It me - so you are telling me that I am a legendary messiah among the common people.
the wolf - to some of your kind yes. to others, you are a threat, much like how you tried to get rid of us.
me - but as for as I know there are other books, so why so much attention to me.
the wolf - the previous wielder of the book was a very powerful man. a powerful man inspires both respect and feat from his fellow species.
me - why do you even want to help me? due to this previous wielder of this book.
wolf - yes and no, the previous owner of the book had a contract with me. but the real reason I am protecting you is, these are dangerous times and powerful allies will soon become a necessity. you can consider it an investment from me.
me - so I will become powerful In the future. that is nice to hear.
the wolf - don't get arrogant kid. a wrong move in this world and even I will fall, let alone you.
me - one more thing, why was it that the first time I fought the tiger, I could match with me. after that every time I saw that there it gave me this intense sense of pressure as if a mountain was crushing down on me.
the wolf - it is a thing among the battle crazy beasts like that tiger. they literally live to fight and defeat their opponents. once they become too strong they tend to weaken their bodies to still enjoy their fights .all of them are masochists if you ask me. knowing that tiger, it must have scaled itself down to your level to fight you.
me - okay, one last thing can you tell me where are we going.
wolf - kid I told you to stop pestering me. if you ask me one more time I will hurt you badly.
me - okay, okay no need to get pissed.
the last few days have been painful as hell. the wolf was very tight-lipped. it wouldn't even tell me what the hell was wrong with me. for example why did it pretend to be weak and point me towards the phantom wolf clan.
it wouldn't tell us where we are going or what we were about to do. it would be pretty soon.
me - at least tell me when are we going to reach there, the suspense is killing me.
the wolf - not long, we should reach our target in a few days. until then, just don't ask me any questions, I am not at the liberty to answer them.
( after a couple of days )
we spent the last few days going through the forest. the wolf was powerful as hell. it used to take me through the orange zone and red zone on a regular basis. most beasts could not even affect it. even in the red zone, those godlike beings we're taken care of within a few minutes. no wonder that they were so arrogant. the tiger Addressed the wolf as it's equal. though the wolf called the tiger it's boss, even an outsider like me could tell that they were equals. so both of them were god-like beings.
let's just hope that wherever I am going is not a dangerous place.
( after another few days. )
wolf - kid, we have finally entered a place enough to talk properly. there is a reason that I have not spoken in the last few days. there are many secrets that I have to speak with you today. you won't understand most of what I have to offer to you, but your job is not to understand them but to be a messenger.
me - okay, continue.
wolf - first of all I will talk about you. the inheritor to the book of the bloody mage. tell the humans that the mad god's are making their moves. tell them that the old alliances have begun to fall.
me - mad gods
wolf - not now kid, I have a limited period of time. tell them that all our allies need to be convinced that they are to make a move again.
it doesn't matter who you tell it to, tell them that the wolf of neither realm is warning them.
me - okay
wolf - the second thing is to talk about you. the thing is you have split your soul into two parts. while your main part is largely intact and the hole in the defenses of your soul is small, there are beings that exploit this weakness and you are going to meet a lot of these beings after today. make sure you don't make that wound larger, the voice is very damaging to any soul, let alone souls like yours.stay in this region, for as long as possible. the aura of this place should hire you from my enemies.
(not speaking to me )
why have they not found me yet, it looks like I still have allies.
me - where are we?
wolf - do you know about the abyss.
me - no
wolf - the abyss is a book just like yours and it also describes a kind of magic. but that book is infinitely more dangerous than your book, after all, it has it's own mind.
the book describes the magic of portals and the art to open them. most of these portals connect us to some very dangerous realms. what you are standing on is the remains of one such portal. its magical aura can prevent the leakage of our communication. my enemies always keep an eye on me. luckily this aura is hiding us from their subconscious. if they began to look seriously this meager aura won't hide me.
so you need to leave right now. they have paid attention to me subconsciously, so they shouldn't have noticed a weakling like you.
