Looking out in amazement at the view before me I chuckle softly before taking another photo of the clear valley of Shadows Cove. I've been travelling with Amina Lox the little devil child that I met for about a day now and while we have yet to reach our destination I have been able to take a lot of beautiful and amazing photos from scenery and plants to creatures of all sorts to take back with me when I complete my objective.
That and I have been able to gather and take a lot of different samples with me to study more in depth later with Amina here. I mean I have intermittently been able to gather DNA, dirt and plant samples while I was travelling alone but that was still far and in between since I was more focused on staying alive than caring on whether I can get samples to study.
Why am I collecting samples to study? While that's because I am interested in the biology and what makes up and composes something so much so that it is now a life-long habit that I never wish to break.
That and I need to get my dose of science and common sense somewhere in a world so full of reality defying exploits and anime induced bullshit it's not even funny anymore.
Well at least if you compare it to my old world where science could explain everything and nothing was fun unless you went to the dark side of life.
Happy with my photo and the few samples I managed to get around this part of the area I'm in I turn to Amina who has not stopped staring at me since I first met her with a grin.
"Thanks for showing me the Valley Amina! Didn't think such a vast expanse of clear land existed in this place! Well let's get going ne? I'm starting to feel a little lightheaded now and flushed, giving my declining health and the fact, I have taken more than enough photos and collected enough samples I believe we should head straight to the jewel before I get any worse and you know probably die" I dead pan happily with a laugh and ignoring her silent response take a jump into the higher branches and when Amina moves past me I follow after her swiftly.
While I said it bluntly and with a grin the truth is I am more than just light-headed and flushed. My breathing is labored my temperature continues to spike irregularly, I'm freezing my ass off even though it's 34 degrees in the cove and I'm getting dizzier by the minute so even though I want to collect more samples and take more photos I can't because this is now a timed mission where my life is on the line.
It was on the line since the moment I jumped into the cove but since my time is now very quickly coming to an end I have absolutely no choice but to quickly get a move on if I want to live and get the treatment I desperately need because I am in no way an idiot and even if I leave the cove I would still need to very quickly get the medical treatment needed to survive.
Though despite it all I still find this to be the best game I have played in years! And I absolutely can't wait to see the conclusion of it!
Whether I live or die doesn't matter anymore since the best games to play are the ones where your life is on the line!
Grinning insanely and with a manacle laugh filled with mirth I quicken my pace to better match the speedy Amina happily and ignore the blank look she shoots me in response to my sudden change in mental state.
Besides It's not that I had a change in mental status but that I just allowed the constant tight control I have on myself and my endless silent insanity to loosen a little.
After all, why should I need to fully hide my more than fucked-up self in a jungle filled cove were no one will here you scream?
Amina Lox doesn't count either because she's a devil child and it's not like I've fully released the reins on myself.
I only released a little of the air tight control I usually hold because I need the stress release and the fact I'm as sick and injured as I am makes it's harder to focus my energy into holding onto that air tight control.
It's better to open the door a little every now and then for the air to circulate than to let everything fester and explode later when it's most inconvenient after all.
It would ruin all the plans and future games I have in store!
I honestly do not know whether to be pissed off, annoyed or just plain and utterly disgusted at the fact the place where the blood jewel is located is in a heavily muck and most probably diseased filled swamp with from the little I have seen also has the ugliest and sickening giant worms in history swimming around within its depths.
and when I mean Giant worms I mean worms as big as the trees around me, or for a better visualisation for those reading this sky scrapers.
Turning to stare blankly and emotionlessly at Amina I narrow my eyes at the fact I just know she is laughing at me despite her emotionless and equally blank eyes and expression.
As sick and injured as I am even stepping a foot into the danger and diseased filled swamp would give my already very limited time in this place an even more extremely short window to find the jewel, get out and get to Porlyusica since considering how far and long I have traveled is the best choice for my medical needs.
Honestly you would think that due to all the shit that goes on in this world that the medical community would be more advanced but somehow that is not the case and the only doctor or healer as they say in this world that compared to my old world is decent and advanced enough is Porlyusica.
