Ax ehe domain, preparing for the most.

  Ax sighed deeply.

  He was expeg to fight a horde of goblins or an army of skeletons. He smmed the door shut behind him with his leg and waited.

  The room in this exaent was smaller than the room the snake was fought in; it was not as rge because you could see the other doors from a distaill visible. The room itself was a deep maroon and covered in red grass and flora; however, in the middle of the room was a red tree.

  At the other side of the room were doors just like the st time, except it was a blue door, a bck door, and a much, MUCH rger bck door, maybe eight feet tall.

  As he walked closer and closer to the red tree... he could see that it wasn't just red; it had bones scattered around the roots of the tree, and the leaves were a deep crimson red. As he walked around the tree, iing every inch of it visually, he noticed a rge, rather cave opening iher side of the tree as he walked closer and closer...

  Spsh

  He stepped in a puddle of blood, spshing it everywhere, all around his foot. He looked down at it, and then he looked up and stared into that opening, ing closer and closer, aiced a skeleton imbedded into the tree itself. As he slowly grabbed his dagger and uhed it, the skull moved and looked at him.

  Its jaws opened, and it tried to lu Ax. Ax backstepped out of the way, quickly uhing his new sword he had just bought.

  The tree morphed opeing the skeleton free and f a massive opening enough for one person to easily walk in and out of it.

  The skeleton rushed for Ax's body, running straight to him but

  With a strike of his bde, he was able to dislodge the skeleton's head off of its neck, killing it.

  "You guys are too weak to be doing that, you know," he says fidently.

  "This sword is stupidly easy to wield; what did he mean by unbanced?" he asked himself, preparing for the worst to happen.

  As he was iing his new sword, a skeletal hand reached out of the tree; it spshed blood everywhere in front of Ax. As it climbed out of the tree, Ax noticed that it looked different; it was covered in blood, and the boself was red, and it was faster, much faster.

  It leapt towards Ax, trying to cw at his face; it barely grazed his cheek, but it spshed a handful of blood into his eye, blinding him.

  "Ah! Gross! What the hel"—Ax got interrupted by the skeleton, which took this opportunity to cw at his neck, ripping out his throat and killing him instantly.

  Ax wakes up standing, gasping for air."What the hell was that?! That thing actually killed me!", he excimed, gasping for breath due to shock.

  He woke up right in front of the skeleton, which grabbed the leg of his previous dead body and was dragging it towards the tree.

  Ax stared at the skeleton curiously because... it wasn't even looking at him; it was focused ing his body towards the tree. When the body was close enough to the tree, branches and vihe color of blood reached out and pulled his dead body into the hole the skeleton came out of.

  Ax could not see what was ihat hole, but all he could see was a massive spsh of blood and viscera that poured out of that hole.

  The skeleton then ss head around and ran towards Ax, trying to cw at his face again. But this time, he expected it; he used his sword and smashed the back of his sword into the side of the skeleton as hard as he could, dislodging the skeleton's head from its body, and its headless body just fell down backwards as it's head flew across the room.

  "That... took a much harder hit than what the—" As Ax pined about how much harder that skeleton was to fight, he saw another red hand cw its way out of the tree.

  "No... you're kidding me..." he muttered to himself in shock.

  A red skeleton, the same exact height and frame as himself, crawled its way out of the hole.

  In the same moment, the previously mentioned headless body of the skeleton stood up and walked towards its dismembered head on the ground.

  It grabbed the skull off of the ground aached it onto its neck as the new skeleton walked up behind it.

  "Oh, you have got to be kidd-", Ax was interrupted by both the skeletons rushing at him as fast as they could.

  Ax bobbed and weaved, avoiding the bony grasps and avoidiing its viscera spttered over his face.

  As one of the skeletons cwed at his arm, he dropped his dagger, and in that split sed, Ax grabbed his gun.

  the skeleton tried to bite at Ax's head, but in that split moment, he moved his head bad held his up to its as it close and personal and—

  *SHATTER*

  Ax pulled the trigger, causing the bullet to shatter its skull.

  The small gss fragments got lodged into his face, but he was able to avoid getting it into his eyes, but the bullet being so close to his head caused his ears to start ringing. He was disoriented, and at that moment—

  The other skeleto his neck, and once again he was killed by a red skeleton.

  He woke up again, in that same spot, and he saw the red skeleton start dragging his body close to the tree.

  "Not this time," Ax said as he aimed his revolver at the head of the skeleton and pulled the trigger.

  *SHATTER*

  He shot the red skull of the skeleton, causing it to explode into pieces and fall over, dropping the body onto the ground.

  Ax picked up his dagger and put it on his sheath, only holding the revolver and sword in his hand.

  He then walked towards the tree; as he got closer and closer to the tree, red vines and branches jolted out of the hole and tried to grasp at Ax.

  He was quick; he leapt to the side and chopped off the branches with his sword, spraying blood everywhere, and he aimed his revolver towards the opening and—

  *SHATTER*

  SHATTER

  SHATTER

  SHATTERHe emptied his ammo into the cave-like entrance, firing a hole through the eree and the other side to burst open with blood-red viscera, spshing it everywhere onto the ground below.

  Dweller SinAx walked around the tree once more, and he found five silver s on the ground; he picked them up and shoved them into his pocket.

  He then started walking towards the three doors.

  He stopped in front of the three doors and sidered his options; he was curious about what y behind the big door, but he should probably go to Nexus and walk around a bit more.

  "If I go back... maybe I'll find a gun shunsmith, maybe even an armory. I might desperately need some more options because I am dying a bit too muy fort, which is definitely more than zero," he monologued to himself.

  He then walked towards the blue door and reached out his hand.

  He grabbed the knob and twisted it.

  "What the hell?" he asked himself.

  "It's not turning," he muttered to himself.

  No matter how many times he twisted and turhe blue doorknob, it didn't open, not once.

  Axton was locked out of Nexus.