Sentries patrol a quite camp, the sound of snoring drifts from the few tents. At the center of the camp a larger tent is still lite by torchlight. "The forest is to quite you feel it too right my lord" worriedly asked a sweating Rolf. "Yeah, no owls, no bugs not even a frog. Something is in these woods and the wildlife wants nothing of it" replied James. "Wake the men, let the sentries rest I feel..." A shout interrupts James's sentence. "My lord something is coming from the edge of the camps buffer zone" a tired looking sentry shouts from outside the tent flap. "All hands, rise and shine wake the camp increase the amount of torches.. TO ARMS MEN" Rolf shouting a flurry of orders to the troop.
The troop groggily wakes up in alarm putting on their equipment and taking down the tents. A chittering sound echos from the forest as the camp slowly get in formation around Jame's command tent. "Spears and shields at the ready men we don't know what's about to pop from them trees" shout Erick. As the last man get in formation around the the tent and raises his shield and spear, spiders the size of dogs come skittering from the underbrush and down from the tree tops.
As James ran from inside the tent to the front of the formation around his tent, the spiders made contact with troop. "Aim for their eyes, don't break formation" James shouted as he hefted his spear and shield. Taking a defensive stance James jabbed forward with his spear to the closest spider piercing a cluster of eyes on its forehead. James ripped the spear out of the spiders head causing a thick whitish green goo to splash the area. As the spider fell a prompt popped up in the corner of Jame's vision [ lvl 2 spider killed 5 exp] spider dropped 2x spider silk, 1x Chitian plate. Disregarding the prompt James focused on the next spider as it pounced, aiming for the man to James's right.
Blocking the spiders jump with his shield the man pierced forward with the spear. The man's spear bounced of the spiders carapace slicing of one of its legs causing the spider to shriek with pain. Noticing the creatures delay James knocked the spider off his shield and lashed out with his spear, piercing the spider through it's thinly armoured underside. Seeing no prompt James twisted the spear then yanked it out, convulsing the spider went stiff and a kill prompt was displayed. "Thank you lord James for the save" said the man James just saved. "Not a problem " replied James " Keep focused on the battle in front of you and we'll make it to sunrise".
After reassuring the man James fell back into his defensive stance. Taking the initiative to strike with his spear as the spiders hurled themselves forward a small wall of spider corpses started to form in front of James. Like a robot James blocked, bashed and stabbed until he fell into a blank state relying on instincts he didn't knew he had. Hours passed a James was stuck in this state slaughtering any spider that came within striking distance. Feeling a sharp pain on his shin James was ripped from his trance as he was thrown to the ground.
Looking down James saw a spider missing it's back half wrap its legs around his. Grabbing his shield James bashed the spiders head, noticing the spider shudder He bashed again this time feeling chitian give way. See the spider clinging on to its miserable life James pulled his shield back shouting out his frustrations slammed down his shield with all he had. The spiders head exploded as the shield hit covering James in the foul smelling ichor.
Feeling someone pull him up from the ground, James was taken into the tent. "My lord are you hurt anywhere" asked a pale faced Erick. "I'm fine was just knocked down by a half died spider" replied James "How fares the battle". "Better then we could hope for but we still had two die to poisoning" sighed Erick. Walking to exit the tent James saw the spiders retreating as the sun rose into the sky.
Shouts of excitement started to rise up around the command tent "We made it" " It's finally over thank the gods". Seeing his men all work up James yelled out to them all "The fights over for now get your tents back up and rest, you have five hours." Finally feeling the weight off his shoulders James looked through his notification.
[lvl 3 spider killed] 7 exp earned spider dropped 2x spider silk 1x chitian plate 1x spider venom, [lvl 2 spider killed] 5 exp earned, [lvl 1 spider killed] 3 exp earned. Scrolling through the notices James sees he had leveled up, seeing this he went straight to the stats screen.
-James Holmes-- lvl 2--Human--Title: None-
[91/100 Exp]
--Status-- 3 Points available
Strength: 6
Endurance: 5
Wisdom: 6
Stamina: 5
Intelligence: 7
Charisma: 7
--Skills-- 5 Points available
Tactics lvl 5, Spearmanship lvl 2, Advanced tactics lvl 2, Logistics lvl 3, Enduring lvl 2, Heavy Armour lvl 2
--Equipment--
Studded Leather Hauberk
Iron Greaves
Iron Boots
Iron Helm
Iron Reinforced Shield
Boar Spear +1
Looking at what changed in his stats James saw the experience bar and the points he can put into stats and skills. Pausing to think where to put his stat points James decided to increase his stamina by 2 and his endurance by 1. Feeling a warm current flow through his body James notice his fatigue was gone and he felt stronger. Not getting distracted James went to his skills screen, seeing nothing to click on or look at James was starting to get mad "What's the point of skill points". After saying this a prompt popped up
"Yes" James grumbled.
Looking through the skill page James found a lot of high level skills that almost made him pass out. "What is this brokenness" looking at a certain skill
"Well let's let the boy's get a few hours of shut eye then pushing the wood line back further" Rolf said as he started rapid firing a list of things that needed to be done as soon as possible. "Hold on let me write this down you talk faster then a women" James snarky replyed with a chuckle. "What of the two men that died" James asked as his face became solemn. "It seems our bodies disappear after a few minutes leaving behind their inventory and equipment" Rolf replied as he was interrupted by James. "Alright I'm going to get some sleep you do the same" James hurriedly said as he walk to his sleeping bag. Seeing James end the meeting so soon Rolf started to walk out of the command tent. "We will reconvene in a few hours rest up we have a lot to do" Rolf said as he left the tent laughing. Laying in his sleeping bag James drifted to sleep quickly with his last coherent thoughts being how much a slave driver Rolf is going to be.