Daybreak Chapter 2, a twilight fanfic

Daybreak

Chapter Two: A Bloody Sport

Novak went through her inventory carefully starting with the knife that consisted of a blade with serrations and a hooked-end

She Observed it once more to check the stats and see if she should find another weapon or if this one would work for her.

Leviathan-issued Combat Knife-

A standard-issued silver knife designed with a long, clip-point blade with serrations along the back intended for cutting through the tough skin of certain beings.

DMG: 3.5 (1 Bleeding DMG per minute)

Her palm felt sweaty as she gripped the handle of the weapon. She didn't feel particularly ready to stab this into someone's gut in order to find that key. Vroucath had better raise his opinion of her once she got back.

Next, she opened her backpack to find the odd loot she placed in her inventory earlier. Holding the tiny bits of curled up metal seemed strange, even as she cast Observe on it to confirm what theory she was working here.

-Silver Shavings-

These shavings have been made from pure silver which has been distributed to all Leviathan personnel to cleanse their bodies and souls if afflicted by the curse before it has fully manifested in their DNA. They don't always work, but it guarantees an 85% recovery within 24-hours of having the curse.

What were the odds she found something that would be vital to one of her quests? Maybe she was just fortunate, and maybe she was wrong, but either way just to stay on the safe side she slipped the shavings into the pockets of her pants for easy access.

Then, she turned back to see the whispering trio and decided to let them talk about what she couldn't be apart of freely while she was gone. "I'm going to check the other rooms, I'll be back in a bit." She said, loud enough to catch all of their attention and once she was sure they heard her she walked out of the room, only just catching the hesitant expression on Chloe's face as she left.

Novak smiled slightly at the consideration of her health. Apart from their little world or not, at least someone cared that she was risking her life for complete strangers. Not that any of them knew that last tidbit, but she didn't want to fight resistance for something she knew she had to do.

As she walked down the hallways that got gradually more bloody as she went, she stopped a few times to loot some sparkly corpses before she reached an elevator. Gulping slightly, she stepped in and stared uncertainty at the floor numbers. When no quest updated and nothing sparkled, she went to press a random floor only to freeze. "Observe," she thought, feeling a little stupid for having not thought of that earlier.

This time, instead of any words appearing in her vision the colors changed entirely. Colors of the world were replaced in grayscale with the floor buttons glowing white... well, all of them except a single one that was glowing red. Like the color of blood - symbolic really.

-Your Observe Skill Has Leveled Up!-

Feeling in a slightly better mood after that bit of good news, Novak pressed the glowing red button before closing her Observe and with it her grayscale vision. As the elevator moved slowly, Novak opened her inventory and pulled out the few useful things she had retrieved from one of the many corpses on her way here.

-Tactical Boots-

A man went above his paygrade to buy these shoes the day before he died. Jet black and great for sneaking, these shoes are designed for stealth, combat, and durability.

DT: 2

+5% to Sneaking

Even without socks, the soles of her feet were comforted by the enclosed texture of the shoes, sparing any further strain from running everywhere barefoot. It was a stroke of luck she hadn't slipped on the blood-stained floor yet, but something in her gut told her that luck was about to run out.

Just as her display reminded her she had acquired a full set of gear with a quest update, she pulled out the other useful loot from her backpack. Space inside was getting someone cramped with how much miscellaneous junk she looted from the beast's kills. She didn't know what to do with much of it but she rather be saved by the junk she had scavenged on a whim than be left vulnerable wishing she had done differently.

-M314 Motion Tracker-

A simple but effective hand-held motion-detective surveillance device. The M314 is a high-powered ultrasound scanner that uses doppler-shift discrimination to filter out moving objects from a stationary background as a series of contours of probable location.

Range: Twenty meters

Novak had a hunch this device would be rendered useless when she developed her area sense more, but at her current level, this was just the advantage she needed!

Lastly, there was a weapon.

-Leviathan-Issued 10mm Pistol-

A standard-issued firearm given to Leviathan security personnel. This is a short-barreled handgun used for short-ranged with a rapid firing rate.

DMG: 18

Ammo: 10mm rounds

Clip size: 12

Unfortunately, she only had about two and a half clips worth of rounds, and each of those extra bullets felt heavy in her pockets. And, only her knife was made of silver, if her theory about these creatures being related to silver was indeed correct. She fumbled with the firearm for a moment, trying to figure out how it worked, and really wished she had a guide or something to help her figure this out.

Any doubts she had about using it fled when the elevator stopped and the doors slowly opened revealing... complete darkness. It was a void of nothingness and Novak was beginning to consider just stepping away from the quest all-together and leaving.

But then she thought of the others and how they were all counting on her. She had made herself a promise that she would get them out of here... whether they liked her or not... and she wasn't going to start this new life breaking the value of her word!

+1 WIL for pushing forward despite how much it terrifies you

Her spirit lifted somewhat, Novak took that first step out of the elevator shaft and then continued to place one foot in front of the other, slowly, and with every breath, she felt her heartbeat begin to calm.

Well, as calm as it could get in a life-threatening situation.

She kept the knife close in easy reach on her person but kept her dominant hand on the pistol and her other holding the motion detector. With a press of a button the power turned on and through the brightly-lit screen, she was able to see through the darkness a little easier. There was no one in sight but Novak knew better than to trust her eyes in this situation. Keeping one eye on the motion detector, she watched for any signs of life as she slowly knelt to the ground.

Unlike the sixth floor, this hallway was oddly clean of blood-stains and the stench of death. Still, she couldn't help but feel unrested as she settled in the darkness, eyeing the ground for any signs of clues where the creatures she hunts wait.

Her fingers felt the smooth tiled floor and felt deep indentions carved there. As she showed the motion detector's screen down on it, she spotted an odd shadow ahead and approached it apprehensively. When she was close enough, the strange shadow revealed itself to be a bloodied footprint that seemed to be half-man, half-animal. The main print was human enough, but there were clear paw impressions from where the claws had indented the ground.

Casting Observe on it revealed the area relit in grayscale with the blood print glowing neon red - a clear sign that she was on the right trail. She looked up and found that she could see the blood prints continue ten feet ahead and knew that this was what she needed to follow.

You Have Discovered A New Skill!-

Tracking - Your ability to pick up trails and track your target proficiently. Lv.1 (5%)

An eyebrow rose in surprise at the display. Five whole percent? She's pretty sure that's the most she's seen her skill progress at one time. She continued to follow the trail, keeping her hand pressed gently to the ground where she could feel the indentions as she pressed forward. Further, into the greying darkness, she went and as it wrapped around her like a cold suffocating blanket, her motion detector remained blank of motion signatures.