well it looks like they are locking onto me, bye kid.
saying that the wolf disappeared into the depths. it looks like everybody has a tendency to abandon me after all.
it looks like the wolf has given me a very important piece of information. I don't know what these mad god's were, they were not my worry. I simply don't have the strength to worry about it.
right now I need to get out if here if the beings that could make that wolf so scared are coming, the first thing I should do is run for my life.
why in the hell did I even have to put up with this beast? it seemed hell-bent on getting me killed. first sent me to the phantom wolf clan. if I was a bit more arrogant and struck them, I would have died. now he is giving me information that will get me killed.
( after a while )
I don't know where I am, but it is scary as hell. it is more of a creepy feeling rather than fear. the forest is too silent, almost as if something had killed everything here. that naturally is not a comforting thought In any way.
none of those soul attacker guys that the wolf was talking about did not seem to have found me. maybe staying here would be enough for me to stay safe.
( after a couple of days)
it does not matter in which direction I go, the forest is empty. it is not like the time when the leaf guards attacked( I don't have a better name for them .), there were still signs of life when the leaf guards had attacked. there were bugs in the forest, small animals to which everything was a mighty predator. there was nothing like that in this place. even the trees were showing signs of withering. for now I am going deeper into the forest. the thing is that whatever the wolf is scared is something even I have to be scared of, even more than the wolf.
( after a couple more days )
I think I have finally found what is causing all of this. it is some kind of a poison, that has seeped into the forest . as for how I know that it is due to the poison being similar to the poison that the toad had on its body, less dangerous but more viral.
thankfully my blood magic can stop it from spreading into me. to be honest, I don't know if I want to go forward or backward. I keep feeling this sense of discomfort as if danger was somewhere near me. I don't know if I have danger is following me or I am charging into it. that's why I keep moving forward, at least I am doing something. if I stop, the fear that I am feeling now will screw me over, to be honest.
it is the feeling I feel Every Time I am in combat, the feeling that my life is hanging by thread. while it brings me an absurd amount of focus, it is very tiring and I can't sleep due to my insomnia.anyway sleeping would be dangerous.
let's hope I am not about to commit suicide by moving forward.
( after a couple of hours. )
I have finally found the first living being in quite a few days. it wad some kind of a jelly-like being, which reminded me of slimes. it was jumping from tree to tree absorbing their life force. once the tree became nothing more than a stump, it would jump from that tree to another.
after coming into its sight ( can't really tell, it does not have physical eyes), it jumped at me, I sidestepped bringing my knife down on it and cutting it into two halves. it too bad it did not have any blood.
the instant that I killed cold sweat appeared all over by my body. it seemed that something was directing it's killing intent towards me.
whatever was directing it's killing intent towards was about as strong as Me. it did not seem to be very smart, directly releasing its killing intent towards me.
it was like screaming ' I am coming to kill you, get ready for a fight. ' right on my face. so I am ready to deal with whatever it is that is coming to kill me.
I did not need to wait for long . the creature was standing in front of me. It was a human or at least a human-like creature . his body is ridiculously thin, with it having a skeleton-like appearance. my trees in my surrounding began to wither, as if somebody had accelerated their aging .surprisingly no such thing was happening to me, for which I am thankful. otherwise dying of old age while still being a virgin is embarrassing for me. at least let me get a girlfriend before dying.
the creature was still walking toward the pace of a snail. I jump towards it, not wanting to give it a chance to attack . in a flash I reach it .it had yet to even turn its head. its head went flying to God knows where.
the skeleton-like body began to collapse.
if this was something to be worried about, then I really do not have any ego, do I?
as I was in the process of relaxing, the body which had fallen on the ground, suddenly began to get up . at the neck where the body was, a black color liquid was being oozed out. suddenly the creatures head, which had fallen a distance away suddenly began. to fly towards the body, as if a metal goes towards a magnet.
this is going to be a very tough fight, isn't it?