Levelling Up The Weakest System

Next Port of Call

He wouldn’t sleep again until the Nilbog had been dealt with.

That was Alexei’s plan, anyway.

Clearly, the creature had some power over dreams, and Alexei had the sneaking suspicion that if it had managed to do away with him during the brief fight they’d had within his own dreamscape then he may not have woken up from the encounter.

He had to focus on the positives, though.

Neave was alive.

The Trout’s Gills was not burning down.

It had all been an illusion, a nightmare, designed to take him down.

Now he knew that he could begin to work against it.

Alexei took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

His heartbeat was finally starting to get back to normal.

He rose from bed, careful not to wake Neave up, and snuck out of the room with his day clothes in his hand and made his way back to the communal showers.

It was still early in the day, morning sun barely peeked over the top of the many buildings of Alandria, so he wasn’t surprised to find the showers empty.

It didn’t take l