Aren was dropped of inbetween the border of his home kingdom of River - ale and the Republic of Aparthia. He only had his short word and hope with him. His best bet was to cross over to the Republic and make his way from there.
He also considered the fact that he hadn't had his primary skill appraised. So the best thing was to hope that he got a skill accustomed to combat and become an adventurer. But the first town he would encounter was most likely a few days away and since he didn't have any food or any means of finding food the best thing for him to do was to conserve his energy.
But the lands in between the borders where harsh so instead of relying on finding a town , he instead had to rely on finding a village to gather up some resources such as water and food.
Now with that in mind he walked without taking a break for hours in the blistering heat since he was planning to relax at night and sleep of the hunger at night.
Slowly the sky started to dim down and the moon and the stars began to make themselves visible. He decided to sleep while leaning on a tree that looked the most comfortable to sleep on.
Just as he started to dose of he heard a howl that woke him up immediately. He started looking around to see where the sound came from. And when he turned his back a giant shadowy figure leaped from the bush and pounced on him.
It was a dire wolf although this one was larger than usual.. no it was gargantuan. It quickly overpowered him and pinned him on the ground. He tried to shove it off of him to no avail. This wasn't a moment where he would have to rely on brute strength, it was a moment where he would have to rely on his intelligence.
He looked around to see which object he could use to stun it for a small window of time in order to level the playing field. And he quickly spotted it quickly. He used his left hand to block the attempts to bite his face clean of , and with his right he grabbed a large stone and started slamming it across the wolf's jaw. Using this small window of time he quickly pushed it of and rolled away.
He had scratches all over his face. Some shallow and some deep or deep enough to be a problem later. He unsheathed his sword and quickly took a stance.
"It looks like food brought itself to me.. just my luck , now then come at me" he roared indignantly and stamped his foot on the ground.
The wolf grunted and leaped at him with great speed. He quickly side stepped and slashed at its neck.
He ran at it and started to build up momentum. And as it leaped at him he slid under it and slit it apart.
"Great ...food" he said.