Chapter 54: Collectors Dream (3)
I ended up putting the longsword on my back between the backpack with the two bayonet knifes on both of my sides. The trench coat was able to create straps to hold everything in place which was an amazing perk.
I did debate putting my longsword inside of the coat at first, but it felt very weird on my bare skin.
I looked over to my boss to see that he was ready as well. We did have the same outfit on, but his stomach was sticking out quite a bit.
"Where are your weapons?" I asked him as I didn't notice him carrying any.
"Come on Diggory, how did you miss these two bad boys?" He said as he started raising his two fists.
"I'm guessing you specialize in close combat then right?"
"Sort of, I'm actually quite good with mana so I prefer to fight at a distance. How about you?"
"I excel at close combat."
"How about long range?"
".....Not so much."
"Not a problem, I think we will match up quite well. Now then let's get moving and make sure your hood stays up the entire time."
"Wait aren't you going to pay for the sword? We can't just rob this place."
"I know the owner of this run down shithole so don't worry, once he needs money he will find me. Now shut up and lets move, we will be running through the forest with you following my exact path. No talking, be as silent as possible and always be on guard no matter what. If you spot or think you've spotted an enemy, then are you allowed to say something. Let's get started now."
My boss walked over to me and put his hand on my bag, the bag had started turning the same color as my clothing. He then did the same thing to his own bad and put it back on.
In the next moment he took off sprinting out of the building, my instincts had kicked in and I immediately starting shadowing him from behind.
I made sure to keep our distance extremely close, I wouldn't feel comfortable with a lot of distance in between us. I assumed he knew this area like the back of his hand, I couldn't allow myself to lose sight of him.
We had started sprinting through the woods which was something I wasn't used to.
The bumpy ground and obstacles in the way made running silently extremely difficult. With a forest this dense it would be mostly impossible, but it seems a path has already been made.
I didn't have any difficulty keeping up with him as his speed wasn't high at all. If I was being honest this was more of hard jog for myself.
I took the time to send mana through my trench coat to make the hood on my head squeeze a bit tighter. I then started to enhance my ears and nose to make sure my senses were at their peak.
I never stopped enhancing my eyes since I didn't feel comfortable the moment we got here.
For the next 2 hours we had traveled through the forest, in that time almost nothing had happened. I never let my guard down either, being in such a dense forest where I could barely see was terrifying.
Never once did my boss widen the gap or change his pace so I was easily able to keep the distance very close.
My boss had started to slow down and came to a complete stop. I looked ahead of us and saw what looked to be a giant wall blocking our way.
"We have to climb this wall to get to the other side, it's quite a hard climb and its extremely tall. It'll take at least thirty minutes for us to reach the top. Just follow my exact route, if you need help or a break just say something. So, are you ready?"
I had tried taken a closer look at the wall and noticed there were cracks all over it. The cracks were large enough for us to jam our hands in there, still this is an extremely hard way of climbing.
With the mist so dense here I couldn't fully see up the wall, I just had to assume it would be this way the entire way up.
This climb would be difficult, but it was by no means impossible.
"I'm ready."
My boss showed me a smile and proceeded to start climbing the wall.
As I thought he started jamming his hands into the cracks and started going up the wall. I followed suit on his exact path not much longer.
I started going up the wall and matched my boss's pace, this time it was quite hard to keep up as I kept misplacing my feet making me squeeze really tight on the cracks.
This wasn't my first time climbing, I was used to climbing mountains but I have never climbed a mountain that had only cracks.
The wall was flat as well which made climbing it quite awkward, after a few minutes though I started getting used to it. My arms were feeling quite sore though, my mistakes had led to me using a bit more energy than I would have liked.
I didn't dare to enhance my arms with Ki because I was afraid I would break the crack which would send me plummeting to the ground.
When were about 20 minutes into climbing though I started to feel an extreme amount of fear inside of me. It was so bad that I had stopped all my movement.
"Sir." I said a low whispered tone which caused my boss to stop climbing.
I was looking up at him and noticed his eyes were locked onto mine, yet he didn't seem to look scared at all.
'No, something is definitely wrong I can feel it. It's just like that time in training, but this is way worse than that. Where.... Wheres the thing giving me this feeling. WHERE IS IT!'
I tried looking all around but couldn't find a single thing, only my boss and this wall were what I could see.
"What's wrong Diggory?" My boss said in a whispered tone as well.
I looked up at him, but felt my throat started to dry up. It felt like something was trying to get me to stop talking.
"Dan...ger...." Was all I was able to get out of my mouth.
"Danger? Are you positive? I'm not sensing anything near us though..."
I didn't bother responding back, I couldn't get another word out and I was completely frozen. My legs were shaking violently, it felt like they were about to give out.
'What the hell is this... what is this thing..... I've never felt anything close to this.... Where damn it, where the hell are you...'
My mind was going through absolute chaos, it had gotten to such absurdity I started doubting that this wasn't even real. It felt like I was in one of my nightmares, that dream like feeling where you can almost believe that it happened.
The sounds of my heartbeat were starting to be heard, my chest was pounding and I started breathing uncontrollably.
"Diggory what are you...."
"WWWWWWRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" The sounds of a monstruous scream went through my entire body.
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