First Night, First Blood

(Denzel's POV)

Seymour had given everyone various tasks to cope up with our current situation. I was assigned to mining underground along with a few people around me.

"Denzel, there's a chest here!"

A guy shorter than me called out to investigate a hidden chest that he found.

"Ross? Have you opened it yet?"

I peeked out from the corner after halting for a bit. I left the pickaxe on the group as I moved towards Ross who had the face of a true gamer.

He had hair that's quite too long for a guy, and a face that seems to have a long history of gaming.

"This chest, doesn't it look familiar?" - Ross

Ross mentioned his familiarity of the chest while I try to reach my hand out to open it. I stopped on reflex and took a second to check the large chest.

"It's like those golden chests from Terraria."

"See? I can somewhat tell that there will be great loot here." - Ross

Ross seems to realize the possible content this chest will contain.

"You two, what are you doing slacking off?"

A girl with long hair called out to me and Ross who were debating on which one of us will open the chest in front of us.

"Ah! Oh Sharon, it's just you... We're pretty interested in this chest over here."

"Hmm, then what are you waiting for?" - Sharon

Alright alright, I get it! I'll open it.

As my hand reached out to the chest, I also saw Ross's hand reaching out.

"Ok, let's be real here. Who is going to open this chest?"

Another awkward delay as me and Ross stare at each other.

"Ah! Enough you two! I'll open it myself!" - Sharon

Sharon pushes both of us away and opens the chest herself.

"Wha!?"

"Wai!" - Ross

While being surprised by Sharon's sudden action, the contents of the chest were revealed immediately.

"Alright, now take a look you two." - Sharon

Me and Ross moved towards the chest and noticed the familiar contents...

"Band of Regeneration, silver bars, ropes, bombs, and potions. It really is Terraria."

"Don't assume it's just Terraria, there could be other games that will be mixed into this." - Ross

Right, it's possible that there are more games infused into this game. It's not only Terraria but some actual RPG games with magic are probably infused as well. If that's the case though it makes some magic items in Terraria quite useless.

While pondering about the actual gameplay in Survivor's Path, I had noticed that there's quite some space behind this golden chest.

I walked behind the chest and went in deeper into the darkness while holding nothing but a torch.

"Denz?" - Ross

"Wait a bit over there..."

I moved around and noticed a drop down. I tied a rope to the edge and slid down the rope.

It's an actual cave... Holy crap! I raised my voice a bit more to call Ross and Sharon.

"It seems that you found more than just a golden chest Ross..."

I tried going in deeper into the cave and noticed some footsteps that seemed to have landed gracefully.

"You- you'd seriously enjoy risking your life to see something new huh?" - Ross

"What do you mean? Isn't that nothing new?"

Having a habit of risking my own self for the others is something I do have. While thinking of that, Sharon slid down from the rope and arrived with us.

"Should we explore? What time is it?"

"It's just about noon... Seymour said to be back by dusk right?" - Sharon

Sharon seems to become intrigued with my idea to explore further.

"The deeper we are, the stronger the monsters... So we should be careful." - Ross

"I know, I know..."

Me, Ross, and Sharon went down deeper into the cave.

We had collected various minerals, loot from golden chests and some strange underground houses. After some time exploring the underground, we had immediately resurfaced to rendezvous with the rest of the group.

"They said to rendezvous in the peak of the mountains but... Where exactly?" - Ross

We are currently in the mountains where we see nothing but grass. We walked around for a while and noticed a girl with short hair with purple tinges in it. That girl is one of us...

"Ah! Chesca!" - Sharon

Sharon immediately called out to Chesca and asked for Seymour's whereabouts.

"Where's Seymour?" - Sharon

"Ah, he's currently inside a cave setting up some things." - Chesca

"That looks heavy, do you need help?" - Ross

Ross and Sharon helps out Chesca carry a huge amount of building materials.

I moved towards the cave which Chesca pointed and saw Seymour holding out a large map. There was another person with him who has brown hair and a thin body.

"Yo?"

