Chapter 57
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A fair bit of the Player's surged forward toward the green haired woman, with an aura of superiority. Moving like a moth's towards a flame, the two sisters and I moved forward and Wit had come over and grabbed my hand.
Wit looks at the woman with a scrunched face, focusing my attention on the woman I notice that wedge appears above her head [Dryad of the Primordial Forest Park], that was an interesting title. Her face was noble as she waited until everyone that wanted to participate was in front of her.
Looking at the fifty or so players that had gathered around her, she raised an eyebrow. "Very well then let us commence the game," she spoke loftily as she waved a hand and I felt an extreme amount of pressure pour down onto my body.
It felt like all my bone were being crushed and then grounded into nothing, the feeling only lasts for a couple seconds but it was enough to make me feel a little sick to my stomach. Take in a couple deep breaths, I notice a couple people were bent over and puking.
Looking at twins, I noticed they looked a little green but they didn't lose their stomachs. Shuddering a bit, I shake my head a little bit to drive away that lingering feeling of pressure.
I could hear the sound of birds, twisting my head I find that we're no longer in the square. Instead, we stood on the outskirts of a densely forested area. This was going to be the arena for the playing for the minigame, I couldn't see into the dense pack foliage to far, but I knew that it was probably a huge forest.
She was called the [Dryad of the Primordial Forest], that means that this wasn't going to be a cute little park scavenger hunt. Rolling out my shoulders, I looked over at Wit and find her with the same cool and scrutinizing expression on her face, it looks like the pressure hadn't bothered her one bit.
The woman that had appeared before now felt even stronger, it was like her power had shot up exponentially, her features we're now in a light smile. The whole forest seems to light up at the nearness of the woman.
"Now that you've all decided to enter the game that I've set up, I'll begin to explain the rule and the end goal of the game, please listen carefully I'll only explain this now, and only one time," she spoke softly but her voice drifted easily to my ears.
The attitude of the crowd turned a bit somber and their full attention turned towards the woman that stood in front of us. However, the two witches looked rather excited and I just shook my head at them, they were an odd pair.
"First the game is called a scavenger hunt because you'll be tasked with obtaining certain items from within the forest for me. The game has a time period of five days, during that time you're to scour the forest and find what I've listed for you. I've also attached a small game that has a general area where you can find some things," she waves a hand and a small map and list appears in front of each of us.
Reaching a hand out I grab the small bundle that is floating in the air.
"Don't lose these, I wouldn't replace them if you lose them," she adds as we all open the map and look at the list. The forest was huge and had a great deal of land to cover.
"The second thing to remember is that all forms of violence are allowed. Third, no one can leave until the twenty days are up," she spoke as she twisted a hand in the air looking bored out of her mind as she explained.
I couldn't help the smile that crept onto my face. What an interesting game admin, she didn't look like she cared to even let us into her forest at all.
"Fourth, I ask you to know that my archnemesis resides in the forest, and will stop at anything to make sure that you can't complete the task that I've to give you," her voice hardened and a cold glint flashes through her emerald green eyes.
"I've marked where he normally resides, there is an important thing that I need within the part of the forest, I've listed it as an extra item to obtain, if you do obtain that item I'll grant you a Unique ranked monster as compensation," her words kindle a strong fire in everyone's stomach.
That was a strong monster to obtain for anyone, I even wanted one. It would probably be a monster from the primordial forest behind us, meaning that there could be all sorts of interesting monster to obtain.
"Fifth, there are no penalties for not completing the scavenger hunt, but you wouldn't obtain any rewards," her voice was starting to fade.
I watched as her body began to morph with the forest behind us, her green emerald eyes stood out as the rest of her slowly sunk into a tree.
"In a couple of minutes, you'll be transported to random parts of the forest after this. Also, try your best to obtain everything... without dying," her voice completely faded and her green eyes vanished into the tree.
A loud discussion broke out among the crowd, the two sisters also started to talk. Inclining my head I began to look around, searching for the man that looked like he was carved from stone. My eyes found him quickly as he was with the other nine that were in sterling and glittering armor.
