'move, move, move, move, move, move, move, move, move, move, move, ,move'
//CRACK/// //CRACK///
the ground began to shake abruptly and the ice of the frozen river cracked in several places.
//GRRruuUaAAaAHhh...!!!//
"aaah...!"
'my ears! my ears hurt too much!'
maybe it could be considered a good thing, that deafening scream could bring me out of my paralysis.
Covering my ears I jumped away and fell into the snow as the river ice shot skyward as a strange and terrifying creature emerged from the water.
I only saw a huge snake-like silhouette emerge from the river yet I didn't want to see any more of that thing so I immediately turned around and started to run for shelter yet the world was not so kind as to care about my feelings.
STOMP... STOMP... STOMP...
Footsteps so loud that they caused tremors in the ground could be heard near me, not coming from behind, left or right but from the front.
'oh no...'
a few tens of meters in front of me there was a huge turtle over 5 meters tall, dark green in color with a snow covered shell with multiple hollowed out beaks, similar to volcanoes.
[you are in the presence of a level 4 mutant beast!]
"fuck, I just... want to go home... why does that seem so hard now?"
'could it be that the snake came to the surface when it sensed that a beast was coming that could take its territory away from it?'
"Anyway, I'm out of here."
//SHhaaaaaaAh...!//
the huge turtle roared and clouds of steam rose from the beaks on its back.
//GRrUUuAaaaAHhh!//
the earth shook more and more as the roars approached.
'the snake is coming!'
using all my strength I ran as fast as I could away from the two monsters.
//huff// //huff///
stumble
"argh! haa,,, ha.. hahh... my ankle.. damn ha.."
'never mind the pain, get up, get out of here quick!'
enduring the pain in my ankle I got up and tried to run but ended up falling to the ground again.
//SHhaAaaaaaAAHhh!//
BOOOM!
//GRRrUUrUUAaaHhh...!//
the shockwave pushes me several meters
"auch.. what happened now...?"
my head is a little wet and I feel like the world is spinning, my vision is a little blurry but it is slowly starting to normalize.
ah... today I'm not going to work on anything else'.
once my vision recovered sufficiently and the world around me stopped spinning I raised my head to see the two monsters engaged in a fierce battle.
a titanic 'white' snake was coiled around the tortoise's shell with its fangs digging into its neck as it released a cloud of possibly toxic gas.
On the other hand, the tortoise was also biting the snake's tail with its beak while black blood, apparently contaminated by poison, was pouring out of its neck and the spikes on its back were absorbing the moisture in the air at high speed.
'I have a bad feeling about this...'
I crawled as fast as I could and took cover behind a large rock.
//¡¡SHAAAaaaAaaHHh!!//
along with the roar of the turtle dozens of white wooden stakes shot out from the spikes on its back shattering the body of the white snake as well as multiple objects that crossed its path.
CRASH
"Shit!"
one of the stakes hit the corner of the rock and broke it.
haa~ that's bad, very bad for my heart'.
I looked with a bit of fear and apprehension at the wooden stake that was stuck in the snow less than two meters away from me and had the urge to run once more.
"no, calm down, first check the situation, who knows if while I'm running another stake will arrive to give me a donut".
I waited about 5 minutes before going out to see if it was safe or not.
uuh sure this place is going to attract a lot of low level beasts as soon as the turtle leaves'.
the whole place was littered with scattered stakes and snake flesh, in the midst of all the chaos bathed in the blood of the snake was the giant tortoise eating the head of the snake.
'how disgusting... why eat the snake's head when it has a lot of meat all over it?'
taking the situation with a thumbs up I prepared to leave.
I might as well take this as a souvenir'.
[acquired: beast wood stinger (lv 4)]
"well, now I can get the hell out of here..."
...
it took a while but after fucking for about an hour I was able to reach the shelter.
warming my body with the warmth of the campfire while massaging my ankle I open the three boxes of supplies that I obtained
"fuuh~ I'm not going back out all day, system, open the wooden box, the yellow supply box and the green supply box."
[received]
[acquired: (2.15L lime soda x1) and (peppermint candy x 500G)]
[purchased: mug x1, box of tea bags x1. metal pitcher x1 and frying pan x1]
[purchased: wood stove x1, hunting crossbow x1, quiver with arrows x1, war knife x1 and bottle of drinking water x1]
"...wow... I won the lottery!"
'remove hunting crossbow x1'
a beautiful crossbow with a wooden stock appeared in my hands.
"it's beautiful..."
I fooled around a bit pointing the crossbow in different directions before putting it away again.
'well, if I want to set up the iron stove I'm going to have to disassemble the campfire... I can do that later'.
"first I can take advantage of the heat and embers that are still left in the campfire".
as I was warming myself by the fire, I suddenly felt thirsty, which reminded me of the lime soda I had just purchased.
'take back lime soda x1'.
glup glup glup glup
"haa~ I missed this... I wonder how things are at home? I remember everything was in chaos with the new pandemic."
'the gods said it was an apocalypse... did the pandemic have anything to do with it? earlier there was someone in the chat talking about zombies...'
he spent the time thinking about all the things that had happened recently that had changed his life as well as everyone else's.