Chapter 5

Dwelling in the forest. Exercise. Showdown with a bear.

The house made me happy. I was afraid that it would look like a somewhat large fox hole, but no, it worked out. The room was illuminated by the dim turquoise light of several mushrooms growing in a special vessel on white stones that looked like chalk. 

There was a lamp on a round oak table. Nearby were two massive chairs made of the same wood. There was also a closet with a bunch of rubbish and dust. 

And two more doors: one was locked, but behind the second there was a large pile of dry moss, covered with large pieces of cloth, as I understand it, this is the place where I will sleep. Well, that's pretty good. First of all, I set the anchor point in the bedroom, I will call this room that.

So, simply put, the grandfather said to find some creatures, kill them and collect loot. If flocks of damned rabbits don't run after me, then there won't be any problems. Oh how wrong I was...

The power of the Guardian of the Forest has dried up. Spirit's Path's Embrace has been dispelled.

The sounds of the forest fell on me like hard rock on the neighbors at two in the morning. M-yes, it means that the mossy grandfather specially created some kind of path so that I would go to this clearing, and no one would touch me, but why didn’t I hear any sounds? Is the path also to blame? I wonder what this effect is? Okay, I'll figure it out later. And now you need to beat the local living creatures.

Several hours of wandering through the forest brought certain fruits: an apple on the head and wild raspberry thorns in the back. Heels of damned squirrels, hares and even a badger, which was helped by an ordinary stone thrown into a rotten tree, which flattened the mob. 

The loot wasn't great: a pair of squirrel tails, three hare ears, and one badger tooth to add to my alchemy supplies. It would be necessary, by the way, to study alchemy and bungle something out of all the filth that I have gathered. But mushrooms and medicinal herbs did not come across to me. 

It began to get dark, and it was still an hour to walk to the dugout. We should hurry back, otherwise who knows what creeps out here at night. 

And while I was walking, thoughts were constantly spinning in my head, why for so many creatures I could only take the fourth level. Why is there so little experience? Definitely need to find out.

“Wanderer,” came a voice to my right, causing me to recoil. “I remembered one important thing that I forgot to tell you.

Received the task "Training from the goblin  I "

Description: In a dense place, forgotten by everyone in the world, the Guardian of the Forest lives, who cares and protects his possessions. One day, in a dream, he saw a stranger who needed help. Leshy helped you, help him too.

Requirement: get level 5, inspect the forest.

Reward: +500 experience, +100 reputation with the Guardian of the Forest.

Penalty for non-compliance or refusal: -100 to reputation with the Guardian of the Forest

Accept task Yes/No?

Oh sure. There is no need to quarrel with the first sane one that came across to me. And how forgetful, however, this grandfather. Maybe a small amount of experience was due to the task? I should have asked this old man, but there was no one to ask. Damn Batman, he should have been sent to them along with this assignment.

I have the fourth level, as well as twenty unallocated attribute points, but the fifth is not taken. And what does it mean to inspect the forest? Yes, there are probably trees from half of Europe! All right, I'll walk around the house and wait until it gets dark. Maybe night creatures will give more experience. 

On the way home, I had an interesting idea, for which I needed a lamp with luminous mushrooms. Moving into the forest, I climbed a tree and waited. Ten minutes later, I dozed off.

I was awakened by the pale light of the moon and some kind of rattle. In vain I only took mushrooms, everything is already perfectly visible. I carefully dismounted and walked towards the direction the sound was coming from. 

I felt like in a horror movie, when the victim herself went into the jaws of a monster. But curiosity was stronger, besides, I am immortal, and I have seen a lot. What can scare me?

My mother is a woman! What kind of devilry was scratching on the stones with half-meter claws, words can not describe, but I'll still try. The monster was no less than two meters at the withers, and his whole body consisted of only bones connected to each other in a very bizarre way. 

On the sides, on flexible cervical vertebrae, like snakes, human skulls looked around, in whose bottomless eye sockets turquoise lights barely glowed. Each paw consisted of a large bone, around which human remains were wrapped. 