I would have to be wary of him, there was something about him that made my skin crawl. He was beautiful but something about that beauty made me feel like it was hiding something cruel. All of the sudden he turned his head and we locked eyes, I turned away and quickly tried to play it off like I didn't know what was happening.
Taking a couple deep breaths, I try to calm the raging bundle of nerves that I felt in the pit of my stomach. His eyes had been cruel as if he wanted to consume me after having tortured me. It was like a shot of fire had run up my spine.
Looking around I search around to see who else is in the crowd of people, licking my lip I find another familiar face in the sea of people. It was the man that hadn't talked when I'd run into Brute one and Brute two.
His face was indifferent as it had been the first time I had seen him. A couple of other people surrounded him, they didn't really stand out, they looked more like props in a movie. We didn't make eye contact, but I noted that he was in the group of people.
Continuing on I look around some more, I see another odd set of people that draw my attention. It was a man and a woman, the man had to be at least seven foot, while the woman was a bit shorter. Her hair was so long that it dragged on the ground, the man was so round he jiggled every time he breathed, his face was that of a baby.
Something about these two gave me a chilling sense of dread and fear, the same as when I'd looked at the man from the Knight of the Goddess. Quickly, I turned away and looked at the two twins.
"There is a total of seven things that are on the list, and it looks like they're all equally spread apart, except for the one where the dryad's nemesis is located," one of the twins says, I couldn't tell which was which.
"Then what's the best course of action?" The other twins ask.
"We wouldn't know the best course of action until after we've been scattered across this huge forest," I throw in as I tighten my grip on Wit's hand.
"That's true, then we wouldn't know till we arrived at our starting point," they both say at the same time as they cock their heads to look at me.
At the same time, a scream broke out among the crowd, turning my head I see a man with hair red as fire and another man with a missing arm fighting. Soon the man without the arm slices through the man with red hair.
Falling to the ground the man with red hair is dead, this was the first time that I had seen another person die in my time in this game. I'd always been killing a monster or being attacked by a monster, never by another Player.
A throbbing sensation starts in my head as I look at the blood seeping out from the dead man on the ground, the other man flicks the blood from the sword that he'd used to cut the other man down.
At the sight of blood my head starts to thump, even more, I felt like my mind was being torn apart from the inside out. Raising my free hand I press it against my face, my whole body was starting to ache.
Panting, I felt the world sway. My body felt like it was being split apart, soon my legs gave out from underneath of me. My whole world began to shift as I fall forward toward the ground.
"Rain!" I heard one of the twins yells, but my brain felt like it was on fire. Soon the forest and throng of people vanished and I was somewhere else completely.
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A fair bit of the Player's surged forward toward the green haired woman, with an aura of superiority. Moving like a moth's towards a flame, the two sisters and I moved forward and Wit had come over and grabbed my hand.
Wit looks at the woman with a scrunched face, focusing my attention on the woman I notice that wedge appears above her head [Dryad of the Primordial Forest Park], that was an interesting title. Her face was noble as she waited until everyone that wanted to participate was in front of her.
Looking at the fifty or so players that had gathered around her, she raised an eyebrow. "Very well then let us commence the game," she spoke loftily as she waved a hand and I felt an extreme amount of pressure pour down onto my body.
It felt like all my bone were being crushed and then grounded into nothing, the feeling only lasts for a couple seconds but it was enough to make me feel a little sick to my stomach. Take in a couple deep breaths, I notice a couple people were bent over and puking.
Looking at twins, I noticed they looked a little green but they didn't lose their stomachs. Shuddering a bit, I shake my head a little bit to drive away that lingering feeling of pressure.
I could hear the sound of birds, twisting my head I find that we're no longer in the square. Instead, we stood on the outskirts of a densely forested area. This was going to be the arena for the playing for the minigame, I couldn't see into the dense pack foliage to far, but I knew that it was probably a huge forest.
