Bab 13: All Side Ambush
Crynn POV
Yes, this a relaxing night, a calming mellow blaze, nice sandwich dinner, nothing beats this (At least not right now). I'm not even this relaxed back in the Room of Requirement, probably fearing of being caught. But here, just peaceful breeze of nightly wind, no wizards in the forest, everything is free. Eating sandwiches by the fire, whistling soft tunes in the background, trouble seems to be out of sight, but not necessarily out of mind.
The acromantula lair, which is presumably near the large vicinity of my camp site is in my mind. The gears planted on my brain is moving continuously. One lair houses about 70 acromantulas, 6 is down. just around 60 to 70 more acromantulas to hunt, and I can finally prove myself to the centaurs, annihilate the colonies and kill Aragog. "Für das Größere Wohl," I can't help but say that, chuckling to myself, you can't not say the word when stuck in Harry Potter, it's so iconic.
I sat by the fire, laying myself on a tree root, "What's for the future," I sighed, can't help but think what my journey is and what my purpose in this 'Second Life' It can be a blessing to most, but a curse to some, I don't know what's it for me. A blessing to escape death, only to be put in front of death. I snickered at the thought, ironic really, a second chance to survive hundreds of deaths just to go to heaven, some might be inclined to believe that going to hell is easier. I don't even know how much Mission Merit I need to buy my way into heaven, the 1400s Catholic Church sure can predict the future (No offense, if you're a Catholic and know what it means).
Closing my eyes, I imagined what it would be like if everything was easy, life was easy, work was easy, dying was easy, going to heaven was easy, but everything reality taught us is the fact that the world will never be easy, I drove myself to sleep before I truly realize. Yup, the world is certainly not making it easy for me. Clicking noises from the distant! I immediately forced myself awake, albeit a little sleepy.
The sound is getting numerous, I could feel clicking all around me, I spun in a clockwise motion, tryng to make out the surroundings for any sign of giant legs and glowing eyes. And true to my words, a literal army of acromantula surround me on all sides, "Crap!" It's an all side ambush! I felt my jaw drop and my heart tightening, fear overcame me, I knew at that moment that there's no way back from this, I dropped my suitcase, this time gripping the sword with both hands, there's no way to hold back in such circumstances. It's either fight to live or die trying.
I saw an acromantula in the darknes, the biggest on of all, stannding 7 feet, 2 feet higher than the rest, it stood tall, growling out, "Human... Kill... Human..." the moment it spoke, I knew this is the boss of the army, the general under a king, the entire acromantula lair, is out around me. This is a very disadvantageous scenario to be battling in, no way out, no way in, I need to battle out of this mess.
3 Acromantula jumped from the other side, my longsword ready to parry, hanging right, I swung up to meat their pincers, A loud clash resounded. I jumped back and swung the sword, slicing through an acromantula's eye, blinding some of its sight, the other two brought their pincers down from the sky. Hanging right, another parry resounded, swiftly bringing my sword inside the acromantula's head taking it down and slashing straight through the other's thorax, leaving it to die. Feeling clicking behind me, I managed to ddirectly stab the sword backwards to pierce through the slightly blind acromantula's already blind eye, making its way into the skull, killing it with one stab.
"Crap! This is bad! This is really bad!" This time the entire army charged towards me, I brought my sword low, amputating 5 acromantulas around me, rendering them motionless. Another 3 set of pincers struck me from above, it met with my blade and persisting to bring it down upon me. I used all my effort to fight against the force of 3 pairs of pincers biting down on my blade. "Arrrghh!" I swung my blade upwards with as much force my body could muster without too much exhaustion. The acromantulas, caught off guard are met with a horizontal slash towards their head, instantly slicing their heads open. Acromantulas love to attack from above, how about I attack from bellow!
I sliced upwards towards an acromantula, it doesn't manage to block it, slicing open another head. "Bring it on" I said with a maniacal grin right accross my face, at this point , I'm having absolute fun! No more fear, just adrenaline of pleasure, I'm becoming a battle maniac aren't I. I slashed downwards aiming for the legs towards another group of acromantula, another group down. At this stage of things, I'm not counting, I'm killing! Another squad surround me from all sides, smirking, I sweeped down with my sword 360° degree spin. directly cutting open their undersides, intestines spilling out from their abdomen.
This is my sword style that I developed, it's called Parry and Slash. These acromantulas really don't learn from their mistakes, I've parried and sliced for God knows how long now, this killing is excruciating to my muscles, the acromantulas just keep coming, though their army have already lessened considerably, they're still coming. As unintelligent as they're, a predator will always be able to identify the target's level, and it seems that they realized that my movements have gone sluggish. This is not good, this is so very not good. I'm tired and my muscles hurt. I've never felt something that hurts more than this. It feels like my muscles are bing ripped of in every movement I take.
A giant acromantula, the boss finally approached me, it seems that seeing its brethren die left and right is pumping feelings of vexation into its mind. This time, it attacked differently, it brought it's two front legs to thrust into my body, I dodged one by chance but the other one managed to graze my cheeks, I deemed it impossible to parry or defend against to rapier-like legs thrusting against me. "What do I do! What do I do!" I screamed in my mind, feelings of indignation flowing through neurons in my brain, "Yes! I know!" I summoned my wand, pointing it at him!
(A.N : If anyone is confused, in the process of getting Crynn's wand, Crynn also got a silver ring in which he can store and summon his wand from the ring, in case readers don't know how Crynn can summon his wand at will.)
"Magic Overcharge!" Bright silver light emerged from my equally silver wand, shooting in a beam of light towards the Giant Acromantula, blowing its head off, I directly ponted it at the rest of the remaining acromantula, the beam of light is like divine retribution upon the acromantulas, killing them all, no survivors left alive. The beam of light receded, exhausting the magic in me. I slowly felt the energy remaining in my body fade and I fell down on the ground, my consciousness seeping through my skin, escaping the whole of my body.
And there I lay, in the middle of a massacre, an angelic sleeping face in the middle of demons.
Status Power Mingguan
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