Chapter 2: Den of Evil
It was dusk, I was sitting by the fire again, I was the only up. Everybody else was asleep in there tent. Akara gave me a quest, she told me about a mysterious cave out in the wilderness called the den of evil. She asked if I could clear it out for her. It seemed that she was the only one that had even the slightest trust it me. I could not let her down. "Here we go again." I said, standing up and walking to the gate. Taking one last look back on the encampment I walked out in search of the den of evil.
"GRR!" I said, as I walked around the wilderness, my skeletons, already summoned were following me. "Where is this damn den?" I yelled out into blank space. Looking deep into the wilderness, I saw this odd formation of rocks. Thinking that that was it, I walked over to it and walked right into the middle of a fallen camp. "Great job Marth!" I said to myself as I smacked my wand across a fallen face. I saw him spit the blood out of his mouth and claw at my arm. Just as him arm reached high, my skeletons sword came sweeping down, cutting his arm clean off. Crying out in pain, the fallen grabbed what was left of his arm, spun around and ran. Taking a big breath, turning around I saw bodies everywhere. There was blood spilled all over and my skeletons were walking around making sure everything was dead. "Ok…they are strong," I said looking at my skeletons. Sitting down on a rock, putting my head in my hands a looking forwards, I saw a cave. "That just must be it!" I said to my self, standing up.
"Ok, its dark!" I said, walking down the steps into the Den of evil. Taking one last look at the outside and at the sun, I noticed that it was almost morning. "Gotta hurry it up before everyone else wakes up." I said, as I started to pick up my pace. Walking through, I saw the usual. A bunch of fallens, a few zombies and even an odd skeleton. After clearing out ¾ of the cave, I walked into one of the last rooms. There I saw this huge grey beast. I fell back on my butt and started crawling backwards. "Wha…what is that thing?" I asked myself. My skeletons ran at it and started chopping at it rapidly. After a minute, it fell over in pain. Its stomach was all cut up and it was bleeding. "Ok, it was actually weak..." I said to myself. Walking into the final room, I saw an awful sight. There, were four normal zombies and one light blue glowing zombie. "…what is that!" I yelled as my skeletons chopped up the zombies. "Ok, nothing to worry about." I said, but when my skeletons went up to the glowing one, a few hits and they crumbled into pieces. "O crap!" I said as I was re-raising my skeletons. It was a fierce battle, with almost 54 skeletons dead, I ran up to it, clonked it on the head and it fell over. Out of its side came a helmet. I picked it up, examined it and put it on, it felt heavy. I could guess it was skullcap. "Ok, I wonder if that will earn the rouges trust."
"Walking back into the camp, I saw a few people up and getting there equipment ready. Walking up to Akara I saw my brother there; he turned, gave me a scolding look and turned back. I walked up to Akara. My brother turned around and walked towards his group. "Akara, I have cleansed the den of evil for you." I said.
"Good job Marth." She said. "As your reward I grant you one skill point, and it seems you have enough to upgrade your skills and stats.
"Ok…but what about the freaky voice?" I asked, my eyes darting around looking for the person that told me about skills and stats the first level.
"O! Him, that is only for the first level new beginners. He is like your guiding spirit. He is not a human, he is the soul within you, which is how he knows what you have and can learn. Now on the other hand, you can get lessons from spell casters in every town. Every time you can learn a new skill, your spirit will tell you. As of now, what skill would you like to upgrade, you have 2 skills points and 10 stat points." Akara said.
"Ok, I would like to upgrade my skeletons once and my skeleton mastery once please." I said. "As of stat points, what can I upgrade?"
"Ok, you can upgrade Strength, Dexterity, Vitality and Energy." Akara said. "Let me give you your skills first." She started waving her arms and a blue circle went around me. My skeletons grew stronger and I could summon a new one. "There you go Marth!" She said.
"Thank you Akara" I said. "As for stats, I would like 2 on strength, 2 on dexterity, 2 on vitality and 4 on energy please." I said to the camp leader and cleric.
"Ok and I may say you are very nice for a necromancer." She said, as she started to wave her hands again.
"Yea, my class doesn't choose my personality!" I said to the cleric, starting to put on a smile.
"Yes, apparently!" Akara said, putting on a smile also.
"Do you know where I can find a quest?" I asked very politely.
"Yes, I hear our rouge archer leader has one." She said.
"Thank you!" I said, welling walking away I waved back. Looking around I had to find the rouge archer leader, it would be easier if I had a name, but I figured I could do it. After about an hour, I gave up and decided to go train a bit. Nightfall came again and I decided to pack it in for the night. I walked back over to my tent and saw a few town portals up. "Still working eh?" I said to myself. I walked into my tent and laid down, listing to all the people come back. After a little while, I fell asleep.
