Darting towards the tree line nine ran as if his life depended on it because it did.
He could hear the howling get closer and the sound of tree branches breaking.
sweat drenched his brow as he was out of shape from being in active for so long. He ran into the trees darting in and out of cover while scooping up dirt with his hands and rubbing it over himself as to hide his scent.
Running while glancing back accasionaly gripping the large rock in his hand until his fingers hurt.He couldnt tell how close they were and the sound of their running became louder or maybe it was just in his head but either way he had to keep going.
Your stamina has increased, a blue window pop up said. I dont care I dont care I dont care he thought over and over while closing the window hurredly because right when it popped up was right when he decided to check behind him.
Just as he closed it with his thoughts, a set of teeth larger than his hands slammed closed together right in front of his face. The breath from this beast smelled like rotting meat. flayling backwords desperately he felt his foot catch a tree root protruding from the ground and next thing he knew he was falling.
Rolling down a sudden incline scraping his body and cloths on the tough ground and hitting his head multiple times. nine was hurting and didnt know if the beasts still followed. he couldnt think too much because he was falling down this mountain of a hill that started as a simple hill and turned to a near verticle incline.
Reaching out with his free hand scrambling to grab anything to stop the fall or at least slow him down even a little. His free hand felt something like tree roots and getting a grip he pulled with all his might . dangling over the edge of a cliff while his shoulder felt like it was going to come apart at the joints.
Looking up towards the cliff edge he could see somethings that resembled wolves but they were much much larger. They were howling and growling because the beasts lost their prey.
Still dangling from some roots nine realized that there was actually a small cave in the cliff side. nine wanted to pull himself up right away but who knows, in a forest full of monster there had to be something in that cave and what if it was worse then the wolves. At this time his arm was going numb and his mind was wanting to blackout from the pain and the exaustion from running and falling. looking down it seemed like a very long way to fall. There was no way to survive if he fell and he could tell there was nothing to grab onto like he just did. I guess a maybe is better then a definent death. tossing his rock over the edge of the cave entrance waiting for a couple seconds to listen for anything. he waited and then hoisted himself up into the mouth of the cave.
By this time it was almost night out in this forest or for what he assumed was night as there were no stars in the sky only a darkeness.He was exausted but he couldnt let his gaurd down as the cave seemed to go on into nothing. He sat leaning back on his hands breathing loudly as he couldnt help it but he did grab his rock which he found when he climbed up.
Sweat covered him but it was more of a cold sweat as he almost died by becoming the wolves dinner. What kind of situation was he in how could he think a rock would do anything to that monster.
He was still really upset about missing out on being able to have a weapon but with the size of them there is no weapon he could think of that would have saved him.
Letting his eyes adjust to the darkness he was starting to see more and more of the cave.then his breathing abrubtly stopped and his eyes were as adjusted as they were going to get. In the back of the cave he could just barely make out the outline of something. He didnt dare move at first because if he was caught here there was no hope of survival.
Then looking at his shoes he remembering the skill that came with them and his past as a thief he slowly stood up but not all the way just to get in a crouching position. Then he took a step forword, and then another slowly making his way to whatever it was that was in the back of the cave.
After what felt like hrs he was close enough to see what threat lay in front of him and what kind of action he could take if anything. He looked at the small rock in his hand and silently sighed. squinting towards the object he let out a real sigh and it was of relief and walked forword to examin what he had found.
He was looking at a bunch of sticks in the form of a nest of some sort but whatever made this nest was long gone but it was a huge nest and he was grateful that the owner left. Looking inside he found a bunch of old broken eggs he guessed whatever was here left in a hurry with the state of things.
He was about to look further in the cave as it went on but his eyes caught something that was pushed into the nest almost hidden but not quite.
Bending over to look closer he saw an egg, he reached in and grabbed it. The safe zone helped him not feel hungry but that didn't mean he wasn't missing food.
bringing it closer to his eyes to examin it a message popped up.
"Raven lords egg"-(only from within can this shell be broken) will hatch when you meet the right requirements.
Feeling again like the system was just messing him nine exhailed and exclaimed of course its an unbreakable egg.
There goes my dinner. He put the egg in his inventory worst case scenerio he could just throw that at whatever was trying to make him their dinner it couldn't be worse then the rock in his hand.
Going further into the cave he realized that it didnt go on for to much longer but at the end he was not dissapointed as he found a bronze chest.
Nice, My second chest
leaning over to open it he didnt have high hopes since his days just kind of been like that and it was only bronze.
This time he was not disappointed and grinned and he saw that there were two scrolls and a water skin.
He was sure he would have to go fill it at a river unless it was truely magic. After looking at it his analyze skill started and
It was definently magic
Endless waterskin rank A artifact
He was dumbfounded, did his luck finaly turn around
Putting that in his invintory after smelling it and then drinking a few gulpfuls nine moved on to the two scrolls sitting in the chest.
He had to be careful so he didnt have a repeat of last time.
Opening the first one he read
Shadow blend rank C (The ability to be one with the shadows your scent and very presence will dissappear but you will also be blind and not be able to move)level this skill up to see better results
use duration 3 min
cooldown 1 hour
Wow, what would the chances be that he would find something that was perfect for him.Wait whats that last part...well better then nothing i guess I can level it up to.
Learn, he thought
You have aquired the skill shadow blend
sweet one more step towards getting to the top, wait how many floors will this tower have...ehh no use worring about it.
Now on to the last scroll
Picking it up nine started to feel uneasy
maybe because things never went his way
opening it up it read
skill tame familiar, (ever think of controlling a dragon and have it around as a pet, that would be neat but this isn't that good of a skill maybe start off with ants or a small rodent.)
"This stupid system who would ever want to learn such trash i'm a thief...damn system ...wait" nine said after pausing
skill aquired tame familiar (small)
I did it again...