Chapter 8
Sneaking through the bushes, Corven is up a little earlier than usual, watching the pond for when the boars come along.
'Its been an hour and they haven't come across here yet. It may be time to start tracking them down, they can't be too far after all, they've seemed to stick to this area.' thinks Corven.
Stepping out of the bush slowly, Corven can be seen covered in mud, with still only a loincloth on.
Examining the tracks from the ground, he looks to the direction the most recent ones head and starts moving, making sure to stay hidden as much as he can.
'With how fresh these tracks are they had to have left not long before I got there.'
'For now I just need to focus and be careful, this is a new part of these woods for me.' thinks Corven as he stays cautious of his surroundings.
Following the tracks takes awhile, especially because sometimes the Turtle-Boars loop onto eachother, disrupting him for a few minutes.
But quickly he sees signs of getting close to them, from resent droppings to literal mountain of them sleeping near eachother, all huddled up.
'I must've found the main group of them, theres many more here than I've seen previously... this is more dangerous than it was supposed to be, if I mess up those tusks will tear me to shreds... but most of them are resting, I won't get a chance like this again.'
Stealing his nerve and being more cautious and focused than before, he slowly sneaks up on the closest Turtle-Boar, which isn't resting.
'Is it supposed to be patrolling?.., if im not careful itll make noise and draw them all towards me, I can't have that yet, I need to take some out or theyll overflow the trap.'
Debating on what to do, Corven can only think of one thing that he could do to safely take some out.
'Status.' thinks Corven.
__________Status__________
Name: Corven Cain
EXP Points: 78.5
Health: 100/100
Mana: 100/100
STR: 11
AGI: 10
CON: 11
VIT: 10
INT: 10
WIS: 10
LUK: 10
Tabs- Inventory, Drawing Panel
Tapping the drawing panel, Corven makes a small wooden totem pole of a monkey covering its ears, with a another monkey covering its mouth ontop of it.
Once he's finished he writes the details
'Hear/Speak no evil- Sound in a 10 meter radius is nullified, no sound can penetrate in or out.
Mana usage- cost 5 mana points to activate with a time limit of 10 minutes(stackable, seperatable)
Putting in a timer and a small point cost allowed the cost of the item to be 53.4 EXP, within Corven's price range with some to spare for an emergency.
Wrapping it within his loincloth strap, he waits for the patrolling Turtle-Boar to get close.
Placing a banapple just outside his hiding bush, he watches as it gets closer.
Slowly noticing the fruit, the Turtle-boar goes to take a bite of some, but as it gets close enough, Corven activates his new totem, and using his knife, he reaches for the Turtle-Boar, startling it cause it had heard nothing near it, and slams his knife in its eye, it tries to scream for a moment, but no sound is made or heard, after a moment when Corven is sure its dead, he quickly stores it.
{+10 EXP}
Whiping the blood off his knife with a leaf, he stores the bloody leaf, then moves close to more patrolling Turtle-Boars.
As he moves he counts the amount of them patrolling the area, so far hes counted 9, not counting the one he killed.
Moving from bush to bush, hes managed to take out the patrolls, storing each and cleaning his knife after each time to not give off too much of a scent of blood.
Corven reactivated his totem with 3 mana, giving him an extra 30 minutes of silence, with his totem activated again, he sneaks up to the pile of Turtle-Boars, making sure none that are awake see him.
Stabbing a sleeping one in the eye, he stores it as soon as its dead, quickly changing to the one next to it to do the same.
{+10 EXP}
{+10 EXP}
By now he's managed to gain 110 more EXP.
'I need to take out at least a few more before I can lure them there, theres still over 20 of them.'
Making sure to add 3 more charges to the totem, He then heads to 2 more laying down next to eachother.
With them being up against eachother itll be difficult to take them out without alerting the other.
So quickly, Corven stabs one in the eye.
The other one feeling the sudden movements of the one next to it, opens its eyes and see Corven stabbing it with a knife.
{+10 EXP}
The stabbed Turtle-Boar dies, but the next one gets up and tries to scream and grunt to alert the others, but no sound is made, noticing this and no change with anybody else, the Turtle-Boar quickly starts to charge at Corven.
Seeing it charging at him, Corven leads it off into the woods incase any of the other Turtle-Boars notice.
When he thinks he's in the clear, he quickly draws his machete and lets the Turtle-Boar get close, before jumping to the side, making it run past him slightly.
Seeing it dazed and past him slightly, he swings his machete with a slight spin towards the Turtle-Boar, slashing it in the head.
With it Screaming silently in pain, Corven uses his knife to rush it and stab it in the eye, before storing it with the rest.
{+10 EXP}
'Status'
__________Status__________
Name: Corven Cain
EXP Points: 155.1
Health: 100/100
Mana: 100/100
STR: 11
AGI: 10
CON: 11
VIT: 10
INT: 10
WIS: 10
LUK: 10
Tabs- Inventory, Drawing Panel
'Great! I can get the tattoo now, ill get it before bed to use up the debuff, for now I got one more thing to finish.'
Looking at his points and satisfied with the number of Turtle-Boars killed, he sneaks over to the resting Turtle-Boars.
Slowly coming out of hiding, he sneaks up next to a Turtle-Boar, and deactivates his totem, before stabbing the same Turtle-Boar in the eye, cause it to scream for a quick moment before it dies.
{+10 EXP}
With the scream alerting the remaining Turtle-Boars, who instantly notice Corven, he quickly stores the recent one killed and
Runs.
For.
His.
LIFE