Darius eventually arrives back at his camp, finding it to be more or less how he left it. It looks like some animals had come through it, but other than that nothing has changed. Darius goes to hunt a hare for food, which takes him half an hour. He comes back to camp and gathers some wood so he can start a fire.

He starts a fire quickly, butchering the hare. He sets some meat on the rocks to cook, before he cleans the skin and stretches it with some rocks. Once the meat finishes cooking Darius eats it quickly before he sits in front of the fire for a while, just looking at it. He soon douses the fire, covering it with dirt. He then goes into the lean-to and lays down to sleep.

In the morning Darius slowly wakes up, looking around a little. He frowns as he hears sounds coming from outside the lean-to. He slowly and quietly gets up and goes towards the door to it. Darius peaks outside, his eyes widening in surprise when he sees men and women in white and blue armor outside looking around his camp. He slowly goes to grab his sword belt, putting it on before he goes back to the door, looking at the identification above the peoples heads. (??? lvl 15)

‘Well shit, I can’t fight them, it might be best to just talk with them if I can.’ Darius looks around, seeing that there are 5 of them, he slowly walks out the door, holding up his hands. Darius is immediately noticed by one of them. “Who are you?” A human woman says as she holds her bow, not yet drawn, but pointing at Darius.

“My name is Darius, as you can see, I’m quite harmless.” He says as he gestures above his head. The rest of the people in white armor are looking at Darius now, frowning as they look above his head. They gather together and start to whisper to each other leaving the woman to watch him.

After about half a minute of discussion they turn and walk towards him “Right, you are going to be coming with us.” The man wearing the fanciest armor says, presumably their leader. “Wait, what? Why?” “You are an unknown, so we are taking you prisoner.” The man says as he grabs some manacles from his side. “Are you going to come along calmly or are you going to cause trouble?”

Darius frowns as he looks at him, but he sighs as he holds his hands out in front of him. “No, I’m not going to cause trouble, I’m not an idiot.” The man nods as he puts the manacles on Darius’ wrists. He then takes Darius’ sword belt off him, putting it in his pack. “Can I at least get your word I’ll get that back once this is all cleared up?” Darius asks while he frowns, looking at the man. “Very well, you have my word that if you are not deemed a threat to everything you can have your weapon back.”

The group soon starts to walk through the forest, heading directly opposite the way to Dravale. No one talks as they walk, leaving the forest in a few hours and walking across the plains. The group continues to walk through the day, only stopping at night to sleep. They set up a watch, but the night passes uneventfully. In the morning they have a quick breakfast before they continue walking. “Prisoner, today we are going to be reaching the city of Aflita, there you will be judged and your fate determined.” The leader of the group says as he looks at Darius. “You say that as if I’m guilty of anything, I haven’t done anything wrong.” Darius says shaking his head. “That may be, but you will still be judged.”

Darius continues to frown as they lead him towards the city, which after another couple of hours of walking comes into view. It has large walls, made of some white stone, with blue banners hanging from it. It takes them half an hour to get to the city, where they are stopped by some guards. “What is your business in the city?” A guard asks the leader of the group. “Sir, we are returning from patrol where we found an unknown” “An unknown huh, take him to the church, they will know what to do with him.” “Yes sir.”

The group is let into the city, Darius looks around at the buildings confused, finding that they all look the same. He is lead through the city soon finding himself in front of what he guesses is the church, but it’s strange in that it looks to be laid out in a spiral pattern.