"Hey Hey Var, so we're hitting up silverskirt retreat tonight, right?"
Four tall, stocky knight's huddled around a campfire just outside the city gates passing stories. The night air had reached a near zero Celsius as the four of them pressed tightly together for warmth.
Each knight was equipped with powerful full body plate-metal armor with a thick green-black leathery under suit. This was considered to be the highest quality knight armor. short of the king's guards.
A silhouette, caked in blood and pus. Limped towards them, It's body scraping across the Thick stone wall. It's eyes glowing a brilliant red light, embers like tiny sun's burning within. Its sheer will manifesting in momentum making the Creature feel akin to staring down death itself.
The creature growled at them. Its voice like the gurgling of blood and vomit.
The knights shivered. 'what is this? a new Nightstalker?' they collectively thought. Nightstalkers were a brand of Extremely rare creatures, they encompassed all the monster types that could maintain a human form as those types would tend to sneak into cities and town in the dead of night.
The knight known as Var turned tail and ran back into the village, his job was to call reinforcements the second monsters shown up.
As the bloody humanoid creature got closer and closer the knights noticed its limp "hey now? isn't it badly injured? maybe we could kill it." The blonde one called out.
"Maybe, keep your eyes straight, it might be deceiving us." said the second, this knight was darker-skinned compared to the rest, clearly coming from a warmer climate and was the one huddled closest to the fire earlier.
As the Three watched it with weapons primed ready to delay and fight, the beast collapsed to the floor. They looked at each other in confusion, encountering a dying humanoid monster for the first time.
"okay, I'll check it out, guard my back." He took a deep breath before moving forward "It might be a trap."
As the blonde knight slowly approached the collapsed bloody creature, he quickly got within spear range and poked it a few times.
"Uh, It might be dead guys. its not moving!" he shouted back to the duo before flipping it over.
The torchlight shone upon the figure and a faint symbol could be seen on the creatures chest. The knight froze.
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Ray awoke yet again with a bright light nearby shining over him, though this time it was candlelight. "Where am i?" his voice felt better, though marginally so.
He tried to push himself up but felt his body wrapped in a reddish-white Full body cast.
hearing his voice a nurse moved over from the side. "good your awake, what's your name sir?" the nurse asked with admiration filling her eyes. 'such a young soldier was involved in the attack earlier, and he survived'.
As the one who worked on diagnosing his injuries and tending to Ray. Katharina was acutely aware of the stress Ray's body was under. "two broken bones in his left arm and damaged spinal vertebrae. by all logic you shouldn't have been able to move through the pain. your body was covered in more cuts and bruises than I've ever seen."
But he did, Ray not only moved. he survived and with expert care he will be back fighting within the week. He pulled on his left arm only for it to get caught in the cast.
"I'm Ray miss... What's this web im caught in?" he muttered?
"Well hello ray, miss Elana came in earlier, saw you and requested the best medical care we have." Katharina omitted the part about Elana tearing up with joy seeing him well.
"This is a new invention by the Royal-Dynamos academy, i don't know the details but its a mix between spidersilk, some troll blood and their patented infusion serum. It's supposedly Enhances your Healing. I think..." The black-haired nurse looked down with a slightly bitter smile.
'Infusion serum?' Ray had never heard of it. But even so he was sure the serum was extremely expensive.
Infact if it wasn't for Ray's talent and potential as a new top knight he wouldn't have been able to have such top-quality medical help even if Elana vouched for him. The entire Eartine family looked at him in a positive light due to his potential however.
Ray was strapped to the Medical bed for days as the Spidersilk body-cast slowly sank into his skin. he watched on alongside Katharina as the new medical prowess of Royal-Dynamos academy showed itself.
By the forth day the Cast had almost completely disappeared into his skin and although Ray felt constrained he could still move his body normally now.
His body almost completely healed in those days. The broken left arm although still slightly fragile was now operable. He flexed his fingers and felt his powerful vitality working away at the few remaining imperfections.
'Ding!'
A new notification triggered as he left the medical tent.
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Skill gained: Suffused Regeneration: The mixture of impure gargoyle dragonling blood, seven-lotus silk and a lesser-trolls blood has created a impure version of the maximised Restoration pill. To which your body maximised their respective benefits.
+1 Vit +50% Health regen speed (-15% Agi 2 weeks)
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Ray's eyes bulged out of his head in shock. "This... This is possible?" the dense web of information in this little skill was immense "maximised restoration pill? I want it!" As he treaded back to the Military camp he reviewed all that had happened recently.
'I gained a new skill, it seems skills can easily be earned by pills or other creations? this really does make me want to learn a craft. and tough body.. my skills can level up? but i need to level up for them.' although Ray felt like he gained a lot.
In truth he gained very little, a skill upgrade he can't do. And knowledge of a craft he doesn't know. yet he was content, the new skill Suffused Regeneration made this all worth it.
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The dorm room was bustling with activity. all sixteen beds had now been filled and the stocky soldiers of both genders were chatting about their activities when Ray stepped through the door.
"If it isn't stone-face Ray." a gruff manly voice resounded out. Ray glanced over to see the man leaning against the wall-besides the doorway.
'He's bold. look's seventeen. Was his name Cevik. Or Levik? i really don't know.'
Ray took a guess and said "What does a fellow loner like you want Cevik?" "Its Levik." the man sighed. "fifty fifty..." the two loners just stared at each other after that.
Levik sighed again. "look man, i need your help. im supposed to be getting stationed on the walls soon, i heard your already there.. can i join you?" Ray was surprised. he knew he had a advantage over others his age and normally wasn't supposed to join the defence crew this early. but most join in their early 20's.
"your pretty talented to hey." 'Observe.'
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Name: Levik
Strength: 14
Vitality: 13
Agility: 13
Mind: 10
Skills:
Military Training: +2 Str +2 Vit +2 Agi
Bulwark Training: +1 Vit
Greatbow Training: +1 Str +1 Agi
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Ray was impressed, His stats were comparable to a knight's already. "Your welcome to join me... Brother."
Anyone willing to join him side-by-side in combat was a brother in Ray's opinion.