69 Sudden Spread (1/2)

”Wait, wait! I wasn't the one who disturbed your herd earlier, it was somebody else!”, Edwin slowly backed off towards the edge of the cliff.

”Oh? I already know, it's just that I really want to kill a human right now.” Hot air came out of the alpha deer's nostrils as it replied and kept charging its antlers.

'So much for being reasonable.', Edwin inwardly complained.

As he was about to prepare to initiate the Flicker technique to escape, the alpha deer suddenly stopped charging its attack and the antlers went back to normal.

The alpha deer look in a certain direction and narrowed its eyes.

Then Edwin took this chance to sneak away from the beast, but before he could even get a few meters away from his original position, the alpha deer suddenly asked, ”Kid, I change my mind, ride on my back.”

The beast went in front of him and crouched down, which made Edwin stunned by the immediate change of situation.

”What are you waiting for? Hurry up! I might need your help.”, the alpha deer urged.

Hearing the tone of the beast, Edwin climbed up the animal's back, then the deer stood and looked down the cliff to its herd.

The powerful beast started to neigh down to the other deers; when the neigh reached them, all of them, including the ones sleeping, playing, and eating looked up the cliff, then in an instant, the herd moved and swiftly rushed away from the location, opposite to where their leader has looked earlier.

Without warning, the alpha deer jumped down from the top and followed the herd from behind.

Meanwhile, Edwin was almost scared to death by the alpha deer's sudden action, the boy felt that his heart was left behind on the top of the cliff after it jumped down from a very high place.

However, those thoughts didn't last for long and he couldn't help but ask what was happening, but the beast didn't answer and kept running, though it limited its speed to be behind the herd.

Due to his curiousity and because the beast wasn't answering his question, Edwin took a peek behind him.

An arising sense could be felt by Edwin as the feeling that a layer of frost came from that wilderness that he was facing and covered everything, but there wasn't seem to be any change that happened.

”That spreading power that you probably sensed right now is called Magic Frostbite, everything, including animals, plants, and humans who could utilize internal energy and mana will get negatively affected by it, even those toothpick-wielding humans who can use the element of ice will surely get affected.”, the alpha deer said.

The toothpick-wielding humans that the deer was talking about were the magicians.

”Oh.”, Edwin replied.

”But this is much more severe than a normal. I need your help on spotting if there are any deers that will stray from our original path, I'll be busy paying attention on the front of the herd if there are any obstacles, got it?”, the alpha deer asked.

”Yes, I got it.”, Edwin replied.

As soon as Edwin answered back, the alpha deer's antlers glowed, and the antlers of the other deers also glowed, albeit faintly.

After which, the animals sped up, as if they got a boost.

Due to their current speed, Edwin was forced to hold tightly onto the alpha deer while maintaining his vigilance in case of a deer straying off from the original path.

Also inwardly, the boy was caught off guard by the sudden boost of the herd's speed, if this happened earlier, he knew that he could've been caught.

On the other hand, Edwin also heard other animals around their location as he focused internal energy to his ears to temporarily boost his hearing.

He heard different kinds of beasts of the wild such as apes and gorillas swinging on the trees; snakes slithering; frogs hopping; also numerous kinds of birds such as eagles, hawks, owls soaring on the sky, and many more animals going at the same direction, which was away from the Magic Frostbite.

”There are actually so many beasts that could use internal energy and mana.”, Edwin muttered.

”No, actually, internal energy is always present in anybody's bodies, the only ones that can get affected by this are the ones that can utilize it.”, the alpha deer explained.

Though Edwin actually already knew that every living being has internal energy within their bodies, he still nodded as a form respect.