Chapter 42 Green rivers response 4 (2/2)
'well if it's something Victoria can't sense then we probably don't have a fighting chance anyway...'
Mars gave a shrug and continued following after Chloe for a few more minutes before he noticed Victoria was acting oddly
”what's wrong Victoria?”
the panther cub certainty was acting a little odd, she seemed fixated on something as her ears twitched slightly while her eyes darted around for a while before her horns flashed
”Mars... there's prey... over there...”
”so?”
”I think... they think... we're prey”
”oh is that so... Chloe hold up, Victoria thinks something's starking us”
chloe stopped and took a whistle made of wood out her pouch and blew it 2 times, when Mars heard it he found the sound very familiar it sounded almost like a bird cry he had been hearing for the last few houres
'well that's neat'
a few seconds later the rest of the elver that had been walking almost 50 meters in front showed up, and after Rex showed as the last, Alvin spoke up in a hushed voice
”what is it Chloe?”
”Victoria says something's stalking us”
Alvin put his hand on his chin as he thought for a few seconds
”...in that case let's avoid, Rex find us a river were we can lose our---”
”why don't we just kill it instead?”
”...Mars it's way to risky to flight, we don't even know what's after us and we might even atract more magic beast by fighting”
while Mars agreed with Alvin's logically statement and likely would have agreed with him in his last life, he didn't want to run for several reasons first he might obtain some high class cores but most importantly
”Victoria says that whatever is stalking us thinks we're prey and that rubs my pride the wrong way”
Alvin was a little taken back by Mars's arrogant statement but after a few seconds he gave a sigh before he asked
”do you think we can win?”
”sure, Victoria even says that it's 'prey that thinks we're prey' so there should be no problems even if it's just the 2 of us”
”in that case we will leave it to you 2... let's forage a bit in the meantime and then i suppose we can make camp for the night here, Rex see if you can find some water, Chloe your on forage duty and Isabel flatten the terrain a bit”
”””yes captain”””
”good then Mars and Victoria, good hunting”
Mars gave a nod and kneeled down and patted Victoria on the head while he asked her
”can you tell how meany there is?”
”I'm... not sure... but not... a lot?”
”okay then...”
Mars unsheathed his sword while he transformed and after a few seconds when his horns had fully grown he opened his now blood red eyes
”...let's go”
”okay...follow me”
Victoria set off with Mars after her and gradually speed up until they both ran at full speed though the forest for about a minute before Victoria slowed down and began to lower her body a little as she moved forwarded
”is it those?”
Mars also began to sense the 'prey' they were hunting and after moving somewhat stealthily for about 2 minutes Victoria jumped up into a tree and entered her shadow, Mars also jumped into a tree and slowed his breath, hiding his presence until a few minutes later a pack off about 20 black wolfs passed by underneath were Mars and Victoria was hiding, and after a few seconds Mars's skill activated when he looked at the biggest wolf in the pack that was about 3 meters tall
greater shadow wolf
male
class: 6
a dangerous magic beast, not only because of it high individual combat power but also because of it's ability to command other shadow wolf's in combat
”this might be a challenge... but as long as we take out the commander it should be fine, let's do this Victoria”