Worse? The trail split up into three paths. Not one trail lit up brighter than another. This left her uncertain of where to go; what path to take that likely led to her death. She swallowed tightly, despite feeling a lack of moisture in her throat, and threw herself to the left before she could back out. When she crossed through the threshold of a doorway she found her footsteps getting shaky and her heart begun to beat wildly in her chest once more.

Beep-beep! She jolted as the two blue dots suddenly appeared on the motion-detector and with the sight she felt her heart stutter in her chest. Twenty feet. Beep-beep! That was the maximum distance her device picked up lifeforms. That meant she had less than twenty feet of distance between herself and the creatures. Suddenly relieved she kept her Grayscale Vision on, she looked at the motion-detector a final time before putting it away. One was approaching ahead while the other was coming from behind her.

Bloodlust Detected!

The feeling of being cornered like prey crossed her mind, but as she held a silver knife in one hand and a firearm in the other she decided she would not go down without a fight.

Lv. 5 Threat Detected!

A red blur darted in the room and Novak barely had a moment to breathe before she was barreled into by a force made of pure muscle. She hit the ground hard and barely swung her knife in time to push the gaping maw away from her body. The beast snarled and continued to try and take a bite out of her but Novak regained her bearing as adrenaline shot through her like fire was in her veins to pull the trigger. Bullets flew and a yelp resounded throughout the room as the creature backed off, shaking its fur roughly as though the motion alone would dislodge the bullets wedged there.

Lv. 5 Threat Detected!

Perfect timing. She let out a frustrated yell as another red blur appeared in her vision. Both creatures were moving too fast for her Observe to pick them up (she hoped it was a level thing) but at least her Area Sense was good for something. She stumbled unto her feet from where she'd been thrown and tried to bring both beasts together to give her an opening. But with so little light and only seeing colors of grey and red she found that her maneuverability was hindered. Stumbling through the dark trying to keep her footing without dropping her weapons wasn't her ideal defense but as two giant beasts loomed over her she found that between the stench of death in their breaths and the feral way they approached her left her with more fear in her heart than when she released them.

A snap of teeth just barely missed her throat but her swift escape only lasted once and did not save her from sharp claws digging into her shoulders so deep she could've sworn they touched her bones. She barely heard the scream that came out of her mouth, too blinded by the pain and the terror knowing that she was pinned down in place with nowhere to go.

-HP] 37/50-

Blood Loss: Health Regeneration Disabled

The warning scared her. She felt like she was done. Like her life was over.

But then, then she felt anger. Hot-white burning rage suddenly swelled in her like her very heart had been replaced with magma. The fear was acute but the helplessness of her situation fueled the raging fire building inside her and she roared. Novak pushed back with all her strength before stabbing down into the beast's eye, pain pushed aside as she twisted the knife and felt the momentum between them both pull her forward. Away from the trapped enclosure.

Claws were withdrawn from her shoulder, her body was thrown aside, and freely she pushed against the flat of her palms and leaped back on to her feet. Nauseous and dizzy though she was, Novak let the pain anchor her as she sprinted out the doorway leaving the monsters behind as she tried to find a way out. A door to another room. A stairway. Anything! Each breath she took felt like it wasn't enough but she couldn't slow her pace to catch her breath. Her greyscale vision was becoming a distraction as it pointed out all the red trails went in the opposite direction and everything else was left indistinguishable.

Deactivating the greyscale so that she was bathed in charcoal once again she found that she preferred it over the greyscale for the absence of light before was revealed to exist up ahead. She picked up her pace even as she felt what little of her energy she had regenerated diminish quickly. Nothing mattered more to her than reaching that light.

Bursting through the door she was greeted with what looked like a small kitchen with a microwave and food stored in dishes tucked into the corners. A refrigerator was in the back but what caught her eye was the sparkles glittering in the back. Remembering herself, she quickly shut the door and pushed a chair up under the doorknob with the hope to buy her time as she quickly rummaged through the room looking for eatable resources. Fruit, packaged goods, canned foods, and as many bottled liquids as she could find she placed in her backpack as fast as she could before finally going to the sparkling item which turned out to be a strange small bowl and a handle of sorts. Quickly casting the normal Observe on it to ID the item-

Mortar and Pestle

This is the basic apparatus required to combine two or more ingredients to create a potion or poison. Your ? skill requires a level of at least 25 before being able to use other apparatus.

She picked it up and held it in her hands with curiosity. It was like nothing she had ever seen before, despite that not meaning much, she realized this small little thing had so much potential. If nothing else, it branched out new ideas whereas without it she felt like she had nothing.

-You Have Discovered A New Skill!-

Scavenging - Your proficiency in finding hidden objects in an area that could be of use. Increases your chance of finding something valuable or unique. Lv.1 (13%)

Guttural growls broke through the silence in the darkness and Novak froze, wondering if they knew she was there. Quickly, she scrounged her mind for any ideas on what sort of poison she could make. Whatever those creatures were, they were a hardy thing because even after stabbing one in the eye she was certain it was still alive due to the lack of quest updates.

She thought about what Chloe said, about how they reacted to the sight of humans. The way they didn't even hesitate in attacking her showed a quality she could only associate with feral dogs and she knew that meant they wouldn't stop coming after her until they were put down. She pulled the silver shavings out and quickly tossed them in the mortar, hoping they would be good for something, and then looked around for anything she could use as a second ingredient.

Her shoulder ached causing her to look over at the gaping wounds where her blood was still coming out of. She let out a heavy exhale, uncertain how to treat such an injury when she could soon be dead. Then, an idea struck her.

Human blood. What if that was as tempting to go after as herself? She didn't know for sure if it would work, but it was as good an idea as any and so she placed the bowl against the wound, wincing as she pressed hard enough against it for the blood to spill faster into the bowl until a decent amount was inside. Taking the pestle into her hand, she began to stir the two ingredients slowly, unsure of what to do.

A loud slam rebounded off the door and Novak knew she had been found. With great relief, it only took a few stirs of the mixture before the ingredients began to rapidly distill into a liquid. Like magic, the mortar and pestle did the work for her and the distilled liquid swirled into a fine solid red color, hiding the silver within it.

