So it seemed that there were fish in this lake after all. That would be useful information if they ever needed to come back to the cave, if nothing else it meant they could eat fish instead of char-grilling whatever possibly sentient creature they had most recently killed. Speaking of which, food was an issue that he would need to start addressing soon if the way his stomach felt was anything to go by; his lack of sleep too was becoming a concern according to the system message, but even without it the slight lethargy he was feeling in his limbs was indicator enough.

He really hadn’t been taking very good care of himself recently. Between adapting to an entirely new existence, the near-constantly battles of the last two days and meeting new people things like food and sleep had kind of slipped his mind. Once he had managed to find Digbie and left this cave the first thing he would need to do is address that before anything else.

From his elevated position it was possible for Oberon to see quite far around him, but when he finally spotted something it was actually fairly close to him. A single Dire Rat was fighting something further along the lake’s shore, something roughly goblin sized and shaped but from this distance clearly an off-white colour instead of the usual green. Curious, Oberon flew in that direction until he could see that what he thought was a goblin was in fact a goblin skeleton; or at least, it was a skeleton and it looked more like a goblin than anything else he had seen in this cave.

Was this a result of that message he had seen earlier? The cave had become a dungeon and one of its secondary elements was Death; was the cave beginning to spawn creatures now that it was a dungeon? Were undead like this skeleton going to start popping up more frequently? That might go someone towards explaining this weird existential dread he had been feeling ever since he had woken up.

Oberon used his Magic Analysis on the skeleton and then for good measure used it on the rat as well. The resulting system message informed him that the rat was a resurrected human like himself; were they one of the rats he had seen back at the bonfire, the one he had cured of poison? He wished he had asked for their names back then, or remembered them if they were said; at the time he was more focused on acquiring a skill which could remove the poison from the rats body.

Dropping down, Oberon hovered slightly above head height a few meters behind from the skeletal goblin. First he cast Shield III on the Dire Rat to protect them from harm and secondly he aimed a Mana Dart at the back of the goblin’s skull and let the attack fly; normally piercing skills were less effective against skeletons, but given how the attack had drilled a hole in the rock earlier he was hoping the spell would shatter the skull completely.

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Used "Magic Analysis" on Goblin Skeleton
Used "Magic Analysis" on Asteria
Used "Shield III" on Asteria
Used "Mana Dart" on Goblin Skeleton
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