"Those Fuckers!" I couldn't help but shout as I slammed my fist in the cave wall as I looked at the faintly glowing portal behind me in anger at what they had done.
"'Your the village savior' they said 'You have been chosen by the gods' they said, what a load of bullshit!" I said before wincing and grabbing at my side where a large claw mark cut through my white shirt and was stained with blood.
Luckily I had some bandages to deal with the wound after driving off that Imp like monster that had come to pick up the yearly 'sacrifice' from the village.
To make a long story short ten years ago a portal to a demonic land called Mareth that had been causing nothing but problems for our village.
So one among the many strong men and women would be selected as the villages 'Champion' and go through the portal to deal with the monsters, however none ever came back.
But now I find out that they weren't sent to stop the demons but as a sacrifice in exchange for less of the demonic corruption coming through to mess with the villages crops.
That's what the Imp told me as I was the next Sacrifice, but even for an Imp he wasn't that strong so with just my fists I was able to drive him off.
"Ugh." Only thing is his claws cut through my skin forcing me to take off my shirt in order to tear it apart and make me a makeshift bandage to cover it.
"Tch, great now I'm shirtless, have no money and no weapons and I have to fight with just my bare fists? Man this is going to suck." I couldn't help but complain as I walked to the entrance of the cave where the portal was located inside of.
I didn't actually have any real reason to defend this portal after finding out what had happened, especially since the last 'Champion' was my Older Sister and hearing what I did from the Imp brings me nothing but Rage and hatred for my village as its most likely she is either dead or worse been made into some sex slave or even changed completely to forget her past and her home.
Tears flowed down from my eyes when I heard that but I just rubbed away the tears and gritted my teeth, "Screw killing the Demon Lord and fuck my village! I will do whatever the hell I want." I say as I stand atop of my rock to get a good view of this world before looking at my stats.
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Name: Beimeir 'Bay' Khila
Level: 1
Strength: 15/100
Endurance: 15/100
Agility: 15/100
Intelligence: 20/100
Libido: 15/100
Sensitivity: 10/100
Corruption: 4/100
HP: 45/50 (Drop to 1HP and you will be unable to fight anymore, 0HP and death will Follow)
Lust: 7/100 (Lust hits 100 you will be too horny to fight and will lose the fight, 20 minimum need for sex unless drugs are taken)
Stamina: 95/100 (Stamina hits 0 you will lose consciousness and lose the fight)
Skills: Archery Lv1, Swordmanship Lv1, Spearmanship Lv1,
Weapons: None
Armor: Commoners Clothes(Damaged), Traveler's Satchel (5 inventory slots, can hold stacks of 5 each)
Money: 5 Gems(Like Ruppees from Legend of Zelda)
Time: 9AM Sunday
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"Well since I'm stuck here I'm gonna need to find some food, that forest probably will have fruits and berries, but I think I see a Lake over there however I don't have a a fishing rod or a spear to fish so my best bet is to just head into the woods for now." I say seeing my options and choosing where to go.
The area I was in was a wasteland to say the least for the location of the cave, but not too far away from the forest or lake being close by, their were mountains in the distance, a swamp and bog passed where the lake is located, some fertile plains and even a desert.
"Hopefully I can find myself a friendly settlement to go to, and if none are close by I'll have to possibly catch a horse and break it in before riding it." I mutter to myself as I make my way towards the forests not far away.
However before I even got to the forest I noticed a strange man pulling an overburdened cart behind him, he was long and gangly for his stature with greying hair wearing what appeared to be merchants clothes.
Though as he noticed me he smiled and waved, but in doing so the cart lost its balance and tipped over slightly having some of his merchandise fall out.
"Damn this old thing!" I heard him shout out, but me not having anything better to do I decided to come on over to help him with his goods.
"Ah! Thank you for the help young man! Say it's a bit surprising to see a human such as yourself wandering these wastes, most humans would be staying within the settlements and not doing something as crazy as me traveling around offering my wares across the cursed lands of Mareth!" He asked me as to why I was out here.
So I explained my situation to him as he didn't seem to be a demon, if he was he would have done something by now but I can see he's just a normal merchant, a strange looking merchant but one nonetheless.
"Ahh what a terrible thing, I am sorry that you have been thrust into this world like this young man, not only that your wounded with your clothes tattered at that." He says looking back at his merchandise seeing some of his wares are now dirty and or damaged from the fall.
He saw a white shirt now smudged with dirt along with a cracked health potion that had lost half of the liquids it had, seeing these he turned back to me, "While I am a mana of business I don't sell defective goods to customers, I would have to toss these away because their damaged so you can have this new shirt and half of a health potion, using it should be able to patch that wound up right as rain!" He said handing me the dirt stained white shirt and cracked health potion bottle.
I've seen health potions before and it had the correct green color to it so I poured what was left on top of my bandages as they glowed slightly while I felt the wound closing up and shrinking until barely any of it was left making me pull off my ragged cloth bandages from my old shirt and tossed it away before putting on my new shirt the merchant had offered me.
"Ahh and where are my manners, the name is Giacomo, wandering merchant who has any and all your needs to purchase from, but from what I can see and what you have said you must be flat broke and not a single weapon on hand." He says which makes me depressed at how obvious my situation is even to someone else.
"Hmm, tell you what boy I have a feeling this won't be our last meeting, but seeing you as you are the chances of you being beaten and used as a sex toy by the various monsters and demons in this world, so I'm going to invest in your survival." He says before rummaging through his cart letting me see several things he had, tea leaves, books, clothes and surprisingly even sex toys, but knowing that a good portion of the monsters here live for sex him selling sex toys isn't surprising at all.
"Here, a weapon for you kid." He said before holding out a sheathed dagger in his hand and offering it to me.
"I can see great things in you kid, whether you save this world from the Demon Lord or not doesn't matter to me I just see you will go places, but it's not for free kid, think of it as a loan that you have to pay back if you ever want to buy anything from me." He said with a slight smirk as he placed the dagger and it's sheath in my hands.
"That will be 50 gems when you get the money to pay me off, and not to worry the chances of meeting again are high as I pass by this stretch of the wasteland near the border once every few days so if you want to pay me back and have access to my goods you will have a general idea where to find me in the early morning hours, so you know where to find me." He says with a smile on his lips.
But I was confused, "But what reason would I need your services again old man? We might never see each other after this meeting if your a wandering merchant." But he just laughs at that.
"Unfortunately for you boy, I am the only one in these lands that sells my set of goods, no other merchant does so if you want to have easy ways to help increase your strength, endurance and intelligence than you would with normal training." He says with a grin before grabbing his cart once more.
"Well good luck with your adventure young man, I will see you next time." He said before lifting his cart and heading off to who knows where.
I look at my new dagger and strapped it to my side as I looked towards the forest before preparing my journey.
I have no clue what lays before me but I'll make the most of my time in this world.
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