I started to run again, but the forest was starting to get thicker, and it was almost like I was being gilded more south, and I was almost tempted to try Keri's Totem with Fireden to just start burning my way through.
Unfortunately, my jog was not all sunshine and rainbows, and I didn't really have the time to think about much while I dodged thrown weapons from the asshole hyena men, or Gnoll's as Keri told me.
She was lying on Lizy, and Lizy was scowling up at me, but she wasn't complaining, which was good. I didn't have time to listen to them; I had to switch to the Fire Force Pact to empower my Water Sphinx Totem to be able to avoid the projectiles.
I wanted to fight them, but there were too many for me to stop without having a corner to put the girls in so I could protect them. Right now, I had no free hands, and I was running through the palm tree jungle with no rocks or anything that would help.
I ducked a spinning flail and tossed the girls forward in an arch. Then I reached up and grabbed the flail out of the air, spinning in the air with it in my heightened state.
Wind Force Pact and the Fire Gog-kin Totem ignited, and time sped up briefly. I charged the flail full of fire, covered it with the flames, and then changed to the Water Sphinx Totem.
I hurled it back with the added power of the Wind Force Pact back at the Gnoll's and let the force push me back. The flail crashed into the group like a bowling ball and then exploded, killing a bunch instantly, and a level progression alert appeared, but I closed it.
All of this happened in the span of about six seconds, and the girls were still in the air as I flew back under them. I activated the Earth Force Pact and let my back hit the ground, but it forced me to stick and slide across the ground.
The girls both landed on my chest, and I grabbed them and then did a rolling backflip. I twisted in the air, and landed, and kept running.
"What are you doing, you idiot!" Lizy yelled at me after catching her breath from getting it knocked out from Keri landing back on her chest.
I didn't bother to reply, I needed to keep moving because there were still more Gnoll's coming after me, but I could see smoke coming from up ahead. I put on a burst of speed but had to sidestep two more flying hatchets.
I could see a village coming up ahead of me, and I gritted my teeth.
This is not where I wanted to be. I didn't want to involve these people in my problems, but now I could put the girls down.
I stopped just outside of the village and put the girls down unceremoniously. I whipped around, catching a rock that was coming from the back of my head.
Enough of this bullshit.
"Girls, get into the village, but stay close," I called out.
I did it out of the corner of my mouth to the girls as they got up. Then I whipped the rock back into the forehead of the first out of the five that were left.
The creature's head exploded, but the other four still rushed me, but I was pissed. I was way off track, and now I was wasting more time, so these bastards were breathing their final breaths.
I didn't change my Pact or Totem, and then the first Gnoll smashed a thick stick into the side of my head, but it just exploded. I stabbed my hand forward through the splinters and grabbed the creator by its thick furry neck.
I used the momentum it had and whipped it around, slowing my initial spin and then speeding up as the end. I timed it to use the head of the first Gnoll to smash into the second face and block another thrown rock from the farthest one.
"You little bastards picked the wrong day to mess with me. I am not in the mood," I said as I let go of the first dead Gnoll in my hand; I had crushed its neck.
The other two looked like they were about to run, but I had already decided that none of them were going to live. I dropped the Water Sphinx Totem and activated the Earth Hissing Tsunalily Totem, growing five times more significant.
I was surprised by my new size, but I didn't let it affect what I was doing. I grabbed the first, then kicked at the other one, and connected, sending it flying into a tree, but the tree was far more rigid than the creature.
The Gnoll hit the tree and exploded around it with a sickly crunching and tearing noise.
I pulled the struggling last one to my huge face; I was almost four stories tall, and I noticed the top of the apartment, but I was at least three miles away from it. I glared at the struggling creature, but it was only trying to get free and not looking at me.
"Can you speak?" I asked, and the Gnoll stopped struggling, looked at me, and then bit my hand with its Hyena face, and I glared at it. "Fine, a mindless monster then?"
The creature continued to try to bite me, but to no effect, and I shook my head. Then I raised my arm and whipped the Gnoll into the ground, and its body slapped into the dirt, and then I stomped on it with one foot and then ground it into the ground for good measure.
I turned and shrank back down as I did, looking for the girls. I couldn't see them through the crowd of dark blue-skinned Demons that were starting to crowd around me.
"Hero! Can you help…."
"Oh, legendary fighter, I need…."
"The mightiest of all, I must request…."
Great. Where the fuck did those girls get to, and how was I going to get around these people!
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