Reincarnated As The Hero Ring

"Who in the right mind would date someone, dead wife? Besides, I dislike older women." 

"What! I don't believe that you dislike the older woman, I thought we all like an older and mature woman." I say to Vicar as I think that all man loves milf. 

"Well, I'm one of that person that didn't like it." 

"Do you prefer a younger woman then?"

"Can't we stop talking about this, we should think about how do we get back in the town." 

"Sorry, this happens when I get to carry away with this subject... It just that it's been a long time since I talk with someone so casually." 

"It's fine, let's just focus on our current situation now."

"Okay."

Eli still clinging with Vicar, he knows that he couldn't do anything as Eli will just get closer again. I look at our surroundings and notice that we were in someplace that has a lot of rock. Ahead of us were just some large trees, I think it's better to camp out here as it would be dangerous to go back into the town in the night. 

I told Vicar about it and he agrees, he said that he wasn't a fighter and it would be bad if we encounter some monster or dangerous wild animal while trying to find the way back to the town. Vicar then heads to the big trees to find some fallen branches to make some fire. 

It would be cold at night and it's too dark to see anything, a fire would solve that problem. About food, rations would likely not to be a problem as we think that this place was close to the town anyway. It may only take a couple of hours to find the Eniesia Town again. 

After Vicar had collected enough branches, he started to make fire with it. It took a couple of tries but he managed to make fire, he then uses it to make a campfire. We all sit down near the campfire and look at the skies, it was indeed a beautiful night as we could see the stars and the moon clearly from where we were.

Eli still clinging with Vicar, why does she behave like this. The only thing that might cause her to behave like this was because Sir Allen has not completed the ritual. I could see that Vicar just let her be as he seems to be tired to try to get Eli off her. We indeed went through a lot today. 

I was kinda bored and I then decided to talk to Vicar, ask him some questions about the slums. "Hey, Vicar?"

"??" Vicar looks at me. 

"I was thinking that if you could tell me about how life in the slums."

"The life in the slums isn't that interesting... there's no much to tell at all."

"Well despite that I still wanted to know, how your life there."

"If you really want to know my life in the slums, sure there no problems. Just know that it would be a boring story."

"It's fine, that much better than looking at the night sky," I said that as Vicar started to tell his stories at the slums. 

Vicar tells me about his life, the story started when he and his step-mother were banished from the manor. They were forced to live in the slums. It was hard for Vicar at first to adapt it but he gradually gets used to it. Vicar said to me that the slums aren't an easy place to live as crime always happens there. 

The authority wouldn't even interfere or try to solve the crime, to them it would be just a waste of time. Slums people were basically a slave with no master. Vicar said that he always get bullied when he was a child but her step-mother always there to protect him. 

Vicar stepmother always apologizes to him, Vicar didn't understand that time why she always apologizes but when her stepmother tells the truth, he begins to understand it. Even with that, Vicar said that he still cares for her stepmother as she always there to protect him. 

Of course, Vicar's step-mother also becomes a target but she could easily defend herself up. Vicar told me that he did learn some skills with her stepmother. As a child he doesn't know what skills were that but as he grows up that it wasn't a self-defense skill as it was an assassination skill. 

He still remembers that his stepmother told him to never use that skill on a human being, taking another person's life was wrong. He kept that promise until now, even no matter how people in the slums beat him up. He would never use that skill. 

When Vicar mention about the skill he learned from his stepmother, it makes me kinda curious. What sort of assassination skill does he had learned. I do want to know more about it but for now, let's just hear his story until the end, then I will ask him about it. 

Vicar also tells me that, he kinda popular among the woman in the slums as he always protects them from all the bad guys in the slums. I guess people there must be a level lower than Vicar as he was able to protect them, Vicar was indeed a nice guy and I believe what's he told me. I saw it with my own eyes when the guardsmen distribute the bronze knight reward. 

Our conversation was interrupted when Eli suddenly stand up and started to get near the ocean. Vicar worried that something was wrong and immediately follow her. We thought that it was trouble but Eli was just looking at a turtle shell on the shore. 

We noticed that there were many turtle shell on the shore, it's kinda weird that there were not here before. They must be here when we searching the branches. Eli approaches one of the turtle shells and begins to poke it around. 

When Vicar saw that Eli does nothing harmful or dangerous, he headed back to the campfire. He was about to sit down but when he realized something was wrong. He immediately runs towards where Eli was. I was confused about why he was running towards Eli. 

"What's wrong..."

"My mother had told me about some monsters she had encountered, one of them was a Murkshell."

"Murkshell?"

"A monster that disguises like a turtle shell..." He runs as fast as he could to Eli, Vicar afraid that Eli was harm by the Murkshell. 

"I think it's just a turtle," I said to Vicar. He didn't reply as he was too focus to get to Eli. 

When we get to Eli, Vicar guesses were right after all. It was not a turtle, the turtle shell was a monster called Murkshell. They have a body like a slime and has a turtle-like armor on their body. It was good that Vicar realizes it sooner as it would be bad for Eli as she just standing there even though the sludge were attacking her.

The same thing happens back then when she just standing there while the undead skeleton harming her. Does she have any emotion or fear at all? She does have emotion when I think it back but still, she lacks the emotion of a human. 

Vicar jumped in and tried to protect her, he was unarmed. I wonder how does he deal with this current situation, if only I had my skill and talent it could help him. 

"Should we just run?" Vicar ask me. I know that I am useless in this situation but I still have my stats checker and it could help to see whether Vicar could fight it or not. 

[Murkshell] Level 10

HP: 1000

MP: 0

*Body*

Str- 10/100

Dx- 8/100

Ag- 3/100

*Mind*

Int- 5/100

Perception- 6/100

Charisma- 0/100

*Spirit*

Magic- 0/100

Resistance- 0/100

Seeing the monster stats, I think Vicar could beat it if the monster was only one. But there were ten of them here and it would be hard for Vicar to fight ten of them at once while trying to protect Eli. There only one conclusion.

"We should run away," I said to Vicar. 

Vicar takes Eli's hand and tried to run away from here but the Murkshell already surrounded us and there no chance to escape. The only option was to fight and hope there will be a chance to escape. I told Vicar that it might be the time to use that skill he learned from his stepmother as our opponent was not human. 

"Okay, prepared to be amazed by me..." 

After seeing what Vicar had done, I don't know if I should be amazed or not.

I thought that he will kill all of the Murkshell but it was rather disappointing, he already says some cool words but he just does that. I should not expect much from Vicar anyway but still, I'm thankful that we were able to escape there.