Before the chapters start, there are 3 things that i have to say:

Why it took me so long (yes, I consider 14 days as very long) – 1 cuz I had lots to do 2. Cuz I simply couldn’t write anything. Yup that’s all As I study once again (now on master degree) I want everyone to know what is my schedule: Monday – Thursday is no-no for me (maybe somehow with support of divine power I would write smth but….), so you can expect chapters mostly at the weekends

In the last part I will allow myself to answer some comments from last chappy

No-One-Special – you will be able to see it in this chap

Dragochaos – Thanks, Good to know, I will try, I also hope so. (Yup, those are four separate answers ^_^)

Garro - … … … sai wot m8? U doubted meh? Im gonna wreck u m8!

No, honestly!? Bruh! How… HOW DARE YOU?! YOU DARED TO EVEN MENTIONED THAT U DIDN’T BELIVE THAT I WOULD GET SO FAR!? HOW DO YOU EVEN DARE TO DARE?! I DARE YOU!

KatersKater – Great. Another one. You have just admitted that u actually DROPPED MY story! Was it not good enough?! HUH!? You treat me like some kind of object existing just to please ya~!? GOOD TO FCKING KNOW!

Jk. Good to have you back.

Schadof – thanks for comment.

And one last thing. As our Halloween party lasted for a bit longer than it was planned… I am afraid that xmas this year is cancelled -> https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/26/71/cc/2671ccbd5c6e8d7b9f97593407b8068b.jpg

Ok, that’s all to the story, (in like hour or so… cuz once again I lost my will to write a shit… hold on… going for coffee….)

Oh, and rejoice, for proofreader-dono finally is up-to-date with the story. ^_^

Edited by: KenChi死

Extremely weak enemies, normally I would never consider them as a threat, but numbers matter. In one of the books I read in the library, (about devilspawn… will tell ya bout’ it later) there was mentioned history, that troll was torn into pieces by horde of wild-mad-angry-hungry goblins. Aaaand there is the thing that truly frightens me - cooperation skill… If their synergy is really good then I may be cornered… But of course I could just fry em’ down! Yet still, I have at least 4 more waves to be even able to leave the arena if things would turn ugly… okay, let’s take a closer look at this cooperation skill…

CooperationLowest class skill of [Synergy] class

Acts of individuals are becoming more efficient while individual is under effect of [Leadership] skill of other individual

Removing user of [Leadership]-like skill will force backlash on [Cooperation] users

Which one of them has Leadership? Not this one, nope, this neither…

As I was quickly viewing one status profile after another, beasts started getting closer while snarling. Pickaxes weren’t really meant to be weapons. Not exactly balanced, with limited possibilities of swings...

7th kobold… nope, 8th… 9th and 10th also, none had skill that look even similar to leadership... no leader at all in the wave? Well, it’s the very beginning so maybe they will treat me gently…

“HEY! Kid! The hell are you doing?! We came to watch some action! Get your ass moving and start fighting! Paint that arena with blood! Yours or those creatures!”

Someone from the audience shout, his remark was rewarded with small applause and “Yeah” or “That’s right” shouts.

They are right. Need to start moving… not that I care why they came here, for I am here for my own reasons… or actually cuz’ I followed the wrong rabbit.

Half animals or not, the monsters were not dumb enough to rush in a crowd; instead they started getting closer while trying to circle me. Thanks to the spear (.. well, and magic…) I had distance advantage, yet it needed to be used quickly, or else it will turn pretty much useless.

But! As it is pretty hard to create really good strategy against an enemy twice your size and triple your weight (that would be me), the beasts were moving carefully. It was such a bizarre experience! They were moving so peacefully, so carefully, like hunters trying to hunt down a sleeping bear, they knew that one wrong step could break the hell lose.

But they are not as sophisticated in their action as hunters, I am not as gently as a bear… and I am not sleeping.

I waited another second, and then rushed to the side. They wanted to circle me, by running to the left I broke their sickle-like formation. Once again, I had them more or less in line, but this time the distance between them, was small (way too small), and wouldn’t allow me to fight one by one, got bigger as gaps get wider creating more place for all kinds of maneuvers that were required to skillfully handle the spear.

