Nomkneer set off on a journey through the canals of the Mukhashi Cante, leading to a valley of rocks, Nomkneer decided to head to a town to the east of the valley, The city was called asertria, named after the planet, a prosperus town that got everything it needed out of the gold found within the valley. Nomkneer walked with Vehiva his pet tuka'ta until he reached a border where he could climb down, Nomkneer took the 7 month old tuka'ta on his back as he climbed down the valley to search around for anything mysterious as he went to find the town. Nomkneer saw caves in diffrent parts of the place, he looked inside but there weren't anything inside, just caves full of holes and fractures from the gold mining by Asertria. Nomkneer kept on walking, until some point the sun heat and the surroundings made him yearn for water. Nomkneer heard something, like a beast hiding in one of the caves, he started concentrating, using the knowledge taught to him by Makami and as he started concentrating, suddenly a pack of giant scorpions came crawling out of the caves. Nomkneer did not know how the people of asertria could mine these caves of gold, but he started running with his tuka'ta as there were too many scorpions to deal with. Nomkneer jumped on a scorpion and cut the tail off, the scorpion out of pain ran faster than normal, Nomkneer tripped and fell, rolling he stood up and was surrounded by attacking scorpions, he heard the attacks everywhere and all he could do was ignore all senses and only use his hearing, he backflipped and jumped on top a scorpions tip of the tail where it holds the poison, Nomkneers boot started melting off as the poison on the tip was like acid. Nomkneer decided to cut the tail and run as five scorpions were right on his tail. Nomkneer was followed by a total of twenty scorpions, his exhaustion, his thirst, and now the scorpions, Nomkneer was very angry. As he ran, he saw a cave small enough for the scorpions not to fit in, but the scorpions did not ignore him once he went in.
Nomkneer had no choice but to dodge attacks from scorpion tails inside the dark cave, Nomkneer again used his hearing to dodge all the scopions tail attacks, at some point he cut a few tip of the tails that tried to attack, but it was overwhelming. Nomkneer decided to jump on top of a tail and ran out the cave, this whole time the tuka'ta was ignored, the only prey was Nomkneer, he did not know why, but he didn't care either. Nomkneer only wanted to get rid of the scorpions, suddenly he found himself at the very east of the valley, exhausted and almost at the brink of unconsciousness, he was saved by gas from beautiful red flowers of asertrian people. Nomkneer smiled with happiness he never thought he would see again, the gas was non-violent and it did not stink, or atleast not as bad as the swamp from Mukhashi. Nomkneer was relieved as the scorpions were repelled from him, the people of the city, Asertria did not know who Nomkneer was nor did not care. he just wanted to be saved, the civillians of asertria dropped a ladder long enough to reach the bottom, a valley so high you couldnt see the top unless you were far, he started to climb slowly as his tuka'ta would try to climb the ladder, but he couldnt, suddenly the ladder was being pulled up. Nomkneer was surprised and relieved as his tuka'ta and him were saved, and he didn't even need to use strenght to lift himself, neither had any strenght to lift himself up. Nomkneer was about to see just what was waiting for him at the city of Asertria.
