Boar hunt

The last 2 days of the week, I spend my time working on my [Dispel] and [Sunlight Charge] spells. I get them both to work and am quite happy proud of myself. Though I should still use them sparingly. I am after all not a mage and that comes with a low mana supply.

While I am training on these spells, Merlara shows up and says, “I heard about the warehouse burglars. Good job.” And without waiting for a reply from me, she leaves again.

Yeah, just you wait until I got a few more months under my belt.

The next week, I find a quest issued by the local butcher. He is out of boar meat and need some adventurers to go out and hunt some new ones for him. The pay is good. 1 silver per boar. If I could just hunt 8 boars, I would double my finances. But the quest says the butcher will only accept a maximum of 5. I guess he doesn’t have the space for more.

My main problem of course is to bring those boars from the forest all the way to the city. I could really use a cart or something to collect the boars on. I wanted to ask Kiara about it, but I was told she had already left with Darx on a quest in the sewers. I decide to find and ask Jason instead. Unfortunately, sister Helena is with him. Ugh, I hope she’s going to behave for once.

“You need a cart, huh? Yeah, many adventurers end up needing to transport heavy loot. It is kinda difficult for smaller guilds, but large ones like ours have several carts and horses you can borrow.”

“Really?” Is ask elated.

“Sure, but you do have to pay 10 silver collateral.” Jason continues. “You get the money back when you return the horse and cart. It’s to make certain you can’t casually lose it or allow it to be stolen or stuff like that.”

Well shit. I don’t have 10 silver. Now what?

“Aw, honey, don’t you have 10 silver?” Sister Helena asks. I guess she noticed my disappointment by my expression.

“I have 8.” I say. “Can I borrow 2 silver from either of you?”

“I have a better idea honey.” Helena replies. “How about I pay the collateral for you.”

Then Helena Looks at me all flirty and brings her index finger to her mouth.

“You … will have to take me along though. I could stand to leave this stuffy guild hall for a bit and see if I can find some … fresh meat along the country-side.”

I am feeling really uncomfortable bringing Helena along with me now. Especially with that grin she is showing now. But I really need this money.

“Alright then.” I say begrudgingly.

“Yay.” Helena cheers. “Let’s go to the courtyard. We leave right away.”

Helena brings me to the courtyard and does the stuff to get us a cart and horse. Since she has driven before, she takes the reins and drives us to the city wall. At the gate we show the guards out guild identification and we exit Riledo. Once outside, Helena passes the reigns to me and educates me on how to drive. That is actually rather nice of her. This way I’ll be able to rely on myself instead in the future of needing a driver.

Helena has me drive the cart all the way to a farm that’s close to the edge of the forest. Some of the men are working out on the fields. She has me stop the cart and then she waves over the men. One of the older ones, presumably the farm owner, walks over to us.

“Well, good morning, you two. I don’t often see pretty ladies like yourselves all the way here.” He greets us while trying to flirt.

“And good morning to you too, handsome.” Helena immediately flirts back. “My friend and I are adventurers and were hoping to do some boar hunting for a quest. I was wondering if perhaps you could keep our little cart safe for us while we are out hunting. We can offer you one of the boars we capture as compensation and … maybe also something extra.”

“Free meat is always a welcome gift, gorgeous. Let me guide you to my stables. Your cart will be safe there.” The farm owner replies.

The man walks next to our cart as he tells us how to drive and leads us to an enclosed meadow. It has a couple horses walking around and a wooden stable with its doors wide open. This way the horses can walk inside and find shelter when it starts to rain.

We park our cart next the stable and let the horse off the reigns. That way he is free to walk around a bit and socialize with the other horses.

Just as we are about to leave for the forest, Helena gets close to the farm owner and says, “You know, I’m feeling a little frisky. So how about you and I quickly find a lovely spot inside your stable and give you a personal reward just for keeping our cart safe. You on board with this, big guy?”

The farm owner didn’t hesitate to take Helena into his stable. In the week that I have been with the Dark Dragons, I heard some rumors about Helena, all of them linked with that goddess-awful nickname of hers. But now that I am hearing the moans coming from out of that stable, I blush from embarrassment at how much a slut of a guild member I have.

After a while, Helena and the farm owner come out. They thank each other and then the healslut and I are finally off to hunt some boars.

We need to walk quite a bit but eventually we find 2 boars in the woods. Helena quickly casts a [Restraint] spell on one of them so it can’t move. The other boar seemed pissed that his friend got stuck and so he charged at Helena. I quickly cast my [Divine Chains] on him and prevent him from reaching her. I close in and stab him in the side with my sword, but he doesn’t die right away. He instead looks at me angrily and then attacks me. It causes him to push himself further onto my sword, but that didn’t seem to matter to him. He just pushed his head into my torso and then pushes up. He launches me overhead while forcing me to let go of my sword. What kind of crazy animal chooses to impale himself even further!?

After I land on the ground I get back on my feet as quickly as possible. Good thing too because the boar is already charging me again. I block his head with my shield but he bashes into it anyways. I grab one of his tusks with my sword hand but he continues being aggressive. That is when Helena casts [Improve Strength] on me and shortly after she casts [Numb] on the boar’s legs. This allows me to easily turn him over. With the boar on his back, I can pull my sword out of him and stab his throat.

“Did you not expect the boar to attack you?” Helena asks.

