Chapter 7, A Fight Against the Odds

'oh shit, I forgot to give her my name.' "Hi, my name is John Reyes, and thank you for giving me some food."

She nodded and started to write in the dirt again. "{You are welcome, I made to much anyway}"

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After eating the soup we had a short yet pleasant conversation about how we were and what we were doing, she was surprised to hear that there was a large mana beast in the forest, but we continued talking. "So where do you live? I live in a farmhouse outside of Inesos, which is the capital of Lwikavik." she started to write. "{I live in Iiurneran witch is in the Elven Republic of Fenzoba, this is to the west of the border.}" when she said that the small mana signatures stoped in place and start to get smaller but closer.

'Huh, what do you know. The border was, well just that, a border to the elven kingdom.' is what I thought after I read her writing. Then I asked a question. "Don't elves speak another language?" You could see that she forgot to say something by the realization on her face. "{Sorry I forgot to say that I am a scout sent by the Elven Republic to check on suspicious movement in the forest, they did not know what it was so they sent me, it's most likely some sort of slave traders. But I have been here for around ten days and haven't seen anything.}"

"Wow, I've only been here for a few days. I hope I don't have to stay here too long." As if I just cursed myself I feel a large mana signature coming fast towards me and the elf, a second after I felt the signature I notice that it's a spell, not a beast. I pull out my wand and draw three magic circles, the first one was a rank four spell [Ice wall] and the second and third one was a rank two spell [Iron body]. I cased [Iron body] on both me and the elf, once my spell was finished a massive fire beam hit my [Ice wall], seeing I have some time I chant a spell "Da mihi celeritas ventis [Agility up]." after chanting I yell towards Faylen.

"Either run or help me I don't care what you choose, just choose fast!" after the fire beam stopped I turned around to check witch one she chose, and I see her in a tall tree with an arrow nocked in the bow, she looked at me and nodded.

Turning back around I readied the neutral spell rank four [Magic bullet]. After the dust settled I looked at my opponent, well opponents, it was two orange house cats. One cat was light orange, slim, tall, and had a sun on its forehead, and the other cat was dark orange, fat, short, and had a moon on its forehead. I checked both of their mana. 'Apparently, god hates me right now, BECAUSE FUCKING BOTH OF THEM ARE LARGE MANA BEASTS, WTF!' after having a mini heart attack I feel the moon cat's mana rise. I can tell it's also going to do a beam attack.

I yelled out to Faylen. "Attack the fat one!" and point at the moon cat. Running towards the moon cat I readied my sword and shield, and put my wand into the small hole in my shield. Once I was close enough the moon cat stopped its first spell and created a ball of ice then shot it at me. An arrow shot the piece of ice out of the air, then a small flurry of arrows came and pined the cat's paws to the ground.

Putting mana into my shield, I activated the first stagnant spell in my wand, rank five [Water Prison], I aimed this spell at the sun cat, the spell entrapped the sun cat in a solid water ball. I then activated the second stagnant spell in my wand, rank five [Fire Prison], same as the other spell it was a solid fireball around the moon cat.

While the cats were in the prisons, I pulled the gem out of the wand and used almost all of the mana in it to use the final two stagnant spells, rank seven [Beast Enslavement]. Two mana circles appeared around the neck of each mana beast, a black line was created around the neck of both mana beasts. After the black collar appeared I dispelled both prisons spells and used the spell rank two [Normal Heal].

Looking back at Faylen I see that she is no longer in the trees but instead, she is lying on the with a blood pool surrounding her. there were five human males with similar a mana signature from when I found the Faylen, they were getting ready to pick up her body and run. I was barely able to see them so I know they couldn't see me. Seeing her about to be killed or kidnaped, I first order the newly tamed cats to follow me, then I used the last bit of useable mana the gem on the rank 1 wind spell [Wind Arrow].

The arrow went and pierced the chest of what looks to be the strongest one killing him, I pulled out my sword again and started a slash the one next to him, he was able to block my attack and jump back, however, god was not on my side. A woman stepped around from behind the large covered wagon. She has brown eyes that looked like honey in the sunlight, and long dark blond hair that's flowing in the wind, her armor is as black as the void and her horns looked like a crown. and in the next moment, I could have sworn that she teleported next to me and broke the sword I was holding.

'She's stronger. Way stronger than me. Am I even going to live? I am going to have to run if I want to live.' I looked down and saw that Faylen has stopped breathing. in fact, everyone that was in the wagon stopped breathing, I looked closer to the wagon and there is blood dripping out of the back.

'I need to run. there's nothing else to save, nothing else to do. the only thing left to do is run.' so, I ran. like a coward, I ran away. But god hatted me this day, the woman appeared in front of me and kicked me into a nearby tree, I hit the tree and bounced off of it with loud shattering noise from my bag, there was a small dent in where I hit the tree. The only thing that kept me alive was my armor and the broken potions in my bag healing my external wounds.

She got closer to me, leaned over, and said something. I couldn't hear what she said because my ears are ringing, but I know that she was talking. "*there is the look I love. Ah, how beautiful the look of death is on your face. Hey, can you even hear me?*" there was only silence. "*Hmph. Such a buzzkill, your way too weak for me to even enjoy. Well, I guess I can watch your last moments*"

To be continued.