Chapter 37
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The pages that had been stuck together contained information about a small cave the old man had discovered, according to the diary it was on his last trip into the Dark Forest, just after entering the small cave he had heard the sounds of people close by, not wanting to share his new found treasure he quickly left the cave, erected a ward to prevent anyone else from discovering it.
Unfortunately for the old guy, he ran into a group of unsavory mercenaries, seeing that he was all alone, they attempted to rob him. Fighting his way through their ranks, he was severely injured.
Looking at the last pages, Jayde could see that the brown substance that had glued the pages together was old blood, these pages must have been his last entry, but once again the old man had come through for Jayde, not only did he leave a map to the cave, but he also mentioned that he had found a small horde of dwarven dark gold.
He also mentioned that he sensed something extraordinary in the cave, he theorized it was some sort of divine treasure or artifact. Really excited that she had a lead to the dwarven dark gold that she needed as well as some sort of treasure, Jayde was really pumped up about her new adventure into the Dark Forest, not only was she going to collect the herbs that she so desperately needed to advance to copper stage, but she would also be collecting the herbs needed to earn points and now she was only going treasure hunting.
Early the next morning Jayde set off for the Dark Forest, after exiting the tunnel, she followed the overgrown path, and soon entered an area that she hadn't explored before.
Moving cautiously, but with a decent speed Jayde made good headway, she was headed to the cave that the old man had left a map too, but it wasn't long before she encountered danger.
Facing her was a taurussoos, it was a large bull type creature, with massive horns on the side of its head, it's skin was three times thicker than an earth rhinoceros, it had four large ivory teeth sticking out of its mouth, and worst of all it was notoriously bad-tempered. The only good thing according to the old man's notes was while it was quite vicious it was slow moving.
The taurussoos attacked first, it lowered its head and rushed towards Jayde trying to impale her. Swifty leaping away, Jayde withdrew her sword, then she channeled her fire magic into her sword, the sword was soon encased in a bright orange aura.
Lunging forward Jayde met the taurussoos directly, but she soon realized that this was a mistake, the taurussoos was horribly strong, and the impact of her sword meeting its head, made her arms ache. Quickly flashing away, Jayde tried to attack its heels, hoping to disable the beast, but this attack failed as well, as the taurussoos was a lot quicker than Jayde estimated and it was able to avoid her attacks.
Desperately Jayde leaped onto it back, condensing all her fire magic into her sword, and using all her strength she plunged the sword down into the back of the taurussoos.
Absolutely furious that some puny human had hurt it, the taurussoos went mad, bucking and smashing into trees, Jayde tried to hold on, but was finally dislodged from the taurussoos back.
Landing hard on the ground, Jayde was winded but had no time to catch her breath, quickly rolling away from the deadly hooves that was about to smash her head, Jayde backflipped onto her feet, then turning to face the raging taurussoos, Jayde brace her legs slightly apart, eyes narrowed in steely determination, wiping the blood dripping from her mouth with the back of her hand, she prepared herself to face the beast.
The taurussoos eyes were shaded red, swirling with madness. Steam billowing from its nostrils it charged towards Jayde. Without a moment's hesitation Jayde stepped forward to meet it attacks, gracefully dancing out of the way, she stabbed her sword forward, directly penetrating the taurussoos eye, using all her strength, she pushed the sword through the eye socket directly into the brain.
Quickly flashing away, Jayde watched the taurussoos as its front legs collapsed, then the rest of the body fell to the ground with a mighty crash.
Seeing that the taurussoos was finally dead, leaning slight over Jayde braced her hands on her bent knees and tried to catch her breath, the fight was a lot closer than she expected, these spirit beasts were really tough. This taurussoos was only a level two ranked beast, Jayde was now starting to understand why most people avoided the Dark Forest.
Jayde by now was very disheveled, her clothes were covered in dust and grass, with small splatters of blood, blood splattered her face as well, but Jayde was satisfied with her accomplishment.
After catching her breath, Jayde walked up to the taurussoos, taking out her sharp dagger she skinned it, then dug out its spirit stone. After spending a couple of hours butchery its meat, she then stored everything in her storage ring.
Washing the blood off her hands and face, Jayde quickly moved away from the carcass, it was nearly sunset and she wanted to be far away from the carcass as possible, moving quickly she soon found a place to make camp.
With the old man ward stones, Jayde was able to set up a simple ward that would protect her from the beast in the outer perimeter. After getting a campfire going, Jayde took out some of the taurussoos meat, adding some spices and salt, using a sharp stick to skewer the meat, she then placed the meat over the fire to barbecue.
After a month of just eating elven wafer bread, Jayde was sick and tired of it, so she thoroughly enjoyed her hard-earned barbecue.
Tired from her first day in the Dark Forest, Jayde made her way into her tent and fell asleep.
