Frostbound

My frantic chase east was unsuccessful. Nothing I came across gave any indication of being the culprit. The pylons held by humans were too weak to pull it off and the monsters didn't show signs of anything abnormal.

They clumped around the fallen pylon and showed no initiative of amassing an army with humans. It was a mystery, a mystery that pissed me off.

I wasn't as angry anymore and the only reason I continued my rampage was because I was already doing it. I had been running for a few hours and I might as well have continued. Reach the last pylon on the eastern front just for completion's sake.

The tutorial area was huge and I was only realizing that now. When we first got here it would have taken a person days of travel to go from one end to the other. Now, with stats and skills, it took 8 hours.

To go from one pylon to the adjacent pylon it took me about an hour of sprinting. This was with [Momentum(R)] fully charged and over 600 stat points of strength.

Having that many stat points in agility would have been faster but that wasn't what I had. Strength had a speed of its own though.

I knew that others probably had skills to make them faster than me but I doubted their number exceeded a handful. I was pretty fast and it would take a lot to beat me.

The way the tutorial was set up was mostly a grid. It wasn't a perfect 7x7 grid being that there were 50 pylons, not 49, but it was close. It also wasn't straight lines and perfect squares.

Pylons had a variation to them in their placement which made me zig zag to and fro during my chase. Another annoyance I had to deal with.

Still, my path would soon end and I would have to trek back to camp defeated. Thinking about it pissed me off all over again. Our pylon was on the western side of the northern border so I traversed more than half of the total length in my journey.

It was times like these that I wished for a different skill set. A Ranger's tracking abilities would have come in handy right now.

Coming off [Barbarian's Fury(Un)] was a kick to the stomach.