Chapter 133: Bear Attack (2/2)

Merlin continued through the forest, eventually e trees providing ht red berries hanging from the branches All of these trees were yew trees, and Merlin noticed that none of the trees seeh other trees in the area did It seeh to avoid this area

"Alright, ti his clippers and tough leather gloves, both of which were items that came with the herbalist's kit, out of his inventory

He put the leather gloves on and began cliers to climb the tree like he usually did because he feared sap splashi+ng back at him Even if his hands were protected, the rest of his body, especially his face, generally wasn't

Although the tree's strange trunk structure gave him plenty of footholds, so overall he didn't need to use anything to assist his climb

Merlin made his way up the tree and onto one of the branches, he continued along the branch until he reached a spot where there were plenty of needles and berries within reach

"How ra yew in the past twenty or aainst everything with such high constitution scores

"It would be less tedious to just cut the whole branch down"

Unfortunately, Merlin didn't have an axe, nor did he have any for skill or a lumberjack soul, so it would be pretty difficult and inconvenient to take the thick branch down at once

Instead Merlin crawled along the branch, picking off smaller branches that either his clippers could cut, or he could cleave through with a swing of his dagger He dropped all the branches to the floor to deal with later

After about twenty minutes of work, several of the branches were stripped bare, and Merlinin a sea of leaves He then spent the next half an hour stripping the branches of asthem in his inventory without much care

He see the leaves wouldn't account for raraht onwhat little reot plenty of personal stock to use in the future"

As Merlin was talking to himself, he heard a loud thud in the distance His immediate attention snapped to the ani off in quite a hurry, even the nocturnal predators see Merlin to assu and tremendously powerful

Merlin heard loud footsteps, with the occasional thud, which Merlin could only i their bodies forcibly injected into trees Either way, Merlin didn't want to stand around and find out

As Merlin began running for the treeline, an orc's dead corpse was thrown several roove in the forest floor as it was slowly buried under the ed with it

Merlin's attention snapped to the left, where the dead orc had come from, and there he saw a massive brown bear that towered over the two orcs that were still attacking it

The bear see a shi+ver to run down his spine Although this brief distraction by Merlin was all one of the orcs needed to bury its axe into one of the bear's hind legs

As punishment for its insolence, the bear squashed the orc into the dirt as if it were slapping a mosquito It raised its paw, only to see what amounted to an orc pancake that was partially buried in the soil

"Oh dear God, that's overpowered" Merlinthe last orc would distract the bear for long enough so that he could get away from the it safely

But then he watched from the corner of his vision that the last orc stupidly decided that, even after seeing all of its friends killed by the bear with ease, that it would decide to test its luck and attack the bear too

Merlin watched as the bear swiped it paw, and everything above the hips for the orc had vanished into nothing, leaving only the legs that quickly slu" Merlinas fast as they could

He could still see the fight play out through the various layers of trees, however it was quickly being obscured by the forest as he continued running

However before his vision of the bear was entirely gone, he watched the bear's head snap towards Merlin's position And then he heard heavy footsteps, it seeet

"God da that he was prettybetween trees and trying to throw the bear off its path "Is this where I die?"

The stoh Merlin was yet unable to see the bear Even though the bear shouldn't have been able to see hily well