Chapter Four: Day 3 [Rescued]
The dawn of the third day came, Harold who was still awake because he was on the guard duty after Chris, gently woke up the others. Thankfully, Harold and the others were college students and didn’t have a problem doing an all-nighter or waking up early. The one problem that was bugging them the whole time was that they don’t have water to wash their body and to replenish their thirst and since the fruits that the two boys gathered were unknown, they just tossed it before they left the place where they’re classmates are, and this would definitely make them dehydrated and worse, they’ll die slowly one after the other. So the group decided to find a river and they might get lucky that if they follow the river down they’ll finally discover civilization and they can finally rest easy.
Before the group set out to their journey to find water source, Chris wanted them to check their progress. Elise gained the skill [Throw] and a stat called
The group explored the forest and finally saw a different monster that looked like wolf but its appearance do have the basic wolf in it but there’s bones erected in its back and its fur were blue plus it releases water magic which made the group to feel more exhausted to the point that they can’t fight another wolf or a bunny, but the one thing that the group can be happy with is that their level rose continuously. Elise with her new skill and stat made her more indispensable since she can accumulate damage while the two boys were busy taking its attention or trapping it so that they can have a slight breather or attack at the fullest, Harold with his new skill has deeper understanding on handling a sword and knows where to strike, Chris tried different things like provoking the wolf or the bunny by shouting countless of insult and was surprisingly effective, Chris used all of his skill to defend Elise if she gathered the attention of the monster while doing damage to it or he will use his [Shield Bash] to stun the monster for two seconds and all of them in that short amount of time will do damage to it.
As for Cathy, she started to copy Elise by throwing rock instead of daggers so she can catch up to them and not be a burden but at first she really was a burden since she kept messing up with their timing and such but the others know that she is trying her best to help so they didn’t mind it but instead helped her to get kills, especially Elise, she tried helping Cathy by advising how to time her throw so by the time the group heard a water splash, Cathy has grasped the method on how to throw and her timing is greater now. All in all, the group’s teamwork is working well.
“Guys! Chris found the river!” Cathy shouted.
“Where?!” Harold replied.
“Just by the place we rested last night! C’mon!” Chris said.
“Let’s go!” Elise said with her eyes gleaming.
“Hahaha! Water at last!” Harold said while laughing.
For them to find the river, the group split up their team as team one composed of Chris and Cathy while team two is composed of Elise and Harold but the two teams didn’t really gone too far to each other they were just separated for ten feet. Fortunately, after two hours of looking team one found the river, and it made Chris or rather all of them excited so they all rushed to the sound of the water rushing but when Chris reached the river, he saw something that made him curse.
“What the hell is that?” Chris looked at the thing that’s in the bank of the river.
“Hey Chris, what’s the problem?” Harold asked while catching up to Chris.
“Look at that” Chris then looked behind him and saw the rest of the group has finally reached him then pointed again to the thing he saw.
“Wha-?!” Cathy almost shouted but thankfully Elise was now faster and halted Harold’s shout.
“We got to go now before that thing woke up” Chris ordered the group
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The group followed the order but before they turn away to run away from the thing they saw, the thing opened up its eyes and when it looked at the group, the group were frozen in their place. The thing that they are seeing right now is a monster with a vicious aura that made the group froze in their place, in its eyes you can see its murderous killing intent and if looks can kill then this beast has done it a thousand times already. Even though scared to his wits, Chris still had the guts to examine the monster, it has the body of a lion with a tail as a snake, it has curved horns like a brushed up hairstyle on its head, and black wings on its back.
Its clearly a chimera, Chris thought and he thought that they’ll be dead soon too, the whole group is fucking terrified at this point but when Chris looked carefully, it was injured. One of its wings were torn, its fur is full of slashes, holes, burn, and with some frost, one of the chimera’s eyes were shut, and one hind leg was cut off. This made Chris nervousness decrease slightly and ordered the group in [Whisper] mode that they should move back slowly and told them that the chimera is seriously wounded.
