This in itself isn't probably that big of a , after all, these crystals all grow in octahedrons as far as I know, so when would this even matter? Maybe it won't, but I'd like to fiune my senses if I with the hope that by gettier at determining the differeween hard to tell things, I'll be better at the easier stuff. Well, either way, tomorrow is when the goblin should arrive, so I'll go make sure I've sealed off the ste room, and gotten anything I need from it. Then I'll seal my room off again. I made sure to recharge all my crystals that I could yesterday as well. Wouldn't want another i like before where I'm crippled, but this time not have any crystals to do magic with.
After doing all the prep work for the day, I check my stats and prepare for tomorrow.
Like clockwork, the goblin is back at it summoning imps again. I do some teise training, then check final preparations for imp hunting. I pause for a moment and refley attitude about this. A long while ago, I was mortified at eating imp, let alone fighting them. Now I'm here getting ready to kill as many as I safely. They not only provide me food, but also seem to speed up my leveling, so I guess I've just bee numb to what human sensibilities I used to have reted to the whole matter.
When I go to check the cavern again, it seems like the goblin and his posse have left, so I begin baiting imps in again. Not even including my tools, any regur imp shouldn't be any issue for me, even at my low level at this point, but I'm still careful he-less. I get individuals' attention, bait them into my tunnel, and quickly kill them, and bleed them in the sughterhouse.
Maybe I'm gettier at baiting the imps, or maybe I just got lucky, but I took down 10 total imps betweeerday and today. It's quite the haul if I do say so myself. I even ended up building ara drying rack for all the meat. Holy though, I'm missing having the occasional spud or lion root. I think soon I'll sider going outside to harvest more, despite the abundaneat that I got this time. I also made some det leveling progress, which is nice.
I'm only a little more than half the level I was at as a legendary imp when I had this much mana, and my hp isn't that far behind it either. I was going outside back then as well, so I suppose I sider myself strong enough to head back outside already for longer excursions.
By tomorrow, the goblins will likely be gone, and all the imps killed, so maybe two days after that I head back out, as long as I'm careful.
After just waiting in my room doing training for two days, the coast finally seems clear. With what little remains of today, I think I'll start piling the bodies up tain. I'd like to go get some food, but I think I'll likely have to make the lorip to get lion root, and with it being close to me going to sleep again, I think I'd rather wait a day more. I do have enough time though to go and bring the water buckets down to my room, and repce the buckets at the surface with new ones, so I'll do that yet tonight.
When I head outside, it's dark out, but not just due to night time, or at least I assume not. The rge moon is overhead, but one edge of its surface is lit up. I assume it must be an eclipse. Iing. I suppose I hadn't sidered how big the moon is here, nor whether it was in the same pne of orbit as the two stars. Either way, it's retively dark out, so I'll have to be careful on my dest down the mountain to get lion root.
As I desd, the only thing that I notice is that there aren't many birds making noise. When I get lower down, I usually hear animals, but all it quiet. I hope it is just due to the eclipse, and not anything more.
Thankfully, I make the round trip with retive ease, and have a nice bunch of lion root to put away. The surprising thing to me though is that the eclipse is still happening. It's been quite a while, and holy, it's starting to get a little cold outside he cave. I begin my trip back down into the cave, when I suddenly stop.
I hear something ihe cave ahead. I begin to quietly peek into the lit portion of the cavern, and am greeted by quite the terrifying sight. At the corpse pile, there is a lizard. Not just any lizard though, it's a massive lizard. Its mouth is rge enough that it eats aire imp whole from the pile. It doesn't stop at ohough. Half the pile is already gone, and it looks like it is already starti a swollen belly from all the food it has eaten.
I'm definitely not fident I could do anything to this thing other than bee part of its lunbsp; Which means what? I have to abandon the cave? Maybe just temporarily. Hopefully it'll finish eating and leave, that would be nibsp; As long as it doesn't leave and spot me. I suppose that means I should do something like climb a tree outside and wait it out.
I quietly retreat from where I was in the cave, and when I get to the surface, I decide to leave all my lion root in one of the buckets that I'd normally use for colleg water he entranbsp; After that, I find a tree just far enough from the entrahat I see it, but not so close that the lizard will easily spot me, and attempt to climb a tree. It isn't easy initially, because I'm not used to climbing in my current form, but after a few failed attempts, I make it part of the the tree. High enough up that I'm fident that even if the lizard reaches on its hind legs, it won't reach me.
Now I just py the waiting game.
An hour passes, and then another. The eclipse ends, and it's almost su. I'm now not only cold and tired, but hungry as well. I wait another hour or so before trying to get fortable enough iree to attempt to sleep.
The night was rough for sleep. I would wake up frequently to any sounds nearby. I'd gotten so aced to sleeping in a quiet spa a bed that I could hardly sleep at all. So I'm feeling very hungry and tired now. Worse, I didn't see the lizard leave at all st night. I'm very afraid to go back down into the cave, in case the lizard es out soon. Another part of me though knows that I need food soon.
For the time being, I'll go search for any spuds that I could eat. If I 't find any, then I'll peek into the cave.
After a few hours of searg, I found one spud pnt that I'm willing to eat. I alull up the few that I left to seed from before if I o, but for now, I'd rather not. The one spud pnt will have to do. It's only about half of one meal for me, but it's at least enough to stave off the hunger pains for a while.
I climb back up into the tree from before and start waiting again. It's still a little chilly out, so I'm starting to worry about winter as a season here. I'll tich for the lizard. Although I think if I don't see it leave by the time I wake up, then I'm going to peek in again, just to see what it's doing.