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First contact

Matt waited for the next arrow for a few moments before a thought popped into his head

‘Maybe this little one wasn’t meant for me..?’’

Matt walked over and pulled the arrow out of the boulder before he inspected it, it was made entirely from metal but besides that there were no markings on it or anything else to identify it, Matt shrugged before he looked into the forest, then he sighed and decided to give it a go

“I wonder how they will react once a naked person comes running out from the forest with their arrow..?”

Matt was of course wearing clothes when he arrived in this world, though it didn’t last long and was soon torn to shreds, so he was, as he said: Butt naked

Matt kicked off the ground and leaped onto a branch before he kicked off it and jumped to the next one, he moved in the direction where the arrow had come from for about a minute before he heard the sounds of metal meeting metal, the sound of battle, and soon the people fighting came into view, it was a particularly nasty monster that had mauled Matt once already, about one and a half meter from ground to shoulder the feline was covered in metal scales, 3 arrows had penetrated its armor one on its shoulder, one on its side and one on its hip, furthermore there were marks on its forelimbs and head, marks from a sword, the metal panther let out a low howl as it crouched down signaling its next attack to the 4 people that were fighting it, one was about half Matt’s height and had pointed ears and a full beard and wielded a rather big mace made of brown metal, they were also dressed in full metal armor. The next person Matt put his eyes on was the archer in the back, she wore leather armor and fired off metal arrows from time to time, whenever the opportunity arose, another was a swordsman dressed in leather armor reinforced with metal, he carried two swords, and was at the moment trying to get the final member of their party to drink the content of an odd colored veil. The last person was injured quite heavily having received a swipe from the metal panther across the chest, deep cuts by the looks of it, he wielded a 2-handed sword that lay besides him

‘Now then, how to approach this…’

Matt jumped silently from branch to branch and could soon hear their voices, they weren’t English, but he somehow understood them anyway, the short one in metal armor yelled

“How much longer!?”

Then the twin swordsman responded

“Not much, John, stop being stupid and drink the potion!”

Next, the injured person objected firmly

“No, I can't, that's half a year’s worth of money, just leave me already!”

The only one yet to speak was the archer in the back that suddenly looked in Matt’s direction before she yelled

“A person is approaching!”

The injured person and the twin swordsman began scanning the surroundings at once, Matt realized that he had been discovered and showed a wry smile before he narrowed his eyes and glanced at the archer before his eyes flashed with a dark green light, then he deployed the bone spikes on the knuckles on both his hands and on his elbows and kneecaps before he gathered strength in his legs for a moment and kicked off the branch he was crouched down upon as he yelled

“Here to help!”

He passed through the air for a few moments before he landed right next to the metal panther where he punched out at an arrow that had half penetrated the shoulder of the metal beast sending the arrow even deeper, this caused the metal panther to let out a howl of pain as it switched its target to Matt and swiped out after him with its front paws Matt collapsed his posture and dodged to the side away from the other people, he didn’t know if they understood him or wouldn’t just stab him in the back, though the next moment one of his questions was answered as the archer yelled as she released an arrow that hit the metal panther in the side, penetrating its armor

“Thank you!”

Matt showed a faint smile and yelled back

“Thank me once this thing is dead!”

Then the short person swung their mace and hit the joint on the mental panther’s front paw, shattering it with a loud crack, in response the metal panther let out a howl of pain before it quickly took some distance by jumping backwards where it was hit by another arrow that grazed its right eye, Matt heard the archer click her tongue, clearly annoyed that she didn’t hit the mark as he kicked off the ground with his arms raised in front of him in a guard as he approached the metal panther with blinding speed, the next moment he came to a halt just outside its range as a metal paw swiped right in front of him from right to left, then he suddenly switched his posture before he delivered a flying knee to the metal panthers front limb hitting it right in its joint, the bone spike penetrated the metal armor after a mere moment before Matt used his other leg to kick off the metal panther’s forelimb, borrowing its momentum as it attempted to hit him with a back-paw, as he drew a perfect arch though the air a metal arrow suddenly appeared to his side hitting him in the left arm before being stopped by his hardened bone

‘I fucking knew it!’

Matt that had been sent off his trajectory by the arrow slammed against the trunk of a tree before he fell down into the undergrowth, a moment later the short person arrived and slammed down his mace before his eyes widened slightly as he yelled

“Shi—”

The reason why the short person panicked was simple, he didn’t hit anything other than undergrowth with his mace, just as he was cursing Matt shot up from the undergrowth next to him and hit him clean in the yaw with a palm strike knocking him out before he rolled to the side dodging another 3 metal arrows fired after him in rapid succession, at the same time the metal panther let out a roar and sprung off its hind legs towards the now defenseless swordsmen, at that moment the twin swordsman saw the metal panther reflected in the injured swordsman eyes, then without hesitating he grabbed his injured comrade and pulled him as he kicked off the ground, the next instance the metal panther landed on the injured swordsman with its still non-crippled front limb and crushed his chest, then a moment later another rapid fired 3 arrows hit it square in the forehead ending its life, before the archer could question the  twin swordsman he yelled at her

“Where is the Wildman!?”

The archer quickly scanned the surroundings before she suddenly felt a chill on her back and dodged to the side revealing Matt that was mid-punch which grazed her shoulder as the bone spikes on his knuckles left 4 shallow cuts, Matt didn’t stop now that his surprise attack had failed and used the momentum of his own punch to roll forwards before he kicked off the ground to the right, avoiding a stab from the twin swordsman before he kicked back left and sent a punch right to the twin swordsman’s jaw, shattering it completely as he knocked out the twin swordsman, then he quickly grabbed him and used him as cover as a arrow hit his ‘cover’ right in the stomach penetrating right through his ‘cover’ before the arrow hit him in the stomach passing halfway through

“Bitch!”

A dark green light shone in Matt’s eyes as he kicked the ‘cover’ in front of him forwards towards the archer that sent another 2 arrows through his now discarded ‘cover’ before she threw her bow aside and drew a dagger she had on her hip, wielding it in a backhand grip, Matt appeared instantly right in front of her as he punched out, the archer saw her change and slashed out after Matt’s approaching punch, the dagger hit his knuckles where it met bone under his skin and bounced upwards as Matt’s punch continued, through just before it shattered the archer’s jaw Matt opened his palm hitting her right on the chin with his palm knocking her lights out. As the archer collapsed Matt’s labored breathing slowed down somewhat, next as the adrenaline wore off he looked down his right arm and saw a long deep cut from his knuckles all the way up to his elbow, then he sighed before he walked over to the short person he had knocked out earlier and checked their pulse making sure that they were alive, then he picked them up over his shoulder before he walked over to the archer and laid him down next to her

“Well, then, that didn’t go as planned…”

Then Matt checkered the pulse of the two swordsmen and found both of them dead before he extracted the monster core from the carcass of the metal panther, then he looked back at the two survivors and muttered

“Now then… what to do..?”