Chapter 14: Danger Avoided (1/2)

After hunting another three goblins using the Dizziness Fumes, Nikolai's stat increased again. He got crystals for Vitality, Strength, and Agility. Nikolai also got the goblins' weapons, which he can sell in the market for a few silver coins.

[Vitality: 9]

[Strength: 12]

[Agility: 10]

[Intelligence: 9]

[Mana: 0]

However, he had spent his remaining 6 Fate Points on getting the monsters to drop crystals. That left him with no points to get more stats from the crystals themselves. He lucked out with Vitality, getting 2 points. As for Strength and Agility, he got one point from each.

Beggars can't be choosers. If Nikolai wanted to earn more Fate Points, he would need to rise further. He would need to kill people with an impact on the world, to steal their fate.

'Am I becoming that kind of person?' Nikolai sighed as he used another Silent Feet potion on his legs to get back to the city.

As he ran across the meadow, using the road beside the river to go back to the village, Nikolai thought about his new powers.

'To kill others just to grow stronger, even though there are other ways, like the points I got from Ash, it's still the easiest method.'

Nikolai never considered himself to be a good person, but deep down, he wished he was. That was until he saw the true selfish nature of mankind in the war. Betrayals and cruelty seemed easy if someone was suffering.

He saw the city's walls in the distance, making him run faster. After he doubled his vitality, he needed less time to rest but he was still a weakling.

He stopped beside a bridge that went over the river to catch his breath. He then walked to the riverbank and fell on his knees to splash some water over his face.

As he felt the cold water dripped over his shirt, Nikolai spotted something in the water. It was a momentary light that blinked at him, nothing that a normal river under the moonlight wouldn't do.

However, it was odd because the light disappeared right after and another blinked. The lights were like a sequence, guiding him somewhere.

[Choose a response in thirty seconds.]

[Action: Follow the Lights.]

[Action: Return to city.]

Nikolai looked at the lights and they were leading him toward another direction of the Alm Forest, a region that not many dared to venture due to its oddness.

It was said that vengeful spirits roamed those grounds, those of the fallen ones in battle. Over hundreds of years, those grounds became a forbidden place that no one dared to go to.