Chapter 17 – At a Loss
Third Person's POV (4 yrs. and 4 months old)
The three were at a loss for words of the sudden teleportation, they looked at one another, trying to understand what just happened, and then returned to look in front, they each took a deep breath before exhaling in a controlled manner.
Now completely understanding their current situation they each could think clearly and plan for their next action. Ken turned to look at the other two at his right and said…
"Since papa has told us about what we should be doing here, we need to devise first a battle strategy to better tackle any situation we may encounter."
"You're right, first let us know what our roles would be, I shall be the one to lure out the monsters and make them focus on me so you guys can focus on taking it down." said Wilbert. Status: Apprentice Warrior
"I'll be on the lookout for monsters and know their locations, I'll attack from afar." said Celine. Status: Apprentice Archer(Sniper)
"Then I'll invoke buffs and debuffs, offensive and defensive spells, to assist and kill any monsters we'll come across, but of course I'll use my scythe too, hehe." said Ken. Status: Apprentice Battle Mage
"Now that we know our roles, let's go hunting!" said Wilbert in an excited tone and pumped his fist into the air-
"Yeah!!!" replied and followed by the other two. Ken noticed a blinking red light at the corner of his vision and willed his windows to open, he saw the red dot at the mission tabs, and opened it.
A quest/mission popped at his mission bar, and it stated, that they kill 20 monsters in the forest, and it also stated of a reward that will be given upon completion of the task, and a punishment if the task is not completed.
The reward and punishment was not stated, making Ken confused, but he closed the windows and averted his attention to the task at hand, while White is just quietly observing at the sidelines.
"I command thee, Arcane Magic: Area Sweep!" Ken activated the spell to scan over half a mile radius to see where the monsters of the forest are located, from afar the spell looked like a sweep of light, and illuminates the area under its effect.
In Ken's mind, every life form are illuminated in white color except for the occasional monsters with red color, animals are no exemption, only their color looks calm and content, while the monsters color looks chaotic and crackling with energy, preferably visible as red lightning, coursing through their body.
Ken cannot clearly picture out the shape of the living organisms -preferably animals monsters and even humans- around him, but the landscape looks just as it was before, along with the plants and trees and buildings -if ever there is one-, he discovered a monster northwest near their area.
"I found one, its north west of here." said Ken.
"Alright let's go." said Wilbert.
The three quickly went to the direction and upon arriving near a river, they saw a big wild boar with big and sharp tusks eating the remains of a deer, 100 meters away from them. This is no ordinary boar, as it eats like a starving carnivore -kind of like how wolves eat-, and upon close inspection, it's an evolution of a wild boar, a monster boar.
"Let's do this, Celine, go and climb a tree." said Wilbert, turning to his left.
"On it." said Celine.
"And Ken, let's lure it." said Wilbert, turning to his right.
"Okay." replied Ken.
Celine quickly climbed a nearby tree, where she can see the boar, and positioned herself so she would have a better aim at the target, while the other two prepared their weapons, Wilbert holding his sword on his right hand and his shield on his left arm, Ken held his scythe on his right arm with the tip of its blade facing away.
"Celine fire a poison arrow at it first, to slow its movements." said Ken.
"Okay!" Celine placed and draw a green arrow at the boar, and released it hitting the target close to its neck by its back.
A trickle of blood could be seen, the boar shouted an ear deafening sound, and the group quickly covered their ears to stop their eardrums from bursting, once the sound died down, the boar is already charging at the two.
"Quick dodge it!" The two separated from each other, as the boar went passed them.
"Taunt!*AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!*" Wilbert quickly casted an attention turning spell, and the boar directed its attention then charged at him to try and tackled him, which Wilbert easily dodged.
While he was dodging, another arrow flew into the air, the arrow was accompanied by the magic of the wind thus making it fly fast and hit the boar square in its left eye, blood gushing out it.
*SCREAAMMMM-*
"Arcane Magic: sound alteration, low volume!" Ken casted a spell directly at the boar that dissipated its sounds, making it look like a lunatic boar, screaming without a sound.
"Let's finish this, Ice Magic: freeze!" casted Ken, covering the lower body of the boar in thick blocks of ice.
"Enchanted Arrows: Duplicate Light!" Celine released a light arrow that split into two that circled one another then hit boar, with the incredible speed of light magic, the two arrows passed through the boars body creating two large holes the size of a tennis ball (A.N.: I inserted that, because I don't know how big I want the hole to be.), and the arrows stick themselves to the ground, the light of the arrow dissipating and merging into one.
"Sword Style: Triple Cut!" Wilbert quickly slashed his sword three times creating light waves that cut the boar thrice, breaking the blocks of ice at the bottom, but the boar still stands although breathing heavily, it started to charge at Wilbert, but with Ken's quick actions.
"Light Moon Magic: Cut of the Crescent Moon." he swiped a crescent shape from the bottom to the top vertically at the boar cutting the boar in half, effectively killing the creature.
*Sigh*
Ken, Wilbert and Celine heaved a sigh of relief, upon the end of the battle. Celine jumped down from the tree she was on, and met with the two, the three had smiles on their faces upon the completion of their first kill,
And decided to proceed with their task, while their parents watched them from afar, cloaked by Lyn's Illusion Magic, they can't help but sprout proud smiles across their faces of what their children had achieved, and of their teamwork.
