Chapter 11

Chapter 11

It was the next day.

My life had been pretty peaceful since Tigersson, which made me happy. I didn't know for how long this would last, but I liked it as it was.

I was in the white room when my streak of peacefulness ended.

A text screen popped up.

Need you to take care of something for us. Fail and we die.

Blink.

I was in my apartment again.

"Huh?"

I saw the mission screen.

1st step:

Gear up.

I was wearing my usual gear so I was confused.

In front of you, dummy!

And there was a duffel bag.

"Hey, by the way, I've had a question on my mind, you said I am safe because the devils can't go against my loved ones because of contracts, but what if they just get minions like Tigersson to do it? or take over another persons body and do it then."

Not the time for this! God a stupid question: Doing those things would breach the contract anyway. Now, get moving!

The tone was the serious one, and I think that was the first time he called me a dumbass.

I looked inside the duffel bag. There was one mana potion and one yellow potion. This shocked me since I knew how painful it was for Piid to make them and even more so to bring them outside him. In the bag was also something that seemed like a compass and a full body-chainmail and a helmet similar to the one the troll's had, though smaller.

I stopped kidding around and put it all on. Before he said he didn't want to give me armour because of his 'pain is growth' bs. But this was weird. The mood had never been like this before.

2nd step:

Go to the southern exit of the city and follow the compass.

I did as he said and started walking.

Run!

Voice yelled and it kind of startled me. I started running.

3rd step:

Cover yourself in mud. Follow the compass. Keep running until you reach a cave.

I did as he said. It felt weird being in the outside world but having the same mechanisms as when I was inside Piid.

I finally found the cave after running through the forest for about half an hour.4th step:

Run into the cave unarmed. Use your left hand for Flash to see, then use your right hand for a full-powered Flashlight. Try to kill the wolf. Hope you don't miss. Run away right after shooting, don't even check if you hit. Hold the yellow and blue potion liquids in your mouth now without swallowing.

Well, this sounded really dangerous.

But I did as he said. It was a little troublesome holding all that liquid in my mouth, I had to puff out my cheeks like a squirrel, but I managed.

Then I ran into the cave. Everything was dark. I used Flash with my left hand while I had charged up all my remaining mana with my right hand.

When I flashed, I saw the most disgusting, huge black wolf. It looked right into my eyes with red eyes, and a face of rotting flesh. Instinctivly I fired off a shot. I felt completely drained of mana right after.

I was so horrified I didn't even check if I hit I just ran away.

CREEEEEEEE!

I flew forwards. I could hear the sound of claws destroying the chainmail on my back and I could feel blood leaking.

I reflexvly almost spat out what I had in my mouth, but luckily didn't last minute, and swallowed it right after hitting the ground.

Right as the wolf's wide open mouth was in my face, I got a flashback to Tigersson and fired a full power Flashlight again.

Aaand, I missed. Or rather, didn't miss completely. Its right back leg was missing.

The impact causd it to fall back, but without missing a beat, it jumped and was on top of me.

I tried reaching for my sword but it was akward pulling it out in this position.

Punch him you fucking idiot! Headbutt him you imbecile!

As if my inexperience in combat kicked in. How could I have been so stupid.

I headbutted the wolf and it fell backwards.

Throw the dagger at him!

Voice really wasn't letting me think for myself. As if this was no training and they just sent me out as a hitman and I had to finish the job no matter what.

I threw the dagger, and missed, of course.

Even missing a leg, that wolf was quite agile.

Oh my Devil King! How are you still alive! Throw your sword at him!

I was tired of the wolf side stepping my attacks, so I threw the sword in a sweeping motion from the side.

And, it simply jumped over it with its three legs.

"Oh… shit!"

It promptly mounted me and started ripping apart the neck part of my helmet with some chainmail underneath.

While it was doing this, I went back to the tried and proven strategy of using my unfair Increased Strength C and started hugging the wolf's neck very tightly.

The wolf stopped bitting me and started struggling as I choked it to death.

It ripped at my neck even more and I put my legs around it as well to increase the pressure.

When it stopped struggling, I snapped its neck just to be sure.

It was then that I noticed that I had a lot of blood coming down my neck and I felt very wet and cold. And dizzy.

Blink.

I was in the white room. Still laying on the floor bleeding.

A yellow potion dropped on my face. I didn't have the strength to move, but apparently the potion was opened and it just leaked on my face, and down to my neck.

I felt the wound closing up.

I had another potion drop on my face. This one was with a lid and I opened it and drank it. Then I felt immediately fine.

"Why didn't you just bring me into the room when it attacked me and give me the potions?"

A text screen appeared.

There was the risk of the devil teleporting with you. If it had, we would be killed immediately. A devil in hell is an impossible threat compared to a devil on earth.

"Well, at least I got some levelling up."

Nope. Devils don't have souls. That body you killed had no soul energy to give you.

"Then what was even the point of risking my life?"

Hello, sorry about before. And you're welcome. I discovered that bastard lurking around town, being all sneaky just 2 hours ago. If we had waited just one day it would have gotten stronger than you from using the devil's innate regeneration abilities. Thank god I found it before that.

"How did a devil even get that crazy wolf body?"

Quite sad story actually. That wolf you fought was the toughest in his tribe. His father and brothers all attacked and mortally wounded him when they got scared of him. As he was drawing his last breath, that devil came up and offered revenge in exchange for his soul. I waited until after the devil had annihilated the tribe so it was weakened for you.

"O-okay. That's enough for today. Goodbye. I'm taking tomorrow off". I got up and pressed the exit button on the screen.

[Swordfighting] [Parkour] [Throwing] [Profile] [Exit]

Was even annoying Piid even suggested putting in another session right after this.

Blink.

I was back outside in the forest and the dead wolf was on top of me.

I pushed it off my body. It smelled horrible.

Just looking at its dead body, I realized that could have easily been more. The only difference between us was luck.

I spat on its body.

"Screw you!"

Then I walked the long journey home, with ripped chainmail and bloodied body.