As waptors surround and head towards me, I create a bunch of ice spikes all around me to take them out.
These guys are the fastest predasaurs around here, so if I take them out now it will make my escape much easier.
But as I focus on taking them down, an annoying pest attacks me; An atlas eater.
Moving away from it, I say, “It must suck to be so stupid.”
The atlas eater wildly tries to attack me, but it cannot hit me. Even if I didn’t have the benefits of spirit arts, my legacy, and the enhanced senses it wouldn’t be able to strike me since I have learned its pattern.
Moving forward, I prepare to hit its weak spot; the belly. But as I do I hear unknown footsteps heading towards me, it’s fast like a waptor but its footsteps are not the same.
After stabbing through the eater's stomach with my spear, I instantly move left to prepare for what is coming towards me.
But I was too slow as something crashed into me the moment it does, it keeps moving forward and crash me straight through trees.
Its body size is just slightly bigger than a waptor, so use my legacy on my fist and hit it in its neck which causes it to move to the left and stop while I fall to the right.
Looking at it, I see its body is like a saw similar to a waptor, but it has a very thick head, and its body looks quite aerodynamic. Willow told me about this wonderbeast; astamatisaurus.
A predasaur from the upper parts of Fimbulwinter, that rarely ever comes down.
The adventurers told us that they found a few wonderbeasts from the upper parts of Fimbulwinter, I should have been prepared for this. I heard a lot of unknown footsteps, so who knows how many are here; this has gotten way too risky, I need to run.
As I try to move away the asta, moves its head forward really quickly, so I am just barely able to dodge. It then follows this up with a few more quick head strikes.
The way it moves its head to strike and then pulls back, it feels like I am getting stuck with quick jabs. Its body must be quite flexible to pull this off, Willow would love to see this in real life.
But I don’t have time for that. Dodge one of its jabs, I snow boost away, then create a pillar of ice beneath me and head into the trees.
While on top of the trees, I start to run away. Sighing, I say, “Finally some relaxatio-.”
Almost as if God is laughing at me, I am hit with a giant arm and sent flying away. My right arm got broken by that blow, so I manifest my tail and ears.
Then using my tail, I grab one of the trees and swing back up. Far in front of me swinging from branch to branch, I see more wonderbeasts.
They have cone-shaped bodies and their skin and two giant arms, but disproportionately they have extremely tiny legs; they are like monkeys or gorillas. The way these guys swing so freely from tree to tree, tells me all I need to know; I need to get rid of them to survive.
Activating my legacy onto my spear and legs, I snowboost towards them.
Seeing me, they let out laughs and swing towards me with crazed smiles on their faces. “If you think I am easy pickings you would be dead wrong!”
One moves forward and swings its giant muscular arm towards me, but I am able to skilfully dodge, and with my spear in hand, I stab into its chest.
But it doesn’t pierce through my spear simply gets stuck in the chest, and as I try to pull it out the monkey swings its arm at me.
So as the tip of my spear, I create large amounts of ice which kills the monkey easily, but then as I jump away from it another of the giant monkeys tries to hit me out of the air.
I can’t dodge, so I need to use it instead. I place both of my legs on its arm and as it swings, I jump up and propel myself to a tree and then freeze my legs to it.
Making a look of pain, I say, “I definitely broke something in my legs, but it should heal soon enough.” As the monkeys in the area surround me, I say, “I still am in a bad situation.”
Suddenly I hear something in my ears, and as I hear this I notice the monkeys have stopped moving and are just hanging. That sound was like a low-frequency roar, I was only picked it up due to my ears.
Then from the distance, I heard a bunch of projectiles coming towards me; it was Razordon plates.
I dodge away, but due to the fact I don’t want to get too close to the monkeys, one hits me and I fall.
I am not affected by the cold so that’s now a problem, but if I am encased in ice, I still have to deal with the extra weight it adds to my body. Slowing me down to a halt.
Falling to the ground, I position the part of my body that is encased in ice, to be where I land, which breaks the ice for me.
As I stand up, I fall back to my knees and start holding my body. Whenever the parts of my body infused with the judgment chains get hit, it aggravates the pain it causes me.
The predasaurs give me no time to rest, and immediately start to attack me again. The waptors are weak but due to their speed, they are able to stop me from having any moments of reprieve.
Hearing the footsteps of something much larger than the waptors, I dodge away, and it place where I was standing the ground is craved out.
Looking up, I see a giant wonderbeast that looks like a big waptor, but the colour of it is quite different. But most notable are the giant sharp blades that are where its finger would be; It’s a kovosaurus.
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The kovo’s five fingers all combine together into one giant great sword on each hand, and he swings it super-fast towards me. try to dodge away but it is so fast, I have to use my spear to block.
But it rips right through it. Seeing the spear that Sequoia gave me break fills me with rage, so I activate my legacy and create large amounts of ice killing it instantly.
Hearing a projectile different from the razordon’s coming towards me, I cut off my arm and jumped away, but when the projectile hit where I was standing it exploded.
That was a ball of condensed air, it was a vanir mammoth.
Hearing more two more balls moving towards me I create a pillar of ice under me and go up high into the air.
There I see it in the distance, three vanir mammoths, but on an elevated land mass over all three of them I see a Merark.
A memory from Pine's class plays in my mind.
Looking at a book of drawings for the predasaurs, I say, “Pine what is this one labelled dangerous?”
“It’s a Merark. They are a wildly intelligent wonderbeast, only next to the king of the forest. But unlike the king who overwhelms with raw power, they hunt just like us humans.”
“But all of you are inhuman monsters, so I doubt this would be an issue for you guys.”