I feinted a strike towards the torso, the 1st beast afraid of getting impaled by my weapon tried jerking its body to the side, but then I shifted weight of my body and lowered thrust, burrowing spearhead deeply in its thigh. I did all I could to waste no time, and I twisted the weapon in both direction to make wound bigger. Killing him could take some more time, by penetrating his leg this way I pretty much crippled him (or at least disabled him for the duration of the fight). One of them is no longer dangerous…

Hey, I am also hoping that maybe… just maybe… he will bleed to death and save me some trouble? Well, my luck in this place is as shitty as never. But mama always told me: optimism is a key! A man can dream!

A pickaxe hit the ground dangerously close to me as I was retrieving my spear back from the poor bastard leg.

The lizard beasts with great effort tried to once again raise his weapon, but his small body frame, uncomfortable position after he tried to strike me, and overall clumsiness of his made this action last way to long.

As soon as my weapon was free, I started using it like a pole, mostly to get some space.

I jerked from right to left, forcing kobold to take 2 steps back and then I hit him with blunt part of the spear in the gut, making him fall on his back.

Another beast swung his pickaxe from above his head, I got on my knee (mostly to reduce difference of our sizes) and raised my hands over my head while holding the spear. The pickaxe was stopped by it. Wasting no time, I shifted the way I handled my weapon and while performing a swing to the side I managed to force the kobold to release his pickaxe from his grasp, and hit him in the face.

But then the advantage of number kicked in. I heard once, that while you fight with multiple opponents, you can be attacked from three sides effectively. If there would be more enemies, they would have to wait, or else they would simply disturb the movements of their allies.

Bullshit, I tell you! Fucking bullshit! This formula surly never took in consideration that your opponents may be about half your size, and thus open at least two more spots in which theirs brothers could fit easily.

I was forced to dance. Literally! I needed to perform some weird half-spin movements that would keep me free from being covered in those scaly bastards.

How the hell do you deal with em’ in such numbers?!

~It’s extremely easy, you know? You simply send heavily armored phalanx down their streets in mountains. Ya know, tower shields, long spears and glaives… as long as they wouldn’t get on your back you are safe.

I AM ALONE FOR FUCK SAKE! How do you deal with em without support of bloody heavy infantry?

~ It doesn’t need to be infantry… cavalry charge would do the trick nicely too… but one vs many? I advice stealth. Taking out one by one, they are not really bright, so they probably would notice if one of their brother would go missing… or two… or fifty…

… I am fighting in the arena Codex-chan… stealth is out of question..

~… hmm, there was such a saying in your world... Nec Hercules contra plures? Yeah, something like that.

Come on! My level is 4 times bigger than theirs! And there are not warriors! They are fucking miners!

~So you could easily take four of them at the same time… they still have advantage of 2.5 times… it’s while using your calculation system… Go lie down somewhere and die.

YOU ARE NOT HELPING! And you are having way too much fun. I am suffering you know?

~Maybe if you were training with Sebastian instead of sleeping under the tree every time you had possibility to do so your stamina would last for a little longer…

~Keep fighting boss! Ya can do it! Just do it! Don’t let your dreams be dreams! Fame! Experience! Candies and thus glorious rewards! All those things lie right in front of you! Just waiting for you to pick em up! Even if it means that you will have to get dirty! Ju…

… what the hell now? Guyz… you are acting weird… or should I say.. suspicious?

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I can literally hear your awkward silence… wait… don’t you even dare to fucking tell me that…

~… that’s right boss… we… kinda… made our own casino here and… um…

THE HELL!? You have nothing! Literally! You are but parts of my mind! What for all goddess did you use as curre…

~ FROM THE RIGHT!

~LUST! NO HELPING! Try it one more time and you will be disqualified!

… Every one… but you? Et tu, Greed, contra me? You were the first who ever talked to me! You are like my firstborn!

~… it’s nothing personal… just business…

Ok, now I want every one of you to tell me how long do you think I will last… I mean how much you put on each wave…

~… it’s highly confidential information…

~LUST PUT ALL IN, THAT YOU WILL LEAVE ARENA BY YOURSELF! EITHER BY WINING OR LEAVING BY YOUR OWN WILL! NOW! SHOW EM WHO’S DA BOSS! HORA-HORA! GO! JUST DO IT! HOST-SAME! HOST-SAMA! BANZAI HOST-SAMA!

