I don't know how much I slept, but I woke up to the pain of many of my wounds. Some were beginning to heal, the slightest ones; however, the cuts on my arm, the tear on my leg, and especially my shoulder didn't look good. The shoulder also It had an ashy tone, as if infected.
I searched through the stores and belongings until I found the closest thing to a thread and needle. They were crude and larger than I would have liked, but if I wanted to survive, I had no choice. I bit a stick and started sewing my leg live... I fainted from the pain halfway through and I had to continue. Doing that to yourself, all over your body hurt horribly, something indescribable...
In real life, he would be a cripple, but this was just a tutorial for a game, he had to try to survive beyond the limit... I think he had some fever from the pain and infection...
I spread out on the ground all the loot I had found on the corpses, including the loot I found in the goblin tents and in the large pavilion that must have belonged to the chieftain...
The findings were the following:
A long sword of fine craftsmanship...
A battleaxe with engravings on the side...
Three knives and 4 daggers...
A two-handed iron hammer...
An infantry spear similar to the one I had broken but of better quality...
Some leather boots
Boots with metal toes
Some sandals...
A long leather jacket or a cover-up—I don't know how to describe it.
One short layer, one long
Three backpacks
Two shoulder protectors
A helmet with horns
a cape
A medium shield
a buckler
A roll-up sleeping bag...
3 blue gems
two waist bags with a total of 54 gold coins, 110 silver coins, and 30 copper coins...
And what looked like a diary, although he was unable to read the language...
Only the sandals, they fit on my feet; the leather boots were too tight; and the boots with metal toes, clearly belonged to the corpse that I baptized as the dwarf at the entrance.
I didn't want to get rid of anything, so as best I could, I gathered everything in one of the backpacks, ready to crawl out of there but with all the loot...
No other tunnels or branches came out of the cavern. My surprise was when, beyond the mushroom forest, where the cavern narrowed, the walls stopped being natural and were carved with large, solid blocks. At the end, two columns flanked what It was clearly a square door, old and most likely not made by goblins...
The door was broken and had fallen on one of its hinges... I crossed the door with more fear than anything else, leaving two backpacks in the doorway. I loaded weapons and the shield, thus advancing with the new spear, the long sword, the ax and the knives and daggers that I could hang on my belt or hide without disturbing my boots...
Still leaning on the spear that served as my staff, I advanced down a descending hallway, in which a light could be seen at the end. I didn't take the shield because, having one arm that was practically useless, I thought it was better to tie it to my body so that it wouldn't get in the way or hurt me as little as possible.
On the walls every few meters, there were empty cauldrons, announcing that there had once been torches there. The path was straight, and after about 15 meters the room opened up, it was a perfectly circular room about 8 meters in diameter, in the center a metallic rock one meter high by about two meters wide was crowned by an uncut gem, like a rough ruby the size of a human head that emitted a reddish light... tied to the metal pedestal were the bodies of four decapitated bipedal beings, one of them the size of a human and with an elongated skull, another had two arms of more and was smaller, even more than a dwarf, another was undoubtedly a goblin and the last one was bigger than me, more than two meters tall and had natural horns coming out of his temples and different parts of his head,
The skeleton also revealed a tail... It seemed that in that composition there was another prisoner for the sacrifice, but the ropes were cut... The image of the dwarf, who had died near the exit, came to mind. Did he manage to free himself? And flee, ultimately dying from his wounds?
The bodies seemed to have been there for a long time due to the state of the bones, now devoid of all flesh... Longer than the corpses in the feline lair...
The wall opposite the tunnel through which I arrived had strange drawings carved into the stone. Runes? Something written? Mere decoration?...
Since there were no other enemies, I walked back down the hall and brought all my luggage. Everything hurt, but I sensed that I was at the end of this phase...
I put my hand close to the central stone, and it began to react to my presence. I don't even know how to describe it; I only know that it was charged with energy, energy that filtered into my body...
"Congratulations on being the first player to have detected the nature of magic in this phase of the tutorial"
Just like with the stone, I did the same with the gem, and with the wall, other different energies emanated...
However, nothing else happened...
I reflected on everything that had happened so far...
Four beings of different races entered the cave armed, coincidence? Or they were looking for this altar. The goblins were doing a ritual in which they did not hesitate to sacrifice one of their own, but they needed the other four, and they did not sacrifice any more of their kind... A gem and a strange metal that They oozed energy, some strange engravings on the wall... A portal? But where?.
Things didn't happen by chance, things weren't by chance, especially in a game where they want to prove something...
If it had required death, and not just blood, the explorers would not have entered... But I wasn't there to try bleeding myself out for a ritual that I didn't know if it would work...
I remembered the dying feline... leaning on the spear I retraced all the way to his lair... there he was still lying, unconscious with breathing even weaker than the day before...
Have you tried dragging a body with dead weight through a cave? A body weighing just under 100 kilos? To say difficult would be an understatement, and even more so with an injured leg and a useless arm...
With the skins from one of the cabins, I wrapped some ropes and rags around the dying feline, I tied the other end so that it wouldn't slip away and I tied the other end to my body... to be able to exert more strength with my only arm, I used the rope of the two-handed hammer instead of the spear...
One meter, two, three, twenty... Come on Lion, you can do it, a bend... the barricade in sight... I leaned on a wall to rest while I made sure the feline was still breathing...
Exhausting, agonizing, horrible, but luckily the cave itself was not very big, the distances were difficult, but it was not extreme... It took hours, but I finally reached the room with the feline hanging by a thread of life...
When trying to lift the feline's body onto the pedestal, I was on the verge of having a heart attack since this threat of waking up... luckily it was a death rattle, death was approaching... I used my body to lift it up, leaning on the hammer and causing the precarious points of my leg to open and bleed again... I couldn't waste time... I sliced his neck with the short sword and the blood began to flow towards the stone, and towards the gem, no. I knew where I should fall so I couldn't risk it. More than a liter and a half of blood was spilled before anything happened.
The stone began to pulse, emitting flashes of light as if it were a police siren...
The wall in front began to blur... that's the best description, it stopped being clear...
Data announced the long-awaited ending:
Congratulations player for being the first and the only one to discover the third and final exit from the dungeon.
Congratulations player, being the only one to have discovered the hidden piece in the dungeon.
Congratulations player for being the only one to kill all the monsters in the dungeon.
Congratulations player for being the only one to reach level 3 during the second phase of the tutorial...
Congratulations to the player for being the first and only one to unleash and feel the magic in the second phase of the tutorial
Rewards will be calculated according to performance...
And with a beam of light I disappeared... this time I was not given the opportunity to continue...