Chapter 2: Unexpected Encounters
The first thing that greets me is heat. I open my eyes and see nothing but sand in every direction, and my heart plummets. I had been spawned in a desert!
Quickly realizing how screwed I was, i do the only thing I know for sure will help. Walk towards the setting sun.
I'm kind of up set that stupid Guide even knew the sun would be setting, but didn't tell me about the desert..
Taking stock of the situation realized at least two of my active abilities would be unhelpful right now. First, because there were no shadows in the desert , Shadow Meld. Second, because of the sand mixed with extreme heat and lack of water, Fleet Footed. I curse realizing that all of my speed and Agility in general will be ineffective thanks to the desert.
The heat is almost unbearable, and since I spawned naked I was afraid of what the sun would do to my sweat drenched skin. If I made it out of here I very well may be burnt to a crisp.
That line of thinking and the realization that I had only a dim idea of how to use my active skills, made me want to start messing with Solid Energy.
Walking towards the setting sun, I look at my hand and start to try and pool energy into my right palm. Slowly I began to see what looked like a pea beginning to take shape in my palm! I was so overwhelmed that my loss of concentration made the energy disperse. Even still my enthusiasm was uncurved! Just like most guys my age, I grew up playing RPGs and dreaming about using the kinds of magic i would read about in the fantasy novels I was obsessed with! Now here I was walking through a desert practicing what could only be called as magic!
I try again. This time stopping in place not only to rest but to use my full attention on the task at hand. If it wasn't for the fact that every time I took a skill or passive during my Beginning, I was given general info about each skill and how to use it, theres no way I could make it a whole day out in these conditions.
The energy pools on my hand again reached the size of a pea. This time i pour my whole consciousness into the job! knowing that if I fail i would probably die. The energy reaches the size of a marble, then a golf ball. Each time it got bigger I felt just a little weaker. When it reached the size of a base ball the true work began.
Taking a risk, I begin to stretch the green energy across my body. The result I was aiming for was to be covered head toe with just my face exposed.
Somehow I achieved just that. Even adding a bill like a base ball hat, so that my face would have some protection.
I felt a little tired when I finished but it wasn't very noticable. What I did notice though was that I no longer felt like a frying egg! Unbelievably my gamble worked! Solid Energy as i understood it absorbed damage dealt to it in exchange for a corresponding amount of my energy. Therefore the heat damage I was taking from the sun would be absorbed by Solid Energy!
Moving forward after even covering my feet with Solid Energy I felt alot more hopeful after solving one problem so fast. Though the water issue would be a matter of luck. If there was no water between here and the warp town then there was no way I would make it. And if i deviated off course then i would definitely get lost...
The sun set with those thoughts muddling around in my head, making me depressed. Luckily right before the sun set below the horizon I was able to see a bright star directly south and continue my journey.
Traveling at night was not much better. The desert quickly became cold. I could feel my energy reserves depleting as Solid Energy consumed them while absorbing the damage I would've taken.
Walking for hours while being sure to never lose sight of one specific star in the sky was exhausting. I was so focused on the star that I almost didn't see the lights angling my way from the right. Almost.
The time spent walking through this barren wasteland left me with nothing productive to do besides think about my newfound skills, giving me some ideas of how to defend myself if it came to it.
The lights keep closing on me. Theres three of them, each at the point of a right triangle, with the right angle pointing up.
I stop and put my hands together. I begin to pool more energy into my hands to turn solid. I gather much more than I did for my suit. This time noticeably depleting my energy reserves. Though not enough to effect my movements.
At this point it is about one hundred yards away. I can see that it is some kind of humanoid. Two of the lights and the reason it was moving so fast, were because of its hands which seemed to be shooting fire from them to propel the being forward while causing it to lift off the ground several feet. While the last light was from the beings head, which was completely engulfed in flames. When it was about fifty yards away the air in front of it began to distort and I could see a wedge like shape of energy take form.This thing was going to try to run me over!
I gimace at how quickly I moved into another life threatening situation. Reminceing on how many times I wished something like this would happen to me so that I could escape my boring life.
It was closing the gap at a frightening speed now! Making me adjust my plan. If im even a second to late, I would ruin the suprise factor, and all this energy would go to waste.
Right before the being was on top of me, I threw myself to the ground to sprawl onto my back and brace my hands on my chest. The creatures wedge just barely missed me as it flew over my body. Though as the fiery head passed my own, I released all of the energy i had been gathering in my hands, to form into a giant spike that shot upwards to pierce the humanoid. Its flame immediately went out as it died. While also spraying me with blue blood.
When the blood hit me I lose focus and the spike disappears while the body flops to the ground with a sickening thud, practically landing on top of me.
As soon as it hits the ground the harnesses that it was wearing starts to glow with a deep blue light that's coming from a perfect sphere resting against it's chest, the sphere appeared to be a gem or crystal. When my eye was drawn to the light, the harness appeared to detach itself and flew into me! Suddenly it was strapped to me the way it was on the dead beings body. As soon as the sphere made contact with my chest I heard a voice In my head say "finally I am free from that oaf! Iv been imprisoned for far to long! Now to break this child's mind and make it my own!"
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