Darius looks around the clearing, trying to decide on what to build. Everything having a cost in either settlement points or resources. He finds that each tree ends up being worth 3 units of wood resources. He quickly checks how much it will take to build a small cabin, finding it will take 6 wood resources and 5 settlement points or 20 settlement points alone.

Darius nods slightly as he looks around, he walks over to one of the men. “We are going to need to build something to store the logs, it looks like we will be able to build a few cabins today at the rate we are going.” “I’ll gather a few men to build a stockpile.” The man says with a nod before he walks off to do so. “Sounds good.” Darius says as he watches the man walk off.

He then starts to look through the tech tree. The tech tree shows the currently unlocked buildings as well as what can be researched to unlock the next tier. Darius finds that he could unlock things with only settlement points, but the cheapest costs 100 points that way. He also finds that it’s possible to unlock things by building them without researching things.

Darius spends the next few hours helping to cut down trees, it soon getting around time to eat. Everyone who has been working has gathered around the firepit. “Good job today everyone, we’ve got a lot of work done, and a decent amount of space cleared. Now I’m going to prepare places for everyone to stay.” Darius opens the settlement menu and starts to buy small cabins using the wood resources they have.

He ends up buying 5 cabins and placing them around the first one. With flashes of light the new cabins appear. “Right, everyone can choose a cabin, there are enough for most cabins to have 4 people and two to have 3.” After eating the groups sort themselves into their family groups, with there being 5 families, excluding Darius and Rinar.

Darius walks into his cabin, which is the first one he had made. He looks around, a bit surprised to see it’s furnished with a table, chairs, a wood fired stove, a couple of normal beds, and some cots against a wall. “Well, this isn’t a bad place.” Darius says as he looks around. “That’s true enough” he hears from behind him.

Darius turns around to see Rinar still covered by his cloak. “Right, you are I are sharing the cabin.” Darius shrugs as he walks over to one of the beds, sitting on it. “You know, I’ve been wondering just what you are under there. I have a feeling it’s something that most people back in the city wouldn’t like.” Rinar snorts “You could say that again. They don’t like anything that’s not human, except for the royal family of course.”

“Well, in case you couldn’t tell, I’m not exactly like they are.” Darius says while motioning above his head. “To start I’m a chosen, and not one of Myrdou or Nouet.” Rinar freezes and looks at Darius “Nouet? How do you know of Nouet?” “The first people I actually talked to were followers of Nouet, I’m in a unique position as far as I can tell. Since apparently neither side can understand each other. So how do you know of Nouet?”

“Let’s just say that even among Nouets people there are some forbidden things.” Rinar says as he removes his hood, revealing dark skin, pure white hair, and pointy ears. Darius looks at him, nodding a little “Huh, so you’re a dark elf, what did you do that’s forbidden?” Darius says a bit confused. “Well, I didn’t start out like this, people generally don’t start out like I am. I’ll show you what I mean.” Rinar says before he points above his head, where his identifier looks like it’s glitching. “What?” Darius says as he watches it change from (Rinar. lvl 10) to

Darius blinks as he looks at it confused. “What? How did you do that? And why is your identifier different?” “I have a skill that lets me change my identifier, it’s part of my class, and is a very rare skill. As for why it’s different, well, these symbols identify those who are the enemies to all. It’s impossible for a normal person to have them. The only way for a person to get them, is to practice black magic, it doesn’t matter if they use it for good or evil. As soon as they gain a skill involving one of the black magics they are considered enemies to all.”

“Well, shit, I knew there was black magic, I didn’t know it would do that though.” “You know of black magic?” “More like I know of the concepts of black magics, I’m guessing they are Necromancy, Blood magic, and something to do with Demons?” “That’s right, there is also Curses and Dark magic. I can use Dark magic, I got unlucky while adventuring and found a book of Dark Spells.”

Darius shrugs as he looks at him “Well, frankly as long as you don’t hurt anyone who is one of my people, I don’t care what you do, I don’t know that my god does either.” “And just who is your god?” “Teqraura, I know next to nothing about her, other than she is apparently the mother of Myrdou and Nouet.” “I’ve never heard of her.” “I have a feeling no one on this world has.” Darius says with a shrug. “Anyway, we better sleep, we have a long day ahead of us tomorrow.” Rinar shrugs as he sits on his bed while Darius lays down and closes his eyes, eventually drifting off into a dreamless sleep.