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The pages that had been stuck together contained information about a small cave the old man had discovered, according to the diary it was on his last trip into the Dark Forest, just after entering the small cave he had heard the sounds of people close by, not wanting to share his new found treasure he quickly left the cave, erected a ward to prevent anyone else from discovering it.
Unfortunately for the old guy, he ran into a group of unsavory mercenaries, seeing that he was all alone, they attempted to rob him. Fighting his way through their ranks, he was severely injured.
Looking at the last pages, Jayde could see that the brown substance that had glued the pages together was old blood, these pages must have been his last entry, but once again the old man had come through for Jayde, not only did he leave a map to the cave, but he also mentioned that he had found a small horde of dwarven dark gold.
He also mentioned that he sensed something extraordinary in the cave, he theorized it was some sort of divine treasure or artifact. Really excited that she had a lead to the dwarven dark gold that she needed as well as some sort of treasure, Jayde was really pumped up about her new adventure into the Dark Forest, not only was she going to collect the herbs that she so desperately needed to advance to copper stage, but she would also be collecting the herbs needed to earn points and now she was only going treasure hunting.
Early the next morning Jayde set off for the Dark Forest, after exiting the tunnel, she followed the overgrown path, and soon entered an area that she hadn't explored before.
Moving cautiously, but with a decent speed Jayde made good headway, she was headed to the cave that the old man had left a map too, but it wasn't long before she encountered danger.
Facing her was a taurussoos, it was a large bull type creature, with massive horns on the side of its head, it's skin was three times thicker than an earth rhinoceros, it had four large ivory teeth sticking out of its mouth, and worst of all it was notoriously bad-tempered. The only good thing according to the old man's notes was while it was quite vicious it was slow moving.
The taurussoos attacked first, it lowered its head and rushed towards Jayde trying to impale her. Swifty leaping away, Jayde withdrew her sword, then she channeled her fire magic into her sword, the sword was soon encased in a bright orange aura.
Lunging forward Jayde met the taurussoos directly, but she soon realized that this was a mistake, the taurussoos was horribly strong, and the impact of her sword meeting its head, made her arms ache. Quickly flashing away, Jayde tried to attack its heels, hoping to disable the beast, but this attack failed as well, as the taurussoos was a lot quicker than Jayde estimated and it was able to avoid her attacks.
Desperately Jayde leaped onto it back, condensing all her fire magic into her sword, and using all her strength she plunged the sword down into the back of the taurussoos.
Absolutely furious that some puny human had hurt it, the taurussoos went mad, bucking and smashing into trees, Jayde tried to hold on, but was finally dislodged from the taurussoos back.
Landing hard on the ground, Jayde was winded but had no time to catch her breath, quickly rolling away from the deadly hooves that was about to smash her head, Jayde backflipped onto her feet, then turning to face the raging taurussoos, Jayde brace her legs slightly apart, eyes narrowed in steely determination, wiping the blood dripping from her mouth with the back of her hand, she prepared herself to face the beast.
The taurussoos eyes were shaded red, swirling with madness. Steam billowing from its nostrils it charged towards Jayde. Without a moment's hesitation Jayde stepped forward to meet it attacks, gracefully dancing out of the way, she stabbed her sword forward, directly penetrating the taurussoos eye, using all her strength, she pushed the sword through the eye socket directly into the brain.
Quickly flashing away, Jayde watched the taurussoos as its front legs collapsed, then the rest of the body fell to the ground with a mighty crash.
Seeing that the taurussoos was finally dead, leaning slight over Jayde braced her hands on her bent knees and tried to catch her breath, the fight was a lot closer than she expected, these spirit beasts were really tough. This taurussoos was only a level two ranked beast, Jayde was now starting to understand why most people avoided the Dark Forest.
Jayde by now was very disheveled, her clothes were covered in dust and grass, with small splatters of blood, blood splattered her face as well, but Jayde was satisfied with her accomplishment.
After catching her breath, Jayde walked up to the taurussoos, taking out her sharp dagger she skinned it, then dug out its spirit stone. After spending a couple of hours butchery its meat, she then stored everything in her storage ring.
Washing the blood off her hands and face, Jayde quickly moved away from the carcass, it was nearly sunset and she wanted to be far away from the carcass as possible, moving quickly she soon found a place to make camp.
With the old man ward stones, Jayde was able to set up a simple ward that would protect her from the beast in the outer perimeter. After getting a campfire going, Jayde took out some of the taurussoos meat, adding some spices and salt, using a sharp stick to skewer the meat, she then placed the meat over the fire to barbecue.
After a month of just eating elven wafer bread, Jayde was sick and tired of it, so she thoroughly enjoyed her hard-earned barbecue.
Tired from her first day in the Dark Forest, Jayde made her way into her tent and fell asleep.