“I don’t like that choice of words.” Sighing, Pine says, “About 200 years ago one of our chiefs, decided to hunt the 20 Merarks here to death. But as they headed out they found out that they were the ones who fell into a trap, and every single one was wiped out. So if you ever come across one run Orb.”
I knew that a bunch of people had been heading to investigate Fimbulwinter and subsequently dying. But that fact bothered me. If they could properly use spirit arts, and at least be somewhat prepared for the cold they would survive, and this answers my question, this hunting pack is what has been taking them down.
Numerous waptors, 4 atlas eaters, 2 kovosaurus, 3 astamatisaurus, 3 Vanir mammoths, 8 of the monkey wonderbeast, 1 spercera, 1 razordon and one Merark. Judging by the size of the merark relative to what it should be it is without a doubt an alpha merark.
As I stare at the Merark it lets out a roar and the mammoths start to shoot at me. So I jump off the pillar and when I land on the floor I push my legacy to the max and create lots of giant ice walls around me.
Using this moment, I take stock of this situation. Right now I am surrounded by a hunting pack of predasaurs, who have blocked my existence. I am without a weapon, supplies, or any backup; I need to fight my way out.
But all of the predasaurs here are for the most part resistant to cold. Usually when I freeze someone with my legacy, the frostbite all but assures that they won’t be getting back up, allowing me to be sloppier with my blows.
That won’t work here, I need to deal precise and critical blows on all of the predasaurs without a weapon.
I could try helix battle arts. No, it wouldn’t work, I won’t be able to build up enough rotations to pierce through the thick hide of the predasaurs.
I have to use Advent, but if I do my body will give out and collapse. I recently learned, that Advent only taxes my body because I am weak, the more muscle I have gained the more I noticed it doesn’t hurt as badly.
But physically speaking, I am still below what I was when I first used it. So I doubt I could sustain it for a minute even if I try my best.
If I even use Advent I would have to use a large-scale attack to make sure I defeat all of my hunters, but that will just attract more predasaurs around the area to come to check what happened.
These wonderbeasts are savages who will never miss an opportunity to eat, so I can count on some coming to scout the area. Even if I cover myself with a shield of ice there is no guarantee it will hold, especially since a bunch of wonderbeasts from the upper levels have been wandering around, they could easily smash a wall made out of ice.
Or I will have to use the strength from Advent to individually take them out one by one. But if I fail I would be in the same situation, and I still don’t guarantee others won't come.
I can’t control the ice without advent, so what am I supposed to do to win against these odds?
As the blast from the Vanir mammoths starts to break my ice wall, I feel panic overtake me. I need to run, I need to run, I can’t win!
Suddenly a memory flashes through my mind, one that has been etched into it since the moment I happened. Skydust being destroyed.
In this world there exist people who can do such things in a single blow.
Suzuka a Cursed child, Cyrus a dragon, the kids and wonderbeasts from Skydust, Avram's workshop, the Basileia crystals, the land beneath Fimbulwinter, and all of Dushes money.
I have countless things that people would want to take from me, and when they do they will destroy the people I want to protect.
Spirit arts, a legacy, Helix battle arts; I thought having these things made me stronger than I actually was, but I am sure many have those things, and when we clash I can’t be sure I will win.
Right now I need to prove to myself, that I can overcome the mountains in front of me, and that I can protect all I have, that I can become the king of Niflheim!
Standing up, I turn my ice wall into snow and then race forward. “I WILL WIN!”
Name: Waptor
Height: 205cm
Type: Predasaur, Carnivore
Description: It has two legs and four wings at its side covered in light blue feathers. They’re also swift and have very soft skulls.
Fact: They specifically will not eat 4-year-old children.
Name: Spercera
Height: 320cm
Type: Predasaur, Carnivore
Description: It’s a giant silver quadrupedal omnivore with one large horn at the front with curved horns around its face that form a spiral armoured face cover. It is covered in fur and has skin as hard as iron. They have elongated tones that can take their prey off their horn.
Fact: They ram into the hardest object they can find to sharpen their horn.
Name: Atlas Eater
Height: 410cm
Type: Predasaur, Carnivore
Description: It has a large upper body with six arms, a semi-sphere head covered in white fur, sharp teeth, and two tiny stocky feet.
Fact: they can roll their entire body into a ball to sleep.
Name: Vanir Mammoth (Fimbulwinter)
Height: 6M
Type: Wonderbeast, Carnivore
Description: A large woolly quadrupedal wonderbeast with two curved antler-like tusks. It has 3 trunks which are used to suck up air and shoot, and it can extend its neck allowing it to further it’s reach.
Fact: They will impel any foe they deem weak enough with their tusks and parade their bodies there for 2 weeks until they finally devour them; this leads to much of their food being stolen by small animals when sleeping.
Name: Razordon
Height: 5M
Type: Carnivore
Description: A reptile-like quadrupedal wonderbeast, which is quite chunky with a sharp blade-like head. But most notably it has tall plates through its entire backside that are made of ice, and a quarter of it’s face is made of ice. It can shoot of these plates from its back as giant projectiles; they regenerate over time and eating ice makes this faster.
Fact: They are all in a never-ending state of anger due to the fact that there back constantly itches them, but the plates on their back stop them from scratching it. However if they find a friendly Scardo anywhere around it will scratch there back for them.
Name: Merark
Height: 220cm
Type: Wonderbeast, Carnivore
Description: A black and blue wonder beast which has a shark-like body covered in fur with no eyes. They are quadrupedal with two mighty front legs, similar to that of a lion, and two mighty back legs similar to that of a goat which grants them the ability to jump and stick onto different surfaces.
Fact: They have no natural habit and can be seen living in the ocean, mountains or forest.