-You Have Discovered A New Skill-

Alchemy - Your ability to use the ancient metaphysical science of manipulating and altering matter by transmuting the energy of the combined materials into a new form. Lv.1 (10%)

Dismissing the window she hardly understood, Novak pulled out one of the many empty vials she stored in her backpack and begun to fill them with the mixture. When the first vial was full, a window suddenly appeared around the vial with a glaring question mark.

-You Have Created A New Poison!-

Decide What To Name It

Not really having the time to really invest a good name to the poison, she said the first thing that came to mind, "Silver Blood" and watched as the vial was tagged with the name making it very distinguishable should she make any future potions or poisons. At the corner of her eye she could see a subtle update that her Codex has been updated, assuring her she could find more information on it should she forget.

Once she had filled all the vials she had, she took the leftover mixture inside the mortar and took out her clips to paint the bullets red. She even dipped her already blood-soaked knife in it and hoped it would give her an advantage. Placing all but one of the vials in her backpack, she looked around for an advantage point and found a vent up above.

Climbing up the cabinets wasn't difficult but it was time-consuming in making sure she had a firm grip. By the time she had the vent opened, the door was beginning to splinter from the combined forces throwing themselves against it. Without any further hesitation, she wormed her way inside the vent before turning around, lying face-down on her stomach as she peeked out through the vent just as the door was broken down revealing the two beasts in their true form without the darkness or the greyscale obscuring how fearsome they truly looked.

What she had long since wondered became of those men she released from their cages, she now knew why Chloe spoke so ominously of them. For those who had once been men had now become unimaginable creatures, not even her deepest fears could conjure. They were things of the worst of nightmares; bipedal creatures that looked more wolf than human, in the way that they walked on their toes with tall heels raised off the ground. In the way, their vulpine features were shown in their long muzzle and pointed ears - that shifted down threateningly as they slowly tread into the room. Both of them were about the same size and that size alone was double the average height of a full-grown man.

Aside from the distracting fuzzy vulpine tail, they had hands, feet, biceps and a torso that somewhat resembled a human's but everything else was covered in short coarse fur that was thick and vast down their collar and the broad of their shoulders, down to the center of their stomach in a V-shape. Even the fur down their spine resembled a mohawk in the way the fur spiked up from the back. She could see her blood drip from one of the razor-like three-inch claws that replaced their nails. With each step, an incessant clink echoed throughout the room.

Even from up above she could see their really really sharp and elongated fangs dripping with red-tinted saliva from their mouths. Massive, muscular shoulders heaved with each breath they took and she was reminded of how one of them brutally barreled into her. They were a truly frightening creature to behold.

Her hand tightened around the vial of the poison she made, waiting with her heart beating so loud she was sure they could hear it that she could practically taste the moment they noticed her watching them up above. But they were at a disadvantage because the moment they were both in her direct line-of-sight she cast Observe on them, so sure they were in range.

The one closest to her; black-furred with piercing yellow eyes that were practically swallowed by its pupil was the one her skill caught first.

Other

Lv. 5

HP] 650/650 (+Beast Form)

EP] 623/625 (+Beast Form)

MP] 25/25

FOC: 2%

Allegiance: Alpha

You are a human and you are the enemy. Nothing else matters.

Her game now paused allowed her the reprieve to truly express the sheer magnification of how terrifying this creature was based on its power. The Stats her Observe skill her were brief but gave her what she needed all the same. Like how this thing wasn't even a level ten and it's Beast Form was clearly boosting it to an intimidating standard.

She wondered even for a moment if this was a battle she couldn't win. An enemy she couldn't fight. No doubt Vroucath or Everae would be wiping the floor with these things while she was here already wounded with hardly a scratch on them. She pushed her insecurities away with a deep breath, exhaling as she reminded herself that the reason she was here was that they were still locked in a cage. She looked to the hand holding the vial and reminded herself that even if she couldn't wipe the floor with these 'Others' face-to-face, she could strike them from places they couldn't reach her.

Shifting her eyes on the second beast revealed its stats, but she made a side-note to be extra cautious with that one. For the red-and-white-furred beast was clearly missing an eye that was still bleeding profusely down the gouges of the socket she had stabbed with a knife now firmly tucked in the hem of her pants. The firearm replaced the bloody blade's presence in her other hand due to its range capacity. Novak preferring to avoid close-range after her latest injury.

Other

Lv. 5

HP] -600/650 (+Beast Form)

EP] 624/625 (+Beast Form)

MP] 25/25

FOC: 2%

Allegiance: Alpha

Permanent Eye Loss: You have incapacitated it with a silver weapon! It is now permanently blinded in one eye.

Silver Vulnerability: Due to inflicting a severe wound to it, you have completely disabled it's Health and Stamina Regeneration; with an additional Bleeding Damage Bonus to go with its injury using silver.

You are a human and you are the enemy who has permanently blinded it in one eye. Suffice to say this creature will hunt you down to the ends of the world for what you've taken from it. Nothing else matters.

She gulped at that last part. The good news was she now knew the guards carried silver shavings on them for this reason. That told her the poison she came up with would be especially effective against them. The moment her Observe skill was off she would need to strike fast. She honestly rather hit the red one first but the black one was closest and she wouldn't let this opportunity pass. So, with a deep sigh followed by a fast inhale, she let the Game unpause and let the present unfold.

Blacky, as she took to calling the thing in her head, sniffed the air once before its head snapped toward the cabinet she had climbed up. She tracked her eyes with it as the other one, 'Red', snooped around the room, bumping into furniture on its blind spot much to its increasing fury by the sound of its sickening snarls.

Right as she deemed the time was right, she slid her upper body out of the vent - knowing full-well the sound pin-pointed her location - and threw the vial at Blacky as she fired the poisoned bullets at it. All at once, the two were in motion with Red trying to reach her by jumping, fortunately, hindered by its out-of-portioned body weight and Blacky doing the equivalent of a scream as glass shattered against it the same moment bullets pierced its ugly maw.

-You Have Discovered A Skill!-

Trapping - Your ability to lure and trap targets as well as dismantle foreign traps within your skill level. Lv.1 (10%)

Unexpected, but before she could ponder more about the sudden discovery and progression of the skill her Observe replaced the window with-

Other

Lv. 5

HP] -425/600 (+Beast Form)

EP] 623/625 (+Beast Form)

MP] 25/25

FOC: 2%

Allegiance: Alpha

Silver Poisoning: Through injury and ingestion, you have successfully poisoned it! It now faces likely death as its senses and bodily function deteriorates with every minute.

