Theo looked at the forest once and then at Clara, who looked to be near death.
'Stay alive, Mantis. That's an order. I will co find you.' He gave a ntal command, but as he didn't know the difference between them, he didn't know whether it went to it or not.
Theo just gritted his teeth and climbed onto the boar's back. He helped her gently, and only then did the boar start to run back slowly.
Each bump made Clara groan. Theo still couldn't accept the situation.
He had just killed off four boars in total, and it was his first ti fighting one ever. But just because of a simple stone, they were bombarded with surprise attacks.
Travel beca quite fast. With the boar as a carrier, they were able to cover a distance that might have taken them ten minutes in just three minutes.
RUSTLE RUSTLE RUSTLE
Theo's face flinched toward the sound, and his eyes widened. A boar was running at its full speed, trying to catch up to Theo and everyone.
'We are not moving that fast… this is trouble,' Theo thought. The boar was closing in with every second, but they couldn't do anything but move slowly. Clara was still groaning with each jerk on her body.
Theo thought of what to do, but nothing ca to mind. Even Mantis was not present with them at the mont.
RUSTLE RUSTLE
Another rustling ca, and he looked in the other direction, only to see another rabid boar moving toward them speedily.
Now, two boars were a few ters away from them, trying to catch up with them all.
Theo looked forward and saw that they were reaching the main outskirts of the forest finally—it was only a minute's travel from here.
Yet with each step forward, the boar had to move more to the side with even lower speed, as the trees were in a lot of abundance.
Even the boars following them had to slow down to travel further. One even smacked itself into one of the tree trunks and started moving again right away.
"We are almost there! Keep at it!" Theo shouted and patted the boar's back.
SQUEAKK
The boar started increasing its speed only by a little, and the groans that had stopped a second ago started again.
"Bear with for a minute, Clara. Everything will be alright in a minute, I promise." Theo caressed her hair, making her open her eyes.
"Young… master…" she spoke slowly, making Theo crouch his ear down near her lips to understand.
"Leave …" she completed her sentence, making Theo grit his teeth.
"You… just be alive, alright? We will be with Warren soon enough."
Theo saw the front with satisfaction. They were almost out now.
SQUEEAAKK
He looked back, only to see the two boars together this ti, pushing each other to the side but still traveling forward toward them.
He realized a little—they really were solitary creatures who only seed to work with themselves.
RUSTLE RUSTLE
His eyes went to yet another location where another boar was traveling toward them now. Theo slicked his teeth, yet when he looked closely, he saw many more heads bobbing up and down where the boar moved.
'Wait…' He realized it soon enough.
There were little boars, like children, moving with an adult boar toward them.
Theo took a deep breath and looked forward. Now, only Warren was the one who could do sothing for them.
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[Moss Carapace Mantis kills an Ironback Boar (Level 2)!]
[Level (-) and grade ( ) difference detected]
[Adding 5% to the base EXP]
[EXP gained: 30 5%]
Distribution: 31.50
Theo rrick – 12.60
Moss Carapace Mantis – 18.90]
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"Heh…" He rubbed his head, seeing the notification, and beca even more determined. Now, one tension was gone—that sothing had happened to the Mantis.
Theo could finally see a large clearing from afar, a clearing that clearly had the carriage in front of them.
He cald himself down and looked forward in seriousness. He took a deep breath and shouted, "WAAARRREEEENNNN!!!"
The voice was so loud, Clara jerked for a second and felt even more pain, and the voice echoed all around the forest's outskirts.
Warren quickly got up from his sleep; the straw hat on his face fell down. He looked toward the forest with squinted eyes.
BURRRUU
The stag made a sound, and Warren's eyes widened; all the sleepiness vanished.
He quickly opened the buckle on the stag's body, making it co out and stretch quickly.
A few seconds later, the pup and the boar—with Clara and Theo sitting on them, ca out of the forest with a panicked expression.
When Warren looked at Clara sitting horizontally on the boar, his face beca serious soon.
"Get ready for a fight, Warren! Incoming beasts!" Theo spoke, making Warren nod in agreent.
They quickly ca and stopped right beside the big stag, who tried sniffing Theo's face in concern.
Theo just tapped and looked at it in determination. It was all on the stag now.
Soon, the boars—who were smashing each other again and again—ca out of the forest and didn't stop, no matter what.
They both stopped fighting each other and sprinted forward with their all. The stone's musk had been so attractive that they didn't even realize that they were in a different environnt right now.
"They are getting close!" Theo spoke with panic. With Clara so injured right now, they couldn't take it if the boars ca too close.
"Protect… young master…" Clara muttered slowly, making the pup co forward and put its guard on.
"Sleep well. Warren will take care of everything, okay?"
As Theo spoke, the boars hadn't stopped moving. They were very close now, and Theo didn't know why the stag wasn't moving out.
Was it not ant for fighting at all? Questions ca to his mind, but they quickly lted away when the situation flipped completely.
ZAP
A thundering big strand of lightning ca out of the big stag's antlers.
The current zapped the boar to the right, and even before anything could happen, the current ca out again from the boar's body only to hit the other one too, as if it was a conductor.
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