Chapter 193 - Out From This Desert! (II)

I know how Vicar did obtain that kind of skill but still, I never thought that he had those skills. I guess living in the slums does prepare you a lot for this kind of thing. 

I wonder if I am with Aliss, I bet she will never have this experience as she was a noble daughter after all. I realized that her decision on not becoming an adventurer was quite good after all. 

Aliss had no fighting experience, as it would be terrible if she goes out to an adventure and encounters some monster. I doubt that she can win, even fighting the weakest monster. Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click <a href="#!-(ii)_51387094152571282">#!-(ii)_51387094152571282</a> for visiting.

"So are you gonna drink from that or you gonna throw it away?" I said that as I see, Vicar was still hesitant whether to drink or not. 

Vicar looks at the leather flask once again, just to make sure that there isn't anything on the leather flask before he drinks from it. 

After doing that several times, Vicar decided to drink from the leather flask at last. He takes a huge gulp from the leather flask, Vicar was really thirsty and needed to drink some water. 

Vicar really drinks a lot and I understand why it was not easy for him to walk this far under the bright sun and not having a little bit of water to drink until now. 

Vicar then finishes drinking as he put back the leather flask on his pouch and continue on this journey. Along the way, I started some conversation as it would be pretty boring without one in this journey. 

"You sure drink a lot back then even though you seem to hate drinking from that leather flask," I said that to Vicar. 

"HA! It's not that I hate it... I was simply cautious as I didn't want to get poison while there's no way to cure it... As the talents that could cure it was still on cooldown." Vicar replied back to me. 

"Maybe... But still thanks to that leather flask, we're able to go on this journey but we still had a problem if we didn't manage to get out from this desert." I said that. 

"You mean food, right? I know that it will soon be a problem but I could hang on with just water..." Vicar said. 

"Really? Most people couldn't survive with only water as they will surely lose strength because they haven't eaten anything... What makes you certain that you could survive long enough?" I ask Vicar that question. 

"It was because I do remember when we haven't had food for a week in the slums and we only had water to depends on... I still could survive that so I know that I could last for a few days at least." Vicar said that.

I thought people living in the slums wouldn't have much skill but I should have known that they were good at surviving in a tough situation. Because the whole life wasn't that great and that was how they built this kind of skill. 

For some reason, I'm glad that Vicar really comes from a slum right now. If I went with Aliss, I doubt that she could survive at all here. She probably died because we don't have any water at all. 

Vicar was almost like the bronze knight as he was also could survive without any food rations for a few days. I know that I don't need to worry about the food problem, at least as there was some bigger concern. 

That we're getting out from this place and getting Vicar a new set of armour, without any armour, we know that it would be hard for Vicar to win against the Inquisitor despite having my talents and the magical sword. 

As someone who had a little knowledge in this as I had played some games, having great damage was good, but what use if someone could defeat you in just a few hits. 

That's why armour was an important thing. I prefer that the damage and defence was equal level. With that, we had not only great damage but also a good defence rating. 

"So do you think that we would find anyone that could repair your leather armour or someone that sells armour at all in this ruined world?" 

"You know, ring. We shouldn't think about that right now. We must get out of this desert area and then we should concern about that." Vicar said. 

"That's mean our journey would be useless if we didn't find someone that could do that," I said that to Vicar. 

"No, I don't think it would be useless at all. Even if we didn't fight that person, we have explored another area in this world and beside we could just teleport back to the desert area again." Vicar said that. 

"You're right Vicar, but do you think in another area there were creatures at all because look at this desert area... empty and the only place that had creatures was on the Inquisitor place," I ask Vicar about his opinion. 

"I don't know about that but I do believe that we eventually will encounter some monster or creatures in this world," Vicar replied to me. 

"Will the monster will be the same type as in Acres? Who do you think about that." I ask as I wanted to talk about this with Vicar. 

"I'm sure that it would not be that different from Acres at least but seeing the undead in the sanctuary before, I could tell that it would be more powerful than the monster from Acres," Vicar said. 

The undead in the sanctuary was indeed powerful as it does have a skill which undead in Acres doesn't have. But why Vicar said it was powerful as I could see that Vicar easily defeated them all. 

"Powerful? But doesn't you defeated the undead in a short time..." I ask Vicar that. 

"Well it does seems like that but I realized when I fight them, it's like the undead here has some intelligent," Vicar said that. 

"Oh yeah, I remember that the undead back then could talk right but that doesn't make them powerful..." I said to Vicar. 

"You might not realize it but the undead did try to dodge my attack but they were just to slow... unlike the undead in Acres, they didn't even try to dodge as the undead there were to focus on attacking me," Vicar said that.

"I see, then we are a little bit more careful when we encounter other monsters in this world. We couldn't underestimate the monster in this ruined world." I said that to Vicar. 

"I think that enough talking as I really wanted to save a few breaths, don't want to rest again as I really want to get out from this desert area as fast as I could," Vicar said that to me and with that the conversation has ended. 

Vicar keeps on walking onward and almost five hours have passed, we still haven't left the desert area. It's like the desert area was vast and it seems like there's no way that we could get out from this place. 

But with Vicar determination, he continues to walk and an hour has passed as we realized that Vicar had done it. We're still in the desert area but we could see a dead tree in front of us. 

With that, we know that we must be getting close to something. Vicar then started to run as it would be faster that way and soon enough we reach it. 

Both of us could see grass and there's a river which the water wasn't that clear. It seems like to be muddy water but still, this was a great sign for us. 

As we get close to the river, we notice that it was quite a large one. I could see more trees on the other side but first, we must cross this river to get there. 

But something tells me that this wasn't an easy as it seems, the river was quite large and long. I'm certain that something was lurking inside the river. 

"So do you want to cross it, Vicar? Don't you think there's a monster inside the river..." I said that to Vicar.

"I do think that as well but we had no other choice, there's no other way to get to the other side without crossing the river," Vicar said that as he began to approach the river. 

As soon as Vicar was near the river, some movement in the river made Vicar quickly back off from it. 

We didn't know what that was but we suspected that it was a monster. Vicar did try to approach it once again and this time there seems to be a lot of movement all of a sudden. 

"It seems that you couldn't cross this as it was not a good idea after seeing that movement... there must be another way to get to the other side." I begin to think another way.