Female Novel
Chapter 8
After about two hours, the water receded. Gravis opened his eyes and stood up. He felt different. He had already realized that hecould breathe in the water some time ago. He didn't know how that was possible but decided that when all of this was over, hewould ask Forneus. Right now, there were other, more important things.
When the water completely vanished, the purple light returned in the middle of the room. After it disappeared, Gravis saw amountain lion. Its height was around the same as the tortoise's. Thick beige fur covered its entire body, and two red eyeswatched him.
Without pause, the mountain lion charged at Gravis with surprising speed. It was about as fast as Gravis himself. Gravis readiedhis saber and stood his ground. He felt fear again, but this time, he managed to control it. The tortoise and the water helped himshed a layer of his weaker self. Even though he was still afraid, it did not impact his judgment.novelbin
The mountain lion jumped and clawed at his torso. Gravis jumped to the other side and kept watch on the mountain lion. After itmissed, it turned to him and pounced. Gravis sidestepped again. He was not attacking until he either could no longer easilyevade or knew all its tricks. That he survived the initial snap of the tortoise was only luck, and he never wanted to bet his life onluck again.
The mountain lion continued attacking in different manners, but all its movements were predictable and straightforward. Runningaway from something was always easier than to kill something. Even though both of them had about the same speed, withGravis always sidestepping and keeping track of the mountain lion, he never got hit once.
After about a minute of doing this, Gravis felt confident that the mountain lion had no more surprises for him. Now, he wanted totest something else. The mountain lion swiped at him again, but this time, Gravis didn't sidestep. Instead, he slashed at theincoming claw. The edge of the saber hit the middle of the mountain lion's paw and cleanly severed it. The defenses of thetortoise and the mountain lion were incomparable.
The mountain lion jumped back and roared in pain. It tried to stabilize its position with its injured front paw but immediately pulledit back because of the pain. It stopped its barrage of attacks and just watched Gravis cautiously. It knew it was outclassed here,so it retreated and ran away. Gravis just watched it as it tried to find an exit of the cave. Unfortunately, there was no exit.
Gravis sighed. He felt a lump in his throat. It felt as if he was about to do something wrong. He felt the same when he watchedthe tortoise slowly die. The mountain lion was no danger anymore, so there was no real reason to kill it. The only reason wouldbe that he was forced by circumstance. If he didn't kill the lion, he wouldn't be able to leave. He decided against killing themountain lion for now.
Time passed, and both of them sat on different sides of the cave. Gravis no longer felt serene. Instead, he felt extremelyfrustrated. Again, he was forced to do something he didn't want, just because he was too weak. Before, he was forced to watchhis best friend die, and now, he was forced to kill something, he didn't want to kill! If he were stronger, would he even need to gothrough all of this?
After a couple of hours, Gravis gritted his teeth in frustration until a trickle of blood ran down his chin.HE!
HATED!
THIS!
He stood up and looked at the mountain lion with fiery eyes. There was no other way. He had to kill it! Gravis channeled hisfrustration into rage and ran at the mountain lion, which quickly stood up and ran away. In their top forms, their speed would beequal. Sadly, or fortunately, the mountain lion had half of its paw missing.
Gravis quickly reached the lion and chopped with his saber. A huge gash opened in one of its thighs. It turned around and tried tobite him, but Gravis sidestepped again. "I should, at least, make it as quick as possible." With that, Gravis slashed the middle ofthe mountain lions head and split it in two. It immediately died, but its corpse still twitched for a while. Gravis continued watchingthe twitching body until it finally stopped.
He gritted his teeth more. "| hate this, but wallowing in self-pity and frustration will not help me. First, | need strength, and onlythen will | gain freedom!" He pulled the corpse to the side of the cave and placed it beside the tortoise. After that, he returned tothe middle and waited. "No matter what | have to do, for now, | have to bear with it. The only thing | can do is grow as strong aspossible, as quickly as possible."
But when the purple light returned and vanished, Gravis' frustration grew several-fold. A couple of things appeared this time.Some wood, some weeds, some stones, and a cup of water all sat on the floor. He wondered how he should deal with theproblem of starvation and dehydration. Seemed like, every couple of turns, he would get his water and food.
"Those bastards!" Gravis wasseething with rage. The last thingthat was sent over was a small whitebunny, just ih SS ea‘esi killingcy ur own food isnecessary, but why did the timinghave to be so shitty?" he ignored thebunny for now and started a fire withthe supplies. Instead of grilling therabbit, he roasted part of the tortoise.Cat meat was tough and stringy.Tortoise definitely tasted better. Thecontent is on NovelDrama.Org! Readthe latest chapter there!
After a good meal, he continuedwatching the bunny hopping around.It was probably searching for food.Sadly, there was no vegetation inthecave. It ould staivesodnér of later.Gravis: si Ked "Might as well get thisover with." He stood up and pickedup the bunny. He quickly grabbed itshead and pulled, decapitating it. Hewanted it to die as quickly aspossible and didn't know how toeasily and painlessly break its neck.‘This is the best alternative, hethought. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
He was not hungry anymore andplaced the corpse beside the others.Slowly, the lights of the cave beganto dim until they Osi feebleli {This was Seb ly his intendedtime to sleep. This training would goon for a while, and sleep wasmandatory. After waiting for 30minutes, he was confident that nomore monsters would spawn in thenear future. He went to one side ofthe cave and lay down. The contentis on NovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
Falling asleep was hard, but after an hour, his fatigue took over, and he lost consciousness, clutching his saber between hisarms.