Liam looked over at Scott.
The guy had a calm, grounded vibe.
Built like an athlete, with a quiet confidence in his posture.
Stiles stepped between them. "Liam, this is Scott. Scott, Liam."
"Nice to meet you," Scott offered his hand.
Liam shook it.
"I think I've seen you at the school before" Scott asked trying to remember something but not quite managing to put a finger on it.
"We must have seen each other in passing" Liam said.
"I guess" Scott chuckled.
"Now that we are through with the introductions, are you guys ready?" Stiles asked as the three stood in front of the densely populated forest ahead, with nothing but a overgrown trail cutting through.
"Are you ready?" Scott said with a grin "We're about to trespass into the burned-down home of a murdered family who we suspect are actually Werewolves, It's basically a rite of passage around here." he said laughing.
"Well then, what's the wait, let's go" Liam said as they began walking into the trail stepping deeper in.
The trail ahead curved into the trees, tall pines rising high above them, casting long shadows in the late afternoon light.
"C'mon, it's this way," Stiles said, taking the lead as they walked into the forest path.
Stiles pulled out the and held up the half-torn leather-bound book from a backpack he wore around his body.
"Onwards to the Hale's family mansion" Stiles said.
Liam and Scott followed behind Stiles.
The forest was quiet, well, except for the crunch of leaves under their shoes.
The setting sunlight sprinkled through the trees.
It was peaceful, but Liam couldn't shake the creepiness.
"It is way too quiet" Liam thought to himself, he did not hear any sounds from birds or other animals, not even crickets.
"Place is giving off serious horror movie energy," Scott muttered.
Liam glanced at him as he was walking a little ahead of Scott. "You okay?" He asked.
"I'm fine, Just… don't love the woods. Bad things happen in places like this." Scott said.
Liam knew better than Scott as to what dangers there really were.
Liam however would like to think he was somewhat prepared as he pulled out two pouches from his pocket.
"Hey" he said to Scott "Catch" Liam said as he threw one of those handheld pouches at Scott.
Scott reacted quickly his hand reaching out to grasp the pouch.
"What is this" Scott asked staring at the white pouch.
Liam also threw one to Stiles and began explaning.
"I found this intresting thing, it's supposed to apparently hide our presence, it makes it so that no monster can find out where we are, including animals" Liam said.
This was what he had bought from the system using the SP he had accumulated.
[Low-Level Cloak Charm: A Special pouch containing a cloaking spell, enough to form a blanket over a low strength being making any supernatural entity unable to locate the holder.
Warning: As long as they have you in their vision the charm is useless]
[Sp: 5]
"This is pretty cool, where'd you pick this up?" Stiles said tossing it in the air.
"Ebay" Liam said.
"Cool" Stiles said as he put the pouch into his pocket not really giving it too much thought.
Stiles walked a little more before he suddenly turned around, walking towards Liam and Scott he began explaning.
"The Hale house is just past this ridge. Burned down half a decade ago.
No one goes near it.
But if we can find the other half of the journal we could potentially learn something incredible" Stilies said with a smile.
After a bit of a walk everybody finally arrived at the house, it was large, three-story, but charred black, looking like it could crumble easily if anybody put effort into its destruction.
The roof was missing as well while a large chunk of it from the back was missing.
Approaching closer, Stiles, Liam and Scott pushed the door that was barely hanging on open.
As Liam stepped through he felt a bone chilling chill creep down his spine.
He felt his hairs stand on edge.
His throat began to close up as he tried to swallow.
His breath staggered.
Hands shaking.
He reached for the door frame his body refused to move another step forward.
He glanced at the other two and it looked like they felt it as well but at a much lower level as they didn't look too bothered by it.
"Im getting Chills just standing" Stiles pointed out.
"We should get out of here before it gets dark" Liam said barely managing to squeeze any words out.
"Liam are you good? We can always come back another day if you don't feel well" Scott who was closer to Liam said.
Although it was dark and he could not see Liam clearly, Liam sounded like he was really struggling.
"Im fine" Liam managed to squeeze out.
"It's so weird, the Hale family was definetly involved in something supernatural" Stiles said as he put his hands inside his jacket and curled up slightly.
"Let's do a quick sweep and let's get out of here before it gets dark" Scott said.
Liam and Stiles nodded.
Liam forcing his body to take a step forward as he glanced at hia system screen.
[Special Sub-mission
Type: Exploration
Goal: Explore the burnt down Hale Family Manor
Reward: +5 to int, +5 for strength and +5 for Speed]
This was a mission that had appeared right before Jackson started fighting him.
He remebered thinking to himself, the rewards were generous five whole days of effort, How could he possibly pass on this.
"It was too good to be true" Liam murmured to himself.
"Did you say anything Liam" Scott turned and asked but Liam just shook his head and denied.
Standing in the Hale Family Manor he understood that maybe, the reason the rewards were so rich, was because the mission was just as difficult.
"I hope we get out of this without encountering anything" Liam murmured to himself.