I knew that nothing in this room was of worth to me, so I dragged myself up those stairs to the first floor of the castle. As I had expected, those foul creatures had appeared yet again. I was sure that they were going to cause yet another disaster and more of those groups would come. I quickly sneaked off using the fact that I had a presence that they couldnt sense to my advantage (or more accurately, my presence was too much of a common everyday thing too them, much like how a person doesnt usually notice their nose). Im sure that they would be in a mad frenzy when they finally do notice that my presence was fading, but I would have gotten far enough by then. It seems that those creatures had gotten a new king, as the old one would probably have done everything he could to secure me immediately. I shall use this king's inexperience against him.
I managed to get out the gate without any of them finding me. Outside the gate there are piles of corpses laying about (probably more groups that wanted to serve "justice" to that king or these creatures may have just been fighting amongst themselves). It was a simple task to escape after getting out of the castle for I knew the overall layout of this land. The withered trees and large boulders that dotted this dark valley provided more than enough cover. This valley had originally been called Valde Mort, if i recalled correctly, although that name had been changed numerous times and the most recent seems to have been changed to The Valley of Darkness which i would say is fitting. After those sorcerers had performed that experiment all those years ago this valley, which use to be covered with a variety plants found nowhere else and bountiful in game, had turned into a barren wasteland. The once warm sun is now covered with overhanging gray clouds and, for the few times a year that the sun's rays manage to pierce through the clouds, the sun no longer shares it's warmth. This is a land forsaken by god. All sorts of nightmarish creatures live here now. Anything that is weak will die. After a long dull period of dashing from cover to cover avoiding everything, I came upon a place where it seems that a large battle had taken place. There was mountains of corpses and, from what i could tell, it seems that this was the king's army. I walked past this morbid scene feeling the glares of the crows accusing me for disturbing them. I had finally reached the entrance of the valley where the sun grew slightly warmer and there was slightly more vegetation scattered around. I recalled that there was a small settlement nearby and walked in that general direction.