Chapter Three ~:
[Congratulation you have mastered {Sword of Darkness Flame} … Next sword style award to you {Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū }]
My knees buckled, and I collapsed. My eyes barely managed to read the pop-up window. As I lost the strength in my body, I saw the several black flame funeral pyres around me. Soon my body collapsed completely meeting the cave's stone floor.
My body burned as images of a figure projected on the nearby wall. It looked like me performing the moves from the last lesson. It then showed me how to perform all the sword moves of the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū. As my mind was being filled with the information, an unseen force altered my body just enough so I could begin the first steps to do this new style.
As the transformation stopped and the last of the images stopped, my body shook, and I began coughing and hacking until suddenly, tar-like black blood was spewed from my mouth.
I then could breathe slowly as I looked at the ball of black blood. It was surprising how firm it was. I assumed this was a good batch of toxin, waste, and other stuff my body purged with the change, but I felt surprisingly good after the burning dissipated.
I slowly stood. I looked at the last flickers of black flames; the armors, weapons and sacks were laying on the ground, I saw some scorch marks and battle damage but they were still intact.
I heard the four people I just saved starting to move but I said, "Wait" I took the sack off my shoulder and reach in it as a way cover the use of [Item Box]. I took out from the sack two porcelain bottles and tossed it to them.
The young cat girl theft stepped forward and caught and looked at the vials.
Before they could ask I said," There are pellets that are meant to increase your regenerative rate by three times. With the two vials there are twenty pellets and you should only take one every six hours. But if you crush one and add it to a balm or ointment and apply it to the wounds before you wrap it can also be absorbed through that method and increase the rate of healing in those area by six if you had taken the pelt oral as well. The only side effect is that the healing process will need energy. You will either require to eat large amounts of food and if there no food you will become extremely sleep and go into a coma-type state until the pelt loses the effect or the healing is done."
"What do you want for this," Alice the beast girl thief asked knowing there was no free meal in this world.
"Nothing but I suggest you guys don't speak of the incident. These people planned to kill the men and sell you women, not even caring about your famillia and the fact that they might go to war over it. I'll take and dispose of their stuff I can't use and their crystal and valis also belong to me." I said this more as a certainty than an option. The four nodded at me, realizing what I said was true, as I began tossing the things into my sack.
I cleared all the stuff in moments and began to leave, but I was only a few steps when one of the young men who was human spoke, "Sir thank you for all your help. We'll do as you said and just heal up here, then return to the surface."
I waved my hand indicating I heard him and continued on my way.
Suddenly the cat girl shouted, "What's your name and your Familia?"
I stopped walking, knowing they were entitled to an answer. "Marcus…No Familia." I continue to walk toward the next staircase heading to the next floor. I also ignored and further discussions it was always the same and I didn't want to deal with the Familia stuff wars, fights with one another I just wanted my life and didn't need anyone else problems when it would be mandatory obligation to do.
To some I might seem cold, to others I probably came off as arrogant. I knew I was probably both. I continued down the stairs as I went down the sack on my back shrank as all my loot from the fallen adventurers fell into the [item box].
As I reached the fourth floor, I growled. I knew this was going be a long floor. The smell of fresh rust filled my nostril and the sound of beasts on the move. Both things said pain in the ass and I still had a long way to go and short time to get there.
[Twelve hours Later]
My eyes grew dark, and my eyelids were heavy and I knew I needed to locate a place to call it a day. I considered resting in stairwell but I knew the monster could climb the stairs even if it was unusual, I didn't want to wake up while I was being chewed on.
I used parkour to climb up a wall face, until I found a crevice that I could rest inside.
I pulled out a few pieces of jerky and ate it. I then pulled out a few devices and set them up so I would be awoken by the slightest movements and with that done I closed my eyes and began to rest