Sitting in front of the fire pit Darius is contemplating his dream from last night. “It’s strange, I’ve never had a dream like that. And she called me a champion, was she referring to my blessing? And then there were those images, what was that about?” He mutters to himself as he shakes his head. “I’ll think about it, but I need to get stuff done, and hopefully find some civilization.” He stands and gathers his things.

New Quest: Find Civilization

Objective 1: Find another person.

Description: Alone in a forest with what you need to survive. Find some people to help figure out what’s going on.

Reward: 10 silver coins and coin pouch.

Darius heads to the stream, knowing that if he follows it he should hopefully find civilization. So he does just that, walking downstream. He looks around as he walks, keeping an eye out for any more hares, or even some useful plants. He does manage to find a couple of plants that his [Basic Survival] is telling him are poisonous, which causes him to avoid them.

After around an hour of walking he spots movement, causing him to freeze and look at it. He sees that it’s another hare, he examines it, finding it to be a “Huh, well shit, it’s level 2, so it’s probably stronger than the other two I fought.” He slowly grabs his knife, crouching down. He slowly creeps past, not wanting a fight, but ready for it if necessary. He continues like that until he can’t see the Hare any more, which is when he hears a ding.

Skill gained [Basic Stealth lvl 1]

When active, user is 4% harder to detect.

When active, user makes 6% less sound.

Stealth is one of the basic ways to get past fights you don’t want, it’s also good to get the drop on your enemies.

Darius had frozen when he heard the ding, but he sighs as he reads the screen. He shakes his head slightly, slowly standing before he continues to walk downstream.

Shortly after he encountered the Hare, he hears something coming from his right. He stops where he is to listen. He can’t tell exactly what it is, but in the hopes that it’s a person he starts to walk towards it, crouching down to activate [Basic Stealth]. After walking for a couple of minutes he reaches a clearing, stopping when he gets close due to horror. It’s a battlefield with dead bodies strewn all throughout the clearing.

He slowly stands, looking around. He sees at least 20 bodies, most of them looking human and wearing white and blue armor, the rest looking to be humans, elves, and orcs wearing armor that has almost a rainbow of colour on it. He hears some coughs coming from someone sitting against a tree.

He jumps from the sound, he looks over and sees a man dressed in the white and blue armor holding his stomach, with blood leaking between his fingers. Darius slowly walks towards the tree, looking over the dying man, knowing that he can’t help him. “W-what happened here?” Darius asks.

The man looks up at Darius surprised, before he coughs again “We lost” he says weakly. “Lost? Against who?” The man laughs before he coughs, wincing “Who else but The Enemy?”

“I have no idea who you are talking about.” The man looks over Darius coughing again as his skin becomes clammy “Be careful kid, they’ll kill us all.” He says before he leans back, his breathing slowing until it stops.

Darius pales as he looks down at the man's corpse “Fuck, fuck, fucking fuck.” He says before he looks around again. He turns and he starts to run back towards his camp, hoping he can avoid whoever is out here with him. He trips a few times, and he has to slow when his Stamina gets too low, but he soon makes it back to camp, sighing as he sees that no one is there.

He looks around, thinking of what he can do to prepare for the people who are coming. He goes over to the pile of branches, picking some up to start to sharpen them, trying to make some stakes. He works as quickly as he can to get through the pile, he gets half done when he decides to go around and plant the stakes in the ground. When he’s finished he’s set up a simple barricade around his camp, and with the last branch he’s fashioned himself a simple spear.

With a ding a screen pops up in front of him

Skill Gained [Basic Weapon Crafting lvl 1]

Knowledge of Weapon Crafting Gained

Ease of Crafting Basic Weapons increased by 4%

A good skill to have if you make easy to break weapons.