So no advices from you guyz? I will remember it, you can be sure that I will carve this event deeply in my mind and heart, and when the time will come I shall… JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! STOP ATACKING ME FOR A BLOODY SECOND, WILL YOU? I AM MAKING A DRAMATIC INNER-MONOLGUE SPEECH!

~… umm… to help but not directly… to help but not directly… HA! I KNOW! LUST-SAMA IS A GENIOUS! It’s the quote from your world! Gandalf said it to Luke in last Star Trek movie! “Use the force Harry!” as they were traveling to Narnia to trap the Lucifer!

What the… HOW WAS THAT SUPPOSED TO HELP ME?! wait… use the force? I wanted to save mana for later, but apparently I have no other possibilities…

“Getting cornered in first wave… tsh, last challenger lasted to 7th… what a bloody disappointment…”

I can hear you, fucker…

But time to move, my mana bar is full, so one time cast shouldn’t be that painful… eh.

I swung one last time to get as much space as it was only possible. And I felt it one more time. I already forgot how doing this felt like. The warmth from my guts spreading through my mana veins to my arm, then deeper, faster stronger… to my palm.

As I hid the spear behind me, and a beast jumped at me.

Breath in… breath out… Inhale.. exhale.. Now.

I quickly dropped myself on one of my knees and rapidly hit the ground with palm. One shock wave a day keeps kobolds away…

And suddenly the world around be got… peaceful? So calm…

The adrenaline finally kicked in?

I saw the bodies of the lizard beast-men flying… no, no literally! Simply shock wave should blow them away… for at least 2 or 3 meters… and as explosion occurred, their bodies were sent flying… and I saw them so clearly, like if someone turn the slow motion on.

I raised up. My motion was also slowed down. Weird feeling. At the other hand I had much more time for all kinds of preparations… I had all the time of the world to aim each of my hits.

I thrust the first time aiming for the heart. My target was still “flying up”. The blade of my spear easily, almost without any resistance penetrated the monster’s chest. I wasted no time, retrieving my spear back, and thrusting yet another time aiming in the same place. As the angle of hit was different this time blood splashed everywhere.

I managed to kill total 4 kobolds as they were still in air, I felt my muscles being stretched painfully. I will need a good massage after this.

Finishing the rest of them was a piece of cake. Mostly because I finished three more before they managed to get back of their feet.

Fighting with two beasts that were standing as last of the wave was nothing more than formality.

The first wave has been finishedKobold Worker has been killed x 10You have obtained 60 exp

By performing special action you have learned new skill[Pole Weapon Mastery] new manifestation [Heart seeker]Perform three fast thrusts - [3x one enemy] or [1x three different enemies]Damage is based on [User] stats and [Pole Weapon Mastery] levelCritical rate is improved by 75%

Critical Damage is improved by 50%May add [Bleeding] status effect

Eh, a good thing? Here? Something good met me in this hellhole? Can’t be happening.

First wave cleared. Not a great feat, so my reward from audience was a lazy applause from a few guys.

Oni woman.. pardon me… WOMANH! raised from her chair and yelled not so loudly

“Okay, go rest a little. You have 5 minute break till next wave. Arena staff, please clean the field from corpses…”

Massaging my shoulder I walked to the bench for some (not so) well deserved break.

Without magic I could lose. Trampled by a horde of weaklings. I got used to stealth attack waaaay too much. No one likes jack of all that are brilliant in all kinds of combats… 1 vs 1, 1 vs many, stealth, ranged, magic… the problem is that… I NEED TO BE A BLOODY JACK OF ALL. I trust no one. Not up to the point of trusting them with my life. Adventurers? Nice bunch, but they are mercenaries, there will always be some that would sell their mothers for a bag of coins. Maybe not Marika, maybe not Loki, maybe not Mrogul.

Fuck. I survived Behemoth’s attack. I survived being hunted by inquisition. I will not die trampled by some fucking lowly kobolds.

I learned my lesson of humility. I will not let myself be caught like that. Heart seeker will help me with it.

I know some time has passed... but love me? just a little?