Tim woke up at the crack of dawn. He felt a lot less sore now, and most importantly, he was alive, so perhaps it wasn't the worst thing in the world to faint on a while. He had thhly ehe long nap!

  However, as he tried tain his posure, he discovered something really weird. He was covered in this thick, smelly liquid, and he was covered head to toe with it!

  “Gross!!” He squealed.

  Although he couldn't nearly uand how he was covered in this weird, purple juice, he did eventually reize the smell after tless whiffs. He had smelled the same st o bug that he killed, before he fainted a few ho.

  “Looks like one of these ugly bastards had one liy ass, and spat me out.” He guessed this was one of his theories.

  Tim wasn’t left to theorize for long, however, because one of the city guards found him. This was one of the same guards who had escorted him, and the other voluo this pce to begin with, and he seemed as angry as he was relieved.

  “Oh, you're alive? We've been searg everywhere for you!” He excimed.

  Tim wiped some of the gooey muck off of his face, and then said. “I uand why you had a hard time finding me, sir, I think I was in a beetle's gut for a few hours.”

  “That's impossible! Your armor would be corroded if you spent even ten minutes in its gut, and I see that your armor is fi's shining even through the goo.” The other tered, and unfortunately, he made a lot of sense. “I should know, because some beetles ate two volunteers of ours st night, we found their armor!”

  Tim then wracked his brain to figure out what could've happeo him while he was asleep, he tried his best. His memory failed him, however, so he was stumped.

  A sed ter, the system popped up in his head, and expined. [You've been sleepwalking st night, you sleepwalked only once, and I've tracked everything. I could tell you what happened, however, you also use the Soul Grabber ability to track where your soul has traveled thout the night, it's a retively cheap trick, mana-wise. You easily use it on the t of your current, mana quality.]

  Tim was surprised by that offer, and of course, he then got this impulsive urge to try this trick. He ighe guard entirely, and walked around him, with the hope to get things started.

  “Ah… it feels so o walk again.” He sighed, and theivated the Soul Grabber ability.

  However, since his own soul was the target, he had to turn his palm towards his ow, in order tet his own soul. Using his pinky finger, he unleashed a fra of the power on his chest, and thankfully he didn't actally paralyze himself in the process, he did good.

  A sed ter, he saw a transparent image of himself, walking around the hill. He followed it, and ended up he carcass of the st Demole that he had killed.

  Then, he saw himself slig a portion of the beetle's shell using a trated ray of fire, and apparently he had done so just to climb ihe beetle’s shell afterwards! He had stayed two minutes in there, before he walked out of it covered in goo, and from the looks of it, he then had walked ba the field, and slept at the spot where he inally faihe system expihat this little episode happened an hour after he fainted, she was very specific about the timeline.

  “Fasating,” He thought, “Even when I’m unscious, my survival instincts do not fail me. I even remember dreaming about this, the insides of that bug smell even worse!”

  “What are you walking around for?!” The guard then interrupted him, he seemed fed up.

  “Looks like I fainted, sir, because I strained myself killing five of these demonic bastards! I seemed to have sleepwalked into that big guy's shell, to cover my st from the predators. I'm assuming that I looked like a pile of goo at night too, so that's why her of you could fiim expined, he was mostly ho about it.

  “So you killed all these bugs!?” The guard asked, and when Tim he guard screeched like a little girl. “That's amazing! I mao kill two at most myself, but you killed five?! That's definitely worth mentioning to the Guard Master, he'll be pleased.”

  sidering the overall enthusiasm from the other, he assumed that he wasn't in trouble. His mission to attaihird blessing from the priest was as safe as ever now, and he was quite happy about that. He wasn't as happy about the rotten-egg sted goo that was on his skin, though, so he ended up rolling down the hill just to wipe the goo away.

  Whe to the bottom of the hill, he noticed that the guard had not followed him for some reason. This was intriguing, so he climbed up the hill for the sed time to see what the guard to.

  Once he questiohe guard, the other answered. “The tuhat these beetles crawled out of, are awfully close to each other. I'm guessing that there's a below us, so it's best if we stay here and patrol the area. I'm going to send out a distress signal now, we need more men and women on board effective immediately!”

  A sed ter, he shot a type of fireball towards the sky, and then shot two more. The fireballs crashed with each other up in the sky, and created a sort of multi-colored firework dispy, which was sure to grab the attention of anyone who could reize the distress signal!

  The guard then said, “Let’s hope that we don't have to fight more of those bugs, because we're quite weak alone, with all respect to you, and your ret kills, there's unity in numbers. Also, I hear that your friend almost died st night during an enter with one of the Demonic Beetles, she almost died while she was looking for you.”

  “Oh shit!” Tim excimed, “Is she alright?”

  “Yes yes, she's fine. A couple of bruises never killed anyone, and she did spear the beetle through its neck after all, she killed it. We discovered that its neck is its oint thanks to her! But regardless, it’s stupid to face off with a bug alohe other expressed.