"Agh!"
With a pained groan, Nexus opened his eyes, his vision was blurry due to blood so it took a while for him to see clearly.
But when his vision cleared up, his breath almost stopped, and what appeared in front of his eyes was a long black horn pointed at his head just inches away from piercing it.
He didn't dare move and acted like he was dead, after a few minutes he didn't feel any movement so he opened his eyes.
Moving his body with great pain he took a clear look at the figure of the rat, it was bleeding from its mouth and nose.
An arrow pierces right through the eye socket piercing its brain and killing it on the spot. His last desperately fired arrow seemed to have hit its mark.
"Lucky me."
He muttered as he tried to smile but wasn't even able to as he started to vomit blood, holding his chest he leaned back on the tree trunk.
"Haa, haa"
Taking relaxed breaths he calmed his tense body and slowed the pumping of his blood to stop bleeding anymore.
Opening his chat he saw thousands of messages in his personal tab, looking at the message the most was from Noir, almost a thousand.
"Someone seems to miss me."
He weakly muttered as he read through some of Noir's messages, if nothing else she could be considered his closest friend.
[Nexus: Hey]
He messaged and before even a second could pass a reply came.
[Noir: It seems you are alive. Thought you had been eaten by a rat.]
Noir's classic message, looking up he could see all the thousands of messages of Noir being deleted in real-time.
[Nexus: Hey!, I am too young to die now.]
[Noir: Well let's hope so, after all, I did promise to stab you with my dagger.]
[Nexus: Though I wonder what you would do if I really died.]
As he sent the message he waited, and Noir became silent, this was the longest he had to wait for a reply from Noir.
[Nori: Heh! If you really die, I will wait to be strong enough and drag you up from the underworld and stab you.]
[Nexus: Wooo.. scary.]
[Noir: So don't die.. creepy smile.gif]
[Noir: What happened to you, you have been silent for two whole days.]
Hearing Noir's question he looked at his battered body and the body of the horse-sized rat. Closing his eyes he thought of a reply.
[Nexus: Just dancing with death.]
[Noir: Was death beautiful?]
Reading Noir's reply his spine shivered, for some reason he felt like he was held at gunpoint.
[Nexus: I would rather not meet her.]
[Noir: Pity, I was thinking of sending you to her.]
[Noir: So why did you text me? Don't tell me you wanted to talk to me after surviving from the grasp of death.]
[Nexus: Not really. I was wondering if you could sell me your Lesser spiritual grade healing potion.]
[Noir: Is that so... You do know that thing is priceless in the current market. So what's your price?]
Although she said that they both know that if Nexus tried hard enough he could probably get it for free. But alas Nexus isn't the kind of person to take advantage of someone's kindness.
[Nexus: The information about the beast that almost killed me.]
As Nexus texted that he looked at the giant three-horned rat, ordering the system he decomposed it.
[System Notice: You got Three-Horned Demonic Rats: Meat, Blood, Bones, Horn(3), Skin, Heart]
Looking at some of the information revealed by the system he guessed that this thing was some kind of mutation or evolution.
Well, he hopes that it is a mutation, otherwise, if it's an evolution he will have to move his home base and get far away from this area.
[Noir: Deal]
Seeing the notification he smiled as they completed the transaction, a test tube with green liquid appeared in front of his hand.
Marveling at it and envying Noir's luck for getting this potion for a moment, he opened the test tube and drank the entire potion.
A gentle warmth spread throughout his body from his throat as he could feel his body recovering at and astounding rate.
The broken bones new as ever, and the holes and wounds in his organs quickly closed up as new tissues took their place.
Grwwww!
But this miraculous healing had a price and that price was intense hunger, adding this hunger to the fact that he hadn't eaten for days he almost fainted from hunger.
Taking the pieces of meat he had packed to elevate some of his hunger he moved toward his home base.
Perhaps he was surrounded by the smell of that big rat, any other rats that met him ran away before the fight could even start.
"Well, finally a peaceful moment."
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In another part of the region, the trees here also reach as high as the sky but they are somewhat different from those found near Nexus's area.
If those trees near Nexus can be considered giant Oak trees then these were Birch trees. The vegetation was also quite diverse with flowers and fruit plants everywhere.
In this majestic and beautiful forest, a figure was leaning on the massive tree, looking at the chat screen in front of her.
"I wonder if it's a mutation or evolution!"
She muttered as she read through the information sold by Nexus, her blood-red eyes were lost in deep thought as a gentle breeze blew past her long black hair.
Wearing a white shirt stained with blood and black pants that didn't hinder her mobility she looked like a rose, although beautiful but with thrones.
As for how she got those clothes in the jungle, well you will have to thank her luck. It was a set of Lesser Spiritual treasure-grade defensive equipment.
Wrapped around her waist was a small storage bag, a dessert eagle encrypted with blue-colored ruins. She could already be called the richest person in the group in terms of equipment.
Adding the dagger the size of a short sword wrapped around the other side of her waist,... just looking at it, most chat members will faint with jealousy.
After all, it was a Greater Spiritual treasure, giving people who stare at it a bloodthirsty aura.
"Can't even have peace around these areas."
She muttered as her head turned toward a certain direction, just as she did the beast knew that its location had been found.. so it attacked.
It was a rabbit, just the size of a normal rabbit but with blood-red eyes, as it jumped its speed accelerated to the speed of a bullet.
Any normal human wouldn't have been able to react to such speed but Noir couldn't be considered normal.
With a swift motion, she took out the dessert eagle and fired, the ruins on it glowed as a blue-colored bullet was shot.
It directly pierced the rabbit's head killing it in an instant, due to the sound of the gun other rabbits also jumped out from the bushes and pounced on her.
Bam! Bam! Bam!.....
Firing the bullets calmly she killed all the beasts surrounding her, the ruins darkened as the spiritual energy was depleted.
Walking toward the pile of corpses of rabbits her eyes were still lost in thought as if she didn't really care about the attack of these monsters.
A rabbit hid in the bushes looking at Noir, seeing the unfocused eyes of the human in front of it the rabbit grinned.
Pouncing from behind Noir's back it was sure of victory, but was greeted wasn't the tender flesh of Noir but the cold blade of the dagger as it pierced its head.
"Nexus, don't you dare die."
She muttered as she cleaned the bloodied dagger with a cold face, but through the reflection of the dagger one could see a flash of tenderness in her eyes.
An emotion she herself couldn't believe she could feel, after all, she is a trained assassin raised from childhood as a machine to kill.
The one ranked 7th on the strength ranking, commonly called by the title of Bloody Witch in the chat.
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Don't forget to drop some power stones.
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