Chapter 4: Ch.: 4. Mining Iron, Gwen, Accident, First Kill
Manav after entering dockyard, walked all the way back to the place where he met Gwen two weeks ago.
He inspected the area nearby to check to prevent anyone from finding him while he was mining iron.
After confirming that there is no one nearby, he took out his stone pickaxe and started mining iron.
*Tak
*Tak
*Crack
By using stone pickaxe, the mining of iron was quiet smooth he can mine 3 blocks per hour.
Manav soon gir tired, he has to take break after every 2 iron blocks mined for about 10-15 minutes.
This decreased his efficiency.
Sun was on its highest, blonde girl was singing on high rise buildings using her web slingers.
"Hey gimme few bucks." A thug was threatening a old lady while waving knife in air in back alley.
Everyone on street was ignoring voices coming from alley.
"Hey man it is bad thing to threaten old ladies, why don't you go and work as thug actor in movies atleast you will get few bucks." A female voice came from thug's back.
"I tried it few times but failed the audition, so I'm here." Thug replied instinctively.
"Oh man I'm sorry for that you don't even have talent to act as thug in movies, so I think you should change your job and become inmates of other thugs in jail."
Thug quickly turned and waved his knife at spider ghost but she dodged it with her unremarkable mobility and fired a few web shots at thug's hands sticking them together.
"Well you can now go to jail to meet your friend brothers and sisters bye." Ghost spider squinted away when she heard siren of police car.
"Looks like I have to see it back, let's go to my old place." While swinging high between high rise buildings, ghost spider saw her suit torn on belly from the knife slash of that thug.
She swinged toward the dockyard areas.
After few minutes, she slept landed with backflip in air and walked in slowly.
"Hmm I also have to complete my high school assignments, spider man is not letting me go to hell's kitchen, saying I am newbie and that area is under defenders jurisdiction, really annoying, I have to get back to home before 7 o'clock." Ghost spider muttered stepping in the big room of abandoned iron ship.
"What is this? Who put it here?" Ghost spider saw a wooden black size of 1*1*1 meter size.
She curiously inspected it while circling the box.
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Ghost spider heard a voice and turned her head to the direction voice was coming.
"Looks like someone is here, who is here in my makeshift base." Ghost spider jumped and sticked her hands and legs to wall and started crawling toward the voice is coming.
Manav was hitting his pickaxe on iron in front of him continuously, he didn't know that someone is coming here.
Just lost in his mining world, day dreaming of making a flying fortress made of blocks.
He dragged of making a big mecha using nethrite blocks.
As for why he was having these daydreams is that he asked his prompt panel, and it answered,
[You can make anything, everything in the world is minable and makable]
Ghost spider stopped and looked at boy's figure using a weird singer pickaxe hitting on iron wall.
She turned her eyes to indirect the area and found that a big chunk of iron was was missing.
*Crack
She guests
Heard voice of cracking so she focused her eyes on the boy and her pupils expanded when she saw a big chunk of iron disappearing and turning into a hovering iron block, she also saw iron pickaxe disappearing.
"Oh looks like I have to stop for today, all iron pickaxes are used I have to make more of them after going home and come back tomorrow." Manav said looking at his watch on wrist, he picked up the mini iron blocks and put it into his backpack chest.
He turned to walk the way he came.
But he suddenly halted his legs, because he saw ghost spider in front of him.
"Hello Gwen, no ghost spider, good evening, how's hero written is going on? Well bye I will be late so I have to go now." Manav hastily said and bypassed ghost spider to go away from her.
"So you knew it all this whole time."
"What? Nah I don't know anything I am just a nerd missing my own business..." Manav didn't stopped and used his wood pickaxe to mine crafting table quickly.
*Swish
"Hey what are you doing? I will be late, if I didn't go to my home in right time, okay please remove this silk." Manav's hand was stuck to crafting table by silk fired by ghost Spider.
"Don't pretend." Ghost Spider said while removing her mask.
"Oh hello Gwen, I didn't know that you was ghost Spider, what a big surprise, if your father knew that you're a superhero, he will be very proud." Manav said hello to her boasted about her work and this and that.
"Tell me what are your doing here? And what's with disappearance of so much iron and this box, that weird stone and wooden pickaxe, you also have superpowers, if you have than why aren't you using those to help people's in need." Gwen said.
"Will I'm in need of some iron for self defense, and I thought that no one was using these iron and they are gaining rust, so why don't I use them for me, as for superpowers, not everyone is great saint as you Gwen and those Avengers, spider man, Daredevil, etc." Manav replied to Gwen.
