Chapter 18 The advantages of being friends with a panther 3 (1/2)
as Mars was counting the spiders that was closing in on him and Victoria or rather the smell of blood from the dead earth boar he was dragging through the forest Victoria lightly bit his hand and started to pull him while her horns flashed
”Mars... we need... to run away”
hearing Victoria's voice low and shaking Mars looked down at Victoria he saw the panic in her eyes and reached down with his free hand and slowly patted her head to try and calm her down as he asked in a gentle tone
”why do we need to run Victoria?”
”enemies... a lot is coming”
as Mars looked at Victoria he noticed that her fur was standing strait and she was slightly shaking
”but Victoria... why do we need to run from weak enemies?”
after asking Victoria she looked like she calmed down a little and after a few seconds her horns flashed again
”enemies... weak?”
”yeah they are weak, those spider are masters of ambushing so they never expect to be ambushed themselves”
as Mars answered Victoria he looked straight into her blue cat eyes for a few seconds
”and besides if we ran, we would not be able to eat boar meat tonight”
perhaps remembering the taste of boar meat Victoria stopped shaking and let go of his hand as she looked at Mars for a few seconds before her horns flashed again
”then... what should i do?”
still petting Victoria Mars counted the spiders that was moving ever closer in an almost perfect encirclement
”...well let's do it like this, Victoria can you leave a shadow decoy here and then slip out of the encirclement without the spiders noticing?”
looking at Mars being completely calm Victoria licked his hand where she had bit him as her horns flashed
”yes... spiders dumb”
hearing that the strength had returned to her voice Mars smiled and gave her head one last pat before separating his hand
”then do that and when i spring their ambush early keep your distance and hit them with magic while prioritizing the slightly bigger spitting spiders, they should be the ones in the back of their encirclement”
”okay”
”and assume all of them have deadly poison all over their bodies, while i can heal it if it get on me i can't heal the poison if it gets on you so avoid as much as possible, if they go after you too much then just run away, then i can hit them from behind if they chase you”
”okay”
”then let's do this, you go ahead i will draw their ambush”
as Mars looked Victoria melted into her shadow and almost instantly a shadow decoy appeared in beside him to replace her
”...now then”
as Victoria had left his side Mars drew his bone sword and held it in his right hand with the tip of the blade hovering right over the ground as he closed his eyes and focused on counting the spiders
”5...12...21...27...34 in total”
as he confirmed the number of invisible spiders that was slowly moving closer to him Mars got a little scared but quickly shook his head as he opened his eyes and prepared while motivating himself
”...if it was just me i would have run away, but with Victoria here i should be a easy, besides i have a good enough grasp on all of my powers to use them all at once now”
as he was listening to the spiders moving in Mars started to circulate his mana and made a shadow orb he grabbed in his left hand and stood still and waited a few seconds for the spiders to get a little closer
”just a little closer...”
listing to the spider legs moving softly all around him Mars focused on the closest spider that was preparing to jump him and sink its fangs into him
”NOW!”
as the spider jumped Mars moved, throwing the dark orb at another spider that was preparing to jump at him while he moved as a ghost under the first spider in the air and slashed his bone sword slicing the spider in half as he started to summon his dragon flame while calmly walking towards to next spider
”what's wrong...? COME AT ME!”