Chapter 122 Invaders of the Mother forest 1 (2/2)
Mars ran out of the room but before he could make his way to the gate he ran into Elsa
”Mars what's wrong?”
”something happened at Green river, Chloe have asked me to come with her”
”then I'm going too!”
Mars looked at Elsa for a second before he gave a nod
”then back a bag and meet us by the main gate in 5”
”okay!”
Elsa ran off towards the dorms and Mars continued towards the gate where he found not only Chloe but also Varvei waiting for him
”good your here, let's go!”
”Chloe wait Elsa is coming too”
”Elsa... okay”
”try to calm down... do you know what happened?”
”no just that if this cube ever glowed red the destruction of Green river is a real possibility”
Varvei also looked concerned and put a hand on Chloe's shoulder, Mars put a hand on his chin and thought out loud
”we're at least a week by carriage away from the Mother forest... if we ride on horseback we can shorten it to 5 days... if we ride the horses into the ground and change at every town we can probably make it in 4 days... I really wish we had a sky carriage”
while Mars was thinking Elsa arrived, she was wearing some leather armor instead of her usual maid clothes
”I'm here”
”okay good then let's go”
during the next 3 days Mars and the girls rode form city to town switching horses when they could as they made their way south, on the way Mars brought Varvei a long spear which she practiced with in the evenings and just like that on the evening of the 4 day did the group reach Malrton which was only a stone throw away form the outer Mother forest after spending the night at Malrton they ventured into the Mother forest
”this sure is nostalgic...”
Varvei looked around the forest, they were still in the outer forest so it wasn't so hard to traverse the terrain as of yet
”Isn't just another forest?”
”hey this is my home”
Mars took a deep breath with his eyes closed taking in the air of the forest, he half had a feeling of wanting to go back to wearing beast leathers again
”well then let's continue we're still some days away from Green river”
the group continued their journey and with the help of Victoria's sharp senses they avoided most magic beast making their journey a smooth one, until the 3 day since they entered the forest when they reached the barrier forest and ran into a rather nostalgic group of magic beasts, Mars suddenly raised his hand and signaled the group to stop while he looked around
”Victoria you hear them too?”
”yeah... there's a... lot of them”
Elsa walked up to Mars and asked him
”what's wrong Mars?”
”we have incoming from right ahead”
”magic bests?”
”yeah it's a group of stealth acid spiders”
”ugh... spiders”
”yeah I know... Victoria and I will take the front, be sure not to get hit by the acid”
”you don't have to tell me twice”
Chloe patted Varvei on the shoulder and said with a grave look on her face
”take it serious it really fucking hurts”
”you tried it?”
”yeah once... I almost lost my leg”
”...okay then”
Varvei began slowly transforming as she clutched her long spear in her hands and alertly watched the forest around her
”I hear them too”
Mars also transformed into his half-dragon form and looked ahead as he drew his sword
”here they come!”
Mars quickly formed a few fire lances and fired them off into the distant trees seemingly aiming at nothing when suddenly they hit something, something that let out a inhumane scream as it fell from the trees burning, Victoria also fired off some shadow lances that nailed a few spiders to the trees around them
”there's still 16 of them left stay alert!”
after he yelled Mars activated [Instant movement] and disappeared from view before he reappeared and stabbed his sword into the head of a spider before he reactivated [Instant movement] and disappeared again, while Mars was massacring spiders Varvei stood ready with her long spear with her eyes closed, suddenly she opened them and trust forwards with her spear and non fatally hit a spider which caused its stealth to disappear
”Chloe!”
”I got it!”
Chloe that had been waiting for a target fired a fire lance right into the face of the spider instantly killing it
”nice job”
Elsa was also standing with her eyes closed while her wolf like ears were twitching slightly suddenly she grabbed Chloe and pulled her a step back making a lump of acid shoot right past her
”th-thanks Elsa”
Elsa opened her eyes and gave a smile and a thumbs up