As soon as the clock hit 12:30 pm, I ran towards my ho like a moth to the fla. On the way, I bumped into the grocery store. Instead of stopping by for the part-ti job that I did there, I just bought a few ingredients for food and so toilet paper as I had run out of them.
I went ho straight after that. Although I seriously needed to do my shift at the grocery store, otherwise soone else would eat up my spot without having a chance to get it back anyti soon, I decided to take the risk and not go to work today.
I had this weird feeling that sothing special was going to happen soon. I didn't know if the 'special' here was good or bad, but with the infinite power of positiveness at my side, all I could think was 'good good good'.
Throwing my shoes in the corridor and I walked in and imdiately went for a bath. After coming out of the bath, I wiped myself clean with a towel and started cooking.
I made macaroni and cheese, without any special ingredients so as to save money. At the grocery store, my heart did bounce when I saw the raw sausages and at, since it's been quite so ti since the last ti I ate at. But I couldn't afford to be so extravagant when I was even ditching my part ti jobs.
Looking at the plain mac and cheese, it seed like it was shouting 'You cheapfuck! Add so at!'.
"I am not cheap. I have beco a vegetarian."
I retorted to the nonexistent voice of the mac and cheese. After eating, I cleaned the dishes and by the ti I was about to login to [Mayhem], it was already 1:27 pm.
[Welco, Flynn Grey]
[23rd March 2107, 13:27 GMT -6]
[Face recognition complete :)]
The familiar fanfare began and soon, the darkness around collapsed as the wonder-worthy Abyss' view ca into my eyes.
"Look, dad! Soone just appeared out of thin air."
As soon as I made my entrance, I heard a little boy's words. Turning back, I saw a kid with white hair, greyish pink skin, and a horn protruding from one side of its forehead.
"What?! When did you even co here? I told you to stay in the village, it's dangerous out here. The Abyss piranhas would eat you alive!"
The dad guy was almost 2 ters tall, with the sa hair features as the kid, albeit a bit more threatening. He had a horn straight at his forehead, unlike the kid who had it on the side. He had overgrown bottom canines that sprouted out of his mouth.
I could very clearly see their nas and the race they belonged to.
'Ogres!'
These were ogres, a monstrous race that had been depicted in the myths and folklores of humanity for ages. They were a hideous race that looked like humans but were said to eat humans, especially children.
"But dad! Look behind you!"
The ogre kid shouted at his dad and pointed at who had just appeared out of nowhere.
The ogre dad finally turned around and saw , imdiately putting on his guard and bringing out the crude two-handed sword that he held on his back.
"A human! Kris, run towards the village and inform everyone! An ogre-eating human has co to the Abyss! Don't turn around and just run, these humans eat ogre children without even cooking."
"....."
Was this what the system ant by 'unwelco' when it was giving the quest?
"Hey now! Don't slander my reputation like that, I don't eat kids!"
I retorted, trying to talk with the ogre while secretly taking out Eclipse in my hand.
"OH? So you've co here to eat adults instead? You fiend! Don't think I'll go down so easily! Hah!"
"....."
"Dad, run! I'll protect you!"
The ogre called Kris picked up a stick and glared at with tears threatening to break from his eyes.
"Those fishes that you are collecting are mine. I killed them, so let take them and I'll be gone."
I said, trying to divert the topic when I noticed the buckets and the bodies of the Abyss piranhas.
"....you killed these deadly piranhas…? So many of them at that?"
"Yes! So put your weapons aside and go back, I have no ti to kill you guys."
I said as I looked at their levels. The adult was level 49 and the kid was level 6.
"How can I believe you? Prove yourself!"
I didn't want to chitchat any longer and hence, I used [Camouflage], disappearing out of their sight and appearing just behind the kid, Eclipse pointed at his neck.
"See? I could have killed you and your kid any mont I wanted."
I said as I held the kid at the edge of my blade. I was talking to them because I saw the colour of their nas that was shown by the system.
'White.'
Yes, their na was written in white colour, instead of yellow or red. This ans that the system treats them as NPCs and not monsters.
After seeing the father drop his sword imdiately, I let go of the kid.
"You should have done that from the beginning."
"I am sorry, I am sorry, really sorry. Please don't hurt Kris. His mother is already dead, I can't afford to lose him too."
The bulky ogre fell to his knees as he begged while crying.
"....."
Again, this world was too realistic. Even people like this ogre had a past that soone can sympathize with.
"Don't worry about it. I have co here to save a village nad Rewan. Do you happen to know where it is?"
Sothing clicked in my mind as I realised that maybe this ogre would know whatever this Rewan village was. I needed to start the quest as soon as possible.
Kris ran towards his dad as soon as I lifted my blade from his neck. The ogre looked dumbstruck for a while before his eyes started shining.
"Are you really here to save the Rewan village?"
The ogre asked with hope in his eyes. He couldn't believe that a human had sohow co to the Abyss and was even saying that he would save his village.
I reconfird my words.
"Yes, precisely, I am here to save the village chief's daughter from a monster nad Grivantula."
This ti, the ogre seed to have believed as soon as he heard about the Grivantula and the village chief's daughter.
"Yes, yes. My na is Kylos, this is my son Kris. Please follow . Sorry for my rudeness earlier. Please make haste and follow ."
Kylos said as he started running in the opposite direction of the stream. Before leaving, he gave one last glance at the dead bodies of the Abyss piranhas, but shook his head and ran away.
I put all the piranhas in my inventory just after he started running, and I followed him soon after.
After running for a while, we passed through many giant mushrooms, leaves, trees and vines. But there were no apparent monsters on the way.
Soon after, I could spot a village with large huts made out of wood and large dried leaves. So ogres could be spotted walking around.
"Hey, Kylos! Did you bring so food?"
One of the kid ogres spotted Kylos and ca running to him. Kylos scratched his horns as he smiled awkwardly and replied to the little girl.
"Haha, not yet. But I promise I will bring sothing the next ti for sure."
The little girl looked a bit disappointed but soon cheered up.
"Hehe, it's fine, it's fine. Wait... who's that behind you?"
She finally seed to have noticed as I waved my hand awkwardly with a smile.
Kylos, who suddenly rembered about , imdiately started shouting.
"Everyone gather around! Call the village chief, soone wants to et him."
Listening to Kylos' shout, everyone around started gathering and whispering to each other. Soon exclamations rang out as the adult ogres saw .
"An ogre-eater!"
"A human!"
"What is a human doing in the Abyss!"
"He'll eat us all!"
"Soone should go and report to the generals imdiately!"
The ogres started getting agitated as every one of them grabbed whatever they could to use as weapons.
"Calm down everyone! He's not here to harm us! He's here to save the village chief's daughter and put an end to the reign of this Grivantula that eats up all our villagers!"
Kylos tried to calm everyone down, while telling them that I ant no harm. Totally ignoring the fact that I held a blade at his son's neck a few minutes ago.
"Is this true?"
"A human saving us? What a joke?"
"The fuck are you snickering for? Go and kill the Grivantula yourself if you're so brave, Chorgul."
Kylos retorted to an ogre's snide remark. Soon after, a burly ogre, bigger than everyone present with scars all over his body ca running. This ogre had a goat-like white beard too.
"Are you telling the truth? This… I… Please save my daughter."
The village chief, nad Kai, held both of my hands with his huge hands as he asked emotionally. It seed to like he loved his daughter a lot. But first, I needed to know what this whole Grivantula ordeal was about.
"Yes, I will try my best. But before that, tell what is going on first."
I asked, and the village chief imdiately nodded his head.
"Co to my house, I will explain everything I can."
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