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His eyes opened and he looked around to see the darkness except some light that was peeking from the leaves.
'Okay, I am still alive, cool, thought I would die somehow while being trapped here' He cautiously peeked out of the small hole and only came out of that hole when he noticed that no animal was nearby.
He also noticed that when he had slept, a lot of the chakra that was concentrated in his solar plexus had spread throughout his body.
'Well, It would take a long time for me to make it automatic, but Let's see if any animals notice me' He decided to transverse the forest to find some food, looking at the sky, he could deduce that it was still around 3-4 hours before sunset, enough time for him to find some food.
However, just after a few steps, he noticed a rabbit heading towards him.
'Okay, that thing is ferocious, plus the fact that it's hopping makes it more bizarre' He had noticed that some of the mana was being released from his body despite his trying not to, that was the reason for him initially compressing all the mana in the solar plexus as that way it won't escape.
The rabbit suddenly skyrocketed at him with his paws in front of him, seemingly intending to tear open his flesh, but he had foreseen this before only, so he had dived down before only, making the rabbit go and hit a tree, however, it after hitting at that bounced back from it and rushed towards him again.
'This guy is too fast, I can't even see him moving, only able to dodge when he Is charging' he dived in another direction, barely dodging the headbutt- no pawbutt of the rabbit.
'Let's see, he is using his leg strength to do this feat, which means that it's mana enhanced, how annoying' This time our protagonist, released mana bursts from his palms, making him quickly stand and dive as the rabbit had decreased the time between successive pawbutts.
The area where his paws were landing was having a crater-like shape.
'I am hungry, I don't think I will be able to escape this guy, Have to kill him now' He started racking his brain to find solutions to this predicament.
Due to hunger, his brain was not working properly, so he decided to acknowledge the fact that one strike of the rabbit's paw would kill him and the fact that he was so fast made it harder for him to exactly pin point where his paw would hit, unlike slaver's leg which was not that fast, plus had a bigger surface area.
Adrenaline started pumping throughout his entire body and he finally felt a sense of danger.
His brain started working and finding solutions to escape this predicament.
'One way is to somehow escape his senses and hide my mana, but not only it would be hard, just completely suppressing my mana takes a few hours, so that option is out'
Suddenly his eyes widened in realization as he dived again with a deadpan.
He quickly rushed towards a wall, which was very high.
He then stumbled backwards, and the rabbit took the chance to attack him, but mana burst from the boy's body, making his upper body rotate and dodge that, not only that, but he then used it to face backwards, where the rabbit hit the wall.
Just as he came out, a blade of mana rushed towards its head, killing it.
'Fuck, finally it's over, the answer was so simple, I just had to use the gap between his successive charges, which he used to prepare those in the first place' He shook his head and then escaped from the place.
At least tried to.
'Fuck' He noticed a dozen of rabbits that were in the area, looking at him.
He released mana from his feet while jumping side-ways, just as a rabbit passed through that area.
He quickly reached a tree and climbed it.
However, while doing that, some rabbit's paw hit the tree and it shook violently.
He had to release some mana bursts from his lower region to increase his speed and be erratic to dodge it.
Just as he reached the branch, he quickly jumped from the branch away, just at that instant, the whole tree fell down, in courtesy to the rabbits causing so much destruction.
The gap between the branch he jumped from and the branch he landed on couldn't be shortened by his jump, so he quickly released some mana from his feet, which let him forward.
A rabbit who was smart had aimed to charge initially at the spot according to his original trajectory, but due to this change, it missed our protagonist by a few inches.
'Fuck, these guys are not only too many, but smart too, I can't use that tactic as some other rabbits will charge during the time one takes to charge, I have to somehow lose these guys, or start dwindling their number' he frowned, while landing on the branch and crouched on it while his one hand was on the spot where his head was with a mana blade.
A rabbit decided to kill itself while putting his head on the mana blade and then MC's hand, making him stumble forward towards the ground from the branch.
He dissipated the mana blade and let it fall himself on the ground, however, just as his foot was going away from the branch, he released a lot of mana from the branch making his fall very quick.
Instead of using mana to soften his fall, he did a roll on the ground.
The dead rabbit's body landed on the ground in the next few seconds.
'Tch, their blood is different from human blood' He noticed the blood in his hands while looking at the dozen rabbits looking angry now.
"You guys started this, better get ready to die," He said with a calm face and motioned with his palm to come at him.
'I need a sharp object or something, my mana won't last long, plus I am hungry too, fatigue is starting to catch up, and adrenaline is only keeping me conscious till now, I would have gotten unconscious by the amount of energy I am expending' He internally frowned but didn't show his trouble outside.
Three rabbits headed for him, He created a rod with mana, between both of his hands, with thorns coming out of it.
All three of them hit the mana rod with such impact that the human was sent rocketed backwards like a cannonball.
He released mana from his back outwardly reducing his momentum till he hit the back of a tree.
'OUCH' He felt a lot of pain, but luckily none of his bones broke, nor did he show his pain outwardly.
The three of those rabbits had died due to the thorns piercing their head.
'That was a gamble, but it seems they generally are aiming for my heart instead of head, I wonder why or was it a coincidence' He picked up one of the rabbit's corpses and threw it to those rabbits who were still at the moment.
"COME AT ME AND DIE" He said like a madman and luckily for him his bluff worked as those rabbits started backing away and soon ran off.
'I am almost out of mana, one more mana burst and I will go to mana exhaustion which has a high chance of making me unconscious, especially when I am hungry'
He got up and started moving but he felt the world spinning.
He looked at a tree with some purple apples on it.
He looked around and found out that this tree was only his option.
'Well, it's do or die, time to take a gamble' He climbed the tree the normal way and soon, stood on a branch.
He took a bite out of the purple apple-looking fruit.
"Damn, at least if I die now, it would be in peace, the taste is so good" He started gobbling up the food and soon entire tree's apples disappeared.
"Now, that's what I call a good meal" he patted his stomach while looking at some beasts that had come to look at the aftermath of the commotion, but due to our MC already removing the blood from his body before climbing this tree and currently within its leaves, they didn't notice him.
He then lay down on a thick branch and started focusing on recovering his mana.
He noticed that the rate of regeneration was higher than usual. 'Oh, is it due to that purple apple?'
He decided to not focus on that for now and quickly moved all his mana towards the solar plexus, due to not much amount present inside his body, he was done in around 15 minutes, any new mana that formed inside his body, he quickly moved it to his solar plexus.
'Now, that's a shortcut I found for this technique'
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