Manav quickly used iron ingots to create a shear and cut down the silk sucking to his hand.
Manav put away the the silk and shear with crafting table, he was surprised by seeing that he gained a achievement by cutting the silk using shear.
"And my powers are is field of construction, so sorry, i have no superpower to fight against knives and guns and ability to run away quickly if police or large number of thugs are in the way, Gwen, if you dare to stop me, I will excuse your secret to your father, that his his lovely daughter is taking life endangering risk everyday." Manav threatened Gwen using her father's name and washed away from there.
Gwen just stood there tightening her fists, with eyes slightly red and teary.
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Manav got out of the dockyard through dog hole and looked at place where he locked his newly bought cycle.
There was only broken locks.
"Fu*k! Fu*k! Fu*k! I hate it, I hate this crime filled city, specially marvel version." Manav cursed and started walking in other direction leading to bustling area of dockyard where goods are imported and exported.
As for why he was going there.
"Taxi!!" A taxi stopped in front of Manav and he sat in.
"To queens address...." Manav told the address to driver and driver drove the taxi to the told address.
Taxi hasn't drove much far and,
"Boom!" A humanoid figure fell on the front part of the taxi.
"Fu*k!" Manav cursed and saw a purple figure coming from far away in his left side, with smile on his face.
Manav got out of the taxi from the right and quickly planted the crafting table on concrete road and started making a Armor and bow for himself, because of gwen's artificial silk, it was enough for him to make dozen boss, and he broke down a pillow while bored in his home in two weeks of rest because of his broken hand ans got dozen feathers.
He quickly made a bow and arrow, but he saw that Armor will definitely take time so, he crouched and walked to the side where he can see purple figure, who is just a few meters away from him.
"Only last chance, last chance, if not I will lose my life." Manav said to himself, holding the bow and arrow.
The moment he hold the bow a crosshair appeared in his eye.
Manav pulled the string of bow as much as he can and started to aim slowly at purple figure without exposing his body.
Manav aimed the arrow at taxi's back and prepared to jump to his right.
"Hahaha Jess, you can't run from me, we are best couples in this world, and you will live with me for rest life, You know Jess I heard a tales of strong lady, in a superhero team called defenders defending normal peoples from so called villains and extraordinary threats, so I was curious and started tracking you and boom what I found? I found that you have left defenders, you made my work more easier, if not I have to take much hassle to deal with your other teammates, now you alone, I will make you my most perfect bride." Purple guy was muttering nonsense while female figure lying on front part of taxi listening, unwillingly her eyes were red and tears are pouring out like a tap is opened, she wanted to move but can't like her body is not her.
"Focus, I have to jump in perfect parabola, I can do it, can do it, do it!" Manav muttered to himself.
And jumped to his right while maintaining his aim forward.
The moment he saw his crosshair was on purple figure he go of his fingers holding the arrow and string.
Arrow ejected with speed of 50 meters per second speed.
Purple figure noticed manav the moment he jumped so he initiated a command on manav to stop, but he was a moment late and arrow ejected from bow pieces his throat passing through it.
Manav fell on ground, he wanted to move his body but can't, because of the command of purple guy.
Green guy was shaking while lying on ground.
After a few minutes he died and the restraints bounding Manav and female figure lying on taxi disappeared.
Manav stood up and put his bow in backpack chest, and took out pickaxe and quickly removed the crafting table.
He looked at died driver and at female figure still in daze.
"You can go now, he is dead, and this is not your fault for death of him." Manav spoke to female and walked away.
Jess didn't know what to do, she just wanted to open her detective firm and work silently.
But this purple guy came to her and she lose her control over body, purple guy started to command her to tear the firm license documents, and ordered her to kill people whenever he found them noisy or according to his mood.
She turned and looked at purple guy dead on ground wet from his own blood, her body was relaxed and she walked away from there.
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After a while few black cars came and people wearing black suits stepped out of the cars and started inspecting the scene.
One of the black guy, glanced at purple guy died on ground and walked towards arrow stuck on concrete wall.
"Interesting."
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Manav just walked away from there, forgetting his arrow in dreaming of himself as a hero.
While walking Manav thought why that woman is not calling him, didn't in the the fanfics he has read in previous life, woman will be conquered by the hero who saves them from bad guy.
He intentionally slowed his pace, but after a few minutes he didn't heard anything and turned to look what happened, and found she has left.
"Really I will never believe in those fanfics or novels ever." After shouting loudly he walked away from there angrily.
Woman who has just entered the street heard Manav's shout with her enhanced hearing and there was a small smile on her lips.