their meats Nagao kept in Storage. Even Nagao ate some Smilodon raw meats to replenish his energy drained from the previous battle...
(Don't be picky about food, Nagao! Keep on chewing to replenish your strength. No... there's no guarantee we'll find a decent meal here...! Remember what you're here for! That monster... That damn monster! You... have already made your choice through this path. Then you have to go through all this... including eating monster meat! Embrace this pain... embrace this disgust, you bastard!) Nagao kept encouraging himself to continue eating monster meat.
"Brrgh!" Nagao held back the urge to vomit with hands full of monster blood. His tears kept coming out as a follow-up reaction to what Nagao did. Monster blood was already splattered on his clothes. He didn't care about any of that anymore. All for the sake of one goal that he had set from the start. One goal that must be accomplished.
*Glup!* *Glup!* *Glup!*
After finishing eating, Nagao took a few deep breaths...
(Finally... it worked. Even though the unpleasant smell still lingers... to hell with that... for restoring strength against real enemies. Besides... the remaining monster things could be used as evidence to the adventurer's guild and be resold again!) He started to organize back his breath.
Finished with all that, Nagao continued his journey while taking his weapons.
Just a few steps, a sudden attack aimed at Nagao's head from the left direction. His intuition reacted and immediately dodged the attack by pulling his body backward. Thanks to his intuition, it was missed, and the arrow stuck into a tree trunk...
(Sudden attack?! There's only one creature doing this...!) He immediately looked at the attack direction and realized that the culprit was a goblin. However, the goblin's herd shape here was different.
Leaving aside their green body color, they had four arms. Jaw with type wolf-structure. They were taller than the average goblin.
*Kikk!* *Shh!* *Karrkk!*
Nagao immediately identified those monsters...
[Subject Name: Mutant-Goblin.
Level: B
Condition: healthy with a high-hunger level.
Estimated: ±7 years, seven months, twenty-one days.
Description: It has seized ± 130 centimeters. It also has mutant genes due to evolution. It has four arms and jaw structure type-wolf. They're currently experiencing high-level stress due to hunger urges. Beware of their bite even though it is slight because they would—.]
Before he finished reading the description, one of the goblins ran up and bit his left hand. Realizing this, Nagao received pain...
"Urgh!!" Nagao started gripping hardly the goblin's neck until he bit its jugular vein. As a result, goblin blood spurted in all directions...
*Spurt!*
Simultaneously with previous events, a mission board appeared before him...
[Side mission: kill the Mutant-Goblin.] (0/5)
[You've gained +45 exp and +55 stat points.] (1/5)
[Side mission: kill the Mutant-Goblin.] (1/5)
Nagao swallowed the goblin's jugular vein. This time, he got used to swallowing monster meat even though the nausea expression showed on his face. After controlling his nausea, Nagao started laughing loudly...
"HAHAHAHA! Not bad. So—," Nagao looked at those monsters with a big grin. His pupils dilated greatly—"My turn!" He immediately lunged at the monsters.
The goblins started charging toward him. On the other hand, Nagao didn't slow down his running even though he was being attacked by arrows from an archer goblin. Nagao ran zigzag until finally...
*Bam!*
Quickly, Nagao kicked the goblin's head with his sole-right foot. The kick effect was powerful, making one of the goblins bounce. In a split moment, he gripped one of the goblin's necks, and instantly, Nagao threw the goblin's body at the archer goblin...
*Swoosh!* *Bam!*
*Kirkk!!*
Before the two goblins could wake up, Nagao's dagger penetrated deeply into the two goblins' throats...
*Schrrok!*
Nagao then hurled several throwing knives. From his attacks earlier, it hit the remaining two goblins in its chest. But they were still able to move and started attacking Nagao with scimitars.
Their attacks were fast and skillful. Their movements made it difficult for Nagao to dodge or parry because they understood the layout of human veins. Some wounds on the thighs and chest as proof of it...
"Urggh!" Nagao endured his pain from their attacks. He did that while dodging and parrying their attacks.
(Damn it! Their intelligence level is higher than the average goblin. Wait a moment! Some goblins used a spear and arrow earlier. Let us see my distance to those weapons!) Nagao started to look around and noticed that some weapons before were at different locations. Quickly, Nagao rolled to the side and grabbed the closest weapon.
