As a small deer was eating some grass, it suddenly felt a burst of wind behind itself.
Without any hesitation, the deer ran in the opposite direction, and at the same time, turned it's head back to look at what had happened behind it.
Confusion filled the face of the deer as it saw that there was nothing behind it, but even so, the deer still did not stop it's run, not daring to stay in this place any longer.
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In merely a few minutes, using her powerful body that she had gained from being an Official knight, Beatrice had already run several kilometers from Ester city, but even so, she did not stop, doing her best to get as far away from that place as fast as possible.
But even as she got further and further away, Beatrice still felt a cold chill from behind her, causing any exhaustion she had gotten to be utterly thrown away, as she ran Beatrice used the knight's breathing technique to help recover some stamina while on the move, as to help her keep running longer.
Suddenly, some dark mana appeared below Beatrice's leg, and as her foot touched that mana, Beatrice was suddenly catapulted forward several hundred meters.
"It's really too inefficient, I shouldn't have come here without learning a suitable escape spell" mumbled Beatrice as she felt a large portion of her mana disappear.
Nine hours later,
Just as it was leisurely eating grass, a small rabbit suddenly started floating, even though it tried resisting, with it's feeble strength, it could not shake off the invisible hand, and after a few moments, the rabbit landed in Beatrice's hands.
Without giving it any time for struggle, Beatrice suddenly stretched the rabbit as she held it by it's head and legs, and with a quick shake, she dislocated the neck of the rabbit, killing it.
Picking up a few large branches, Beatrice threw them into the fire that she had created before taking out a knife and beginning to skin the rabbit.
Thirty minutes later,
After eating the last bit of rabbit, Beatrice sat down in her impromptu tent before closing her eyes.
"One hour should be enough," thought Beatrice as she closed her eyes, falling asleep.
But as she was sleeping, something weird was happening to Beatrice, as the knight's breathing technique, which she had to use to recover her energy continued being active even while she slept.
One hour later,
As she opened her eyes, Beatrice hurriedly got up before once again beginning on her journey back, as the meal and the one hour of sleep had given her some more energy.
Twenty-five hours later,
As she ran through the forest at a fast speed, Beatrice's breathing suddenly began slowing down for some reason, while at the same time, her breathing entered a weird rhythm, but without any time to pay attention to that, Beatrice looked at the things that were blocking her way.
"Who was the one who let undead roam free?" said Beatrice with a frustrated expression on her face as she looked at the over fifty zombies that were not only blocking her way but also trying to surround her.
But just as she was about to go and pass these zombies at using her barrier to protect herself, Beatrice suddenly let out a curse before suddenly retreating.
"Since when are zombies so toxic?" mumbled Beatrice as she looked at the arm imprint on her Dark Barrier, it was as if the zombie arm had melted the barrier.
Knowing that she could not pass through here without going through the zombies, Beatrice suddenly turned back and wanted to go on a detour, but sadly, as she looked backward, she came face to face with another group of zombies, around twenty-seven zombies to be exact.
Suddenly, a Dark Bolt erupted towards the twenty zombies, but something as the bolt passed through the head on one of the zombies, the zombies simply continued walking towards her without it's head.
Seeing this, Beatrice then controlled the Dark Bolt to target the legs and lower torsos of the zombies, causing legs to be sent flying all around, but even so, the number of zombies was still too large for Beatrice to ram through, but as she prepared to launch another bolt, Beatrice noticed that the zombies were crawling towards the legs which had landed on the ground.
A moment later, Beatrice took a fire-starting tool before lighting it and throwing it towards some grass.
As soon as it touched the grass, a fire suddenly began, and then a few moments later, the severed legs of the zombies suddenly began floating toward the fire, after touching the fire, the legs began burning, causing the zombies to no longer stare at them.
Suddenly, a short sword of dark mana appeared in Beatrice's hands, and a moment later, she cut the zombies which had approached her from behind in half, not letting it touch the Dark barrier so as to not expend more mana.
'I can't use the Dark Bolt, otherwise, I will waste all of my mana,' thought Beatrice as two zombies suddenly launched themselves at Beatrice, only to be cut in half, but at the same time, Beatrice felt something impact her Dark Barrier, causing it to melt.
Beatrice once again cut this zombie in half before kicking its remains away, and after a few moments, Beatrice's dark barrier began regenerating.
But even though her Dark Barrier was once again complete, Beatrice could not be happy about this.
'I can't let them touch me more than three times, otherwise, I lose,' thought Beatrice as she suddenly jumped toward a nearby zombie before once again cutting it half.
After that, Beatrice began looking for weak links in the zombie formation, and merely another moment later, jumped towards another zombie with her Dark Mana Sword in hand.
Slowly but surely, zombie after zombie began falling to the ground, but at the same time, Beatrice was once again attacked by one of them, causing her Dark Barrier to be impacted by one of them.