Aetherios System [Slow Build OP MC, Isekai LitRPG/Cultivation] Chapter 14: Chapter 10: First Time

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Chapter 10: First Time Chapter 10: First Time Time Remaining; 715 Days, 4 Hours, 33 Minutes… "It wasn't exactly a map-quest kinda thing Garret, okay. I don't know how much longer." Alex rolled his eyes and chuckled under his breath. Garret and he had been traveling for eight hours or so now, and the scout had been pestering Alex like a kid for half of that time. It was small things, and Alex found it pretty funny if he was being honest. Funny, if just slightly annoying. "Are we there yet?" Garret called out from a few feet behind him, and Alex looked back to see that same goofy smile on his face as always. "No!" Alex yelled back. "Stop asking me, or so help me, I will turn this car around Garret!" Alex stopped, and stared at the man with dagger eyes. Garret's feet froze, and he looked up at Alex with shocked, wide eyes. His lip quivered ever so slightly, a tiny tremor. The wonderful smile on his face gone and Alex just looked at him with a stern glare. "But... Are we there yet?" Garret asks once more. "I hate you." Alex groaned, and shook his head. He turned around to start walking again before feeling a hand on his shoulder. Garret's grip was stronger than Alex thought it would be. He must have put some experience into his strength. Garret's face was grave as he looked at Alex. "But really... are we there yet?" Alex had to take a break for a few minutes as he couldn't keep going while laughing that hard. They were back at it quickly enough, marching along the forest with the river to their right hand side. Alex remembered Sylvaris saying he should travel for "one cycle of the ascendancy", and he didn't know for certain what that meant, he would bet this second life in this world that it meant one day. Once all the joking around was done, for now, the scout asked Alex how long they actually had to travel for. Once he thought about it, Alex wasn't sure. "I'm assuming that a day is still twenty fours hours here as well. It seemed about that much given the last few days, but I haven't been counting seconds exactly." "Yeah, we have all been assuming that I think," Garret said, pushing back a few stray branches as he moved. "Speaking of days and time though, have you taken a look at the sky past the trees?" Alex looked at his friend. Garret returned Alex’s stare with a look of confusion written on his face. Alex sighed. "I'm guessing that is a no. I recommend looking when you can. Its... something else man." "What do you mean?" "You'll see. Its like nothing you've experienced before, I won't steal it from you with a crappy description." Alex kept moving, a small smile on his face as he thought about that black circle among the cosmos. "Alright fine, if you're pulling my leg though I'm gonna throw a badger into your tent." "You wouldn't." "Oh hell yeah I would, it is funny as hell seeing you square up with the over-sized rodents." Garret nudged his shoulder, throwing Alex into a stumbled before he regained his balance. "They aren't rodents Garret. Those things are as big as dogs and dangerous as all hell. My thigh still stings, and my left side still bleeds sometimes." Alex rubbed his leg, emphasizing his statement. "Sounds like a giant rat to me. I lived in New York for awhile as a kid, those things can leave you bleeding and dying before you know it." Garret brought his hand up to his mouth in a strange gesture that Alex could only assume was the guy mimicking the large front teeth of a rat. It looked nothing like any rat Alex had seen in his life. "Yeah, I doubt a rat would give fifty experience though." Alex shot back a smirk. "Fifty experience? Damn, wish squirrels gave that much." Garret frowned at this point, looking at the spear in his hand. The spear that the captain and Alex had helped him create just yesterday. This statement gave Alex pause. He had talked with them about experience points and raising stats; pretty much everything he had learned from the elf. He never really asked how much they had been gaining while he w