ART Of Survival - Chapter 26

(Auth:- I am talking about simple caves that appear in nature, I mean in mountains, I mean in forests…Ahhhhh!! think whatever you want to idc)

Mal was stuck to a tree because of the strong winds and was struggling to move. “I have to get inside that cave before the sun goes down otherwise I will become the food of those birds,” Mal remembered reading in a book that these Aero Hawks (Auth:- Aero hawks sound better than Wind hawks likes to come down and rest in the night and if any one of them finds Mal, then he would be able to fight them at all because he was currently constricted because of the wind.

‘How the hell I am supposed to travel across when the wind is there to blast me in the sky!!’ Mal couldn’t help but curse inwardly.

-At the entrance of the forest-

“Sir for how long are we supposed to wait for that guy? It has already been 5 hours! We are way past the best time to enter the forest.” A tanned teen asked in an annoyed tone.

“Shut Up! do you know who that person is? If you have some problem then you can go alone, no one will stop you!” A man who looked to be in his thirties scolded the tanned guy.

“Is he the strongest person in the world? Is he the president of the EASP organization? No! so why should we waste our future and time on him?” The tanned boy was getting impatient.

“Oh! So, someone is angry because of me being late? I apologize to you…” As the tanned boy was speaking, a car arrived in front of them and a guy stepped out of it. He had blond hair and slim stature, his face was also pretty girly.

Looking at the person in front of him covered in high-level ether armour, the tanned boy from before got shocked but quickly recovered himself from the shock.

“Well, you have wasted our time so, don’t you think you should pay us back somehow?” He placed his arm on the shoulder of the blonde guy and smiled.

“Argo! You bastard!” The instructor jumped forward and kicked the tanned boy away from the blond guy and hurriedly bowed his head in front of the bond kid, “I…I am sorry Sir Eren Blair, he is blind and cannot recognize mount Tai in front of him!” (Auth:- Here comes Mt. Tai! I always wanted to use this sentence in a novel or something like that.)

“It’s okay, I do owe an apology to my dear friend there.” Eren pointed towards the tanned boy and smiled. “Friend over there! You can come and take this armour away from me.” Eren spread his arms in a welcoming manner towards the boy lying on the floor.

“Hehe! I guess you have some brain in that small head of yours!” The tanned boy got up patted the dust off his clothes and started walking towards Eren in a cocky manner. (Auth:- Guess who doesn’t have a brain! :)) “Stop you son of a b**ch! You are playing with fire!” The instructor tried stopping the tanned boy but, Eren stopped him and said “Please don’t instructor, let my friend come over here.”

“Ye…yes” The instructor stopped talking and looked at the tanned boy with pity and anger in his eyes.

The tanned boy was walking towards Eren with a cocky smile on his face. He was scared of people who were stronger than him, and the person in front of him looked like a spoilt second-generation chaebol (Auth:- a large family-owned business conglomerate.) with no skills and power of his own. Eren was also smiling at the tanned youth, but his eyes were looking at him as if he was looking at a corpse.

The tanned youth arrived in front of Erem and raised his hand to remove the armour off Eren’s body, but the moment he touched Eren, his hands started withering.

“Eeek!!!” An unexpected sharp shriek escaped from the tanned youth’s mouth and he fell down grasping his hand as if trying to stop the withering.

“What did you do to meeee?!!!!!!” He pointed at Eren and screamed. Eren smiled and walked towards the boy and he squatted down and held his finger while smiling, he said, “I don’t like people who point at me…” saying that, a black shadow started coming out of his hand and started engulfing the hand of the tanned youth. To stop him from screaming, he took a handkerchief from god knows where and stuffed it into his mouth.

“Mmmmmmnnn!!!” The tanned youth while sitting on the ground started flapping his hands and legs to somehow shake off the black substance from his hands but, it was not helping him at all. The black substance after sucking his hand off its vitality started spreading to his other hand, then his legs, then his chest and finally his face.

Everyone was looking at the tanned youth with shock and fear in their eyes. The fear they felt was because of Eren Blair.

Within 5 minutes, The tanned youth who was like a big bear was now reduced to a shrivelled twig and of course, he was dead. After the black stuff was done with its work, it returned to Eren and got absorbed by him.

“Meh! So much for all of that arrogance, it turned out that person was all talk.” He licked his lips and looked at the shrivelled dead body in front of him with disdain.

“Do anyone else want to come and raise any complain?” Eren looked at the crowd who was looking at him with fear and said.

‘No! Sir Eren Blair! We don’t have any problem!” Everyone shouted at together.

“Tchh…what a pity.” Eren shook his head and started walking towards the forest.

“You baffoons! what are you waiting for? An invitation? Quickly move your lazy ass and start walking! We don’t have a whole day.” The instructor came back from the daze and shouted at the hunters who were still shocked.

-Back At The Wind Valley-

Mal was still thinking of ways to reach the cave. “I should just take the risk of flying with the wind and just go down, I am wasting my time here.” Mal was looking around and these crazy thoughts were coming into his head. (Auth:- Here we go again…)

“Yess!! I can try that!!” Finally, after waiting for 3 hours, an idea popped up in Mal’s head. He took out Katana and slashed it at a tree that was a meter away from Mal, and obviously, without any resistance, it fell down, without wasting any time, Mal kicked the tree at the edge making it fall horizontally and as a result, it got stuck in between two trees. “Yes!!!” Seeing that his idea worked, Mal shouted in delight.

What he had in his mind was to make a railing by using the fallen tree and this idea of his actually worked!

“Now I won’t die…I hope” Mal grinned and slowly started walking towards the cave with the help of the fallen tree. And after 2 minutes, he arrived in front of the entrance of the cave. “One last jump and I am in!” Mal looked at the entrance and clenched his fist in anticipation.

“The distance should be around 2 meters…If it was me before, it would have been impossible for me to jump this long while standing but now I am different!” Mal smiled as he looked at the physique and agility column of his stats window. It was 20 times the amount of what a normal human has.

“Thank god I can absorb the attributes of the monster after killing them, otherwise it would have been impossible for me to do anything here.” Before coming here, Mal had already invested his leftover stat points he got from killing the steel armadillos to his stats and now his stats alone were equal to those of Lv 2 people.

Mal once again looked at the entrance of the cave and jumped towards it while screaming “I love caves!!”