TF Chapter 59 Dangerous Situation

It is often said that fortune favours the bold. My mind brightened at the thought of that quote as if it had been doused in the Sun's rays.

What was the point of me waiting around like this when I could take the initiative! My eyes lit up with a glow of realisation, before I kicked off the ground and sprinted towards the forest from the crater, with my destination being one of the two columns of smoke in the distance. I had decided to try and see whether I could join up with one of my companions to team up against this beast. Besides, with my weak physical prowess relative to the beast, the trees would provide ample obstructions to hinder it from catching up to me.

Everything at the peripheral side of my vision blurred as my body accelerated to speeds that would have put Olympic gold medalists to shame. According to my calculations based on the speed I was blitzing at, I only needed just a second to reach the edge of the forest.

I also knew that with the creature/aboriginal having a body more adapted to the gravity of this planet, there was a high chance that wherever it was, it could reach me in an instant, not to mention that the spiritual powers that had been enveloping me hadn't yet left my senses, always omnipresent as if a God was staring right at me thinking of ways to dig into my deepest secrets.

At any other time, I would have been cautious of the unknown, namely, the forest before me, but lady luck herself appeared to not be gazing my way this time.

Without even pausing for a split second, my figure entered the forest, with my fabric covered feet noticing the softer and wet ground contrasting with the superheated solid ground in the crater.

I cursed inwardly at the swampy terrain which was making my movement speed a tad bit slower. Seeing that the foreign spiritual domain was still firmly on me, I pushed with my spirit, transforming it from enclosing my body to that of an oval egg-like shape, albeit with some strain due to the outside pressure acting on it.

I also started moving the spirit core around me within the spiritual domain, speeding it up with every rotation. Velocity was needed if I was attacked, such that the impact would far surpass my original 1kg force.

There were a myriad of plants on the ground but I was making sure to avoid most of the suspicious looking ones, though, I still had the thought that moving faster than they could react was the safer solution, so I made sure not to slow down, even with the terrain hindering me.

A hair raising chill assaulted me within moments of entering the forest, almost causing me to freeze at the sheer will of the murderous intent. This was one of those times I congratulated myself on having insisted in taking those combat lessons from Celeste!

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Without conscious thought, practically on instinct, my body moved to the left, with my feet exerting force so that I could leap away from whatever was attacking. my eyes widened as mere inches away from me, still mid-dodge, a limb, black as night and almost twice my muscle was hammering down with such force I felt my very skin breaking out into goosebumps.

The moment I leaped out of the way, I didn't even stop for a moment, even making sure that when my feet touched ground, I applied force such that I continued forwards, with my muscles and bones screaming in protest.

Fear and excitement intermingled within my mind when I felt a crashing sound behind me. It was exhilarating... I should have felt terror and a myriad of other negative emotions, yet what I was feeling was only tinged with a slight sense of fear. Most of what I was feeling was excitement, the adrenaline only adding to it.

Before I could even feel a sense of relief, the hairs at the back of my nape stood up once again... And this time, both my feet were still a few inches from the ground, meaning that even if I applied force, the chances of me evading were close to zero!

Without even wasting a millisecond, I pushed my spiritual powers to their limits, causing the oval shape of my defense to expand a little.

If it hadn't been for these perilous circumstances, I would have been overjoyed to notice that my spiritual powers had improved minutely due to the pressure I was under.

With my oval spiritual domain pushed to its limits, I wanted to detect whatever entered and be able to swiftly react. The spiritual core had been gaining speed with ever single rotation, and right now I was even beginning to feel the strain my spirit was feeling on having to make sure that it didn't break orbit.

Something breached within my domain, a clawed hand, judging by the image my spiritual powers were sending to my brain. With a single instantaneous thought, the spirit core instantly shot towards the palm of the creature the moment it exited the orbit, its speed almost approaching that of sound.

Crack!

My sense detected the palm shattering, flesh and bone alike, splintering outwards from the impact area.

Before I could even become elated at the amount of damage I had managed to dish out, I felt the air particles within my spiritual domain once again being pushed towards me, after which, another clawed hand entered my senses, almost giving me a panic attack.

Was pain an entirely extinct thing within this species?! A normal living and breathing organism would have at least slowed down or retreated! I cursed at the creature for challenging my preconceived views of common sense even as I hurriedly thought for a solution.

My brain went into overdrive as I came up with many ideas only to discard them due to their feasibility. And this beast, whatever it was, appeared to have some abnormal body makeup because of the fact that I had just leaped away from its previous attack, only having taken one single step before it once again attacked me. I was starting to worry whether the plant life here would even be able to hinder it from getting to me!

My eyes abruptly lit up as an idea appeared within my mind, something that was downright crazy, yet might work!

I galvanised my spiritual powers with a thought, pulling back the spirit core that had been on the verge of digging deeper within the other arm of the beast, recalling it towards myself where I proceeded to have it push against the upper middle part of my back, where the spinal cord ought to be, causing my body to start tilting towards the ground with such speed that I tasted mud and even felt an aggressive wind passing over my back. It looks like my idea had born fruit!