Next Life Vol 1 Chapter 3

Marius is currently going towards the direction of the presences, in other words, he was walking inside the forest where he heard sounds and the screams.

Considering the presence of a goblins flock, perhaps wild animals were in the middle of being hunted.

It seems like the other presences he felt were giving goblins quite a fight.

With that in mind, he approached the area while preparing to activate magic anytime.

Somehow the hunt had just been finished.

(Is that an Armor-Deer?)

He remembered that black horn and fur characteristic.

Its fur could be used as a mantle, its horn as weapon material, and its grill roasted meat as an item to recover physical strength.
It was not a monster, but it was much more stronger than the goblins in a one-vs-one fight.

(Even it was 3 against 10, they shouldn’t be taken lightly.)

The goblins were armed and excelled had at group battles.

He decided to finished them in a single attack.

As a result, even if it was opponent with a level much much lower than his own, he had no self-confidence that he could not be taken down.

Finishing the goblins nicely with the present Marius without affecting the meat was doubtful.

While he thought about that, the goblins eventually noticed Marius. With exposed fangs they threatened him.
Marius had only put away his Staff of the Dragon-god and immediately used scan.

“[Scan]”

Level of the goblin leader was 34, the other goblins were shown as level 21.

Taking a distance to some extent, he began to chant his spell.

“[Wind Slasher]”

He didn’t use the Ring of God inheritor power.

At the very least, he was already holding back.

But that was needless.

Blue liquid gushed from goblins’ bodies, a smell of blood staggered around.
If he had not attracted them to come closer, without a doubt their blood would have splashed onto the armor-deers.

(The 8th-class magic resulted in this…)

Just as Marius thought, his subtle knowledge couldn’t be depended on.

There was no information about this.

While living in this land, it was much better to not rely too much on his current knowledge.

For handling the armor-deers, he wanted some edged-tools.

However, there was also one that using a weapon-like spear or long sword and many individuals were using daggers as spare weapons.

While he had thought it was better not to much rely too much on that knowledge, there was no choice but to rely on it in the present situation.

He had experiences butchering pigs as a part-timer, but the goblins smell was different.

(Let’s do this while holding my breath.)

While trying as much as possible to not smell the odor, he began scrounging the carcasses.

Then an idea crossed his mind. the next one to be scrounged was the body of the goblin leader.

Unsheathing it from the sheath, it was bathed in two sunlights and shown with two different kinds of glow.

If possible he wanted to get another one, but he was anxious about the elapsed time since armor-deers died.

There is a putrid smell but it was still wiser to hurry.

“[Detection]”

Confirming other creatures’ locations with magic, there was a response in the distance.

With this he can start the demolition process.

With knife, in turns, he made a cut in the throat.

Although blood was coming out from its throat, but the momentum of the blood was not good enough to be satisfactory.
If it was not made to bled sufficiently, the deer meat would change into unpalatable food that can’t be eaten.

“[Levitate]”

Here he made use of the magic to float object.

Armor-deer’s blood smells much more decent than compared to goblins, he didn’t feel the need to hold his breath.

(This part is somehow going well.)

Lowering the altitude of three carcasses, cutting open the belly in an orderly fashion and taking out the internal organs without damaging it.

Having experienced it in his world before reincarnating took a big part.

This was his first time dismantling a deer.

First cutting off all four of ankle, getting into the gap from inside each part from the body’s center and peeling it to the hind legs.
The skin slipped easily.

(The skin’s only hard when it’s alive, kind of a strange story…)

It was based on the game, there no choice other than to agree with it.

Then removing the front legs from the body, end it by removing the spine from the torso.

Finally cut it off by about the same size usually seen in meat shops in his original world, excluding the layer of muscle.

The meat weighed about 10 kilogram in his original world.
Even though the head and internal organs were removed, if all three portions were combined, it became quite heavy.

“Fu- ”

Doing all the work alone was a heavy labor beyond Marius’s imagination. When the work was over, he involuntarily released a deep sigh.

Before that, he thought about leaving deer head and internal organ and carcasses of goblins. After he thought about it, it would not result in a good thing.

It would be better to give it immediate attention.

“[Fire Storm]”

A pillar of fire burned the target, when exerting 10th-class magic, the entirety of Marius line of sight was full of raising pillars of fire. Goblin carcasses all the way till their equipment were instantly turning to ash.

Followed by gathering armor-deers leftovers in one place.

Red fire pillars rose once again, instantly turning armor-deers leftovers to ash.

(Well then, let’s go.)

There should be a goblin’s nest inside the forest, but he didn’t feel the need to annihilate it.

When he attempted to lift it, there was a resistance making it difficult to lift.
From the beginning, he never trained, now he was a muscleless magician, it might be impossible for him to do it.

“[Strong]”

Once again challenging it after improving his body strength by the to use magic, this time it lifted easily.

“[Teleport]”

With “Teleport”, he can go wherever places he had gone once before. With this space-and-time-system magic he can freely move to around.

Stabbing the meat with scattered branches.
At that time, trying to use “Detection”, raw-meat showed up as the result.

(It may be possible that appropriate grilling can be seen…)

It was difficult for him to grill the meat till medium-rare, but if it could be determined by magic, the difficulty would consideredly drop down.

While roasting the meat with fir and checking the small details of how to appropriate grill with appraisal.

“Raw-meat” change to “Half-grilled-meat” and finished when it turned into “Grilled-meat”.
Tasting it by giving it a bite, it tasted similar to the splendid taste of a beef-steak in the original world.

(Okay, it’s a success)

He only had heard that deer meat tasted almost similar to beef meat.

Alternatingly eating it with fruits, an indescribable taste kept changing, it become to the point that he must use teleport to drink water in the lake.

(Ne, never thought that this happened in another world too…)

Drinking water to sweep away the spreading taste in his mouth, Marius let a breath out.

It was just because his head was not thinking that far ahead.

He seriously wanted to tell his friend about this taste, but with Marius vocabulary, he can only say it was superb.

(I can’t go home, just as I had thought.)

In the novels he had read about humans that were sent to another world after death, there were no stories about them going back to original world.
There were many different circumstances such as living as spirit or being summoned.

(Here is the second time I live my life, I can let it go by continuing to think like that.)

And for the reason why he was reincarnated into this land. Someday the day he can understand it will come, he somehow was imaging that.

–he dried the leftover meat and decided to keep them as preserved foods.
End of Episode 3

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