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Chapter 6
by moonblack
What do you do?
Attack the Orcs
"The battles will only get harder from now on - might as well get as much practice as I can..." You tell yourself as you decide to sneak attack the orcs. Fortunately all three are focused on the armored figure, who keeps trying - and failing - to get away from them, so they do not notice as you move closer.
When you're close enough you hold your longsword with both hands, aim at the middle of one orc's back, and thrust forward. The blade passes through the orc's body without any resistance and comes out the other side. For a few brief moments the unfortunate orc just stands there, unmoving, likely trying to comprehend what has happened to him, then his scimnitar slips from his grip and falls down to the ground. The sound of metal hitting the stone floor causes one of the other two orcs to turn around and look, and his eyes widen in surprise when he sees what you have done.
You pull your blade out of the - hopefully - dead orc and let his body fall down next to his fallen weapon. Wasting no time you take a defensive stance just as the surprise in the second orc's eyes gets replaced by anger. He lets our a roar and attemtps to cut you down with his curved blade, but you manage to parry the blow. This only makes him even angrier, and he starts attacking you relentlessly, swinging his scimitar widely. Fortunately in his anger he is not even trying to aim his blows, and so you are able to dodge, deflect or parry them all. Finally, after dozens of wild swings, the orc makes a mistake and leaves himself open to attack. You sieze the chance and attempt to cut off his sword arm. Though you fail to do so you manage to wound him badly enough to make him drop his scimitar. Not guiving him a chance to recover or retreat you quickly stab him three times with your longsword, killing him.
After the orc falls down you stab him once more for good measure, and then look for the last one. You see him fall on top of the armored figure - apparently they managed to kill each other while you were busy. You check once more to make sure all three orcs are dead and then pause as you realize that, even if it wasn't very challenging, this is your first real battle and real victory here at the Arena.
The sound of heavy footsteps interrupts you before you can even think about celebrating. You look around and see that a large green-skinned ogre holding a large wooden club has appeared in the room where you fought the skeleton earlier. The ogre is watching you carefully but does not move to enter the room where you are.
Suddenly the five closed wooden doors open on their own. The one that is to the left of the ogre seems to be leading to a body of water, most likely a lake or a river. Next to it is a door leading to a cave of some sort. The third door leads to a room with a... bed? The fourth one leads to a room with the statue of some woman - maybe a goddess? - inside. The fifth one leads to a place with a lot of vegetation - grass, flowers, bushes and at least three trees. And the door that is to the right of the ogre seems to be leading to a stone bridge built over a chasm.
"Wait, that's not right! That's one door - and one wall - too many!" You realize and count the doors one more time, just to be sure. As you do so you notice that the bodies of the dead orcs and their unfortunate victim have all vanished without a trace.
"Well, I guess I missed my chance to search them for useful items..." You think aloud. That's when you notice them - cracks appearing in the stone floor. As you watch more and more cracks appear, and the ones already there grow longer and wider. You look at the walls and notice similar cracks appearing everywhere. You look at the ogre and see him smirking as he keeps looking at you. There are no cracks that you can see in his room.
As more and more cracks appear and pieces start falling from the celining you realize that you must get out of the room, and fast. The question is: Which way to go?
Which way do you go?
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