I thought for sure I was going to die this time, since there was no way in hell I could put up any resistance in front of that Magical Beast.
I need to calm down. I need to get away from here. Who knows if the huge bear will change its mind and actually try to kill me?
Looking at my bent and pitiful leg, I steeled myself and got up.
Dang, it hurts!!
That's what you get for becoming arrogant after getting a bit of strength, I seed to myself.
While ignoring the pain, I started moving. Thankfully, I still had 5 legs so moving wasn't a problem. Upon deciding on a random direction, I started slowly moving foword with extra caution.
As I was moving away from the area, I started thinking.
Clearly, I had awakened that Huge Magical beast with the commotion I had caused. How damn stupid was I to pull something like that this deep into the forest?
No, I had thought that even if a magical beast would discover me, I could at least escape or even defeat it and turn it into my food.
How arrogant of me. Even with all the strength I have now, I am still but a normal insect with just physical strength compared with magical beasts that reach incredibly size and also have magical abilities. I am but a small, powerless insect.
Thankfully, this time I was spared. I believe the reason was that the Big Bear felt I was too weak to be worth eating.
Still, I know that with my abilities, I'll be able to catch up with them one day. But I had become arrogant due to the rapid increase in strength and thus misjudged my own abilities. Plus, that bear wasn't a normal magical beast!
Even the Red Scorpion would be insignificant in front of such a huge beast. It is in a class of its own!
I wonder if there are different stages of power among magical beasts.
Well It doesn't matter. I am still too far from that. Right now, all I need to concentrate on is growing stronger and staying alive.
With that thought, I regained some composure. I'll just put this encounter behind me and use it as a reminder that in this world, there's always something stronger than you. So, never become arrogant, no matter how strong you are.
While I was immersed in my thoughts, I had moved pretty far away from the area that the Huge bear rested in.
Looking around, I had come to a quiet place with only a few small animals hiding in the surroundings.
This place had a pretty open area with a smaller density of trees than normal but with much more little fauna-like plants and all kinds of colorful bushes.
Since this place looked pretty safe for now, I decided to rest here and decide on my next course of action.
As I was walking towards a cleaner area with fewer bushes to take a rest in, I noticed a particular flower. Its particularity didn't lie in its appearances, since all the flowers in this forest were strange and of varying sizes and shapes, making them all particular.
No, the special thing about this flower was that it radiated a special kind of aura that made me feel extremely attracted towards it as though my body deeply desired it.
Deciding to approach it with caution, I slowly moved towards this flower, and as I did so, I began to look at its appearance. Its base was long and thick, its color was a dark bluish kind, giving it a powerful and stable look. The head of the flower was a strange shape resembling a white ball with what looked like horns on top of it.
All in all, a strange flower, which wasn't surprising on its own since I had seen some even stranger. But as I got closer and closer, the feeling deep inside my body became stronger with each step I took.
When I was finally in front of the Strange flower, I was constantly shaking, and my mouth was producing huge amounts of saliva.
Thankfully, my mind was still clear, but this still scared me nonetheless, making me wonder why my body had such a strong reaction to this flower.
Now, a conflict appeared in front of me. My body deeply desired to consume the flower, but my mind felt that this was too strange and might pose a huge risk in eating something that I didn't know the effects of. What if it was poisoned?
That thought made me a bit afraid and helped me strengthen my resolve to not eat this strange flower.
Instead, I decided to move away from it and observe it for some time.
With a great deal of mental effort, I managed to slowly move away from the flower until I didn't feel the strong attraction from it.
Taking a place under a big tree to protect from the strong sunlight and not stay in the open, I looked towards the strange flower as I rested.
After a few minutes of resting, I suddenly noticed some movement in the distance. There a Humongous 7 meters tall Donkey appeared. It was pitch black in color with two sharp horns on its head.
Also, it had one more strange characteristic as it didn't seem to have any fur. Instead, it looked more like an exoskeleton. I thought this since its pitch-black body strongly reflected the sunlight as it was walking; this also happened whenever I was under the sunlight.
Nonetheless, what made me pay special attention to this Big donkey was the state its body was in. Its body was trembling, and saliva constantly flowed from its mouth.
This was the same situation I was in when I had seen the flower, and sure enough, the donkey was heading straight towards the strange flower I was keeping my eye on.