An unknown time later Raven awakens In agony, looking himself over his tail is in shambles bent to odd angles and ripped and bleeding, his left arm broken and blood still coming from his mouth, breathing a blindingly painful task each breath causing the blackness of unconsciousness threatening to come back. Walking is out of the question Raven wont be able to do much of anything, if some one were to find him now he would be helpless. Looking over to the wolf he sees it laying there still its jaw unhinged broken its eyes bulged from its skull. Raven laughs and then coughs violently “hope it hurt you bastard.” Raven spits towards the wolf leaving a bloody mark on its fur. Looking over the wolf he sees saddle packs on the wolf sitting up as best as he can he tries to wobble over to the wolf without falling over. Getting to the wolf he slumps to the ground digging through the bags in hopes of finding something anything to stop the pain, rummaging through the first bag he finds more scrolls of bounties of other people two with blood marks on them crossing the picture out. The second bag contains two vials one filled with a orange liquid the other appears to be filled with bubbly water, with no choice slowly bleeding out he grabs the orange vial and downs it in one gulp, Instantly his legs start to feel like they are burning his veins bulging from his legs, a icon appearing in his vision, selecting it, it reads “Stamina boost 25% bonus to run speed and stamina regeneration duration 24 hours” cursing he downs the next potion in hopes of it helping in any way, as it touches his tongue his ring bursts with bright white light and the wounds on his body feel like they ignite in flames screaming in agony he begins to drop to the ground and roll in pain blinded from the light and pain. The pain slowly starts to lessen and the light fades away curled in the fetal position hugging his keens sobbing Raven lays there for several hours.
Refocusing Raven gets up cleaning himself up a little with his sleeve and looking himself over, Looking to his tail it appears to be back to its normal self no scars no bends his arm fully functional and again no scars looking himself over fully he finds even the scar on his stomach is gone all his wounds fully healed even his mind feels clearer, lighter even. Looking to his stats screen he sees the stamina boost still have 20 hours to it he decides its best to use it while he has it running full speed to the north, once he receives his 3rd fatigue stack he decides to slow to a jog for the rest of the time, making great time when the suns start to fall and night starts to come he decides its best to camp and wait for the suns to rise again. With no camp fire again wrapped in his tent and laying even his old leathers stacked on him to stave off the cold. Two hours of shivering light finally starts to peak over the horizon again quickly packing he continues on with still plenty of time on his Stamina buff he begins running stacking two more fatigue debuffs and then switching to a jog again.
Coming to a small lake Raven decides here's a good place to stop his buff wearing off in a few minutes. Deciding he's far enough from the human village he decides to set up camp and make a fire a good distance from the waters edge just in case. Warping himself in the tent tatters once again he decides he really needs a new tent, setting up a temporary shelter every day just doesn't cut it anymore. Going to the waters edge he refills his water skins and washes his cloths and does some basic maintenance on his equipment sharpening his daggers sword and hatchet rubbing some charcoal into his leathers while washing them trying to get as much of the filth out of them as possible, thankfully his cloth clothing still mostly clean some small rips and tears and a little blood but all and all not bad considering the rough treatment by the wolf. Hearing a splash from the lake Raven jumps up looking out to the water when he sees several fish jumping small trout looking fish, dozens of them all jumping out of the water Raven smiles grabbing his fishing gear craving something other than smoked meat for a change. After a couple hours of fishing he smiles at his cache of three fish in a pile on the shore setting up his fire and cooking the fish he greedily eats his fill.
Having fed himself Raven decides its time to move on this moment of peace was enjoyable but the humans may still be out there and staying in one place can be a fatal mistake no matter how peaceful it may seem. Packing his bags and heading out he heads north again as he passes the lake and is about to reenter the forest he hears a whistle go past him with a thud in front of him, looking he sees an arrow sticking out of a tree ahead of him. Grunting Raven starts running as fast as his legs will carry him, a second arrow flying past him getting closer Raven ducks as he runs leaving the lake far behind. Running yet again from a pissed off human with a bow Raven ducks under branches through bushes and around boulders dodging the odd arrow, when his path is blocked by fallen trees interrupting his run just for a moment when yet another arrow rips by this one hitting his back pack and knocking him over. Scrambling back to his feet he stands and turns to his attacker, the man staring at Raven with murder in his eyes a short sword and a dagger drawn bow laid to rest on the ground behind him. “Why cant you just leave me alone!? you try and rob me, then try and kill me, then when I defend myself you are angered by it? Are you kidding me what the hell is wrong with you!?” the human huffs and chargers giving a angered shout jabbing his sword forward towards Raven, drawing his sword and dagger he activates parry and readies for the strike using his dagger to parry, he swings with his sword tagging the archer in the left arm slicing across it causing the archer to drop his dagger. Raven lunges with his dagger and the man steps back swinging his short sword up just missing Raven as he leans back from the attack. Swinging his tail out he knocks the man to the ground jumping on to him and stabbing his sword down into the archers chest, the archer reaching for the blade trying to pull it out. Blood freely flowing from the wound as the man moans in pain Raven twists the blade with all his might with a load crack the man convulses and goes limp. “You have gained 5 PK points”
Looting the archer who has haunted Raven for so many days with satisfaction he takes his bow, arrows and goes through his bag looking for anything useful finding some travel rations, a vile of an oily black substance, and a tube with a pull string. Placing the items in his bag quickly, to avoid the archers wolf he decides to move on headed north again. As he travels he can hear the wolf in the distance but it doesn’t appear to be getting any closer it seems to be staying in one area and howling at the top of is lungs. Raven knows its found the archers body and will be following him soon, picking up the pace he begins looking for an area to ambush the wolf. Running for an hour at full speed Raven comes up on a small empty cave in a rock face deciding this is the best hope he has he begins setting up his trap.