Ken casted his searching spell again, and found out that a few monsters, a number of 10, 5 of them coming together, while 2 are together, and the other 3 are separated, all of these monsters attracted by the battle that broke out a few moments ago.
"Get ready you two, 10 monsters are approaching our location, surrounding us, Celine climb back again at a tree and see which monsters are approaching fast." said Ken, upon finishing his spell.
"Got it." said Celine and quickly climbed a tree near the two.
"Blessing of the Mother Nature: Nature's shields! Blessing of the Beastial Instincts: Focused senses of the Wild!" casted Ken, Buffing up Wilbert, giving him extra boosts in battle.
"Now that that's done, what do you see Celine?!" asked Ken in Celine's direction.
"It seems to be that a pack of 5 monsters are fast approaching our location, while two are not so far behind them, all 7 are coming north of our location, the other three are at the last, one is southwest, the other southeast, while the last one is west of our location." said Celine.
"Ready your arrows, and home 10 arrows at the monsters, all using slowing magic." said Ken.
"On it." said Celine, and prepared 1 slowing arrow on her bow and aimed at the sky.
"Multiply and slow my enemy’s pursuit, Enchanted Arrows: Multiple Slowing Seekers!" Celine released the arrow upward and multiplying into ten in the sky before changing direction and going directly at the 10 monsters approaching them, each hitting the monsters and slowing down their movements.
"I call the power of the Forest, show your wrath upon these monsters, Nature Magic: Forest Domain!" spreading his hands and channeling nature energy, into the palms of his hands, it created green glowing orbs that started to control the trees and plants around them,
Just in time for the 5 monsters showed up closely accompanied by the other 2, who seems to be flying in pair, followed by the other three, upon close inspection, the 5 monsters looks like wolves, the other two are large predator birds, and the other three are respectively looking like, a lion, a tiger, and a big snake.
The trees around them popped vines that held down the monsters still, the monsters struggled for a while and roared and hissed and screeched in anger, but still got immobilized.
"Target the pack of wolves first Wil! As they will be a problem if left together!" said Ken, while still channeling energy.
"On it." with three full strides Wilbert is directly in front of the pack of restrained wolves, he jumped into the air and dived into the center pointing his sword at the ground.
"Sword Magic: Porcupine Spears!" Long shaped swords of translucent energy stabbed the wolves multiple times around him, killing them effortlessly.
"Celine, kill the birds." said Ken.
"Right! Enchanted Arrows: Double element, Water and Fire!" Celine released two arrows, one blazing fire and the other a torrent of water, upon hitting their targets, one got burned down alive, and the other missing its main body and dismantled parts due to the force of the water, killing the two creatures.
"Now let me handle this." Ken released his hold of the forest's energy and the vines strangling the other three had its strength weakening. The big snake slithered out if its hold, while the lion and tiger monsters, slashed at the vines with their sharp claws, all three turning to Ken.
The snake quickly made action and slithered towards him, but---
"Arcane Magic: Telekinesis." Ken casted a spell that held the snake still, the other two monsters charged at his directions but with Ken's quick reaction, waved his hand and the body of the snake slapped the other two monsters sending them flying the other direction and landing near a boulder.
The tiger and lion, shook their heads to pry out their dizziness, Ken walked near them, and with the big snake still under his spell, directed his hands to the two monsters and wrapped the snake to the two monsters, tying the three into a bundle.
With the three not being able to move and their heads not being able to stretch or pull, with a wave of his hand, Ken draw a magic circle white in color, below the three monsters and chanted---
"Moon of this planet, send upon your light, to cleanse this monsters of evil, Light Moon Magic: Moon's Ray!" a silver light shined down upon the three monsters, disintegrating them down to a molecular level without leaving a mark or blood. The silver light dissipated and left small balls of light that disappeared too.
The ground was spared as it still appeared normal.
Wilbert and Celine joined Ken upon defeating the other three monsters, and rejoiced for their second victory, the battle may seem easy for them, but that is only because the monsters they have faced, are that of the weaker tier.
The group realized this outcome, the first to notice was Celine, seeing as she was not that very confident in her skills to wound a monster rather than kill it, so she was surprised by the results.
"Ken, Wil, I think the monsters we had just fought earlier, are weaker than I thought." said Celine.
"I thought so too, and seeing as I was able to kill 5 monsters at once, we must still be on lower grounds where weak monsters are located." replied Wilbert.
"I agree with you, although fighting those monsters were easy, we still aren't finished with the task at hand, and with the results of the battle, I think it's safe to say that we proceed further into the forest and enter its jungle portion, to better know the limitations of our skills and power, and to finish what we came here to do." said Ken.
"But we can't proceed to the jungle with an empty stomach, let's have lunch first, I'm starving." said Wilbert, thinking about food, the other two chuckled at his statement.
"You and your stomach again." replied Celine, as to which Wilbert crossed his arms and pouted.
"Oh don't be such a big baby, I shall cook the meat of the boar we killed earlier, although we have to clean and butcher it first to effectively use the meat." and upon the mention of meat, Wilbert's eyes shined in anticipation, and his mouth watered.
"I'll help!" Wilbert said enthusiastically.
"*chuckles* Me too." said Celine.
"Let's go, and let's be quick, there's no telling what kind of monsters still lurch within these forests." Ken said, caution, and alertness, evident on his voice.
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