Silver Vulnerability: Due to inflicting a severe wound to it, you have completely disabled it's Health and Stamina Regeneration; with an additional Bleeding Damage Bonus to go with its injury using silver.

You are a human and you are the enemy. Nothing else matters.

As Blacky fell to the ground pawing at its face that was all but bubbling from the wounds, Red suddenly and unexpectedly turned away from her to run over to its friend. It wasn't a pleasant sight, seeing the effects of silver poisoning on them, but she knew in her heart she did what she had to do.

+1 PER for seeing things in different perspectives

The attribute bonus was unexpected, but it turned her stomach in the reminder that she would have to see this again two more times. Even now, with Red standing perfect in her crossfires, she felt her hand waver. What was this like? Knowing the thing you hated most had just killed a comrade? This was the first non-human life she had taken, but an Other life taken didn't feel any lighter than the human. In fact, she knew she hadn't felt this strongly when she took the Leviathan's life...

She stopped, determinedly pushing the ache and questions in her heart to the back of her mind. She could grieve at any time but only had one chance to live, and if that meant she had to kill, then she would.

She was only able to fire off one shot though before Red seemed to pick up her sudden change-of-heart and narrowly missed the headshot, the bullet instead hitting the dying Blacky instead, who barely winced at the injury. Red backing off from Blacky revealed that the silver poisoning was now causing his body to try and reject the poisoning, where silver and red bile was coming out of his mouth along with questionable partially digested items.

Other

HP] -125/600 (+Beast Form)

EP] 623/625 (+Beast Form)

MP] 25/25

FOC: 2%

Allegiance: Alpha

Silver Poisoning: Through injury and ingestion, you have successfully poisoned it! It now faces likely death as its senses and bodily function deteriorates with every minute.

Silver Infection: So long as a silver bullet remains in its body, its wounds will only get worse as its body burns up on the inside.

Blood Poisoning: Due to extended exposure to concentrated silver, its blood now contains traces of silver that has incapacitated it under duress of excruciating agony.

Organ Failure: Due to extended exposure to Silver Poisoning, it's organs have begun to shut down.

You are a human and you are the enemy. Nothing else matters.

Confirming with Observe that Blacky was likely dead, she didn't hesitate this time and open fired on Red who side-stepped and dodged each incoming bullet with surprising, frustrating, skill until the next time she pulled the trigger it gave an empty click Red stopped and glared at her with such hatred in its waspish eyes that Novak was already trying to open her inventory when the worst thing could have happened yet.

-Error-

You cannot open your Inventory in active combat

And Red howled.

It was a loud, ear-piercing wail that systematically flooded throughout the entire building and paralyzed Novak like she had been frozen in place. The temptation to flee in the other direction had overwhelmed everything... but before she could even wonder why her stats had already appeared like a foreboding warning.

-HP] 37/50-

Howl of Terror: You are paralyzed with fear for 30 seconds and are+50% tempted to flee

Blood Loss: Health Regeneration Disabled

Even with the notification and the knowledge of what this feeling was, she still couldn't escape it. For that half-minute paralyzed, that wail echoed through the walls leaving her ears ringing and cold sweat beading upon her skin. When it finally ended she realized her breath had been caught and she was left fighting a violent shiver.

But the answering howl was ten-times as worse and she was put through the motions all over again.

Bloodlust Detected!

But someone this one was worse. Instead of a loud wail, she was hearing something more akin to a lion's roar that shook the table and the chairs, the cabinets and the broken-down door like it was in the air itself. It reached her like a punch to the gut, knocking all the breath from her lungs and replacing it with frost; like it became the embodiment of pain itself as it reverberated inside her like a bullet.

She felt like its claws were inside her, tearing through her tissue and muscle and digging a tunnel to her heart. Her vision was filled with blood; on her clothes, skin, the vent and all around her. Like her body was being ripped apart from the inside and she was seeing the aftermath.

Then it was over, and she could catch her breath but somehow no oxygen was entering her lungs as panic took hold. She barely noticed she had pulled away from the vent and had curled into herself - tucking herself into a ball as tears slipped through her eyes relentlessly. Her teeth chattered in her mouth like she was still cold and each time she tried to take a breath she barely got a tendril inside.

-HP] 37/50-

Panic Attack: Due to being within a 20-foot radius of this Alpha's Howl, you have been paralyzed with fear for 150 seconds.

Blood Loss: Health Regeneration Disabled

Glad that this feeling was a temporary thing was a passing relief because those 150 seconds of not breathing were not pleasant in the least. Each second felt more like an hour and the Game offered her no clock to tell how much time had passed. Worse-

Minor Hypoxia: For every five seconds without oxygen, your Health depletes by -1 and your Energy Regeneration has been disabled

Even focusing became a struggle but by the time she had finished reading the update of her status she was both horrified and relieved as black spots appeared in her vision. By the time hours had felt had passed and her vision was very nearly swallowed by darkness, her lungs suddenly expanded and oxygen flew down her throat in a rush.

Greedily she drank it in while coughing at the same time, every few breaths seeming to tickle the back of her throat and was thrown out. But steadily she regained her breathing and with it, her movement. Her heart still beat like a hummingbird's wings and her skin had an unhealthy hue to it, but she was alive if nothing else.

She winced, however, when she got a good look at her stats and really begun to regret coming in here alone.

-HP] 25/50-

-EP] 30/50-

Blood Loss: Health Regeneration Disabled

Already her bonus reward for this quest was in jeopardy. If she lost even a single point more she would have lost more than her current health and she really wanted that unique armor when this was all over. Between her ripped up shirt from where Red nailed her good and how her leather pants were the armor on her body, she needed something better.

But that Alpha scared the life out of her and Red was furious with her and that meant losing more Health was more than likely. It would be foolish to fight them as she was now... but neither was she running away.

She needed to get rid of her Blood Loss trait if she was going to be able to continue fighting but before she could do anything she needed to check her surroundings. Slowly, she unfurled her body and crawled back over to the vent opening, peering through with great hesitation to find...

Nothing.

Red and the Alpha she didn't even get to see were both nowhere in sight. The table was flipped and the chairs destroyed, cabinets gouged with deep claw marks and the place where Blacky had been was replaced with- oh.

She cast Observe on it to see if she could learn anything but all she got was-

Davis

Here lies a lethal case of silver poisoning. If you hadn't known better, you'd think he was human, eh?

