"How long have I been walking?"
"How long will I be here?
"When will death finally take me away from this torment?"
He grew weary from the aimless wandering in the dark caverns. Each steps he took led him deeper into more darkness.
He prayed and prayed for the gods for forgiveness. To get him out of this dark prison.
The long silence have drove him on the verge of insanity. It might be the insects or the small animals he ate to keep his belly full that were filling his body with poison.
He no longer cared how much his feets were sore from walking.
His mind is now broken, waiting only for the sweet release of death.
But then, from a distance, he saw a beam of light.
This sight woke his mind from the brink insanity.
Did the gods finally showed mercy on him?
As he gets closer to the light, he can smell the sweet scent of nature growing even stronger the more he gets closer.
He can hear the faint sound of birds chirping, as he make haste towards his freedom from the dark.
"I've made it. By the gods, I've made it!"
And from the darkness and into the light, the warm sunlight shined on his cold armored body. Out of the dark gloomy caverns the peaceful sight of nature have released him of his insanity.
Like a pardoned prisoner, he felt the great sense of freedom walking into the forest. No longer will he endured the agonizing silence as the sounds of nature filled his ears with beautiful melody of freedom.
But something caught his eyes. He walks closer to what looked like a person lying on the ground. As got closer, he soon discovered that what he saw was a corpse. And just ahead of him, more corpses.
And they all have one thing in common.
There are large scratch marks on their armor.
And that's when he heard growling from behind. He turned around to see a wolf stalking him.
But this was no ordinary wolf.
It's eyes were glowing red, but he can see the pupils staring back at him.
And the fur were as dark as the caverns he was trapped before.
He faced wolves before, even the terrifying ones from Valkenheim. But this one is different. It was as big as a bear, or even bigger.
He scanned the surroundings for any advantages he can find. And just on corner of his eyes he spotted a spear lying on the forest floor.
Wasting no time he quickly ran towards the weapon and the beast gaves chase.
Marius grabbed the spear on the ground, turned arounds, and the beast stopped when it noticed it's new prey is now armed.
Marius waited for his moment to attack but the wolf howled to summon the pack. And out of nowhere, several more of the demonic beast appear.
With no way out of this mess, he has no choice but to fight.
The first wolf pounced on him to bite his neck, but Marius thrust the spear into the beast's chest before he kicked the dying animal away.
One of the wolves attacked him from the side but he shifted his body so the bite won't reach his neck and it only bit his shoulder armor instead.
Another wolf soon rushed to attack but Marius turned around and let the wolf accidently bit the one with it's teeth still sunk into his armor.
He took this chance to impaled both of the wolves.
After the two wolves dies, another one striked Marius from behind, ripping his cape and pushed him to the ground.
The wolf pounches on Marius but Marius quickly turned on his back and hold the spear upwards, impaling the wolf who thought it had a chance to kill this warrior.
He tossed the dead wolf aside and quickly stood on his feet to see more of those wolves surrounded him.
Knowing his own fate, he lets out his final warcry.
Ready to fight the entire pack.
And to die in battle.