The big foot descended on the ground again, and I quickly climbed up on what looked like a bridge with the right side leading to a couple of wooden cabins shaped weirdly, and the left side seemed like it was leading somewhere around the heel. The guys looked at me, waiting for something to happen.
“Dear Brave Warrior, lead the way!” Mejni said with a smile.
I knew directly that the bastard didn’t want to go first because of the risk of facing an easy death. I decided to walk to the left, away from the cabins, to avoid confrontation if more four-legged creatures were in the cabins. While walking to the back side of the heel, I noticed a very long ladder leading up to another bridge. The bridge ended anyway with no handrail protection. When I started to climb up the ladder, Mejni quickly hurried and sat on my right shoulder with his tail around my neck. I looked down and saw Lol following me, and it was quite a way up. It startled to rumble before the leg stretched out forward:
“HOLD ON TIGHT LOL!” I screamed out in the air as I saw him quickly put his legs behind the ladder so he could hold steady while I was getting choked by the cat, with both of us hanging in the air, noticing Mejni did not have the same type of smile as he usually shows.
After a moment in the air, the leg returned to its original position, with the other leg starting to move. I quickly grabbed Mejnis's neck and lifted him to get loose from the choking.
“Get...The fuck of me!” I told Mejni, giving him a stare to make him understand that he could kill me any moment with the choking.
It was apparent that Mejni understood that I was fuming with anger now. I put him back on my right shoulder as he quickly moved behind my back and made himself comfortable, placing my neck between his legs with his damn balls pressed against my neck. I wanted to throw him down, but I needed to get myself up to the bridge above to get rid of him because I could kill him right now. While climbing, I noticed the daggers dangling in the air under Lol, but I didn’t want to focus on getting that shit up right now.
When we reached the bridge, I threw Mejni to the floor and put the dagger inside my pants behind my back. When we were going to follow the bridge, a guy with a blue headband and a ripped karate-looking outfit was looking at us with heavy breathing and a face that said kill.
“You know Diabetes is dangerous and can affect your breathing; maybe you should, like...try to calm down and breathe normally.” I tried to explain to the guy.
“For the intrusion of the Kingdom, you are sentenced to death with immediate execution.” The karate guy told us.
“I concur!” Mejni answered, shaking his head with me. Lol stared down at him, surprised.
“Stay behind me!”I whispered to Lol and Mejni and took a couple of steps forward.
The guy's hands started to move in a circle, and a light blue circle showed up in the air, and something looking like blue signs showed up inside as he screamed out loud:
“YAOOOOH!
A big light blue ball came out from the circle in slow motion and moved slowly in the air towards us. I was shocked by the speed because it was slow, as I had to move all the time in the world to the left or right.
“Eh...Karate! Is the speed of your light ball meant to be what all LITRPG stories are about? From what I can see, it's approaching at the same speed as the progression of their stories. Is it not better to just let us pass? I asked him nicely, hoping he would let us pass if he was a little human. It's a little more like human-to-human talk.
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The ball kept moving in slow motion in the air, and Lol yawned because he was as surprised as I was by the slow speed of the ball. I noticed something shining under the bridge and bent down to see if I could see more clearly through the cracks. It looked like we maybe had found the first ring. When I went up again, I looked around to see if all this wasn’t some trap. The ball started to close in, and I took up the daggers from my back, preparing myself to test and strike the ball and see if it would pop. How should I strike it in front or swing from above or under?
I decided to strike from above, and when I swung towards it, my vision became covered with black smoke. A loud ‘BOOM’ penetrated the air, and I quickly tried to wave away the smoke. Suddenly, I noticed a Maid outfit when something moved above me, looking like a high kick. I dropped the daggers and tried to protect my head as the ground under me cracked, and I didn’t even get a chance to act before I felt the pain on my back as I fell to another bridge that was under us. The power in the kick and my back hitting the ground made it hard for me to breathe because of how powerful it was. The feeling was like being thrown off a high building but dragged down faster in the air to hit the ground as fast as possible.
I gasped for air and quickly tried to get up on all four, trying to catch my breath as I saw Stella fighting with the karate guy above. I could see Lols and Mejni's heads popping out from the edge of the broken bridge above me.
“Are you okay, Berk?” Lol asked.
“That was a hero-like Villain entrance you made!” Mejni commented.
I waved my hand to them, signaling that I was okay. That was so far from the truth that I could come as my breathing had not recovered completely yet. I slowly got up from the ground and started to cough blood. I noticed the light under the bridge on the hairy wall; this may be the first circle on which we must put out the light. Stella looked preoccupied above with the karate guy, which was a good sign as I could comfortably approach the circle without interference from above. As I was going to start climbing, a couple of the same karate guys showed up, all repeating the exact freaking words as the one above had, but they didn’t make a circle and just opened up their mouths as a lot of small circle light balls got created and moved towards me. They kept creating a lot of balls above and down low to try and stop me from approaching, and I realized we were screwed now. I loosened up the rope around my stomach and tied one of the ends with a dagger to my right wrist. I will throw one of the daggers toward the balls like throwing rope; maybe that will make the balls explode and open a way to the circle. That is a great idea; let's try it out!
I approached the karate guys as their small balls slowly made their way towards me when I heard a scream and turned around:
“FREEDOM!” Mejni yelled out as he jumped towards my head, and he was going to screw us over now.
Before I could even move, he hit me on the side of my head, holding and grabbing around my head, blocking my view with his tail. I lost my balance from the impact, dropping one of the daggers while trying to remove him from my head. I lost my balance and hit the rail with my whole body going over, and when falling, my right got stuck in mid-air with immense pain in my arm while a yellow light shone in the air, or orange? The other dagger must have stuck on the bridge while we swung back and forth mid-air. The leg started to move; everything started to shake, and Mejni put his claws into my head, making the situation even worse for us as the leg went down, and we ended up being swung up in the air as I laced my palm around the rope quickly and loosed the knot from my right arm while we were falling with me praying that I didn’t lose my grasp from the rope. We reached under the bridge, and I held the rope tight as we swung towards the karate guys underneath. I stretched out both my feet before impact with the planks breaking on the bridge and, released from the rope, landed on my stomach as a flashing light moving back and forth with complete silence around me on the bridge. When I slowly got up, I saw several karate guys with their throats cut. When I looked around, one of them just stared at me with empty eyes when suddenly blood started to splurge out from his throat while I tried to keep my calm like it was an everyday job seeing someone's throat cut. Something small with a lot of shining light turning into an orange glow was Mejni walking on his legs without support from his hands and a lot of muscles like he was on steroids. What surprised me was his deadly look, like he was in some fatality mode and going on mission for assassins.
“Yosh!” He uttered, his facial expression changing back to the old smiling bastard, which made me shake my head.
“COME HERE YOU FUCKING CAT! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU FOR REAL THIS TIME. WHY THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN HOLDING BACK ON US ALL THIS TIME LOOKING LIKE A WEAK PET.” I screamed at him while trying to chase after him.
That sneaky bastard climbed up on the hair and smiled at me with his tongue out to mock me even more.