Chapter 55: Chapter 18: The Awakening (1)
A bandit was leaning behind a tree while staring in the direction where the cave was located.
That vastaya will come from that direction and he and his companions were ready to capture her.
And, they'd prepared something.
"She won't have a chance," the bandit mumbled while smiling to himself.
"What chance?" a voice whispered from behind.
Before the bandit could react, he felt pain explode on his head, and everything became dark.
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Ahri was standing over the knocked-out bandit, grabbing a stone tightly in her left hand.
She needed to stealthily knockout as many bandits as possible.
'But why not just kill them?' Her mind asked.
Ahri shook her head.
Because I'd promised myself that I'll never kill humans again . . . she answered her mind.
Then, she dropped to the ground and started to crawl toward the next place where she'd seen a bandit was hiding.
Thanks to the forest being so dense with trees and bushes, she was able to knock out five bandits now without being spotted.
There were more bandits than before. There were only six bandits almost a year ago, but now, it seemed that there were about twenty.
Sneaking up behind another bandit, she raised the rock and swung it as hard as possible onto the back of his head.
He instantly crumpled onto the ground without making a sound.
"Hey, who's that?!" a voice yelled from somewhere from her right.
She quickly looked in the direction the voice had come from and saw a bandit pointing at her from behind a boulder.
She was spotted.
"By the name of Ionia . . ." she grumbled.
She darted toward the bandit, drawing magic from the world around her and forming it into a destructive orb in her hand.
She saw the bandit's eyes growing wide underneath his cloak before she flung the orb at him.
It hit the bandit in the chest, causing him to fly back and roll on the ground, knocked out cold.
She heard bandits yelling at each other.
"Where did she come from?!"
"I don't know, just capture her!"
She turned around and saw three bandits running toward her with weapons in their hands.
She formed smaller destructive orb again and again as fast as possible, throwing each and one of them at the three bandits' heads.
The bandits instantly crumpled onto the ground upon impact, fainting instantly by the pain.
A bandit jumped at her from behind, bringing his wooden club upwards to bring it down on the back of her head
She skipped sideways, dodging the wooden club, and kicked him in the jaw with her foot.
With a cry, the bandit fell onto the ground while clutching his chin. She threw a rock at his forehead as hard as possible, knocking him out cold.
Then, she dashed toward the tree where Jeffric, who was trembling, was tied up while dodging blows from the bandits that attacked her.
She'd reached the boy and quickly burned the rope that tied him to the tree with her fox fires.
"Iminha, I'm here!" Ahri said, dropping the sliced rope onto the ground. "Are you alright?"
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I heard yells from somewhere, but I couldn't see where they were coming from.
The world around me kept on changing from normal to being dark, and back to being normal again.
I was still trembling because of seeing Terian's face again.
Coldness overwhelmed me as my body trembled in fear on its own.
Suddenly, I felt the rope that tied me to the tree falling down around me.
Then, I heard a familiar and welcoming loud voice.
"Iminha, I'm here! Are you alright?"
Looking up, I saw Ahri standing over me with a worried expression on her face.
"Ah-Ahri?" I asked in surprise.
"I'm here to get you out of here," Ahri said, pulling me up quickly. "We need to run, now!"
"Not so fast, girl!" I heard someone yelling at us and turned to see the bandits standing a short distance away from us amongst the dense trees of the forest, changing from being bandits to being kids back in the village and back to being bandits again.
The burly man was grinning before changing into Terian again, who was also grinning.
"Lads," Terian said, looking behind at the kids back in my village. "Unleash 'them'."
Five bandits nodded, turned around, and ran into the forest, disappearing amongst the leaves and the tree trunks.
Now, five, including Terian, were left. Three kids started rising up from the ground where Ahri had come from—now eight.
"Now," Terian looked at me and Ahri again and changed back to the burly man, "back to business."
I was frozen in fear, my body trembling more than before, and cold sweat was trickling down my forehead.
"Iminha," Ahri said, grabbing my right hand, "start running!"
She started to run while dragging me by my hand in a random direction.
"Get them!" the burly man yelled at his comrades, and I heard them starting to chase us, their feet making sounds on the grass-covered ground.
We ran and ran, running past trees after trees.
We heard them chasing us through the trees and bushes behind us. But something wasn't right. The sounds were getting fainter as if the bandits were slowing down.
Perhaps they were giving up?
Suddenly, I started hearing some things running through the bushes around us.
Looking around while running, I saw only blurs through the trees and bushes. They looked like animals, but I wasn't quite sure.
'Wild animals?' I thought in confusion.
Then, without warning, something pounced at us through the bushes in front of us.
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