Between The Worlds

The young bear saved Raphel as the knife was truly fast. If not instincts of the little bear, then Raphel would've been dead already! Shaking heavily because of the sense of 'death' Raphel unconsciously took several steps back in fear...

Of course, it looked lame. Not only he had left his bear, but also gave confidence to thief! When the small man tried to end the young bear, Raphel shouted as strength came out of nowhere... Although coward, he truly didn't want the young bear to die as he had saved him...

"I- I will give you money! L-leave the young bear!"

"Ahahah!"

The small man laughed ignoring Raphel. He released his knife attack going straight for the little head of the young bear! Raphel who already felt the death of his young bear moved. Grabbing the huge dismantled part of the mecha tiger, Raphel threw it with everything he got at the man!

He, who lacked strength and techniques... such throw only stopped the small man for a second. But! It also had effect as the small man stopped and kept his gaze on Raphel...

"The scales of lizardman... cheap as f.u.c.k, but better than nothing."

"!"

He jumped at Raphel! Since the young bear was truly young and small, he hadn't used any technique. However, for a.d.u.l.t lizardman, the man had to use one of his sure-to-kill techniques! The knife of his vibrated slightly! And it kept vibrating as it went forward for Raphel!

There was no point in aiming at vital poins with such technique on the knife. Also the man himself saw how scared Raphel is, thus...

'It will be easy kill.'

But the easy kill hadn't happened as Raphel remembered the words of Human Bear! He had watched how disciples had fought while Human Bear kept reminding him to watch the movements of their bodies...

'This way, you will know where he aims for!'

Raphel moved to the side, doding the attack! Then, he took out the small bottle with purple liquid! It was his venom... The bottle was used for milk to feed the young beasts... When Raphel asked them other guild members, they looked at him strangely...

When he asked people from other divisions, they sneered at him and ridiculed. Nevertheless, he stood strong withstanding their every word filled with ridicule. Those bottles were needed as Raphel wanted to use as much as possible of his deadly venom!

After all, one use was enough to tire him for hours...

Holding this small bottle, Raphel turned around! The man who missed his attack already changed the way he held his knife as his fingers danced. Going for the back attack, he released his knife technique once more...

"Blurgh!"

The knife penetrated Raphel's stomach and the young snakeman immediately puked with blood. However, his determination to survive awakened his instincts and he literally smashed the small bottle on the small man heads...

"AAAAAAAARGH!!!"

The scream full of pain, so loud that it stopped the battle outside. Holding his head, the small man began thrashing on the ground as the pain was immense... Raphel himself saw how the skin of the man was slowly disappearing exposing bloody red flesh...

Such sight was truly too much for Raphel. His whole body was shaking incessantly, while the heart was thumping too loud sealing his hearing... But the man wasn't weak... The eyes of his were on Raphel even while he held his face with all of venom on it...

The will of warrior.

The killing intent...

The d.e.s.i.r.e to survive by killing!

Raphel lacked every one of those! Seeing such horrying sight, he fell on his but, and madly began throwing his bottles with liquid, sealing the movement of man who was about to stand up... The venom of snakeman was scorching, hissing each time it got rid of the flesh...

With such venom on his whole body, the man stopped moving as it already penetrated through his head to the brain... It was the first target of Raphel...

"I... I killed human..."

Raphel muttered with hoarse voice. His whole body was shaking tremendously as never before and sweat was flowing down like waterfall... The trembling eyes of his weren't like usual, trembling with cowardice, but with pure fear of killing someone...

The knife in his stomach already got pulled out which caused Raphel to twist his face in pain as blood flowed down staining his leather armor. Whole area around his injury burned in extreme pain yet Raphel could move as such pain was nothing compared to the 'fall.'

Then, Raphel rushed towards his young bear as he stumbled on the way... He was a.d.u.l.t one, while the young bear was truly young... and yet...

"You saved me."

Raphel took medicine and put it into mouth of his partner... Seeing the injured young bear, Raphel didn't feel like he got burden for himself. It didn't matter if the young bear was the same or little stronger than Raphel...

"Let's become stronger together..."

Raphel couldn't wait for the young bear to get stronger! He understood this on this dungeon mission, then turning around to look at his guild members...

"!!!"

The situation didn't look good at all... Raphel thoughts went astray as she saw injured Shi.