Chapter 4: Upper Forest

As I wandered out of the cave, colossal trees blocked my vision. Throughout these trees, animals scurried to and fro, this caused a constant scuttering to be heard. I knew where I was because it was so recognisable among young and old adventures from my guild, 'Great Tower'. The forest was named Great Tower due to a towering mountain in the middle housing a massive Hydra who was the king of this forest, this was the larger forest next to the shadow. Now that I know that I've killed the hydra, nothing else in this forest can be of any threat to me.

Later that night, after hours of wandering the forest and finding nothing, I finally fell upon a lake, although this lake was big and the water clear, not a single animal could be seen drinking from it so I thought why not dig in. I jumped into the lake and started washing, but as soon as I looked down all of the dirt on my body was gone, I thought it was quite strange so I analyzed the water and it turns out it was incredibly acidic. my skin would've been melting but my regeneration kept it at bay. In further inspection I noticed that there was something under the water so I x-rayed through the water and there was a massive pool at the bottom of the lake, to my surprise this pool was actually a massive slime, although this slime should have scared me, the fact that it couldn't move due to its own obesity made me more relaxed, after some deep diving I managed to reach the slime. I reached out with my hydra hand and ate the slime although it was salty, it was actually quite the delicacy. after this, I decided to leave the forest. After an hour of flight, I saw my first human, this human was a farmer. due to my colossal hate towards humans, I burned his house down and destroyed his fields, although this took about 5 seconds with the hydra heads, the human had already reacted, it drew a massive sword and swung, within this time I blinked and my arm had been chopped off. Before I had time to react, another slice chopped off my wings. While I was falling, I didn't focus on the regeneration of my arm or my wings more so than the farmer himself, he looked about fifty with grey hair and grey eyes, he was screaming something about his wife and children, I just ignored him because I preferred to regrow my arms and wings back first, then I retracted my wings and dashed,

Thunder Slash,

Lightning crackled off the golden beam of light that pierced the air towards the man. This attack was now a lot stronger than before because my mana had increased so much, so I was certain he would die.

Without moving the man released a slow breath and tapped his sword on the floor then he muttered something and my attack simply melted in front of him.

"What" I screamed aloud

I lifted my hand to release the hydra but before I can do anything both my arms are sliced off and I start to fall, the old man catches me and rests me on the ground, after that he reaches down to close my eyes but as he does I spit on him, although this wouldn't be dangerous if I was a normal human, my spit is so poisonous that as soon as it lands on his face it melts all the skin from his skull, which I willing lick of my own face with eyes of delight.

Skills acquired: sword mastery (Grand Master)

"What a delicious meal," I thought. "he must have been an adventurer, well that reminds me, I must be off to Altra '' (the capital city of Odibanrdo, a country on the east of the mountain wall).

After hours of sleepless flight, I arrive on the boundary of Altra, its skyline covered in a blanket of the golden dawn.