I reached for the amulet beneath my cloak and held it in my hand. It was so light that I couldn't feel its weight around my neck. I could only feel the presence initially when it appeared but as time passed it felt as though the only thing around my neck was the hook strapping the winter cloak around my neck.
After what must have been two hours the snow sled gradually halted so I climbed down to drag the snow sled along.
As we moved forward, with me dragging the snow sled I came upon a gruesome scene.
From ahead of us to where the light of the medieval torch couldn't reach the snow was littered with corpses of white animals. From what I knew in the past they looked like ice bears except that they were larger than the usual ice bears. About three times larger. They also were more ferocious looking and a lot less cute than the ice bears because of their menacing gigantic fangs and claws and the wounds around their bodies.
Their bodies were mangled with deep claw marks, and the horrifying sight sent a shiver down my spine and made my knees go weak.
Whatever had inflicted this much damage on them must have been a force to reckon with.
Just then a voice echoed into the air. It was the instructor's voice.
'You have entered a marked zone which is the trigger for the new quest.
New Quest: Defeat the mad king of the Ice Bears
The Loucura virus can only infect the Ice bears. Its method of transmission is through the consumption of the carriers of the Loucura virus; the snow fox.
Hours after being contaminated by the Loucura virus, the virus alters the mental state of the ice bears turning them completely violent, even against their kind. '
"Can you hear this?" Hassan's voice came from behind me. His voice was loud because of the wind that swept around us throwing the snow flakes around.
He was still in the snow sled, but I didn't expect him to be awake yet, so I jumped in surprise.
'You have to stop that ' I thought.
Every movement made me weary because it could mean that the cause of this gory site was back.
"The new quest... Am I the only..." His voice trailed into a background sound the moment I made eye contact with him.
It was almost as if I was sucked into his mind for a split second till we broke eye contact. But that second was enough for me to glimpse a significant portion of his memory from his point of view.
In the memory I saw, we were back in the Cave of the BLIZZARDKIN, and Hassan was facing off against numerous creatures.
During this battle, those creatures appeared slightly slower from his point of view compared to what I had witnessed when I was there with him.
It was as if, from his perspective, everything was in slow motion, while for us, he simply moved faster than the creatures.
When he started to mutter some words I could then understand the meaning of the words that he was mumbling; that made him seem like he was out of his mind.
He was calling forth his battle soldiers.
Then the whole thing started to make sense.
He is a necromancer and from what he said when he was telling us about his stat, necromancers use their magical abilities to manipulate death and the forces of the afterlife. So, they can raise and control undead creatures.
The defeated BLIZZARDKIN creatures had been re-awakened by his dark abilities and turned into his undead soldiers.
' What a gruesome ability ' I thought as I watched the three creatures that fought for us, through the periphery of Hassan's vision.
The cave's inhabitants hadn't vanished; they had been sent elsewhere. I was about to discover where Hassan had sent them when our eye contact broke, and I was pulled out of his consciousness.
Throughout the time I was glimpsing his past, it felt as if I were viewing the scenes through his eyes.
I had experienced the entirety of the fight and every bit of what Hassan lived through passed through my mind. It seemed like I was in his mind the exact amount of time that the fight took place but in actuality it was just a split second; the split second that it took for the eye contact to be made and broken.
Reflexively, I closed my eyes. The influx of information had overloaded my brain and was causing a throbbing headache.
I didn't need to think too hard to understand how I had glimpsed into Hassan's past just by looking into his eyes.
'The eye of Psion'
"Are you okay?" Hassan asked as he climbed down from the snow sled to check on me.
I kept my eyes covered, ensuring I didn't accidentally make eye contact again.
The amount of information being processed by my mind was overwhelming even though I had lived through that moment with Hassan.
The method of getting information about his past was not pleasing at all. With the way the eye of Psion worked, I doubted I'd use it again. If only they could download information into my brain as they did with knowledge about the BLIZZARDKIN and mind transfer.
My heart raced, and it felt like it might leap out of my chest, so I clutched my chest tightly.
I couldn't respond to his question because I wasn't okay. I needed to calm my racing heart and see if staying still would ease my throbbing head.
At that moment, before we accidentally made eye contact again, I dismissed the Eye of Psion back into my inventory.