Rika's POV:
First wave of monsters was already started.
'It would be easier compared to next two waves,' is what she thought so she decided to see if they are hard targets. If not then she will keep on moving while finding food.
[Wave one has started.]
As the notification popped up, She became alerted.
Currently she was sitting on tree.
Some sounds could be heard from the bushes and her eyes went in that direction.
After waiting for two minutes there, looking towards the bushes some growling sounds were heard in Rika's ears. She became alerted and then sounds of walking were heard.
She was active and ready to attack. As the sound came close she picked up her weapon and positioned herself like she can attack them with one jump.
Behind the bushes came forth the black and red monster with green wines tied to it's grey bones with no skin and clothes.
Yes, they were skeleton type monsters.
'Skeletons? ', she said in mind.
[Demonised Skeleton Level 2.]
[Demonised Skeleton Level 4.]
[Demonised Skeleton Level 9.]
[Demonised Skeleton Level 2.]
[Demonised Skeleton Level 6.]
They were demonised Skeletons. They had an red coloured mist emitting from their upper body and black colour smoky mist from their lower body. And mixture of it in the mid torso.
An aura of fear was emitting out of them. It was like hell was descended on the land.
But...
Rika's fears didn't last long when she decided to attack them before they make their first move.
She decided to go according to a plan. It was not a complex one but something that would be useful to her here in this situation.
She quickly thought of the plan and first thing she decided was...
' When low level skeletons arrive below me I will try to take them with surprise.'
Then she looked in surroundings.Her eyes went to a perfect spot in her eyes' I will run towards that tree and climb up. '
Then she looked again at high level skeletons. 'If these skeletons are close and come running towards me...'
She again searched surroundings 360 degrees. 'I will run in that twisted wines and escape far and hide again., '
It wasn't a flawless plan but for the time being she decided to believe in herself and her plan.
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It was her first time seeing something like this, These monsters were something which defied laws of nature (earth),
She didn't see such horrifying monsters nor she knew what they can do.
She looked at them and saw that every skeleton monster had swords in their hands and every sword was rusted and red mist was settled on them.
She knew that she is risking her life but She couldn't avoid it.
She has to kill them without getting a single scratch.
'Their swords could be infectious', after thinking this she waited for a opportunity to arise.
When [24926] the monsters waked below the tree, three monsters level 9 ,level 2 and level 4 went further than other two skeletons which were level 2 and level 6.
Taking this opportunity she stood up on tree and jumped on level 2 skeleton and at the same time hit the bone on level 6 skeletons' skull.
BANG~
It was a critical hit , thus level 6 skeletons' skull cracked and next moment it fell down.
It died due to big impact on its skull.
Rika's sneak attack worked with loud noise.
Meanwhile the level 2 skeleton was still below Rika and its sword was not in hand.
Rika without waiting for another second stood up and ...
BANG~
She hit her weapon in skeletons' skull destroying it's fragile body.
Other three were alerted by this noises. When they looked back they saw a human girl who attacked their subordinates.
As they saw her their eyes shone bright red black mist densely surrounded their bodies and red mist covered their wines on their body.
Now flames started emitting from level 9 skeleton's skull.
Rika without wasting time ran towards the wines because she didn't have time to climb tree .
Holding tight her bone weapon, she ran towards wines.
Meanwhile those three skeletons didn't wait to let her escape.
When they saw the girl, all three started running towards her with their bony legs.
Even without their muscles they ran faster than Rika and reached close to her within seconds .
Even though they put their full speed they couldn't catch her as she slipped through the broad tree wines with narrow spaces between them. Which made skeletons hard to run behind her.
Their bodies ( skeleton) were bigger and couldn't go through the wines.
Without wasting time she looked back after running through wines for some distance.
Where she saw the struck skeletons.
She found it a good opportunity and decided to make good use of it.
She didn't directly go kill them .
The reason being level 9 skeleton.
This skeleton started cutting the wines around itself making way through it.
She ran in their opposite direction and escaped through the sight of skeletons.
"HUFF~HUFF~~", She was out of breath running not for long time.
After catching her breathe she lood back again and found no one was following her.
Quickly looking above her she got a good place to climb the tree.
After climbing it and waiting for some time level 9 skeleton followed by level 4 and level 2 skeleton came running below her.
She again repeated the same move she did when she killed first two skeletons.
Jumping on level 2 and killing level 4 without giving a chance for level 9 skeleton to look at her she ran in the dense wines.
"BANG~ ", sound was heard by level 9 skeleton.
"... "
Looking back it didn't find anyone besides cracked skulled skeleton subordinates .
Level 9 skeleton ran back towards them and looked 360 degrees but didn't find anything.
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"It was pain in the ass, but I managed to kill four of them." Rika thought leaving out a sigh and catching her breathe.
"Now, left is the big guy. HUFF~HUFF~"
She looked up and back then again started climbing a tree.
"Fuck, I don't have energy left, " she said as her body started getting out of energy while climbing up.
"HUFF~ HUFF~",
'I should rest here for some time. ', she thought and looked her surroundings.
She slowly went up to broad and little high branch of the tree and sat down there while holding the bark of tree and keeping her bone weapon inside her clothes on her back.
She hugged the bark of tree like a koala and closed her eyes for 2 minutes.
She didn't fall asleep because it wasn't the right time...
-[15 Minutes later]-
She recovered some of her energy and was calm again.
She didn't go down because when she looked down she felt fear.
It was fear of height.
When she climbed she didn't see down and kept on climbing.
"ahhhuh... it's too high. How the heck will go down. " she said in low voice and looked for way to go down.
2 minutes passed... 3 minutes passed...
She didn't get the courage to climb down.
"Sigh... there's no one, I could call for help. " she said and decided to get over her mild acrophobia.
Slowly but cautiously she somehow climbed down.
'Nice, next time I will climb keeping my mind open',she noted in her mind.
[You Have successfully Killed a Demonised skeleton level 2]
[You Have successfully Killed a Demonised skeleton level 6]
[You Have successfully Killed a Demonised skeleton level 4]
[You Have successfully Killed a Demonised skeleton level 2]
"I will see it later , first let me take care of that big guy", she said while stretching.
Walking back cautiously she searched for skeleton.
" Huh, where did that big guy go. "
She was searching for him but didn't find him.
'Is it a fruit? ', she said in mind as her sight went on a tree.
'Let's see', she thought and went near it.
The fruits were reachable so she didn't have to climb.
She thanked the tree for not letting her climb up.
'Hmm... shall I eat it?, I am getting hungry now. '
Without checking it was safe or not she ate it.
'mmm~It tastes like boiled potatoes, It needs some salt, but it's edible. '
It's was lifesaving tree for her. Her hunger was gone due to it's fruits. She thanked the tree.
(A/N: well, think speaking to a tree or wood, not like chatting with each other.)
She rested for a bit and started moving in search for the last skeleton.
It didn't take long to find the skeleton when she heard the same noise.
She quickly hid behind bush and peeked through leaves.
The skeleton was standing still like a statue.
'it isn't making any movements, is it waiting for me?'
'Shall I sneak on it? '
'Its freaking level 9, it's powerful from what I have seen till now. '
As she was thinking an announcement popped up.
[Wave two will be starting shortly. ]
[Wave one progress (4/5), will be added in wave 2]
[Wave one (0/1)remaining/wave two (0/3) remaining. ]
'Whaaat?two waves at same time now!!!'