Chapter 69 The Chair
Blood was dripping from the top of his head and started to go trickle down to his eyebrow. He lifted his hand to wipe the blood while holding a dagger made of mud in his other hand.
"What did I say, you got us killed Vorden!"
"Will you shut up, unless you want to fight the damned thing instead?"
On the floor in front of Vorden was a single defeated Rattaclaw, and next to it was another one unhard and injured. When Vorden had arrived, he had encountered a Rattaclaw out in the wild.
Knowing that there were likely more basic beasts in the area and not wanting to attract their attention. Vorden had run into the closest building.
It was mainly a large empty warehouse with several broken crates and scrap tal piles all over the place. With only one entrance, he had no choice but to fight.
His skills faired him well. Even though he only had the Level a one earth ability, Vorden was skilled. He placed his hand on the ground early on as soon as he had step foot on the planet and had transford a piece of earth into a dagger. It was the weapon he was most comfortable with.
He managed to dodge the Rats attacks at the right ti and slice at the beast. The only problem was the Rat’s skin was tough and Vorden’s powers were weak.
He didn’t have monstrous strength and could only rely on the ability and skill given to him.
But eventually, Vorden managed to cause enough damage to hurt the Rat significantly and just as he was delivering the final blow, another Ratttaclaw had co up behind him. At the last second, he managed to react but its claws had still sliced the top of his head, causing three small marks to appear.
"Fine, then, let take control of the seat and I’ll fight this damned Rat."
Vorden then left the seat in his mind and allowed Raten to take his place. It was a pitch-black room with a single chair, and above the chair was a shining white light. The light above the chair was the only source of light in the whole room.
When Raten sat down, he took control of the body.
anwhile, Vorden walked off into the darkness and inside was another figure that looked just like Vorden, only they were sitting on the floor swaying backwards and forwards. Their fingers would constantly roll around each other and part of his shirt was in his mouth.
"How are you holding up, are you feeling better?" Vorden asked.
"Yeah, is Quinn going to be okay?" He said as he continued to sway backwards and forwards.
"I’m sure he’s fine, you know he’s special. We all did from the mont we first t him."
The other Vorden look alike then smiled.
"Special, just like Caser was, and Marlin, and Fuffu but they all died as well."
Vorden gulped as he could see the swaying getting faster.
"This ti is different, and Raten are here to protect you, you can stay here as long as you want and when you’re ready you can co out once again. Leave all the talk to , all the fighting to Ratan and we can do this together."
The swaying started to slow down and at the sa ti so did Vorden’s nerves.
As Vorden went to walk back to the seat he could see that Raten had already dealt with the beast rather quickly. The Rat was covered in several earth spikes that were piercing through its body from the ground. It’s back tail had been cut off and black blood was falling from its mouth.
"Did you really have to go that far?" Vorden asked.
"That cheeky little crap ruined our body, I can’t let it get away with that."
Raten then stood up from the chair and allowed Vorden once again to sit in the glowing light and the chair.
Vorden then proceeded to carve out the beast crystals form the two Rat’s and placed them in his trouser leg pocket. It would have been a waste after defeating them just to throw them away.
But just as Vorden finished extracting the beast crystal, the sound of clanging was heard from behind. Vorden quickly turned around to see what it was, and to his surprise, it was a fully grown adult man, he had erged from just behind one of the crates.
"I co in peace," the man said with his arms lifted up. Although the man quickly put his hands down and started to place his hand around his ribs.
Just from looking at him, Vorden could tell straight away the man was a Traveller and a skilful one at that. The equipnt he was wearing was at least at the advanced tier beast level, and he had armour all over his body including two short swords on his back.
The man then sat down on the ground, to have a rest and lent his body up against one of the crates.
Vorden walked over to traveller cautiously, it was rare to even et a traveller in this type of place and who knew what the man’s true intentions where. Soone had to be at least at a decent skill level to be asked to enter a Red portal planet.
"Don’t worry I won’t bite," the man said, "What’s a kid like you doing in a place like this? I didn’t know the military was that desperate that they were now sending a single student to a hell hole like this."
"I got stuck here, it was an accident and I need to find a way out."
Now that Vorden was closer to the man he had a clear few of him. He had short purple spikey hair and it had several marks on his face. By the way he was holding his side, it looked like he had so broken ribs too.
"Looks like we both have the sa goal at least." The traveller said. "The nas Ian, I ca through another portal and was hunting out a beast in the wild, I was badly hurt and too far away from the original portal, so in a last-ditch effort, I decided to co to this abandoned shelter. I was hoping to either find so dical equipnt that could heal or maybe even a portal that led back to earth."
Ian then looked at the two dead Rattaclaw’s on the ground.
"You’re quite skilful to have defeated two of them on your own, especially for soone as young as yourself. You have my thanks, I was too badly hurt form the beast before, that Rattaclaw had chased into the warehouse and I was waiting for it to go away. I never expected soone else to be here in this shelter."
"You’re welco" Vorden replied, "Well since we both have the sa goal anyway, do you have any idea where the portal could be?"
"Sure, there were a few buildings I spotted on my way over here, it’s best if we check them out first."
Vorden then held out his hand for a handshake.
"The na’s Vorden."
Ian took out his hand and shook Vorden’s hand.
"I look forward to us working together."
As the two of their hands connected, an energy started to surge into Vorden’s body, and a smile appeared.
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