The first hunt

Once I grabbed the knife, Nicholas nodded as he handed me over a sheath for the knife. "It's a good weapon, basic but good, and as long it's not completly broken, I'll be able to fix it." I nodded it was definelty a good weapon, most probbably only the people from The Paradise would be able to buy it, with that Nail looked at me and nodded approvingly, and once done we walked off leaving the forge.

Once outside, we keep walking , heading to the outskirts of the town. There, Nail started to talk, "Today we wont overdo it, I want you to adapt to the enviorment and adapt to the knife, take your time." With that said, with a light push I started walking deeper into the forest. The forest was actually incredible, It looked like the typical fantasy style forest filled with life and sounds, As I walked I had my knife on my hand, as I walked deeper the forest went darker and darker, it was creepy but I prefered not comlaining just over the asthethic of the place. Suddenly I heard a loud screech so I quickly hide behind a bush and waited for the provokator of the noise, Just after a few seconds I saw it, it was a creature similar to a rabbit or a hare, but it moved like as if it was possesed by something, twiching and scriching every once in a while, it's mouth open as he looked all around himself surrounding it , what it seems black particles appeared. I obviously knew what it was, A reflected creature infected. For what I know from the books Nail gave me, the reflected creatures are copied versions of the animals that cross the mother mirrors, for example, if a cat walked inside the Mother Mirror, the portal would make a copy of the animal. but they usually act as the real variants, as what's happening with it...it was infected with the darkness.

The Darkness is a strange fog that is inside the mother mirror, it works like a virus or an infection on reflected creatures, mutating them and making them extremly agressive , the longer they have contact with the darkness, the stronger and more dangerous they become, luckily the Mother Mirror has an extrenge effect on them not letting them get near the affected zone of the portal. that was the basic explination that I got from one of the books that Nail gave me, still tho it was weird to see it up close, knowing how dangerous this ''things'' are, I just can't avoid it and going for something easier, I mean I completly could but honestly, wouldn't it be cool surprising that old man? and more over, the moeny I could get from the parts of an infected reflected creature was no joke, slowly I moved trying to do the least amount of sound as possible, getting behind the ''rabbit.''

I jumped, knife on hand quickly grabbing onto his neck, the infected quickly shrugged me off escaping from my grip and turning his back to look at me, I was surprised, but without even five seconds to react, it jumped clearly without good intentions, in an instant I changed the grab that i had on the knife onto one that was more defense orientated, I kept avoiding what I could, then I tried to advance, the ''monster'' kept attacking me, but it wasn't that hard to predict it, even tho it didn't have someting like a movement patron or something similar, it was possible to tell what it would do, I improved my posture and started kept preassuirng it till the point i was just infront of it, and with a light movement I stabbed it on what would the heart would be, then I slowly saw how he stopped moving. Once I confirmed he is dead I sighed 

"You did surprisingly good" I got startled and turned my head then I noticed how Nail watched the body from behind the shoulder, "Tho you really screwd up at the start letting it go" I sighed a bit pissed, it seems the ''kind Nail'' left "Yeah, I think I should buy a pair of gloves to improve the grip." I said as I cleaned the knife of the rabbits blood. 

"Thats not a big deal, I'll get you a pair I have at home" My eyes almost left my orbits, out of the surprise, what's gotten into him? it's creeping me out, but I mean, who would decline gear from an official guild member? so lets just stay quite and be grateful to master. "So...what do we do with the corpse?" He looked at me and nodded "Oh, true, I'll show you later how to handle it so when you sell the body parts it's much more profitable." He then grabbed the rabbit and brought out what it seemed a small mirror, then moving the rabbit closer to the mirror and it dissapeard. "Anyway let's keep moving I think we still have enough time to hunt something more" Once he said that, I nodded and as he moved to the front, I started following him deeper into the forest.