He looked at the map, which showed a several kilometre long, more or less straight stretch, from his home to here. This place was even marked on the map as jungle biome.

"Why is there a tropical jungle...hah.. In the outskirts ?", he complained panting.

The humid air made his clothes stick to his skin and it didn't really help, that he wore a thick leather jacket. Seth had actually hoped to get somewhere with less... green. You can say whatever you want about a wasteland, but at least it's a lot harder for things to hide...

"gi gi gi!"

Seth faintly heard noises not too far away. He had jinxed it. It sounded similar to the goblin he had killed in the tutorial. Seeing a more or less intact building; he slowly sneaked over and entered the dark gaping hole left by the broken down door.

The inside wasn't pretty. Smashed furniture, broken glass from the windows, dirt and roots covered the floor. He walked down a short hallway and to the right. It was the living room. On the sofa were some mangled corpses, they looked as if wild beasts and gnawed on them. The stench was unbearable, but at least they were no sucked dry mummies. He hoped that this meant, that he really wouldn't meet any more vines.

Seth could hear the noises outside getting louder, so he anticipated that he wouldn't leave the house any time soon. Since he was here anyways he could look for something usable.

Other than the living room, he found a dining room, a small bathroom and the kitchen on the ground level.

The fridge had been ripped open, with the door lying on the ground. It's contents were spread all over the floor, with some squished and other having bite marks. The rest of the kitchen looked similar with nothing left he could take with him.

The squeaking and snarling noises were now really close. When he looked down the hallway he could see a group of goblins outside on the street.

He decided to go up the stairs to avoid being seen. Looking around the upper floor he found a bigger bathroom and a children's room and…the bedroom.

Seth rushed back out, about to puke! It was

that forced the urge back down. Leaning against the wall outside the door, he slid down to the ground.

"What the f...", he mumbled when he remembered the pictures of what he just saw. On the wide bed, in the middle of the room, laid the corpse of a woman. If only it was just that... she had been strapped to the bed with crude ropes. Her whole body and especially her privates were horribly mutilated. She was covered in bite wounds, cuts, blood, and…more.

"Something" had fun doing its worst to make her death a long and painful procedure. And to top it off, the body wasn't nearly as old as the two below. Seth had even caught a glimpse at the soul hovering above it. This woman had survived, he even believed to have seen a starter weapon lying on the floor. She had survived the apocalypse to find this kind of tragic end...

A noise from downstairs alarmed him. Did 'it' come back? Maybe it was the goblins? Did they do this and came back to check? He swallowed hard and entered the bedroom, closing the door behind him. This was the only door that wasn't broken up here and he definitely wanted to have a door between him and what was down there! Even if he had to go back in there, he entered and locked the door behind himself.

When he turned around, he was a lot calmer. It was even worse than before. She had chunks of meat bitten out of her arms and legs, while she was still alive! The wound had bled. She must have had fought a lot, the ropes at her wrists and ankles had dug deep in her flesh. Seth wasn't an emotional person, but the rage was growing in his chest.

As if it had felt his feelings, the soul had started floating towards him! It had a tinge of red and was a little bigger than the pure white ones he had seen on the Hanging Tree.