Shadow Of The Crimson King

Chapter 2: Press Start

Decided to finally post on Wattpad again after a while, and again, this story will be published under the same title as well as the same author (Scarcedawn22) on Wattpad, Fanfiction.net, and Archive Of Our Own!
Also, I forgot how annoying editing is on here 🫠
It's been a while, and I hope everyone enjoys!
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Issie took a step inside the cave and looked around to see it was dark like he expected. This of course made things very difficult.

"I can't see a thing, how am I going to fight monsters if I can't even see my own hand?"

{I got you covered}

/You Have Learned The Skill: Night Vision\

Night Vision: Be able to see in low light

-Will automatically be turned on in low light
(can be disabled)

-Passively increases your SEN stat by 20 in low light

-Decreases your SEN stat if used in broad daylight

-You will be temporarily blinded and disoriented if you look at a light that is bright enough in a dark place.

Instantly he was able to see everything around him. He looked at his hands and feet before looking at the cave walls. He looked into the darkness of the cave and got an eerily feeling, but he deduced that it was his uneasiness.

The Red Dragon Emperor trekked along for a couple of minutes with nothing interesting happening.
"Just rock, rock, and more rock. Man can something interesting happen already? Like come on-OOF!"

Issie had luckily caught himself as he tripped over something. He looked down and picked up what he thought was a long rock but turned out it was a bone. He didn't know what type of bone it was or who it belonged to, but he did know that those bite marks must have come from someone and it definitely wasn't him.

Continuing on he started to find more and more bones. He didn't pay mind to them until he found a skeleton that was much bigger than the other bones he came across. He didn't know what the animal was until he saw it's head and it became obvious. What other animal that big has a horn like that?

"A rhino.... but what is a rhino doing in Europe?" Issei didn't know a lot about animals, but he at least knew the basics. He pondered for a moment until he all became clear.

"That is a Wooly Rhino isn't it?"

{You're right about that, welcome to the Ice Age, where every mammal you know is on steroids. It looks like the severe weather and animals stalled humans from migrating into Europe while at the same time killing the Neanderthals. This prolonged the lifes of animals that would be extinct by thousands of years}

'Crap' he thought while continuing walking on
'I knew this was going to be hard but I'm going to be fighting literal beast.'

*growl*
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...
...
'That ain't good.'

[DODGE!]

Issei dived to his side narrowly missing the animal that tried to tear his throat out.
Issei performed a handstand and bounced off the wall and landing back on his feet. 'I guess my strength and agility is paying off'. He then got a good look at what attacked him. Turns out it was a wolf, a giant wolf at that, it slowly stalked towards Issei while baring its teeth.

"Observe!"

Cave Wolf

HP: 500/500

MP: 0