Chapter 16: repercussions of the battle of beasts and other inhabitants of the region
"ah... that's right, I was going to take this out to get the oven set up."
I massaged my ankle, it had recovered a little bit and I could walk a little bit.
'remove wooden shovel x1 and weeds x10'.
the fire had been out for a while and now there were only hot stones and ashes.
taking the shovel I lifted the stones and took them outside and using the weeds I swept up the dust and ashes.
once I had the space free I placed the wood stove close to the wall but without touching it.
"hee~ this serves the function of a stove and oven, it looks pretty good, I think I can try it with a juicy steak hehe".
grunt~
I prepare a grilled steak
"mmn~ it's delicious... too bad, I don't have wine or beer to go with it."
I took my sweet time enjoying my meal, feeling that it was the tastiest food I had eaten since I arrived in this frozen wasteland.
Maybe it's because of my happiness with my new acquisitions, having survived an experience beyond human capabilities or just because I was too hungry... it doesn't matter, this is the best thing I've eaten in a long time.
after finishing my steak I popped a mint candy in my mouth.
"It's good... I can finally eat a damn candy, for a moment I almost forgot what I was missing".
as I relaxed quietly, I couldn't help but think about the water purification bottle.
'I don't really need it however I don't want to sell it either... I don't feel they can give me something really spectacular for it, besides, even if they did then people would find out that I have means to get drinking water and they wouldn't stop bothering me... maybe they would even try to get my location to rob me'.
"although I could also sell it to nathan or david."
I didn't want to keep thinking about it for the moment so I went on to distract myself with something else.
"I'm bored... I have a lot of things to do but I don't want to work anymore today, I wonder if there is anything interesting in the chat?
so I spent the rest of the day relaxing and reading the chat posts.
...
??? POV
in a cave inside a mountain there was a person roasting what looks like rabbit meat on a fire.
"it's been 5 days... mary... lucy... I promise, daddy will be back soon... just wait for me".
//SHhaAaaaaAAh//
"what?!"
as the man came out of the cave, he could see a turtle coming in his direction.
"it's the turtle but... how did it get hurt? those roars I heard earlier could be from a fight..."
The man was undecided for a while, but after a few minutes he made a decision.
"I have to investigate what happened... the beasts of level 1 and beyond won't notice me until I get past the fourth disaster... maybe I can get something out of this".
...
??? POV
in a snowy forest there is a low grade shelter where a man is playing with a butterfly knife.
"damn, I want to smoke... that son of a bitch had already smoked almost all the cigarettes in the box."
frustrated, the man throws the knife into a lump near the door.
haa~
with a sigh the man stood up and retrieved his knife from the lump in the door which turned out to be a man of about 40 years old and possibly the real owner of the shelter.
"tsch piece of trash, this guy really has nothing on him."
//Auuuu...!//
"ah, fuck, it's the fucking wolves again!"
the man pushed the corpse out of the shelter and closed the door by locking it with wood and rocks from his inventory.
"fuck, just for killing some fucking puppies they send the whole fucking pack after me!"
...
bang! bang!
a rabbit drops dead with two bullet holes, one in the body and one in the head.
"fuuh~ I still don't understand how something as cute as a rabbit can be like this..."
the person who fired the gun is revealed to be a woman of average height completely covered by a black coat with a hood.
approaching the corpse of the rabbit, she puts it in her inventory.
"I need to get water somehow, I saw that the guy selling water didn't show up all day yesterday and he still hasn't said anything... maybe he ran out of water himself?"
the woman laughs mockingly as she prepares to return to her own shelter.
...
"hey idiot, we need to prepare for the storm you know that right?"
"tsch stop worrying so much about that, more importantly, those horrible roars a while ago must be from huge beasts for sure those will leave incredible rewards.. "
"oi stop that nonsense, if you want to die go by yourself, ah, but before that leave your supplies, I'll use them well".
Two men were talking in a low grade shelter, these two people knew each other for years and knowing that they were in the same region they agreed to meet in the shelter of one of them and survive together.
"haa really, we have to do something, this cold alone is bad enough, what do we do if it increases then?"
"I know, I know... that's why we collected so much wood, right? besides that, we can gather snow and turn it into drinking water with that bottle I found in the yellow box".
"yes... acquiring that purifying bottle was our luck".
...
in the same place where the battle of the two level 4 beasts occurred earlier in the day, a wolf pack of more than 20 wolves were feasting on the remains of the snake that the tortoise did not eat.
//Auuuu...!// //
With a howl, a wolf even bigger than the other wolves in the pack appeared.
being black in color with a scar that goes from his ear to his right eye and a missing part of his left ear, without a doubt, this is the alpha of the pack.
a level 1 mutant beast
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