We didn’t need to wait too long for Skyge and the wolves to come back with a hunting trophy. Each one of the wolves got a rabbit. They dropped them in front of me and wiggled their tails. Behind them stood Skyge with something in his mouth… He caught a mouse… and it was still alive and was trying to escape his grasp.

[ Eric ]

“Skyge…”

[ Skyge ]

“Yes, Master!?” Said excited Skyge waiting for me to praise him.

[ Eric ]

“Good that you caught something… But next time try to catch something bigger okay? So maybe let this mouse go.”

[ Skyge ]

“Okey… I’ll try harder next time!” Said Skyge as he dropped the mouse.

[ Eric ]

“Counting on it. See Hakon? No matter how old the hunter might be with the wolf's help he can hunt better than alone in his young age.”

[ Hakon ]

“I’ll talk with him later and ask what he thinks.”

[ Eric ]

“Cool. Tell me once you talked with him.”

[ Hakon ]

“Cool? But it’s a pretty warm day for a fall…” Whispered to himself, Hakon.

There were no problems with wolves when we were coming back. Even when they looked like they wanted to wander away. They just didn’t do that. Looks like help from Skyge made everything happen faster and I didn’t have to use my False Fear.

I almost forgot about my house in the village… I know why I forgot… Because I lived in a much better apartment in the Pure Sun than this hut! No. That’s the house I wanted… It’s just living in the Pure Sun made me used to luxuries… Now I miss them… Maybe I’ll just buy a new house with the money from astvar. Or even better! Build a new one the way I like it! Yes! Maybe I’ll even build this next to this hut and changed it into some kind of storage room… or just leave Tae there so he wouldn’t bother me anymore…

Looking at this hut made me immediately decide what to do with my earned money. I’ll build myself a house. I have an ax for wood and money for resources. I’ll buy whatever I need! On my way to Astvar to ask for permission, I saw guards moving toward a shore. Are those monsters attacking again?

What I saw coming out of this water wasn’t what I expected. It was like 3 meters tall one arm was covered in something hard because it blocked every arrow that flew toward him. Three smaller monsters behind him were killed immediately. Astvar came out from behind a wooden wall and no one stopped him.

He cut his hand and pulled out something. Two-meter-long silver spear. How did he hide it in there? Or is it a spell? He hit the ground once with it and the ground began to shake so hard that everyone fell. Even the monster fell to its knees. He raised the spear and it looked like it became a bit longer. With one swing he cut off the monster’s hard arm. Before it could give a scream he stuck the spear in his head. The monster died just like that while on its knees.

[ Eric ]

“Amazing…” I whispered.

It was an amazing spell but it came with a cost because Astvar collapsed and fell to the ground. Guards took them back to his home meanwhile the rest of them gathered the corpses of the monsters in one place and set them on fire with a torch. The bodies burned pretty fast and the only thing left was the ashes.

That might be the best way to kill the monsters. With fire! So maybe fire arrows will do it? But how do you exactly make them? There might be even better ways to use fire but my brain is empty as of now… And I can’t exactly talk with Astvar now… I wonder which god he follows? I don’t know much about Norse Mythology. I only know about Loki, Thor… and Odyn.

Now I have nothing to do! Waiting for Hakon with a word from a hunter, Astvar collapsed so he won’t be able to talk with me and even if he is awake I don’t want to bother him after that… Although I’m interested in that ability of his. Maybe they miss me at the inn. Once I stepped in I was warmly welcomed by the same waitress that I “saved”.

[ Waitress ]

“Oh! Our little hero came back! Long time no see! What would you like to order? The usual?” Said an excited and happy waitress.

One time she spun me around and before I knew what happened I was sitting on the chair by the table with a plate of meat and carrots in front of me. For some reason, I also had a cup of beer in my hand. When did all of that happen? Not that it matters.

It was a simple meal but now that I think about it. I actually missed this simple life. Especially I missed a place where every freaking god fanatic watched my every move! That was a kind of scary experience sometimes. An old lady screamed at me and thought I was a demon because I said “That’s dope.” I meant it in a way like “That nice thing” and she screamed at me “Go demon! GO AWAY! GUARDS!” Guards arrived but they definitely felt lost once they saw an old lady calling me a demon. Explaining it all was kind of funny.

[ Hakon ]

“Here you are.” Said Hakon as he sat in front of me.

[ Eric ]

“What’s up?” I said but Hakon literally looked up to see what was above us.

[ Hakon ]

“Ceiling?”

[ Eric ]

“No… I mean what happens… With that hunter, you told me about.”

[ Hakon ]

“He laughed at me that I proposed to him a hunt with a wolf, with something that he hunts.”

[ Eric ]

“It's weird in a way.”

[ Hakon ]

“But he said ‘Whatever… If you want then come back here with that pet of yours.’ So I think he is interested in a way.”

[ Eric ]

“Sure just let me finish and we can get going. Would you like something? It’s on me.”

[ Hakon ]

“Well… If you propose. I’ll just take a beer.”

[ Eric ]

“Waitress! One beer please!”

[ Waitress ]

“Coming!”

Maybe I didn’t have many friends but in school, I was a very social guy. I wouldn’t let anyone be ignored in front of me. I treated Hakon to a beer and gave a few chunks of meat to Skyge who was sitting on my lap all this time. When we finished eating we went to the hunter. We followed exactly the same path to my hut. We just entered one building before my hut.