Chapter 40

I look around, with Night Vision and Heat Vision, and some big black creature with a thousand pointy teeth in its mouth is coming towards me.

It is moving slow, but the body looks gelatinous, and almost a liquid. I take the items from Valery's inventory and place them in my own, then I start to back away from the thing.

It's a 20-foot high worm, or maybe worse, a leech. As I back away, the leech puts its entire mouth around Valery's body and sucks her inside of itself.

I think I'm going to throw up. I did this to her. If not for me, she would be going home to her family, not being eaten by some jelly leech after falling 200 feet and dying.

I get out one of Valery's swords and hold it in front of myself. It's only meant for a single hand, so I remove my left hand and take out Valery's shield. I don't any experience with a shield, but I at least have the Swordfighting skill.

Instead of waiting for the leech to get close enough to me to bite, I use fire magic and torch the bitch. I can use basic magic for 5 seconds, or intermediate magic for two seconds. I choose intermediate, and I rush forward with the sword before the leech can react to anything other than the ball of fire in its face.

I slash downward at the lower section of the leech's mouth, and green blood falls to the ground of the cave. When the leech is hit, it moves its head upwards and away from me, but quickly falls back down.

I have ninja movement, and I roll to the side. With another slash at the leech, it drops even more green blood, but it still has fight in its body.

I partly dodge and partly block an attempt by the leech to eat me as I dodge to the left, and I get another slash in on the leech's mouth. As the leech rears back in pain, I put the sword away and get Valery's crossbow and a bolt out.

The crossbow is easier than I thought it would be to pull back, and I release the bolt through the leech. The leech dies from the bolt, and I put away Valery's equipment.

>**Level-up!**

Oh, yay, that's nice to see with all the shit going on right now.

She's in there, though. Valery is inside the leech, and I have to get her out. I can't just leave her body inside there to rot. I have to get her out. I need to bring her back home, to someone who can give her a proper burial.

With Valery's dagger, I cut open the leech. Green blood, gallons more than possibly contained inside, freely flowed out through the cuts and made a deep puddle on the ground. With x-ray vision, I can see where Valery is mixing with the stomach contents of the monster, and I fish her out fairly quickly.

Once Valery is out and a few feet from the monster, I get some cloth from the pile and use it to clean her a little. With some Water Magic, I also summon some water to wash her off. Once Valery is as clean as I can get her, I put her in my inventory.

>Dead Valery Odule

Damn, this sucks. Now I have to get out of this cave, somehow. Before that, though, I'm going to use those five stat points.

>**Status**

>Name: Chris Meme

>Level: 8

>Class: Proficent

>Credits: 3280

>Health: 75/75

>Stamina: 75/75

>Mana: 50/50

>Strength: 25

>Dexterity: 15

>Vitality: 15

>Inteligence: 20

>Wisdom: 10

>Luck: 10

>Stat Points Available: 0

Five points into Vitality will help survivability, and I'm going to run out of here as fast as I can, so the increased stamina will help. With these adjustments, I run.

I can't see a way out with night vision, but I run. I can't see a way out with heat vision, but I run. I can't even see a way out with x-ray vision, but I just keep running. Stamina is the amount of time, in minutes, that I can perform at maximum strength. With running my all, which is exceptionally fast, I can run for and hour and fifteen minutes.