I grab my sword, sword and sheave it, then pick up the pouch with 20 gold and hide it in my leather belt, which has a small dagger, a water bottle and is fully drenched in red. Then i with help of Marcus and 3 other soldiers pack up the tent

"Hey Arcan we'll be travelling though the forest of the dammed because it's the faster route. Hope you don't run out and scream like a little girl" Marcus said teasingly

"Yea yea, now lets go, we got a lot of ground to cover today" I said putting the folded up tent on a cart

Our group which i manage to count at 23 travelled non stop until the sun was about to set. We passed dead trees which looked like they hadn't seen the sun for 10 years, the grass was turning from bloody red to non existent, and as we fully entered the forest mist started appearing slowly, but we marched on.

"So Marcus i will take the 1st night shift, that's fine?"

"Of course Arcan, if you want i will give you the first shift" Marcus spoke

I hope they fall asleep quickly, i have a plan

"Hey everybody we are going to stop here for the night, everyone alright with that?" Marcus shouted to all of us

"Arcan will be the first on the night watch, everyone alright with that" He said with a domineering tone

Everyone slowly started to nod, then go to their own business: placing tents, cooking dinner, gathering herbs, going to get water, sharpening their blades and erg

***

Night slowly started to linger upon us, many of us started going to sleep, some lingered a bit longer, but went to sleep like everyone. When everyone was sleeping and I was guarding i saw a faint trail of smoke that was going up to the sky near our camp. I picked up my sheave, and started to head there hoping to find something.

I hope there are people there, preferably sleeping, maybe i can get something from them

I thought while looking upon the eagle handle of my blade. When i finally came near the smoke i hid in a bush and saw 3 people around the campfire they looked like new adventurers or merchants and 5 tents that looked quite new and not often used. After 30 minutes of waiting only 1 was still siting near the campfire which was about to dwindle out, the others went to sleep one after another. I slowly started to sneak up on this half asleep elf from behind. I grabbed my dagger from my belt and finally got near him.

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I struck his neck, blood started gushing out but he couldn't speak because i kept striking him over and over again to make sure he died. blood was gushing everywhere, and his bones were showing clearly, my armor got bloodied and had some chunks of meat of them that i wiped promptly. Then I went into each of the 5 tents. No screams were heard, only 1 pop up appeared.

*** Achievement unlocked Pentakill ***

Kill 5 people in 2 minutes

Reward: 1 bonus soul which gives +10 to each stat in F rank

Title Pentakill

"Absorb" I said quite loudly and 5 souls came flying into me. the pain was still great, but not as great as my first absorption, so thankfully i didn't pass out.

"Consume" I said excitedly waiting for the feeling to rush in

*** Absorbing the souls held ***

x5 travelers

x1 low rank soul

Strength +18

Dexterity +16

Stamina +20

Perception +13

*** STATUS WINDOW ***

Name: Arcan

Title: The Failure, Pentakill

Strength F (39/100)

Dexterity F (32/100)

Perception F (41/100)

Stamina F (26/100)

** LOCKED **

Aura F (0/100)

Mana F (0/100)

*** SKILLS ***

Absorber F (55% proficiency) - can collect souls from people, monsters or other beings you kill and absorb the souls to gain power or store them for use later.

I feel like my body is about to explode, i feel so much more powerful, i feel invincible. Maybe i should kill my group for more souls. No what the fuck are you thinking am i going insane? I should not think like this. But maybe later i will kill them

I put out the campfire. And started looting this campsite. In each tent i found a bit of gold which i placed in my gold pouch. Some useless armor, weapons and other belongings. I took a ring with runes that i found on the elf. I don't know what it does, but it's definitely not a protection spell. Every last bit of food they had, which was not much 3 loafs on quite new bread and some jerky. I also took some herbs and a book i found named Basic swordsmanship for dummies and How to use a dagger for babies.

Then i returned back to my camp and finished my first night guard and went to sleep after waking up the next person who was on guard duty. His name was Drox and he was quite short, people often mistook him for a dwarf because of his height and his ability to drink beer, ale, and other alcoholic drink without end. Or that was what Marcus told me about him.

I will need to definitely get my hands on his soul. Maybe i will even get a resistance. Shut the fuck up i am not a psycho i am Arcan from the Andalis falimy and i will definitely kill that fucking dwarf.

What is going on with me. Sometimes i feel like i am going insane. Like the system i got is made to make me become evil and use me. That won't happen I will consume the system and won't let it consume me

Morning came around and nobody suspected a thing. We went and packed up camp, then ate breakfast. Half a piece of stale bread and a tiny piece of rabbit. It was not much and everyone was still hungry. After except me.

Thank god i picked up the food from those adventurers camp attest i won't go hungry like others and lose strength. It was time to go and set out on another harsh day of travel. And planning to gain strength.