a few days ago,
Even though it been two months Ted felt strong nostalgia when he sees a path to the old village. he felt coming back home after a long journey. Ted take a deep breath he wanted to smell old wooden house smell of village which was his first memory of the village.
" no... no... this is not the smell... this smell is..."
Ted's heart started to beat faster. he knew this smell. the first time it was when his family's merchant caravan attacked. and the second time it was the time of cataclysm, the day most of the villagers and his adopted father old village leader died in the attack of monsters..yes the smell coming from the village was the smell of human blood.
Ted ran towards village, on the way he saw tens of traps and in some traps there are bodies of wind Wolves. the carcasses started to smell. from the look of it the wolf we already died At least two days ago. 'why no-one took it?' Ted thought in his mind. then a terrible thought came to his mind. ' did every villager died? '. that thought makes his heart beat faster. he increased his speed and ran towards village madly.
when he reached village what welcomed him was a half-eaten human body.it also started to decay. Ted remembered the body.he was one of the older generation stayed behind village.he was a very kind man.
Ted started check walk towards the village centre. he saw a lot of houses which was tightly closed.but in some houses he saw smoke coming out of the cooking room. that makes his mind calm. even though the village was in silent and no people are outside he knew there are still living people in the village. he started to walk towards Raymond's house.
Ted went and knocked Raymond house. for a few minutes there is no response.ted decided to break open the door. at that time someone opened the door half.
" Ohh...Ted... it's you.. why did you come back.. the wolves attacked you guys too "
" no "
" anyways .. come in.. it's not safe outside"
"Raymond, what happened to the village? where are hunters? why is everyone staying indoors? how come there are wind wolves ?"
when they enter Raymond house Ted started to throw his questions in one breath. hearing these questions Raymond started talking with a guilty smile.
"Everything started last week. when hunters went to Forrest they attacked by wind wolves. one person died other eleven hunters returned with some wounds. in their word, it's a new group of wolves came here to acquire territory which belongs to the last group. so we decided to not hunt until the territorial problems solved. and who thought these wolves are greedier and bigger than the last group. they attacked our village two days ago.
only because of traps which made for the last hunt have our little time to set up a defence.13 people are dead by time defence created. most of them are old people who ran forward to act as a meat shield to help us survive...it's all my fault... I can't even bury them after they sacrificed for this village.. every time when we leave the village we are attacked by wolves...I don't know what to do anymore... I am not a good village leader.. I just wanted to be like my father" after saying this Raymond started to cry loudly.
"no..no I can't cry ..maybe they will come again after hearing my sound"
"Raymond stops crying..it's not the end of the world. we can ask help from Joseph"
"no... no.. he can't help.. don't tell him.. he will come differently after hearing this... but unlike before there are more than forty wind wolves here... they will also die if they come..you should leave too.."
" Raymond stop, listen to me first..I think we should ask for help from hari... a lot of bizarre things happening in the new village around him. maybe he can help"
" hari? ..."
............
after soothing Evelyn and made her return, hari decided to close guild and take rest. now hunters in the village started to travel more distance. they only came back to the village only after few days of hunting. after becoming stronger they can kill almost every monster near the village easily. and hunting them only gives small experience and reward.so after talking with hari they decided to hunt deep forest.
"DING"
"YOU LEVEL UP"
"what??? how?... I didn't hunt after last level up ?"
before getting an answer to his question hari felt a strong current passed through his body . after a few minutes of discomfort hari regained his body again.
"is that all? "
"ITS ONLY A SMALL LEVEL UP. IN STAR LEVEL YOU ONLY FEEL SMALL DISCOMFORT EVERY LEVEL UP"
"Ohh...but how did I level up"
"EVERY TIME SOMEONE KILLED MONSTERS 20 PERCENTAGE OF ITS MANA OR EXPERIENCE WILL WASTED ONLY 80 PERCENTAGE ACQUIRED BY HUNTER. IN THIS 20 PERCENTAGE 18 PERCENTAGE WILL BE ABSORBED BY WORLD AND LAST 2 PERCENTAGE WILL STAY AS IMPURE MANA. BUT WHEN A GUILD MEMBER KILL MONSTERS THIS WILL ABSORBED BY GUILD CARD AND GIVEN TO GUILD MASTER WHEN THEY REACHED GUILD AREA. "
"but there is no guild card here and they are still in hunting. then how this worked"
"ACTUALLY YOU GOT EXPERIENCE BECAUSE THEY ARE STILL IN GUILD AREA. AS GUILD AS CENTER 200 KILOMETRES RADIUS SURROUNDING AREA ARE BELONGS TO GUILD. BUT UNLIKE CARD ABSORPTION YOU ONLY GET 50 PERCENTAGE BECAUSE OF DISTANT ABSORPTION"
"so I am a leech"
"NO, I THINK PARASITE IS BEST METAPHOR "
"..."
"BANG...BANG"
"HARI... OPEN THE DOOR"
at that time hari heard Evelyn calling him.
"EVELYN .. let me rest ... please go back ... I promise you I will never talk to Joseph"
"HARI...NOT THAT. It is IMPORTANT... OPEN THE DOOR"
hearing Evelyn anxious voice, hari opened the door hurriedly. in front of the door, Evelyn was carrying a man who was bleeding.
" help... help... help" hari heard the man mumbling.
"Evelyn tell me the truth did you do anything? "
"no... no... I found him in stairs..so I bought him over here.."
after that hari and Evelyn cleaned him and bandaged all his wounds.
"this face, as seen somewhere .."
"oh my god, Hari this is Raymond "
hari looked at unconscious Raymond face again after a few minutes of thinking he remembered new village leader of the old village. hari felt something wrong happened. hari walked outside walked to a small wooden tower and torch it. it only means one thing...
EMERGENCY .. COME BACK FASTER...