and suddenly i was back in the rudown house.

Kaito had seen that i opened my eyes "Orion come speak with me in private" Rei and Lyra tried to hug me but Kaito said "Dont slow him, i need to speak to him immediately" i sighed and got up my body felt slightly weak and i felt extremely hungry, i followed Kaito outside and he said "Whats up with the fact you were asleep for 15 days, we had forcefully make you drink water" i sighed and said "Elder God BUllsihit" he seemed frustrated with that answer "Your answer to everything is this Damn Elder God, if He is Messin with you so much why Havent any of us Seen HIm" i stared at him blankly "Mental thing, he only talks to me through my mind" Kaito punched the wall of the house, "Look we've needed you for a few days now, since Thorn is finding people and inviting them to this village and not all of them are helpful" for the first time since i had gotten outside i looked around and saw wooden walls that were being reinforced with Stone "I see" there were tons of people who were doing a million different things Kaito stormed off for some reason, and i whent inside and Lyra hugged me "What Happend" i quickly came up with a lie "My ability to heal peoples souls from Whatever Ezra uses has an extrem drawback and i need to recharge and since i did it back to back i guess it was too much for my body" she nodded and i then walked over to Rei and said "I see youve healed" she nodded and smiled "So A lot has changed since you fell asleep" she chuckled to herself as if she had said a funny joke, i smiled and walked out the front door and saw how much the village had truly grown, there were a variety of house types and people, i think i saw Elfs, Dwarfs and humans sadly i didt see any Mizukai.

I stepped out into the streets and looked around for Kaito but he seemed to have whent to one of the many houses, so i just walked around using random things as supports since my legs tried to give out, after alot of struggling someone finally helped me "So where are you trying to go Red Hood?" i looked over at the young looking Elf and said "Why did you call me that?" he looked down as if embarrassed and said "Well You and the other village leaders saved us like the Legend of Red Hood had saved those people from the first gate" Lyra had some how snuck up on me and she said "Im surprised you dont know of the Legend of Red Hood especially since you spent so much time at the elders house" i shrugged "Tell me more about this Red Hood" Lyra started tell me about the Story of Red Hood and im pretty sure it was me, but the sotry was much different it said i fought through giant hordes of orgers and fought the King Bare handed, how that rummor started i dont know but it was likely from someone i saved.

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Slowly we got to the makeshift walls and they sat me down next to a tree and we made some small talk until the Elf boy left and it was just me and Lyra "So how has the past week been"

she shrugged "its definitely been interesting without you" she pushed her hair to the left side of her face, I sat down next to her and looked up at the gray sky "and what does that mean exactly?" she looked up at the sky and then looked back down at the sight of this I chuckled she looked over and said "Whats so funny" she was smiling "oh nothing just the fact that you looked up and then made a funny face" she was pouting at seeing this I laughed even harder "what" breathing had become hard due to how much I was laughing "why are you acting like this" I slowly managed to get my laughing fit to die down "what I found the face you were making to be funny" I said defensively, she responded with "ive never seen you laugh" I thought back to it and she had rarely if ever seen me laugh, and I guess I had been deep in thought because she said "Whats wrong?" I shook my head "nothing, just thinking" I zoned out once again and Lyra then said "about?" a cold chill ran down my spine, I stood up and said "Something is off" Lyra stood up the sun now blinding her so she moved to the right of me "whats off?" I was glancing around when the system pinged with a quest [urgent quest: find the danger: reward: to be decided] I quickly jumped onto the walls and slowly walked along to try and find anything in the surrounding forest when Lyra walked below trying to catch up to my pace but she didn't since I was too panicked by the sudden quest, the sun had fully set and the world was plunged into darkness, that when I heard it the screech that was unnatural.

the gates were being attacked by beasts, I grabbed my sword from the system and jumped down, my sword pierced through the head of one beast and I pulled it through the side of its head and then continued to attacked the strange beasts, they weren't normal and were covered in shiny black spots, then I heard another screech and then a giant creature as large as a building stood in the back "Ezra" I said in a menacing tone "Damn him" I killed the last of the smaller creatures and began to ready myself for the larger battle that was certain to happen