The Hunt
Simon is now standing in his room looking down to the floor, where a man is sleeping.
This man is William.
Simon walked down to the kitchen and brought a bottle of icy-cold water and poured it on William's face.
"Ahhhhh... "
"Wake up, you big oaf."
"Why did you do that!"
"We have work to do, and It fun messing with you"
"Well doesn't matter, what time is it now?"
"It's 21:34"
"Wait I slept for a whole day!!"
"Now do you have any complaint about me pouring water on you?"
"No, Sorry."
"Take this,"
Simon handed what looks like a small card to William, the card has some writing on it but William has never seen a language like it before.
"What is this?"
"We will be disguising ourselves, you will be a warlock and me an artificer"
"Why?"
"Of course because being a natural-born caster is rare, a lot of people will be trying to recruit or use us to their benefit."
"Make sense but why I'm a warlock?"
"Because you don't use gestures or incantation you look like a warlock who is receiving his powers from someone else, on top of that it looks like your patron is very fond of you to the point he is giving you his power without you asking for it."
"How about you."
"Me, As I told you before I will be an artificer."
"But you don't have a card?"
"No, cards are only for warlocks, and they have the pact writing on it using the patron language, for example, you're is writing in the abyssal language. It says {This Mortal shall use my power, and at his death, I shall receive his experince}. but for me, I will be using my teacher's pen to look like an artificer."
Simon gave the pen to William to take a look at it.
The pen Looks like a normal pen but William can see the
"let's go."
"But it's dark outside now."
"better that way, let's move."
Simon and William walked down the stairs where Simon's mother was waiting.
"Where are you going at this time?"
She is suspicious. William looked to Simon as if saying {what do we do now}
But at that moment Simon lied as naturally as he breathed.
"One of our friends just got in an accident and has been sent to the hospital, William is going to give him blood and I'm going with him."
"He got in an accident now of all times."
His mother is smart, thought William to himself.
"They told us he was driving a motorcycle, so probably someone blinded him with his car light."
"Your right, hurry your friend needs blood right."
As they were wearing their shoes Simon add.
"Mom, we may be late so if you can let some food for us since William is giving blood and shops are closed."
"Of course you find it in the fridge."
After they walked for some time, William commented on Simon's action.
"Did you need to lie like that?"
"Better than having her killed if she discovered the truth about the world."
After a short walk, they reached the barracks.
"Simon, why are we here?"
"Well, you will know soon."
At that moment a soldier approached them.
"Stop Right there, Citizen aren't allowed he at night."
Simon then took a letter from his pocket and gave it to the soldier.
"From the higher-up. take this to the commander, and if you're lucky you may even get a promotion."
The soldier looked at them suspiciously.
"The choice is yours to make, and I understand fully why you won't believe this. I even told those stupid geezers that we look suspicious as hell but they don't listen to soldiers like us."
"You two are soldiers."
"That doesn't matter, remember that they hold our jobs in their hands, just get it done before we both get sacked."
"Okay."
The soldier then asked someone to watch us while he got inside to deliver the letter.
About two to three minutes have passed, then the soldier returned to us.
"The commander is asking to see you right now."
"See it wasn't that hard, was it?"
Simon then told the soldier.
"I will make sure to give a word for you to the higher-up If I and my friend survived our mission."
At that time Simon's legs were shaking. of course, he is faking it.
then he gave the soldier a fist bump.
The soldier is almost crying. Simon your acting is just too good!
"May you return safe and sound." said the soldier.
After that, we headed toward the commander's office.
William was looking at Simon again.
"Man, why all that drama just now?"
"Don't know."
"How is that even a thing, your deception skill is off the charts!!"
we have reached the commander's office.
Knock... Knock... Knock...
"come in."
The commander is looking at Simon.
"How have you being, Mary disciple."
"Still alive."
"Well, that better than your teacher."
"you don't seem sad or even concerned about her death."
"She was the one who asked me to never be sad if she died, also it has been about a year and I just finished burning every piece of the treant that killed her."
"Wait you didn't tell me that you hunted the treant?"
It was William who interrupted them.
"How did you beat a monster that your teacher lost to."
"Well, I just dug a hole and lured him in it and then spent a whole year chopping at him slowly and burning the pieces."
