New Fantasy World: Galeia-Chapter 40

"What could they be buying anyway?" I asked Sonya. "A carriage? Camping equipment? Food? Water?"

She just growled back.

In the distance I saw a ravine about a hundred meters wide, the forest a good distance behind it.

"Okay. Sonya, let’s do it." I pushed E’er into Preparation and Initiation, a transparent film surrounding us for a split second then fusing into us.

I felt Sonya’s feet as if they were my own, her breathing and heartbeat clear to me.

"Jump!" I commanded when the ravine was five meters in font of us.

She pushed herself off the ground and we took into the air.

I made a huge mistake. I should have known better, it was a ravine. Of course that would have happened. I admit to being an idiot.

I looked down.

The pit of my stomach almost came out of my mouth. My body went cold and I screamed to the top of my lungs.

"FUUUCK!!" My voice echoed through the ravine, my eyes locked to the bottom hundreds of meters down.

I felt time stretch, imprisoned in an eternity of terror. In truth, not a second passed, the ravine replaced by ground and Sonya landing.

My body went limp and I leaned on her neck, trembling all over. My fingers dead cold and my face numb.

Sonya came to a slow stop and turned her head around. I was breathing heavily.

"Sonya, if I ever tell you to jump over another ravine, don’t do it." my voice was shaky. "I think I shit myself." a warmth was spreading between my legs.

I dismounted and fell on the ground, my knees weak. I undressed and touched my crotch.

"No, just pee." I sighed in relief. I took a towel out of my storage and dried the pee off. "Natasha, you stupid bitch." nervous laughter left me.

I replaced my underwear and stopped for a second.

"How did I pee if it was shrunk?" I looked down. "Can I pee while not having my penis out?"

What witchcraft is this? I shook my head.

I finished dressing up and got on Sonya.

"Let’s go. Nice and easy." those mysteries escaped my simple mind, and I didn’t want to pee myself several times to find out.

I rode her into the forest, avoiding trees and flattening bushes. I enjoyed the scenery of green everywhere. Birds singing, and small critters fleeing the massive drake-looking monster I was riding. I started singing while we advanced.

"Hi, how are you? Are you calling up my phone?" I chose an old song from an eldritch abomination disguised as a school girl.

A few minutes later I saw a pond and stopped next to it as I finished singing. I dismounted and Sonya lowered her head to drink. The clearing around the pond was silent, the suns shining on us.

I took out a sketchbook and a pencil. Turning to Sonya, I started drawing.

A cracking sound came from behind me, making me stop my hand. I slowly turned my body and saw a moose a good thirty meters away, behind us.

Or something that resembled one, at least. It was staring at us. Brownish, tall, thick, and a long tongue dripping with blood.

That’s no moose.

I noticed its feet. Paws like a wolf instead of cloven hooves. Its black eyes looking directly at me.

I slowly stood up facing it. I had no idea if moose were aggressive back on Earth, but the animal looked like it wanted to charge at us. Its head lowered and its massive antlers pointed at us.

It scraped its feet on the ground, and growled.

Definitely not a moose.

Sonya was right behind me, growling back at the animal. I raised my hands in front of me, trusting in my strength to stop it in case it decided to charge. I took a step toward the animal and it barked, then charged at me.

A moment of pure genius ran through me and I appraised it as it closed in at a fast speed.

[Me’ik, Level 212]

So low! I was disappointed at the low level of the creature, but didn’t relax my body in the slightest.

Its paws raked the ground as it advanced, sending dirt and grass flying back. It further lowered its head as it prepared for the collision.

I took another step forward and shot my hands to the base of its antlers, halting the beast completely as we clashed.

A cracking noise came from its neck and it crumpled down, a pained howl leaving its open maw. I quickly stepped on its neck and twisted its head, silencing it. The action crushed its spine and throat. There was no effort in my actions, it felt as if it was made of paper. Red blood oozed from its open maw.

