Life Is A Game : Rise Of The Bloodvolva

I go outside the city, avoiding the bulk of the troops, but we are still spotted easily by some orcs wandering around. Fortunately our speed does not allow them to catch us. I walk away from the road to the store and hide the car in an open (and ruined by recent looting) garage , my passengers come down shaking and on the lookout.

"- Well the goal is not to be too much notice until we get what we need. You must be silent, even if you see an orc, understood ? "

They do not answer me but nod slowly. They are not yet accustomed to the new rules of this world, or I have adapted much too quickly, it is also a possibility after all.

I put them in front of me, having these people behind me is out of the question, that would be silly. We move cautiously, hiding as much as possible behind cars, walls, garbage cans and furniture that have been thrown into the street by the orcs, but our road is quickly blocked by three pig-heads making a bonfire in the middle of the street. I notice they're cooking ... well, what's left of someone visibly, and without any weapons in hand. Their recent victory makes them confident, and it's no wonder : they have certainly not had any resistance from humans. If, as Inukami taught me, they come from another world where they are accustomed to killing, looting and violence, then landing in a place with defenseless prey is a boon to them.

The four survivors stop when seeing them and start to tremble as they turn to me. I look around but we can only go there, impossible to go through the houses or another street, it's the least risky path saddly...

I sigh and silences them while drawing my weapons and advancing towards my future prey, I want to finish them as soon as possible and if possible silently but I do not dare to dream too much.

I grabbed a duet of short blades that I had wrought in my semi-conscious state: [Embers of Rancor], blades with a single cutting edge of thirty centimeters with a guard to block my hand, they are Japanese-inspired, like a tanto, made to stab or parry only.

I want to use it to attack the throat, eyes and hearts of monsters of "human" size such as these orcs without attacking them from the front. If I can aim at the throat they will not be able to alert others around.

I apply blood to a half-collapsed lamppost and discreetly go in the opposite direction and then activate [Blood Implosion]. This triggers the small explosion as expected, allowing the final fall of the lamppost, which attracts the attention of monsters who then turn their back at me.

I leaped from my hiding place and rushed to the nearest orc, aiming at one's throat with my daggers as I plan. I feel it sinking into his flesh but these big pigs have solid leather and powerful muscles under their fat.

He tries to yell obviously but only produces gurgles, however this is enough to catch the attention of the one next to him. I have only a fraction of a second to act, I firmly grasp my dagger stuck in the neck of the orc and then push on his fat belly with my legs, this propel me with all my might towards the second creature .

My dagger cuts a big part of the throat of the first while I plunge on the second with my two blades forward. I enter his field of vision as my weapons sink into the neck of my new victim and fall back under my weight coupled with my "tackle". I give up my blades where they are and get up to grab [Burning Rancor] that I project unto the skull of the third orc who is still not aware of the situation. I activate at the same time [King's bloody Aura], increasing my control over the blood even though it consume a lot of energy and start to absorb the blood of monsters.

All of this takes only two seconds to complete, but my three actions triggered [Critical Strikes], removing a huge part of my opponent's Hp, and the one with my sword in the skull is even [Shocked] and can not act. The first is having all of his blood on the ground and already on the verge of death, but the second gets up and withdraws my daggers from his body, causing more blood to flow from his wound, blood that I can already get out in the form of a true fountain thanks to the talents of my race and class.

I pull out my huge sword with its drop-like tip from the skull of his comrade and propels it to his throat in a thrusting motion. He is too slow and awkward to avoid and ends up with a new blade, much wider, into his throat. This one is then entirely crossed, thus I cut the vertebral column and triggers an [Instant Death].

I withdraw my blade again and finish the one with the skull already split, then turn back to the first one but finds that he is already dead because of exsanguination. I finally blow the air that I held during my fight that lasted only four seconds, then returns to my "companions": unsurprisingly they are shocked by what they saw. At the same time the more I become powerful the more I leave the definition of the "humanly possible", and even if for the moment I am weak compared to the new norm of this world, I still remain much more powerful than them.

I draw them from their "dreaming" by calling them while finishing emptying the dead orcs of their blood. The last time they had not really paid attention to me when it came to saving their own a.s.s from the goblins, so now they were able to witness live my prowess, and they had to understand definitively that they could not survive without me or be able to kill me.

(I do not intend to save them but hey, they are useful to me for the moment ...)

We continue our journey, always getting as much cover as possible and watching over the houses we pass. We are in a street parallel to the "Avenue de la Gare*", less than 500 meters from the store. But these 500 meters are the deadliest ... We still meet a lot of orcs but they are so noisy that we hear them from afar and can hide in consequence. Most of them are in the houses, ransacking everything (or "arranging" their nests I do not know yet ...) and there are few in the street fortunately. There was a moment of fright when an orc suddenly thrown through the window of the first floor of a house, a television that crashed right in front of me. All four of the prisoners managed to restrain themselves from screaming surprisingly. Finally we come to see the bridge crossing the canal just before the store, but I know we will be totally uncovered once there. The bridge is part of the main artery of this town so in addition to being exposed, the chances of having monsters that spot us is ... incredibly high in my opinion.

I decide to go solo to the bridge, "praying" for it to be empty.

(Why praying is in quotes ? because last time I prayed, a possible god noticed me...)

But obviously there is a group of about ten orcs having "fun" on the famous bridge by sending various objects in the canal .

(Oh and corpses too ...)

I would go from below but I do not have yet stats high enough to ignore a jump over a canal 6 meters wide. Especially since these pork idiots would see me go below them, it would not change much if I go from below or above as they are there.

(I need a distraction to clear them from here ...)

I come back to others to explain the situation.

"-Do not rely on us for baiting them !" They say simultaneously.

"- Do you have a choice ? I already told you that your life belonged to me anyway, I still allow you to have a chance to survive while you attacked my house . But that's not what I want here, will happen is that : it's me who I will attract them, and you will go to the store. If it's open it's perfect, but if it's not, you'll have to use that. "

And I give them a vial with a green liquid: it is not an endurance potion but the vial of Hp potion that I had used in the quarry and filled with slime's gastric juice. When my grandfather was training, I was able to verify that this vial could contain the gastric fluid of the slime and that it was still acidic.

"-It's acid, so be careful. Ah, and if the urge to run away takes you ... "

I suddenly send blood on them and get it into their various wounds.

"-I would find you with that or make it implode and you would die painfully."

I lie a little bit obviously, my actions are limited by distance. If they are too far away, I can not find them or use my blood to detonate them, but they do not have to know it, do they ?

My action has its effect and they can only grit their teeth and do what I tell them ...

*Train station Avenue