Izuku The Viking

Chapter: 8

3 Months Later
Izuku POV

After some time of fabricating a boat that could reach new lands that I required for advancing my quest of freedom, I finally made it, a ship that would not sink, was able to stand a hit and could be swift following the wind. A Karve

With my ride now crafted I could sail along the coastline in search of a suitable place to enter another island and potentially find a swamp, so there I was, leading my Karve on the shoreline with a rope I made myself.

Once I reached a part of coast in which I could see another  continent, with a promising sight, I mounted my ship and started sailing to the other side, sails down guiding me through the wind, and when I reached land, I marked the spot on my map to later put it together on my cartography table at home, after that I start exploring the new lands, it was a mixture of meadows and Black Forests, and just when I was about to give up and find another island, look over the tree line and leaves and saw raining, but more strangely, a tall tree with no leaves, this was inusual, so I head out to investigate, and after a few minutes of walking towards I reach to an unsightly scene.

It was the dreaded swamp and even without entering I already smelled a stench of rotting, but with no corpse in sight I advance, a misterious fog blocked my view to only a few meters and the light but non stopping rain always kept me wet and uncomfortable, but I pulled through and kept exploring the new place, trees where tall and ominous, some even having green blobs attached to it, there were spots where water reached to my knees when I passes through them, but doing that was mistakke.

As I was passing the knee-deep water, I noticed something shuffiling in the water moving towards me, creating small rings of water as It made its way to me, suddenly I felt a sting in my leg, so I start limping with my other leg to shallow water amd see what bite me, my mouth was open with shock and terror as I saw what was biting my leg, a ginormous leech was surrounding my leg with its jaw and seemed to have venom which made my leg feel numb.

I quickly pull out my bronze knife and stab the head, but it stood there applying preassure in my wound, seeing as it didn't affect the creature I pulled my trusty axe and slashed the head of the leech, leaving corpse cut in half, finally leaving my leg in peace.

But the struggle wasn't over as I now had an injured and potentially poisoned leg, in a place I didn't know my way around, and I couldn't even tell if It was night or not because of the god damned fog, and on top of all of that I was in not on a potentially dangerous area, I WAS on a dangerous are without a funtioning leg. I layed my back on a tree trying to get my composure back, while I was trying to do that I was skining the leech's body to pass the time, the skin was top soft to be made into anything useful, and I didn't fully trust the meat of the animal, the only interesting thing I found were the blood bags where it stored the blood, I stored them in case I could use them on red paint for my map.

4 Minutes Later

I stand up, my leg still feeling a bit numb but I was able to atleast feel It and control it, so I continue foward in the look for crypts to get iron, but as I advance I encounter with two, humans? They both seemed like the reanimated corpses of a long dead viking, with flies flying around them, one had a bow and the other shield and axe. It also seemed they were guarding a stone structure that was going to the ground, that must be the crypt.

I had to came up with a strategy to kill them both and explore the guarded crypt, so I came up with a strategy, I pulled out my fine bow and draw back and arrow, now it was the matter of choice who died first, and after pondering for a bit I chose the archer and as the flying bolt was flying towards the target it him in the center of the chest, knocking him down.

The other one got alerted and started rushing to me, shield raised high to block any incoming arrows, so I drop my bow and take out my axe and hit the seemingly wooden shield, but as the weak wood part falls apart, a metallic part shows, it was bronze and it blocked my blow, with that the undead retaliates with a side swing of its bronze axe, it hit the side of my stomach as I didn't have my arms to take the hit, I groan with pain, the hit pierced through the armour and slashed my skin, I out of instinct kicked him back and while he was trying to gain a foot, I stabed him through the head with my Atgeir, killing him in the prosces, I then wince in pain as the adrenaline wore off and I start patching myself up with medicinal herbs and rest my back on a tree.

After some time I pull out the strange key that was contained by The Elder, I then unlock the crypt and start going down the stairs. After a moment of going down I find my self with a room that has three entrances covered with muddy piles.

Then I notice something bright in the scrap pile, shinning with the green glow, so I take out my pickaxe and swing at the blocked off entrances, off falls iron scrap.

Izuku: Sigh Its gonna be annoying getting the cart here.