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Chapter 41 - Chapter 41: Fighting the birds

His idea was pretty simple and straightforward. He was currently standing in an open place. So if he were to move to a dense forest, then it will get very difficult for the beast to find him!

Realizing that it was a viable solution to his problem. He glanced at his surroundings and charged towards the dense forest at his right.

However, before he could reach dense vegetation. He was struck by the beak of the bird, causing him to let out a scream of pain.

"Ahaha!" Myles let out a weak scream of pain.

Even so, the armor protected him from fatal injuries. It couldn't absorb the impact of the attack completely so it caused him to let out a scream of pain.

He glanced at the beast and what he saw caused him to momentarily freeze for a few seconds.

Not only had the beast retreated, it was floating above the air with two more of its kind!! Yes, two more beasts had joined the hunt!!!

Just a few seconds later, a bird let out a roar as if declaring a Divine punishment to descend down upon him!!

"Goshavank mek !!!" One of the birds roared.

Just a mere second, they charged towards him as quickly as possible.

"Damn it!!" Myles cursed.

Seeing this, Myles quickly regained his composure and continued his charge. Sadly, no matter how fast he moved, he couldn't avoid getting hit by the beast. Just a few seconds later, he got struck by two beasts at the same time

The combined impact of two birds caused him to suffer from a mild injury. He coughed up a mouthful full of saliva to the ground!

A notification also flashing in his retina but he ignored it.

It wasn't over though, he saw another bird charging towards his face. Knowing that he couldn't allow him to succeed, Myles bent down his neck as quickly as possible.

It barely saved his handsome face, the beak of the bird passed his face, slamming into the ground a few seconds later.

The other two birds retreated a second later, already preparing to launch another attack.

As for Myles he regained his composure and continued his charge. He barely managed to fend off the attacks of the birds and escape to safety.

By the time, he got into the dense forest. He was hit by at least 4 to 6 times causing his armor durability to drop somewhat.

"I am still not out of danger though" Myles thought to himself as he looked up in the sky.

The beast's attacks had halted for now but he knew that it wasn't for permanent. The beasts were trying to pinpoint him down. So if he stayed still, it would be just a matter of time before he was spotted by them.

"I need to get moving," Myles thought to himself.

He looked in front of him and saw tall grass and thick veins. It will surely pose a hindrance to him so he quickly climbed one of the trees.

He jumped from one tree to another in the direction of the cave. Which served as an entrance to the Devil's forest.

He looked up at the sky and the surrounding area once every few minutes. To see if there were any beasts around him. Sadly, the birds were still following him.

"It's going to be a lot difficult to shake them off my trail" Myles thought to himself.

Though, there was one benefit that the presence of the large birds provided.

Their presence alone caused all the land beasts to maintain a distance from him. Even a beast with the same level of strength as a beast didn't get near them. Since they possessed a major advantage and that was their flight and speed.

Myles shook his head and continued his charge. However, just a few minutes later, Disaster struck, as the bird violently began to attack random trees to find him.

It looked like they weren't going to let them go scout free so easily.

What made it worse was that the tree that they attacked was near him! They sometimes destroyed he was going to land causing him a lot of trouble.

"Damn it!!" Myles cursed.

He tried his best to avoid their attacks and continued his charge. As he was dealing with all this, another problem presented itself.

Some weaker beasts started to attack him. Why you may ask? The trees that were being destroyed were home to them. They couldn't do anything to the bird so Myles had to face their wrath.

"Fucking birds" Myles's cursed.

The no. of weaker beast which was attacking him increased with each passing seconds. Though, they were pretty weak, if one or two of them attacked him. Then he would be able to take care of them easily.

But sadly the no. of beasts attacking him were in dozens! Also the constant attacks of the birds didn't help either.

Myles tried to fend off the attacks of the beast as much as possible while on the move. It was very difficult to do so but he somehow blocked all of their attacks.

As Myles was blocking the attacks of the beast, he saw a positive change in the sky. The birds were flying away from him!!

"Yes, go away!" Myles mentally shouted.

As for the reason for their change of heart. Myles didn't care about that. All he knew was that they were finally retreating!!

Just a mere second later, they finally left his side.

"Finally they have left but I need to clear the mess that they have made." Myles thought to himself.

He diverted his attention to the beasts after him. They were a few meters away from him so he halted his steps and channeled mana into his sword.

(You have activated sword guard)

(Your mana has decreased by 10 point)

Myles ignored the notification and focused on the wave of beasts charging towards him.

"Come!!!" Myles roared.

Myles tightened the grip on his sword, he seemed ready to slay anyone in his path. But like the fools they were, the beast ignored this and charged forward.

Myles killed any beast that came in his range mercilessly. Beast after beast kept dying by his hands, seeing this scenario caused some beast to retreat.

Just a few minutes later, no beasts were standing in front of him. Majority of them had escaped by his display of power while the others were killed by him.

"These beasts are so weak that I didn't even level up once" Myles complained.