Pangawasa Warishing (Giant Tree Ruler)
Chapter 4 - Arriving at the Destination
Inside the thick fog, 2 men were looking back at each other.
There was one man who looked more mature compared to the other. The more mature male faces forward with his knees slightly bent and holds a sword about 10 cm wide in each hand, on standby.
While the younger one stood quietly with his knees straight without being bent, hmm, sorry, perhaps more precisely, you could say he did not know what to style at a time like this. And the younger man was holding.., well he was holding nothing, empty-handed, right, in really wanting to deal with this precarious situation with his bare hands, what a wonderful man, really, even though he did not carry any weapons because he was not an adventurer, but it was indeed an incredible bravery.
The two of them, Rakryan and Penta were being surrounded by a shadow of a creature called the Wolf Alas Warihing. The fierce battle there made wolves that initially only numbered 5 now reach 30 more.
Rakryan who was a little panicked did not know down if killing the creature he would only increase the number, now they are trapped in a situation that is not in the strand at all. Especially Rakryan had to protect Penta while fighting. Maybe this is also the reason Rakryan prefers to keep watch himself.
Seen by Rakryan and Penta, 3 wolves in front of each of them are on standby to attack.
Damn I have to use that technique here, even though I have not mastered it. Rakryan murmured in his heart.
“Penta calm down, don't move from there. I will definitely protect you.” Rakryan's light to Penta who stood in fear.
“Ma, Sorry to trouble you.” Reply Penta with regret. It seemed that Penta was aware of her desire to accompany Rakryan making him fall in troublesome conditions for Rakryan.
“Don't think about it now, just focus on avoiding attacks and looking for blame to escape.” Sahut Rakryan who might be able to calm Penta a little.
Simultaneously 6 wolves jumped from 2 opposite directions. The incredible speed, the wolf-wolf leap was unlike any other animal jump in general, within a second and a half the wolves that had been 70 meters away from them were now right before the eyes of the two of them.
As if time had stopped, in a slow motion Rakryan jumped up and hit the three wolves that came towards him with the back of his sword. The three wolves bounced far to the left of Rakryan. At the same time he then turned his body towards the left, which made it seem like he was demonstrating acrobatic movements turning his body in the air. Then he stomped his feet in the air, making a loud bang on the air that created a shockwave right on the sole of his right foot.
Rakryan was on top of the wolf who tried to attack Penta. He quickly split the air in the presence of the three wolves that were like floating in the air due to time slowing down. When both of his sword eyes reached the ground he uttered a sentence in a small voice. “Illusion Speed and Incision Hampa.”
As if it had happened all of a sudden, Penta saw that Rakryan was already crouching in front of her with both of his sword eyes touching the ground and the three wolves were split in two. All of that happened in less than 2 seconds less since the six wolves jumped.
Make Penta ask. “Kok can.” With a soft voice.
“Are you okay Penta?” Rakryan asked with his head slightly turned to the left as if to glance at Penta, coolly.
“Ahh, yes I am fine.” Reply Penta quickly.
“Good, just now I added 3 more of their number.” Rakryan said and stood up gallantly like a knight who had finished saving the Princess, remember but this is not the princess he saved.
“Heeee.” Responds Penta with pale.
The three wolves and their clones that Rakryan killed had come back to life and ran towards the wolf crowd that surrounded them.
“It seems that these wolves are quite clever, they do not attack after life again but return his group to make plans.” Rakryan.
But Rakryan is wrong, what really happens is that the wolves do not attack when they come back to life, they still felt the pain felt when their death occurred and who felt it was the initial wolf and its clones. And why do they retreat after coming back to life because they want to wait for the pain to disappear first, so their animal instincts work.
After a while the other wolves began to prepare to jump, this time the number was not six, but maybe ten, he said, it didn't seem like three-quarters of the total wolves surrounding the two people were preparing to attack.
“It's really bad. Looks like we're gonna die here.” Rakryan said as he opened his right lip looking a worried smile.
Although Rakryan was a Wiryawan-level knight, capable of fighting 100 soldiers simultaneously. But this time he is fighting is a creature that can not die in 12 hours, even though Rakryan does not know it. Plus every kill the number will increase. Seeing this alone made any knight desperate.