She was called the [Dryad of the Primordial Forest], that means that this wasn't going to be a cute little park scavenger hunt. Rolling out my shoulders, I looked over at Wit and find her with the same cool and scrutinizing expression on her face, it looks like the pressure hadn't bothered her one bit.
The woman that had appeared before now felt even stronger, it was like her power had shot up exponentially, her features we're now in a light smile. The whole forest seems to light up at the nearness of the woman.
"Now that you've all decided to enter the game that I've set up, I'll begin to explain the rule and the end goal of the game, please listen carefully I'll only explain this now, and only one time," she spoke softly but her voice drifted easily to my ears.
The attitude of the crowd turned a bit somber and their full attention turned towards the woman that stood in front of us. However, the two witches looked rather excited and I just shook my head at them, they were an odd pair.
"First the game is called a scavenger hunt because you'll be tasked with obtaining certain items from within the forest for me. The game has a time period of five days, during that time you're to scour the forest and find what I've listed for you. I've also attached a small game that has a general area where you can find some things," she waves a hand and a small map and list appears in front of each of us.
Reaching a hand out I grab the small bundle that is floating in the air.
"Don't lose these, I wouldn't replace them if you lose them," she adds as we all open the map and look at the list. The forest was huge and had a great deal of land to cover.
"The second thing to remember is that all forms of violence are allowed. Third, no one can leave until the twenty days are up," she spoke as she twisted a hand in the air looking bored out of her mind as she explained.
I couldn't help the smile that crept onto my face. What an interesting game admin, she didn't look like she cared to even let us into her forest at all.
"Fourth, I ask you to know that my archnemesis resides in the forest, and will stop at anything to make sure that you can't complete the task that I've to give you," her voice hardened and a cold glint flashes through her emerald green eyes.
"I've marked where he normally resides, there is an important thing that I need within the part of the forest, I've listed it as an extra item to obtain, if you do obtain that item I'll grant you a Unique ranked monster as compensation," her words kindle a strong fire in everyone's stomach.
That was a strong monster to obtain for anyone, I even wanted one. It would probably be a monster from the primordial forest behind us, meaning that there could be all sorts of interesting monster to obtain.
"Fifth, there are no penalties for not completing the scavenger hunt, but you wouldn't obtain any rewards," her voice was starting to fade.
I watched as her body began to morph with the forest behind us, her green emerald eyes stood out as the rest of her slowly sunk into a tree.
"In a couple of minutes, you'll be transported to random parts of the forest after this. Also, try your best to obtain everything... without dying," her voice completely faded and her green eyes vanished into the tree.
A loud discussion broke out among the crowd, the two sisters also started to talk. Inclining my head I began to look around, searching for the man that looked like he was carved from stone. My eyes found him quickly as he was with the other nine that were in sterling and glittering armor.
I would have to be wary of him, there was something about him that made my skin crawl. He was beautiful but something about that beauty made me feel like it was hiding something cruel. All of the sudden he turned his head and we locked eyes, I turned away and quickly tried to play it off like I didn't know what was happening.
Taking a couple deep breaths, I try to calm the raging bundle of nerves that I felt in the pit of my stomach. His eyes had been cruel as if he wanted to consume me after having tortured me. It was like a shot of fire had run up my spine.
Looking around I search around to see who else is in the crowd of people, licking my lip I find another familiar face in the sea of people. It was the man that hadn't talked when I'd run into Brute one and Brute two.
His face was indifferent as it had been the first time I had seen him. A couple of other people surrounded him, they didn't really stand out, they looked more like props in a movie. We didn't make eye contact, but I noted that he was in the group of people.
Continuing on I look around some more, I see another odd set of people that draw my attention. It was a man and a woman, the man had to be at least seven foot, while the woman was a bit shorter. Her hair was so long that it dragged on the ground, the man was so round he jiggled every time he breathed, his face was that of a baby.
Something about these two gave me a chilling sense of dread and fear, the same as when I'd looked at the man from the Knight of the Goddess. Quickly, I turned away and looked at the two twins.
