Kaiser of the New World

Kai's extremely helpful guide to making new friends (15)

After a... cryptic enough warning, The Ever-changings form began to shimmer and was eventually replaced by one of the gargantuan trees of the forest.

"Well... what now?" Kai groaned as he stood up. Once he was back on his feet, a thumping headache nearly knocked him back down, a reminder to never look into the sky in this damn forest.

How can the whole sky be a god damn mind attack? And what the hell is a question mark abomination?

With too many questions and too little answers, Kai picked a direction to walk and stuck to it. Walking West... North?

Ah who cares, he was walking somewhere.

This was the first time since he's got here that Kai decides to really look at the trees. After seeing them move to protect him from the moonlight, there had to be something to them.

Walking up to one of the gargantuan trees, Kai took out his dagger and tried to cut the bark, only for the blade to bounce off harmlessly along with a few sparks. He could try and climb a tree, but that probably wouldn't be a good idea incase the light peeked through while he's climbing. While he was slightly stupid, he would much rather not fall to his death.

Seconds turned into minutes, and minutes turned into hours. After getting bored, Kai decided to check the status of the tutorial.

Time remaining - 687: 22: 47

Pairs remaining 202/250

Points earned: 45

Kai frowned, nearly thirty hours had passed since he last saw Noelle and Umbra.

How did Creepy's hallucinations only work the second time? And how did it distort time? Or maybe I just ran for that long...

Sighing, Kai pushed the thoughts to the side and continued to walk, and eventually he reached an open area. It was still covered in shade by the oversized tree tops, but it was a big area.

Only in the middle of this area, sat a man on a rock. The man has short brown hair and a charming face, the kind women would swoon over. In fact, he almost seemed to glow a light green.

The man, noticing someone was watching him, looked towards Kai and smiled. Charisma oozed out of the man's smile, any woman who say it would undoubtedly blush if they saw it.

"Ah, hello there my friend, the scenery is quite beautiful, isn't it?"

Kai, a bit confused by the kindness of the stranger as compared to the other two men he met earlier. He was on guard, of course, but something about the man compeled him to relax.

"Ah... yeah, it's great..." Kai tried to sound honest, but all the scenery was just big trees and darkness, nothing special. The man must've noticed his dishonesty though, he sighed and got up off the rock, then wiped his hands on his cotton shirt.

"Well, it was once the most beautiful place in the land, people would flock from all over the kingdom just to peek at it. Alas, that's all gone now..."

Kai felt something from the man... Nostalgia? Nah, it couldn't be... he wouldn't have been alive back then anyway.

Just as Kai was about to ask a question, the man shook his head and said:

"You should probably get going, wasting time in the tutorial is a pretty common way to die. You've got to use all the time you're given... all of it"

Gods... Why so many cryptic messages? If they were this common back home they would've been on postcards.

Frowning, he looked at the man in detail, inspecting him. His confidence, attire... wait, attire? His clothes were different, he doesn't have the leather armour.