The true name of the beast she had dubbed 'Blacky' having a real name threw her. She supposed that even beasts could have names, and since she had seen them as men before beasts, she probably should've realized they had actual lives when they weren't seeking the ruin of the human race. But, more importantly, his corpse was sparkling. That meant he might have the key she was looking for... but to go down there just sent an uneasy feeling through her.

Her Area Sense wasn't giving her any clues and she wondered if it even would tell her anything after the initial warning. Was this just another thing she would have to level to assure her life-expectancy? Still, it would be so easy to forget where this room was if she had to search the entire floor to find the other two. And really, she wanted to stall as much time before facing the others.

But what if her Area Sense hadn't said anything because they were still nearby? She looked at her wound and remembered her quest requirements. With a groan, she slumped back and determined fixing her Blood Loss triumphed the search for the key. As she eyed the backpack icon wishing she could search the contents for some kind of solution she suddenly jolted. Slapping her forehead as though it would somehow untangle her brain cells, she realized she had an easy solution to find out if the Others were nearby.

She put a hand over the backpack icon and waited for a long moment. A few seconds later and her breath caught thinking she really was still surrounded by beasts when it glowed and expanded in a single motion, relieving Novak of her moment of anxiety.

Inside she had only a handful left of the silver shavings - useless to her now with her quest requirements if she's bitten - three vials of Silver Blood, a dozen or so bottles of water, the food, the Motion Tracker, and the junk she looted earlier; a ballpoint pen, a small pile of thin rope, a blood-stained ring, a mysterious syringe, a shot glass, a lighter, and mint leaf. Wasn't particularly impressive, really.

None of it would help an open - very much still bleeding - wound. To her knowledge, anyway. If not to heal the injury somehow, the very least she could do was stop the bleeding. Inspecting her oversized ripped shirt, she decided sacrificing a sleeve wouldn't be so bad and used the knife to tear the fabric from the seam.

When she had a good length of blue fabric in her hands, she clumsily attempted to wrap it around her collarbone and shoulder. After a couple, terribly inaccurate attempt, she finally got it and made sure to tie it tight enough that it was a constant ache when she moved it. She had no clue if she did it right, but hoped by the lack of depleting health updates that she was in the green.

After that, she removed the Motion Tracker and used the morsel of the rope she had to tie it around her wrist. Switching it on, she found no signs of life within the twenty-meters of range it had and quickly searched for the volume key to tune it down. Keeping the small hope she could see them before they saw (or heard) her.

And lastly, she removed her remaining vials of poison and tucked them into the large pockets of her pants - really, really hoping they wouldn't break in the duration of a fight. Ready to head down to loot the corpse, she slowly descended from the vent to the top of the cabinets and tried to continue quietly down to the floor.

Novak was pretty sure she failed at that.

When no man or monster came charging through the doorway though, she relaxed a little even as her heart pumped for a fight. Wasting little time, she crouched over the man and touched the sparkles, grateful when the game paused so she could review its contents without paranoia. There was a fair amount of goods and she had to remind herself it was no doubt from all the bodies they gorged on their way here.

Impure ? Blood

This sample of ? blood has been poisoned by high levels of concentrated silver and has been twisted by Leviathan like a kitten playing with a ball of yarn.

Car Keys

This half-digested key has been left intact but its fob is an utter goner.

Drinking Flask

Half-empty? Half-full? Either way, whoever once owned this needed a drink.

Busted Walky-Talkie

Leviathan Guards all wore this to communicate long-distance. Unfortunately, half-digested and chewed up there's no way it's working now.

Silver Bullets

Although you have to scrub the blood off to see the silver, these are an effective weapon against certain Others.

+5% DMG against ?

Weapon Harness

Leviathan Guards use this to have their weapons concealed but within quick access. +10% draw speed.

All in all, it wasn't a bad loot. She had no idea what a car was and the walkie-talkie was so useless she didn't even touch it, but the rest? Great! Although she wasn't sure what she would do with the questionable impure blood, she settled with transferring the liquid into one of the bottles (after drinking the water first) and placed it back in her inventory.

HP] 45/50

EP] 50/50

Hydrated: For drinking purified water you gain +20 HP and +20 EP!

Startled, she stared at the words even as she felt a strange sort of warmth return to her body. Like life was being given back to her, in a weird sense. An accurate sense, seeing the state of her health. She was almost tempted to drink another bottle or eat some of the food but with her Blood Loss Trait absent she knew it would be redundant with her Health Regeneration enabled.

Instead, she took the time to strap the weapon harness over her shoulders, replace the Silver Blood-dipped bullet clip with the Silver Bullets, and then sheathed both weapons and extra clips in the slots available on the harness. If a little uncomfortable by the odd shift in weight, Novak tried not to show it with the overwhelming relief she wouldn't have to be too worried about nicking herself or shooting herself in the foot while carrying her weapons now.

That, and she felt slightly more prepared to face her literal fears and finally finish this quest to meet back up with the others. Activating her Observe's Greyscale Vision she watched as her world dyed grey to reveal the discreet trails the wolfmen, she decided to dub them, left behind in their wake. Neon red pawprints practically glowed as she approached them, hand brushing against the ground where one left deeper claw engraves than the other.

Even close-up like this, she had no other tells than the engravings to tell the Alpha apart from the other one. She sighed, feeling dread in her heart at facing yet another unknown variable, but swallowed the anxiety before it could resurface again and pushed onward. The Motion Tracker stayed suspiciously clear of life and Novak wanted so desperately to occupy her mind but knew better than to move her focus off anything but her objective.

This turned out to be wise when her Motion Tracker picked up a life form. The volume blissfully silent would've easily been missed had she not been paying attention and as the trail continued northward right along with the line of the tracker's sight, she quietly pulled out her firearm and held it with both hands, steadying her hand from the burden of carrying it. Oddly, within ten feet she was instantly able to see the form of one of the wolfmen, yet no Bloodlust warning was in sight.

Uneasy, Novak inched forward to see the snarling one-eyed Red staring at her hard but with the fury of before somehow absent. As she raised her weapon in threat, the creature merely turned its back to her and ran - disappearing from her range of sight. She deactivated her Greyscale Vision to extend her vision but all that greeted her was silence and darkness. Reactivated the Greyscale, she only spared a glance at her Motion Tracker to see that life was still within twenty feet.

She continued down the trail, feeling more and more exposed with every foot extended, and kept her firearm raised and ready for any sign of trap ahead. She didn't think the wolfmen were intelligent for such a strategy but she had already underestimated her enemy once, she dared not do so again.

