Chapter 17: CH.15 - Abyss (4)
"Yes, yes..." Grumbled Hajime.
With that said Enkai and Hajime departed for...hum their adventure ? Well anyway let's go.
For the past next days the two explored the floor, sometime killing a Twin-tailed Wolf, sometime a Rabbit with a bit of luck, these monster were becoming an habit for them, learning how to avoid them or how to kill them easily. Enkai was getting stronger everyday but didn't know his stats, losing the status plate in the fall, Hajime had one but well, let's not talk about his stats for now.
They were getting hungrier too, not wanting to eat the Talon Bear's meat raw, they wanted to search for something to heat it up but they still didn't find something. Enkai tried to use Fire Magic but he didn't know anything else aside from Wind magic so the result was braise, not enough to start a strong fire.
"Enkai...let's eat it raw...I'am really breaking now..." Hajime said, almost lifeless eyes.
Enkai saw his friend condition and he knew that Hajime was much weaker than him, be it physically or mentally. If he broke down here he didn't know what would he do...
"Stay here...I'am going to search for something" Said Enkai, he was also getting exhausted but forced himself to stay awake. Even if he was strong mentally, he was still a 17 years old high school student.
"What are you going to search ? it's been nine days and we found nothing let's just eat it raw...I'am so hungry that I could eat a f*cking ore...DAMN I'am going to kill them, kill them, torture them ,if I survive this mess they will get something worse than me, they des--" Enkai saw that Hajime was becoming really unstable and knock him out to avoid any issue.
Enkai got up and exited their den, at first they thought that nothing could be worse than the fall and that they could survive with the monster eat but they became hopeless when their food stock were going up without able to eat it.
He went to the river where they fell in, hoping to finally use fire magic. He tried, and tried and tried exhausting him even further, he only got to cast a fire on his finger only for it to disappear as quickly, no matter what he tried he couldn't do it again...his mana reserve were empty.
"FFF****CCCCKKKK !! WHY DON'T YOU JUST COME YOU FUCKING FIRE" Screamed Enkai as hard as he could hitting a rock as hard he could.
The rock which were hit by Enkai was razing the soil, caused a friction resulting in some heat and hit another rock, no an ore causing an explosion.
"What is that ?" Enkai was surprised by the explosion and got in defensive stance. Seeing nothing coming out he went to where the explosion occurred and saw a red shaped ore burning.
Without any question he got as many ore as he could and ran toward Hajime who was still knocked-out.
"Hajime, Hajime woke up, I finally found it, we can eat now" Said Enkai, slapping Hajime to woke him up, almost tears I his eyes.
"Aah...what happened ?" Hajime was confused, not remembering his action before Enkai knocked him out.
"I finally found these ore, they can burn, use your skill on them quick, quick" Said Enkai, who magically regained all vitality just by finding this ore.
"Are you sure...? Let me check....it's a Combustion Stone, a flammable ore. After ignition, it will continue to burn with itself as fuel. It will gradually become smaller as it continues to burn before it eventually burns out. If a large amount of Combustion Stones were ignited all at once in a sealed space, there is a possibility of an explosion comparable to a highest ranked fire-attribute magic....wait ! YES HAHA finally, I can also use this as cannon powder. I already told you that I wanted to make firearms but I didn't have anything to power them, with this it's solved !" At first doubtful, Hajime was ecstatic at the end.
The both of them who were a few hours earlier what we can call zombie, almost dying, were like kids in front of an ore as if they found the King's Treasury.
Enkai tried to start a fire setting down a few of them, Hajime was recovering, having a headache from his stunt and didn't saw Enkai's mistake.
"Alright, let's see...I kicked a rock at full force but there is no place here so let's create some fire with this..." Enkai started to rub the rocks against each other to create a friction again.
At first the rocks ignited and took fire, so after putting down the rest of the ore in a corner he throw the two. Hajime who saw this panicked.
"Enkai noooo !" Hajime tried to warn Enkai but it was too late, when the two stone ignited the large amount of ore a big explosion occurred again.
"...What happened" Said Enkai coughing.
"I said that if you ignited a large amount in a sealed space a large explosion could happened, the one who were under the other ore were like "sealed" so...boum" Hajime explained to Enkai.
"...Oh..." Enaki acknowledged, a bit embarrassed, he was so thrilled about finally eating that he discarded any information. At least he didn't used all the ores.
"It's alright I'am going to get some..." Hajime said, and went to get some new combustion ore.
"Alright" Replied Enkai.
While Hajime was getting some weird blue basketball-sized crystal, Enkai didn't have any skill related to identify ore, or at least not now but he have a skill which got him to access a small of knowledge which was known by a really small amount of people or only the Sword Saint himself. He used [Analyze] on it and the result he got shocked him to the core.
This crystal was in fact the highest grade treasure known in history, called the [God Crystal], and was recognized as an already lost legendary mineral. God Crystals are formed from the flow of magic power in the vast earth over thousands of years which coincidentally accumulated, it is the crystallization of magic power itself. Ranging in thirty to forty centimeter in diameter, after crystallization, it will take another few hundred years for it to reach saturation before magic power will begin to overflow in liquid form.
And effectively Enkai saw some drop of a liquid gathered under the crystal. Not wasting any second he licked the liquid to drink a small amount and put the rest in a flask he had. After he licked a small amount, the dull pain in his body and the haze in his mind was cleared, even his fatigue was gone. All other injuries had recovered in the blink of an eye.
'Ahhh...well I don't know if I can say that I'am lucky since I'am in this shitty place to start' Thought Enkai, after finally felling good for the first time in a large amount of days.
He then went to help Hajime but what he saw shocked him to the core, Hajime was fighting a cow headed humanoid monster and was going to lose his arm before Enkai ran at full speed. Saving Hajime, who got unconscious after Enkai saved him, again. To be honest Enkai was growing tired of protecting Hajime every time that something, the latter having nothing to protect himself but when he thought of the of today he thought and hoped that today was the last day Hajime was powerless. He changed his focus from Hajime to the monster and what he saw stunned him.
'Is that a f*cking Minotaur ?'
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