Walking into the cavern Raven makes sure to keep an eye on his surroundings the smell of death is never a good sign and good chances something is living down here. Walking slow and steady bow drawn and arrow knocked he looks around the area, the floor is covered in small rocks crunching under his feet as he walks there are no walls in sight and the roof is still far out of sight. He can hear droplets of water splashing down from time to time but never in the same direction which makes him think there is no body of water near him just moisture from the roof dripping down keeping everything wet. As he walks farther into the cavern he can see a faint light flowing in the distance approaching it he comes upon a stone statue of a human man holding a scale in one hand and a bag in another the statue faintly glowing a golden glow, at the bottom of the statue a plaque reads “to honor the God of Commerce Drax he place this statue in the depths near the horde in hopes to gain his favor” Raven looks around with interest hoping to find some kind of treasure all he sees in the distance is another faint glow this one red.

  Walking to the red glow he finds yet another statue this one of a man with tusks coming out either side of his mouth holding a two headed battle axe in heavy armor a plaque reading “ God of War Felax may his influence hold the tide at bay. Looking around the alter there appears to be dried blood smeared around and on the alter, a few old rusted weapons that seem like they will fall apart trying to even pick them up, there appears to be bones spread around the alter in no order some of the bones show damage from teeth and sharp cuts a few bones appear to be broken with clean cuts. Looking over the statue one last time Raven finds nothing in the area of interest looking around one last time he notices yet another faint glow in the distance this one a faint gray, walking over to it he finds a statue of a man but his eyes ears mouth and nose are all missing, in his hands he holds an hour glass the size of a cat, the figure wears a cape slightly off his body as if in a light breeze around the statue are a few time pieces none of which seem to work a couple sand glasses and sun dials. Looking to the plaque at the base it reads “God of Time Falknor here he place his statue in honor of the ancient ones who slumber here.” Ravens eye brow quirks up “ancient ones that slumber here… yeah… that's not good.” Looking around he sees yet another statue this one fairly close to the god of time, walking to it he looks it over.

  The statue before him is large at least five times the size of the last statues it glows a very faint yellow almost not glowing at all, the statue depicting what appears to be a giant hairless mole rat with shark claws and teeth its skin sags heavily around its joints between the folds are small creatures of varying races seemingly clinging to the giant mole rat looking to the plaque it reads “God of Monsters Lijkith may his influence keep the ancients from waking for if they wake the world will fall.” Raven nodding his head “yep I knew I was right really should not be poking my nose around here, but you know… I’m going to anyways…” looking around he sees no other glows and still cannot see the walls or roof, with a shiver he continues on the same direction the statues seemingly lead, walking for a while Raven notices the ground smoothing out almost to the point it looks polished looking around he sees in the distance something standing two feet tall thirty feet from him, approaching it he looks it over appearing to be some kind of fire pit light source but the brass bowl at the top of the stone pillar has nothing in it the brass bowl scorched on the inside, Raven shrugs stuffing the Brass bowl into his bag. “This will do nice as a cooking bowl for now”

  Looking back down the direction he has been walking he feels something tugging at his sense, a hint of fear and and dread creeping in he draws his bow and knocks an arrow moving forward slowly. A few minutes go by and Raven finds himself staring at another glow far in the distance this one glowing black and purple with a dark mist surrounding it, coming to the front of the statue Raven looks at the statue with amazement, the mist seemingly blocking the statue from being fully seen only parts of it showing but not enough to make anything out, it appears to depict a human male holding a human skull in his right hand, looking for the plaque there is only a few words carved into the stone at the feet of the statue “The Fallen one, God of Death” “fuck…” mutters Raven as he starts backing up slowly looking around the statue there does not appear to be anything around It but as he is taking steps away from the statue a strong sense of dread comes over him, as if something very big and very angry just turned its eyes to him. “Nope!” Raven shouts as he turns and starts to run the way he came as fast as he can. As he runs he hears coming from the statue a man laughing loudly in a standard evil boss way the laugh echoing in the cavern. “Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck!” shouts Raven as he runs. The ground starts to shake as he runs for his life as he passes the statues he previously passed he can see them flash brighter than before and the sense of dread starts to dissipate slowly. Making it to the entrance of this cavern Raven looks back and can see the black and purple mist following behind him a fair distance behind him, as it passes a statue they flash and some of the mist disappears but continues moving towards Raven. He runs out of the cavern and turns to make his way to his camp when he hears something to his left, looking over he sees it roughly six hundred feet away standing in a field staring right at him his worst nightmare, a T-Rex in all its terrifying glory. With a roar the T-Rex starts its slow stomp towards Raven, with a groan Raven runs as fast as he can hoping he can make it to his tunnel before the T-Rex makes it to him as it wont fit in his tunnel, He thinks about going into the tunnel where he found the man and his journal but really does not want to die there, at least at his tunnel he has the zone protecting him food and water maybe he can figure something out to save himself.

