I can't die

Hero's only aim was to survive by killing the beasts before him.

"What is wrong with that boy? I feel like something is changing within him but I can't tell what it is. He is standing up!" Old man Hutchinson was flabbergasted. He watched as Hero picked up the shaft and he could not help but walk back and forth in his room. A part of him wanted Hero to die right now and another part of him wanted Hero to at least survive for some time.

With the shaft in his hand, Hero stood up and the drizzle slowly washed away the mud covering the spike and his clothes.

The slimy tongues were shot towards him and Hero could see countless spikes covering the edges of these tongues if he got entangled with these tongues, it won't be easy to escape from the clutches of these beasts.

He narrowed his eyes and moved his shaft towards the eye of one of the beast. This movement was not aimed to strike the beast but instead, It put the beasts around him in an awkward situation where instead of Hero getting entangled, their tongues entangled each other.

"Now, it is my chance." He didn't dilly dally, He moved quickly and stabbed one of the eyes of the beast which made it to cry in agony but this srike was not enough to kill it, it only made this beast and the beasts around it incensed. However it would take long for the tongues of the beasts to release each other and therefore. Hero took this chance to run as fast as he could.

He run towards the warehouse where he could get a weapon to fight these beasts. However, before Hero could reach the warehouse, the bigger beast appeared before him.

"Damn!" Hero had not seen how this beast moved but it was already in his way. If he wanted to access the warehouse, he would have to kill this beats before him. However, Hero was not confident in killing it. After all, unlike the other beasts, this had a thicker hide, it's power level was higher than the others and it was as big as Hutchinson's house.

Hero quickly moved the shaft in his grasp and just in time, the slimy tongue of this beast was intercepted by the shaft.

Hero had wanted to quickly move sideways but he found out that his shaft was firmly held in place and in the next moment, the shaft was pulled out of his hands by the slimy tongue that had entangled it.

"No!" Hero couldn't believe this. Now, he didn't have a weapon and he could only depend on himself. 

He didn't knew why this was happening to him but he regretted dearly for following Hutchinson to this far away in the outer city. It would have been better if he was in the slums because while there, he could join hands with the others so that they could fight for their survival if a beast stampede like this had happened but in Hero's place, there was no way he was getting out of this alive. Just like Hutchinson said, he was already done for.

"No! I can't die like this. I have to at least go down with one of you." Hero's eyes gleamed with determination. He stared in front of him and he could see that the bigger beast had yet to make a move as if it was taunting him.

Hero looked behind him and he could see the other beasts had already surrounded him.

"This is my time." 

Hero took a quick glance around him and his eyes focused on the weakest beast among the group. This beast was half the size of the biggest beast and without wasting any time, Hero moved. He jumped and ducked as he escaped from the attacking range of the tongues. Hero knew well that if those tongues touched him, They would rip him apart with the spikes covering them.

It was as if he was running on a thin tread and a single mistake was all that it would take to end him.