81 A sgoods idea 1 (1/2)
Luscious green and a blue sky were the least I had expected after my arrival.A vicious horde of monsters or a natural disaster came to mind. But peace and serenity are nice for a change. Especially since there was no threat to my life coming from them.
And I was not falling to my certain doom, which was a big plus in my eyes. I deserved that much. after all of that time battling or living underground far away from every source of light.
Despite not seeing any monster I still could not relax and had to prepare for the worst. I never know when the players return and try to ruin my day.
My best bet was to scout my surroundings and search for any potential hideouts. Since time was not exactly working in my favour, I could not enjoy the beautiful scenery as much as I wanted to.
The first problem, came after I just had taken my first step. My body was strangely suppressed and any kind of movement felt tedious. Even breathing had become a hassle and felt like a chore. At this point in time, any form of intelligent life would have reconsidered his position and acted accordingly.
Though this does not apply to an abnormality like me. Which intelligent form of life can claim to have a nearly endless supply of energy at their disposal? But as time passed, the expenditure of the necessary nutrients began to cumulate aswell.
During the exploration of my surroundings, I noticed several monsters, that were roaming around. I saw the wolves, I had become familiar with fighting against a gigantic bear. Fights like this took place all over the place and many ferocious roars could be heard all over the vicinity. I saw wolves, bears, deers, foxes, snakes and much more carnivores fighting viciously.
These battles were not limited to the ground as even in the sky many creatures were killing each other ruthlessly. I took notice of this detail, as 2 birds had entangled each other and crashed into the ground right in front of me.
This was neither the time or place to fight these monsters. Jumping over them was the best option, as long as those birds were preoccupied. Sadly, destiny had another thing planned out for me and one bird had ripped out the throat of his victim.
After its victory, it noticed me running straight at towards it.Without even threatening me it started to launch itself targeting my neck. With next to no room to dodge, I managed to weave my head sideways but the creature still managed to leave a long gash at my neck. This wound bought me an opportunity. By grabbing its beak with my right hand, I could hold it in place just long enough until I sank my teeth into its exposed neck.
Having dealt a serious injury, the creature started to roar in pain, but still tried to wound me with its claws. A prolonged fight was something I wanted to avoid at all cost, so I pulled it downwards by the beak until it hit the ground with a loud bang.
The outcome was several bones being broken and a scream of full agony. The next step was to hold it down and launch my nails into the exposed flesh and tear through it upwards. It did not take long before the bird was deadly injured and incapable of controlling its movement. Whether it would suffer or if it had enough luck to enjoy a quick death was of no concern to me.
This exchange might have only taken 3 or 4 seconds but the smell of blood, that was now lingering in the air was attracting these predators.This mutated eagle is now the least of my worries given the current circumstances.
With an open wound, I will never be able to get rid of these monsters. Seems I have to bite the bullet and expand even more energy in order to close up the wound forcefully
Swallowing the flesh I had ripped out from the Eagle, I began to resume my scouting session. I did not have to turn around, as I heard the sound of flesh being ripped apart. I just covered 5 meters before the corpses of these 2 birds had disappeared from this world.
Running away from this place, I just hoped, that these creatures would be busy long enough until I could escape safely. I managed to cover enough distance behind me and entered a forest, full of dead trees.
This area did not offer much more protection, than the previous but I had the faint hope, that this area did not have as many deadly creatures as the previous one. There were mainly small bugs covering the dead trees slowly devouring the trees until there was not even a trace of them left.
Having learned from my previous oversight, I looked at the sky to see if there was any bird circling through it. After not spotting any danger lurking in the sky, I began to lower my speed to search my surroundings.
My goal to seek shelter somewhere was far more likely to succeed when I am not chased by monsters. But if there is one thing I have learned, nothing in this world is truly safe. There will always be someone or something trying to kill you.
This place might seem safe at first sight, but why are the Trees dead in the first place? Why have I not seen anyone other creature running through these grounds, as if they were avoiding it for whatever reason? What exactly are those bugs devouring the tree until there is nothing left of it?
With so many questions left unanswered a certain level of caution was definitely needed.At that point in time, I had asked my friendly tenant about what I had to be careful about, but he just straight up ignored my question and told me not to disturb it since it was busy doing who knows what.
I did not bother trying to ask any more questions. My legs were proof enough, that searching for an answer was a pest, that drained the very life out of oneself. This is still an understatement, as this devious bastard is trying to rip me off whenever the situation arises. At least I was still considerate enough to explain my methodology to it, hoping for good cooperation in the near future. Yet, all my goodwill was trampled on.
Sorry for rambling about this moronic fellow, I always get so agitated talking about him. So where was I? Yes, I have talked about the strange bugs in the dead forest. As it turns out these bugs are fire resistant.
It certainly was not such a good idea to set the tree on fire with my hair and watch from a safe distance. As it turns out these dead trees burned really well, almost too well, because the fire did not stop at one tree and sooner or later the entire forest was lit ablaze.Having learned my lesson from the field of flowers I had been gone the moment the spark flew over.
And this decision proved to be a really wise one, as angry roar filled the entirety of the woods. I did not have to see it, to know that it out for blood. Though that was not my problem anymore, as I already left the forest by the and ran into a lake and decided to wait in it till things had cooled down.
As it turns out, this was also not such a good idea, because inside of the water many monsters were currently eyeing me. These monsters were not used to seeing a prey disregarding them that much, any other creature only approached this lake with great reluctance. Yet this strange creature decided to jump in the lake and did seem unperturbed.
This lake, while it was quaint from the outside, its innermost was a place of carnage. Only the strongest creatures could survive in it. The sea would have been empty if the monsters would not respawn from time to time.
In this place full of violence, I was happily swimming without any worry in the world. In hindsight, my life was probably saved by my sheer ignorance, of the potential trouble under me. Any other behaviour would have let to a much different outcome.
This state could only last so long before some creatures decided to test the waters. It was a very small fish who dared to approach me.This fish was not known for its battle strength, but what made it is special was its proficiency in stealthy approaching their prey. They survived by extracting the blood of their victims, without them noticing their arrival.
I had not noticed a single thing as it swam towards my legs and embedded its proboscis inside one of my legs. It was unfortunate, that it chose my legs and not any other body part. Because inside of those legs was the secret, that prevented any hair from growing. These legs contained a lot of poisonous substances, that could be secreted from the pores.
The first time I listened to the reasoning of that selfish moron, I wanted to cuss at it, but the more I thought about the more I could see the advantages it offered.
But in this instance, I could be glad about this neat little feature is hidden inside of my legs. Mere seconds after sucking out some of my blood, the fish suddenly stopped and died on the spot. This caused a chain reaction, as dead bodies did not last very long in this hellish space.
I came to this conclusion after seeing the big corpse of a shark floating at the surface. This carcass was very enticing as much more monsters were attracted. Presumably, I do not have to tell you, what exactly happened afterwards right? Even after the corpse had disappeared and the shark respawned, the damage was done and a huge epidemic was razing through this small lake.
After securing myself a ”safe” source of water, an idea started to fester in my mind. As you might know, Idid not ask for a secluded place without any reason. This source of water, was a big first step, in order to accomplish my plan. The fact, that this lake was contaminated by poison was something I could take care of later on.
Though this place was not very suitable in general to realize my plan. Looking behind me I saw the forest still burning and angry roars were coming out of it without any pause. The idea of returning to that area did not seem very feasible for the time being.