I saw fangs and serrated teeth peeking out as I let the head go and it hit the ground with a loud thud.

"Well... that was something. At least it didn’t suffer more than needed." I sighed. It definitely wasn’t a moose. Those teeth look like a wolf’s.

I heard the dying cry it let out echo into the forest. A low rumble followed. The ground shook with something coming.

Not something. I turned to Sonya and mounted her. Many things.

The rumble grew louder and louder. The clear sound of a stampede heading my way.

’Me’ik.’

I sent to Alyssa. I had no clue what to do. I could run away, but they may follow me all the way to Riverfield. I wasn’t that far away, after all.

’Hundreds.’ was her reply.

’Fight.’ Came Lapia’s voice.

"Shit!" I took my pike out. "Fuck!" I hissed.

Should I go all out? How many even are there? One hundred? Two hundred? Nine hundred? All level two hundred? The average level of people I’ve seen so far is one hundred and twenty.

"Sonya, get ready!" I pushed E’er into Initiation, Dragoon Might, Preparation, and Monster Hunter while thinking about two hours. My muscles surged, tightened, then relaxed. A wave of power running through my body.

I contemplated using Intimidate Prey, but decided to wait and see how many of them would come.

My face turned into a deep scowl as the first wave of beasts appeared far ahead into the forest. A wall of animals were rushing to me.

"Fuck it, then." I took a deep breath.

How do I even activate a warcry? Well, it’s a warCRY. I pushed E’er into Intimidate Prey, thinking of two hours.

Then, I spoke.

"COME AND DIEEE!!" an unladylike scream left me, the sound loud as a jet engine. I saw trees being uprooted as my voice traveled towards the beasts.

Sonya roared. The sound sending pleasant shivers up my spine.

I checked my status and almost fainted at the number in parenthesis. TEN THOUSAND? Wait... Is there a limit to it?

When my voice reached them a few fell down, while others picked up speed. Trees were pushed back and some crushed a few Me’ik.

"Not as bad as Hell, anyway." I smiled. "Let’s go, Sonya!"

Sonya charged at my command. I pointed my pike forward as we sped up, and pushed E’er into Rhongomyniad aiming at a beast on the back of the masses.

The world slowed down and we picked up speed.

We crashed into the wall of moose and I saw bodies exploding in slow motion. Sonya’s scales shining with a magical glisten.

The sheer speed breaking bodies left and right, gore covering the both of us as we broke into their numbers.

My sight was unimpeded, the helmet granting vision even when covered in blood, organs, skin, and more.

I raised my pike and brought it down with all my strength, cleaving bodies wherever it reached. The blade cut the air, a whistle followed. Pained barks and whiles of agony leaving the creatures as I reaped their lives.

Aiming forward, I thrust with all my speed. Piercing heads, flanks, chests, and whatever was close to me.

With my other hand, I grabbed antlers and pulled with brutal violence. Heads leaving bodies, necks cracking, and using the beasts’ bodies to slam others.

A cacophony of violence and death surrounded me. Heads impacted both me and Sonya, necks cracking and antlers breaking. The sound similar to an avalanche.

When we reached our target, the poor animal’s body burst in a shower of gore.

I looked back and noticed the entire herd turning around towards us. We had only killed about ten percent of the animals. There were easily four hundred of them, a sea of brownish animals with antlers. Barks, howls, growls, and sounds no moose should produce surrounded us.

"Use your claws while advancing, Sonya!" I shouted and picked up speed as I stabbed those in reach.

I heard barks, wails, howls, and more from behind. Barely perceptible impacts hitting my armor and Sonya’s rear. I swung my pike around, decapitating and cleaving bodies around me.

Sonya’s claws tearing the bodies of animals that came too close, her body buffed by my auras. She bit into necks and spat the meat out, their corpses littering the ground around us.

I kept at it. Thrusting, swinging, impaling, dismembering, beheading.

