Elliot stares dumbfounded at his luck stat, he had never felt like he was luckier than other people tho...
'Yeah there is no doubt, it's a bug.'
After assuming it was a bug he closed the status page and opened the map and once again he was surprised by what he saw. He believed that the map would at most show a small area around him or only the places he had already been to but it showed way more ! It must have been like a 50kms round map, he looked closely and not too far from him there was a huge black hole with words floating above it : The link.
'So that's the real name of the breach.'
Looking more closely he was able to see small green dots moving on the map, most of them were around the breach while others were a bit further, where he was there was a single similar dot but it wasn't green but blue and finally, he could see tons of red dots of different sizes everywhere on the map !
'So I guess the green dots are the guys who came in here with me, I'm the blue dot and that'd make the red dots the monsters ?
This is some strong ability, I can see when a monster or a human is getting close and ambush them. I wonder if everyone have this ability?'
Elliot decided it was better not to talk about it, he would keep it for himself if it was a unique ability and even if everyone could use it he guessed it would take them some time to learn to use it and it would give him an advantage on the early days of treasure hunt.
He focused again on the map looking for two things : the first were monsters close to him, since he was about to sleep he wanted to check thoroughly so he could sleep without feeling scared for his life; the second thing were treasures or place where there could be treasures, he wasn't sure if a treasure would appear on the map but he could at least find places susceptible of having something of worth.
'No monster in a 10kms range of me, I can't believe this map completely tho. Maybe there are monsters that don't appear on it so I'll still have to be careful when sleeping.
As for places with treasures my best chance would be this grotto, it is really close I should check it out tomorrow.'
Finally Elliot took off his eyes from the pop up and it disappeared, he looked at the can which had the crab boiling inside and lifted the lid.
A delicious smell drifted out of it and made Elliot hungry even though he had already eaten a whole can not even an hour ago !
'This smells hella good...'
He poured the content of the can on a plate, a fuming and alluring crab sliced down from inside, it looked unsightly before cooking it but seeing it now it really made him salivate, it's original dark green color had turned to a pinkish color.
'It also looks just as good as it smells.'
Finally Elliot couldn't wait anymore and he separated one claw from the body and took a taste of that small share of meat that had came out together with the claw.
'Delicious...'
Elliot was flabbergasted, even without a seasoning he felt like this could be served in a high class restaurant!
In 2 minutes and even tho he didn't have the required tools to open the shell and eat it efficiently he had already finished eating the crab and lied down satisfied, due to its otherworldly taste he had even forgotten about the dangers it could bring.
'I regret I didn't get to catch the second one...'
Finally after that tasty surprise Elliot fell asleep satisfied, in this world it wasn't possible to sleep completely to avoid any mishaps so he opened the map and left it hover above himself, he checked every ten or so minutes if something had got close to him.
In the end he had a whole night of calm and although he hadn't slept fully and checked the map every few minutes he still felt refreshed and ready to explore.
He put some water from the river to boil and then left it cool down, he had finished his gourd yesterday so from today onward he would have to drink from the river.
After a short while he had picked everything up and he walked around to mountain to look for the grotto he had seen on the map, the map was still in front of him to always check if an enemy was getting closer.
He was in a rush yesterday so he wasn't able to enjoy the view but everything around him looked so green and lush, it was like a natural paradise.
'This place looks so good, the food is tasty, if there weren't monsters to aim for your life at every corner I would want to build a house here—
Huh?'
Looking at his map every few seconds he was surprised to see such a huge load of red dots together at a few kilometers from him, since he had discovered the map he had been looking at it every few seconds or minutes to stay safe but it was the first time he had seen all these small dots joining together, since yesterday they all stayed at safe distance from each other.
'That way is the breach ? What's happening ?'
Even though he was surprised by that scene he didn't care about it much and kept looking for the grotto, there was nobody there that he cared about so he focused on his own goals but he still wondered what was the reason this was happening, understanding the monster's comportement would be really helpful on the long term.
'Has this been happening frequently since the breach has opened? I didn't hear nothing about such a phenomenon from the soldiers so maybe it is because of the huge gathering of humans ? A lot of them set camp right next to the breach so maybe they attracted the monsters.'
This world's rules and the monster's comportement were still a mystery for everybody and for himself too of course, if he wanted to survive long enough to bring back treasures to earth he would need to study everything about this world and become an expert about it.