Dave was using his compass, since he was the one leading the squad he was directing the direction they were moving in and he constantly made atempts to get everyone to get closer since their lives literary depended on each other and you work better with friends than strangers
"hey , Shen you said you were in college right?"
Dave expectantly looked towards shen for an answer
"yeah, im in my last year"
Shen still seemed cocerned or scared to speak infront of the whole group, his eyes were glued to the ground throughout the whole journey, he did not even bother to look at dave when answering. dave awkwarldy cleared his throat with a fake cough and proceeded to ask Emily a question
" Emily, how did you manage to pass the system's test with that staff, it doesnt look like it does a lot of damage "
Dave sent an inquisitive glance towards emily and looked at her staff with interest
"i had to face a dog like creature, it pounced on me before i had time to get a weapon from the rack and then the creature tried t-t- to take advantage of me and i grabbed the closest thing i could find and wacked it till death"
By the end of her monologue Emily burst into tears, the presure fom the examination and the creature's actions must have taken a toll on her. Richard felt sorry for her but he did not budge to calm her down.
Dave and Shen rushed to Emily's side and started consoling her for her experience
"i'm sorry i asked you that question i shouldn't have i'm sorry"
"there ,there everthing will be fine now"
Even though dave and shen kept consoling her Emily did not stop crying.
"SHUT UP! you will attractOutlaner's"
Orlando expressionly looked towards Emily, you could see she was tring her best stop crying out of fright but she still kept sobbing
"Didn't you idiots hear what that voice said,this place is full of outlander's and i am not ready to see my ancestors"
Dave reprochfully looked towards Orlando
"She's been through a lot and you should at least have the decensy to respect.."
"Quiet!!"
Dave was cut off by orlando, Orlandi looked towards a bunch of trees weirdly. the rest of the group started hearing it .the snapping of twigs and the hustling of shrubs and leaves. something was coming their way fast and it definetly was not to Sympathize with them.
There were 5 of them, Fiendish like creature.they had dog like features they were 5 feet tall with almond fur. they had a feral glint of madness and hunger in their eyes they dashed towards the group
Richard calmly looked towards the creatures rushing at them. his palms were sweaty but that did not matter it was either kill or be killed . he brandished his sword and charged towards the creatures
He noticed Orlando and dave seemed to have had the same idea as him
Richard raised his sword and lept towards one of the outlander's with and struck down at the outlander infront of him in which in turn deflected his attack with it's claws
Bang!
Richard looked over and saw dave had bashed an outalnder with his shield and forced it to retreat.
"Look out!"
Richard heard Emily yell towards him and when he looked infront of him The outlander was furiously piercing towards him with it's claws.
Richard tried to deflect it with his sword but he could not hold the paary for too long, the outlander was stronger than him which forced him drop his sword
Richard distanced himself from the outlander , he was tired of the unreliability of weapons alwasys breaking or beign droped in battles, he knew some martial arts and had been training in them for more than 10 years now why shouldnt he use it to defeat this f**cking outlanders.
he steadied his heart got into his stance and calmly looked towards the outlander like a predator looking at it s prey
"Awooo"
the creature looked madly at richard and pounced at him with its claw
Richard smoothly and quickly deflected the outlander's attacked and sent a swift and powerful puch directly to the outlander's crotch
"awoooooooooo"
The outalnder yelled in pain at the sudden attack to it's crotch. Richard knew that it was an unspoken rule between men to never hit eachother in that place, but he didnt care his life was on the line
he took advantage of the outlander's weakness and continued to land consecutive blows on the creature he had no care in the world where his hit landed
Ding!
[Level 1 outlander slained, 3 points gained]