Fight or fright?

Matlok seems to be a dwarf with a long beard and hair. He has shiny plate armor on him and engineer googles. He seems to be interested in me and he's sizing me up, now he's taking out some sort of book or diary and begins to draw or write something. Cannot say for sure what because I don't see much and I'm scared to move because Utula is still standing beside me. Matlok looks at her "Let us be alone Utu, don't worry he is one of us, and even if not then he cannot touch me. " Utula angrily breathes and then goes out. Matlok looks at me and begins studying me for a long time and sometimes he writes something in his book. Then he looks seriously on my belt or more precisely on my daggers and with an ugly face he starts to turn red from anger and then yells.: "Where did you! You! You! Get that item?? The ceremony daggers aren't supposed to be in human or any other race's hands. They have been created only for him! Yes just for him! Give them to me now and I will let this treachery slide.... ! " After some time he calmed down and with a normal face he started to speak again " I'm sorry for my temper but actually the daggers that you have where did you find them.?? "

the whole time I didn't move like I was thunderstruck and when he asked two more times I finally woke up. "Oh, they were in general Adams camp stored for someone who didn't come. That was said to me and that I'm supposed to take them for a spin. "

Persuasive check roll succeeded. That wasn't been there for a long, Oh god.

He looked with a thinking face at me and then just told " I have one thing that I need you to do. If you do it you can take the daggers, let me tell you what before you accept. When you get into the demon castle to get out people, I need you to destroy the anvil room with the explosives that I give you and that's all. If you accept you will get 3 things from me. " He goes to one shelf and takes out something looking like a grenade with a knot, I actually don't have anything to lose if I accept but on the side that I decline there is a chance that he will send Utula to kill me and collect the dagger. Still, he can just be bluffing with his facial expression to scare me because he needs me to accept the mission. " I actually. .... .... Accept! " He looks at me surprised and he slowly walks to some table. On the table, I can see explosives of many types and some paperwork. He takes one that looks like a grenade and with a serious face he starts to talk again " My dear, this one is my new prototype and it can destroy many things, you just need to light up the knot. About the swords..... In our people's mythology, there's one story about these daggers or swords depending on how you humans call them. One day a traveler who came from other world started to fight for justice and the unity of nations. Our best blacksmith the god of dwarves Ronah created a gift for him. That gift has the power of traping demons and gods and to use their power, that is what made other gods worried and in one battle they killed the traveler but the daggers disappeared along with his body. ..... Now excuse me and go to sleep. I still have work to do. "

He seems to have disappeared? What ??? Oh no, that was just an illusion he's standing near another table, looks like I was in trance for some time. Let's go outside, seems like Utula is waiting for me and that's somehow nice. She doesn't talk then why should I? She takes me to my room and now we're there, but the room looks somehow nice.... You can see a table and a bed, walls and even candles. It's better than I thought it would be.

Next morning.

"Yawn" I'm so sleepy but seems like it's time to get up, I didn't know that you can actually sleep in the game and rest when your real body is resting and sleeping. It's as if this is real life and real life is just an illusion. Let's get moving or Utula will be angry and do something to me. Hmm, she isn't standing behind the doors? Let's go to the meeting room, oh they are all here, they seem to have some discussion, actually, I don't know if I can go inside? Before I decide they seem to finish talking and Utula sees me, oh no she walking to me.....

Utula.: " Good morning, I didn't think you would actually be awake this soon. Let's go to her so I can get off babysitting you. " She seems a little irritated, I wonder why?

Utula.: "Lady Elise there you have your toy. Enjoy." And with that, she disappears in the shadows, how she does it is a mystery to me but that's for another time.

Elise.: "Please excuse Utula. She is mean because I shouted at her for what she did yesterday because she was supposed to train you but she only tested if you're good to be an assassin and then kicked you to the normal scouts. She said that you failed her test because when she told you to not think you did it on the first try but then you thought that she is the target and hit the mark. I apologize for her I'll take you with me to the castle today. You will stay by my side so don't leave me till I tell you ok? "

Before I can answer she starts to talk again. " Oh, I actually forget to ask you first If you want to go with us. You're not fully one of us in an aspect like you're just a messenger and this is a suicide mission. Do you want to Fight or Fright in this battle??. "

Finally, I can answer but this gives me the chills like I want to escape and live but I started to like people around even though Utula is cold and the dwarf is just a dwarf but Elise looks beautiful, and sincerely so I want to help her.

