Chase was woken up by violent shaking.
"What did you do to me?" Was the first thing he heard in the mourning. his eyes snapped open to see…something that kind of looked like Damian…if you only saw the armor.
He was now a little taller, standing at six feet. His whole body got more muscular as well. His armor didn't suddenly get too big, instead growing with him.
His skin had an orange tint to it now. His eyes were red, just like his. he also had tiny horns jutting from his head.
"Hello….Damian?" Chase said still in disbelief, squinting his eyes. "Don't hello me, tell me what you did. What is this?" Damian said, holding a small red screen floating just above his hand. On it read:
[congradulations on your first evolution]
[Demon squire]
Rank: [1/9]
Points to evolve:[0/1000]
"Honestly dude I'm just as clueless as you are. It just popped up" Chase replied.
"Bullshit. How am I gonna be a knight now?"
"Be one that never takes his helmet off. Pffffft." Chase was feeling like a jokester today.
"You are not funny, but thank you for saving me."Andrew said, walking into the group.
looking to his left, Chase saw the already pretty man, not only became prettier, but grew stronger.
his hair was pitch black, with red skin and yellow eyes. he was rotating red spikes. around his hands.
"Don't sweat it" Chase laughed
"Well, aren't you guys looking healthy?" Donnie chimed in, still recovering from having his friends revived into demons. "One problem though. Who in society is going to see you guys and not immediately report you to the holy church?" He said, raising a finger.
"That was actually the main reason we woke up Chase. To discuss the next plan of action." Andrew said.
Chase was stumped. He had only been in the village for 2 days before getting drafted. If he barely knew one village, where was he going to find a job now that he didn't know how to make it back?
"I'm completely clueless."Chase admitted, not wanting to waste time. "Does anyone else know their way around this place?"
Everyone looked at him like an idiot.
"Yes? I'm pretty sure they're are multiple villages if we just keep going down the road"
Donnie capitalized on what seemed to be the plan. "Okay so the plan is, get out of here, find something to hide our faces, get to a village, do odd jobs and make money?"
"Pretty much" "yeah"
Andrew wrapped his hair around his head,
Damian put on his helmet, and Chase had to ask Donnie to rip off almost half of his cloak, to wrap around his head.
With that, they set off leaving the forest.
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Noah woke up in a panic, only to see his brother, sitting next to his bed.
"And I'm the idiot huh" Daniel said, looking at his injuries"
"I finally did what you asked for once and stayed put. Its the safest I've been in a while. Maybe I should settle down, meet a nice woman and start a bakery."
"That's not you. At all." Noah said struggling not to cough. "You're right. But damn it, in another life I'm dead because that guy came a few seconds too late."
"Its better this way than to commit to a woman you're not even ready for." Noah replied.
"Just spare yourself the trouble. I was a downer. And the church severely underestimated these people"
"If you could call them that" Daniel replied. "You know they found five of the people that went in ripped apart near the entrance of the forest"
Noah was shocked. His eyes went wide.
Daniel cut off his thoughts.
"It wasn't the guy that saved me or his team. They were the only ones that just mysteriously disappeared in fact. Some are saying they are apart of the whole thing.
Making sure everyone else died."
Noah was rubbing his forehead,trying to process this.
"Regardless" Noah continued, pushing the entire thing into the back of his mind. "We will still be going on adventures, because we're not ready to be done." Whatever comes our way and almost kills you, will have to deal with me."
Noah layed back down. "Now if you excuse me, I want to be alone now." He said, closing his eyes. "Whatever wannabe loner" Daniel said, before leaving the tent.
As he exited, he looked towards the beaming sun, a new hope revitalized.
I will now mainly be focusing on Chase and his crew, but fear not, NOAH WILL RETURN.