A bear skull with solid fangs bit and scratched the stone, and then abruptly turned around and stared in my direction. I got goosebumps running down my back. 

A drop of sweat rolled down my temple as four turquoise lights piercing through the darkness and two eyes shining with emerald fire stared at me.

Bone bear. Level 50 

M-mother!!! This creature roared so that the growl of a lion would have been like the meow of a small kitten. I had to give a fight, and this bear rushed after me. Despite this, I noted the meeting place, as I was very interested in why this creature was scratching the stone. 

And now I was rushing at full speed, wagging between the trees like a hardened hare. Finally, my tactic worked, and the bear slammed into a tree, which, despite the monstrous force of the blow, still survived. Familiar tree!

The stone linden turned out to be much stronger than the undead and helped me again. As soon as I find some emanations, I will definitely bring them to such a useful tree. The bones of the monster cracked, which made him roar with resentment.

Critical hit! 67 damage dealt. Health 933/1000. Bone Bear suffers a Broken Paw injury.

Yes, I can’t overpower this tank, a whole thousand hp !!! Fatigue is already making itself felt, so I decided to take a break . I leaned against a nearby tree and closed my eyes.

"Broken Paw" injury healed.

Yokar Bear! I had to again rush to run to my home and quickly lower all my stamina. The vigor bar dimmed, warning that I might fall from exhaustion, but I still ran.

- R-r-ra-a-a!!! There was a deafening roar from behind.

“Bad day, bad day, bad de-e-e-en!!! - I shouted back to him and ran as if I had a whole carriage and the same cart.

But where is it, it's too hard to run away from the bear. It is useless to climb a tree. What to do? Jaws snapped inches from my leg. 

My speed dropped a lot and the monster quickly caught up with me. Crap! In the next moment, I prepared a whole bunch of curses known to me to send them to all American filmmakers. 

Because at that moment, in the best traditions of these same American horror films, I stumbled on a stone. But he didn’t fly at the monster’s feet, but jumped up and ended up at the bear’s back. The turtles immediately grabbed my leg and arm painfully. 

Elktar deals 12 damage to you. damage, your health is 18/30!

Elk-tar deals 11 damage to you. damage, your health is 7/30!

How painful it was! Hissing in pain, I yanked one skull with all my might and pulled it out along with the spinal column, and then hit the second one. 

If a bear could swear, then it would be a good four-five-story structure, but he did not know how, and therefore only a strong roar deafened me, after which I flew off the back of this creature.

You dealt 33 damage to the Bone Bear. damage, health 900/1000!

You lost 5 units. health, your health 2/30! Critical level of life! It seems that you are dying… Urgently recommended to take action!

What action are you going to take here? Give me a bucket of holy water. I'll splash him in the face, let him wash himself! How could I even take a hundred hit points from him? The bear turned around and looked at me in a very bad way. 

I have already begun to prepare for rebirth. And the hand quickly went through the items in the bag, hoping to somehow distract the bear. He threw the first thing he saw. The Panther Fly Agaric flew into the gaping mouth of the bone bear, and there was a strong bang. 

Dark purple vapor enveloped the behemoth's muzzle, and it roared with a truly terrifying roar. I quickly ran towards the house. The HP strip had turned scarlet, and the contours of the skull were already visible above it. I won't die, no way!

You dealt 1 damage to the bone bear. damage, health 899/1000!

A-ha-ha-ha! Why was he yelling so terribly, you bastard?! I already thought, now I’ll fill up the 50th level, get some goodies, grab a lot of loot, and hell there! Now I will get in the face, not a bunch of loot. 

Some hundred meters remained to the dwelling. Yes, I ran them in thirteen seconds at school! But now it will be a miracle to overcome it in five minutes. The bear is still roaring, but it does not rush after me. It’s already good, the main thing is not to stumble and not fall, otherwise I will die. For once, I was lucky, and nothing bad happened, or I did not pay attention to the lurking troubles that were waiting for the right moment to fall on me in a crowd.