Horizon before dawn

Hunting machines was the goal for the day i realy needed the parts to try and craft my own arrows and maybe get some other parts to study and improve like the oseram did, what kind of man would i be if i did not try to make a badass cannon?!

With my loyal focus who i think deserves a name cuting the right parts to sell for shards and trade was not that hard, the hard part was finding someone who would trade with an outcast like me, maybe krest will trade but i havent find him yet, the Nora Embrace is much bigger that the game design so finding someone who travels all over the place is very hard to do.

So early in the morning i got up in hight spirits ready to leave my mark on the world, i put some more wood on the fire so i had something to eat later on for today it was all about the real hunt.

With everything i needed for the day i went to look out for striders, they were my main target because they just run when hit or scared,and if i could hit the gas canister in their back i had a realy good chance of killing my first machine since i got here.

Just thinking on the bigger machines that were going to apper later on gave me a chill down the spine but a quickly put out those thoughts aside, now was not the time for that i still have maybe five or six years.

- A problem for another day, today is time to kill my first machine and get some needed xp.

I wanted to get my very first skill as fast as i could with so much to do and so little time i needed to take more chances going forward.

After a hour or so i finaly saw my target, 3 striders were eating the grass as they normaly do and the best part? There were no watchers nearby.

Activateing my focus to make sure we were all alone i scan all of them and mark their routes, one of them would from time to time take a longer detour that the other two, it was perfect i would wait for the right time and nuke the hell of that canister firing as fast as i could possible do slowing him down in the process of getting a very usefull canister full of blaze.

Staying in total silence focusing on the strider machine i could see all the beauty and dedication that Gaia and Hephaestus both created, it was truly impresive what they did, machines to terrafrom a dying world that were not square and ugly pieces of metal but a true set of art from the ages of the entire planet.

But now was not the time to think about these things, now was the time to kill or be killed such is the world we live in and the strider was now futher away for the other two so they would not trampled me i hoped, it was time to act.

I let the arrow fly to the marked canister and went for another arrow as quick as humanly posible when the first arrow hit the canister it dident blow it off right away, i needed to train my archery skills better and hit it with a more powerful blow but not all was bad the strider was first confused and dident run away before the second arrow hit the canister again and it fell off the strider who was now starting to run away a bit slower i hit it again with another arrow this time on the left leg another arrow run to him but this one time it hit on his damm sunny ass but he was getting further away i let another arrow hit it this time on the left leg again, but it was to late even damaged like that my arrows did not carry much punch to a beast of that size and he got away leaving behind a very important pice of him, a canister full of blaze, with this blaze i could craft fire arrows and next time i will explode that canister for extra damage.

- My first loot. Hehehe.

Just because it got away i did not despair after carefuly picking the canister full of blaze and stored it i activate the focus again trying to see were he run away, for the next hour i traked him, now totaly alone and limping he was for sure looking for a watcher so i had to act fast, pulling my bow from my back puting a arrow on the string and boom it hit him again on his ass the second arrow quickly follow and hit him on the left leg again making him finaly fall down i quickly run to him with my poor woden spear on my hand and did not show him any mercy hiting him in the lens several times like a God damm psycho killer until it stop moving, i had done it, i had kill my first machine at age 10, for two hours i had hunted the beast and now before me layed my well deserved spoils.

- YEAH. HAHAHA.

I could not stop the scream, this was the first of many kills to come, i still needed to improve alot of my skills and gain some muscle but it was a very good start.

I did not want to stay here any longer that i had so activateing my focus i took the best parts i could, the striders did not have much metal that i could use for arrows but with the help of the focus i could at least recouver the arrows i had used on him, but the real prize was the blaze, now all i had to do was finding some elusive trader.

- What a beautiful day.