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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Rockwell’s Reign: Chapter 3

- The Nazgûl

Erin woke with a start, shaking and sweating. Judging by the color of the sky, it was likely somewhere around three in the morning. She didn’t care. She was not going back to sleep to face that strange monster again. As she washed her face and began to make a small meal, she thought about the dream.

She had been running around her house as a little girl. She ran to an older looking man. This, she knew, was her uncle, Edmund. He had always loved science, and she had begun learning from him. Then, the scene suddenly changed to the day she heard her uncle was gone. She had cried most of that night. After that, she had seen a peaceful landscape. Then, in the blink of an eye, that landscape changed into a wasteland filled with corrupted animals. Finally, it all went black, except for the purple glowing of a disfigured face. It looked as if it could have once been human, but now it had been taken over by the corruption. It seemed to stare into her mind. “Erin,” it said, “come to me. Rule with me. Rule my domain. Rule my world. Rule my universe.” Then the strange monster laughed. It was then that she woke up.

As she ate, she decided she was done letting the monster haunt her dreams. She would find him and kill him. Her hatred for the monster burned. She knew he was the one behind the corruption now. But she had no way of stopping him. She had never learned to fight, and for all she knew, there was no human to teach her in the entire world. She had only seen animals. She couldn’t train the creatures. After all, if they were covered in corruption, maybe the monster controlled them. That would explain some things. She decided to search for another human or an animal she could tame and fight on her side. So, with little knowledge of what she was looking for, she set off into the wilderness.