Chapter 4
Quest Completed: Get out of this hole
Rewards: You gained a life you shut in,
Y-O: Congratulations, good job on beginning your journey on the path of a mighty Galactic Tyrant. Also just so you know those trees are called talonyews only the oldest ones have any real ability to harm you so… I don’t know use a stone or something and kill one of the smaller ones, you could make something out of it too.
What am I a caveman? Break down a tree with a stone? Well I guess I have to do what I have to even if it is so incredibly dumb. Relinquishing my pride I look for a good sized stone with a side that at least resembles an edge. It took a couple minutes to find a good enough stone and with stone in hand I took to a smaller tree and began clumsily slamming the stone into it, ignoring the branches swaying down into my face… this might take a while.
About 15 minutes later I had made it halfway through and honestly what is my life. I mean sure I was living in the slums but at least I had my friends and stuff but now I’m in whatever the fuck this is hitting an “talonyew” tree with a stone because some game screen told me too. I guess it doesn’t matter too much since I don’t know what else I can do right now and staying in that hole won’t let me out of here. I hope everyone is ok…
15 minutes later… The tree finally fell and luckily it did. My hands and arms were getting numb. With the final swing I felt a small rush and heard a little sound before a text box popped up in my eyes, scaring the living hell out of me.
Y-O: Good job human you got your first level up. You look confused. Oh, I’ll clarify most trees won’t give you an influx of higher energy like a talonyew. Talonyews are special because they have gained basic sentience from a mutation gained from the higher energy they have absorbed. What’s that look for..? Human it’s still a tree, don't think about it like that. How can a future galactic tyrant have a moral dilemma chopping a tree down? It was you… or them. Well not really you basically just beat a kid to death but it’s a plant and soon enough you’ll be out of here anyway, plus if it had the ability it probably would have killed you too.
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Y’s words aren’t comforting in the least. I just killed a kid? What the fuck? I mean it is a tree but like it had sentience at least to some degree so that’s different right? Nah, it… it’s just a tree. It’s like hunting a rabbit or a deer for food. Yeah.
Y-O: It really isn’t like that you in full honesty did just kill a kid with a stone just because a system in your brain told you to. You could be crazy and I’m a figment of your imagination… Woah woah woah, I’m joking, I’m joking. I am real you are perfectly sane now please stop sulking back towards the hole.
Ok I’m insane, huh? I guess that makes sense. I knew it I’m fucked.
Y-O: Hey. Buddy, the Greater Galactic Universe is, umm… different. Things like this are evil or uncommon the only difference is most other things will actively hunt you. And don’t you have friends? Family? This is the only way you can get out of here. Plus, when talonyews make it to an advanced age they typically fall to the Void instead of the Gods. Now I can’t tell you because of the way that bum of a god designed me, I wouldn’t honestly say either way cause watching you find out is more fun. But the Void is like the gods with it’s ability to grant power, however the key difference is it’s hatred of the gods and their shadows. So you know all’s fair that ends fair, that’s what you humans say right?
I don’t really know what that means. But if it’s the only way out of here, I have to… kinda. With a new semi-resolute mindset, I am decidedly going to wait till I am out of here to question the morals or ethics of this. Breakdown avoided and now time to… make something I guess.
Grabbing the talonyew I had just kil… cut down, I bring it to the small clearing near the hole. Looking at it closer these trees really are strange. After being felled the magma like lines in the bark faded a little and seeing the branches closer I noticed vines about as thick as my pinky that spurred from the bark and coiled around the branches. What should I make? An axe would be for the best, for the sake of my hands. I took my stone and chopped each branch off the small tree before cutting off the thickest stretch of the little log. Next, splitting the top, I put the ‘axe head’ in between, took the coiling vines off of the branches, oddly stony yet flexible, and just kept wrapping it until I was sure it wouldn’t budge. At the end of all this I had an ‘axe’. A very very ugly axe. Whatever it takes right… right?
Y-O: You did it! Woooo! Good job human. That’s a very nice… club? No? Mace? Also no? Hmm… oh is that supposed to be an axe? I mean what a umm… great axe. Don’t worry you will get better. Well at least should.
Achievement: Baby’s First Weapon
Skill Gained: Simple Craftsmanship
Y-O: You’ve got this champ. Now get back to work, little humy.
Axe thing in hand I went back to finding smaller trees. Only getting through 5 more and getting to level 3 took everything out of me, going for almost 2 and a half hours while also having leaves shoved in my face was… actually just as bad as it sounds. Much to the whining of Y I went back into the little cubby hole to sleep, after I brought all 5 to its entrance, and laid down for a much deserved power nap.