By the time she was near what she was sure was Red again, she was nearing a large open room that could've served as a lobby with how much space there was. Walking near it made her nervous. When she saw the wolfish form glowing red throughout the grey room standing still, she wondered if it thought she couldn't see it through the darkness. She wondered why it didn't immediately pounce.

She deactivated her Greyscale vision again and what she found through the darkened room with barely enough light to give Red a shadow made her pause. Because there were two shadows and only one creature. She didn't dare take her eyes away from Red to see the Motion Tracker but she was sure she would've noticed - that it would've noticed - if there were two life signs before walking into this room.

Bloodlust Detected!

Following the warning, a growl rumbled out of the shadows and Novak felt the hair rise on her arms in warning. Already she felt like she was covered in her own blood again like the life was being drained out of her, and a chilling sweat slid down the back of her neck. The fury in the air felt as heavy as it did before, replacing the oxygen in the room, that each breath tasted like lead.

Red still hadn't moved and as she spared a second to quickly analyze her surroundings, by the time she looked back at Red her heart nearly stopped to see that the extra shadow now stood in front of her.

Bloodlust Detected!

She threw herself forward instinctively, feeling a burning sensation flood down the arch of her spine, but managed a rollback to her feet saving her from the jaws of the leaping form of Red, missing her by centimeters. She sprinted forward, withdrawing her knife just before turning around in time to see two forms in a blur of motion. Before she could cast her Observe on them, the larger of the two actually leaped on the wall and landed on the balcony (she was just noticing now) out of sight.

-You Have Discovered A New Skill!-

Evasion - Your ability to evade attacks successfully without taking a beating. Evasion also decides your proficiency in becoming undetected when being sought after. Lv. 1 (61%)

Red kept his feet firmly on the ground but this time she could see the challenge and hatred in his eye. Kind of freaked out, Novak merely shifted her stance so she had somewhat a better balance in her footing. She waited for it to charge and steadied her weapon for it. Expectedly, Red charged and she fired, but it evaded it with just as great as skill as she witnessed with Blacky.

A growl suddenly came from behind her and she mistakenly turned to see the deadly visage of the Alpha before she was literally picked up and tossed to the side, her back slamming into the wall with a jarring shake.

-HP] 47/50-

She quickly stumbled to her feet despite the dizziness that overcame her briefly. Somehow, she hadn't been injured by its claws when it grabbed her and she didn't even have the time to wonder why when Red was lunging at her again that she barely dodged it's claws again when in the next moment the Alpha was in front of her again, it's amber eyes locked on her own and it gave her a toothy grin. She tried to pull the trigger in time but she was too late and in a blink, it was gone and Red had rammed his head into her like a wall.

She fell.

Then flipped before Red could sink his maws in her, spinning in the same moment to slash her knife down its rawhide. It barely even winced.

Novak quickly put some distance between Red and her and fully turned her eyes on the Motion Tracker to find the Alpha in front of her - so above her - and Red moving in from her left. She swerved around its lunge and in a single motion sheathed her knife and withdrew a vial, throwing it at Red who barely managed to turn his head when the vial shattered against him.

He snarled, shaking his fur from the sticky wetness of the blood - but that's just it, its blood, not water - and the glass broke the skin enough that some of it got in. He whimpered briefly but in a second he seemed to have recovered and lunged at her in greater fervor than ever before. With only one weapon in-hand she barely managed to dodge, but even though she did each time she found her energy waning and the surprise attacks of the Alpha left her paranoid and jittery from all the adrenaline.

Her Motion Tracker saved her life a few times now and just as she was beginning to land some hits, the Alpha leaped down from its overhead perch again and this time was too close to dodge with Red attacked from the side. She froze as she heard a crunch, teeth embedded where her arm was and she barely managed to yank her arm away.

Too her greatest relief and worst fear, she found that the teeth hadn't broken her skin but it had broken something.

The Motion Tracker.

The screen was totally demolished and it was clearly unrecoverable. Furious and scared at the sudden disadvantage, she watched as the two deadly creatures cornered in on her. The Alpha, brown-furred and narrow-eyed seemed to gesture something to Red, who nodded in a bow-like sort of manner and slowly began to walk toward her. It was extremely intimidating, and with every step it took, she felt more and more like its prey.

Before it got too close, she remembered herself and cast Observe on the Alpha, who was now still and close enough to do so.

Lv. 20 ? Alpha

HP] 1250 (+Beast Form)

EP] 1150 (+Beast Form)

MP] 10/25

FOC] 0%

Allegiance: Alpha

Did that mean it was allied to itself or was there some Alpha of Alphas out there? The horror at the thought was firmly pushed to the back of her mind as her eyes narrowed at the rest of the data.

Telepathic Command: As the Alpha, it has the ability to communicate with its packmates and even temper their fury.

Well, that suddenly explained Red's cool-headedness.

Pain Absorption: The Alpha has absorbed its packmates' pain as it's own. This does not erase the injury.

She gripped the knife tighter, realizing how much a danger Red now posed. Injured but unable to feel it? That meant she wouldn't be able to debilitate it with the silver. She could only speed up its death. And that was only if she could get close enough to deliver a lethal wound. That was kind of a big if.

Turning her Observe on Red told her much of what she already knew.

Other

Lv. 5

HP] -515/650 (+Beast Form)

EP] 601/625 (+Beast Form)

MP] 20/25

FOC: 2%

Allegiance: Alpha

Permanent Eye Loss: You have incapacitated it with a silver weapon! It is now permanently blinded in one eye.

Pain Absorbed: The Alpha now carries the burden of pain. +5% DMG bonus to all attacks.

The damage bonus was mildly terrifying but she held fast to the belief they needed her to be terrified by their visages closing in on her. So without further adou she waited for Red to close in with a plan firmly in mind, her hand twitchy as she kept one eye on the telepathic alpha. Her guess was that the Alpha was Red's eyes and ears whenever she did something he didn't see.

But if Red was close enough he would overlap the Alpha's line of sight and leave him wide open. It seemed like a pretty obvious attack but she hoped that the Alpha's go-ahead gesture before meant they both thought she was dead-meat.

By the time Red stepped in front of the Alpha's sight, he was maybe three feet away from her and she could not say she was fine with the distance. His arm was in reaching distance if she counted the claws (which she did) and he was towering over her with fangs as long as her hand wide open and eyes full of vengeful malice.

