This is my second month, and my archery training is.....still left to be desired. At least now I can handle to lift more weights than before and swinging weapon is far easier than back then.
My camp is now filled with tons of weapon and I have no idea what I'm going to do with it. I have uses it to kill bunnies, fishes, and even some cows. My throwing range is 5 meters farther. Not much but I take anything rather than zero results.
I can't help but feel lonely in here, but I know what will happens if I try enter any civilization. I'll get hunted, gut like a fish, and hang on the wall like a trophy.
Yeah, no thank you.
I really wish I could find any mines here so I can at least get myself some Mystic Crystal Ore. Or maybe I could get some metals for a new and better daggers. Stones are good but against monsters, it'll not last long.
I sigh tiredly before sitting down and put down the dagger. I look at the now collapsed tree after months of cutting it with my dagger. Great, more woods. I'm a bit sick of it.
I blink when I heard a buzz. I look around and let my nose sniffed out a potential enemy. It's still overwhelming no matter what, but I'm much better at enduring the scent. I smell leaves, trees, fishes, flower, honey.
I blink before I sniff again. Why did I smell honey...?!
Shit!!
I get up and grabs a stick before using it to made myself a makeshift torch as the buzzing noise gets louder and louder. I look at my left and I can feel my soul slowly leaving my body.
In front of me is a swarm of giant wasps. And when I said giants, I ain't kidding. One of the wasps is as huge as an average human head. Not only that, all of the wasps were covered by golden liquids.
Oh.....I can see why they're pissed. The tree that collapsed because of me somehow crushed their nest and because I'm the only monster here, I'm the only one they can blame.
Fuck.
The swarms now lift their stingers and pointed at me. I gulped before steeling myself and lift my torch and dagger. One thing about these wasps are that they're glass cannon. They have huge damage and armor piercing ability but with weak endurance.
They're mostly hindrances to adventurers and weak against fire, so players simply grab a torch and throws it towards them before finishing them easily.
Sadly, I don't have that much stamina to get through all the bees. And given the fact that my stone daggers are almost worn out thanks to my earlier training, I don't think I can kill them all.
But, I doubt they let me espace after what I did earlier, albeit it was an accident. So...
I should made a tactical retreat and grab some supplies. I turn tails and run as fast as possible as I heard the buzz starts getting louder and clicking sounds.
I toss my torch at one of the wasps and manage to burn it as it slowly turn their skin to crisps, and they start to panic as the burning wasps starts to collide with others and the flame spreads.
I continue to run as I heard a splashing noise.
Wait, splashing noise?
I turn my head and widen my eyes as I saw one of the larger wasps pushes the smaller one so hard it collides the burned ones and sent both of them into the water before targeting the next. Holy shit, of all things I expects from them, that is not one of them.
I continue to run before grabbing one of the wooden spears. One of them charges at me so I take my chances to stabs it on their head.
Their blood is fucking purple!? Ewww!!!
What the-!? Why is everything feels weird? Oh, fuck. Those aren't blood, those are poisons....
I hastily grabs the recovery herbs below me and chew it raw. It tastes like shit but when you deal with poisons with nothing but game knowledge that is super useful in this world, you got to deal with it.
I use the campfire to burn the tip of the spear and use it to kill the other wasp. I grit my teeth before using the corpse an swing it on the charging wasps. I pull out another spear from the ground and use it to stabs the damn wasps.
I saw the horde is getting bigger and bigger and I'm very sure that I'll exhaust myself and get myself killed if this continues. I grab one of the spears, burn it and sent it flying towards the horde.
I know the bigger one will try to do the same tactic, so I grab another one and throws it at him. I was horrified when it commands one of its subordinates as a meat shield.
This fucker is smart and cruel, and it's not good. I continue to target the big one but it keeps summoning the meat shield. In frustration, I toss one of the spear and follow it up with another despite my growing exhaustion.