Rakryan, who had fought the wolves with all his might while protecting Penta, was exhausted. His mind began to unfocus, the effect that the fog from the wolves had gradually affected him. Makes Rakryan feel an incredible sleepiness.
“Ha, why is this, why am I sleepy.” Rakryan's eyes slowly began to close and he dropped the two swords he was holding, the sound of metal falling was clearly heard. And Rakryan was completely asleep now, but in a standing position.
The wolves who thought Rakryan was still conscious remained on standby to attack.
Buk, BUK, the sound of falling objects twice, the second sound louder than the first sound. Rakryan was uprooted starting from the knee that held his upper body, followed by the body on his knees that are now lying. He's sound asleep.
“R-Ra, Rakryan, wake up, wake up, Rakryan, uh, how about this, Rakryan.” Penta squatted down to build Rakryan. However it was only a waste of time because Rakryan was now soundly asleep due to the effects of the fog the wolves had created.
The wolves who were on standby attacked, realizing Rakryan was asleep and running, although not jumping like the previous six wolves, running these wolves very fast, maybe 70 km/h.
What am I supposed to do? Then we both will die. I have to escape, but what about Rakryan. But..., how am I going to escape, where? Thought the Penta in panic.
As Penta spoke in her heart, the wolves were getting closer. A wolf that was already about 3 meters away from Penta jumped right in front of him. So that makes Penta jump backwards in a squatting position, very scared.
Penta who are already in a sitting position and afraid to think will die. At that very instant, an arrow shot out from the right side of the leaping wolf, then pierced the wolf's neck, making the wolf that had opened its mouth wide pushed to the left and fell to the ground.
Penta who was more surprised to see the direction of the arrow. What he saw was precisely two pillars of radiating fire coming towards him, instantly covering his front and back.
Whatisthis? What the hell's going on? Is there a wolf that shoots arrows and casts fire magic? Penta was astonished but the question was quite strange.
When Penta looked to the right, 2 wolves from the left were ready to hit him hard within a meter. Without Penta being aware of the danger coming from her left side. A semicircular light shield enveloped him.
The wolf that was so close to Penta struck the shield of light very hard. Made the two wolves sprawl out instantly.
All the events so fast it was only to be ignored by Penta who focused on the 4 shadowy figures of people running in the middle of the two flaming walls of fire.
“Pentaaaaa, Pentaaaa, are you okay?” There was the sound of a familiar woman screaming.
Penta shed tears, after noticing the 4 figures of the person who came. “I think this is the end of my life.” in tears.
The four people had arrived before Penta, they were, Prabu, Karang, Dyah and Rani.
“Penta don't cry, here let me heal your wounds.” Soon Rani crouched down and stroked Penta's head.
“I'm not crying, I'm just moved. Huhuhuhuhu.” Reply Penta sniffled.
“Thank God we still had time, thank goodness.” Dyah breathed a sigh of relief.
The coral that this time held a bow in his right hand walked up to Rakryan. “Wahh, he was really good.” shook the body lying on the ground with his left hand.
“It turns out those wolves were actually able to defeat Rakryan.” Prabu said that his breathing was still a bit heavy while supporting his body with a large shield.
“Curer total.” After reciting the spell, Rani mentioned the name of her nurse.
Does all magic need to name its nurse like that? Mind Penta.
Penta's entire body was covered in a warm light, the open wounds that had been all over her body began to close.
“Wahh amazing.” Penta.
Rani who looks very sweet when laughing like that and is very close to Penta, makes the face of the Penta reddened when shrouded in healing light and makes her bow her head.
“Eh you're okay, Penta?” Rani asked in surprise as Penta suddenly lowered her head.
“I'm fine, take it easy, I'm just a little tired.” Replied Penta while looking down.
“Oh, unfortunately my magic cannot heal lost stamina.” Rani answers Penta's lies.
“No, it's okay, I'm just a little tired.” Penta Reply.
Dyah who stood up and watched the two of them realized what was happening and only smiled cunningly. But he remained silent as he did not want to ruin this already calm atmosphere.
“Alright, I'll cure Rakryan first.” Rani stood up and approached Rakryan.