"Simon, Who is he?"
It was the commander looking at William.
"Ah... Sorry I didn't introduce you yet."
"William, this old man here is commander Bob, he is the middleman for our jobs."
"Commander Bob, this is William a friend of mine that just got awakened and I'm teaching him the ins and outs of this world."
"I don't like this, I feel like the past is repeating itself."
"What do you mean?"
"Someone just got awakened before you and you took him in and then came here before me to tell me about it. that sounds just like what Mary did. don't die on me, Simon."
"Don't worry about me."
"Be sure to run if the situation looks bad or call for help, they will come to rescue you no matter what happens."
William then interrupted them again.
"Who are they!!"
"Now that you mentioned it it's about time."
"You didn't answer my question."
"They are the S.W.A.T team that will be escorting us to the forest."
after that, they got out to meet the S.W.A.T team.
The S.W.A.T team truck was parked outside with a twelve-man team.
William was amazed by them. and asked them if he could touch their weapons.
By the way, Lily is also with them.
When they were getting ready to get in the truck they saw a man at the gate saluting them.
Everybody had a look at their faces that say."Why is he saluting us!!"
Except for Simon who was saluting him back.
When commander Bob saw this he asked Simon.
"Why is Jack saluting you."
"Then his name is Jack, could you get him a promotion."
"Why?"
"Is a long Story."
"I'm sure it isn't, but there isn't a problem I can get him promoted."
"Thanks, old man."
"Call me commander!!"
After that, they got in the truck.
One of the SWAT team was trying to sit next to Simon but Simon asked him to not sit to his right and leave that place empty. so instead he seated to his left. at that act, William asked Simon about his reasons, and he answered with this.
"Lily is Sitting to my right so he can't sit there."
"Wait she is here?"
"Of course She follows me everywhere."
The SWAT team looks confused.
Simon noticed them and said.
"We still have a long way, so how about we play with magic??"
"Hell YEAH!!!!", the people from the SWAT team screamed at Simon's suggestion.
"Weren't you supposed to be escorting mages almost every day?"
"Yes, but they usually keep their magic hidden so we rarely see it unless we are running with them from monsters while trying to rescue them." Replied one of the SWAT team
At that William asked.
"Why don't you just shoot monsters?"
"Well they can but if you don't cut
"And how do you do that?"
"Attack from magic cut the threads also attack from weapons imbued with magic."
"Can't they just give the soldiers Magic guns??"
"You just don't understand, the part that is hitting the monster is the bullet, not the gun. So you will need magic bullets. and enchanting a single bullet is extremely hard, well not just the bullet enchanting anything is extremely hard and cost a lot of money. so spending that sum on every single use bullet and giving hundreds of them to soldiers is just out of the country budget."
"How about swords."
"Humans are inferior to monsters in physical ability, so asking them to fight with a sword is as asking them to be food for monsters."
And then one of the SWAT team said.
"Don't look sad, they gave each one of us twelve magic bullet and the blades at the ends of our rifles are magic weapons too, they even gave us the permission to retreat if we spend a quarter of our magic ammunition."
William looks happier now.
After they spend the rest of the trip watching Simon playing with his magic.
Apparently, if Simon used his teacher's pen he can cast simple magic without spending his ML. also he can shoot a bolt of fire from his hands innately but when he does so his eyes change, and that why he isn't using it now.
before they reached their destination Simon has already befriended all the SWAT team, and William is feeling left out.
Now they are in their destination the forset.
"Now we are going in, have you ever seen fireworks?"
"Yes of course." Replied the SWAT team to Simon.
"If you saw green fireworks that mean that we finished and need your help to collect the monsters corpses, Yellow means that we need your help but there isn't any immediate danger mostly someone of us is injured and need you to bring the First Aid, Red means that we are in dire danger and your help come as fast as you can, Purple means that we are at the death door and you coming won't change it So if you saw retreat as fast as you can and tell the commander to send a greater force to kill the monster and by the time you come back we probably will be eaten so search for our corpse inside the monster's stomach."
"why did emphasize on the purple that much." Asked one of the SWAT team.
"Basically I'm saying If you saw the purple fireworks that mean we are dead and your help is useless so run for your fucking life."
