Hunt 6: The Northern Continent

2 Days after Zedept woke up from his injuries, The gang arrives at the Northern Continent. Zedept slowly walks onto the deck wearing the Baggi armor that Moke left for him. "Brr. It's cold." Raylin says shivering. "Welcome to the Northern Continent. It's also been called The Land of Ice." Zedept said. "You seem ok." Raylin says.

"This Baggi armor is keeping me warm. Let's go into town and get some furry hides for you two." Zedept said. "What about the one you gave me?" Lyra asks. "That's only for sleeping. You need one for traveling." Zedept said. They go into town and get some traveling furry hides and a map of the continent. Zedept looks north towards one of the giant mountains and places his left hand over his scar. "I'm back. Let's see if you're still here." Zedept said in his head.

"Everything alright?" Raylin asks. Zedept takes his hand off his scar and looks to Raylin. "Yeah, just thinking." Zedept said. Lyra walks over to them. "Ok, the villagers said that we should head for." Lyra said before Zedept interrupted her. "Abagret." Zedept said. Lyra is shocked. "Yeah, how did you know?" Lyra asks. "I sent 2-3 years on this continent." Zedept said. "Makes sense." Raylin says. "What do you mean we can't travel to Abagret?" A male asks loudly. Zedept and the others go over to where the commotion is at.

"The path is closed." A guild person said. "What's going on?" Zedept asks. "The path that leads to Abagret's checkpoints, monsters have been spotted on the path so the Guild has closed the path to all civilians." The guild person said. Zedept looks at Lyra and Raylin and they both nod yes. "Then we'll escort them through the path." Zedept said. "Then you must be hunters." A female civilian says. "Yes." Lyra said. "Alright, I'll let you hunters escort them to the checkpoints. All of the hunters here are at Abagret at the moment so it's up to you 3." The guild person said.

"You can count on us." Zedept said to the guild person. "Lyra, Raylin, you two take the rear and I'll take the front." Zedept said. "Understood." Raylin says and walks over to the group of civilians. "Don't push yourself, your wounds haven't fully healed for a hard hunt." Lyra said. "I know, hopefully we only run into Baggis." Zedept said and then he looks towards the mountains. "Is there something you want to share?" Lyra asks. "I'll explain later, let's get ready." Zedept says and walks to the group of civilians.

Zedept and the gang starts to escort a group of 10 civilians and 2 carts with supplies. After walking for 20 minutes, they arrive at the 1st checkpoint with no problems. "So far, so good." Raylin said. They leave and head to the 2nd checkpoint. They arrive at the 2nd, 3rd and 4th checkpoints without any problems. "Only 3 left." A male civilian said. Zedept looks around. "Anything wrong?" Lyra asks. "We've been followed since the 2nd checkpoint." Zedept said. Lyra looks around. "I don't see anything." She says.

"The path up ahead is going to have everyone in single file so I need either you or Raylin in the middle." Zedept said. "Alright." Lyra said and goes to tell Raylin. Zedept looks up to the top of the surrounding cliffs. "Very smart of you, you Great Baggi." Zedept said to himself. They start to walk to the 5th checkpoint with Raylin in the middle of the escort. After 10 minutes, a Great Baggi jumps down in front of Zedept with 4 Baggis. Raylin gets on top of the supplies to get a good angle on them. 5 Baggis jump in front of Lyra.

"Looks like you was right." Lyra said to Zedept. "Yeah and we really can't swing our swords in this small of a space." Zedept said as they draw their weapons. The escort is in a space big enough for the Baggis to attack and small enough to limit their swings to downward and upward swings for Zedept and similar for Lyra except for a poking motion as well. Lyra attacks the Baggis and Raylin helps her. Zedept is keeping the Great Baggi at bay. Lyra kills the last Baggi that's there. "I'm coming!" Lyra said. "Stay there! There might be more coming." Zedept says.

Lyra turns around and sees more Baggis. "Damn." Lyra said. Raylin turns to Zedept. "Duck!" Raylin says. Zedept ducks down and Raylin releases a rapid barrage of flame shoots and kills the Great Baggi. The Baggis run away. Zedept puts his greatsword away. "Great job." He says and then passes out.

40 minutes later, Zedept wakes up. "What happened?" Zedept asks himself. "You opened some of your wounds and passed out." Lyra said. "I see." Zedept says. "We made it to the last checkpoint before dark." Raylin said. "After we killed the Great Baggi, the path became clear and the guild sent some hunters to help us." Lyra said. "That's good. I'm tired." Zedept said. "Then get some more rest." Raylin said. Zedept smiles and falls back asleep.