Whether it wanted to turn her or simply render her to shreds, she never gave it the chance. Instead, she grabbed her handgun with one hand and charged forward with her knife going for the throat in the other. It tried to leap away to the side but its steps were sloppy and stumbling, clearly having not expected her attack. So blinded by rage, he was, he barely turned his head away from the jab at his throat, but completely overlooked where her other hand went.

Bang-bang-bang!

The sound of the silver bullets echoed violently throughout the room and she heard the Alpha wail behind Red, who now had three bullet wounds through its chest. She hoped none had gone clean through, but in case she doubted it she pulled the trigger again-

Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang!

She didn't even hesitate though the muscles in her fingers quickly ached. She didn't hesitate as Red desperately tried to get away from her while his Alpha writhed and barked in anguish.

Eight silver bullets had gone into its chest. Even if he couldn't feel pain, Novak knew he still had human biology. She made sure to shoot the stomach, the liver, the heart, and everything that looked mildly lethal to her. Everything but the throat was spared because she needed the alpha to be crippled by the pain. She needed it to hurt and be vulnerable.

Other

Lv. 5

HP] -515/650 (+Beast Form)

EP] 601/625 (+Beast Form)

MP] 20/25

FOC: 2%

Allegiance: Alpha

Permanent Eye Loss: You have incapacitated it with a silver weapon! It is now permanently blinded in one eye.

Pain Absorbed: The Alpha now carries the burden of pain. +5% DMG bonus to all attacks.

Silver Infection: So long as a silver bullet remains in its body, its wounds will only get worse as its body burns up on the inside.

Organ Failure: Due to a silver bullet to several major areas, it's organs have begun to shut down.

Tempted to finish it off but needing to get a good shot at the Alpha while it was slowed, she slipped away from Red whose body seemed to be turning paralyzed, she rushed the Alpha - firing the final four shots of the chip into its torso before all but throwing her entire body's weight into the swing of her silver knife, ripping through its heavily muscled chest and knocking it on its back, where she tried to push further followed by a cruel twist.

The alpha cried out and a heartbeat later she felt all its muscles relax.

Novak pulled away from it with a sigh and turned back to see what became of Red only to stop. Or better said, she was forced to a stop.

She looked down in what felt like a sort of out-of-body experience where she found five six-inch nails protruding from her torso wet with her blood. At first, she felt no pain, but then she felt it everywhere. Blood unexpectedly fell from her lips in a shower as she coughed, feeling like her lungs were being flooded. Hot breath huffed against the back of her neck and she felt the stench of it down to her very bones. The stench of death, of blood, of ruin. The very creature she had told herself she wouldn't underestimate she turned her back to.

Another clawed hand clamped down on her shoulder harshly, irritating the injury its packmate delivered and re-injured as its claws sunk into the same place Blacky had. She cried out as it took it slow, giving inch by inch as its claws double the length sunk deep into her shoulder, and her blood begun to stream through the thin fabric of the ragged shirt.

Her feet weren't even touching the floor now, the Alpha now fully on its feet and holding her up like a trophy. She looked to the side to find Red dead - not surprising - with his own claws sticking out his throat - that one was surprising - and has she hung limply in his alpha's hands she finally understood what Red had done when she decided to spare him to forlong his Alpha's pain.

Furious at herself, she tried to move her hands but everything hurt and barely a muscle twitched. A scream ripped through her mouth, full of frustration and agony, and she was forced to consider this was her end.

Hot breath crept closer to her neck and she was sure she knew what was soon to happen. She was so sure this was how she was going to die, that it would end so pathetically because she got cocky, and she would leave the others trapped because she couldn't do what needed to be done-

only for a physical barrier to seem to throw her - and the alpha - forward as a high-pitched keening scream tore through the room and left not only the alpha crumpled to the ground whining with its ears taut against its head, but Novak screaming with it as she was dislodged from the alpha's claws and thrown across the floor leaving behind a bloody smear. Her ears were ringing and her vision was white-hot; like nails were raking against chalkboard right up against her ears.

She couldn't stop screaming even when she was left the only one making noise; she felt like the grim reaper himself was standing over her to shake her hand. Everything had gone so cold that she could see her breath come in white smoke even when all breath was expelled from her lungs and the screaming that remained came internally.

Novak continued to fight against the cold, against the death, even as she felt her wounds begin to gape from the seizure-like movement of her desperation. Nothing could break through the haze of terror like-she-was-about-to-die.

But then she felt a warmth deep inside her like nothing she had ever felt before. It was sort of like how she imagined the sun to feel; chasing away every chill and despair buried in her body to wrap around her heart - except in the place her heart didn't exist - like a hug. It wasn't suffocating or needy in any way and slowly she relaxed. Her heart still pound in her chest like a sledgehammer and she could still feel the acute pain of her wounds, but the fear of dying and the cold had abandoned her.

"Shh," a voice husked, like it was unused to making such a soft sound meant to lull even the most frightened animals to sleep. It sounded familiar, in a strange sort of way, so instead of fighting it or even feeling offended by such handling, she instead let it be. The warmth slowly unwrapped itself from her even though she whimpered barely loud enough to be heard as it left, the cold remained afar even as shivers wracked through her body.

Furious sounding snarls that failed to mask it's pain pierced through the dark of her conscious and with great effort, Novak remembered how to open her eyes. Everything was too bright even when the room was barely lit, and she grunted unnoticeable as she found the energy to look up. Feet were walking away from where she lay, she didn't have the strength to look higher, but she could see the collapsed form of the alpha trying to find its footing as her unknown savior approached them.

She palmed the floor, nails chilled from the cold tiled floor as she tried to drag herself forward, but her torso and shoulder all but seized and she was rendered paralyzed in place as a warning appeared.

-HP] 3/50-

-EP] 0/25-

Blood Loss: Health Regen Disabled

Internal Bleeding: A claw pierced something vital and now you're coughing blood. If left untreated, the injury becomes lethal in 300 seconds.

Rib Fracture: You're lucky you didn't break a rib, but still you're going to have trouble breathing. Energy Regen Disabled.

Dislocated Shoulder: Due to blunt force trauma, the mobility of your right arm is disabled.

The fact that she would be dead if left untreated in five minutes was worrying, the inability to move her right arm was irritating, the rib fracture was practically suffocating, and the return of the blood loss was an all too cruel irony kind of theme. What really downed her spirits was the state of her health and that she failed the bonus quest requirement.

She's alive, for now, yes... but still. Bummer.