I somehow was blessed with the lady luck as it actually works. I use the spear to slice off the rest of possible meat shield and hits the big one, sending it towards the rest of the swarms, and creates chain reaction.
I sigh in relief as one by one, the wasps collapses like a meteor shower as they fell into the water. I then blanched as I remember that thanks to the wasps' corpses, the river next to my campsite now end up getting contaminated by their poisons.
I look at the water before blink. How did the fishes remain alive despite so many wasps' burning corpses fall into the water. I look at the normal corpses and the burned one.
There are no signs of blood from the burned one compare to the normal one. So, you tell me that using flames not only is the best way to kill the wasps, but it actually helps the nature because the poison is flammable and disappear without any traces?
Wow....I'm so glad I set campfires everyday despite it's still daytime.
I fell my spine shivers as another large buzz were heard. I turn around and pale to see a wasp 2 times bigger than the one I burn out of frustration, multiple stingers on their legs, purple eyes, and a weird looking crown on the top of its head.
Killer Empress Wasps, the D rank boss monsters in the guild's bounty. Also known as newbie's main source of ingredient and exp grinding.
The large sizes, loud buzz and the stingers intimidate me very well. I can feel nervousness crept into my body as I start shaking.
The queen screeches before pointing its stingers at me and it's where the hell starts. Dozens of poison goo fly towards me as I rolled away to dodge the attack follow up by running away.
I grab my trusty dagger before take cover behind the tree as poison goos hit the trees and it starts to sizzle. Of all the things I never expect is to encounter another boss in the forest.
A boss always been assign in one section of the wilderness to keep the game in balance-
Stupid Darren! You forgot that this isn't a fucking game!! I seriously want to beat myself for being an idiot to not remember that real life is different from the game!
I take a peak and the wasp immediately point its stingers at me. I widen my eyes as it shoots the stinger like a cannon. I rolled away as it pierced a hole on the tree. I ran while noticing the stingers was replaced with a new one.
You're fucking kidding with me, right!?
I saw it launch another one and I reflectively swings my daggers at it. I manage to do it, but my daggers shattered to pieces from the impact. I take my chance to run into another tree.
I seriously hate that fucker. I know it's not the best dagger, but I prefer that weapon, and that motherfucker just had to destroy it!
Shit, the tree is collapsing! I frantically look around before getting away from the destroyed cover and into another tree. I steel myself before running towards the camp. It shots me with poison and stingers as I dodge around. I grit my teeth as one of the poison hits my arm and leg. I can even feel pain slowly grow on that side.
But, I ain't gonna get myself killed in this place again so I grab my spear and a fistful of herb as eats it before running back at the wasps. I saw it moves at surprising speed and it uses one of its stingers trying to stab me.
I try to dodge it but alas, it pierce through my stomach. Then, it follow up with the rest of the stingers into my back.
"RRRRAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!" I howl in pain as it digs deeper and it starts to click, making a sound akin to cackle. This cocky bastard laugh at my fucking pain. Well, too bad, fucker.
*JLEB!!*
You should've gone for the head. As the poisonous blood spray into my face, I can feel gravity took over as the fucker and I fall to the ground. I weakly pulls out the stingers off my body as I grab another fistful of herbs to heal me.
Whoever made this area full of recovery herbs instead of grass, I am thankful. Very, very thankful. I'm pretty sure if this is my game, I would gain [Poison Resistance - Lvl 5], lol.
I look at the corpse of the queen wasps before grinning and cheered while lifting my fist in excitement. I survive for another day!
It may not be an overwhelming victory, it's not flawless, and it ain't satisfactory, but I still win. And note to self, gotta be careful not to destroy another wasp colony.
.....and maybe set a proper trap. Living here for a month without getting attacked by any monster lowers my guard so much that I didn't consider to set traps around my camps.
....yeah, I think all of my excitement just left my bodies with all those realizations.
Isekai life truly sucks.
To be continued