After a deep sleep , Sewo2 packs up his stuff, steals a blanket from the inn and checks out .

  Sewo2 is now out of all money , so he needs to survive by making his own money. He has to sleep on the roadside for the time being .

  Sewo2 analyses that in his condition , his best shot at making any money is to start a business where he can start off with zero money and make some basic money.

  Sewo2 opens his notebook , he skims through the content , he analyses which market would fit his criteria the best . He understands that he will have to take major risks if he wants to even survive in the market.

  Sewo2 decides that he will start off with the materials market as everything he can sell can be obtained from the mines , the forests so it's his best shot at money. The risks are immense,but he will only starve to death if he sits by .

  Sewo2 decides to stroll through the materials market once again. He checks the big and small shops and acts as a customer to understand the market prices of which material is important and sells for big money.

  He shortlists 5 materials he can sell to make some basic money .

  The basic metal ores bought by alchemists ,

  The shining jewel stones and Ruby bought by the jewellers,

  The coal brought by the government and normal citizens,

  Wood and bricks or clay used by construction sites, carpenters etc.

  Animal hide bought by garments sector , used to make clothes.

  These were his target materials , he just needed to know where he could find these more efficiently . Asking the shop owners wasn't the right call since they would never give away such a precious detail.

  Sewo2 realised he could've visited a library had he known how to read and write . This makes him want to learn language even more, but he has to call it off for now.

  Sewo2 decided he will just head to the city outskirts and look for underground caves , so he can mine ores . He realises he will need a pickaxe to be able to mine out the ores, he needs a pickaxe.

  Sewo2 decides that his best shot is to either borrow it from a shop or to just steal it.

  He heads inside a shop and asks the shopkeeper of he can borrow the pickaxe for a day and he will return it back to him . The shopkeeper declines saying "What if a customer were interested in the pickaxe? What do I gain from it? You will bring it back used, so the pickaxe will be of a lower quality than it is now ." , The shopkeeper declines the offer and asks Sewo2 to go away and not to disturb his business.

  Sewo2 leaves , then after 15 minutes he walks around the same shop , then he picks up the pickaxe lying at the entrance for showcase and makes a run for it.

  The shopkeeper doesn't realise what has happened until it's too late , Sewo2 runs straight to the city entrance , he then approaches one of the guards , he asks"Sir, I want to go outside the city to gather materials for my new business, if you don't mind can I leave my stuff behind your office so I can collect it on my way back ?"

  The guard asserts" Hmm, I can do that much. Yes , you may leave your belongings."

  Sewo2 thanks the guard and then goes behind the office to place his stuff, he then keeps his stuff there and takes his pickaxe , ready to leave for his new quest.

  Sewo2 enters the forest and walks for 15 minutes before he spots a cave entrance . He then walks into the cave , he hears noises of all sorts ,which must be from various underground animals .

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  Sewo2 then notices that most of the cave has been mines out , he decides to go in deeper . He walks for 45 minutes more reaching an unexplored region .

  Sewo2 starts mining the ores he found. He would smash the pickaxe with all his might , then readjust his grip, he did this over and over again, he realised that he can't just use the pickaxe normally, so he decides to switch up his methods.

  Sewo2 uses his sword techniques with his pickaxe to mine the ores . He does a diagonal top to bottom swing , followed by a full circle into a perpendicular strike , then to finish it off , he does a full momentum spin to strike the ore . This flurry of attacks , allows him to mine out the ore.

  After realising what works , Sewo2 mines out 10 more ores in the span of 1 hour . He then goes deeper in the cave , he noticed the snakes becoming more audible . He thinks it might be just a few snakes that he can ignore. Soon he spots a snake that was very close to the ore he was mining.

  The snake suddenly attacked Sewo2 , it tried to bite him. Sewo2 used the pickaxe to block the snake , then stood on it's body and put the pickaxe through the snake's head.

  Then he went back to mining ores.

  Soon he saw another snake , which attacked him , then Sewo2 killed that snake as well.

  Soon , the snakes were showing up more frequently and in more numbers. Soon Sewo2 reached a big open area in the cave , it had alot more ores in the middle, but the surface was oddly flat.

  Sewo2 decided to be on guard and to just mine the ores. He started mining the ores when suddenly he noticed the ground underneath him shake , almost as if something was crawling our the ground.

  Sewo2 jumped back from his position and noticed that from the flat ground , slowly and army of snakes was emerging. IT WAS A SNAKE DEN!

  Realising that he was in trouble Sewo2 had a choice to make- either he runs away with whatever few stones he managed to gather or he kills all these snakes and then he can sell their body and the ores in the market.