Simon looks angry, probably he was trying to put it nicely the first time but they didn't get it, of course when you're a SWAT veteran and a 20-years old kid tell you you are useless in fighting it hits hard.
After that, we got into the forest.
Now there are only William and his familiar, Simon and his familiar and Lily.
"Now what Simon?"
"Ask your familiar to transform into a bat and have it sit on your head or shoulder and use its echolocation with this after that ask her to share its senses with this you will be technically able to see for about 20 meters in all direction, a perfect sense for a melee fighter in the dark"
"And you?"
"For me, I will send my familiar in the form of an owl to Scout ahead and share the vision with it so I can find the monsters. when we find them my familiar will lure them to us while we prepare."
"How we are going to prepare?"
Simon is looking around before pointing at a straight branch on a tree about 3-meters above the ground.
"Get me that."
"It's too high up, I can't!!"
"Just Activate your [Force Empowerment], but be careful your jumps will be significantly higher just start with light jumps."
William started jumping.
"This is amazing, without even trying I'm already jumping tighter than normal, now here I go."
Whoosh... William jumped... his jump was easily around three meters tall. when he reached the branch, he held it with his left hand and at the same time, he broke it with a chop from his right arm, after that he landed a hero landing.
You can see Simon and Lily clapping in the background as if they were kids amazed by a magic show.
"what now."
"Try coating it with your magic."
"Okay... I did it!"
"Now remember two things. First, if you punch something with great force it mostly won't be sent flying backward but most likely your arm will just pierce right through it. Secondly, if it is sturdy enough to not be pierced then, one of you will be sent flying and it is mostly the lighter or the one with more force keeping it in one place."
"Of course we learned those in high school, what was it again newton's law of motion."
"You actually remembered it, I thought that all was in your head is how to cure illness."
"How can I forge physics."
"Also direction imagine an hour where the number twelve is pointing north."
"Now tell me where is 9 o'clock direction?"
William pointed west.
"Good you get it."
"But why don't you use the direction that I face, isn't that the norm?"
"Yes it is, but you will be moving extremely fast and I can't keep track of the direction your facing while shooting add that you can see in every direction for about 20 meters because your familiar, So I will be telling you which direction the monsters are coming from and jour job is to kill them as fast as possible."
"Got it."
At that moment Simon familiar found a pack of {Cursed Wolfs}.
"Good my familiar just found some {Cursed Wolfs} and is leading them here."
"What now."
"Help me get atop that tree." Said, Simon pointing at a tall tree.
"How?"
"Just hold me in your hand and jump Hurry it."
William carried Simon {Lily is holding onto Simon's neck} as if he was luggage. and jump with great force to the top of the tree and grasped on a branch with one hand as if he was a gorilla. after that, he pulled himself with one hand and put Simon at the top of that tree. after that he lets himself fall to the ground and land with another hero landing.
Simon is now coughing at the top of the tree now, probably because Lily was strangling him while she was dangling from his neck.
Lily is now apologizing repeatedly in front of the still coughing Simon.
"Don't worry about it, Lily."
"Hey, William they are coming. 4 from 10 o'clock and 2 from 3 o'clock and 3 from 6 o'clock."
"what we are surrounded that easily!!"
"It doesn't matter just kill those who get in your range as fast as you."
"I don't want to kill puppies!"
"It's either you kill them or they kill us, just don't hesitate!"
"You're right, sorry puppies!!!"
At that moment two wolves are charging from 10 o'clock, but William is not moving. but he is just standing there with his eyes closed.
"Why he is just standing there!!" That was Lily
"Probably he is concentrating on the bat echolocation of his familiar."
And what was going inside William's head was.
{I don't want to hurt puppies, so feel where they are breathing, just a few centimeters behind that place lies...}
2 meters before the first reaches William.
William started moving in silence. his eyes are still closed... and with one swift thrust the branch he was holding, the pierced from the inside of the wolf mouth and to the back of his Skull.
At that moment the other wolf jumped at William aiming for a neck but William crushed its head between his knee and elbow.
"If you want to kill a creature without pain you need to crush the brain in one hit..."
The two wolves from 3 o'clock are now directly behind William but he is still concentrating on the remaining two from 10 o'clock.
"[Elemental arrows]: Stone arrows, Simon cast his spell and to arrow made of stone flew with a whistling sound, bursting through the heads of two wolves from 3 o'clock killing them instantly."
