The Master of Uradan - Chapter 114

Rohan ran through the forest as he jumped over the large roots and broke the branches on his way. The screams and shrills coming from behind came closer and closer, and now Rohan could even hear the rushed footsteps of those monkeys.

Even when running at his maximum speed, he couldn’t lose those beasts. What baffled Rohan was that they were faster than him, he couldn’t continue this way. His endurance was far higher than an ordinary man’s, but that didn’t mean he wouldn’t be exhausted at some point.

If those monkeys were tenacious enough to not let him flee away, then he would have to fight in any case. Rohan’s eyes became colder. Since he must fight, then he would fight with his full energy.

Following this thought, Rohan leaped to his left and rushed for a short distance. After a few seconds, he once again charged to his left. He wasn’t mad enough to charge in the center of the unknown number of monkeys. He decided to attack the flank.

He lowered his body and paid attention to where he was putting his feet. Like a ghost, he headed straight to the left side of the monkeys, dodging all the bushes and branches, making the least noises he could.

Soon, he came into contact with the first monkeys. By luck, Rohan had perfectly evaded encirclement, and the monkeys were all stretching on his left. Unfortunately, even while he charged toward the monkey at the extreme side of the group of beasts, he was shocked beyond words.

The forest was incredibly luxuriant, and it was hard to see more than a few meters away. Even so, the monkeys appearing in his view were almost ten, and he could hear more of them going toward him.

The moment the eyes of the beasts met the ones of Rohan, they screamed violently, answered by countless ones coming from the left. Then, without waiting, they threw themselves with rage and bloodlust filling their red eyes.

Rohan couldn’t help but shudder at this sight. Maybe he should have kept running to hope for a way out. He unsheathed his blade with a clear hum. There were already ten of them, and he reckoned that more of them were currently coming this way. He didn’t have the choice anymore.

Before the beasts came closer, Rohan lifted his left arm. He prepared for any pain to appear and decided to use the strange red mana. It crackled under his control inside the mana stone, like lightning licking the stone from the interior.

It was strange, but Rohan didn’t feel any discomfort as he willed the red mana to enter the rune on his arm. Even though it still crackled, he had no difficulties moving it the way he wanted, and in less than a second, the rune shone a red light under his sleeve.

The mana used inside the rune fused with the wind to condense a blade hovering in front of Rohan. It was a transparent blade, made of almost invisible wind. But Rohan immediately saw the differences.

The wind blade appeared to be larger and longer than a normal wind blade, but the most troubling fact was that it seemed to be unstable as the mana crepitated. Instead of the sharp and smooth wind blade, it was a fearsome and rough blade. If someone kept observing it, he would even be able to see a faint red aura on it, blinding in the transparent form.

The monkeys weren’t idle during this second, and with their rage exploding in screams, they were already in front of Rohan. The young wizard threw the wind blade and prepared to strike with his sword. But before the blade could cleave down, it stopped in midair.

Rohan watched dumbfoundedly at the might of his spell. The crackling wind blade split the first monkey into two halves before this one could even realize anything. But that wasn’t shocking, as the defense of those beasts wasn’t high, and this one was too close to dodge the blade.

What made Rohan’s jaw fall on the soil was the following. Since Rohan had appeared on the flank, the monkeys charging toward him were almost all in line. After the wind blade split the first one, it continued its way without being weakened. Its speed was the same as it cut through the air and landed against the second body.

The monkey watched with horror as his own body wasn’t offering any protection. It was simply cleaved apart, allowing the spell to continue its way. All the monkeys weren’t in a perfect line, but it didn’t impede the spell from chopping off their arms, cutting through their waist, and making them bleed a torrent of red liquid.

With a single spell, three of the monkeys were dead while five of them were heavily injured. Such a result was sufficient to make Rohan’s blood boil inside his body.

He thought that he would have to flee against so many powerful magical beasts. His mana wasn’t infinite after all. But now that he saw the tree behind the monkeys with a large cut on it and the branches on the ground along with the dead bodies and limbs in the blood, Rohan tightened his blade and charged against the injured monkeys. Finally, he might have a way to kill them all.

He slashed his weapon against the slow monkey in front of him. This one yelled as he dodged the first blow and was tempted to attack with his long nail, but Rohan was faster. He cleaved his sharp sword to the right, and before the monkey could react, the sharp edges had already reached his body.

The sword cut the skin and flesh while the strength behind this blow destroyed the ribs. With horrible pain, the monkey lost his life. Rohan didn’t stop there. He removed his weapon with a quick and spun it around, just in time to meet the nails of a second monkey. This one was lucky enough to not be injured by his spell, but Rohan didn’t want to occupy himself with this one.

He had learned from the fight with the first monkey. A fight with one of them head-on would take too much time, and as he was beginning to discern the other monkeys coming his way, he didn’t want to be locked there.

He could only throw five spells after all, and he wanted to use them perfectly to kill the most monkeys possible.

He constantly retreated while defending against the monkeys. At the first opportunities showing here and there, Rohan killed the injured monkeys that were losing too much blood, decreasing their speed.

After only a few seconds, more monkeys had appeared in front of him. His heartbeat became louder and louder like a drum on his chest. Although he thought his plan was perfect, he was shocked at how many magical beasts were after him.

His expression turned solemn. He didn’t know where he was, but for so many beasts to show at the same time, obviously coming from a large herd, this forest should be far from being a simple wooden area near his homeland.

Rohan passed a few seconds to lure the monkeys where he wanted them to go, and once he thought he was perfect, he activated another wind blade.