Chapter 38 Living with elvers 5 (1/2)

Mars walked over to the lake, that was still giving off steam from the earlier explosion while he rubbed the area in the middle off his chest where he had so vividly felt a high pressure beam of water piece though, the sneak attack from the acid spider queen that had hollowed out his chest when it hit him from behind, although luckily it had also taken out his spine so he didn't really feel it happen... it still hurt like hell though, but the most painful experience about it was when he laid on the ground feelinghis body go cold as he had bled out, Mars shook his head to try and clear his head as he keeled down by the lake and reached out his hands towards the water when he noticed that they were shaking slightly

'...i might have nightmares about this for a while'

Mars took a deep breath and closed his eye for a few seconds to readjust his mental state

'i still live, that why i'm afraid... i should hold on to to this fear, it might help me remain... sane, at least somewhat'

Mars opened his eyes again and started to wash his hands in the lake, but only for a few seconds before he discovered that the lake was filled with the same blue spider blood he was trying to wash of his hands and pulled them out off the water

”...gross, well i guess i did throw a firebomb into their nest”

Mars quickly lit his flame and had it hover in the air as he used it to clean his hands instead off the water when he spotted something glinting in the lake from the moonlight

'is that..?'

as Mars was wondering what it was his skill activated and answered his question for him

class 3 magic beast core

stored energy: 10

stored status points: none

source: acid spider hatching

'sure is'

Mars weren't about to jump into a lake filled with blue spider blood for a mere 10 energy points, but he wondered if there was more magic beast corers in the area around the lake, he had after all dropped a bomb into the lake so Mars found it likely some cores might have been blown out off the water and started to look around, and sure enough he easily found 2 class 3 cores

'might only be 10 energy units, but if i'm here anyway...'

a slightly greedy expression showed on Mars's face as he started to look for some more cores, all the while Rex was keeping a watch on the surroundings, in the end Mars found 5 more class 3 cores and even a class 4 core bringing his total loot up to 1 class 9 core, 1 class 4 core and 8 class 3 cores

”this should be good... Rex let's head back”

”...okay”

Mars saw that the old elf was slightly lost in thought and decided not to disturb him as the 2 of them walked in silence though the dark quiet forest back to the camp, when they arrived it was slightly past midnight and in the moonlit clearing Mars saw 6 spider corpses lined up neatly, they were all mangled with holes all over them them, that was still leaking blue blood down on the ground

'...looks like she took out her anger on them'

Mars suspected Victoria had kill these spiders and after saying good night to Rex that heeded into the wood cabin Mars quickly burned the spider corpses to ashes and picked up 6 class 6 magic beast cores from the ashes before he also decided to retire for the night and walked into his cave a laid down on the bear hide beside Victoria who was so deep in dreamland she didn't notice him

'or rather she knows it's me and therefore doesn't wake up...'

Mars gave a sigh as he closed his eyes to sleep but found it hard to fall asleep and rolled around on the wide bear hide for some time before he finally fell asleep and started to dream.

Mars felt like he was moving up and looked around and found himself in dark room, a elevator he looked down and saw he was clad in a orange body suit, his hands and feet was cuffed and heavy looking chains led from the cuffs and was linked to a solid metal pole in the middle of the elevator limiting his mobility so he couldn't reach the walls of the elevator, he vaguely felt like he was a dog tied to a pole which caused him large amount of shame and anger

”after all, it's all their fault... wait who are they?”

Mars felt a headache when he tried to remember who exactly 'they' were, and didn't have time to think about it as the elevator he was in slowed down a little as it reached its destination and a bright light shone through the glass walls of the elevator blinding him as he shut his eyes and heard a emotionless fragmented voice

”---order please, we will now begin the sentencing off ** for crimes against humanity---”

as Mars opened his eyes again he discovered he had left his dream as a pair off clear blue cat eye was peering into his eyes, staring at his face from close proximity

”...good morning”

Mars greeted Victoria that was laying on his chest, but she just stared unblinking into his eyes for a few long seconds before her horns flashed as she tilted her head slightly to the side

”are you...okay?”

Mars was about to brush her off, saying he was fine but when he looked into her clear blue cat eyes he decided to come clean

”well i died once, so i'm not really okay”

Mars reached his hand up and started to brush Victoria's big fluffy ears, causing her to close her eyes and start purring

”but i'm a little better now”

Mars spent a few minutes getting healed by Victoria's fluffy ears before he was finally able to get up and went out of the cave with her and took in the morning air as they watched to sun rise

”....i really should check my status”

Mars hadn't cheeked his status since he died yesterday and unable to find any excuse to stall any further he gathered his mana for a second before he chanted

”status”

Name: Mars

Age: 0 (vessel 5220)

Race: Half-dragon human

Titles: [Living god of energy] [Conquer of Salen] [Tyrant King] [5000 year prisoner] [Man that fell from the sky] [Contracted]

Class: [Energy]

Class level: 19

Status points: