Chapter 197 March Towards Their Doom (1/2)
Yagaroths were water based creatures, land, was not their domain. Yet, I couldn't lose them. Even worse, the distance was getting shorter. 'I'm not far away from the location, of my hidden bag with the Yellow Dust. I just need to retrieve it and then… End everything' I thought. The Avians were relentlessly trying to slow me down, I decided not to stop and shoot anymore. This would only shorten the distance between me and Yagaroths.
My set of clothes became rags at this point, it offered almost no protection. The Formations placed on the set, seemed to weaken or disappeared completely. 'I can already see the location, just a bit more!' I thought and ran, like never before.
When I finally arrived at the place, where my bags were hidden, I quickly dug them up and opened one. The Yellow Dust started pouring out. The amount created a small hill, when the bag became completely empty, I threw it to the side and placed the other bag onto my shoulders, then ran.
When the Avians saw the mountain of Yellow Dust, they instantly stopped. Some started retreating, while other waited in the air, scared to approach. The Yagaroth army was getting closer to the pile of Yellow Dust, while Avians tried to make them retreat, but no Yagaroth listened. When I was about 300 metres away, I took out a cloth and wrapped it tightly around an arrow. With the arrow prepared, I lit it.
When the Avians saw this, they gave up any attempts of persuading the Yagaroths to retreat, and fled as far as they could. The Yagaroths got closer and closer to the pile, and thought nothing of it. None of them stopped or retreated. 'This is your doom' I thought. I took aim, and shot my arrow. ”Swoosh!”. The arrow flew through the air, and landed in the pile of Yellow Dust.
”BOOOOOOOOM!”
The moment I released the arrow, I started running again. The blast from that explosion, would be much more severe, than the one I released upon the whole horde of Corpse Dogs. When the arrow arrived, the sky lit up and became bright from the explosion, my ears rang and hurt a lot. Then the blast of hot air hit me. ”UGHHHH!!”
I flew through the air like a rag doll. I almost lost consciousness, due to the impact alone. I was alive, thanks to the distance, but also because, I turned around at a last possible moment and shielded my body, using my arms and legs. My arms were broken and scorched, from the impact. Fortunately, the bones didn't shatter and only broke.
When I finally landed, the sole protection on my back, was the added armour in my clothes. Thankfully, it survived the attacks of Avians. The first impact slowed me down, but I didn't stop and bounced back into the air. I bounced like this couple of times, then finally stopped. ”Cough...” I coughed out some blood. The pain was real, my arms broken and I had difficulty breathing. My legs were not broken, but hurt like hell and were also charred. I couldn't pick myself up whatsoever.
Frosty transformed into corporeal form, and quickly started using its breath, to freeze some parts of my body. 'That lizard is not stupid at all, coldness can decrease my pain but also preserve the wounds' I praised Frosty in my mind. 'But, Frosty also suffered some damages. I can see scorched marks on it, as well as some bruises' I thought. When I looked at the place, that used to contain an army of Yagaroths, there was a huge pit in the ground. The skies and land, were clear of any living creature, there was nothing in sight, but the pit.
I asked Frosty with some difficulty ”Can... you... take out... some... medicine... from my bag? Ugh”. Frosty stopped and nodded its head, quite worried. After a while, Frosty showed me all the bottles, I had in my bag. I pointed with my eyes ”Give me this on to drink, I need to recover fast”. Frosty opened my mouth and poured in the medicine. I looked at another bottle and said ”Smear this one on me, it will allow my wounds to heal faster”.
Frosty did whatever I asked it to do, without complaints. After about 15 minutes of resting, I could see something flying in the air. 'These bastards are back. I need to leave, now!' I thought and slowly picked myself up. Although my legs hurt like hell, I still managed to stand up. I said ”Let's go, we need to leave. The Avians are coming”. Frosty nodded and followed after me, it didn't return to my hand, as a tattoo.