  Running for his life Raven is making good time to his tunnel looking over his shoulder the T-Rex seems to be having troubles running on the ground so its walking briskly towards Raven just barely gaining on him. Raven finally makes it to his tunnel scooping up Kemo as it jumps up and down outside the tunnels, looking over his shoulder he sees the T-Rex thirty feet behind him as he runs into the tunnel the sound of a loud snap then a bang as the Rex snaps its jaws at him and crashes into the side of the mountain. Raven runs to his room in a panic putting Kemo on his bed and telling it to stay Kemo seems to under stand nodding and staying put, Raven paces around the room trying to think what he might be able to do, unsure what to do Raven drops onto his sitting log stroking his chin while he thinks.

  After about an hour of thinking and listening to the T-Rex trying to dig its way into his tunnel an idea pops into his head. “Why isn’t the zone working on this damn thing it should be asleep or leaving by now” pulling the brass bowl out of his bag Raven runs over to the slime room lowering the cart to the slime but stopping just before, carefully sliding down using the rope to balance himself he dips the bowl into the slim pulling some of the slime out putting the bowl on the cart on an angle not to spill any of it he climbs back up the rope pulling the cart up and retrieving the bowl. Heading back to his room with the bowl he notices the bowl smoking the smoke choking Raven as he starts to cough violently running to the entrance of his tunnels he finds the T-Rex standing there looking the other way Raven shouts at it trying to get its attention, for a moment the T-Rex doesn’t move just standing there staring somewhere else when it finally turns towards him. When Raven looks to its eyes he notices the color of them, a dark purple with black and purple mist slowly flowing out its mouth and back in. “For fuck sakes can’t I cant a god damn break, seriously what the fuck is this!?” The T-Rex smiles of all things at Ravens comment then makes a lung for him snapping at him, Raven steps back just being missed and throws the bowl into the T-Rexes mouth, The T-Rex roars in agony stumbling back as the slime eats away at its mouth and tongue steam blasting out the dinosaurs mouth in large volume. Raven runs back to his tunnel and watches as the T-Rex thrashes about roaring in pain and slamming its head on the rocks, as it does it begins throwing thick blood around the area watching for what feels like hours as the T-Rex thrashes around leaving blood everywhere its flesh starts to fall off in hand full. After the flesh starts to fall off it doesn’t take long for the T-Rex to finally drop to the ground and die. “Level 30 T-Rex defeated No EXP earned.” “What the fuck why not!?” staring at the T-Rex as it continues to melt with resentment Raven walks towards it pulling out his dagger and drops his bag he gets to work carefully removing what he can without getting burned from the slime, managing to pull the jaw off fairly easily be salvages a chunk with 5 large teeth on it, cutting a section of hide off it capable of wrapping around him twice separating from the body with just pull.

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  By the time Raven pulls the hide from the body the majority of the T-Rex Is reduced to nothing more than a pile of melting goo sizzling and steaming he sees the blue slim reform a top the goo pile much larger than it was before, now sitting three feet high and two feet wide the slime sits there wiggling when it starts to roll towards him. “Aw what now!?” Raven starts to run for his tunnel again as the slime rolls in after him, turning around Raven casts his water spell forming a ball of water in front of him filling the tunnel between himself and the slime. As the slime hits the water Raven pushes it towards the slime with a screech the slime explodes throwing water and slime everywhere some of the slime getting on Raven instantly starting to burn his arms and legs. Raven screams in pain as he gets blasted backwards into his room tumbling head over feet in a painful cart wheel he comes to a stop in the middle of his room, rolling around in pain Raven dives into the pond the water starting to boil instantly steam raising from the pond as Raven thrashes in the water, slime slowly coming off as it boils off in the water. After a painful minute the slime dissolves in the water Raven gets out of the water as its heat starts to burn him and having the scolding water on his wounds is just pure agony. Raven collapses on his bed passing out from the pain with a loud and painful thud.