Not that I myself am an expert on medical advancements or knowledge besides anything to do with poisons and antidotes along with a few basic healing salves and how to give myself advanced first aid given my past professions but when you live in the 21st century and then is taken into a place like this you know your stuff when it comes to medicine and medical practitioners.
Still though no time like the present and it just makes the game I'm playing that much more interesting and delightfully fun!
Turning my blank emotionless expression into a blindingly bright grin I decide to ask a few questions before I move into the swamp of death and disease.
"So Amina exactly where in this diseased filled swamp filled with giant ugly razor sharp teeth filled worms is the blood jewel?"
"…."
"Sorry can you repeat that I didn't quite catch it did you say northeast or northwest?"
"…."
"And I suppose this means you are not entering the death trap of a swamp with me?"
"/"
"Well than that's fine it will be more fun this way! Well since I have a limited amount of time do you mind doing a favor for me?"
"…?.."
"Oh goody! Can you please take a few samples of the swamp for me and if possible a few blood skin and tissue samples of a worm if I don't manage to because I'm a bit pressed for time in you know… surviving"
"…"
"Thanks! see you soon if I don't die!"
With those happily spoken parting words I jump into the air and dash my way in using sky walk to give me a bit more time and hopefully to keep most of the filth off me to prevent myself getting sicker quicker.
Given that the swamp is murky and even the air is filled with who knows what and the worms are ginormous and could easier swallow me whole if they spot me I only know one thing.
This is going to be so much fun!
Kicking my feet, I narrowly dodge the incredibly fast worm attempting to swallow me whole and hold my breath for as long as I can to prevent the utterly disgusting stench emanating off the stupid ass worms.
Seriously they stink to high heavens I have never smelt something so revolting and if not for the fact every move could be my death I would have already vomited what little is in me just being within twenty meters of the ugly things.
I had wondered why the swamp smelt so bad but now I know.
I've been traversing the swamp for about forty-five minutes already going in the direction that Amina told me of and I still haven't been able to find the stupid cursed jewel.
Hell, I've had my Eye Spy spell going for a while and not a single sign or anything and at this point I'm just pissed off.
Well maybe pissed off isn't the right word but definitely annoyed, for one I don't even know if cursed objects work with my Eye Spy spell, I know spelled and even spiritual items can be found so I assume cursed objects can but there's also the fact the cursed object in question most likely used to be somebody's heart so I don't know if I need to use my spell to find hearts or not but I can't use it to find hearts because than every creature with a heart in this massive swamp that goes for miles and miles will be lit up like a flash light and it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Landing on a mostly stable piece of log drifting in the swamp I use my shimmer spell level 5 till the stupid worm leaves and gives a sigh of relief when it eventually does.
Honestly if I was anyone else but the Jashin damned fuck that I am I would be dead 50 times over for all the shit I let myself go through!
I mean it's all for the death defying fun but still it's the point of the matter!
Even though I don't know what the point is but I'm sticking to my words so it doesn't matter what the point is.
I really need to stop going off in weird rants in my head.
Shaking my head of those inconsequential thoughts I instead look around trying to get a better understanding of just where in this delightful hell I am.
Blinking in surprised shock it soon turns into an emotionless and blank deadpan when I spot a shiny green stone attached to a moss-covered chain in a clear part of the water near a skinny dead tree.
Don't tell me that's the jewel because if it is I am going to be sooooo pissed off.
Taking a light leap onto the dead and skinny tree while being sure to not put too much weight on it I reach for the necklace wondering if this is the world taking a piss at me for all the shit I've done in the name of the game and personal fun.
*SPLASH!*
Keeping my dead expression, I look up at the biggest worm I've seen to date with the jewel I'm looking for attached to one of its razor sharp teeth.
"Well! At least getting the jewel won't be easy now will it!" I say with the most sarcastic tone I can muster before shun-shining and sky-walking it the fuck out of their just as the worm dives at the spot I was just in.
Widening my eyes in shock and pain I notice that even though the worm didn't touch me my blood went flying and a long and almost bone deep gash is now down my body from my right shoulder to my right ankle and despite the pain and everything else I can't help but grin.
Now this! this is going to be fun!
Word count: 2046
I'm thinking of changing the story's description but I'm not sure into what… any suggestions? Because while it's fine I think it needs a little work