-The Next Day-
After their rest they are currently checking their gear to see if there damaged after they do that they will head to the forest and split up in it to clear it efficiently again.
"Are you sure there arent any gimmicks in the forest?" Rune asks Hilda as the both of them check their gear near each other with Lancaster waiting for them. "Theres none since the people who went out before fully closings this said so." she responds which made him deadpan at her trying to figure out how she believes that its true. "You dont think that... Maybe there was any new changes in the portal" He asked in the calmest tone as she slowly nods which he facepalms to.
"You really are a moron... Are you trying to get us killed with your lack of knowledge you stupid hare" he said to her as she was looking down before being angry at him. Both of them were having an argument on how shes stupid with insults thrown back and forth that are creative.
"Thats enough you two please focus on the task at hand." Lancaster stopped their argument and got them to focus on the task at hand which is to clear the forest.
"Ok like last time I will go ahead and kill the entities on my share." Rune says to them as he once again goes ahead. As he hears Hilda shout at him to be alive again with his bag not forgetting it.
-Few Hours Later-
Rune is seen walking through the forest as he gets lost from its never ending foliage with nothing but the rustling of leaves as he moves around. As he starts to grow annoyed of the scenery he hears rustling of bushes near him as he readies his scythe in a quick manner.
As the rustling stops a figure came out and jumped him before it could go near he jumped away from it. As the figure failed to jump him it was starting to get up as he saw it he can clearly see a creature with a head of a human and a torso of a bird with its limbs having a combination of the traits of a bird and a human.
"What the actual hell is that." he asks to no one as the bird hybrid gets ready to attack him again as he also prepares to fight putting down his bag while still observing the creature. As he is done with it he taunts the animal.
"Come at me you oversized chicken." as he runs toward it with his scythe before his body as the creature screams and rush towards him.
The creature tried to scratch him with its hybrid arms but he dodges it as he counters with a punch on its stomach followed by a slash towards its neck but it dodges. As it claws him at his side but fails to do so he rolls.
-A Few Minutes Later-
As the fight is still on going with both fighters dodging each others strikes with Rune deciding to distract it grabbing a stone a throwing it at the chest of the creature while creating a dust cloud as he runs out to somewhere it cant see.
As he does so he sneaks attack it aiming for its legs with his scythe while kicking it on its chest. The creature gets injured as its legs get cut off and gets kicked down as it goes down screaming in pain before being killed by him.
"That was annoying." Rune says as he pants due to the fight "I really need to improve my stamina after we close this portal." he tells himself as he looks around trying to hear anymore noise from the final cry of the creature.
"Now its time for me to leave this area and continue my cleansing." as he gets his bag and walks away with his scythe over his shoulders. As he left the area countless bushes rustled and out came the same creatures but with different limbs and bird bodies. They scream at the sight of the creature dead.
-A Few Hours Later-
Rune can be seen fighting a zombie with a paper stuck on its face as it jumps at him with its arms which were in a forward position now turning to a slashing position.
Before getting its head cut off and it stops moving falling to the ground with a loud thud.
"Thats the last one I think around here." as he sighs and sits down while opening his bag to look for food since he was feeling hungry. "This really gets booorrrring real quick when you have no one to antagonize." as he chews a candy bar he got from his bag while now being interested in antagonizing others.
As he slowly realized that he acts different now "Did my personality change now that im a Excorsist?" he asks himself before being alert as rustling around the bushes surround him. "Did not know that Vietnamese were here." he says to the bushes as he grins and spins his scythe and holds it in a attacking form and prepares himself for the fight but not before putting his bag down in a quick movement.
As he does it the bird like creatures come out and surround him to ensure he wont escape. "You think that will work?" he asks as he attacks the one he is facing with great speed startling the one he went to attack. Killing it instantly with a slice right in the center cutting it in half.
"The lightness enchantment with the speed one I unlocked is a great combo." he praises himself as he targets the next creature beheading it and running through the opening he made.
-Flashback-
-A Hour After He Left The Creature-
He decides to rest following that battle since he needed to be at his top form. After he closed his eyes he reopened them to find himself at his mindscape with the book at the center of his mind glow. He smiles and approaches it and holds it.
"What enchantment shall it be?" he asks himself as the book returns to the first page with. 'CHOOSE YOUR ENCHANTMENT' written in it "Oh now that is good." he mumbles as he flips through the pages with the ones that he does not have having chains and a lock at the center but he still can see the names for them. Strength, Water, Earth, Extenstion, Burning Touch, Decay, Invisibility, and Invulnerable, were some written on the top of pages as he found the one he wanted as he touched the lock that blocked the page titled 'Speed'.
As it unlocks that showed the details on what it does and what it looks like for the engraving. "Now this is useful for what I need in the forest." he says to the book as he reads the page so that he wont have to consult it again.
After he unlocks it and reads it he wakes up and removes his shoes and engraves it with lightness and speed. After he is done with the engraving he tests it out running in a straight line and finds that he runs faster and that he feels his feet unburdened from the shoes due to it being light and not applying pressure.
"Now my fighting efficiency has increased." he smiles to himself now gripping his scythe and wearing his bag he runs of to fight more entities. With a smile on his face
-Flashback End-
He now is hiding from the creatures while slowly picking them off one by one with a hit and run tactic. He successfully killed 4 more of them as he needs to kill 2 groups but that would be difficult since they now are grouping themselves by four so that they wont get sneak attacked.
"I will just cause a distraction." he decides as he throws a rock far but not that far so that they would hear and look there as he would jump in and attack them once they turn even if its only for a split second.
As he threw the rock he timed his run when the rock would hit the floor. Once the rock had hit the floor the creatures looked where the noise was and he ran with his scythe out to kill the 4 of them. He successfully beheaded them as he once more retreated in the trees as the other group quickly went to the fallen group.
"I really feel like a Vietnamese hiding in the trees." he laughs silently as he watches the last group frantically looks for him. He decides to jump in since they are the last group he shouts with unbridled insanity mixed with joy "I AM THE GRIM REAPER YOUR LIFE WARRENTY HAS EXPIRED!!!." with him surprising them getting one by splitting it in half.
The others quickly assumed defeneive positions as he speed blitzed them punching one on the head and slicing him in half and charged at the next one doing the same thing again and agin to the last one.
He sighs as he quickly checks his surroundings for any noises as he sits and looks for his bag and gets water.
After drinking he gets up and walks away from the fight to look for Lancaster and Hilda. "Maybe im the first one that cleared their area." he thinks as he smiles and goes to find them to check if theres more entities that have difficulties in being handled alone.