11. Level Up
Gravity reasserted itself on Alex’s body, causing his hair and clothes to fall back down.
His forward momentum continued at the same walking pace he’d had when approaching the Rift from the other side.
Even though Alex found himself in a forest once again, it was clearly different in a number of ways from the park that he’d just left.
Alex looked at his surroundings and dismissed the blue window that appeared in his vision before he took the time to read it. He continued to look around but couldn’t see much movement. The only sounds that could be heard were a light drizzle of rain and the drip of water from higher branches. There were some clear signs that others had made their way through the area, but no movement in sight.
His shoulders tensed as he scanned the wet underbrush and the dense foliage that surrounded him looking for the boars that Red Beanie had mentioned. Even though he hadn’t felt like his life was in danger while in the last Rift, Alex knew that things could, and likely would, be very different this time around.
After a few tense seconds, Alex was fairly sure that he wasn’t going to be attacked and didn’t see any other humans standing around. He moved a short distance away from the portal and looked back at the window the System had prompted him with.
| Personal Quest: Culling the Boars Kill 10 Forest Boars. Rift Quest: Corrupted Forest Uproot the corruption before the Ancient Forest Biome becomes a Corrupted Forest.
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