Over the last 4 months of convoy travel, Matt had killed a lot of different monsters, not only that but also a lot of bandits that sought the wealth of the convoy, not all adventures or guards had survived the convoy to the capital, the original 30 adventures had shrunk to 23 and the original 15 guards had shrunk to 11, this was rather normal though as death was just a part of life in this world, Matt adjusted quickly, the thoughts of his old world seemed further and further behind him, almost like a fleeting dream‘Oh well… I like it here, I get to be myself’Matt showed a smile, he was currently in a bar inside the walls of Kel, the bar was named ‘Wanderlust’ and was one of the best stocked bars in the outer city, Matt and the other adventures were currently celebrating getting paid from their time in the convoy, Matt himself had landed 16 gold coins from the whole ordeal, considering he had been fed during the 4 months he figured that it was an okay salary, he was currently chuggin

Matt walked back to the bar but showed a frown when he arrived, the front door was wide open and someone was shouting inside“Hey! Bring me some ale!”Matt sighed before he walked up to the open door and took a look, inside the bar was 3 people wearing matching but poorly maintained metal armor, they were sitting around a table while shouting at Lilly, Matt sighed before he knocked on the open door as he spoke up with a fake smile on his face“Oh, we got customers?”Naturally, the guards didn’t take kindly to being interrupted“Who the fuck are you!?”Matt’s smile widened as he walked in and placed the paper bag with bread on the table before he turned to the 3 guards and spoke“Lilly told me that you 3 have quite the tap running… We would like you to pay up or get the fuck out of here”The guards looked at each other before they all broke out in mocking laughter, then one of them stood up and placed a hand on the hilt of his sword before he asked“Yeah, we have quite the tap running,

“...Okay, tell me again, will you, buddy boy?”Matt was currently in sitting in the middle of a scene of carnage, corpses were littered around the place, some were still bleeding out, so they weren’t quite corpses yet, though they soon would be, Matt was sitting on the back of the last surviving men that had come to attack them while he interrogated him“We’re just trying to make a living…!”“By beating us unconscious and selling us as slaves?”“So what!?”Matt sighed before he reached down and grabbed the back of the man's head with one hand and his chin with the other“Any last words?”“...See you in hell!”Matt showed a smile before he twisted slightly, breaking the man’s neck, then he ripped open his chest and took out his core, Matt was alone, the other people he had been with had fled as soon as the carnage started, Matt collected the rest of the cores before he casually strolled further into the slums, he didn’t take more than 50 steeps before someone jumped out in front of him

“Tch… Finally, bit the dust, huh…”A man that was hunched over a woman clicked his tongue, despite that introduction let it be known that there was no intimacy at that moment, simply an act of horrible violence as the man stood up after finishing choking the life out of the poor woman, he showed no regret for his actions, only a self-satisfied look on his face as he was about to molest the corpse, just the way he liked it, a person knocked on the door to his room, pissed off at being interrupted he yelled in a fit of rage“WHAT!?”The door opened slightly before another man spoke“Boss, we spotted a lone noble woman on the road”The bandit boss’ rage only increased, but just as he was about to yell at his underling he spoke again“It’s not an ambush, she’s completely alone”The bandit boss looked towards the corpse on the floor of his room before he thought for a moment and sighed“Fine… Let’s go get this noble”The bandit boss stepped out of the room, the bandit camp which was made i

Matt left the bedroom with a smile on his face, as for Lily? Well, she was in a deep blissful sleep, Matt walked downstairs and after a short internal debate he walked over and opened a loose floorboard and retrieved the cores he had harvested the last time he was in the slums, he then locked the front door and sat down in the middle of the room before he crushed the frist batch of cores and closed his eyes as he breathed in deeply as he absorbed the cores, after a few minutes he would crush another batch of cores and repeat…Some time passed before Matt opened his eyes again after having absorbed the last core as he did his eyes flashed with a dark green light for a bit before he stretched and stood up and showed a smile, he had successfully reached level 3, he was now only two levels from the first molding, though thanks to the influence of the old skel