As the sun rose it pierced Daryl’s eyes and he fluttered them open. Cindy was still sleeping peacefully on his chest still covered by his hand to keep her warm and safe. Using a single finger he shook her gently until she woke up. “Good morning Badger. Come on, it is time to get up.”

Cindy rubbed her eyes heavily with both hands as she yawned in the dawn light. “Ok Dad. We have some quests to do today. We got to slay twenty Elizards and hopefully get enough gear for you to get a weapon and fill the rest of your slots of equipment. It might not give any skills but it will help prevent damage done to you. Every point of armor prevents a single point of damage from enemy attacks until it hits half damage. Though Elizards only do ten damage a piece. I tested it.”

“You tested it? Why did you put yourself in danger?” Daryl looked at the small wet stain where Cindy had slept and sighed. She must have drooled on him. He set her down on the ground and stretched his new body. The tight cords of muscles that now were heavily defined like a strongman ready for competition. A mighty pop rang out as his back popped between his shoulders. A flood of relief from an unfelt tension flooded him. Probably wasn’t the best idea to sleep against the ground.

“I… I was told to by my… trainer.” Cindy seemed hesitant and unsure on how she should word it. Daryl frowned at her back.

“Sounds like a pretty dumb trainer. Well I won’t let you ‘experiment’ and find out damage values with your own body. I’ll take hits from now on.” He stood up and brushed off his backside as great clods of dirt fell off of him instantly mending the ground back into its untouched state.

“Thanks Dad, it is pretty scary to be attacked in order to figure these things out.” Cindy straightened her hat and moved her robes around until they fit properly. With purpose she lifted a hand and resummoned her staff. “Ok, we can leave town and do the hunt now. When you get hungry I’ll teach you the mini game of cooking. You should have gotten raw meat from the Boroclops yesterday. They always drop one to three of them.” Instead of heading deeper through the town Cindy instead went to the nearest wall.

“Shouldn’t we head to a gate? It’s not like we can phase through the wall and head back out there.” Daryl half turned before he heard Cindy clear her throat.

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“We can just head over it. I’m sure with your new body you can scale it and I can just fly over it. Float, Self, Channel!” She began to hover and just slipped over the wall without any worries in life. Daryl went on tip toes and watched as she slowly floated to the ground on the other side.

With a small leap he scaled the wall and swung himself over with more agility then he would have ever managed while he was in the real world. He did take the time to make sure that he didn’t bump his daughter with his swinging legs. Soon though he was standing outside the town and looked off into the distance. There was a large plain with grass that was half as tall as his daughter and barely above the tops of his feet.

Several dark lizard looking creatures wandered through the tall grass eating at the grass and chasing small rodents that flitted back and forth in the cover. They seemed to ignore one another and didn’t seem to fight over territory with one another. Daryl took a knee and spoke to his daughter, “Are those Elizards?”

“Yeah, a fairly common small monster. We want to get twenty of them and they always drop a tooth as proof. Then we can go fight five Boroclops and see if we can farm you the rest of the set and maybe a weapon. You can’t just go around punching everything.” Cindy started walking towards one of the lizards and set her feet. Stuck out her tongue and screwed up her face as she aimed. “Force, Bolt, Rapid Pulse!”

A stream of blue bolts of energy shot out of her hand. They were about the size of her fist clenched and soared through the air straight and true. They impacted and riddled the side of the beast as it tumbled to its side and started to run. After five bolts the chain stopped and she looked at Daryl, “I weakened it for you. I don’t think you need it but it’s your turn.”

Daryl shook his head and slapped his hand down on the running lizard as it turned and was heading right for Cindy’s turned back. The ground bucked under his blow and Cindy staggered a little.

‘You have done 40 points of damage. You have killed an Elizard, you have earned 1 Elizard tooth, 1 Elizard Scale, 1 Small Raw Meat. You’ve earned 1 tennie.’ Came the strange voice that kept telling him about the world.

“See easy, you wouldn’t have had to hit it so hard next time but it is simple enough. I’m going to watch and see if you need help as you fight the beasts. I have healing spells on standby if you get swarmed I’ll heal you while you smash away. Easy Peasy!” Cindy smiled wide as she looked up at her father, her emerald eyes gleaming in the sunlight.

Daryl walked forward and as soon as he was close enough to the creatures they would always turn on him in an instant and leap at him. One swat wasn’t enough to kill the creatures. So he started to use his skill, Titanic Blow and spent 5 stamina on it. This seemed to do the fifty points of damage that the creatures had and within minutes he had slain enough creatures to finish the first quest.

His stomach rumbled mightily as he stood up one more time.