*Roll!* *Tap!* *Pick up!*
Nagao immediately took a bow and a few arrows. In the brief junction of time, he shot several arrows simultaneously using his mouth as a bowstring puller. Without hesitation, his attack arrows shot toward the remaining monsters...
*Swoosh!* *Stab!* *Stab!*
The remaining goblins were hit in the chest and face. The incident made their movement slow down. Nevertheless, they still attacked Nagao...
(They've slowed down. Then!) Nagao started to tighten his right arm muscles. He spun the handle dagger and immediately slashed their throats at the same time. Dagger slashes occurred from left to right swiftly...
*Shrroock!*
The remaining goblins had died, and just then, several notifications popped up...
[You've gained +45 exp and +55 stat points.] (2/5)
[You've gained +45 exp and +55 stat points.] (3/5)
[You've gained +45 exp and +55 stat points.] (4/5)
[You've gained +45 exp and +55 stat points.] (5/5)
[Side mission: kill the Mutant-Goblin.] (2/5)
[Side mission: kill the Mutant-Goblin.] (3/5)
[Side mission: kill the Mutant-Goblin.] (4/5)
[Side mission: kill the Mutant-Goblin.] (5/5)
[Collect some exp points to level up your level.] (95/100)
"Not bad!—," Nagao looked back at the goblin corpses. "Hmm?"
Nagao realized one of the descriptions that he didn't have time to read earlier...
[... imitate your demeanor.]
"Lucky to kill them before this happened. No wonder they could be good at it. Is this the effect of several adventurers they ate?? Never mind! Most importantly, take care of this before departing again." Nagao began to store some monster parts until weapons were in Storage, patched up his wounds, and continued on his way.
Time passed until he finally reached the location. He looked around but couldn't find his target. Realizing this, Nagao decided to head towards the river stream to quench his thirst.
Arriving at the river stream, he drank until cleaning his wounds...
"Shh.. ahh!" Nagao endured his wounds pain from being splashed with water. "It could be better to set the stats first before leaving and hunting it." Nagao began to open his status board.
Quickly, he adjusted some stats according to this battle. After finishing it, Nagao sighed while looking at his current status board...
[ Name : Nagao Deri Level : 49
HP : 570-> 600 MP : 570-> 600
Class : Unidentified Skill/Job : -
Power : 460 -> 600 Strength : 458 -> 580
Agility : 457 -> 580 Mana : 460 -> 600
View more. ]
"Now—," Before he could stand up, he felt a heavy breath behind him—"?!!!" Nagao noticed this heavy breathing clearly.
Nagao started to break out in a cold sweat. His heartbeat fastly pounded. Teeth chattered happens unconsciously...
(Remember! Why are you here?! Embrace your fear, bastard!) Nagao thought as he tried breathing normally.
Thanks to the suggestion earlier, Nagao's muscles up until grip began to harden. The burning sensation in his bottom stomach heated up quickly to spread throughout his body. His pupils dilated again. Audible chattering teeth just now turned into a revenge-grinning. Nagao soonly turned, and his guess was correct. The monster he aimed for...
is behind him.
*Grr!*
Nagao slowly adjusted his sitting position and locked eyes with the monster. After a brief pause, he mustered the words to speak...
"Still remember me... goddamn bastard?!" Nagao spoke in a forceful tone while maintaining his attitude. "You came here immediately after smelling this blood, didn't you? This blood must've left a deep remarkable on your heart!"
*Grr!*
The Goliath growled before Nagao. Its teeth rows are visible. Despite being trapped in such a state, Nagao wasn't provoked and locked eyes with the monster. Instead, he took an unexpected action...
*Thud!* *Bam!*
His punch hit the monster's jaw powerfully. Not content with one attack, Nagao threw a front push kick with his right foot. Double-quick attacks earlier made the monster take back several steps while shaking its head.
Nagao immediately stood up. He bit the hilt dagger in his mouth, strapped the goblin spear tightly in his left arm, and held several throwing knives between his right fingers. All that Nagao did swiftly.
On the other hand, the monster got angry and started to stand up. The Goliath roared ferociously...
*ROAWRR!*
Nagao wasn't affected by the monster's demeanor. He kept his gaze. Take a deep breath and...
"AHHHH!" Nagao shouted angrily.
