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Chapter 24 - Battle Smart

"The forest ends ahead." Arya shifted the screaming Seraphina to the other side, she was speaking something, but Arya was too focused to care. 

He changed his path to the densely populated treeside, he saw his way through the trees forming his plans as he moved. The trees ahead of him, and made a small wall. Arya took one look at Seraphina and realised that she had fainted. 

Instead of jumping above the trees, he shifted to the edge and began sliding on the muddy ground with his hand moving left, then crossed the hole through the small hole on the side. 

"Barren land…" Arya shifted Seraphina to his other shoulder once again and began running next to the barren land near the edge of the cliff. The bear was on his back, and Arya kept running.

"I need to think right now, how can I kill them. The effect of the potion is increasing, it is going to end soon…!" Then Arya's foot landed on the ground so hard that the ground below cracked a bit, and his foot got inserted right into it, destroying his flow. 

"God Dammit."He quickly pulled it out, breaking apart the stone ground and kept sprinting. 

The roars of both then were approaching through the forest beside him, his body constantly feeling them around he needed to go something…then it struck.

Arya stopped his hands tracks right then and there and looked at his hands, his ear had stopped bleeding, but the blood would leak when the portion ended. He took a sign and looked at the forest… with a deep stare.

Rawr

The trees came crashing down as the male bear came exploding in front of Arya, bleeding blue blood from all sides and some small rats still attached to its body. The bear was exploding with anger.

Just like before it lept in the air and charged its red claws at Arya. Arya didn't flinch, he held his position until the left claws were a fraction of a second away from him.

"Spread away!!"

Blast!!

Arya spread in the air, and the stone shield around him exploded outwards as he jumped back. The stones on the shield pushed against the bear and made it unstable,

「Natural Ability: Shatter Land」

Instead of using his natural ability normally Arya grew the large spikes below the ground which came shattering through the ground and the ground crumbled and began falling.

Jumping right onto the cliff, seeing the blood fly forest below, his vision became blocked by the pillar which emerged with water throughout the ground and jumped to the stable ground.

RAAA!!!

The bear had fallen into the trap, and his unstable body couldn't move out of the crumbling ground, with chunks of soil the bear too was dropped down the cliff into the forest and Arya began running once again.

"The water seeps through the hollow rocks between the mountain." Arya had remembered.

"If the ground below was hollow and full of water. Only the roots from trees could hold the land together, but since the land was barren there were no trees to hold the land together, if I crushed the crust, the entire ground would come crumbling down." Arya smirked at his smart plan, giving himself more confidence because he needed...

"I can't feel my left leg anymore." He was still running somehow, but Arya knew he had a minute at best. The female was not attacking him, and he didn't have time to think of another trap. He looked at Reva whose condition was worsening by the second. She was completely bland, and more skin was decaying. 

"Mercy can bring everything back." The words echoed inside Arya's head when he looked at Seraphina's face. "Could he actually do it?" 

Arya wasn't the type of person, to bet his life on something. Now nothing else. was going to save him either, all hope of survival on keeping Seraphina alive.

"What can I do, the bear has our scent? What will calm her down?..." Arya's time was running out, his smile had faded and into a tense expression biting his lip.

"I am sorry, Reva." Arya left the grip on his left hand and let Reva fall on the ground and leapt leaping ahead, Arya didn't even know if she was alive or not, but if he could be revived then she could be too.

Arya expected a tear or two to fall, but he couldn't even bring himself to think about that right. 

"Where could Seraphina be safe enough for Mercy to find her?" 

The question already had an answer, but Arya didn't want to accept. More like the answer was only true in words.

"The River... it's still noon. The hunters are out they will come investigating the bone bears and noise bears while he rushed ahead with all his power and strength then... god gave him one more chance. 

"A Ravine...? " The land ahead of him came to vision, the land cracked just like Ravine of New Order, Arya pushed his speed to maximum pushing his legs, and his legs were cramped by then. The crack came closer and closer and Arya got slower and slower.

"I need to reach, I need to reach it...." He bit his finger to stop thinking about the pain in his legs and nearby bit them off. The blood tasted like honey, his senses were getting messed up, and the beast came closer.

"Reached it... " Arya took a single look, he noticed red soil below and a tunnel?!

"What is this?" There wasn't too much time to think, Arya jumped down and called on his ability to summon spikes as a ladder case for him, leaping from one to another reaching. Hopes were rising with the second as Mercy was halfway through and he looked.

"A shadow?" He looked up and saw the female bear trying to climb down too, she slipped on her moments and came crashing down on the two of them. Arya didn't have enough energy to run away and the spikes wouldn't pierce its skin.

「Power: Marsh Shield」

He forced his shield together the best he could and let the weight of the beast take him down.

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