The baron quickly scrambled out of the building, threatening that this wouldn't be the last time she heard from him.

"Was it wise to shoot an arrow at him?" Merlin asked as he approached. "Even if you missed on purpose, he's going to run around and be a nuisance now, isn't he?"

"It wasn't on purpose..." Callisto mumbled while putting the arrow she nocked back into her quiver.

"What?" Merlin retorted, unsure if he had heard that correctly.

"I was aiming for his head." She said. "But my hands went numb."

Merlin stood there for a few moments, unsure what to say, or if he should even say anything.

"That isn't good." Merlin remarked, completely ignoring the part about her intent to seriously maim or kill a man. "Maybe you should go pay a visit to Tuli and get those hands taken care of. They took quite a beating and it wouldn't be good if you developed permanent nerve damage."

"I'm just waiting until everyone else gets healed before I go in." She mumbled. "I was told that we didn't have enough medical supplies left, especially after the last expedition, so I didn't want to waste what little we had."

"There are a few medical herb shops in the city, why don't you get stock from them?" Merlin asked out of curiosity.

"Well generally we prefer gathering our own supplies. We'd rather keep the supply in those stores exclusively for the use of civilians, but we do occasionally buy what we need if it's an emergency." Callisto explained.

"Oh, well that's fair enough." Merlin nodded his head. "And there isn't a shortage of medical supplies anymore, so go get healed right away."

Merlin began walking towards the door, but as he approached, Callisto spoke once more.

"Where are you going off to?" Callisto asked with a hint of curiosity. "I thought you were going to tell me about the vine thing?"

"I'm just doing a task for Tuli, helping to restock the medical room." He said, "I'll be happy to explain when I'm back, but Tuli doesn't have any alanemine so she sent me out to get some."

"Very well." Callisto said with a nod before seemingly remembering something. "Oh, a word of advice."

"You'll find a larger amount of alanemine if you walk down the road for about twenty minutes before you enter the forest. But please be careful, as the further from the gate you go, the stronger the creatures you'll find."

"One of these creatures that have been spotted in the area is a brown bear, although it is roughly three times the size of a regular brown bear and very powerful."

"Whatever you do, please do not attack it or anger it in any way." She warned.

"If you find large bear tracks, trees that look to have been shattered by a claw, or see the mauled corpses of monsters, it's likely that you entered its territory. If you enter its territory, get out of it as fast as you can."

"The bear is generally harmless if you leave it alone and keep your distance, but it's a terrible threat if you decide to attack it." She concluded. "It hunts down monsters in the area around its territory, making the general area closer to the wall much safer, so we'd rather keep it alive."

"Understood. Thanks for the warning." Merlin remarked as he made his way out the door.

The crowd outside seemed to have dissipated, but he could see a new group forming in the distance, and he caught glimpses of Baron Doolmet leading the crowd.

'Maybe I should kill him before this gets troublesome.' Merlin thought to himself as he watched the group vanish into a large estate. 'It's just going to generate annoying quests otherwise.'

Not really wanting to deal with the karma punishment, Merlin decided against it for now. He instead made his way towards the gate and stepped out into the frontier once more.

'But if I could somehow bait him into ruining his karma...' Another obtrusive thought arose in his mind, but it was quickly snuffed out as Merlin made his way down the road.

He looked up at the sun, noticing it was getting rather close to night time. Instead of following the road for twenty minutes, Merlin decided to do both and hopefully save time. He ran into the forest and began making his way through the forest in the direction the road, while searching the forest for plants as he travelled.

Besides a few critters and medium sized herbivores, Merlin didn't really encounter anything for the twenty minutes he travelled, and definitely not anything that could reasonably be seen as a threat. Instead he was peacefully picking plants while enjoying the peaceful scenery, and after about an hour and a half he had harvested enough to finish his quest, and even managed to pick up a few other plants for his own use.

As he thought about sticking around and harvesting more, he received the same dreaded red alert box that make him decide against it.

[Message from the devs!]

Group one, there is only one hour left for today's session, you will receive another notification when it's time to log out.

If you do not leave by that time you will be forcibly disconnected, please make sure you're in a safe location when you log out.

Merlin sighed as he swiped the quest window away