Chapter 58 Stinker

"Fine, let's go kill some monster! You only seem to care about fighting, even after I did what you asked!" Listenia complained, and we made our way deeper into the forest.

"Lord, woman, you are relentless. Fine, the first lesson, magic is everywhere. They're done now. Will you shut up so we don't scare the monsters away?" I growled.

"What?! How is magic everywhere? Am I touching it right now? Am I breathing it?" Listenia asked, almost tripping over a log.

"Yes to all. Your world is right with Pure Magic, the basis of the six elements. With it, you can convert it into any element and use it to cast any spell. You can also draw in as much as you need, but you must be careful. Overcasting spells can cause the spell to go out of control and even hurt you. We will practice this, but not until tonight, okay?"

I could see some big up ahead, but it wasn't the Terror Beast that I had hoped for, but just as good.

"Oh, goddess, things smell worse than the north end of a horse going south!" Listenia complained.

"Then you stay here and let me play with it," I said as I walked to the clearing where a twenty-foot tall Troll had its back to me.

"Sure, go have fun; I am just going to empty the lunch I never ate from my stomach," Listenia said, actually looking pale.

"Watch out for other monsters, and yell if you need help!" I yelled, which made the Troll turn around, making me grin at how ugly the thing was.

"Stoopid hooman. I eat you after bash you!" The Troll roared at me from its tusked mouth.

"Did your tongue stop working?" I teased as the monster rushed at me with its massive club.

The Troll swung at me from the side, and I blocked it with my sword, cutting halfway through the club. The Troll blinked at me and then tried to grab at me, but I cut three fingers off, making them much heavier as the blood soaked into the blade.

The Troll didn't even scream; it just stepped back and looked at its fingers.

"Ow, that pointy stick sharp," The Troll growled, and then through the club at me, and I side-stepped it.

In the same motion, I spun and threw my own sword, planting it in the neck of the Troll.

It grabbed at its neck, but the blade soaked up the creature's blood and then sunk down the creature to cut it wide open. The blade sunk into the ground as the Troll fell backward, and I almost gagged at the wretched smell that I had just unleashed.

"Could you have killed it any worse?! That could knock a dog off a shit wagon!" Listenia complained from far back then, "Hurlgh! Blaaah!"

I was already pulling in Pure Magic into one hand and converting it into Fire Magic while plugging my nose. I had to get close enough to put an Incinerate Target Glyph, and once I did, I added a time variation to it to give me a couple seconds to get back.

Once it was set, I jumped back and waited for the spell to ignite, but I was starting to hear some sounds getting closer. I couldn't see anything yet, but south of the clearing I was in got pretty dark, and I couldn't see far.

Then the spell lit the stinking corpse, and I could see the forest lit up with many red eyes.

That was interesting, but whatever they were, they didn't come closer while the fire was burning, and it was a pretty big body. It would probably take another ten minutes to burn down, and then red eyes weren't moving.

"Listenia, are you done being ill?" I asked and looked back at her leaning against a tree.

"Can we just go back now?! Don't you have to be doing something?" Listenia complained, and I groaned.

"But I am burning the monster so it won't stink, and there are a bunch of red eyes staring at me from the other side of the clearing. I am sure that they want to play, and we have to wait for the fire to burn down so I can get the sword. That was super effective using it like that!" I laughed, and Listenia groaned as she limped over to me, not looking so much like the princess warrior now.

"I don't think those things will fight you. They are probably more curious than anything. Not all the monsters in here are harmful, and you more than likely did them a favor by killing that monster. They are Nibri, not a fae, but not really a monster. They are all in robes, with red eyes but no mouths. So to say they are strange is an understatement," Listenia explained, and I nodded.

"Sounds good; let's go see them," I said, but Listenia shook her head.

"Come here tomorrow in the morning; it is much better to see how they eat and the way that they talk in the mornings. They will probably run away if you go now, especially after the fire," Listenia explained, and I sighed.

"You are just done, aren't you?" I asked, and Listenia gave me a look to ask if I was stupid.

"I just puked beside a tree; of course, I am ready to go home. I want to make sure that Breya hasn't sold my shop for a damn slice of cake!" Listenia complained, and I laughed.

"Yes, I guess you are right, and I should go pick up my many-eyed charge. I guess I will have to take her with me to go see Gwenth," I said with a sigh.

"Just pawn her off to Breya. You said you are going to make her food; just make her work it off as a babysitter," Listenia suggested, and I gave her a look.

"Do you really think that Angel is a good role model for her?" I asked, and Listenia shrugged.

"Breya is one of the nicest Angels that I know, so she could do worse. The others are much worse."