Jake and John had nowhere to hide, they could only watch as they were slowly surrounded like rats.
While trying to avoid getting nervous, John and Jake were looking for ways out of this situation, Jake who was looking around suddenly had an idea.
"Up"
"What?" John asked that he was too distracted looking for a way out of there that he did not react to what he had said.
"Let's climb the trees," Jake repeated as he approached a tree that seemed big enough to support the weight of both of us.
"I am a Heavy warrior, do you know what that means?" John said.
The footsteps of the hunters could be heard hunting closer and closer, soon they were going to get to where they were.
"You'll have to take off the equipment" Jake said as he began to climb.
"It's easy for you to say, you only have a pair of daggers," John protested but Jake ignored him as he climbed.
"Arg, those hunters are going to pay me" he started cursing as he left his sword in inventory, ... and his shield, ... and his armor.
When John started to climb the tree all he had was a light clothing that covered his chest.
"Hurry up" said Jake as he saw how the hunters were arriving bellow the tree.
When the hunters had reached the point where Jake and John had met earlier, John had managed to climb one of the branches in the middle of the tree.
From among the hunters who watched the players from the ground came the leader of the hunters and the son of the chief of the tribe, Bozum.
"John and Jake surrender and come with us, all resistance is useless" shouted Bozum from below.
"Ha, as if we believe that things will improve if we go down, do you think we are as stupid as your son?" Jake said from above as he searched for some escape route.
Hearing how that two garbage were insulting his son Bozum couldn't help but get furious, even so contrary to what Jake and John thought, he didn't start attacking them but calmed down and started a conversation again.
"The leader is willing to make an exception and forgive you for your transgression if you come with us at this moment," Bozum said with fury in his voice.
The faces of Jake and John changed, that Bozum tried to continue chatting with them could only mean one thing, they both looked at the hunters that surrounded Bozum and indeed some of their members were missing.
The hunters were preparing an ambush.
As for the tribal leader forgiving them for wanting to flee, they would first believe that Bozu wanted them to inherit the position of leader.
"You really think we don't know the leader of the tribe? Even if we return, our fate will be worse than before" While Jake distracted Bozum, John was looking for places where the remaining hunters might be.
"Do you really want to face us?" Seeing that he wasn't going to achieve anything trying to convince Jake and John, Bozum switched to an intimidation tactic.
Hearing this Jake was silent but not because of Bozum's threat, when Jake was thinking about what to do, John indicated with his shoulder the direction where the ambush was.
They were on top of them.
It was not known when the hunters had scaled the surrounding trees and were ready to pounce on them.
Seeing where the hunters were, Jake had an idea to get out of there. If they reacted when the hunters jump from the branches where they are to attack them and make them lose their balance, they will have a free way to escape.
But they only get one shot.
As Bozum kept talking, the hunters began to get closer.
Just when the hunters were at the edge of its branches Jake said:
"Now"
....
Slap
The sound of the blow echoed in a residence in the beastmen tribe where Jake and John appeared when they entered the game.
In the most luxurious house in the place, the chief of the tribe had just slapped his grandson with the force necessary to send him flying to the ground.
"DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT YOU'VE DONE? HOW IGNORANT, STUPID AND UNCONSCIOUS OF YOUR ACTIONS?!!!" Bozo yelled at his grandson who was on the ground in shock.
That he remembers his grandfather had never been angry with him before, much less hit him, for the arrogant grandson of the chief of the tribe was unthinkable.
"It's not that bad either, right? I just took a dusty book from the warehouse; it didn't even seem valuable" the grandson tried to explain.
"DUSTY BOOK?!!! VALUABLE?!!! THAT DUSTY BOOK IS THE MOST VALUABLE OF OUR TRIBE!!!" Bozo yelled as he hit his grandson again.
"NEITHER THOSE OUTSIDERS ARE AS IDIOTS AS YOU OR THEY WOULD NOT HAVE FLEE AT THE MOMENT THEY GOT THE BOOK !!!"
The story is as follows, while the leader's grandson was training with his father in the morning, revealed to him that if he tried hard enough, he could teach him a set of skills passed down from generation to generation by the parent tribe leaders. to children.
Unfortunately, the character of the grandson could only be classified as arrogant, lazy and not very talented.
It got to the point where he thought his father was hiding the techniques to prevent him from getting better.
So, he sneaked out in the middle of the night to find the book based on clues he had heard from his father and his grandfather in careless moments.
His luck was good and he managed to find the book, only to be disappointed that it did not have a semblance of the treasure that his father spoke of.
Even so, he took it to his house to study it in case he found something useful ... only to run into two strangers who after beating him took away everything he had on him.
Which brings us to the current situation.
"IT IS BETTER FOR YOU TO PRAY THAT YOUR FATHER WILL RECOVER THE BOOK OR YOU WILL BE THE BIGGEST SINNER OF OUR FAMILY FOR ALL ETERNITY !!!" The voice of his grandfather sounded again, coming from the other end of the room.
As he tried to find some way to escape his grandfather's fury the door suddenly opened.
Just when his grandfather was going to scold whoever had opened the door for disobeying his orders, he saw that Bozum had entered.
"And? Did you get the book back?" Bozu asked anxiously as he waited for the hunter leader's answer.
"I am so sorry father. The outsiders… they have escaped" said Bozum with a terrible face.
"HOW? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT TWO IDIOTS WITHOUT ANY TRAINING ESCAPE FROM YOU? " Bozu said hysterically.
His father who always had a straight back and an impassive face could not help but shrink from the tone of his grandfather.
"Just when we had them surrounded, they managed to sneak away and escape towards the river, when we had surrounded them again… they jumped into the river" Bozum said.
"And? Don't tell me you stopped looking for them when they jumped? " Bozu asked a little calmer as he tried to think of ways to get the book back.
"No, we followed the current of the river and found them lower down but we couldn't catch them. The two thieves entered the deep area of the forest, into the White Snow territory.
Hearing this Bozu could only continue in silence.
The forest next to the tribe is divided into the peripheric area, the outer zone, the deep zone and the core. The deep zone of the forest harbors a multitude of beasts against which the hunters could not cope if they did not have precautions, hanging around that area for a long time is dangerous.
If it was only that Bozum would have ordered the hunters to chase Jake and John until he found them but they entered the Snow White area.
Snow White is the title that the members of the tribe give to a huge white snake that has made that area their territory, it is unknown why it made its territory in the deep area of the forest and not in the nucleus but this animal is famous for devour everything that enters its territory, if the hunters had entered, none would have left.
Bozu can't blame his son for not entering the snake's territory, but thinking about how two outsiders have snatched the greatest treasure from him he can't help but clench his fists in rage.
After a few minutes Bozu relaxed and said:
"There is nothing you can do, you have done well, entering that area is suicide"
"So, are we going to let them get away with it?" Bozum asked, stunned by the attitude of his father.
"Didn't you listen to me? Entering that area is suicide, so all we have to do is wait for the outsiders to revive in the tribe and capture them" said Bozu.
Bozum's eyes lit up. It's true, whenever the foreigners die, they appear in the tribe, they just need to capture it at that moment.
Still, Bozum was not as calm as his father. What if they survived?
Bozum put those thoughts out of his head, that's impossible.