As I walk back to the resting spot in the cave, I think maybe I can do it maybe I can survive, ‘you did good john, better keep more attention next time so you won’t get bitch slapped again’ Bob says ‘thanks for the vote of confidence’ I reply half-heartly. Reaching the glowing site, I sit down as soon as I sit a burst of energy bursts out of the glowing leaf shaped object and that seemed to restore all the damage I’d taken, sighing in relief I say, “Bob do you think we’ll revive like in their other games, what will happen if I die again will I just disappear?”
‘Having another existential crisis their drama queen?’ he replies, I just grunt back standing up to go explore the cave for the merchant I see the surroundings getting darker the further I head inside as well as grunts and growls that I heard coming from the demi-humans. ‘Nice a whole cave of the ugly shits’ says Bob holding the sword tighter in my hand I crouch and slowly move forward as I slowly move; I hear the noises get louder I hear shuffling just a few feet in front of me. Using the shuffling as best as I can to locate the thing I accidentally crash into the creature before it can scream and before I knew it I thrusted my sword into its spine not hard enough to impale it but severe its spine its starts screaming in a hurry I swing the sword over my head and slam it down repeatedly ‘ John… JOHN ITS DEAD’ screams Bob, coming back to my senses I hurriedly search its body and find some sting and a stone that seems to be emitting light I get lost in the only light in this dark place before I can come to my sense of Bobs words reach me I feel a club smash into the back of my head. I stumble forward not able to stop the movement I trip over the edge falling face first hitting something on my way down, laying on top of whatever I fell on I try to get back to my sense before I can do so the thing laying under me pushes me off while something on my left runs up and kicks me in the gut, I grunt in pain while the creature I feel on picks up its weapon swings it towards my right leg shattering it at the knee I scream in pain and try to crawl away. But one of those THINGS grabbed my ankle cackling as it did so before I can shout another creature came running in and swung its club towards my face causing my head to jerk back and break my nose and shatter some teeth.
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As I try to slowly fall into unconscious it is stopped from the shear pain of one of those THINGS clubbing my other knee I could only let out a whimper as I was slowly beaten to death them taking pleasure in slowly breaking the easier less lethal parts of my body, until the bigger one turned me over and stared into my eyes as it slowly swung its big club over its head and down towards my neck then everything went black.
I quickly jolt out of the darkness sitting back at the site, my only site of grace in this dark world ‘welcome back to the world of the living john, also guess that answers your question from before hu?’ I quickly start patting myself down noticing that everything I had on me was still on me as well as the glowing stone. "How am I still alright and how do I still everything I had on me!” I scream back ‘calm down there and how would I know world magic or some shit, maybe this is another timeline where you didn’t die… how would I know though?’ he says back condescendingly.
‘So should we try again’ he says after a tense amount of silence “I… I don’t want to or know if I should” I reply ‘*sigh* John this might be the best way to get stronger.’
“I don’t want to be stronger I want to live!” I yell ‘With strength we live’ he says as if he’s a philosopher. Not heading his words, I walk back out of the cave towards the demi-humans I killed, but to my surprise they were alive again ‘how the fuck does that work’ I thought to myself getting ready for a repeated fight I stab my sword in the sand and get my bow ready, nocking an arrow I breath and release this time my arrow hits one of them in the gut. Quickly nocking another I feel that same tug on something within me, letting go and seeing if the tug is something important, I let it tug more soon my body starts to move by itself my arm quickly grabs arrow after arrow as I use 10 arrows to quickly kill the other 3 demi-humans I laugh.
“What the hell was that” I laugh ‘maybe that’s the barrage the system was talking about seems help your body use abilities you normally couldn’t’ he guessed, I smiled as I walked forward thinking with this, I can survive… oh how wrong was I in this thought.