ability hampered my speed and used up my stamina as I saw a woman laying at the base of a tree on a branch that had obviously been her perch away from the wolf who was attacking her. When I say wolf I don’t mean a pup, this was an actual wolf.
I ran over to where the wolf had a hold of the woman’s leg and brought my staff down hard on its back. The wolf faltered a little but kept shaking the limb as blood started pouring everywhere. I hit the wolf again, this time I had gotten its attention. The wolf turned to me and grabbed ahold of my weapon with its teeth and ripped it out of my hand. I jumped back as the wolf turned back around to fight the woman who was shuffling on the ground to regain her footing. I went after the wolf after grabbing my staff and hit it again as the woman started taking even more damage. She kicked at the wolf with her good leg but I could tell she was getting weak when I had an idea. I clicked on the woman and sent her a party invite which she accepted. I struck the wolf again and could see the woman regain her footing as the wolf now started tearing me apart. The wolf went after my throat and had me down to 8% health as the woman I went to save finally finished it off. A status box pooped in my vision letting me know I had leveled up again and completed the quest.
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The skill still sucked but at least I could see a bright spot forming, the way I read it, 10% experience would affect the entire team, all I needed to level up was to make sure I was never by myself. I limped a bit as Darlene quit my party then ran a few feet before vanishing. I knew she would already be at the town in her stall when I got there. I scavenged the wolf and received its pelt for my trouble. I had barely made it in town as my two enemies were walking out. If I was a little slower they could have killed me without any repercussions. Frankie started towards me but one of the female guards cleared her throat and looked our way. She like all guards here was a level 20 and more than capable of kill me along with the mobsters and throw us all in prison. The mobsters gave me the throat cutting sign and departed as I limped to a potions shop. I walked inside and was met by a girl of no more than sixteen.
“What can I do for you today, you are bleeding everywhere” she said her blond hair flying all over the place.
“I just need some potions to heal up a bit” I replied as I felt real pain fighting that damn wolf. The girl walked to the wall and grabbed a red vial filled with red liquid and handed it to me. I looked at the price and paid the 20 silver and downed the vial. It only restored 20 hit points so I bought four more which at least gave me back a respectable amount of health.
“You know to save yourself a little money you could always visit a skill trainer and learn to make your own potions, I just happen to know one that is real cheap” The girl said as a woman walked from behind the curtain behind the counter.
“Daisha leave this man alone, what did I tell you about being out here anyway?” The woman said scolding the girl. The woman was obviously the alchemist who had made the potions I had drank. She leveled me a stare which told me to get the hell out and I did. I walked a little ways and looked at my map, it was glowing where Darlene’s shop would be so I made my way over to her place. The building was off to one side and I could see several broken down looking ponies and mules in the yard. I scanned them and could see the prices were way out of my price range, 10,000 gold for a broken down pony? Darlene must hadn’t sold any animals on the island but that probably was the point. I walked into her shop where I could see her and the barkeep Tavoria laughing at a joke being told by the alchemist who I had just