Thanks for positivity bois.

Feel my returned love.

T.

[Zachary A. Waller

Hunter 12/ Rogue 3

Strength: 14 Dexterity: 34

Constitution: 24 Intelligence: 24

Wisdom: 19 Luck: 29]

'Killing giant crocodiles? Fucking awesome!' Zachary said with a wide grin on his face, as he pulled a flier off the board, Luna looked up from who she was speaking to and waved him down.

"How are you adjusting to the town, Mr. Waller?" Luna asked with a tilt of her head, her ever present smile still creasing her lips.

"Quite well actually." Zac said with a brilliant smile, Luna noticed how his eyes had a slight twinkle to them in the morning when he smiled, it was quite lovely if she did say herself.

"This town is very much my speed, I'll admit. Quite enough to enjoy the serenity of the countryside, but busy enough that I can get whatever I need done within a decent time." Zac praised Axel whilst rubbing his chin in thought, "It really is the perfect place for adventurers to begin."

Luna took no small amount of pride in his praise, half the job of the guild was to keep towns operating at decent paces, and to have such high praise given to the town itself and the area around it made her feel even better about becoming an attendant, if only more people had this man's outlook, her job would be much easier.

She cast a glance to the regular bums sitting in the guild hall for lunch, not many of them would willingly quest unless they had to pay for something or were running out of money, and yet the man before her took at least one job a day and was quickly becoming one of the more powerful members of the guild, and he'd only been with them for a week.

He had admitted it was mostly because of the Legendary Bow his father had apparently passed down to him, but Luna was firm in her idea that he was a decent sort, if for nothing else his work ethic.

Taking the slip of paper she read it over quickly, "Ah the Crocolisk infestation, quite nasty creatures. Are you sure you wanted to go alone?"

Zac thought about it for a moment and did a scan of the guild, finding no one that really stood out he shrugged, "Nah, should be fine- actually do you know if there's anyone I can talk to about picking up a Skinning skill/profession? I wanted to do something with the hides if possible."

Luna's own smile turned radiant at his forethought, "Of course, if you'll give me a moment I can get a Knowledge Crystal that we keep at the guild for just such things, it doesn't get used very often but I can give you the beginning path for most activities not related to combat."

Zachary grinned and nodded enthusiastically, "This place is amazing, thanks for everything Luna."

The blonde woman preened once more under such praise and left to fetch the Profession Orb.

Zach leant into the counter and allowed himself to sag in content, there was this potent joy that seemed to swarm in his heart whenever he walked into the guild and took a new quest, knowing for a fact that each day he spent here he moved towards becoming stronger and stronger.

In a weird way he wanted to be worthy of having Thori'dal, as sort of like a self-imposed quest, to gain enough power to justify his having the artefact.

He smiled at what looked like a large gauntlet on his left hand, turns out the bow can fold in on itself and he could just wear the massive guard on his hand to avoid it getting pinched.

A pair of knives sat on his hip, he'd decided to take a few points into Rogue to compliment his Hunter skills.

He already had the boon to improve his stealth, but having the actual Stealth ability made it so he could effectively move around invisible without a chance of getting spotted.

And being able to use melee skills like Ambush and Backstab, worked out in his favour when he finally got around to picking up a pet.

Perhaps he'd take one of the Crocolisks, actually it sounded like a great idea. A giant armoured carnivore made a perfect shield for him to throw at his enemies.

His face pulled into an even bigger grin as he thought about his plans, about his new life, about all the things he found himself doing and enjoying.

It truly was a wonderful world he'd found himself in.

Later

After picking up a Skinning Knife from the general store Zachary set out, the reason he picked one up instead of a normal knife, or even using his daggers, was that a Skinning Knife added +10 to skinning attempts, and as he'd only just picked up the skill it would literally make him 10 times better when using it.

The lake was an hour or so away by foot which he didn't mind, as he was taking shots at whatever animal he came across to skin it and get his skill up before making it to the water.

