Chapter 7: Exterminator.
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Natalie got up, and walked to the wall of cave, where a book and a sword were kept.
She picked them up, looked at the miserable man sitting near the fire, tears in eyes and regret on face, staring in to the fire with out blinking.
She walked up to him and bent over, handing the sword and book
"Lily said this is all that you had, when you fell unconscious..."
"Don't you want to what happened after that..?"
With a warm smile, Natalie asked.
After being completely ignored by him, she continued
"After you fell unconscious,
Lily took out the monster core from the wolf's heart...
She absorbed all of the mana and healed me and you...
Because it was only a rank 2 monster the mana she absorbed from it was very less to heal both of us completely....
that's why you have that wound mark on your right shoulder...."
Lost in his thoughts, bewildered what she just said, the young man turned his face towards Natalie, her cleavage was right in front of him, turning his face red with shyness,
"wear the robe properly... or you will catch cold.." ignoring her again and looking back to his sword and book he said in low voice.
Natalie stood up, looking towards Lily, who had already fallen asleep, taking support of the cave's wall.
'After all the work you have done today Princess, the Queen would be very proud of you..'
With a warm smile,She walked back to Lily and sat closely near her looking towards the man.
'Monster core....? Mana...? What did she just fill me up with...
I have never heard those things on Earth,
Truth is I have not even seen a wolf that big, or women with long pointy ears, or a forest..
Just where in the hell am I..'
With confusion all over his face, he picked up his sword and unseathed it.
"EXTERMINATOR" . These are the words that were etched on the sword in English.
His eyes widened in surprise and curiosity, "EXTERMINATOR " he murmured.
The words on the sword started glowing, hot red, as if they were in a furnace, his blade near the hilt started turning black.
' I feel, this sword is rapidly drawing energy from me,
Aaaaah....' he felt anxious, the sword was acting like a parasite, sucking his energy.
He looked towards Natalie and Lily, they were already asleep, 'what the fuck is happening now..'
Only a tiny portion of sword has turned black, he felt dizziness and all energy in his body gone.
He fell unconscious, laying with that sword in his, it has returned to it's condition.
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[EARLY MORNING].
The fire was already gone.
Lily and Natalie were asleep, cuddled and covered in the robe, a howling sound woke up Lily.
Opening her eyes slowly, she saw a huge Hyena, butchered, and dead near the dead bodies of the two men at the entrance of cave.
Silently, by a light shake, she woke Natalie up, placing her fingers on Natalie's face, she instructed not to make a voice.
'Wild Hyenas have a very sharp sense of smell...
did it come here for the dead bodies...'
Staring at the dead wolf she tried to understand the situation.
'A single one of them is not that big of a threat, they are only a rank 1 monster.'
'But the biggest problem is they don't hunt alone, if this one is here then...
That means there is a whole group of them..'
[HOWLING], multiple of them, echoed at a distance.
"Lily.... I don't see that man..
His book is here but he is not."
Natalie murmured in Lily's ears.
"May be he ran away, after all fighting a whole pack of them, is not an easy work." Lily answered, slowly taking out her wand* from her waist.
"Here, this is for you." Lily handed a dagger to Natalie, the old man's dagger which she was hiding under a rock.
"Don't worry, we have been through worst.
This is Nothing.." Lily smiled anxiously, taking small steps towards the exit.
[HOWLING], echoed outside, multiple of them,
"Behind me." Natalie took over,
"I am the protector here."
Lily kept following Natalie closely,
Reaching near the exit, Natalie picked up the book, and continued walking.
'This is how humans treats slaves, the moment a problem falls, they run away..'
'Of couse, I knew that... what was I even expecting...' Anger took over Lily, as she felt betrayed for being used as baits by the man.
As Natalie stepped out of the cave, the Howling sounds amplified, sticking close to the wall, she peeked out.
Six hyenas along with a 2nd rank Lead Hyena standing at the far back. Encircling the man with his sword , he was fighting all of them all alone.
Natalie stepped back, "fighting.., six of them....he is fighting all of them... alone" she got anxious, sweat covered her face.
"Who is he.." Lily asked.
"Our saviour..., he is fighting and...
and there is also a Lead Hyena among them, a 2nd rank.." stuttering she held Lily's hands tightly.
'He didn't ran away ?
Instead he is fighting all of them... even without ordering and using his slaves?
Impossible....' Lily couldn't believe what she heard, she peeked herself only to find that what Natalie has said is true.
Her eyes widened in surprise, 'this is different from what I heard,
Humans would never put themselves in danger for their slaves.'
Natalie tightened her grip on the dagger,
"We need to help him." Her eyes full of determination..
*Wand= previously mentioned as wooden stick.
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