286 7.14 Great Balls Of Fire... (1/2)
Luckily there were some offscreen crews to help me hang those sacks of grass as swinging targets at intervals of 25 meters apart. If not for them, how the hell do you think I could manage it on my own, huh?!?
Targets are all set and ready to go, but I would like to grind and see how well Vendetta and Bladeworks performed under normal circumstances against normal and sly foxes.
The water had long boiled and I set it down near the embers just to have the radiating heat to warm the contents in the cauldron instead. The elder had woken up Matilda and she had done off to preen herself and not looked like some wet animal that had been dragged from its nest. Hahahahaha.
”Elder...I would like to test Bladeworks since I do not have the chance to do so last night. Furthermore, I had revived Vendetta and would see how it performs. Elder, may I ask if Matilda's swordsmanship is higher than me?”
”Why, child, do you ask? Are you afraid that a girl might belittle you in terms of skills? Being a protagonist in a novel, adding an antagonist would surely be an added hit, don't you think?”
”Yes...the answer to your last question is apositive yes...my Matilda is definitely better than you in swordsmanship. Just too bad she was equipped with an ill-fitting sword that you said is none better than a butter knife.”
”She had no chance to party and earn coins and since you had fulfilled the oath required, just take good care of her. She had no one else but you right now and you had none other than me right now too. Because of you, I have to speak in tongues...Run along now, go and hunt sly and fearsome foxes. Don't get yourself and Matilda hurt.”
She motioned me to go ahead when she saw Matilda skipping towards me. ”Once you had no more spoils from the foxes, I have another task for you.”
”Yes, Granny...! Come on... let us go already...!!” Matilda was imploring to be as she merrily skipped away. ”I'd leave my bow and quiver here. I'd buck up on my workmanship right now and focused on my secondary weapon afterwards.” I said to the Elder as I placed the bow and quiver down to the tree stump near the fireplace.
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”Alright...be back by lunchtime...” She replied and we nodded and skipped merrily towards the fields where the sly foxes were gathering. It took some time for us to find the sly foxes since they were hiding and lurking to attack. We withdrew our swords and began cutting them down one after another.
No wonder she never wants to let go of Bladeworks. This is a terrific sword by my standards...! ”Wow...! Vendetta is really sharp...! I never felt it slice through these foxes...and the spoils seems to be double...! It looks heavy at first but when it's wielded, it's light as a feather...and it cuts like a hot knife through butter...!”
Matilda was giggling as she chases a fox here and there and cuts them down with a single hit. She had managed to get more than 24 pennies, 4 foxtails and 8 furs after nearly 30 minutes of slash and hack.
Suddenly we heard a roar that we had never heard before. Do foxes roar? There's no time to find out as branches were clearly shaken up as the tree trunks were being split wide apart. Roosting birds were scattered and flew about in all directions.
”That's their BOSS coming...! I can't wait to see the spoils it drops later...!! ” answered Matilda nonchalantly as she walked about in the clearing and choose a spot to confront the oncoming onslaught of the BOSS.
”I assumed it's about 3 to 5 times bigger than the size of a fox and much more ferocious too. I've seen one but I managed to run off since I had a butter knife for a sword that time. This time is different. ITS TIME TO TASTE MY VENDETTA...!!!”
”Either she is way confident of herself, or she was full of it. It's dangerous to get these things in your head especially when one is poorly armoured at the same time...!” I thought aloud to myself as the ground shook as the BOSS was approaching.
”Get around me, do not go beyond your means. If possible, just stay put and wait for the last strike...!!” I shouted at Matilda and just then BOSS head peeked out from the forest and it wiggled its body free from the trunks that got stuck in its way.
”Fuck...!!! This is not a BOSS...! It's a fucking mutated yokai...!!! Run Matilda...this situation is too dangerous for you...!” I screamed at her to get back and hide behind the trees but she obstinately chooses to stay behind.
”Rise Of The Sun...!!!” I screamed as I placed my sword back in its scabbard and made a hand seal and deployed balls of flames from my outstretched hands as I ran around its flanks. The smell of burning fur was wafting in the air as balls of flames landed on its face, neck and body at an interval every 2 seconds.
”Wow...what kind of sorcery is that?” Matilda stood dumbfounded as she saw balls of flames being shot from the palms of my hands as I ran around the flanks and kept shooting the ball of flames on its body. The trees around caught fire and this added to the effect of the BOSS getting burned alive.
”SHIT...! THE FIRE ONLY SINGED THE FUR OFF ITS BACK...!!” I hollered as I had reached the haunches of the BOSS. I withdrew my sword and decided to attack its blind spot and I ran towards it and threw myself at it before I somersaulted and drove the sword down on its lumbar spine. I drove the sword in deep and nice and warm blood began to spray from the open wound.
I FORGOT ABOUT THE TAIL...!! As the sword enters the lumbar area, it seemed to be like a toothpick to the BOSS as it flipped its tail and swiped me across my body. I can feel its rough spiky fur hitting me and I soon found myself being lifted off my feet and was hurtling to the ground. I managed to break ny fall slightly and was sent across the hard ground a few meters away...!