Chapter 186 War once again 2 (1/2)

After Terry had lived with Mars and the others for a few days he seemed to have accepted his new identity as a living god and sought out Mars that was lazing around on the roof, he was laying in the sunshine with Victoria on top of him and lightly sleeping but woke up when Terry walked over and looked up at him with a smile on his face, during the past days Mars had showed great care to Terry truly treating him like a little brother

”hey Terry”

”hi Mars... can we talk for a bit?”

”sure”

Mars sat up and turned to face Terry with Victoria on his lap purring away

”so what do you want to talk about?”

”....it's a little embarrassing to ask but could you train me in archery?”

Mars gave a slight frown and said in a slightly stern tone

”don't ever be embarrassed about seeking out ways to get stronger... while I don't know a whole lot about archery there's another thing I could teach you how to use, yeah let's do that”

Mars nodded to himself and gently lifted Victoria off his lap before he stood up and began walking towards the stairs but stopped seeing as Terry was not following him and said

”come on Terry, I want to show you something”

”okay Mars”

Mars lead the way down the stairs and after walking through the hallways for a few minutes they reached his workshop where Mars opened the door and walked in, Terry followed after and was amazed at how cluttered the workshop was, there was drawings and mathematics formulas on the walls and loose parts all over the tables, the only saving grace was that the floor was clean and tidy, Mars began to dig tough the parts and eventually pulled.... something out of the heap, at first glance it looked like a rectangle with a leather stock in one end and a narrow metal tube sticking out the other end, there was also a grip with a trigger positioned under thing right in the middle, Mars picked it off the table and took a stance before he gripped the grip and pushed the leather stock against his shoulder and lined up his eye with the sight before he pointed it at a reinforced wall and slowly squeezed the trigger before a click sounded out and Mars quickly took the thing down from his shoulder and removed a part of it and took a magic beast core up form a nearby table and inserted it into the removable thing before he put the removable thing back into the rectangle and took a stance again and slowly squeezed the trigger, this time Terry just managed to fell a wave of odd before a spike shot out form the from the rectangle and hit the reinforced wall, boring itself deep into the wall, then Mars turned to Terry and asked

”what do you think?”

Terry didn't answer and walked over to Mars and revived the rectangle thing from him before he himself took aim at the reinforced wall while mimicking Mars' stance from before and also pulled the trigger while aiming at the reinforced wall and with a bang a spike once again shot out and hit the reinforced wall, Terry gave a nod and said

”I like it”

Mars also gave a slime and took the rectangle thing from from Terry before he flipped a switch on the side of it and laid it back down on the table

”this is called a spike gun, it's my own personal invention and it's powered by magic beast cores or mana crystals”

”....so that's why I have never seen this kind of weapon before”

”yeah it's something from my past life that has been adapted to this world.... let's go on a hunting trip”

”a hunting trip?”

”yeah what better way to get adjusted to a new weapon then actually using it?”

Terry gave a nod and after a basic course about how to use the spike gun Mars was about to open a portal when Kaitlin ran into the workshop, she looked greatly distressed but as soon as she saw Mars she seemed to calm down a bit before she spoke

”Mars the elders have called for you”

Mars clicked his tongue in annoyance before he bluntly asked

”what does dose undead geezers want now? I'm about to head out with Terry so if it is not important I'll ignore it”

”the NNE have invaded the Mother forest”

”...shit that does sound important, sorry Terry our hunting trip will have to wait”

Terry gave a nod and Mars was about to walk out of the room when he remembered something and turned back to Terry and asked

”have you decided if you want to live in Green river Terry?”