"There is a total of seven things that are on the list, and it looks like they're all equally spread apart, except for the one where the dryad's nemesis is located," one of the twins says, I couldn't tell which was which.
"Then what's the best course of action?" The other twins ask.
"We wouldn't know the best course of action until after we've been scattered across this huge forest," I throw in as I tighten my grip on Wit's hand.
"That's true, then we wouldn't know till we arrived at our starting point," they both say at the same time as they cock their heads to look at me.
At the same time, a scream broke out among the crowd, turning my head I see a man with hair red as fire and another man with a missing arm fighting. Soon the man without the arm slices through the man with red hair.
Falling to the ground the man with red hair is dead, this was the first time that I had seen another person die in my time in this game. I'd always been killing a monster or being attacked by a monster, never by another Player.
A throbbing sensation starts in my head as I look at the blood seeping out from the dead man on the ground, the other man flicks the blood from the sword that he'd used to cut the other man down.
At the sight of blood my head starts to thump, even more, I felt like my mind was being torn apart from the inside out. Raising my free hand I press it against my face, my whole body was starting to ache.
Panting, I felt the world sway. My body felt like it was being split apart, soon my legs gave out from underneath of me. My whole world began to shift as I fall forward toward the ground.
"Rain!" I heard one of the twins yells, but my brain felt like it was on fire. Soon the forest and throng of people vanished and I was somewhere else completely.
A fair bit of the Player's surged forward toward the green haired woman, with an aura of superiority. Moving like a moth's towards a flame, the two sisters and I moved forward and Wit had come over and grabbed my hand.Wit looks at the woman with a scrunched face, focusing my attention on the woman I notice that wedge appears above her head Dryad of the Primordial Forest Park, that was an interesting title. Her face was noble as she waited until everyone that wanted to participate was in front of her.Looking at the fifty or so players that had gathered around her, she raised an eyebrow. "Very well then let us commence the game," she spoke loftily as she waved a hand and I felt an extreme amount of pressure pour down onto my body.It felt like all my bone were being crushed and then grounded into nothing, the feeling only lasts for a couple seconds but it was enough to make me feel a little sick to my stomach. Take in a couple deep breaths, I notice a couple people were bent over and puking.Looking at twins, I noticed they looked a little green but they didn't lose their stomachs. Shuddering a bit, I shake my head a little bit to drive away that lingering feeling of pressure.I could hear the sound of birds, twisting my head I find that we're no longer in the square. Instead, we stood on the outskirts of a densely forested area. This was going to be the arena for the playing for the minigame, I couldn't see into the dense pack foliage to far, but I knew that it was probably a huge forest.She was called the Dryad of the Primordial Forest, that means that this wasn't going to be a cute little park scavenger hunt. Rolling out my shoulders, I looked over at Wit and find her with the same cool and scrutinizing expression on her face, it looks like the pressure hadn't bothered her one bit.The woman that had appeared before now felt even stronger, it was like her power had shot up exponentially, her features we're now in a light smile. The whole forest seems to light up at the nearness of the woman."Now that you've all decided to enter the game that I've set up, I'll begin to explain the rule and the end goal of the game, please listen carefully I'll only explain this now, and only one time," she spoke softly but her voice drifted easily to my ears.The attitude of the crowd turned a bit somber and their full attention turned towards the woman that stood in front of us. However, the two witches looked rather excited and I just shook my head at them, they were an odd pair."First the game is called a scavenger hunt because you'll be tasked with obtaining certain items from within the forest for me. The game has a time period of five days, during that time you're to scour the forest and find what I've listed for you. I've also attached a small game that has a general area where you can find some things," she waves a hand and a small map and list appears in front of each of us.Reaching a hand out I grab the small bundle that is floating in the air."Don't lose these, I wouldn't replace them if you lose them," she adds as we all open the map and look at the list. The forest was huge and had a great deal of land to cover."The second thing to remember is that all forms of violence are allowed. Third, no one can leave until the twenty days are up," she spoke as