  Sewo2 realised that the second option seemed better.he decided that he will now kill the snakes , it's only the survival of the fittest after all .

  He noticed that there were two types of snakes in that den, ones who rushed in first and the others who stayed a bit back. He thought it might be their instincts , he couldn't see much since the cave was dark and only the shine from the materials could make him see anything at all.

  The snakes rush towards Sewo2 at incredible speed , ready to bite him and poison him to death , Sewo2 was slightly scared for his life , but he knew what has to be done.

  Sewo2 stores his pickaxe in Void and brings out the sword, it's finally time to test himself .

  Sewo2 quickly analyses the situation, he knows that most snakes would either go for his legs or just straight up jump and bit his face.

  Sewo2 then needs to constantly keep moving and use his feet and his sword to attack then , he also noticed that killing each of them won't be possible so he will just fling them towards the rocks so that they may collide and their fragile body will not be able to survive that.

  Sewo2 then starts moving back as the snakes approach him , he puts his right leg behind to narrow down his stance , the snakes as predicted attacked his leg , Sewo2 then swiftly counter attacked by stomping on their head , this killed a few , he then stood upon their body as the new wave came forth to attack. He then used his sword to fling them towards the wall with all his might , the snakes collided with the wall, and then they fell on the ground , they were in excruciating pain , they were rolling around in pain, seeing this made Sewo2 sad.

  He continued regardless. He realised a sword isn't right for this, he then switched back to the pickaxe. He would carefully position himself so that the snakes would not overwhelm him and when they approached him he would bach their skills with the pickaxe or stomp them to death and then reposition. This went on for 30 minutes , the snakes were almost all dead , the entire cave had posion filled in it from the special kinds of snakes that would release the poison inside their body when dying as if it was dtheir last hope of taking down the intruders.

  The snakes were relentless and would close in on Sewo2 whenever he tried to catch his breath. The snakes were fighting for their survival , their home was at stake.

  They decided that they should just jump in all at once and hopefully they can overwhelm Sewo2.

  The snakes then started to Swarm Sewo2 , they quickly overwhelmed him, they crawled up his legs , and used their body to bind him down , they immobilized him, his legs were too stiff to move, he could not feel his legs , soon the snakes tried to make their way up his body.

  Realising that it will be impossible to survive , Sewo2 took out his sword and started stabbing at his own legs , not going too deep to make sure he only kills the snakes , he then started clearing out the snakes , he could feel his legs again, the snakes started to tie themselves around his torso , then moved up to his right arm his sword fell to the ground.

  Sewo2 realised that these snakes were not poisonous as the poisonous ones were all already dead. These are the rumoured Binding snakes , these snakes bind themselves around people and suffocate them to death and slowly eat away from the corpse.

  Sewo2 realised that , things can get real messy if he doesn't do anything now. He realises that there is not much that he can do , he is completely covered in snakes , they even reached his neck and have bound themselves to his neck, his eyes , his nose and lastly his mouth . He has a few seconds worth of Oxygen left to survive.

  Sewo2 realised that the only thing he can do right now , is to call for the void and jump through. Even if it's unknown as to what will happen if he does go through , it's the only thing he can do, but to call for the void he has to say it's name out loud. Sewo2 then mustwrs up some strength and bites the binding snake that covered his mouth , then snake , under agonizing pain falls to the ground and in that small window before another one replaces it , Sewo2 , uses all the air in his lungs to call out "VOID!" , the void opens just beneath Sewo2's feet and he falls straight through.

  Sewo2 notices that the snakes stuck on his body slowly burn to a crisp , the Void detects the snakes as intruders and kills them . Then when it notices Sewo2 , the void notices another intruder and prepared a laser of sorts that instantly evaporated the snakes , Sewo2 who was just catching his breath , realises it and then instantly calls for the Void again , which allows him to create another opening and leave the Void , saving himself.

  He sits on the ground , catching his breath for 5 minutes , he then realised that he won against the impossible and that he should now get back to mining and leave soon, since the cave is slowly going to be filled from the poision gas from the dead snakes.

  Sewo2 mines the ores , one by one , he now has a total of 50 ores ,200 poisonous snake bodies and 157 binder snake bodies that he can sell as materials.

  Sewo2 exits the cave and once he reaches the surface , he takes some rest under the trees and decides to eat some fruits .

  He ate lots and lots of fruits , he knew that food will be a problem for him inside the city so he needs to bunt or eat fruits to survive.

  Sewo2 then returns back to the city by 4 in the evening and heads over to the materials market where he is to set up the stall.