"Denz? Perfect timing, summarize the plans Allen." - Seymour

Seymour urges Allen to explain the details of the plans he had. Allen, having enough knowledge on what to do, explained the idea clearly. I moved around to look at the large map that seems to be the entirety of the world.

"The center of this map is where we all started. We're currently a bit north to that. The plan is to make a castle here which will become our official residence." - Allen

"So we're immediately going for the big guns huh?"

"Yep, we're gonna have to go big with our lives here. We don't plan to just die off easily, we need to complete this game of theirs after all." - Seymour

"Anyways, having a castle is definitely good as we have no one else that have acclaimed this location. There are a hundred thousand people wandering around just like that, but our advantage is set if we settle in the mountains." - Allen

"I see now... So Chesca was carrying the stuff outside."

"Yep, right now though... I only plan to make two simple rooms to allow everyone to sleep for tonight. We'll take turns on night guarding so you can rest right now." - Seymour

"Really? I'll take on the offer then!"

I moved towards the corner of the cave and slept for some time.

A few hours have passed and I saw the red haired demon in front of my face.

"Whoa! Michael! What the hell man!"

"Dude, it's your turn for night guarding." - Michael

Michael starts grinning as he forces me to stand up. We left the cave and I start check on the others before I saw Michael move towards the room for the guys.

Two rooms was splendidly made with proper doors and actual lighting.

This doesn't look like a starter house...

While thinking that in my head, Michael's head pops out from the door.

"Denz, since you're the last one here... You might as well wait until everybody wakes up." - Michael

"Eh, it's fine... I have more or less slept enough."

Michael returns in the room and sleeps with the others. When I checked in, each person has a bed which makes it look like a normal barracks.

I sat down on a large rock in front of the stone house. I simply started the waiting game until I heard some footsteps.

Movement...

I hid behind the rock as I listened in to the movement.

"What the hell? There's already a house here? Then let's just claim it to ourselves!"

"What do we do if there are people in it?"

"Don't worry! We'll kill them! If there are girls, we rape and oppress them!"

Hooligans huh? Might as well kill them right here. I brandished the silver sword I made during the free time I had.

I checked my stats and class once again before entering combat. My class name is Frigid Traveler in which I didn't particularly understand at first. That was until I noticed that I have complete ice magic and abilities that are better when in groups called: "Travel Along".

I created a sword made of ice magic and wielded it in my off hand. It looked pretty dull and could possibly be a weak kind of sword.

I took out grenades and rolled a few towards the approaching group. Without noticing, half of the group was blown off from the explosion and got my chance to move while they're distracted.

I dashed towards the three distracted men and brandished both swords silently. I sliced off the neck of one person and dashed once again to attack the remaining two.

"Wh!"

"Tsk! Small fry sneaking around!"

The two men brandished their swords while the other one that I sliced starts panicking.

I tried cutting the calm person down with my ice blade. I was stopped by a golden sword while the other guy launches an attack with a black sword. Is that a different type of wood? Or is it some kind of new ore?

"Frozen Coffin!"

I froze the cheeky guy over and switched my aggression towards the other hooligan that's charging in.

"Yaaa!"

I parried the sword with the ice blade and raised it overhead. I then stabbed the silver sword through his throat.

The guy which I sliced first finally took out a sword and tried to attack me while holding his neck.

I dodged to the side and fully cut off his neck.

Both enemies died at the same time and became harmless particles.

I rolled down some more grenades towards the men that were blown away. Gotta make sure that they're dead.

After hearing a few explosions, the rest of the enemies died off. I dispelled frozen coffin from the last guy.

"Yo, I was actually thinking to let you off but I feel like you'd plan for revenge."

The cheeky man disappears and painted his face with fear.

"Please! Don't kill me! I swear it on my life! I won't plan for revenge!"

"Sorry man, but the other server will definitely need to serve its purpose by now."

The man kneeled to try and beg for forgiveness but I simply cut off their head without anything else to say.

After killing them and taking all their items, I noticed the sky twitching to form a screen again.

"First blood has been committed!"