Before Tenzai’s fist reached the elk, an earthen wall rose between them.
“What the—” Tenzai’s whole body banged into the wall, and he crashed down. The elk, on the other hand, rammed its way through the wall, but both its antlers and feet missed Tenzai.
Pillars rose out of the ground and randomly smashed the elk from different directions, and when Tenzai looked in Fabby’s direction, she signaled him to abort the mission by making x mark with her fingers.
“Tch,” Tenzai didn’t like that, but he listened to her and turned away. “It’s your lucky day, horny beast.”
As the elk caused destruction all around, Fabby’s team came down the mountain in the same path they had climbed.
“Strongest outer disciples of the sect?” Edgar gripped the hilts tightly.“Self-proclaimed…” said Gossini.“What’s that?” Both Edgar and Tenzai looked puzzled as if they never heard of that word.“N-Never mind,” Gossini minded her business by putting her focus on eating carrots.Meanwhile, the Young Twins stole all the rings of the four disciples and were kicking them again. Just then, they saw Fabby and others. Though they initially wondered as to the identity of Gossini and Tenzai because of their lack of uniforms, when their eyes settled on Edgar who was wearing the red uniform, they slightly turned their heads and looked at each other and smiled. Their smiles were quite subtle. After nodding to each other,
In the evening.Fabby and others reached the southern border of the Redback Zone. They raised a tent to waste the night there. That said, only Tenzai was sleeping. The other three were refining their skills on their own.Edgar was practicing his sword skills in a new way. He was dancing around under the tree and was trying to make the lightning stick to his sword and not release any sort of energy outside. However, it wasn’t easy. It began creeping up onto his arm and started hurting him. When he tried to use extra force to tame it, some of the attacks flew and landed not far away from Gossini.She, on the other hand, was trying to create a small fountain in her hand. She looked to be in better control of her skills compared to Edgar. However, she put her work to a stop and came to Edgar and watched him from a
At twelve in the night.Edgar was still practicing his sword skills. He kept thrusting the sword, and every time he did so, an electric charge dispersed from the tip of the sword and struck the tree trunk. He wasn’t putting all of his strength into the attack, so it only left a burnt mark on the tree.When he went farther from the tree, it became harder for him to hit with the same thrusting technique, and he kept mission nine out of ten times. After practicing for hundreds of times, Edgar felt frustrated. “It’s getting harder to control lightning the farther it is from me… The only special case is…” he looked up at the sky. There was a lightning spear he stored high up in the sky, near the low clouds. “I don’t know how I did it, but it just happened on a spur…” The sun was still yet to appear, and so it was still dark.Upon sensing the vibrations Fabby gritted her teeth and ran toward the tent. Gossini also came from the other direction.“Get up!” Fabby bent and pushed Edgar, whereas Gossini just footed Tenzai’s shoulder.“Ah!” Tenzai was the first one to wake up with a scream.Fabby couldn’t employ such a brutal tactic on her brother, so she pinched him on the cheek.“Aw!” Edgar, too, woke up.Just then the squirrels poured on their tent, tore it apart and made their way inside, screaming like drunk baboons.A storm of squirrels had hit them.WHIT 174 - FOUR BIGGER HEARTS
Things always wouldn’t go as planned.Before Edgar and others collected even a tenth of the squirrels they had killed, all the creatures living in the ant hills and termite mounds swarmed to the scene.The ants were three to four inches tall, and they easily ripped through the skin and the muscles of the squirrels. And they overwhelmed Edgar and others with their numbers, forcing the four of them to retreat with struggle.However, Fabby didn’t give up so easily.She raised an earthen wall in the center of the piles of squirrel corpses, so the ants only got to feed on half the bodies. As for the other half, Fabby raised the ground into a slope, so that all the bodies would roll and gather at the bottom of the slope. Edgar then used his drive to spread through
After finding a quality beast core and an egg in one of the caves, they couldn’t help but go and look in other caves on their way to the top of Solidia.And they found something they weren’t expecting. Big mushrooms of all colors and shapes. Even Fabby and Gossini didn’t know most of those, but of those they knew, they could tell that these mushrooms were quite precious.The cell-repairing and muscle-strengthening mushrooms were especially abundant. However, when they tried to pluck those mushrooms, they released poisonous gasses out of the roots. So they had to cut them at the base. It took hours to tour different caves.And they eventually arrived at the mountain peak in the cool of the day.A hot pool was waiting for them. The water was quite clean despite all the wind blowing around.Edgar and Tenzai jumped into the pool in their undies.“So selfish and shameless…” Fabby opined.The pool was big, but it was out in the open, so Fabby didn’t feel inclined to enter the pool. As for G
It was night, and the cold light of the moon was whipping winds in a silent, smooth fashion.Fabby and others were in wintry outfits. They had camped not far from the hot pool at the peak.All the four were enjoying the hot mushroom soup that Fabby had cooked.Gossini was observing Edgar. (He’s behaving a bit strange ever since we’ve been to the pool. Her eyes enlarged a bit. Did he…) “Ahem, hey you, Mr. Decent! You didn’t peek while I was bathing or anything, did you?”Edgar’s eyes popped out of his sockets. “H-Huh? W-What are you talking about all of
As the moon moved in the sky, many animals, from squirrels, racoons, chipmunks to rabbits, rats, and beavers came out of holes near the pool and scampered here and there. There were no birds around, so they were enjoying the pool and healed their bodies. Normally, the redback squirrels and terra rats were mortal enemies, but inside the pool, they acted like buddies. Even the beasts that had reddened eyes were able to calm down and feel at ease. Fabby and others observed all of this from a distance, while hidden inside a natural-looking earthen structure she had created. All the four of them looked absolutely fresh, with no external wounds whatsoever. “Just what makes that pool so special?” Tenzai was scratching his head.