*Noir's POV*
I set up tents while Yulia is cooking Boar BBQ. She's cooking again even though we had a lot of leftovers in my void ring but I can't complain of having too much since she's a really good at cooking. All the dishes she cooked is something that I have never eaten or seen. I'm so lucky to have her.
She gave me a plate with Boar BBQ and the aroma alone can make me excited.
"Thank you."
"Mhm" she nodded.
I took a bite
"Delicious as always."
(Of course it is, I won't bother to cook if I'm not good at it.)
She said proudly.
We ate together as always and it's hard to think that we are in the dangerous place because all we do is to hunt and eat. Yulia boiled bath water after we ate dinner.
(Noir, could you please bring out the portable bathroom from your void ring.)
(Okay, WAIT a minute! You had those in my ring?)
I took out an entire bathroom from my ring and was amazed.
"How did you put this thing on my ring?"
(well, I make an ordered of customized Portable bathroom after we got out of the tutorial labyrinth last time because I thought it would be useful so after you gave me the permission to use the void ring I didn't waste time and put it in there.)
She was about to enter the bathroom but she stopped and looked back at me and smiled teasingly.
(亲爱的 (darling)How about I let the door open and let you peek at me, are you excited?)
I was stunned and my brain stopped thinking. Sorry Noir EXE. Is not working then a pixelated dinosaur jumped over the cactus. I shook my head to clear out my thoughts.
"What are doing! I won't do that!"
(Hehe! 你真可爱 (you're so cute)
she incomprehensibly said before going inside the portable bathroom. I really can't understand her sometimes. I went in after she finished taking a bath and put it back inside the ring after I finished using it.
(Good night Noir.)
(Mm, Good night)
Then we went to our own tents and sleep.
*SWOOOSH!*
DANGER!
I was awakened by the danger came from above. I Immediately teleported to Yulia's tent to pick her up and escape in an instant.
"Whaaaa---!"
She yelp in surprise.
(Noir what is happening?)
"We got attacked from above."
(from above?)
We both looked up and saw a group of flying bats flying and swirling around in the sky above the towering trees. They have red furs and foxlike face and they are far bigger than the bats in my world. Thankfully we both have good eyesight so we could see them far away even though it's dark.
"Yulia, I don't think I wanna eat that thing."
"Who wants to eat that 蠢货(dumb ass)?"
She angrily said.
Some of them saw us and charge at us.
*EEEEEEEK!*
They screamed and shot us with a strong sound shockwave and we dodged all of it.
*BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!*
Anything that got hit by the shockwave was either destroyed or has crater on it.
"{Multiple Ice Javelins.}"
Yulia shot them with a barrage of Ice javelins but they dodged it with their agility.
"They are so agile, damn it!"
Yulia cursed.
"Calm down Yulia, being agitated now is not going to help."
"I really hate nocturnal animals."
(Noir go all out, I still want to sleep.)
I smiled
"Roger that!"
I pointed my fingers at the crimson cloud of bats and charged black lightning on the tip of my fingers.
"{Black star collapse}"
**KABOOOOOM!**
I shot a hot black plasma on the bats and exploded wiping out the bats and the clouds in the sky and showed the clear starry night.
"你真酷 (you're so cool) and It's beautiful."
Yulia muttered. I looked at her admiring the stars in the night sky and said
"Beautiful indeed."
This scene will be forever imprinted on my mind. Fortunately even though our tent got destroyed, Yulia prepared more tents just in case this happened. We set up the tent s closer to each just in case that something happened again and slept again.
*Yasmin's POV*
I went back home last night after seeing Noir killed thousands of monsters in one shot. I sighed in relief because I knew that they will be safe so I was convinced by George to go back home and rest.
Elena went to school today and she will probably deal a lot of trouble by answering her classmates question about her sister and brother in law. No matter what era heroes are always in the center of attention.
Ruby also wanted to visit Noir and Yulia but her father, Davis didn't let her because the dream labyrinth is a classified information so they went home together. Arnold willingly stayed there to guard the mirror.