"Nice shoot master!" commented Lily.
Lily just turned back as if she noticed something, Simon didn't notice that.
At the same time, William was killing the other two wolves,
he crushed the first one head with a punch toward the ground from his right arm.
But the force from his punch hitting the ground lifted his body for a moment.
Didn't Simon just warned me of this!!
The second wolf bit William in the back of his neck, but the teeth aren't piercing in.
William [Force empowerment] is doing its job of protecting him splendidly.
he then turned to free his neck from the wolf jaw and crushed its head between his hand.
William opened his eyes when he got bit in the neck.
After this, he looked in the 6 o'clock direction and his eyes opened wide. is he looking at the three wolves coming to him?. No, he is looking behind them. there Simon is falling from his tree.
A few moments ago :
Lily Heard something and turned back and what she saw was a Viper.
"Master!!"
The viper was aiming for Simon's neck but thanks to Lily he avoided it and got bit in the shoulder. but that brief exchange made him lose his balance and fall from the tree.
At this moment the only thing in William's head to get to Simon. and without thinking, he started running at full speed toward Simon. the three wolves that were in his way got sent flying as if they were hit with a truck.
But he didn't make it in time. Simon crushed on the ground.
When William was about to reach Simon who has already fallen to the ground, he saw the viper on his shoulder and changed his objective from catching the falling Simon to a pure killing intent toward that viper.
In a continuous motion from his running, William hit the viper with his hand, William's hand was open and his fingers are positioned to look like claws. before the impact, William's hand tore a piece of the ground because the Viper was on the ground. on the impact, the Viper was Torn to pieces, and a gust of wind strong enough to shake the trees around the was formed.
The only piece that was intact is the viper head still stuck on Simon's arm.
Lily took the off from Simon's shoulder and threw it away.
When William saw this realized that Lily is Still around which means that the caster Simon is still alive. and that calmed him down.
The bite is on the shoulder what should we do...
"Master! Master!..."
Simon opened his eyes.
"Don't worry about me I just lost consciousness for a moment."
Simon raised his hand and shoot a ball of yellow fire from his teacher's pen. when it reached the sky it exploded in a yellow flash.
"Hey, Simon you're poisoned right?"
"Don't worry about me I will try something."
Simon put his hand on his shoulder and then.
[Cure Poison].
The spell failed.
"This spell never worked for me."
"Master."
"What Lily got any other idea?"
"Well master you were trying to use this spell to destroy the poison by having the
"Nice idea Lily!"
William is confused.
"What did Lily give some solution?"
"Just let me try it, this my last chance."
[Slow poison].
The spell worked.
"Thanks, Lily it worked."
Whining... whining... and then silence.
they all turned toward the voice.
It looks like the wolves that William crushed when he was running just took their last breath.
William screamed.
"Who did this!!"
"It was you, big oaf, you were probably too distracted by me falling that you didn't even notice the wolves in front of you and then crushed them with your tremendous force as you run. just don't lose your composer again."
"Sorry Wolves."
After a few seconds, the SWAT team was there. and is now looking at the massacre that happened.
"What happened here?" Asked one of the team.
"Long story tell you later, Simon is injured!"
"Okay."
"Do you have bandages and anything that is long and straight to support a broken leg?"
"We have bandages but we lack the support."
"Understood."
William looked at the trees and then juped and grabbed another straight branch.
"This will do."
The SWAT team is looking at him.
That man can jump that high!!!
"Sir William do you have any medical training?"
"Well, I'm a medical student after all."
After they finished the first aid and as they were preparing to get back to the truck, two big wolves showed up.
"The pack leaders, so they came to check on their followers." this was Simon.
The SWAT team pulled their weapons, but then William interrupted them.
"leave it to me."
William started walking toward the two wolves.
the wolves jumped at him one from the right and one from the left.
but William crushed both of their heads at the same time with both his fists to the ground, the force was enough to send William flying and shakes the ground.
The SWAT team felt cold sweat running down their backs and thought to themselves
This man is a Beast.
When William was in the air he said one thing.
"Sorry puppies, for letting three of your friends suffer!"
After that, they got in the truck to return home and William told the team what happened on the way.