After arriving, he did two things before anything else. First, he descended into the local Dungeon to pick up all the mana crystals he knew the location of… though he didn’t sell a single one in the Delver Village or even the town above. Secondly, he saved both Alanic and Lukav from the assassins even though he had no intention of pursuing lessons from Alanic in this restart. One of his reasons was purely emotional—both men had helped him a lot, and it felt wrong to let them die when he was capable of preventing their deaths, even if it was meaningless in the long term—but the other reason was that saving them gave him some relatively non-threatening combat practice. He knew he could defeat the undead boars trying to ambush Lukav and the attack party assaulting Alanic’s temple without dyin
