First delve

First delve

I picked up all the produce from the ground and put it in the bag.

"Oh no! The tomatoes have gotten bruised! Mama Mia is going to kill me!" the girl said fussing over the bruised red fruit.

I held out my hand "Give them to me and I'll fix them up for you. it's the least I can do after accidentally running into you like that." I said honestly.

The girl looked confused but did as I asked and with a quick application of my technique the tomatoes were as good as ever and I had even improved the flavor by a small amount.

"You magic is beautiful and useful, would you consider working at the Hostess of fertility?" the girl asked with a bright smile.NewW novels updates at novelhall.com

"Not for me I'm afraid, I'm an adventurer at heart. Thanks for the offer though and please do have a good day." I said before hurrying away as I was still very eager to get into the dungeon.

Again I had no time to deal with the mental pressure this brought to my mind as the next two goblins arrived, one with a sharp wooden spear and one with a club. My only saving grace was that these things were wild and didn't work well together. the spear goblin tried to stab me but the club goblin got in the way ending up getting stabbed in the back. It got hit in the perfect location for the magic stone to get hit which killed the thing instantly and it exploded into black smoke with red sparks in it.-

Unlike what I was expecting however where the smoke would just clear out like the Artemis familia had told me it instead got sucked into the tattoo on my chest.

'The fuck?' I thought in complete confusion but snapped out of my shock when the spear goblin didn't stop trying to kill me.

The last goblin that also had a spear caught up and I had the play dodge the stabby sticks for a good five minutes with not great results before I got an oppurtunity to crack my hammer side against a skull again leaving me to deal with only one goblin.-

The last goblin had no sense of self preservation and went to stab me again but I frankly had had enough of getting cut up by barely dodging the things and after avoiding the spear grabbed it with my left hand and activated my cursed technique. Immediately the wood that the goblin was holding grew spikes through it's palm making it scream and try to drop the spear. taking advantage of this distraction I stepped forward with my weapon and brought it down as hard as I could onto the last goblins head.-

The skull was totally demolished with blood pouring out everywhere as the goblins body dropped. My senses were alive as adrenaline coursed through my veins and I was gasping and panting heavily in exhaustion. It took five minutes for me to recover and start to calm down and another thirty to stop vomiting as my mind caught up with the brutal nature of what I had done. Don't get me wrong I understood the necessity of it but that didn't mean actually doing the stuff wasn't hard on the mind at first.-

The fact I had basically killed four things at once definitely hadn't helped at all. If it was only one like I had originally planned then it wouldn't have been so bad but I pissed off the dungeon a little and got four. Next came the really uncomfortable part though, magic stone collection. Monsters all contained magic stones somewhere in their body, usually the chest, that you needed to harvest or risk a variant showing up which was a mutation of a normal monster that grows by eating magic stones. Interestingly a monsters body won't vanish until the stone was harvested and drops don't appear either.