Chapter 3 - Xandrea

[Welcome Chase to the world of Xandrea]

'what? why can I see words in the air'

[Current Stats

Race:human

Strength: 5

charisma: 1

Stealth: 1

speed: 6

Stamina: 4

Health 25/30

Mana 10/10

Demon power: 2

Rank, novice]

[would you like to view your skills?]

[yes] [no]

'I guess'

[ Demon fire sword- engulfs the users sword with a powerful black flame that does extra damage to holy creatures, it also grants a burn affect. Damage is determined by Demon power, length of skill is determined by mana]

[(locked, Reach level 5 to view skill)]

'what is all of this, it's like I'm in a game'

[Active quests]

[kill 0/2 humans(madatory) Remaining time 1 week 6 days and 23 hours]

[Register as a adventurer (optional)

Rewards: Unlocks Adventurer title]

'well this is odd, I wonder if everyone in this world can see this kind of screen'

'Wait a minute. I haven't even been paying attention to what's around me'

Chase looked around. The sight was beautiful, he was in a medium sized town, but to the very back of the town was a magnificent waterfall that split in two. in the center of the waterfall stood a spectacular castle made of some kind of white and gold material.

'Whoa! I wonder what it would take to get in there'

Chase refocused to what was around him.

There were very little people around, the only people he saw were a few shop owners. The town looked pretty well, it seemed much less advanced than the castle, but it looked nice none the less, most of the buildings looked to be made of sand stone and orange clay, all the markets were set up inside tents and infront of Chase was a large water fountain that spewed water out of the top of a magical staff. it seemed like he was in the towns square.

a man with scales all over his body and sharp teeth looked towards Chase.

"Rather odd for someone to be around here right now, what brings you here?"

Chase snapped his head towards the man.

"oh, uhhhm, I was just browsing, why is it odd that I'm here?"

"hmmm, you don't know about the queens event today. it's been posted everywhere, figured everyone new about it"

"I'm from out of town" Chase gave an awkward smile to the lizard.

"well, the queen is currently hosting a fighting event. The winner gets her hand in marriage. Everyone wants to see who the strong warrior that wins is."

"everyone except you?"

"sigh, I don't really care for that kind of stuff. besides I must stay at my shop, otherwise my family may not eat this week. Speaking of? would you like to buy any advanced potions"

"umm, no thanks. thank you for the information though"

The lizard man frowned and sat back down in his seat

'well then, maybe I should go see this event for myself'

Chase stood up and walked uphill towards the castle, the town was quite dense with buildings, so it took awhile to navigate to the castles gate.

He noticed some strange things about the town on his way up.

he walked up to some lanterns that gave a bright glow.

'are these lanterns lit with magic? there doesn't seem to be any fuel source and it doesn't look like fire, more like a glowing ball.'

Chase reached his hand towards the ball.

"Ow!"

' wow I'm an idiot, what did I expect? of course it's going to burn'

He quickly stepped away and tried to hide the embarrassed look on his face. He passed by many vendors on his way up to the castle.

'whoa are these guys really selling enchanted armor, this one allows you to breath underwater. I wonder how much 24 thousand yurls are, sounds like a lot'

' oooh these fruit look cool'

Chase picked up a green spiky fruit that had the shape of a square, he picked up a few other odd looking fruit and rubbed his finger along them.

"Ahem, can you stop rubbing my fruit and actually buy something" a old vendor in a blue dress asked.

"sorry" Chase backed away from the stand

' I need to start acting like I know what all this stuff is, otherwise people are going to think I'm a weirdo.'

Chase soon approached the castle gates. there were two guards on either side and the gate was wide open.

a guard gave Chase a quizzical stare.

"Welcome sir, your a bit late to the event, follow the path on the right it will lead you to the arena."

"right, thank you"

Chase walked through the gates and into the large castles yard, he took a right when the path split off and continued down.

'hmm, I don't see an arena, he did say right, right?'

Chase continued down the path until it abruptly ended into the wall of the moutain.

'why would they make a path that leads to nowhere?'

Chase could hear cheering coming from within the mountain. He noticed a odd looking stone poking out of the mountain.

'wait a minute....'

he pushed on it and heard the sound of two rocks sliding acrossed each other. An opening appeared in front of him.

'now that's awesome'

He took one step inside before, a spear was pointed directly at his throat.

*Gulp*