111 Promise (1/2)

The next day when I woke up, I was feeling considerably better.

There was still a 'Heavily Injured Penalty' in the stat screen and my stats had only recovered up to 11.1 stat point but I was feeling better now.

I got out of the bed and realized that it was around noon outside.

'That meant I must slept for more than 14-18 hours.' I thought with a grimace.

Netra was no where to be seen. But she was a strong person so I was not worried about her.

I searched around in my spatial ring and found the defensive suit in there.

There were still two large holes in the leg in the defensive suit and thousands of tiny little holes in every other part so I had to spend 400 white coins to repair it after which it seemed to become a good as new.

I removed the bandages from the body and realized that even though I had gained a bit of my muscles back, I was nowhere near as good enough as I was before the accident.

”It would take you a few more days to get back to full strength.” A voice came from behind me and turned to find Netra crouching on top of a hut in her usual short skirt and white top.

But I was more concerned about the fact that she was able to sneak up behind me without me even realizing.

'Seems like she is much more stronger than I had previously assumed.' I thought as I smiled at her.

If she was a stranger then I would be very cautious of her. But as it stood, she had already save my life once and even gifted me 4th tier mutant beast meat.

I would foolish to not consider her an ally.

”I can see that.” I said and pointed at my skinny hands with a helpless smile.

She jumped down from the hut and stopped in front of me. Then she sniffed my body a few times before she frowned and said ”You stink.”

I snorted at her words ”Yeah well. That's what happens when a person don't bathe for many days and sweat a lot.”

”There's a small pond down near the river.” She said ”There are no high tier mutant fish there so feel free to take a bath there.”

”You're not gonna peek on me are you?” I asked with a chuckle.

”Hn.” She snorted. ”As if.”

She really was different from how she was when I caught her consuming the mutant meat.

'Does people really treat Fiends that badly?' I thought as I took off all the bandages and entered the pond.

'Perhaps you should ask her at some later point in time.' Lily said.

'I'll do that.' I replied.

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When I came back, Netra had already secured a 3rd tier mutant beast for me. I looked at her for a moment and seeing her nod, I started eating.

I knew that if she wanted, she could hunt 4th tier mutant beasts as well, but I did not wanted to rely on her too much.

After I heal properly, I would hunt for myself.