That pissed me off, but I didn't let it make me lose my cool; I just needed to take this in strides. It was just trying to get under my skin, and tricks weren't going to work on this monster.I opened my hands and started to circle and lowered my center of gravity, spreading my stance. I needed to watch out for the creature's mouth, but taking it down was going to be the best option.I would have to prepare to defend the counter-blow that would surely come. Still, taking Carnage down and breaking to bones would slow it down some.Carnage was watching me as I circled, but after I opened my hands, the smile had left. I guess that it could assume I was about to try, meaning I was on the right path.I slowly closed the circle, and the creature raised its hands as I got closer, but right as I got within reach, Carnage started to back up. I wanted to taunt it, but I remembered Libra's word and just kept focused on the red-robed monster."Strike us, fool!

The instant I was on the other side, I felt instantly better as I burst into a nice summer day. I flew out and over the ring and landed on the other side with a roll in some tall grass over three feet tall.I stayed low, but I couldn't see anyone around me when I looked around. I was at the entrance to a forest with tall trees that stretched up higher than I could see in some places.This place was much different than the other three sections that I had been in, and I couldn't see a straight path through. This tall grass was also everywhere, making it very hard to spot anything.This made it good for me to hide, but that also meant that there could be other bugs hiding. Not like they should attack me, but there were also Sagittarus's children to worry about as well.[they are all centaur-like him, but their upper bodies will look different. You will see them coming; the centaur are proud creatures that like a good challenge. What you will need to watch ou

[Stronger? Well that doesn’t really sound that bad, but I am sure that they wouldn’t be running from this Karl person.] Harold said in my mind, and I agreed with him.[Karl is able to increase one skill to be perfect, but at the cost of everything else. They basically become more monstrous monsters, and it looks like his latest victims are these poor goblins. Normally they are weak creatures, but even more so here, since they are the lowest level of creature here.] Libra explained.That was troublesome, and it made sense why I was being directed to them, but I couldn't figure why one of the so-called Twelve would act like this. I had assumed that they would all be lawful and righteous, but that didn’t seem the case.[Hardly. None of us are angels, and you were the one that mostly kept us all in line. While there are some like me that are mostly good, but none of us are perfect.] Libra explained, and I sighed, making everyone look at me with wor

My group easily outdistanced Carnage, and his overlapping voice was soon lost in the swishing grass. We ran for about thirty minutes, but then the goblins started to slow down as we reached a section of the forest where all the grass became short.When we reached the edge of the grass, the goblins stopped and turned around to face me. The grass on the other side was dramatically shorter than the three-foot stuff we were wading through.It was almost like someone had been cutting it, but I found it highly unlikely. There might be some animals eating it, but it looked too even.The line that divided the tall from the short was too clean and even, so there was no way that animals were doing this."We are getting close, but this is Karl's sanctuary, and he will know as soon as we step into it," Ayech explained to me.[All the centaurs have particular areas that they stay in. Sometimes they will move after getting stronger, but most of them pick a spot

"If you are looking for weapons, then you should head north, but I don't know how Chez will act. He is normally shot first and then doesn't ask questions later. I don't know if it is a good idea to go to him, but it doesn't matter if we go to Karn, Micha, Harve, or any of the other brothers; they are all crazy and will try to kill you," Howl explained and we started to angle north more.This was expected from what the goblins had said, but I didn't really have much of a choice at this point, so I kept going. I was starting to think that this wasn't going to help me out either right now.I had to try; I might not be good with a bow, but it would be good for me to have some kind of advantage against this guy. Carnage could read my moves, but I was much faster than he was; I just needed some kind of edge.That was also before he had gotten serious, making me feel less confident about fighting him. I usually could shrug off fear, but something told me this guy was m