Chapter 1: A village problem

In a certain village, the sun was shining so brightly that the wet grass started to shine. The villagers are lively doing their work. 7 villagers started to group near the entrance of the forest. 5 of them hold spears and knives but one of them is wearing a bag around his waist, 2 holding bows, arrows and knives.

“Alright, is everyone here? ”  A muscular man with a rough voice, short brown hair with 2 scars on his arms and a rough face. He started counting to make sure he didn’t miss anyone. 

His eyes started to look at the man wearing the bag. “Seems someone came prepared. What’s with the bag Eric?”

“Oh just knives.” The man is young, has brown eyes and brown hair. “To practice my throwing skill at some wolves.”

“Practice huh? I thought you wanted to earn extra money to buy a gift.”

“Heheheh.” Eric blush.

“Sheesh, why are you so shy about it? There‘s no shame in buying a gift for a fiance.”

 

Eric agrees with Dan. There’s no reason to be shy, but it's hard to control these feelings. He wished it could just go away.

 

“So why are we hunting wolves? Shouldn’t this problem be handled by the hunters? And why wolves started to become a problem?”

 

“Wolves didn’t used to be a problem since they only hunt in their territory. But a dire wolf appears and leads a pack to become more aggressive. They expand their hunting territory and make the pack more cunning. If this continues they're gonna hunt every animal in this forest to extinction and soon target our village next.”

 

“Why not hire some adventurers or mercenaries? Seems this job is for professionals.”

 

“Don’t worry we can handle this. I have experience dealing with dire wolves. We don’t need to waste money on this.”

 

Eric thanks Dan for satisfying his curiosity.

 

They enter the forest and create a formation. 1 spearman on front, left, back and right and the archers at the center. Dan is leading the group at the front.

 

After some time had passed, they encountered a corpse of a wolf. Dan gets close to the corpse to examine it. The corpse has bruises and cuts. Dan started thinking about what killed this wolf. Is it from the deer, another hunter, or its own pack? He noticed something in the wound. He reaches his hand inside the wound and grabs it. It’s a sharp rock.

 

Eric walks toward Dan to examine the corpse as well. “So what killed it? It seems somebody killed this wolf since there is a sharp rock inside of it.”

 

“Agree, and the shape of it indicates that it might be a stone tool. Arrow or a knife?” Dan has already lost interest in this. If some hunter kills it, then there’s nothing to worry about.

 

Eric on the other hand felt something quite off. This corpse is fresh but no one has entered this forest since the accident. And who still uses stone tools in this village to hunt?

 

“Hey Dan, I have a question. What kind of creature is intelligent enough to create and use tools?” 

 

“Creatures that I know of are goblins and kobolds. Why do you ask this?”

 

Before Eric could speak Dan had realized what that question ment.

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“Eric don’t worry, the chances of goblins or kobolds to appear in this forest is very low. I mean the closest goblin or kobold territory is 50 km away. If some offshoot of a group starts wandering towards here it's going to get intercepted by militias or adventures. ”

 

Eric doubted Dan’s words. Even if Dan’s a professional he just couldn’t trust him. After all, a chance is still a chance, he doesn’t want to repeat the same mistake. Now Eric wants to leave this forest, but he can’t as he doesn’t want to be seen as a coward. He doesn’t want to bring shame to Jessica.

 

Dan felt hesitant to continue but the chances of a group of goblins is still low. He started to lead the group deeper to the forest.

 

They continue marching until they reach a large area.Instead of more trees, it’s a camp filled with goblins. Everyone is shocked except for Eric as he prepared for this type of scenario.

 

Eric slowly approaches Dan and whispers. “We should leave. The goblin’s number looks to be about 50. We would be overwhelmed if we fought them head on.”

 

Dan nods and begins to lead his group out of the forest.

 

“AAAAAHHH!” A villager is shocked by the sudden appearance of a snake.

 

Everyone is frozen by a sudden event except Eric as he quickly dash. Eric already anticipated this and quickly ran without hesitation.

 

“RUUUUN!” Dan shouted.

 

Everyone ran at full speed without looking back. Luckily goblins have small bodies meaning they can’t catch up to the villagers and that was Dan's plan to outrun them. They succeed and it seems the goblins have given up.

 

They keep walking just to avoid an attack from the goblin. Dan considers this is far enough. He stops and takes a rest. The rest do the same. 

 

(Dammit, why would a group of goblin’s be here? Now the problem has gotten worse in this forest. Although the wolves and goblins would probably kill each other to establish dominance in the forest. We don’t have to waste money on hiring adventures. )

 

Suddenly the wolves came and the one leading the pack is the dire wolves. Eric wonders if this is his fault for bringing this much misfortune.

 

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This is my first time writing so there will be problems.

And I'm not an english speaker so grammer would be problems as well

I'm in college right now, I'll  try my best to be consistent.

This isn't necessary but can you view characters in anime. That's how I view my characters in my head. you don't have to if you don't want to.

 

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