"Yeah I will be sure to throw a party next ti..."
"Kyaaaaaaahhhhh"
'Before I could finish the sentence a series of shrieks were ringing in our ears along with someone yelling'
"Monsters the monsters are here runnnn!!!"
"What the freak, whats happening now." I said
"Monsters now? The sun hasnt even started to set down." Cera said
"Lets go check it out." I said
"Okay"
'We headed straight to where the shrieks were coming from and we stopped when our eyes caught a soldier who's armour was fully covered in blood, he was running away from the village entrance.'
"Wh.. why is he cove.. covered in blood?" asked Cera with a terrified face
'Shit she is just a kid, she will start panicking.'
"Cl...Clay wh...whats happening."
I turned back to face Cera and said "Calm down Cera, lets go back"
She nodded "Yeah lets go back"
'We couldn't see what was happening at the entrance as the blocked the view.
We turned back and started walking,
after a few seconds the shrieking stopped and the village became dead silent. It became so silent that I could hear my shoes touching the ground.'
Crack!
'The dead silence was broken by a loud crackling sound.
Right when I heard the silence be filled by a 'crack' my brain told me to walk faster. I knew it was the sound of a bone cracking.
I held Cera's hand and started walking faster, I was so scared that I might've pissed myself, but the worries were all going away because we walked way past the entrance.'
"We are safe right?" Cera asked still being terrified
"Yeah we are sa...." something made me stop mid sentence
Thump!
'The whole village shook, the stones on the ground jumped up and down because of the shockwaves, a cloud of dust was created and the ground vibrated so much so that it felt like an earthquake.
Anybody would know that this could be only done by something that is really really big.
We had stopped walking when something thumped or more like we were petrified.
I mustered up the strength to look back and I regretted doing that.'
Grrrrrrrrrrhhh!
'I saw the monster, there was blood all over its face, it had blood mixed with saliva dripping down his jaws.
It looked 5 meters tall, it was a gigantic wolf with its fur being grey in colour.'
"I dont know what do in this situation" I murmured to myself
'What do I do what do I do what do I do ugggggghhh I am getting frustrated.
Calm down Clay, you can figure it out if you are calm.
I closed my eyes and thought of the best course of action.
I got it the best course of action is to just run away and hide until the soldiers come to rescue us.'
'I then opened my eyes and the first thing I saw
was the gigantic wolf running towards us.
It is running so fast that the wolf will take only a few seconds for it to reach us.
I dont get it the wolf is running is so fast yet not a single sound is being made when the wolf's leg is touching the ground.
Forget about the loud thud earlier, there is not even a single sound which is being perceived by my ears even though the wolf must be weighing over a ton.
Wait...
Is it a shadow wolf, but there shouldn't be any monsters having a mana core higher than brown in these forests.
Tch tch
Clay don't wander in your thoughts, focus.
The only option left is to fight this wolf and stay alive until the soldiers are here.
Yeah its possible for me and Cera to fend this wolf until the soldiers are here.'
"Cera we have to fight the wolf until the soldiers arrive." I yelled but didn't get a reply so I looked at her, she was still shocked. How could I forget she is still a 7 year old child, she cannot be sane in these situations.
'Looks like I will have to fight this guy alone.
Its my first time fighting a monster, hopefully I will be stronger.'
"Okay lets get ready for the battle."
'I said that and leaned my body forward as if I was going to sprint.
The wolf was just a couple of meters away from me when I solidified the air into a sword and ran away from Cera while yelling'
"Hey you piece of shit doggy I am here come and get me."
'I yelled to take its attention and it worked it was after me now.
Okay good
I propelled my body using wind force and got beneath the wolf's body giving me the chance to slash at its left forelimb.
By momentum I had gone back of the wolf.
The wolf couldn't follow my sudden speed so I was able to land a hit on it without being noticed.
The wolf turned back and his face looked like he was pissed.
Well I atleast managed to slas....
wait where is the cut, I couldn't see any wound on its left fore limb.
Fuck my sword cannot cut through its skin.
I don't have anything else that is offensive, I just have to keep slashing it in different spots and hope that my air sword can cut a soft part of the wolf.
I propelled my body again and was going the wolf but unlike last the wolf reacted.
When the wolf saw me going beneath its body, the wolf lowered its jaw and was about to bite me but I was faster than its closing jaw.
This time I slashed at its left hindlimb but just like last time there were no wound.
Dang it! where is this wolf's weak spot.
The wolf turned back to face me and this time instead of just standing there, this time it charged towards me.
It was trying furiously to bite but I escaped each one of its bites by hairs length, I propelled my arms and legs to manoeuvre very around very quickly and smoothly.
The wolf just kept trying to bite me, hit me by its claws and tail but I just kept dodging them all.
