At the bottom of the Cursed abyss

Ajax was oblivious about the entire thing that was happening in the darkroom.

Although he wanted to use the medium grade spirit jade to increase his spirit consciousness, he refrained himself from doing it. Instead, he thought, he could use it when he officially started his cultivation.

“Growl~,” finally, Ajax came out of his thoughts with his stomach making sounds of hunger.

It is nearly one day for him without food, but he forgot about it, with all things he went through during the day.

“But the problem is, where should I find food in this damned cursed abyss,” Ajax checked his surroundings only to see mist covering it.

“I can’t go up by climbing this narrow mountain. I can only find a way by moving horizontally.” With that thought, he moved towards one direction, which was least covered by mist.

“This is…?”He took only a few steps before he found a small black bag.

“Yes…This is the bag of that black assassin who came after me”, as soon as he thought of those assassins, his eyes flashed with a cold glint.

“If I ever find out who did this, I will take revenge even if it’s cost me my life”, he clenched his teeth and swore.

When he thought of his friends, his coldness turned into worry.

“I wonder how my friends are?? How are they faring in the cursed wilderness?” he said worriedly.

Soon he took the bag into his hand and checked for the items in it.

He found some meat jerky, clothes, an ordinary dagger, and a weird fist-sized stone with two crossed silver daggers on it.

Ding,

item name:- Normal dagger

rating:- worst

As usual, the system notification came with the dagger rating.

But When he touched the weird fist-sized stone, he did not get any notification.

“I think this can be used to identify who did the massacre,” with that he stored that stone into the inventory.

He filled his stomach with the meat jerky.

After eating, he suddenly thought of the three elemental spirits he formed a master-servant pact with. Soon he checked his spirit consciousness.

In his spirit consciousness, he saw the three elemental spirits sleeping without a worry, so he did not feel like waking them up.

He thought he could introduce himself after they woke up.

Soon he moved in the direction which was least covered in mist.

Due to the corroding death energy in the cursed abyss, he found no spirit beasts on his way.

Occasionally he took short breaks to eat the meat jerky and rest.

While traveling, he carried the egg of the high-grade spirit beast with him, as he sensed that it was absorbing the surrounding death energy in the cursed abyss.

He travelled through the mist for three days before finding a mist free area which looked like a small forest.

Soon he heard noises from far away, he quickly stored the egg inside the inventory and became alert.

Although the people who looked like hunters did not make much noise, due to his senses being sharp, Ajaxheard them say, “Boss, I found a youth who looked 15-17 years old to our South”.

“Ok, don’t make him scared, I will handle it,” said another voice.

Soon hunters got a clear view of Ajax whileAjax also saw the five hunters. Two middle-aged men with strong figures and three of them looked 17-18 years old.

“Boy, what is your name?? What are you doing here?? Are you lost?” asked the strong-looking middle-aged man.

“Yes…My name is Ajax” Ajax guessed this man as the boss of this small hunter team and continued, “also, I don’t remember anything except for my name.”

“…” all the hunters were speechless at his words.

They looked at each other and finally looked towards their boss.

“Ok then, come with me for now and join my mercenary squad,” the Boss said with a smile on his face.

Ajax frowned at the boss’s words.

Although he wants to find a place to live, Ajax did not want to join some unknown mercenary squad, because he does not know what kind of people they are.

Seeing the frown on Ajax’s face, the boss smilingly said, “I know what you are thinking, but I am not forcing you to join the squad anyway. As soon as we enter the town, you will know that we are not as bad as you think”.

The remaining hunters nodded their heads when they heard the boss’ words.