“Hmm, thank you.” Penta said as Rani walked away from her.
When Rani gives the same healing to Rakryan who is still asleep. Dah started talking.
“This Fire Wall will not last long. So we better escape.”
“Where will we run?” Ask Karang who has been standing watching the surrounding conditions.
Although the wolves had been blocked with the Fire wall so they could not enter the party. It seems like they remain vigilant and on standby for all possibilities.
“Kesana, we'll be there?” Dyah replied while staring in the opposite direction from the direction they came who were not covered by the wall of fire.
“How's Rakryan?” Asked Prabu who was standing guard facing the direction they were running earlier.
“I'll use my magic to bring him.” Answer Dyah firmly.
The coral looked at it a little and then nodded.
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After Rakryan is healed, Dyah uses wind magic to make him float.
Immediately they ran towards the fog that was still thick and not covered by the wall of fire.
As they ran, the wall of flames slowly began to dissipate as they spread from the direction they came from.
The wolves that are starting to look, the number is getting more, maybe this time there are 50 more. Perhaps the wolves that had been following Dyah's group were now joined by the wolves that attacked Penta and Rakryan.
Realizing the group of people were fleeing, the wolves chased after him with incredible speed.
Rani while running to recite the mantra “oh cahya, Maringi nglingserake burden sing again we gendhak saiki, banjur crew healthy dhewe sing lan kuwat. Speed and endurance enhancer”.
A light circled the bodies of all the Party members except Rakryan then disappeared in an instant.
“Eh my body so very light.” Penta was amazed.
“Don't talk first, just run, set your breath fine.” The response was firm.
“Hemm.” Reply Penta briefly.
They continued to run without knowing the direction they were heading. Although their running speed had now increased, but it was no faster than the Wolves, so the distance of the wolves that had been quite far now continued to decrease gradually.
Don't think, don't think, don't think, just keep running. Mumbled in the heart. The chances of him realizing the distance with the wolves were constantly diminishing.
The five of them continued to run without caring about what was happening behind, disregarding the chasing wolves, that was what they were trying to do right now within their respective minds.
They had been running for more than 30 minutes, but they did not feel tired or in pain at all. The physical enhancement magic that Rani gave out turned out to work well on all the Party members. Although they were still panting, maybe because they knew that if they stopped here they would perish, so they did not care about the tightness they felt.
The fog slowly began to tug away. Dyah who realized his look back and as expected the wolves were no longer visible.
Dyah immediately turned his face away and wanted to scream. “Themes..” Buk.
The sound of people falling sounded quite loud and made the Coral that ran in front realize it immediately stopped, Penta who saw the Coral stopped, also helped stop its run.
“What's up?” Ask Penta.
“I heard people fall. Ahh Dyah are you okay?” The coral approached Dyah quickly after knowing that Dyah fell on his stomach.
“I'm fine, but the wolves are no longer chasing, I guess.” Dyah's voice was not so clear as to be blocked by something because his face was facing the ground.
“Oh, you're right, the mist is starting to thin out.” Coral Response.
The centa is bent to the right and to the left several times. Surprised by something. “Where are Prabu and Rani?”
“Ha, instead of them in..” Karang replied by turning back the body but quickly stopped his speech and replaced it with another sentence. “Where are they?” Astounded.
Dyah immediately got up using both hands and saw what made him fall. A root? He murmured in his heart. Then look at the root of the tree and look for the origin of that root. It made him quite surprised by a large tree towering upwards.
The fog began to disappear, the scene that should still be an arid land has now become a forest with large trees. Being aware of the changed environment made the three just fixated.
Dyah who was already in a sitting position said. “So we've been on Alas Warihing.”
The coral looked at Dyah who was sitting quietly. “It looks like you are very calm, even though they both disappeared.”
“Not that we should be calm in these conditions. Though you also scolded me earlier when I was not calm.” Reply Dyah with a cross-legged sitting position that looks towards the Coral.
“Yah.” Coral answered and turned his face to look around.
“I-Ituh, I think we should not fight now.” Penta try to mediate.
He smiled at Penta. “Quiet Penta we are not fighting. Just remind each other.”
“Yah.” The coral added the same word earlier, while still looking around.
Penta laughed at the behavior of the two.