The battle prolonged to 5 minutes and I could see the wolf was losing its patience, it started to attack me more furiously.
I was getting exhausted,
my mana reserves were depleting
I cannot take this any longer
but the soldiers still aren't here'
Bam!
"Ah fuck" I said while I was wailling in pain
'The wolf got me by its tail
The wolf swinged its tail and hit me after 5 minutes of struggling.
I forgot reinforce my body with mana so I sustained a lot of damage.
When the tail hit me I flew in the air and landed on the ground 10 meters away.
I definitely had multiple broken ribs and a fractured leg which had pierced my muscles and skin.
My left leg had a piece of bone protruding from it and there was endless blood flowing from it.
It was fucking painful, it felt like someone poured boiling water over my leg.
I felt like dying.
The wolf was closing in on me, drooling.
Well I am going to die anyways.
It hasn't even been a decade and I am already going to die
tears were forming in my eye
I am sorry grandpa, I couldn't win, I couldn't become powerful even after you helped me so much.
Giving me the cloak, the mana coy, the.....
Wait a minute, how could I forget this
I took my cloak out from my pocket
I unfolded it
I channelled mana into the cloak thinking that it will give me 'that' from 4 years ago.
It did
The handle came out, the same handle which grandpa had given me right before I left to the Sian mansion.
I remember it, he told me I could wield it when I knew more about mana.
I dont know if I can wield it now but this is the only hope that I have left.
I clasped the handle, nothing happened.
I channelled all the mana that I had left into the handle, nothing happened.'
"Goddamnit work, work you piece of shit."
'The wolf is just 2 meters from me.
Death is only 2 meters away from me.
After I die will I get reincarnated again.
For some reason I am getting angry instead of sad,
Why is that happening?
Yeah I know why, its because I am not a pussy who just accepts defeat without giving his full 100% in a job.
I have never faltered when I was faced with a problem.
On Eart even if my company faced a lot of backlash, did I ever sit in a corner crying.
Did I ever give up, I worked and worked for days and nights without sleeping.
So why the hell am I crying in a corner now, I need to face that goddamn wolf and defeat it even if I have to endure hellish pain
I have to not die until this dog is dead.'
"I will kill this dog right now"
'A tsunami of rage was over me
It was my will
my will to never give up.
It had been dormant for 7 years but now it was raging with a fire greater than any other.
I got up from the ground and stood, gritting all the pain.'
"If air is no use to you, I will just use the earth."
'I said that and raised both of my hands, in a way like I was trying to lift the ground.
The wolf noticed something was going to happen so it leapt in my direction
but it was too late
a huge spike like structure was raised from the ground
which stabbed the wolf right when it was mid air
the wolf seemed to still be alive but barely, there was greenish black blood flowing from the stab.
Awwwooooooooo!
It yelped'
"Hmph trying to call your friends, let them come I will kill each of them"
'It hadn't even been 10 seconds when this dog's friends arrived.
They came from all the direction
from inside the village, from the forest, from the entrance. They surrounded me from all the directions.
All of them charged towards me with their fangs out'
"All you dogs are so freaking stupid!!!!"
'I said that and raised
hundreds and thousands of spikes from the ground all around me
all the wolves were pierced
some were stabbed in their guts, some in their chest, some in their faces.
There was green black blood everywhere.
I made sure that not a single wolf escaped, I wanted to kill the whole wolf pack.
I didn't want anyone of them to survive.
In a way I was taking revenge for all the people they had killed.
If people saw me they would've called me a monster myself
the face that I had when I killed the wolves was very terrifying.
I looked like a madman who had gone insane.
I agree, the rage inside me made me go insane.
But I had enough sanity, to not hurt Cera.
She had gone unconscious when I was fighting that wolf alone.
I had protected Cera by creating a bunker around her.
I hope the villagers weren't caught in my rage.
Now I only have to wait for the soldiers to arrive.
thud!
I had fallen on the ground
I was becoming unconscious, probably because my mana core didnt have a single drop of mana left in it.
And I had also lost a lot of blood.
Hope the soldiers are here before I bleed to death.
thump!
I was just on the verge of fainting when it happened again.
The same thing which shook the whole village and vibrated the ground making it feel like an earthquake, the same thing which happened earlier.
I wanted to get up
but my body was too exhausted
no!
no!
no!
no!
get up!
please get up!
I became fully unconscious.'
CLIFFORD's POV:
'Why the hell are the monsters coming out before the sun has set.
bhhhrrrmmmmmm!
tch tch
It happened again.
Its the second time that, these shockwaves have occurred.
And these shockwaves came from the village.
What could make the ground and air shake so much that we could here it from kilometres away.
I have a bad feeling about this.