Chapter six:
My thick green fingers firmly gripped the aromatic only brown grilled meat up to my face, my mouth tearing into the succulent, delicious flesh, I satisfyingly chewed. My tastes buds reveling in the tasty juices rolling about the meat as I swallowed. I was very hungry, and I suppose my hunger was ravenous. And the meat was truly from heaven.
The battle had ended not long after the arrival of Thor. We boarded the ship's and came back to the banquet hall we left earlier.
The warriors sat around a large table filled with red juicy meat and sweet alcohol in large wooden mugs.
Some were busy laughing and talking to others like myself busily eating.
Even amongst them my now gigantic muscle ripped form and dark green skin stood out like a sore thumb. Even when seated I still towered over those seated around me.
This is, I can't transform back into my human form. Well, I don't know how and neither do I want to yet..I had the feeling I would be able to do that freely when I achieved a 100% synchro rate, but for now this was enough.
The air in the banquet was lively, the orange candle like lights added to the mood. There were no Valkyries here, just large framed, muscled, smelly men devouring meat and mead. I felt slightly exhaustion trickle in. My stomach was becoming full and I needed rest.
"Haha! Brother you ate the most!" the laughing men sitting next to me had to stand for a moment to shoulder bump me. For large bastard's, these guys were quite friendly. After my khakis tore off, one of them even offered me a Scottish kilt. Oh, I also had a green king anaconda, between my legs. If you think it nearly scared the hell out of me. You should've seen their faces when they got a glimpse of it. Big hands + joystick= fun times.
"I am called Staggori brother, what are you called?" he pounded his chest.
"The One Below All." I nodded at him.
"Aye a fitting name. I see you have gathered an amount of rune's. Your merits will be very high" he added. The more experienced warriors were imparting useful info to the newbies of Valhalla, and since I was a new guy I was also given some info.
"The more merits you accumulate the higher your ranks rise. As you see there are no Valkyries here since we are the lowest banquets where lowest rank warrior's and newcomers gather. That's why the food and alcohol is like this. If you want to drink with the Valkyries you will have to work hard. Because you will have to at least climb to the immediate banquet" he took large gulps from his mug, coating his beard foam.
"You have talent. You will be able to climb up fast. If you have to fight anyways, isn't it better to get good treatment and then fight?"
I nodded at that. I wanted to get stronger, I was the One Below All. I'm not satisfied being a low rank warrior, I had the means to as well. But it wasn't to fight for the god's, I wanted to get strong for me.
"What are the runes?" I asked. In the novels it was magical energy in all living things, but this wasn't a novel anymore. I had to find out what I could..
"Oh! You're still new but you should also know it, all of the existences that have life mana in their bodies. Be it small or big.. And that's also the same for enemies of Valhalla.
When we warriors defeat the enemies, we can take their mana and convert it to magical runes. Think of the time when you thought of your saga." he explained.
I did as he said.