“Not like that.” I reply. “I thought he would have at least some modicum of self-preservation.”

“Yeah, boars are pretty insane animals that way.” Helena explains. “Usually, the are hunted with spears that have cross guards on them. I’m sure there’s plenty of people who would call you insane for taking on a boar with a sword. By the way, you still got to kill the other one.”

That’s right. Helena is keeping one boar restrained. He is struggling to get loose, but Helena’s spell is too strong. I get up to him and give him a quick stab with my sword. Quick and clean and the boar dies with little pain.

Helena and I both carry the boars back to our cart. As we approach our cart, one of the farmhands comes to us and starts chatting with Helena. A guy somewhere between my age and hers. She of course immediately starts flirting with him. I hope I never get so **** for attention that flirting becomes my first approach to every conversation.

Helena and the farmhand continue flirting all the way to the cart. After we load our boars onto it, she grabs the farmhand’s arm and says, “I’m going to take this lovely man with me into the stable for a little bit of fun. Want to join?”

I am offended that Helena even thinks I would be interested in such lewd behavior. “No! No, of course not!” I tell her.

Helena looks at the guy and says, “Guess I got you all for myself then.” And giggles while she and the guy disappear inside.

Again, I am left to listen to their moans coming from the stables. I decide to walk a bit until I don’t hear them anymore and spend my time studying how our horse is interacting with the farmer’s horses. It looks like the farmer only has mares. Looks like our horse is one lucky stallion. Then he and one mare bring their heads together. Aww, it’s almost like they are kissing. Then our horse gets on the back of the mare and … Oh, god! Not you too? First Helena sucks the farmer and his helper dry, then our horse dishonors this stud of mares.

“Well, that was fun.” Says Helena as she sneaks up on me. “And it looks like someone else is having fun too.”

I roll my eyes and say, “Come, let’s get more boars.”

This time, in the forest, we first slay one sole boar and then another. These were much easier to kill thanks to Helena’s [Restraint] spell.

Upon returning these two boars to our cart, we come across our horse mounting another one of the farmer’s mares. While loading these two boars onto the cart, the farm owner comes to us and says it is noon and he invites over for lunch. I must admit that I have gotten quite hungry. Helena and I grab one of our 4 boars and carry them to the farmer’s home. Once his wife sees her family is getting paid with a whole boar for offering her cooking to strangers, she is quite happy to accept us as guests.

At the table are the farmer and his wife, their two daughters and two sons, as well as one farmhand. I recognize those two sons as the other farmhands. If I were to guess, one of their daughters is the oldest, then a son, then the other daughter who is about 2 years older than me, and finally the youngest son, who looks like he is my age.

After lunch, I go outside and sit in the grass to let my food digest. After a short time, the farmhand comes out and sits next to me.

“Looks like your friend has quite the appetite.” He says.

“I think she ate less than me, actually.” I reply.

“Actually, I meant that ‘other’ appetite. She took the farmer’s eldest son and went off with him into the toolshed.”

By now, I’m not even surprised any more.

“Say, are you perhaps …” The farmhand starts to say. But I cut him off an tell him, “No! No, I’m not sex-hungry like her! Not in the slightest!”

“Alright, alright. No need to bite my head off.” The farmhand replies. “Is it because you had a bad first time?”

By the goddess … How do I respond to a guy saying these things? I’ve never even had a guy talk to me about stuff like that.

“I-I … haven’t h-had my first t-time.” I say nervously. “And I’m n-not planning to g-give it to someone I d-don’t know.”

“Ah, like that.” The farmhand replies. “Yeah, I get that. Everybody’s nervous for their first time. I too was nervous for mine. Especially since the girl I wanted to do it with is someone I knew for a long time. I was worried about not meeting her expectations. Eventually my first time was with a girl I first met only a few days ago. Not knowing her expectations actually made it easier to go ahead with it.”

I’ve never really had any conversations about sex with anyone aside for my parents, and that was all about when it was safe and when it wasn’t. Having this guy talk to me about it so openly is kinda making me blush.

“Well, that’s very good for you.” I reply.

“Haven’t you ever thought about it?” He continues. “Going on an adventure, far away from Riledo. You come across a handsome guy, he’s charming, the both of you are instantly best friends. And since you and him are alone in the forest, nobody will ever know about your meeting. So, then you share a passionate moment and the next day the both of you part ways again. You don’t have to worry about what anybody thinks about it, not even the guy you did it with, yet you are left with a wonderful memory. Sounds a bit like a fairytale, no?”

I roll my eyes. “Clearly you haven’t heard many fairytales. Stories like such are supposed to have something mystical about them. Like the guy having disappeared the morning after but having left a treasure for her, like a sapphire or something. But I guess the lack of any pressure would be nice.”

“I was just saying that in fairytales, charming strangers tend to be found only far far away. But in real life, they can be found much closer.”

The farmhand then places one of his hands on my thigh. My ears perk up in surprise and I look down. Then I look at him. He sits awfully close to me.

“An intimate moment without pressure can be nearer than you expect it to be.” The guy tells me with a low voice. “Though it’s up to you whether you want to open yourself to it or not.”

My goodness. I have never had a guy coming on to me like this. He is so … assertive. I-I can already feel myself blushing. I mean, this guy is both friendly and handsome, and I am quite curious about … well … it. And I guess I don’t have to worry about what he thinks about me after because I could easily never see him again. Oh goddess. Should I go for it?