Kalen woke up feeling refreshed and revitalized. “I feel like I am in a VIP suite. It is so comfortable. It feels way better then I imagined,” he moaned with satisfaction.
He stared at the makeshift bed of tress leaves. He smiled and looked satisfied with his work. “I am going to miss this experience.”
He got out of his tent and observed his surrounding making sure there is no danger near back. The sun was shining brightly. He started to grin, as he was enjoying free vitamin D. “What a beautiful free world,” he exclaimed feeling satisfied.
He found water pit near his camp. He washed his face and filled his canteen with water. He checked his shadow to see what time it was, he felt it was around seven in the morning. “I should eat something before I leave and continue on my training,” he thought.
He ate some of the tigon meat, and then stored the remaining meat in a makeshift bag that he hand-made with some tree leaves. He knew that improvisation is a must learn skill to survive in the wild, a skill all squires must learn.
“It is time to move on. I can’t stay in one place too long, or I won’t be able to train properly. It is time to explore more within these four days,” he thought.
“It is strange that all of sudden I want to be an adventurer now.” He wonders aloud. “It must be the experience. Yes, it is the experience,” he encouraged himself to clear his mind of any misgivings. Decisiveness was an indispensable trait that any soldier should have.
“I need to get better equipped with some makeshift weapons. I need to show my country that I can improvise.” His brain went into work to search for ways to improvise that would make his situation better.
He studied his surrounding looking for anything to work. He didn’t find anything that would work, so he went on his aimless walk. He hopes he can find something to work for him. He knew that he must survive no matter what. “Survival sounds more badass. I am a survivor on a survival journey.”
“I should write a book on my experiences in the wild. It could be called, Kalen’s five-day survival through CreepyWillow Forest.” Kalen thoughts just keep imagining things as he continues his survival walk. He always knew that he was an avid thinker, and his brain was renowned for his unconventional imaginations.
“That’s it. Man come on. This is the typical behavior of a clueless person not on a survival walk. Kalen could feel himself doubting his decisions, but he conveniently tried to ignore these thoughts completely.
Loneliness is a disease no one should deal with. His brain was spilling random thoughts as he knew he was just plain bored to death. Maybe it was just the youth syndrome, and his hormones were just in overdrive.
As he is walking, he started to actively look for things to empower himself with. Something caught his eye all sudden. He spots a specific plant near a tree. “What is this?”
“Oh shit!! This is Assassin Poinsetta. I can’t believe I found this out here. Nature is helping pass this test, thank you God.”
He quickly chopped off the poisonous plant without any hesitation. He sat beside the tree and started to mix the plant into a solution. After about twenty minutes he finished the solution and began adding it to his daggers and sword.
This just proves that the power of knowledge is very good to have. Just one plant helps him make his weapons more dangerous.
After an unknown time of walking, he noticed a tree that was oddly placed, oddly shaped and it felt like something screaming “I want to be low profile, so don’t notice me.”
He kept up his guard, as he didn’t want a repeat of yesterday encounter with the tigon. He might have just neglected or overlooked it, but he knew that there were predators in this forest.
“What is this? Another poisonous plant or something?” He knew to be more cautious, so he tries to poke it with his dagger. He got the shock of his life, as the harmless odd tree swiftly lashed at him.
“What the hell? It is a python,” he thought aloud. “And it is a fairly big one at that.”
He was quicker than the python. He quickly blocked the python’s trajectory with his gloved hands.
The python’s fangs failed to penetrate, as the adrenaline started to flow through him. He grabbed the python’s tail and used its own momentum against it. He slammed the python’s head against a nearby tree twice.
“Shit, this python is an augmented animal.” To his surprise, the python rebounded like it was rubber band and head back towards him. It widens its mouth for a bite.
He did a quick retreat, as he was retreating, he grabbed his dagger from the ground. Once he had his dagger, he quickly took cover behind a tree. He unsheathed his sword and did a wide sideways swing with it. The gamble paid off, as he cut the python into two. Then he quickly followed up with a cut to its neck removing its head.
He lost his footing and stumbled down a slant hill.
He slowly stood up, feeling slightly proud and satisfied with the smooth kill. He felt a chill going down his spine. He quickly grabbed the sword from the ground and turn around.
He just wanted to cry as he saw a huge lioness in front of him. It was much bigger than the normal one, clearly indicating its status as an augmented animal. The lioness growled at Kalen.
“Alright, let’s do this. It’s just a big lioness.”
