Chapter 182 Destra no more 2 (1/2)
Terry took a deep breath before he stepped into the hunters guild, he had only been there once so far and his experience was all that good with the hunters guild, but that was mostly due to his own 'fault'. Anyways he was here now so he might as well take a look inside, stepping into the guild the first thing Terry noticed was the smell of leather armor and the bustle of the place, simply put, there was a lot of people moving around making the guild seem more narrow than it actually was. Terry pushed his way through the crowds and soon arrived in front of the request board where all kinds of requests were posted, from hunting wild game to gathering wild herbs and plants, Terry looked at the common requests that had pictures drawn of the herbs/plants and memorized their looks before he squeezed his way out of the guild again
'good... now let's head into the forest...'
Terry made his way out of town, showing his guild tag at the gates before he made his way over the grass fields on his way to the forest, specifically the Mother forest, Terry looked up at the expanse of green and thought to himself
'they say there's elvers living deep in the forest and sometimes they come out to hunt people in the other forest... best to keep my wits about me and stay alert...'
Terry stepped into the forest and began searching for wild herbs and plants, at the start he was quite lucky and found a patch of wild garlic which he harvested and put into his pouch
'6 wild garlic that's 60 cel right there, guess I'm pretty lucky'
soon his ears picked up some movement and he quickly got his bow off his back and drew an arrow and pointed it in the direction where the sounds came from
'maybe it's a rabbit... I hear the pelt alone is 200 cel'
Terry stood completely still and waited as the source of the sound came closer, he did his best to calm his beating heart as he waited but soon he was disappointed as it turned out that the source of the sounds were a group of hunters leaving the forest, they all walked right past him yet none of them looked at him, this was his 'flaw' at work again. Terry walked deeper into the forest on the way he found a couple of wild herbs which sold for about 100 cel in total and then it happened, his ears once again picked up some sound and he quickly stood ready with his bow and arrow as he waited for the sound to come closer
'it's probably just some other hunters again...'
not overcome with expectation this time Terry stood ready with his bow and waited and soon it appeared, Terry's eyes bulged as he stared at it
'it's actually a rabbit!'
Terry carefully took aim at the brown rabbit that had hopped its way about 10 meters in front of him, Terry knew that his hit ratio at this distance was not all that good so he let out a silent prayer before he let the arrow lose that then flew through the air before it stuck the rabbit right in the heart
'I did it!'
Terry almost jumped for joy but before he got completely carried away he ran up to the rabbit and confirmed it was dead before he pulled out the arrow and threw the rabbit into his pouch and looked up at the sun
”...I'll better start heading back”
having made his decision Terry began making his way out of the forest by following his footsteps, he didn't want to risk getting lost by taking another route out of the forest, even though he knew he was unlikely to find anymore wild herbs or plants by taking the same route back he didn't know the forest well enough yet that he wanted to test his luck, plus his harvest for today was rather good. On the way back Terry passed tough a clearing and suddenly herd a cry from his back and turned around, there stood a short green skinned figure with a primitive spear in its hands
”shit a goblin!”
Terry quickly took his bow off his back and readied an arrow, meanwhile the goblin closed in on him with its spear pointed toward him, when it was about 15 meters away Terry let loose his first arrow which missed by a wide margin
”shit!”
Terry quickly pulled out another arrow and drew the string again before he let loose arrow number two which struck the goblin in the stomach causing it to let out an enraged roar as it continued closing the distance