Two birds One arrow

the day light once again came to the cave, Charlotte can be seen laying on Nics lap, during the night she had cried herself to sleep while she tried to explain her past to nic.

nic had a soft spot for the little girl, not just because she was a halfling but also because of the scars and things this girl had gone through.

although he just meet her he could not have just abandon her, afterall he was her savior, and he could not forget that moment when she fell, he remembered how she looked at him and ask for help, it was replayed over and over in his mind.

"I will protect her" nic thought, he could not just leave her to survive in this place full of monsters, to be even exact to a halfling this world was full of monsters, she also was not able to walk and also did not have a gift to protect herself.

the age one was to be to have a gift is sixteen, although it is said that one is bless with a gift from birth, it is said that those that have gotten their gifts early all were F-Rank it is said to be a curse to those that rush the gods by some, and by others it is said your gift needs time to develop and taking it before it's time can only give you an unfinished product.

because of this everyone in the continent no matter their race do not have their gifts before they are sixteen of age.

nic who was deep in his thought was suddenly startled by the sound of Charlotte's stomach.

she sat upright and looked at nic, she looked into his eyes and smiled, she felt comfortable around nic since they both were the same, halfling were rare afterall, although it was unknown why although it is a sin, many find love to other races, but they fail to bring forth a child.

"hmm I see your awake and hungry" nic said, as he began to hover towards the meat he had gotten yesterday.

he was planning to eat as much as he could before the food rot, he took up a the tail of the monster croc, he was able to get two legs, the tail and the upper part of the crocs body.

nic dragged the tail over to Charlotte, "this would be our morning meal" as he said these words she smile and tilted her head, if it was not for her face being disfigured it would have been incredibly cute.

nic smiled back, even though the girl did not speak she atleast broke his loneliness, he was so accustomed to being alone, but now he had the company of someone that understood him.

"the meat would need to be cooked" nic said as he can see that the little girl was drooling, she then pointed at phyora that was in nics other hand.

"ohh" nic was shocked as he did not expect that she had seen when he had used phyora to cook the meat.

"it doesn't work like that.." nic said as he explained what phyora was, Charlotte became more and more saddened as she heard her stomach more over nics explanation.

"it's alright I got a way to cook it and also finish a task, so I would be killing two birds with one arrow" nic said as he smiled.

as Charlotte heard what he said she was confused and pointed at a stone in the cave as she had heard the phrase many times before.

nic looked at where she was pointing but did not see nothing worth his attention so he ignored.

"since you can't walk, you won't mind me carrying you right?" nic asked as he stretched out his hand towards her and transformed into a stunning middle age man that the little girl had taking for another race, due to his long hair, long horns, his fair skin and his unusual height it looked as though he was some other race one was not able to tell that he was part human or fairy.

she grabbed nic hands and was place onto his shoulder, "hold this tight" he picked up his sword with his left arm and handed it to Charlotte who was on his right shoulder, he also used his right hand to keep her from falling.

he grabbed the croc tail and dragged it deeper into the cave.

"before I saw you I was in here, I think that it was also part of your luck that I came out of here at the time though.." nic was freely talking to Charlotte, not even with Ivry did he talk this much, he just felt more connected with Charlotte.

*splash* nic stepped in the liquid from before, he was to busy talking to Charlotte that he had forgotten, he then placed the croc meat away from the liquid he did not want Charlotte to suffer the same faith as him.

"hand me the sword nic said as he raised his left hand up towards Charlotte, she placed the hilt of the sword in his hand.

nic then began to walk around cutting down the numerous amounts of eggs that were on the cave floor.

after cutting hundreds of the eggs, phyora was radiating crimson red as it was getting hot from the numerous souls.

This was part of the curse of the blade that was known only as soul stacking, he was able to add more souls to be fuel to phyora's flames, the more souls that were burnt the stronger it became, this was the skill he used when fighting the scouts of the southern beastmen territory, with the combination of half the team he was able to turn the land black like ash, while almost sacrificing his arm.

the blade of the sword is also to be the one to have dealt the final blow in order to consume the soul, this is why when he burnt away the rock toad that the sword did not take its soul to burn with nics.

nic was not afraid to stack the souls of these eggs since they did not amount to much, two hundred souls of the eggs was only equal to one soul of a normal beastman.

nic had stacked four hundred, with this the blade was crimson red but was not as hot as when it had burned the croc soul.

"DRAGONS FINAL BREATH" nic thruster his sword forward towards the eggs infront of him, a fireball the size of a baseball can be seen shooting out of the sword towards the eggs.

"close your eyes" he said to Charlotte who was still on his shoulder, she did as she was asked although she was fascinated to see Nics power.

the fireball then touched a egg and in an instant it exploded, but it was as fierce as when he fought the snake, this attack was as domineering as ever.

dust was kicked up and rush at nic, he grabbed Charlotte from his shoulder and covered her as he turned his back to the dust.

after the dust settled the eggs can be seen burning, it lighted up the cave as the thousands of eggs were being burnt away.

nic was waiting for them to completely turn to ash before he adventured deeper into the cave.

before this he used the last of the phyora's flame to cook the meat of the croc so that Charlotte would not go hungry.

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Arthur here am sick again so would be slow on my publishing speed T_T