The Real Life Manga: Chapter 4

"LEVEL 15 REACHED"

I pulled the sword out of the back of the ice boar and saw it fade away, then a small white menu window popped up, telling me I got a new in-game message. I had reached level 15.

I am constantly getting closer to level 50, and closer to getting the Sapzark Ingots. I should probably get to a level higher than 50 when going for the ingots anyway, so still some time till I get there.

I walked over the open grass field surrounded by a forest, with my sword on my back on my way back to Sashi asking how she was doing on the level part, of this world.

The field had quite a bunch of hills, so it took a while.

I reached Sashi who was in the other end of the field, with huge mountains in the back.

You could barely see the top of them, but you could just exactly see that there was snow on the top.

Sashi was still farming ice boars, kinda' ironic, how there is ice boars out here on a grass field. Not sure why I put them there, but now they are there and since I am stuck in my manga, I currently can't do anything about it.

"Sashi! What level are you?"

Sashi pulled her black longsword with gray edges out of the head of a dead boar, while turning her head against me, swinging the now bloody sword over her right shoulder.

"Just reached level 15... How are you doing?"

"Good, just got to level 15 too. We should head back to the little village and get the new armour, we have plenty of money now too after all this farming."

"Yeah we probably should. But let's make it a little fun. Now that we have some abilities to fuck around with, then how about I race you to the village."

"Alright Sashi, let's line up then. Through the forest, alongside the river and then into the village center. On the count of three."

We lined up on one of the many hills on the green grassfield, full of ice boars. I was trying to make up a strategy on how to get through all of the boars, since that is gonna be the only real obstacle here, unless I end up taking the wrong turn in the forest. But i'm sure I know the right way to go.

Both me and Sashi stared at each other getting ready to beat each other. The only thing we were gonna win, was the right to brag though, but that is enough for me and Sashi.

"3...2....1!"

Both me and Sashi immediately used our "rush" ability and rushed down the hill and down to the open field full of boars. Behind us we were leaving a trail of smoke, from both of our legs and the grass around us was literally moving, when we ran past. The wind in our hair, the amazing feeling of being almost unstoppable is just amazing.

We reached the forest and me and Sashi were even, right until she looked over at me, with her sketchy smile. I certainly did not like it, since the only thing I could see was her. everything behind her, was just rushing straight past me and I did not get a chance, to even see what I was going past, though I know we are in the forest. Suddenly Sashi started getting closer, constantly switching between looking at me and looking ahead of her.

Then she pushed me. She banged straight into me, with her shoulder and I completely lost control, stumbling over my own legs falling off the stone road.

I slammed my left cheek, down onto the stone & rolled off of the road and into a bunch of thick green bushes, right beneath the tall dark green leaved trees, having several severe bruises on my head and a wound on my left cheek with small stones in it.

I slowly got back on my feet but could still see Sashis smoke trail, because of her speed. I crawled back onto the stone road and decided to take it slow since I had quite the headache now.

After a small time of walking I got to the intersection, where I of course forgot which way to go. I stood there and scratched my head, looking at the intersection trying to remember which way to go.

After like 5 minutes I decided to go right. The forest quickly became dark, but I didn't really notice because of the fall from before. Everything was kinda dark already so I moved on.

The forest became darker and darker and the bushes turned from green to black and so did the leaves on all of the tall trees surrounding me. I started hearing noices and became worried. I have been in this forest for way too long now, I should be at the village already, but clearly I wasn't.

Suddenly I started feeling like the deep forest wasn't just making noices... It was moving.

Then suddenly a big creature came jumping out in front of me out of absolutely nowhere.

It looked like a mix of a mushroom and a tree. Like if those two things had a baby. That was about three times my size....

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The body looked like a tree, it had bark on it and several long branches that i'm pretty sure it can move. It was dark brown like the trees around me but the top of it was quite strange. It had a mushroom head on top, like some kind of hat that was red, with white spots. This thing had to be at least three times my size & i'm 1 meter and 83 centimeters.

I pulled my light blue sword from my back, getting ready to fight.

I put my right leg back a bit and prepared my stance waiting for the mushroom tree to make the first move. It looked at me and started screaming, and then I noticed it had some serious teeth, man they are sharp but there was only around 6 of them. This thing was scary.

The mushroom tree lifted one of it's branches backwards, getting ready to swing at me.

The branch came at me from the right. I barely had any time to react but right before it would've hit me I rolled backwards, with the branch just exactly missing my face before I rolled backwards.

I quickly got up on my feet again and waited patiently for the next swing, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike.

It swung at me again, this time from the other side. I was expecting it to swing like it did before, so I ran towards one of the many surrounding trees, just being able to feel the wind from the branch coming flying towards me from behind. I got behind the tree and the big branch swung around the tree and I was able to climb up it's branch, speeding towards it's big scary face with very few but sharp teeth in it's mouth. It started screaming, almost blowing me off the branch because of all the wind that came out of it's mouth, the wind was strong and came straight towards me and it was cold, like it had just eaten a whole meal of  ice boars.

I got close to the face when it swung again, trying desperately to get me off, but I didn't notice until it was too late.

I could feel the wind getting pushed towards me almost pushing me off, and looked to the side. One of it's big branches was coming straight towards me, so I jumped as a survival instinct, not even thinking about abilities or anything. It hit my feet since I jumped too late and spun me around in mid-air, I landed back on the branch and rolled down the side of the big brown branch at high speed.

I got my shit together and in the last minute I stuck my sword into the side of the branch as fast as I could. There was some kind of fluid coming out of it, it looked like blood but i'm pretty sure these things don't really bleed like we humans do.

I climbed onto the sword, being able to pull myself up and then it started freaking out, wiggling with all of the branches screaming randomly, still desperately trying to get me off. I was stuck on the branch not being able to let go without falling off so I decided to climb it, like it was a mountain.

I pulled my sword backwards with one of my hands, thrusting it into the branch as hard as I could, and slowly climbed the mushroom tree. Everytime the sword went into the branch the blood looking fluid, came out of it's body.

When I had reached the neck my whole sword had gone from light blue, to red.

The mushroom tree was still desperately trying to get me off and decided to start punching itself on the neck, trying to hit me but it didn't succeed. It was just influencing more and more pain to itself. I climbed the neck like I had climbed the branch, slowly but steadily.

I reached the head and tried to stand up but quickly regretted it, as I was blown to the side, almost falling off of the big red and white mushroom head because of the mushroom tree moving so aggressively.

I got back on my feet and climbed to the top of the head, reaching the middle. I tried to stand up again and pulled my sword backwards again with one of my hands, thrusting it as fast and hard as I could, into the head of the mushroom tree.

My sword was quite far into it's head and I was holding tight. I couldn't let go or I would fall off. I was stuck.

The tree decided to try the punch yourself method again, and this time it succeeded.

A big branch came flying up, right next to my right shoulder. I looked over at it watching it go all the way up, and fly straight down towards me with the end first. If it had hit me I would've become bbq on a spear, I had no other choice but to roll to the side, so I did.

I swung myself to the left, right before the branch hit me. I rolled all the way down the side of the tree falling straight for the ground at high speed not being able to do anything.

I closed my eyes and decided to just let it happen and prayed that I didn't die.

"BANG!"

End of Chapter 4.