Chapter 92 - The Tree (1/2)

Immediately after the shaking began, Evan leant tightly against the wall, and his horse ran far ahead in fright. Evan didn't try to stop his horse, he needed to make sure that nothing would happen to him.

Nevertheless, the worst thing that Evan could have imagined happened - the violent jolting caused a veritable rock avalanche. Dozens of huge boulders were flying right at him and Evan needed to do something urgently.

”Fuck!” Evan didn't expect the situation to suddenly take such steep turns.

”Well, why the fuck is this happening right now!” Evan shouted loudly and quickly sprinted off the ledge.

It was his only chance of survival. The rocks could tear down the entire trail and crush anyone who got in their way. If he didn't want to be buried under a pile of rocks, he had only one choice - to jump.

Whoosh.

In flight, Evan unfolded the white blade of the ”Reverse Death” and thrust the scythe into the stone wall with all his might. He had no other way to stop his fall and save himself.

Bam. Bam. Bam.

At the same moment, numerous sounds of stone boulders hitting were heard. The blade of the scythe cut through the rock and Evan slowly made his way down, but after the rocks had fallen there was another problem.

The boulders had collapsed the narrow path, turning it into another avalanche, only this time of earth and stone. Evan descended too slowly, he had to decide something urgently.

Whoosh.

The next moment Evan pressed harder on his scythe and his speed increased, the blade began to cut through the rock much faster, but it wasn't enough. Soon, the avalanche could have reached him and buried him alive.

Fortunately, thanks to the timely action he had taken, Evan was about twenty meters far from the ground. Jumping from that height was truly suicidal, but Evan had a plan.

Whoosh.

Evan bounced sharply off the wall and jumped to the side of the nearest tree. In the ”Half-Dead Forest”, the big trees were very tall, so twenty meters was a pretty normal height for jumping into a tree crown.

Crack. Crack. Crack.

Evan burst into the foliage breaking many branches with his body and reflexively clinging to the tree trunk. He was saved, but the avalanche wasn't over yet.

Bam. Bam. Bam.

Tons of earth and huge boulders collapsed on the big tree, under such colossal weight it tilted and began to fall slowly.

Bam.

The moment the tree touched the ground, the avalanche also stopped moving. Evan jumped off the branch and looked around, muttering: ”Why couldn't this have happened after I would have crossed the damn woods!”

Bam.

With anger, Evan slammed his fist into the trunk of the tree, causing a layer of bark to break off and fly off to the side.

”Ugh, okay, at least I`ve made it at least some of the way. The rest of us would either have to go through the woods, or go around. To hurry up was the right decision, but I made it too late!”

Evan glanced at the nearby tree and then at the path on the rock.