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The wolf approaches the cave entrance smelling the ground snarling as it catches Ravens scent it begins to enter the cave getting half way into the entrance it peaks inside to find Raven not within. A small rock falls from above the cave as Raven jumps out throwing the black oil fluid he found on the archer at the wolf. As the potion makes contact with the wolfs back it shatters as the liquid makes contact with the air it ignites setting the wolfs back on fire. Raven gives a fist pump he had hoped it would explode on contact but he wasn’t sure, when examining it earlier there was a metallic lump in the potion he figured it was some kind of igniter. The wolf howls in pain bucking trying to put out the fire charging into the cave running into the back wall rolling on the ground yelping it attempts to put the fire out. Raven jumps down from above the cave drawing his bow and loading an arrow he starts firing arrows into the wolf. After the 4th arrow the fire on the wolf goes out and the cave goes dark low growling rumbles from the cave but Raven doesn't have site on the wolf putting down the bow and drawing his longsword and short sword and prepares for the wolf to rush. A few short breaths later Raven sees a shift in the shadows to his left he turns towards it and raises the swords, as he's raising the swords the wolf jumps Raven gives a yelp as the wolf lands on him pushing him to the ground, the stench of the burning flesh filling the air, the wolf gives a moan of pain as it snaps its jaws at Raven, He pushes on his swords trying with all his might to keep the wolf away from him blood coating his hands the wolf tries to struggle but its life slips from it and falls into a pile next to Raven in a bloody smoking heap.
As Raven lays there the familiar voice comes up “congratulations you have killed a level three dire wolf and gained fifty exp” Raven groans getting up and looking the wolf over it seems to be missing its saddle bags and trying to remove the arrows only breaks them within the body. Cursing Raven brushes himself off rinses what blood he can off himself and is about to leave when he remembers the last cave he came across and decides to give this one a quick once over. Entering the cave the smell of the burned wolf is over powering bringing water to Ravens eyes. Within the cave the ground is cut brick and there are obvious tool marks on the walls but there is nothing else within the cave, a quick check of the walls for switches or pressure plates there's nothing. In the center of the room there is a hole in the ground the size of a fist but its dark and does not appear to be anything of import, the floor seems to be stained brown around the hole blood maybe… hopefully? Raven gags at the thought and walks out of the cave with a shutter he turns around facing the cave and casting create water into the cave center pumping 10 MP into it, with a loud splash water rushes from the cave and past Raven as it floods down hill. “God I hope that was blood and not some ones out house cave” turning to leave he finds a few large dead beetles that seemed to have been washed out of the cave the size of his fist dark black with purple lines leading from one end to the other. They have large mandibles rowed with teeth and one even seems to have a leach as a tongue hanging from its mouth.
With a shutter of all the possible things that happened in that cave pass Ravens mind he continues on his way. Making distance from the wolf corpse and the gross cave as quickly as possible. Proceeding north he feels the weight of being hunted finally lifting off his shoulders finally being free of all known pursuers and having some minor gear to which to survive from. Enough food for a few weeks and unlimited clean water with magic the only thing he's short on is clean clothing as he seems to constantly be covered in blood. Thinking of ways to get new clothing he is in hopes to find some one who can either make him clothing or maybe find some, some where some how. His gear could use improvements and he's sorely lacking information on his situation and as such would love to find some one to teach him everything he may need to know. He also feels he needs some serious help with fighting skill every fight he seems to almost die, feeling like he is missing something there has to be a way to become over powered, is that not the way of an Isaki tale?
Trying to figure out the system he keeps trying to open tabs or look at other options but his screen remains the same just his character sheet skills spells and not much else, there does seem to be room for a lot more information in the sheet but it just is not showing anything for him, maybe he has to unlock it some how? In hopes that some day he will figure it all out he decides its best to focus on finding some where safe to settle down, then he can figure out what everything is and means. Thinking back on his fights since he’s been in this world he figures he has been more lucky then not, nine times out of ten he should have died but here he is alive but not exactly better off for it, in a hostile land alone and hated by humans now a Kobold in a strange new world where everything is seemingly stronger than him and actively trying to kill him there's a good chance he might just snap one of these days. Loosing his shit will defiantly get him killed but there's only so much a person can take. He’s been mind raped, attacked by a giant spider, undead bear, several humans, and a few wolves. And the only magic spell he seems to have access to other than detect human is create water, which great he doesn’t need to worry about drinking water but come on how is that even remotely a good spell, he got lucky with the wolf earlier trying to eat him and casting it within its mouth, he doubts that spell will save him again it just isn’t an attack spell no matter how hard he ties to think of a way to use it, maybe if he could change the temperature of the water but it always comes out a slightly cool temperature. Maybe if he finds some one willing to talk with him he can find out how to cast other spells or get better gear or even get the system explained to him so he actually knows what the hell he's doing. Either way he only thing to do is to get a move on and hope he finds some where safe some time soon, he can’t keep sleeping out in the open, eventually something is going to come across his camp and eat him in his sleep.
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