I started to run again, but the forest was starting to get thicker, and it was almost like I was being gilded more south, and I was almost tempted to try Keri's Totem with Fireden to just start burning my way through.Unfortunately, my jog was not all sunshine and rainbows, and I didn't really have the time to think about much while I dodged thrown weapons from the asshole hyena men, or Gnoll's as Keri told me.She was lying on Lizy, and Lizy was scowling up at me, but she wasn't complaining, which was good. I didn't have time to listen to them; I had to switch to the Fire Force Pact to empower my Water Sphinx Totem to be able to avoid the projectiles.I wanted to fight them, but there were too many for me to stop without having a corner to put the girls in so I could protect them. Right now, I had no free hands, and I was running through the palm tree jungle with no rocks or anything that would help.I ducked a spinning flail and tossed the girls forward

"Yes, well, I suppose this is my fault," Mex said, but I was walking over to the girls to grab them.My head was cooling, but what I had just done was setting in.I had just killed people.While they were demons that I knew would never actually die, that didn't really key into my logic.I knew that my reaction to the information wasn't bad, and I would do it again. Yet, I had still killed people trying to protect what must be the leader of this village."Are you two okay?" I asked softly as I walked up to the confused-looking woman."Yes, we are fine, but what did you do here?" Lizy asked as she looked around the now only smoking and partially destroyed village."The woman told me that she had eaten the two of you, and I lost it," I said as I scrubbed my face with one hand. "And I killed some of them."The girls got surprised looks, and then they both turned to Lani. To my surprise, the two of them started to tear into the demo

Lani's body started to grow and fill out, but not significantly. She was now beautiful, but she looked barely eighteen, and it was hard to believe that she was Nushi's older sister.I could see why she kept herself in the body of an old woman. I was sure that she must have had trouble with all the villagers with a cute face like hers."See, this is what I look like, a child. No one respects me like this! They either try talking to me like I am a child, or they ignore what I say, and then I have to punish them!" Lani said as I still held her hands, but I could feel her starting to shake."I understand, but I think that you look beautiful like this, and I wished you didn't need to transform like this. I will still treat you the same no matter how you look, but you need to start treating me as an equal then. Mex has given me his position of Lord of this area, and while I may not be as strong as your father, I can still hold my own if you hadn't noticed," I said wit

I was tempted to change my Pact and Totem, but at the same time, it might be better to wait. Whatever these things were, Kali was worried that we were going to have trouble with them.I walked forward with Kali mirroring me, and the forest started to get darker. All the light was being blocked out by the trees that hung overhead, but even being as tall as I was, didn't make it easier.Once we were roughly about the area that I had seen the eyes, I put up a hand to stop Kali. There was no point in going any further, and if we did, then we wouldn't be able to catch one if it tried to go around."I don't see them anywhere, and they are nearly as big as us!" Kali said as she looked around, but I was studying the ground.This world was full of so many strange things. More than once, Grovel had surprised me with an attack from below.I studied the ground ahead of us, and at first glance, there seemed to be nothing wrong with the area. Nothing, no massive

I walked back to Lani's house, and she was waiting for us at the door, tapping her foot. That meant that something must be coming soon.I picked up my pace, and so did Kali, and we followed Lani back into the house."There is an attack coming from the beach in about fifteen minutes, but there will be another attack from the Gnolls to the west where you came in," Lani explained as we walked into the room that had the table."I don't think they will be as likely to attack after I just killed the ten that were chasing me," I said with a chuckle, but Lani shook her head."No, they are stupid creatures that survive from raiding other people rather than finding their own food! They don't care how many die because they reproduce like that Gog girl you had with you!" Lani said in frustration as she ran her hands through her hair.Well, this was going to make a bit of a pickle, but with Kali, I might not have that much trouble. The question was, what was co