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Chapter 3 - Life and Death PT. 1

 The boy would walk out the gates of the city, with this he would be greeted by the lush green forest and the paved path with the sun shining brightly and his motivation now set. He begins to part ways in a random direction into the forest in hopes that he could in some instance, kill some monster even if it wasn't much of a challenge. After a few minutes of walking, visibly nervous about what may appear, they would suddenly see something, it wasn't humanoid but more animal-like , The closer the boy got, he'd get more of a visual on it. At the closest he could get without attracting its attention, it would be clear that it was some form of wolf, it's fur white, a face stained with blood, and some seemingly sharp claws. As he saw this the boy would gulp as the halberd on his back would be taken out and gripped... The one hope now was that he could kill this thing.

With the thought of killing this monster in front of him he would charge forward with the halberd using the tip of it to try and pierce it only managing to slightly graze it, this wasn't due to him being too terrified but more so the speed of the wolf. In that few seconds of the boys attacks the wolf had dodged as soon as it noticed and would slice the assailant at the chest and arm with the only truly damaging attack being on his arm as his chest had been protected by the leather armor he was gifted. A single splatter like sound would be heard with blood now leaking from his arm, a cold sweat would drop from the boy's face once he seen what he had unknowingly went to fight; while yes forming a strategy around slaying this beast would be important it would be clear that forming a complete strategy was next to impossible when taking into account the speed of it. Looking at this from a quick and barely logical stance it would be obvious that if they didn't act quick then he would end up as the wolf's next meal. If that happens then everything he had worked on and was working too would all end up as some useless goal that was too ambitious... The boy would once again get prepared to strike as he waited for the wolf to strike first and would stand provocatively as if he was telling the wolf to go and eat him. With this taunt the wolf would charge at the boy in which he was able to use his halberd much like an axe in order to strike the wolf right on the leg, a bang could be heard as the wolf stood there with its left now chopped off and blood spewing out of it and the slight sight of the bone. Seeing this the boy would take a new stance, this time he would go to throw his halberd as a sort of distraction and after he would charge in now holding a knife, while the wolf could easily knock away the halberd it was too late as the boy would stab the white wolf in the eye making it squeal in pain and blood splatter, with this chance he would grab the halberd and in one final exchange both him and the wolf would strike each other with all they could but in the end, the boy was the only one left standing, blood dripping from his open wounds. Now that this was over the boy would take his knife out of the eye and would start to skin the wolf, the things that the tower watchers wanted to see the most was full proof that you had actually killed it, for now all the boy would be able to take and exchange for money would be the most valuable materials which included the intact eye, the teeth, the heart, and the lungs; in all honesty anything that could make him make money would be needed... he had no time nor any other choice.