When the group received the order they regained their wits and also carefully looked at the chimera which made them lose some of their nervousness just like Chris but as they started to move back slowly, the chimera while laid down, raised up its paw and swing it to the group then a three wind blade coming for them, the one wind blade hits Harold’s left shoulder which made him cry in agony since his left shoulder was cut off entirely, Chris raised his shield and used the skill [Cover] to protect Elise then pushed her away since she is in the way of the second wind blade but his shield was broken as the wind blade reached and contact with it then the wind blade continued its path to Chris but thankfully the weakened wind blade of the weakened chimera was weakened once more by Chris’s shield and skill so Chris got out with a long slash on his chest which let a lot of blood gushes out of his chest, this made Elise scream loudly and ran to Chris’s side crying and Chris coughing out blood, as for Cathy, well she’s safe as the wind blade passed just by her and she is not moving because she lost consciousness standing as she saw Chris got done in by the wind blade.
The place was surrounded by crying, coughing, and shouting because of pain, and when the chimera saw this, it just let out a snort then returned sleeping like the humans in before it were lower than ants. Elise was angry and furious, she wanted to go charge the asshole chimera but before she can do that, Chris held her arm and looked at her eyes as if saying that don’t do it. Harold lost his consciousness from the pain and left out bleeding from his left shoulder.
As Chris and Elise felt their demise in this place, they heard a voice.
“You damn chimera! I just lost you and then you started hurting people again! I’ll kill you this time!” A young man voice.
“Hajme wait!” A girl’s cute voice followed.
“Mou~ wait for me too!” another girl voice appeared.
After the voice said some things, three figure landed before Elise and Chris, a young boy whose age is like 17 or 18, a young girl whose age is close to 17 and a girl who has bunny ears on her head that also looked like 17 years old appeared.
“Kaori heal them up first, me and Shia will finish this bastard first” the young boy said.
“On it!” The cute voice girl that seems to be called Kaori replied.
“Roger~!” The bunny girl named Shia also replied.
As the two rushed towards to the chimera, the chimera also tried to stand up and fight the two fast figure, Elise can’t keep up with their speed and they trashed around the chimera really easily like they’re just playing with it. As Elise was watching this spectacular scene, the girl named Kaori reached them then asked Elise.
“Do you have any injuries?” Kaori said.
“H-huh?” Elise flabbergasted said.
“I’m here to heal you guys so stay put okay?” Kaori said in a gentle voice.
“O-okay” Else agreed but still in shocked in what she is seeing then fainted since she know that their group is safe now.
The chimera was having a hard time fighting the boy and girl duo, its injuries is getting worse and not for long the chimera who Chris’s group scared the shit out of them died in the hands of these kids. Kaori healed the whole group just to be sure, Harold’s lost left shoulder has now reattached to his body, Chris’s large cut in his chest is now close and his breathing is now back to normal, Cathy’s face is now peaceful, and finally Elise is asleep deeply.
“Kaori! How are they?” The boy who has white hair and an eye patch on his left eyed questioned Kaori.
“Un, all done Hajime” Kaori replied.
“Good then let’s leave I already got the chimera’s carcass” The boy named Hajime coldly said.
“Eh~? You’ll just leave them here Hajime-san?” Shia questioned.
“Well we don’t want them to be involved with us right?” Daichi said.
“But this clothes looked like from our home, from Earth” Kaori also hesitated to leave Chris’s group
“Gaa! I see that too and that’s why we leave now!“ Hajime said.
“Hajime, how can you say that?” Kaori argued.
“Fine! Let’s grab them then leave them in the nearest town then leave some money, Yui is waiting” Hajime said.
“Thank you Hajime” Kaori said.
“I’ll carry the two girls then Hajime-san” Shia volunteered.
As Chris’s group are all unconscious, they didn’t know what happened and just slept really well until they woke up in place they didn’t know.