she twisted a hand in the air looking bored out of her mind as she explained.I couldn't help the smile that crept onto my face. What an interesting game admin, she didn't look like she cared to even let us into her forest at all."Fourth, I ask you to know that my archnemesis resides in the forest, and will stop at anything to make sure that you can't complete the task that I've to give you," her voice hardened and a cold glint flashes through her emerald green eyes."I've marked where he normally resides, there is an important thing that I need within the part of the forest, I've listed it as an extra item to obtain, if you do obtain that item I'll grant you a Unique ranked monster as compensation," her words kindle a strong fire in everyone's stomach.That was a strong monster to obtain for anyone, I even wanted one. It would probably be a monster from the primordial forest behind us, meaning that there could be all sorts of interesting monster to obtain."Fifth, there are no penalties for not completing the scavenger hunt, but you wouldn't obtain any rewards," her voice was starting to fade.I watched as her body began to morph with the forest behind us, her green emerald eyes stood out as the rest of her slowly sunk into a tree."In a couple of minutes, you'll be transported to random parts of the forest after this. Also, try your best to obtain everything... without dying," her voice completely faded and her green eyes vanished into the tree.A loud discussion broke out among the crowd, the two sisters also started to talk. Inclining my head I began to look around, searching for the man that looked like he was carved from stone. My eyes found him quickly as he was with the other nine that were in sterling and glittering armor.I would have to be wary of him, there was something about him that made my skin crawl. He was beautiful but something about that beauty made me feel like it was hiding something cruel. All of the sudden he turned his head and we locked eyes, I turned away and quickly tried to play it off like I didn't know what was happening.Taking a couple deep breaths, I try to calm the raging bundle of nerves that I felt in the pit of my stomach. His eyes had been cruel as if he wanted to consume me after having tortured me. It was like a shot of fire had run up my spine.Looking around I search around to see who else is in the crowd of people, licking my lip I find another familiar face in the sea of people. It was the man that hadn't talked when I'd run into Brute one and Brute two.His face was indifferent as it had been the first time I had seen him. A couple of other people surrounded him, they didn't really stand out, they looked more like props in a movie. We didn't make eye contact, but I noted that he was in the group of people.Continuing on I look around some more, I see another odd set of people that draw my attention. It was a man and a woman, the man had to be at least seven foot, while the woman was a bit shorter. Her hair was so long that it dragged on the ground, the man was so round he jiggled every time he breathed, his face was that of a baby.Something about these two gave me a chilling sense of dread and fear, the same as when I'd looked at the man from the Knight of the Goddess. Quickly, I turned away and looked at the two twins."There is a total of seven things that are on the list, and it looks like they're all equally spread apart, except for the one where the dryad's nemesis is located," one of the twins says, I couldn't tell which was which."Then what's the best course of action?" The other twins ask."We wouldn't know the best course of action until after we've been scattered across this huge forest," I throw in as I tighten my grip on Wit's hand."That's true, then we wouldn't know till we arrived at our starting point," they both say at the same time as they cock their heads to look at me.At the same time, a scream broke out among the crowd, turning my head I see a man with hair red as fire and another man with a missing arm fighting. Soon the man without the arm slices through the man with red hair.Falling to the ground the man with red hair is dead, this was the first time that I had seen another person die in my time in this game. I'd always been killing a monster or being attacked by a monster, never by another Player.A throbbing sensation starts in my head as I look at the blood seeping out from the dead man on the ground, the other man flicks the blood from the sword that he'd used to cut the other man down.At the sight of blood my head starts to thump, even more, I felt like my mind was being torn apart from the inside out. Raising my free hand I press it against my face, my whole body was starting to ache.Panting, I felt the world sway. My body felt like it was being split apart, soon my legs gave out from underneath of me. My whole world began to shift as I fall forward toward the ground."Rain!" I heard one of the twins yells, but my brain felt like it was on fire. Soon the forest and throng of people vanished and I was somewhere else completely.
