Peter froze, that’s the effect a couple dozen of goblins running at breakneck speed towards you can have at a person, but luckily Raul knew what to do. Raul grabbed Peter and started running. “Snap out of it!”
Way too slow for the situation they were in, Peter snapped out of it and started looking around for an exit. The goblins paces were a bit quicker than theirs, but they had a head start. Natural light shone through vines to the right of them and so they ran towards it.
How symbolic, they literally ran towards the light, their only chance at survival. The only problem was that two goblins stood before the vines, and they couldn’t take their time dealing with them as the horde was gaining ground. But Raul, again, knew what to do. Sucker punching one in the face, and tackling the other, he made way for them to push through the vines.
They burst out into the forest, the sounds of the goblins behind them. Filled with adrenaline they both kept running. It was dark, but somehow Peter still had the torch with which he loosened Raul’s ropes. The dim fire illuminated the forest and after ten minutes of running they stopped to catch their breath.
“Extinguish the torch.”, Raul said. There was a sense of authority in his voice and Peter thought for a while to say no, but he did it anyway. “Why? The fire was handy you know. Now we can’t see anything.”
“Do you see any fire around here? The goblins could use it to track us down, they’d just have to look around for an illuminated patch of forest.”
Peter didn’t think the goblins were that smart, but it made sense. Speaking about goblins, why weren’t they still following them? It was awfully quiet and there were no signs of a giant parade of green monsters.
“Thanks for untying me too Peter, I appreciate it. Now we need to keep going, to get as far away from those goblins as we need.” The man that was jovially joking in the cave was gone, Raul had turned serious.
Peter mumbled something in reply as he watched with wide eyes his quest completion windows.
Quest completed.
Quest completed.
You leveled up! 1 attribute point available.
Essence Counter is now available in your status!
You gained access to the guide: Class Creation
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Due to forcing out your mana through your hands you have gained access to the skill: Raw Mana Explosion
He would look at that skill later. It sounded awesome, but Raul was right. The light of the moon was just bright enough to let him see were he had to step. As frightened as he was that there was going to be another wolf attack, there didn’t seem to be any. He could here some howls in the distance, but Raul just said: “Keep on walking.”. Raul let him on a dead march, he was utterly exhausted when he was allowed to rest. It was already dawn by then. Sitting under a tree next to Raul, Peter asked him his first personal question, because if he was going to spend time with this man he wanted to know him.
“So you were in the army or something?”
“Yeah, you know, I was in the army for 10 years, earning money for the wifey, you know how it is.”
The seriousness was gone, and there was the man he met in the cave.
“You know, we should search for a base and some food, I am pretty hungry. Haven’t eaten for days! Days! Horrible.”
Peter agreed with him wholeheartedly, the berries hadn’t filled him at all. In an attempt to keep the conversation going Raul asked him a question.
“What was that explosion? You don’t seem like the person to carry explosives with ya.”
“It was something called Raw Mana Explosion. Got it by eating a few berries.”
“Woa dude, show me those berries sometime!”
With that the conversation was officially dead, and Peter gracefully used a couple of minutes of silent time to check his status and read the guide.
General information
Attributes
Name
Peter Vancil
Name
Value
Name
Value
Species
Human
STR
8
WIS
12
Sex
Male
DEX
7
LCK
3
Age
20 years
AGI
7
NAF
2
Health
100/125(+0.05/min)
END
6
Stamina
30/50(+1/min)
INT
9
ESSENCE
0/150
Level
2
Points available
1