Just 5 minutes after entering the vast green forest Zarek could see a wolf eating a small deer.
While the wolf was focused on his feast Zarek hid in a bush.
Hush hush
When the wolf was enjoying his meal he heard a sound coming from a bush. He raised his head, his ears fluttered and he looked toward a certain bush. It was the bush Zarek was hiding. The wolf raised his tail in caution.
Amidst this, Zarek put Zerik on the ground from his waist. Seeing the wolf's reaction and cautious, hearing its growl, Zarek understood the wolf had already found out he was in the bush.
Zarek ordered Zerik to attack while thinking of the 6 swift step footwork technique.
In an instant, Zerik crossed over more than 15 meters with only 6 swift steps closing the gap between him and the wolf.
Zarek shouted, "Jump"
Zerik pounced on the wolf with a shiny silver blue short dagger in his hand. It was indeed the blue silver fang dagger. With the blue silver fang dagger, Zerik flew toward the wolf within seconds.
Seeing a weird and small human like thing flying toward him, the wolf growled loudly and swung his claw high in the air, aiming at Zerik.
"Dodge." Zarek said and thought of a counter. It felt as if he himself was fighting. He had to analyze the situation, then he had to think about what to do and how to do it. He had to think all of this to the very detail. If he missed a single detail of any movement Zerik would make mistakes doing it. And all this thing he had to think it from the perspective of Zerik. It wasn't an easy task. Not everyone can do it.
Just after Zarek said to 'Dodge' Zerik twisted his body just as Zarek thought and dodged the wolf's attack. While dodging the attack he also inflicted a wound on the wolf's paw with his dagger.
Awooooo
The wolf howled loudly and pounced on Zerik with great aggression with his mouth wide open to kill him with his fang.
"Dodge."
Just as the wolf was about to bite Zerik, Zerik dodges the wolf's aggression with precise movement of 6 swift step footwork technique. It was as if he was an expert in this technique. But in reality, it was mainly because Zarek had a mystery in this technique from his past. After dodging the attack Zerik stabbed his dagger in the wolf's underbelly with the help of his small size.
The wolf which was flying toward Zerik fell on the ground and rolled a few times. Blood was dripping from the wound with the dagger still plugged in.
The wolf became fearful of Zerik. It made its body look small out of fear. Its ears flatten down against the head and its tail tucked between its leg. But seeing Zerik approaching it, the wolf started barking and then started running toward Zarek.
Zarel was surprised after noticing the wolf dashing toward himself. Zarek hurriedly controlled Zerik. Zerik used 6 swift step footwork to catch up to the wolf. Zarek knew he wouldn't be able to dodge the wolf with his fragile body so he focused on controlling Zerik.
Using 6 swift rhythmical steps Zerik closed the distance in a short time and just before the wolf can pounce on Zarek, Zerik used the mountain splitting falcon claw technique as it is a non-weapon technique and didn't require a weapon.
Blood started gushing out. Using the mountain splitting falcon claw technique Zerik cut the wolf's neck leaving 5 claw marks on its neck. After using the mountain splitting falcon claw technique Zerik also pulled the dagger from the belly leaving the wolf with constant bleeding.
Thud
The wolf fell to the ground. An incredible amount of blood gushed out of its neck and underbelly consecutively. It was flailing its body until it can't anymore.
On the other hand, Zarek was still standing in his place without any emotion amidst this pressure. If Zarek was even a little bit late killing the wolf using Zerik, It would have been him lying on the ground dead. And if it was anyone else forget about controlling a puppet he would have panicked and pissed his pant in fear of death.
To be honest, Zarek felt kind of guilty and sad for the wolf. The wolf was just enjoying his lunch without much care. But then Zarek came, disturb its lunch and killed it just to test out Zerik. He felt guilty for that. But then again this world goes by the law of jungle "Survival of the fittest". Just now the wolf was also eating a deer. It killed the deer to satisfy its hunger and Zarek killed it to satisfy his curiosity.
Zarek cut and dissembled the wolf's body like claws, fangs, and furs. He took claws, fang and furs with him in a bag as he didn't have the ability to take all the material.
Zarek left the place after some time and walked deeper into the forest. After walking for 10 minutes he could see why this forest's name is Moldylizard Forest. Zarek could see trees covered with green and yellow mold. Even the ground was green and yellow because of the mold. The soil was becoming more and more moisture the deeper Zarek went. Mists were also appearing the deeper Zarek went. As for why lizard was in the name you can only see it by going to the deepest part of the forest.
But seeing the mist Zarek knew it was dangerous going any deeper as he might encounter lizardman if he goes any deeper. And Zarek's wish to see why the forest name was Moldylizard Forest would also be full filled. But Zarek wasn't ready to go any deeper at the moment. And seeing that it was already becoming past noon, Zarek decided to retreat for now and go to a nearby village to eat lunch.
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