" I want to fight but I cannot stay by your side after we get in the castle. I will help you free the people and then complete some missions from my friends who want me to help them too." She looks sad but she seems to accept it then starts thinking and preparing her items. She smiled at me and with a smiling face, she whispers" You know that you can die and you still want to go with me, looking at me as if I'm the reason why you go. I will protect you with my life so you will not die. " I didn't hear what she said, because I started to prepare myself and start to sharpen my daggers. When everyone is prepared we moved slowly and stealthily near the castle and one of our members inside opened the gate for us. We take the guards out and move to the jail when we get there we know that something isn't right because the way here was too simple. Scouts started to free people but my target the commander isn't there. I moved to a different room with Elise and found him locked on chair, we wake him up and he just smiles bitterly and whispers to my ear " You fools, you actually let yourself be lured here, they didn't do anything to me. They told me that nobody will come for me and that I need to wake up and see the truth but I trusted you that you will show and there you are. Thanks but we need to get out of there before... " A bell can be heard ringing outside " This happens...." Elise asked me "What did he tell you?" and I just showed her that we need to get out of there and fast. Don't know if she got it but she looked like she knows what I wanted to say. I moved to the blacksmith and found documents that I needed to get but they were only some inscriptions of metal and furnace but I take it anyway. Then I light grenade and start to run when I got to Elise and helped her to take commander we started to quickly move. The grenade exploded and half of the castle started to fall down right when we get out, but this doesn't look good. I saw scouts and Utula fighting demons so soldiers can escape, many started to die and demons started to overwhelm the scouts, I looked around and many soldiers from the prison can walk and fight so I started to get angry. I looked at the commander and Elise and then I yelled.: " Everyone look at me !! Soldiers, do you see me? I'm one of the scouts and when I look around I see cowards, you know why? Because we are running when our brothers are trying to stall the demons instead of fighting. I am not asking you to die but I am asking you to be a soldier of your country and show the demons we are not scared of them. Our army is supposed to arrive and maybe many of you lost hope that they will arrive but we will die like heroes who helped each other. If you want to return to your family then escape but don't forget the brothers and people who died so that you could escape like cowards. You can lie to your family, children, or parents but you cannot lie to yourself and it will hunt you if you escape. Who will stay with me and fight ? Who will show the demons that we are not the ones to be dragged down?. " For some time silence can be heard but then the commander steps up leaning on his sword and looks at me with gratitude. "You speak truth young one, I'm injured but that will not stop me, because you showed me what it is to be a soldier because you don't fight for the king or yourself. You fight for the people!!!!!!" With that he sprinted in enemy lines. Elise smiled and stayed by my side, but when others saw the commander they showed smiles and yelled "We are humans and nobody can drag us down. For the scouts!!!! For the scouts!!! " When I wanted to go fight them too, enemy commander targets me with his bow and Elise quickly sprints to him but I can't help her because I met my old friend. Hunter who helped me now is standing before me, I ask him " Why are you a human standing on side of demons? I don't get it ... "

Hunter.: "Because I'm no longer human. In the past, I nearly died and our kingdom didn't help me. Maybe it's different now but I'm not here like a demon soldier anyway, he only asked me to stall you and not to kill you so he can kill her. I'm sorry but it must be that way because otherwise we normal citizens will die at the hands of the demons because we helped you, humans. " He then draws his bow and shoots against me, but this time my hands reacted without thinking and I deflected the arrow like when I pierced the figurine's heart in Utula training.

It looks like muscle remembered it even that I done it two times and maybe it just luck worked but then I sprinted to him because when you meet archer your only option is to close distance. But it was been late, I can see how Elise got an arrow in her heart and died. I cannot do anything and I feel so powerless I start to cry and the Hunter disappears. I can hear the horns of our human army and then it happened. Near me, a Rift started to create and it sucks me inside, I wake up near Aurora and she starts to talk " Congratulations you completed the training and now you can complete character creation. Do you want to keep your appearance? " I cannot talk for some time and with anger and hate, I wanted to yell at her but something told me that's pointless and so I just answered " Of course " and logged myself off. I woke up in the morning, cannot believe I was been in that game one full day.