Journeys start and grinding monsters

Alastairs mom handed him a beautiful glimmering blue gem in the shape of a tear with a neat symbol somehow on the inside of it. after eating a couple of hearty bowls of chili emma went back to her house while alastair sat in his bed staring at the jewel hanging from a leather thread with a complicated expression. 'the hero of the world huh , guess the joke really is on me this time.' he thought with a sigh before turning in for the night since he is quite tired from his trip up the tor.

A week had passed from that day and today was the day were alastair was finally started his journey into the world where the first place he needed to go was to the royal palace of heliodor in order to seek aid from the king for his heroic mission. alastair dressed in his all weather travel gear with his self made necklace equipped as well as his tin sword. after the conversation with his mom alastair had completed his coming of age quest getting enough exp to level up once which gave him ten skill points to spend as well as letting him pick his first noninherent perk.

The perks he had to choose between were the usual ones from fallout 3 for level two with the exception of what each of them did. daddies boy didn't work the same as in fallout 3 as in this world alastairs dad wasn't a scientist. instead of adding plus five to medicine and science it added that amount to small weapons and athletics. the rest of the perks were also adapted to this world as well with the exception of lady killer and swift learner which worked the same as in fallout 3.

Alastair didn't know how high the level cap was for his system but if it was anything like fallout 3 swift learner was far too tempting to get since an additional ten percent exp whenever exp was earned would make his life far easier. at his next level up alastair had decided he would grab the lady killer perk since at least half of the population was female as well as some monsters as well and he didn't know when that little bit of charm against females would come in handy in the future but at the very least it would make it easier for him not to remain a virgin like he was in his previous life.

Alastair walked to the exit of the village taking in the nostalgia as he might not return here for a long time. emma tried to wish him off as well but ended up running away in tears making alastair sigh as he was aware of how she felt about him. alastair himself however wasn't interested in her beyond friendship as his personality was completely different then hers. walking to the north side of the village alastair was greeted by the rest of the village who had shown up to wish him well.

The village chief gave alastair a whistle that would let him summon any mount he had which at the moment was a magnificent white stallion that alastair himself had grew up taking care of and training into a true beast of a horse with rippling muscles and a head held high in arrogance. ironically because of alastairs training with the stallion it refused to let anyone other than alastair ride him due to extreme pride and the only reason for this is because after figuring out how much stronger he was than any of the villagers it refused to submit.

That was until it tried to do the same to alastair who promptly slammed the stallion into the ground and stood with his foot on the horses throat while staring it in the eyes. after that the stallion mellowed a bit but still only listened to alastair much to the ranch owners dismay. as a result alastair ended up having to purchase the horse with all of his savings because the rancher demanded compensation for an amazing horse that is completely useless to anyone but alastair and left with no choice alastair unwillingly forked over his savings.

Alastair accepted the whistle and said his goodbyes to the rest of the villagers and was about to walk enter the cave path headed towards heliodor when emma ran up out of breath and handed him a blue charm bag with red draw string that she said she made to bring him luck before he thanked her with a sad smile before saying goodbye and walking into the cave like road officially leaving his village life behind. the road was smooth and straight as alastair traveled soon reaching an open area with four different paths each leading to different places.

the path north lead to heliodor the path behind him lead to cobblestone the path to the right lead to the coast and the path to the left lead to the manglegrove. the clearing had a few monsters roaming about calmly including needlers , slimes and even a few stark ravens that stood of false human skulls with large sharp beaks and purple feathers. alastair drew his tin sword and began massacring the monster only netting him fifty exp three slime drops two lambs wool from the needlers and a couple of feathers from the stark ravens all in all not a bad haul for the effort he put in.

heading down the path towards heliodor found an ore crystal that gave him some copper when he mined it before moving on to a large valley with a few trees here and there with monsters roaming about wantonly. there were the strange giant cucumber looking monsters with makeshift stone spears called cruelcumbers as well as stark ravens and small bat monsters called drakys as well as dog sized rabbit like monsters with a large spiral horn on their foreheads called bunnycorns. alastair of course slaughtered any monster he could netting him a huge volume of materials as well as enough exp to level up again giving him the lady killer perk that flooded his mind with knowledge of how to impress females of all races. with the skills points he had saved from his last level up alastair now had twenty points.