  Raven awakens a few hours later in a large amount of pain, looking himself over his clothing is gone melted off and a large portion of his body is red and blistered blood leaking from some of the blisters that have burst. Raven breaks down into tears the agony to much to bare, he moans in pain shaking with the effort to stand he can feel his stats working to heal him but its slow and painful. Raven looks to the pond and he feels sick to his stomach looking to the water, black as charcoal the water is tainted with the acid and what it melted off him in time it will recover but for now that water is fouled. Grabbing some food and casting water filling his water skins with the magic he drinks and eats what he can near breaking down in tears again with the effort deciding there's nothing he can do with no bandages or way to really clean his wounds he decides to cast water on himself to wash what he can off then goes back to his bed to sleep off what he can, through out the night he feels sharp stabbing pains and starts to feel shivers looking to his status page he finds a debuff “fevered, lose fifty percent stamina gain, health regen and mana regen.”

  Raven awakens an unknown time later wet tired and cold he looks about finding Kemo sleeping on the other side of the room curled in a ball, Raven tries to stand and finds himself very weak starving and dehydrated, looking to his rack he finds very little left some small scrapes of meat that will not be enough eating that drinking his water and collecting a few mushrooms eating them he sits on his stump looking to his status page again, not seeing an ailment Raven sighs in relief he slowly gets up. “Hey Kemo you ok there little guy?” Kemo looks at him sniffs the air and gags looking at him then goes back to resting. Raven sniffs himself and almost pukes “go god what the hell is that smell, I'm sorry little guy that's horrible” Casting water on himself once again, cool water forms above his head in a bubble then he releases it dropping the water on himself as the cold water runs down his body touching his wounds he screams in pain “fucking hell that's painful” biting down Raven scrubs his skin with his hands as best as he can and casts the water spell again washing off what gunk he can. After cleaning up his area and rinsing his bedding he takes it outside to dry off in the sun, as he comes to the tunnel where the slime exploded the rock seems to survived the acid changing a bright white color almost like bleached bones, walking outside the T-Rex body is mostly gone all the meat long rotted away all that remains are its two small hands, it seems they fell off as the Rex melted. Collecting the teeth claws and hide he brings them back into his tunnel and starts working away on the hide, it seems sitting in the sun cured it partly the goo seemingly helping to tan the hide, Raven makes a makeshift toga with the hide as walking around naked just doesn’t feel right, using some fishing line Raven attaches the claws to a long stick making a sort of spiked club and making a necklace with the teeth. With a chuckle he puts the necklace on, doing a spin looking to Kemo Raven says “what do you think bad ass? Or just ass?” Kemo scoffs at him then squawks jumping up and down. Raven nods “sure sure let me get you something” grabbing a mushroom off the ground tossing it towards Kemo, with a hop and a snap Kemo grabs the mushroom out of the air eating it.

  Raven waits another day before journeying outside the tunnel going to the lake front to fish needing to collect some food. Sitting at the waters front he collects a few bugs and starts fishing using them as bait, taking a few hours he manages to catch a few small fish enough to feed him and Raven for the day he decides to head back still weak hurting and tired. Getting back to his room he sits down and starts cleaning and cooking the fish when a thought strikes him “ I never got a kill notice for the slime did I? Is that because it was part of the other slime, but I thought it said if I removed part of it that would make a new one… God I hope that thing isn’t still alive somewhere waiting to kill me.” Looking around he makes a thorough check of his area checking the slime room the food storage room and even going up and checking the moss and crabs, not finding anything he sighs in relief and heads back to his room still tired he decides to sleep it off, collecting a few mushrooms and filling his water skins when he needs he stays in the cave for a few days healing up.