Chapter 6

Soon after the carriage leaves the capital the road becomes more rocky and bumpy. Every few feet the carriage hits a rock causing it to shake violently. my butt will get sore of this keeps up.

Looking out the window all I can see is just trees. So many trees. They appear to be a type of pine. They have many similarities however these trees exude an unusual aura. I believe it could be a type of magic.

Each tree appears as normal, the aura, however, is as thick as fog. Each tree almost drowning in this magic power. I have never seen such an unusual sight. Looking forward I can see the dirt road for what seems like miles.

Luckily for me i see several herbs that are edible near the roadside, so I won't go hungry at least. Now that i have the time to myself I need to figure out where I am going. Wait a moment. Where am I going? I thought the carriage was supposed to just take me out of the city!

At this moment the carriage slows to a stop. And three large bangs hit the door.

“Open up. Give us the money or we are going to kill you”

Pretty blunt eh? It's not like I am even equipped or trained for this.

A little sad that I have to part with so much money, “Alright alright let me just get out and start walking I'll leave it in the carriage”

“Eh? Just gonna cooperate like that?” The Bandit person said genuinely surprised.

With vigor I respond with, “Not like I have the capabilities to fight. At least I can go with no harm done to me or you.”

“Smart man” replied the bandit.

Finally opening the door I get to look at the bandit he appears as a middle aged brute, bald with a scar over his right eye. If I didn't know better I would say he was a guard captain or something like that.

“The money is on the seat I'll just walk that way then?” I ask hoping to leave soon.

“Haha, sure sure just take 10 steps, if there's money walk away if not, we kill you. Just that Simple.”

I do as he says take 10 steps to the right hand of the road next to the forest turn around and feel an extreme pain on my cheek. Before I even realized what happened I fall to the floor out cold.

I couldn't tell how much time had passed from when I was awake. I woke up on the road, luckily alive. My face had a light cut on it. It may have happened when I fell down. I check my person and found one gold lion, I kept it on me for safekeeping along with the badge.

Finding nothing else with value I look around to see if anything else is around. All around me is a huge forest and a raided carriage. Seeing that, I look around and find nothing of value or even remotely useful to me.

Soon though, I hear a creature trying to creep up on me. From its sound I could tell that it was a small animal or a very skilled predator.

I look towards the direction I hear the sound. My tail stands on end as my stress and Adrenalin start accumulating.

I had heard from Friezer that there are more than just simple animals like sheep. I just hope it's not a vicious predator like a panther.

To my misfortune I found that it was neither a panther nor a small animal. It was a magic beast.

The beast had 6 small legs appearing similar to an insects. The body however was almost like a cat or a dogs, as it was furry with no exoskeleton. The head was a gnarly contraption that would give normal children nightmares. It was a cross between a shark and a snake the head appeared like it was connect straight onto the body and it's mouth was wide open revealing plenty of sharp teeth. It's eyes appeared had a sheen of sharpness to them and it clearly saw me as prey.

As soon as I spot it aims to attack me as it starts to sprint at me baring its teeth and unhinging its jaw to open wider. The distance and my head caused me to misjudge its size. What I thought was the size of a dog was closer to that of a moose.

I immediately sprint as fast as i could away from the gigolog.

Wait why do I know it's name?

I look back at it and see unusual white lights above it representing its name: gigolog

Why can I see this? What does this mean?

Directly looking at it now I could also see it had more information: gigolog: level 14

Level 14? What is a level?

Not wanting to address or look at it further I sprint faster and look away from it.

Running for what felt like forever I finally look back to find that the creature was nowhere in sight. Confused I look around me to find that i am far away from where I originally was.

However finally listening around me I hear lots of pitter pattering of light animals and find that there are far more monsters in this forest. Looking around to each of the noises I find that these gigolos come in packs. I ran right into their hunting territory.

Fearing death even more than last time, I run once again not daring to look back.