He began his attack with a few throwing knives as he dashed to the side. However, despite his launched attacks, The Goliath could parry them with its claws. Simultaneously, the monster charged toward Nagao.
Nagao realized that the monster was charging toward him. Therefore, Nagao ran to one of the big trees and leaned against it. Both their distance became short swiftly, but instead, Nagao continued hurling several throwing knives toward the monster. Even though his weapons were stuck in several parts of its body, The Goliath continued to charge with ferocious breathing. As the distance between them grew closer...
Nagao firmly anchored his dagger into the big tree trunk, ensuring its stability. With certainty, he pulled on the limbs, exposing strained veins. Leveraging his dagger as a fulcrum, he hoisted his body into the air. As his body was fully lifted into the air, Nagao did an impactful stomp against the tree trunk using his legs...
*Swoosh!* *Tap!*
With a uniquely method, Nagao is spared from being attacked by The Goliath. Simultaneously, the monster's head hit a big tree trunk due to his actions just now. It made The Goliath unable to react for a while.
Nagao, who was in the air, saw what happened before. Seen a golden opportunity...
(Now!) Nagao immediately broke the spear's size in his left arm to dagger size. As he held a dagger-size spear in his right hand, Nagao landed on the monster's back.
A struggling fight ensued between both creatures again. Nagao relentlessly choked and repeatedly stabbed Goliath's neck, while Goliath fiercely rebelled by dropping Nagao. The fight was unbearably intense...
(Die! Die! Die you, bastard!) Nagao thoughts as he stabbed Goliath's neck continuously.
When he wanted to stab again, Nagao accidentally collided with a tree, causing him to fall to the ground...
*Bam!*
"Urggh!" Nagao endured the impact earlier while trying to stand up.
However, he immediately received several attacks, which resulted in monster bite wounds on his left hand, chest, and left shoulder...
"ARGGH! Bastard!" Nagao retaliated by thrusting his right hand into Goliath's eye.
*ROAWRR!*
Suddenly, The Goliath groaned in pain and immediately kept its distance from Nagao. Nagao, who was injured, tried to get up.
Blood started dripping out from both sides. However, they didn't show any signs of stopping the fight...
*Tap!* *Swoosh!*
(The spear's head is still stuck in its neck. If used a grenade, The Goliath might've run out long ago. However, that's not necessary due to Goliath's current state. So, just push it a little more!) Nagao began to look surroundings. He realized the dagger he used before was still in the same location.
Realizing this, Nagao walked while observing Goliath's movements. Along with his actions, he spoke to the monster...
"You know... thanks to you... all of this happened. This experience... pain... everything...," Nagao began to remember everything that had happened up to this point. "So—," He glared intently as he grabbed a piece of meat in his Storage and pulled his dagger hard in it—"Let us finish it!!!"
Nagao immediately readjusted the broken spear's hilt position in his left arm, biting the dagger hilt, and caught his breath. All he does in one fell momentum...
*Tap!* *Swoosh!*
Nagao immediately ran, and Goliath did the same thing. Both of their distance is getting shorter...
Unexpectedly, Nagao hurled meat toward Goliath's face. The meat throw was successful in disrupting Goliath's vision. This opportunity was taken by Nagao immediately...
*Tap!*
He jumped up and thrust his dagger into the back of Goliath's neck. At the same time, Nagao also stabbed Goliath's back with the broken spear's hilt. Despite these circumstances, Goliath was still able to fight. An intensely fierce fight ensued again. With all his might, Nagao maintained his position on Goliath's back.
...
After a long fight, the monster's movements slowed until finally, Goliath fell to the ground...
*Bam!*
Goliath could only stay in place. There was a lot of blood coming out of its wound. Even though the monster's state was at this phrase, Nagao still stabbed its neck relentlessly...
*Schrrok!* *Schrrok!* *Schrrok!
"Urgh! Urgh! Urgh!" Nagao stabbed it while his tears flowed profusely. All those memories and feelings are mixed up just now.
He continued doing that for several moments. After the monster's state was completely unmoving, Nagao stopped, started to stretch his body, and lay on the monster's back in the supine position. After taking a few deep breaths...
"AAAAARRRGGGHH!!!!!" Nagao bellowed with an immense intensity that resonated through the air. Nagao's bellow contained his deep-rooted emotions, transcending many words and feelings.
It was at this moment... Nagao... overcame his trauma through his hard work until now.