My heart flooded with panic when I saw a Me’ik bite Sonya’s neck, but laughed when its teeth broke on her scales.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" I laughed like a berserker. "BREAK YOURSELVES UPON OUR BODIES!!" I screamed as more bodies piled around us. "WELCOME TO THE CARNAGE!!"

It reminded me of Hell. The rush there, but the insanity absent. There was no hunger, thirst, pain, nor rage.

My pike flew as I threw it with all my strength, impaling tens of beasts and sending shock-waves when it impacted any surface. Tree or ground.

As I waited for my weapon to return, I punched, kicked, pulled, and crushed heads with my hands. My body and Sonya’s covered in blood.

A group jumped over the corpses towards us, at least twenty. As my pike materialized in my hands, I jumped from Sonya’s back and spun in the air, using Dragonclaw. The tearing of flesh and bone deafening their dying howls.

An exhilarating feeling pumped through my veins. I remembered Lapia’s words. A Halve would find their second killing cathartic. I smiled. It felt like having an orgasm.

Their numbers thinned as we brought havoc upon them. Their relentless charge influenced by my deadly invitation forced them to throw their bodies directly into my weapon, arms, or Sonya’s claws.

My pike blurred as I stabbed to the sides and back with all that my strength and speed allowed. The length of the weapon going beyond Sonya’s reach, keeping her from being overrun. The sheer speed of the action sending their dead bodies back like rag-dolls. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

Minutes turned into hours as fewer and fewer rushed to us.

When the last fell, I took a deep breath and calmed down. I cut the stream of E’er off and relaxed.

I looked around and saw the product of the violence.

My warcry had pushed and flattened the trees around us for hundreds of meters. A ridiculous number of corpses painting a vicious scene. Ground drenched with blood and innards.

"Nature is fucking brutal." I whispered, storing my weapon.

I dismounted Sonya while sighing.

"Are you okay?" I asked as I checked her body for any injury. She let out a low growl and I noticed a limp.

I took out an Elixir of Rejuvenation and popped the cork.

"This is going to taste like shit." I walked to her front and showed her the bottle.

She nodded and opened her maw. I patted her cheeks as the liquid went down her gullet. She swallowed with eyes closed.

A weird whimper left her and she shook her big head. She retched a few times and then licked my helmet.

"Good girl!" I scratched her neck. "Guess who earned a snack? You did!"

I took out a ball of metal and gave it to her. She let out a pleased growl and nodded her head.

[Sonya, Lvl 203 Ratnak]

"Holy shit!" my eyes went wide. "What is this sorcery?"

I read the skill for companions and relaxed.

She leveled up a lot, but I was still the same. All three of my classes at four hundred and fifty.

"Whatever, let’s get out of here." I mounted up and guided her out of the forest.

We jogged south towards the river, where I cleaned my equipment and washed Sonya’s scales.

Returning to the fields, we continued with our exercise as if nothing had happened. She was full of energy thanks to the elixir.

I got off and ran along with her. She couldn’t catch me when we played tag.

Sonya was surprisingly smart. She understood how the game worked, and even how to cheat. Jumping high into the air when I approached her and gaining few precious seconds.

When she was getting tired, I heard the Church’s loud bells from inside the city.

"That’s pretty loud." I shook my head. "Sonya! Let’s go back."

She jogged to me and I jumped to her back. We went back to the city and I had to pay the gate tax, no discount this time, and adding a ’rare’ mount. Five silver and fifty copper.

"Robbery in broad daylight." I clicked my tongue as I guided Sonya to Punten & Co.

When we arrived at the building, I noticed a few adults with an army of children walking in the same direction I was going. Well, to call it an army is an exaggeration. There were easily thirty kids. Lupum, Humans, Tigea and a pair of Elves.

Haven’t seen that many Dwarfs or Luzo. Maybe they live in another district or something.

I came to a stop next to the sidewalk as they crossed the street. The adults nodding their heads and waving at me, saying something to the children.

"Hi lady!" a childish voice came from beneath.