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The pages that had been stuck together contained information about a small cave the old man had discovered, according to the diary it was on his last trip into the Dark Forest, just after entering the small cave he had heard the sounds of people close by, not wanting to share his new found treasure he quickly left the cave, erected a ward to prevent anyone else from discovering it.Unfortunately for the old guy, he ran into a group of unsavory mercenaries, seeing that he was all alone, they attempted to rob him. Fighting his way through their ranks, he was severely injured.Looking at the last pages, Jayde could see that the brown substance that had glued the pages together was old blood, these pages must have been his last entry, but once again the old man had come through for Jayde, not only did he leave a map to the cave, but he also mentioned that he had found a small horde of dwarven dark gold.He also mentioned that he sensed something extraordinary in the cave, he theorized it was some sort of divine treasure or artifact. Really excited that she had a lead to the dwarven dark gold that she needed as well as some sort of treasure, Jayde was really pumped up about her new adventure into the Dark Forest, not only was she going to collect the herbs that she so desperately needed to advance to copper stage, but she would also be collecting the herbs needed to earn points and now she was only going treasure hunting.Early the next morning Jayde set off for the Dark Forest, after exiting the tunnel, she followed the overgrown path, and soon entered an area that she hadn't explored before.Moving cautiously, but with a decent speed Jayde made good headway, she was headed to the cave that the old man had left a map too, but it wasn't long before she encountered danger.Facing her was a taurussoos, it was a large bull type creature, with massive horns on the side of its head, it's skin was three times thicker than an earth rhinoceros, it had four large ivory teeth sticking out of its mouth, and worst of all it was notoriously bad-tempered. The only good thing according to the old man's notes was while it was quite vicious it was slow moving.The taurussoos attacked first, it lowered its head and rushed towards Jayde trying to impale her. Swifty leaping away, Jayde withdrew her sword, then she channeled her fire magic into her sword, the sword was soon encased in a bright orange aura.Lunging forward Jayde met the taurussoos directly, but she soon realized that this was a mistake, the taurussoos was horribly strong, and the impact of her sword meeting its head, made her arms ache. Quickly flashing away, Jayde tried to attack its heels, hoping to disable the beast, but this attack failed as well, as the taurussoos was a lot quicker than Jayde estimated and it was able to avoid her attacks.Desperately Jayde leaped onto it back, condensing all her fire magic into her sword, and using all her strength she plunged the sword down into the back of the taurussoos.Absolutely furious that some puny human had hurt it, the taurussoos went mad, bucking and smashing into trees, Jayde tried to hold on, but was finally dislodged from the taurussoos back.Landing hard on the ground, Jayde was winded but had no time to catch her breath, quickly rolling away from the deadly hooves that was about to smash her head, Jayde backflipped onto her feet, then turning to face the raging taurussoos, Jayde brace her legs slightly apart, eyes narrowed in steely determination, wiping the blood dripping from her mouth with the back of her hand, she prepared herself to face the beast.The taurussoos eyes were shaded red, swirling with madness. Steam billowing from its nostrils it charged towards Jayde. Without a moment's hesitation Jayde stepped forward to meet it attacks, gracefully dancing out of the way, she stabbed her sword forward, directly penetrating the taurussoos eye, using all her strength, she pushed the sword through the eye socket directly into the brain.Quickly flashing away, Jayde watched the taurussoos as its front legs collapsed, then the rest of the body fell to the ground with a mighty crash.Seeing that the taurussoos was finally dead, leaning slight over Jayde braced her hands on her bent knees and tried to catch her breath, the fight was a lot closer than she expected, these spirit beasts were really tough. This taurussoos was only a level two ranked beast, Jayde was now starting to understand why most people avoided the Dark Forest.Jayde by now was very disheveled, her clothes were covered in dust and grass, with small splatters of blood, blood splattered her face as well, but Jayde was satisfied with her accomplishment.After catching her breath, Jayde walked up to the taurussoos, taking out her sharp dagger she skinned it, then dug out its spirit stone. After spending a couple of hours butchery its meat, she then stored everything in her storage ring.Washing the blood off her hands and face, Jayde quickly moved away from the carcass, it was nearly sunset and she wanted to be far away from the carcass as possible, moving quickly she soon found a place to make camp.With the old man ward stones, Jayde was able to set up a simple ward that would protect her from the beast in the outer perimeter. After getting a campfire going, Jayde took out some of the taurussoos meat, adding some spices and salt, using a sharp stick to skewer the meat, she then placed the meat over the fire to barbecue.After a month of just eating elven wafer bread, Jayde was sick and tired of it, so she thoroughly enjoyed her hard-earned barbecue.Tired from her first day in the Dark Forest, Jayde made her way into her tent and fell asleep.=======================Interested in supporting this novel?https://www.patreon.com/djrogue1Donations:https://www.paypal.me/djrogue1=======================Check out my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DJRogueAuthor/Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJRogue2
