Stingers Sucks...! [Job | Solo]

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‘….tch.’ The man clicked his tongue, annoyed by the creature that he had to deal right now. He would lift his Katana and swung it to kill the little scorpions but it didn’t stop coming. In fact, he wished that he wouldn’t have to deal with this troublesome little stingers alone, and hoped that his acquaintance that was capable to cast some fiery magic to come and burnt all the creatures. Well that was not going to happen though no matter how much he wished for that to happen, “I’m counting on you… Myou…” He murmured to his Katana as he began to swing it again, crushing the swarms of little stingers near him.

It all began around several hours ago… when the morning sky was not as bright as usual and the dark clouds gathered up above. The citizen was pleased by the sky color, busying themselves to prepare some big bucket to store the rain so they could re-use the water and waited until it rain. Soon the rain dropped on the ground steadily and gradually became swifter as time passed, making the citizen contempt to be able to store some rain water for their needs. Tenma watched from the window at his inn room, enjoying the cold wind while lazily humming a random melody. He wanted to be lazy today, didn’t want to go out and still want to cuddle with the pillow. As soon as he was ready to lie down on the bed so he could get some other sleep, he heard a lot of screaming from outside. It was not a mere screaming but it sounded like a massive disaster occurred in the city. He grunted as he maneuvered his body to get up, climbing down from the bed and head to see what happened from the window. “…scorpions…?”

The next thing he remembered, he ended up dealing with the endless scorpions. He groaned, knowing he should directly kill the leader if he want it to stop but these little things had him fully occupied. Lucky for him some townspeople helped to get rid of the things too, so Tenma decided to find the den, wishing to just end it all. ‘How in the world did so many scorpions swarmed to the city… what is the cause…’ He wondered as he kept walking towards where the scorpions came, hoping that it would lead him to their den. The man continued his step, slaying some little scorpions on his way until he exited the city, finding himself walking in the middle of the desert. ‘There must be something in this Desert of Forgotten Soul…’

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WC: 439/1500

Water dropped from the man’s chin as he walked in the middle of the desert, feeling the heat didn’t change even though it was just finished raining. It was kind of hard to breathe also since it was very humid there and the sand was very thick in the air. Lucky for the swordsman he had brought many thing that was enough for him to be able to survive. He prepared the scarf for him to cover his face, protecting his nose so he wouldn’t breathe the sand and also brought some water flask to wet his dry throat. He would walk and walk, marking his step on the sand just to be erased by the wind.

The scorpions still swarming towards the city as Tenma could see it crossing the sand, but he paid no attention as he knew he couldn’t waste any time and needed to quickly find the leader. He would stop for a while when he saw two large scorpions, looks like they were guarding something as they didn’t follow the little one to making chaos in the city. The size was much larger and the swordsman believed that there will be another one that has a bigger size, he couldn’t imagine how big it will be but he already prepared himself to face anything. ‘Never face giant scorpions before… this will be an interesting chance…’ He smiled faintly and stared at the scorpions coldly. The handle of his Katana was already in his right hand grip, ready to be unsheathed and cut something as he dashed towards the scorpions. He headed to the one on the left and swung his Katana, performing two quick sharp slashes towards the Queen’s Knight (A) and knocked it down. He skillfully swung his Katana to it would press his back in unthreatening way, using it to parry the attack from scorpion as it uses its tail towards Tenma’s back.

“Hmmm…” He hummed playfully, stepping back for a few step and licked his lips. He was satisfied, enjoying every moment in this battle, feeling the thrill from it while it made his body shivers with pleasure. This was what he needed, this kind of feeling was nice, and making his body felt good and his head lighter. But it was not enough, he needed more, more thrill to make him fully satisfied. He was now laughing before finally dashed towards the remaining large scorpion and performed two downwards diagonal cuts, clashing it right when the Queen’s Knight (B) sent him a deadly pinch. The clash would force both of them to back off until their gap was around three meters between each other, and the one eyed man ran again, giving no chance for the scorpion to recover from the clash effect and attacked it. He didn’t use his Katana this time as he only gripping it tight and using his legs instead. The scorpion collapsed on the ground as it was being kicked twice by the black haired man, the kicks were hard enough to make it knocked out and fell on the sand.

Tenma would still holding his Katana and brought it a long with him as he noticed a small cave near there and walked towards it. The cave looked suspicious, as if it was built by something and was not a natured made. He would peeked inside for a second only to find nothing. But he was sure something must be inside, because some small scorpions kept coming from there. With a sigh escaped his lips and a pleased smirk, he entered it…

WC: 1036/1500
Magoi / Stamina : 170/250

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A weird sound could be heard as the man entered the cave deeper, he didn’t recognize the sound no matter how hard he tried to find out. His step brought him to the quite large area and he stopped himself before proceeding any further since he recognized something familiar but much bigger than any other scorpions he saw. ‘Must be the queen…’ The swordsman murmured when he notice the part that seemed like a stomach part a little bigger and the weird sound he heard was the wail from the queen itself. He assumed the queen was now in a vulnerable state since it was pregnant, but still needed to kept his guard up, not wanting his assumption backfired him while he was alone like this. There was no way he would gave up his life by the hand of such creature even though maybe it was much stronger than him, he would do anything to survive and met his little sister. He would chuckled to himself when he remembered his sister just now, suddenly his past memory flowed into his mind.

The black haired man remembered that the day was pleasant, the weather was fine and perfect for a kid to play outside and interact with nature. It was the day when he saw his sister approached him and gave him a glass can which had a scorpion inside, making him panicked and asked how she could capture such a dangerous creature and quickly checked her in case the scorpion stung her. Luckily for him, his sister was okay and later on, she would tell him about how she captured the scorpion by using a thongs made from woods, making young Tenma more relieved but ended up scolding her a little because it was still dangerous. The girl would just innocently nod and smiled brightly to her brother and made themselves watched the scorpion for the next several day. She would say that it was fun, until she cried when she found out that the scorpion was dead. She would stop crying when her older brother assure him that the scorpion went to a better place, so she didn’t have to worry. At that time, he was lying. He was the one who killed the scorpion because it managed to escape somehow and attempted to attack his sister…

The queen of scorpions letting out a wail again, this time louder when it noticed Tenma’s approach. He was not holding back his murderous intention at all right now, instead he used it to provoke the queen, making it lower her guard down and making the chance so he could send an attack. “…Time to go to a better place..eh..?” The one eyed man chuckled as he readied himself when the scorpion uses its tail to pierce Tenma’s body just to be deflected by the swordsman. The beast raged and sent its pinchers towards Tenma, hoping to crush the man with it. But unfortunately, he performed four quick sharp slashes, cutting off the arm of the scorpion and proceeded to pull his left hand back, engaged the base of his palm to send four upward thrusts right on its stomach. He was not done at all, needed to do more and finally delivered four diagonal slashes to the scorpion, instantly killing it. The man would go back to the city and dealt with the remaining small scorpions where after that, the city leader gave him a reward for his help.

WC: 1615/1500
Magoi/Stamina : 70/250

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