Rangi was making his way towards the borders of this region he was currently in. He did not have a map or anything to go by just the overall direction of where the next area was located.
'Seriously why did not I get a map of the area before now' he thought
He then realized that since he was not planning on traveling that far from Malbury Point that was the time. Why would he need one he could always easily find his way back home as nothing he encountered outside the roaming around the world outside of the forest his hometown was at the back of. It could not compare to that forest where getting lost was far easier if you did not learn how properly get around properly. Applying that experience to the world beyond made it all too easy to get back home no matter where he walked off to previously.
Just then barely dodged an attack that was launched at him from above but jumped backwards to do so. Shocking him that someone would attack him so suddenly and the attacker that he had managed to dodge them just then.
'A bandit...A Thief....something even worse' Rangi had these thoughts coursing through his head at the moment
There was a fair share of stories about those various people and things happening to those that venture alone after all as he was informed by the one that gave him a crash course in what the world was like as well as what to look out for.
"Interesting that you managed to dodge that attack just now," his attacker said.
Rather than respond in kind instead Rangi just attempted to deliver a one two type punch to distract them enough to get away. As if this was a bandit or a thief then chances they were not alone could be rather high. Thus did not want to risk getting caught up in a brawl against an unknown amount of combatants after. If it was worse then he certainly did not want to stick around for whatever was next. However, on the off chance, Rangi was wrong suddenly attacking this person was not incorrect in a sense as they did it first so a counterattack should be expected. Attacking someone with a weapon from above was not considered a form of greeting normally regardless of where you are from.
"Quick on the uptake but poor on the follow through it seems," the attacker said
Rangi's attack was blocked by their weapon. Once he realized that all the force the Rangi was putting toward pushing the blow forward, he changed to instead push himself back. A trick that was said to have naturally run in his family as there were a number of these that existed and while others needed to be taught how to do them. Rangi just seem to know them all as if they were mere second nature to them, thus no need to train to use them. However, he did need to train in order to fully master them as just being able to use something does not mean you are a master at it.
'That feeling I got just now' Rangi looked quickly at the fist that collided with the weapon used to block his attack 'Is that one of the sentient weapons I was told existed within the world'
The weapon did not look that different than a normal one but the feeling he got from striking it directly just gave him the feeling that he did not ever get from whenever he struck or even touched another weapon before.
"Why do not you just give up and make things easier on yourself as everyone you know is properly already dead anyway. Why not allow me to let you join them in the afterlife without having to go through any suffering. Just let me make this as painless as I possibly can for you" the attacker told him
Confirming at least for Rangi that the story he heard and continued to hear every now and then. It was correct as the forest and Malbury Point had been seemingly destroyed with everyone and everything wiped out in the process. Looking as if he was going to obey and just let himself be killed by them. Rangi managed to use this as a ruse to fool them bolt off straight ahead at his full speed. Shocking his attack at how fast he was able to go from merely walking to full blow full speed spring like that.
Rangi however was not taking time to look back as he was just running as fast as he could through this are looking to make as much of a mess behind him as he could. All while still maintaining his full on sprinting speed to attempt to put as much distance between himself and his attacker as possible. In his running, he came across a fork in the path and had to choose between two routes quickly. Choosing the one he was already closest to originally all sudden changed his mind at the last second and picked the other path. Though he ran through the growth that prevented him from seeing what lay beyond it on the path.
Rangi was shocked that he had basically just run off a cliff as he felt there was no longer any ground underneath him and gravity that somehow allowed him to keep running for a bit. It decided to finally kick back into doing its job once again causing Rangi to fall towards the ground at an alarming rate. Though the landing managed to break something what broke however was not Rangi that landed like a cat that merely fell out a tree. It was the very ground itself that broke collapsing under the force put upon it by Rangi's landing which actually caused him to fall further. Rather than landing on straight up solid ground, he instead landed on top of a facility that existed underground thus he managed to break through the ceiling and now started falling down in the facility itself