Kalen began to question himself, but he stared at the lioness. He held his sword in his hands ready to retaliate once the lioness attacked him.
“Come on! Attack me!” Kalen come feel the tension rising as lioness stared at him.
Lioness continue to grow at Kalen. “What are you growling for? Attack me already.” As Kalen was thinking this, he heard two more distinct growls coming behind the lioness. It was two slightly smaller lionesses.
“Great! I thought this would be a one-on-one fight, but you want to play dirty. That’s fine. I will kill all three of you.
He knew that he could not win in frontal assault, so Kalen bolted into the forest searching a path with dense bush. The three lionesses chased after him while roaring at him. Kalen hoped that a lion will not show up. That would be bad.
The three lionesses were much faster than he was, and they started gaining ground on him. He started looking at his surroundings as he ran, and then he saw a thick tree along his path.
He quickly rushed to the tree and jumped on to it. He used his momentum to kick off the tree, accurately performing a backflip. As he was flipping, he threw his two daggers towards the two smaller lionesses.
They could not dodge the daggers in time. They roared and were disoriented by the pain. Their leader, the biggest lioness roared in anger and advanced on him quickly baring her fangs. He guarded reflexively with his sword.
The lioness momentum pushed Kalen backwards. He used all his strength and pushed her away. Before the lioness could recover, Kalen was already jumping over her, and swiftly stabbing the lioness in the neck with his sword as he landed on her back.
He used his spare hand to support himself as he ruthlessly stabbed the lioness neck repeatedly. Blood went everywhere as he stabbed it.
The lioness leader fell to the ground dead. Kalen looked back at the other two lionesses. He saw one was not moving, as it was dead due to the poison. The other lioness was still fighting to stay alive. The lioness charged Kalen.
Kalen quickly rolled out of the way. The lioness changed direction and continue it charge. Kalen knew that he had to be quick. When the lioness was right at Kalen, he quickly dodged to the side and swung his sword downwards cutting the lioness head clean off.
Kalen looked around to see he killed all three lionesses.
He breathes a sigh of relief. “I can say this training is surely a baptism of blood,” he muttered with excitement in his tone.
“This training is going to be harder than I thought,” Kalen thought, as he walked through the forest looking for a place to wash the blood off his body and clothes. After about twenty minutes of walking, he found a stream nearby. He subconsciously looked around the area for any kind of threat. He quickly rushed up to the water as soon as he noticed he was in the clear. “These four days remaining are going to be a pain in the ass,” he thought out loud. He looked to his right, and he was shocked to find a jackfruit tree. He eyes brightened immediately. “Thank you, God. There is something to eat beside meat. He brought his dagger and climbed the tree for the fruit while staying alert. “I can’t let my guard down. My life is more important than this fruit. He knew that if he let his guard down like a fool that was hungry, he could be attacked and killed. Suddenly he thought about his friend Aledos, as he probably in same situation as him. “Make it through this brother. You are not allo
Bzzzt!! Bzzzt!! Kalen woke up top hear his alarm going off on his phone. “Damn, it’s 6am already. I didn’t get enough sleep last night,” he grumbled as he quickly got up. He showered and brushed his teeth.Twenty minutes later, he was dressed in his new military uniform that was provided yesterday. He strapped on his sword and daggers, and ready to face this new challenge. He left his room surprised that Aledos was not waiting for him. He is usually up before him.“What happened to this fool now?” He questioned as he went to his friend’s room. “I can’t believe he is still sleeping. He reached Aledos’s room in about 15 seconds.Boom! Boom! Boom! He banged on his friend’s door as he called out, “Hey dumbass, what the hell are you doing in there?”“Alright, you can stop banging on my door. I just woke up late. I’ll be there in a minute,” Aledos yelled to his friend.“I said it, when the sun rises normal people respond fast to get up. But you my friend are slow as a snail. What a bad infl
After 30 minutes, were one of the first groups to be dropped off within the mountainous region of the forest reserves. As soon as Kalen landed, he surveyed the area to make sure there was no immediate danger. “This will work for us. We can see far and have more obstacles to take cover,” he told his friend, who also surveying the area. “Kalen, I want us to dominate this competition. Let’s find a place to set our camp and defensives before we scout the area.” Aledos said in a calm tone, as he turned to look at his friend. Kalen grunted in reply, as they quickly found a cliff that gave them plenty of cover from the exobeasts. The friends dropped their gear and went out to prepare their defenses. They decided that Kalen would wield the sniper, as he was a better marksman than his friend. They knew that Aledos can’t shoot to save his life. He has poor accuracy. They quickly set up their makeshift perimeter without any delays. They settled down, and Aledos decided to go into the forest
