Recruit Arc's TrialsPart one - Collect Ten Thousand Gold Pieces.I had just arrived at the Barracks for another day of.. hard work and after a click browse over the newest pin ups on the message board i noticed my trials were ready to be undertaken, so i checked my pack and set out to complete a task.
I noticed no other guards on duty were at the barracks or near by to help me, so i set out on my own to the dungeon of Despise, just north of Britain, to gather the gold.
Arc comes face to face with the DungeonI entered the cave and took the first flight of steps down into a deeper part of the dungeon, it all seemed pretty quiet compared to what i had heard about the dungeon, i could several "thudding" sounds ahead of me so i worked my way through the dungeon to find out what was going on, only to find the corpses of many two-headed giants.
Busy indeed...I continued through the dungeon, still nothing but the large thuds ahead of me and piles of corpses everywhere though i did come across what looked like a swamp with a two-header stuck inside, it looked pretty beaten so i thought it better to put it out of its misery.
A "shocking" fate for the beastI knew this was getting me nowhere, i had been here for a while now and still no gold so i began searching the bodies of the already slain beasts, they held some gold, it seemed whatever was slaughtering them wasnt that interested in gold so i took what gold i could carry and moved on through the murky caves.
Scavenging for scrapsI walked and walked through the caves, nothing to see but a few stagles and mud piles and oh.. did i mention more corpses?
I was getting bored, this was going no-where, was i lost? it seemed i was walking in circles i was ntertaninng myself by kicking stones down the cave and listening to the echo, i was getting way off track.
The bordome settles inI continued walking aimlessly through the caves until i came to something i hadnt seen before, a pile of rocks blocking the way so i climbed and moved as many rocks as i could to get through and found a hidden room with another stairway leading even further down.
Atlast, somewhere to go!I followed the new passageway through some more caves which seemed to be a little more guided, as if made by something, however i kept my pace and could hear some grumbling from around one of the corners, i poked my head around to see a huge armoured man there muttering a strange language and toying with a huge pouch which seemed to hold alot of gold, i stepped back to think my steps and looked across the way to see a crystal ball of some sort, i threw a stone to hit the ball but missed, the sound didnt seem to distract him at all so i flicked through my book to find the telekenesis spell, i uttered the spell and pushed the crystal ball from its resting place, hitting the floor with a thud, the best seemed to had noticed it and i readied an energy bolt in my hands.
The best moved to the crystal ball on the floor and scratched its head, this was my chance! i leapt from my hiding place and hurled my energy bolt at the beasts head, before it knew anything it was laying on the floor so i took this chance to rummage through the bag and see what it had, seemed this beast had been busy.
Arc strikes goldWhile stashing the gold in my pack i heard roaring and grunting coming from down the cave so i rushed to get the gold into my pack but it was to late.. i looked out to find 5 of the beasts stending ahead of me and they charged me, i swallowed hard and knew i wasnt going to get out of this without a fight, so i bit my tongue and began to battle the bests with every spell and curse i knew.
When the dust settled i was the victor, my armour had taken quite a beating but i was now a rich man, or atelast the militia was. I packed my pack with the gold and dragged it through the caverns and to my trusty packhorse waiting outside, loaded him up and set back for Cove.
A job well done*Signed*Arc
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