**[Quest Updated]**
**[New Quest Generated: SURVIVE]**
Alex's consciousness returned slowly, like surfacing from deep, dark water. The first thing that hit him wasn't sight or sound—it was the smell. The overwhelming stench of decay and stagnant blood filled his nostrils, so thick and putrid it made his stomach lurch violently.
He forced his eyes open and immediately wished he hadn't.
A sea of death stretched before him as far as his eye could seep. Under a crimson sky that seemed to bleed its own light, the landscape was nothing but corpses. Beast corpses, piled upon each other in grotesque mountains of rotting flesh and shattered bone. The ground beneath his feet squelched with every step, a nauseating mixture of mud and coagulated blood that had seeped so deeply into the earth it had turned the very soil into a crimson marsh.
