After he left the nano-universe of Nul, Timothy had woken up with an improved quality of mana. Level five to be exact, otherwise known as Good Quality Mana!
Since ‘good’ was in its name, Tim felt pretty excited about it, because he could finally pose a threat against the common dangers of this universe. The micro-universe of Valporovus was not for the weak, and he was sick of either running, or depending on others for help, so level five did him good.
Two weeks later, however, he was at level six (dense, iron mana), which was even greater! Him and the team didn't have to use their mana all that much these days, and since Valporovus naturally encouraged faster mana-regeneration, progress was only inevitable! Nothing was holding them back, the rest of the team had the same amount of luck as he did.
To further increase their progress, they made up their minds to start a journey towards the ruins of Aqumus! These ruins supposedly promised more mana per hour than any other place in the realm, up to four more times as some shamans claimed, but it could be even more than that. Going there was a must!
If the team made it to those ruins in one piece, then they may likely become godly! At the very least, they'd escape the god’s punishment realm of mana, and that was enough of a reward on its own.
Anyway, although getting there would be ideal, it was not an easy journey. The ruins were about four-hundred kilometers away from Arvena's hometown, it was not close by. It would take weeks to get there, because the environmental factors of this universe, for example, were one of the main things that would slow them down.
There were mountains in front of them, a couple of thick forests too, so thick that one would confuse them with jungles! Now the issue with this was that the team could travel fifteen kilometers in one day, and then as little as three kilometers the other day, so this part of their journey was purely unpredictable, and there weren't any ways to work around it, no cheap ways at least.
It also didn't help that they were tiny goblins, that was another burdening factor. The team had changed into normal Degranus Goblins weeks ago, but apart from having them breathe air, changing back into this species did not aid their journey all that much. Their steps were simply small, and short.
The team could maybe turn into birds, so they’d fly wherever they wanted to go, but that way, an eagle could eat them or something like that. It was not a safe alternative to walking!
Anyway, two weeks into the journey, the team were in the middle of a forest, sixty kilometers away from Arvena's hometown. This place was called the Frozen Red-leaf Forest, and it was called so, because the weather was unpredictable for a start, but also, the forest was knitted with these red leaves regardless of the season. One would think that they've gone into autumn as soon as they stepped foot on this place, it was bizarre!
Well, bizarre and interesting, though crippling nonetheless, because the team had to make a lot of pit stops, in order to avoid freezing to death. It snowed twice here already, and the temperatures dropped as low as -5°C!
“God… I never thought that I'd hate snow this much.” Tim complained, “But I guess it's better than itching our skin off because of all the branch scratches, we'll survive this.”
The universe was perhaps against Tim's words, because as soon as he encouraged the team for the better, something bad happened. A monster of sorts appeared, right in front of the team's campsite!
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The monster was gorilla-like, a yeti to be exact. It had white fur, it was huge, but what made it the most terrifying, was its spinal composure!
The monster had five arms, one of which stretched out from its chest! Since it had so many arms, it crawled across the ground much like a spider, which was beyond terrifying to witness! The yeti did not ‘stand up straight’ whatsoever, no, it just surfed along its path.
Skendus was the first one to spot the beast, well, he heard its violent thoughts as soon as the monster was within his vicinity! In the blink of an eye, he alerted the team.
“Attention! Monster over there!” He shouted.
Now Skendus wasn’t an army general, but shouting and pointing may be the best way to get things in order within mere seconds! He wanted his friends to be safe, that was what mattered the most.
Arvena clocked the monster immediately afterwards, and without pushing her arm forward all that much, she shot a fireball right out of her palm, and towards the yeti abomination! Common sense encouraged that anything with white fur, would be vulnerable to fire, but then again just about everything was vulnerable to fire if the caster was strong enough.
With the fireball that she had shot, Arvena could burn a fraction of the forest down. It was an eight-foot long, rapid-moving ball of fire after all!
Tim followed after her, and shot against the monster as well! Since their two other friends didn't have any offensive abilities, he understood that he and Arvena had to do most of the work here, though he also understood that his fireballs may be far less effective in comparison to her’s.
“Bloody hell, did we kill it!?” He yelled out.
“I think so,” Arvena said, and then the fire died down by her command alone.
After the fire died down, they saw what was supposed to be the carcass of the monster. It was supposed to be dead, but when Tim saw that its fur was still all white and bright, he knew that something was wrong!
The monster then suddenly started moving, at rapid speeds. It jolted towards him, and used its huge, muscly arm that stretched out of its chest, to grab him by the neck!
“You’re my new girlfriend now,” It whispered, intimately, and then tried to run away into the forest with Tim on its arm.
“Hell nah!” He refused, and then did two very important things as a counter attack.
First, he summoned various buried animal skeletons in his close vicinity, multiplied them, and bashed them into the yeti's chest arm, all within two seconds! The Bone Multiplier ability that he had, was very effective for this job!
However, even though the yeti was stabbed, the multiple wounds barely sunk an inch on its skin, so Tim had to do something else to free himself. The second thing that he did, was grab a hold of the yeti’s very soul, with the aid of his Soul Grabber ability - He found its use quite self explanatory!
After he grabbed its soul, the yeti was commanded to let go of him. Tim wasn’t as weak as he used to be, so he had a much better control over his abilities, even though it was very expensive to use them now! He had grabbed onto the other's soul so hard that he made the yeti float three feet above the ground, he was powerful.
“I am not your girlfriend, you hairy spooky bastard! Why does everything in the animal kingdom want my ass?!” He yelled.
“Nature has decreed that you shall have butt bumps,” Ortana suddenly added, “I've seen plenty of humans treating those.”
After she said that, it was very difficult to stay serious, which was conflicting, because Tim had a monstrous yeti at his disposal, and or mercy. Either way, he was spending a lot of mana per second, sixty points to be exact, and the team had bursted out laughing, so they weren't any closer to a grand decision, but he was closer to spending a great portion of his mana.
“What the hell are you?” Tim asked, eventually.
“I am sir Lestuk,” It answered.