The beast in his momentum crash in the roots an got his tusks stuck in them. It didn't take long for the boar-thing to free himself from his bonds by crushing them completely. But thank to that Martin have gain some distance from his pursuer. He ran and ran but that wasn't enough.
Martin was pretty quick, he had even won some race at school when he was child. But he was fleeing from a beast in its natural environment. A beast who everyday hunt its pray for feeding and survive.
'Oh my god , I will die, I will die again' that was all Martin was able to think. Fear was the only thing in his mind.
The beast cought up with him pretty quickly. Charging tusks raised. The beast was almost on him and at the last moment Martin dived to the ground behind a nearby tree, scraping himself against dead branches and stone on the grounds. The creature crashed against another tree while trying to turn towards martin exploding half of the trunk. Stunted it stopped to move and shook its head.
Our desperate friend had no time to look at his small wound, he got up and start running again.
' I should never have stopped sport, damn it!!' he swore as pain win over his body.
First, it was his legs, he felt like fire was passing through his veins. Second, it was his lungs and throat because of the lack of endurance it's start breath heavily and each following breath was more painful than the last one. And last his scar from the lightning. When he fell on the grounds the shock woke up a great pain in all his body.
But he didn't slow down. He keeps running and running. His life was at sake. He dodged the tree and some big rock on his way while trying to not slip on the wet ground of the forest or stumble on a root. He took a quick glance behind him and unfortunately he saw the beast starting to chase after him again.
'Damn it!! if something transported me into another word at least I should have some powerful magic skill or maybe a system it always works lick that!!' and without waiting he shouted:
" Show profile!!"
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" Character window!!"
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"Skill tree!!"
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"Please!! The god who bring me here help me."
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"PLEASE SOMEONE!!!"
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Nothing, he was alone. All he heard was the cracking of the branches under his feet and the growling steps of the boar. But for some reason it wasn't getting closer even getting further and further away. He looked behind him and see the creature still running but not in his direction.
' Seriously just like that? ahaha cought! cought! ' after catching his breat a bit he started thinking a bit more
' This his weird, why did he stop chasing me?' He looked around him and knew directly that he had make a mistake. The cracking sound of his step wasn't from branches but from bones, a lot of bones. All around him.
Big, small, all kind of bones.
' Is that a human skull over there', I need to get out of here' He began walking out of this graveyard when he ear a faint sound above it head , as if the wind was moving the leaves. But there was no wind.
He raised his head and he found himself staring into the eyes of a giant snake with skin made of black mist and glowing eyes. It was impossible to know its length but its mouth could swallow a whole man in one time. So Martin stopped moving, stopped breathing and knew the moment he moved he will be dead.
'Sh*t, this thing is way bigger and looks way more dangerous than the previous one why is this happening to me'
He feel sorry for himself
'This time I am dead for sure... No Martin start to think what can you do ? You're not dead yet there should be something... it's big way bigger than me if I can find a tiny place to hide it can probably not reach me.'
His plan come into his mind, he saw when he was chase by the boar some rocks formation not far from here. His only chance is to hind between or the rocks.
While Martin was still motionless the serpent start circling slowly between trees to get down of the conopy. When its head pass behind a trunk Martin started sprinting with everything he had. Like mouse chase by a snake, well now he was the size of a mouse for this snake.
He travels a good distance but the monster was already close to him. With its tail it hit Martin on the side breaking his arm and throwing him in the air for several meters. He lands on the ground with a crash. The air expelled from his lungs and blood begins to flow down his temple and nose.
' I am dead it's done' Despair overcame him. The snake was nearly on him. Then he saw it his last chance. A hole in the ground, a burrow large enough to let him enter. He jumped forward, under the snake which rushed at him with its mouth wide open.
He was inside, he was safe, the snake try to follow him by hitting its head on the ground but it was to big to enter.
' Oh Lord every part of my body is hurting, F*ck my arm!! I am sure it shouldn't be turn in this way! I am alive it's all that matters. What is this place some kind of galeries. I don't want to stay close to that monster. I should go a bit deeper.
And then he waited.