As the warning disappeared, she watched as the alpha managed to find its footing long enough for it to throw its body forward with its claws extended and mouth wide opened when a visible yet unseeing barrier slammed against it - throwing it back right where it lay before. Her vision blurred for a moment as a jolt of pain hit her hard and she was reminded of the time she had left. But she persevered and her sight cleared allowing her to see her rescuer kneel down where the Alpha lay, seemingly pinned in place by an invisible barrier between it and the person, giving them free rein to yank her silver knife from its chest causing it to roar.

Her breath became uneven as she felt like she was being punched from the inside. Her ribs were burning and wrapping her mobile arm around them did little to muffle it. As though her pain was audible, the creature at the person's mercy was suddenly silenced in the middle of a yelp and Novak looked back to see her knife now protruding from its neck.

-Quest Updated!-

She barely caught the words before her eyes fell shut, telling herself it was just for a few seconds even though half of her was already giving up. The darkness once cold and terrifying now felt welcoming and Novak almost let herself fall into it when warmth returned to her body like it was calling her spirit back. But going back meant returning to a broken body and agony.

Returning meant going back to all the pain and the blood and the endless struggle of not being strong enough to do something.

How could she help anyone as she was? Why go when the darkness was reaching out to her - beckoning to just close her eyes and get some rest.

She froze. Darkness? Sleep? Cold? This suddenly reminded her all too much of the cage. Trapped in an icy prison for an endless amount of time that she forgot her own name. The warmth beckoned her back, calling to her like a companion that would remain with her, unlike the cold darkness which ached of nothing but endless despair and loneliness.

Could she really go back to that?

She turned away from the embracing darkness and stepped forward into the warmth, allowing it to envelop her and return her to her body. By the time she would next hear her own heartbeat, she would've forgotten the incident entirely.

-HP] 28/50-

-EP] 0/25-

-MP] 0/25-

Flesh Wounds: The worst of your injuries have been healed but you aren't completely out of the woods yet.

Rib Fracture: You're lucky you didn't break a rib, but still you're going to have trouble breathing. Energy Regen Disabled.

Dislocated Shoulder: Due to blunt force trauma, the mobility of your right arm is disabled.

Her eyes opened to meet deep sapphire eyes looking down at her own, a soft hand gently caressing her jaw, and lips that fell into an easy yet genuine smile as they saw her awake. She blinked a couple of times, feeling off in a way she couldn't explain, almost like she didn't belong in her own body when she suddenly remembered the update in her status. Her left hand went to her torso where she remembered the practically fatal wound had been. Her eyes must've given something away because her savior, Chloe, answered the unasked question.

"I was able to stop your internal bleeding, luckily." She took in a sharp breath, closing her eyes for a moment but Novak caught the raw emotion that shown in her eyes before she shielded them. When her eyes reopened, the emotion disappeared, masked away by something professional. Like she had done this before.

"I would've done more but you didn't have any spiritual energy left after the important stuff..." she paused like she was remembering Novak was human and she was not. Novak recalled the sudden appearance of her MP's stat from before and thought she understood what she spoke of. "And I'm sure you have a lot of questions that I can't answer now but-"

Novak sat up. Well, more like struggled really with how she had to sit up without irritating her injured rib. But she managed and found her voice as she met Chloe's eyes with a ferocity she forgot she had.

"No! You just saved my life... knowing that, is enough, I think." Novak said, taking a bit longer to say everything with her rib.

Chloe, the unknown Other, had that same strange yet very raw look in her eyes that shined with what Novak could only assume was unshed tears that she didn't even try to mask this time. Instead, she just turned her head away like it created a barrier against them - it didn't - but Novak pretended it did for her sake. She didn't understand the importance of what she said, and honestly, she was so exhausted from her near-death experience that she couldn't find it within herself to really care what she was in the dark of.

"I would ask something of you, though," Novak begun and drew Chloe's focus back on her. She was the one to look away this time, as though she could hide the embarrassment from the movement alone at what she was to ask. "Do you mind-well-do you mind helping me up?"

The nervousness was all but snuffed out of Chloe at her request and with a nod and flash of a smile, Novak was back on her feet and shakily began to walk over to to the Alpha's corpse. She needed to see it. Both for her peace of mind and for the quest. Once Chloe realized where she was heading, her steps faltered but continued at her pace nonetheless, to which Novak was grateful.

When they reached it, Novak unsteadily got on her knees next to it and stuck her hand into the sparkles glittering around it. A window appeared revealing of its contents and she felt like her entire day was made worth it just for receiving this loot alone.

? Claw

This razor-sharp claw is still as sharp from when it practically gutted you.

Skill Book

This rare item will boost any skill you deem by +10 levels! Note - the book is destroyed upon use.

Of Monsters and Men

A book describing an insider's perspective on men who could change their shape halfway into wolves.

? Skin

This fine pelt was skinned from the first Alpha you met and nearly killed you.

LB-217

A thing once believed to only exist in fiction. LB-217, otherwise known as ? DNA, is blood from an Alpha; the only substance capable of turning a human into a ? without losing their minds. It is also one of the few substances capable of poisoning a ?.

Amber

A good chunk of Amber rock has many uses.

Silver Bullets

Though slight bent from entry, these bullets are surprisingly durable.

Leviathan-issued Combat Armor (Rank 1)

This faintly camouflaged uniform only comes in black and appears to have seen many battles.

DT: 8

All-Access Key

This oddly shaped key is reminiscent to the infamous 'skeleton key,' this one is only accessible for Leviathan Laboratories.

Quicksilver

Your trusty silver knife has killed an Alpha ? and is now recognized as a blade to be feared.

DMG:

+5% against ?

-25 reputation points with ?

+25 reputation points with The ?

-Quest Completed!-

Time to put down the dogs like the rabid beasts they are! Find and kill the things that ate the keys but don't let them bite you! Or the next full moon you'll become just like them!

Kill the beasts! (3/3)

Do not get bitten!

Reward:

Uncommon Alchemy Reagents

Rare Alchemy Reagent

Uncommon Crafting Materials

Bonus Reward:

Discover their weakness and use it against them!

Unique Weapon

Exhaustion hit Novak all at once and she felt like she could kiss the floor in the knowledge she had completed this incredible difficult quest and actually survived.

Unfortunately, deep down she knew this was just the beginning and it was only going to get harder. But as she looked at the person who had literally just saved her life she found that she wouldn't mind it so much when she had people like Chloe by her side.

And that was enough for her to keep moving forward.