Kneeling down Zachary twitched a finger and Thori'dal unfolded, he drew and arrow back and took aim at a large doe, that was grazing next to it's fawns.

He grimaced feeling like he was re-enacting Bambi or something, and fired off a shot at the doe's head. Taking it clean off, and quickly followed by doing the same to the fawns.

Jogging over he skinned them and bundled the hides and meat into his bag of holding, before Stealthing and following their tracks.

He quickly came across the buck, and dropped his stealth, the creature went tense as the Hunter remained motionless, slowly raising his hand Zachary rose his hand and activated Tame Beast.

A flash of green energy began to draw the beast in, the buck's eyes glazed over as it's instincts were overwritten, the independence in its mind turned to loyalty to the Hunter before it.

The buck struggled slightly as it tried it's best to fight off the magic but Zachary's will was incomprehensible to the buck and thus it could not defend itself against the spell, the herbivore broke as the spell finished.

Standing up straight and folding his bow Zachary approached the buck, it accepted his touch easily enough, throwing a few of the collected pelts over the creatures back he jumped up and tapped it with his ankles, the buck began to move towards the 'road' at a steady pace.

Zac kept his hands on the creatures shoulders and thought how intensely screwed up it was that he was using the skin of the creatures children and partner as padding.

'This is a next level power move.'

As Buck carried him onwards Zac's eyes were on the sky, one thing he did notice was that this world had no cap on how many pets one could possess, so he planned on making a small horde of animals.

Lakeside

Zachary slipped of Buck and put the pelts into his pouch of holding on his belt, a damn fine investment if ever there was one.

He activated the spell Track Beasts,doing so caused his eyes taking on a feline shape and flashing bright crimson, several large red shapes lit up in the water, with a grin he pulled out several chunks of meat and threw them into the shallows, and having Buck return to the grassier plain above the shoreline.

Zachary took several steps away from the waters edge and knelt down, unfolding his bow and drawing a shot.

An enormous purple crocodilian slid out of the water with a mouthful of meat, it's scales like armoured plates with dark horns growing behind each eye, and large black ridges down its spine.

Zachary fired off an Arcane Shot it burnt right through the creatures skull leaving a hunk of cold-blooded meat in place of the Giant Crocolisk.

With a grin Zachary readied another shot, the others noticed his presence and began lumbering up the shoreline.

Two more shot pierced the air and cut right through the largest of his targets, making a flesh wall between him and the others, standing up he fired off a Serpent Sting at one, it's scales immediately turning a sickly green as little skulls floated off its body, showing it's poisoned status.

Holding his bow horizontally Zachary fired off a Multi-Shot which worked like a shotgun spray, firing off a wave of arrows at all enemies within range, Thori'dal made it look like a massive wave of energy in place of arrows, which Zachary was exceptionally pleased to see.

With seven already killed and more on their way Zachary turned to the nearest one and cast Tame Beast the magic immediately overcame the simple creatures mind to the point where it flopped onto the shoreline in a daze.

With that one stunned Zachary turned and fired off three more shots into another that was getting a little close.

The lakewater broke as an enormous Crocolisk breached the surface, creating waves that lapped at even the Hunter's feet, the Crocolisk was easily quadruple the size of its peers, with a wide grin the Hunter whistled.

Buck immediately shot past him and gored the creature at it's side, and the tamed Crocolisk, Steve, began hazing it to draw it's attention.

Zac took a deep breath and drew back a shot, storing a large chunk of his mana into it,'Aimed Shot was seems like this worlds armour piercing round, if the description is anything to go by.'

A massive spear-like arrow shot from his bow as he released the shot, his body immediately aching from the loss of so much mana, the spear shot through the Alpha Crocolisk and cut the lake itself, parting right down the middle and cutting the clouds asunder, the shot kept going until, just barely within hearing distance, a dull explosion was heard, birds flying out of the forests in a great panic.

Blinking owlishly Zachary allowed Track Beasts to fade as he flopped onto his arse, "Fuck armour piercing that's a goddamn warhead!"

End