I was watching the news and my husband is being interviewed by the reporters as the spokes person of the Espers Association about the cult incident and about the condition of the "hero" Noir.
The reporter pointed their microphones on him and asking questions.
(("Sir! Sir! Can you tell us about the individuals or the "terrorists" that attacked your daughter and the "Hero" Noir?"
"No, Not at the moment we still need to have more investigations about these dangerous individuals. We are doing our best to Identify and locate those terrorist that escaped so the people doesn't needed to be alarmed but it's the best to stay cautious when going outside especially at night."
My husband replied calmly. Another reporter raised her hand and call out George.
"Sir! Sir! The people are very concerned about the condition of the young man who saved the little girl in front of the terrorist. He was known as the "Hero" now a days. How was he?"
"Noir health is good and just resting. He will come back to school with my daughter Yulia after a few days."
"But sir George there's a rumors about him in a critical condition."
"I already said what's needed to be said. Thank you."
"SIR!" "SIR!" "SIR!"))
He turned around and left without caring about the reporters. Hehe! I can only imagine how much of a trouble those two would suffer when they came back from the labyrinth.
*Noir's POV*
This is our third day in the labyrinth and we are just doing our usual routine. Wake up, eat breakfast and walk around the everlasting forest and we saw a monster kill it.
*Crunch!* *Crunch!* *Crunch!*
We saw a giant ugly and disgusting caterpillar. It's eating everything on its way, trees, ground and rocks.
(Urgh! Noir, I don't want to touch it. Could you please nuke it again?)
(Okay, no problem. Let me try this)
I pointed at it and gathered black lightning into the tip of my fingers and shot it to the sky.
"{Black Heaven}"
*KABOOOOOM!*
Then Black Pillar from the sky an strike down to the caterpillar and annihilated it. Only the large crater remains from the attack.
"How come you had another attack every single time?"
Yulia asked doubtfully.
"I don't know, I just felt like it you know? In the real world I might struggles controlling powers but here I just think I can do it so I tried it and it worked."
"Sigh! I regretted that I asked, 真令人羡慕 (How envious)"
I really can't understand what's she's saying but if I asked her she's just telling that it's secret. We encountered more monsters and Yulia took action and defeated them. The day was ended just like that and the fourth day came.
This time were probably in trouble, We saw a town size ant colony.
"Are we still going to continue?"
I asked
"I don't know but we probably need to since we don't know if the "Key" was here or not"
The key that she was talking about is the boss of the stage like the Orc last time. We nodded to each other and moved.
We can't just fight in a straight forward way every time so we used simple tricks to weaken them.
First is to disrupt their communication Ants rely on pheromone trails to navigate and communicate. Scattering a mixture of water and peppermint, tea tree oil will obliterate their scent trails and confuse their swarm tactics.
They are more or as intelligent as humans so poisoning them directly wouldn't work so we did to the second step in the middle of chaos. We mixed equal parts Honey with baking soda and water. The Honey attracts the worker ants, who ingest the sweet poison and carry it back to share with the queen and the rest of the brood. The Ants won't realized that the Honey is mixed with slow acting poison, allowing them to carry it straight into the heart of the colony.
We waited until the poison affected the entire colony before we moved. We moved as fast as we can to take out as many as we can, fast and efficient. Yulia used her sword while I used my plasma blade. We directly go to the ant Queen to finish it directly.
*SWOOOSH!*
*SWOOOSH!*
*BRRRRRZZZZZZZT!*
We are lucky because my magical element is able to absorb the queen bee's magic so we easily defeated the be swarm but we learned that we can't always rely on luck and brute force so we will clear this out as efficient as we can. I rushed in front of the ant queen and slash it at maximum speed. The head was chopped off and fell down.
(Noir! Noir! Looked here.)
Yulia called me excitedly while we were cleaning up the colony. I came to her side and looked at room that's shining Gold. A room with countless of treasure inside.
"Wow! This is crazy."
I immediately put it all inside my ring and we left the colony and the fourth day ended.