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Kytse grinned, it seemed full of happyness but... something was wrong, it felt a bit... shallow. His sword strapped to his back he started walking down the winding path, they would most likeley have to cross the Eldvah planes, green grassland with rolling hills of gold, then make their way through the black-wood, this was what un-settled him, they should rest on the border and wait until morning, blackwood was treacherous at night.

With that the group gathered some things and set off down the winding path, Kytse was carrying a rather large backpack, with his sword, food and bedrolls, he seemed to be having some difficulty but his training had made him naturally strong, he rememberd his teacher ordering him to lug anong huge rocks, doing laps around the feild on the small farm they lived in.

Kytse hated his teacher but - without him, he wouldnt become what he was today. Maybe hating him was just a way to keep him close to his...

Nah.

A roar sounded through-out, a large bear came from the growth and stood there, suddenly it stood up on its high legs and spoke, its voice deep and rugged.

"The gods have sent me to... challange you, the old gods, those who do not supply the gods hand and reside in no temples - do not smile on such pointless actions."

Kytse simply grinned, "I like it better that way."

The bear glanced and continued, "Sho will be re-born, and its not-"

Kytse inturrupted him, "Dont say its not worth it, the calm lasts a few years at least, during that time we can build and re-grow, and recover from the last period that Sho roamed, to even... to live in a peacefull world where there is no sho, even for a few years... Gives us hope."

The bear grinned and four others lumbered from the forest, they charged at the group, kytse brung out his sword and dropped his backpack, he lunged at the original bear, the sword did not peice and made a scratch in the bears tough armor, a deadly claw came upon Kytse, who was just able to raise a small arcane ward to deflect it. Kytse snapped his fingers and a small fire explosion his the bears face, burning the skin, these bears werent ordinary, they were infused by magic, that explosion would have blown and ordinary bears face off, for Kytse had planted it within the skull but through divine intervention it had merley distracted and sazed the bear, Kytse lashed out, createing a small tear in the sking, and some blood sprayed from it, Kytse side-stepped from another vicous swipe and brung his sword down on the beasts kneck, the beast sheinded it with a paw and caught Kytse bareley on the cheek, makeing some minor scratches, kytse quickly healed it and then blasted the bear with wind, knocking it over, kytse leaped into the air and brung his sword down on the bear, it peiced through its belley, the beat gasped, inetveably dying slowly, kytse let out a long sigh.

"You dont deserve to die slowly, even if you serve the old gods." Kytse whispered and the bear goraned with pain, kytse snapped his fingers and the bears mind suddenly vanished, engulfed in fire, therefor instantly killing the bear, is husk dropped to the floor.

Kytse turned to his freinds who were combating the bears, it was obivous he should not intervene, this was important to beat both the old gods challange and get the new gods approval, each had to fight their respective bear, with no help. Divine wards were wrapped around the others anyway, preventing anyone from going out, or in.

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