Aledos woke up and looked around, “where am I?” He asked out loud as he tried to stand up, which brought on a wave of dizziness to him. He touched his head and felt the cloth bandage. He began to recall what happened to him.He sighed as he glanced outside. “It’s already evening, I wonder where Kalen went to.During the construction of their make-shift residence, they placed rocks to form a cave before their encounter with the exobeast. He went out of the tent to see his friend sitting beside the fire roasting some meat.“Looks who is wake? Bro, how’s your head?” Kalen asked as he casually munched on his meat.“I am not sure to be honest. I still feeling little dizzy though.” Aledos replied as he supported his head with his palm.“Man, you are tough as hell. Come and eat some roasted meat. While you were sleeping, I killed an antelope. It is so good, come and eat,” Kalen said with a smile.“Alright,” Aledos replied as he moved forward. He felt the wave of hunger as he smelled the meat
Aledos Hawke woke up to see that the sun arisen. He could see the sun rays filter into the cave. He admired the rays as his eyes adjust to the light. He checked the watch on his wrist to see it was already 7am. “Why haven’t that fool wake me up already?” He cursed as he quickly got up and made his way outside. He saw Kalen already up and he was doing some pushups. “I can’t believe this asshole. He does these pushups daily so he can keep his 8 pack, just to impress the ladies. F**k!” Aledos cursed as he watched his friend. "Aledos, you awake. I thought you will be sleeping all day. You would have missed a fun day. Good morning, dumbass.” Kalen got up to greet his friend properly. “Kalen, you better watch it. My head injury healed, so don’t try me. I can still kick your ass if you call me a dumbass again,” Aledos while giving his friend the evil eye. “Damn, Aledos. You are such ungrateful bastard. I was so nice of enough to protect you throughout the night. I even prepared you a ni
The vine was stretched thin as it held the spears in place. With just one laser beam it snapped.BOOM!!!! Kalen saw his hard work go into use. The handmade spears shot up quickly. They didn’t have the same force as the used by the Camelot army, but they still get the job done. They would still inflict enough damage to the sabretooth.The sabretooth sensed the danger it was about to enter. It tried its best to avoid the trap, but it was too late. The spears impaled themselves into its exposed belly. It roars in rage and pain as it felt its bowels and blood flowed out from the wounds.Due to the force and momentum the sabretooth was moving, the spears caused some massive damage to it. The sabretooth was impaled on its belly to its leg.Kalen did not underestimate the sabretooth, knowing it will do it best to get out and continue to attack. He leaped into the air as the sabretooth was falling into the spears stabbing it in the neck with his sword.Blood rained down onto Kalen and the gro
Kalen woke up feeling refreshed. He dreamt of food that would make any person mouth drool. He felt like an emperor watching this most stunning woman served him variety of food and drinks.He woke up and was disappointed not see himself inside of a luxurious palace and no beautiful woman, but the tent they put up with his friend.“That sucks! Why does life hate me so much? I just want something amazing,” he thought in resignation.“One day I will become something like an emperor and have the most beautiful woman that the world has ever seen.” He could not remember most of his dreams, but for some reason he remembers this one and the one he had on the first day of advanced training.Since he was small boy, he always had dreams that were unique. It is said that people dream is meaningful, as they sort out personal conflicts and emotional struggles that they experience within their daily lives. It is backed by science. Kalen always wonder what his dreams are about or come it something dif
They journeyed for hours within the mountainous region.They tried to make themselves as inconspicuous as possible, as they can’t account for all the dangers within the region. They didn’t want to encounter any beasts that were not exobeasts, as the exobeasts were their focus.They would rest throughout the hike and eat the meat they packed away in their bags to regain their energy.“Damn, man I didn’t think this rocky territory was so huge. We left the forest ages ago. It is almost evening and we have yet to find another terrain to hunt in.,” Aledos grumbled in frustration.Kalen laughed at the way his friend was acting, but knew he felt helpless in helping his friend. “I do hope we can find another terrain to hunt in soon,” Kalen muttered.They camped under the stars and would continue to their hike in the morning. They continued their hike, when Aledos suddenly bumped into his friend on the shoulders excitedly. Kalen almost fell to the ground from the force.Kalen was about to comp