arrival at the dangerous forest, ice essence range..., and trouble everywhere.

[2 hours later] (7 in the morning)

[AWS team point of view]

"huff huff huff... this-this I won't do again huff huff" - Alba spoke while trying to catch her breath after everything that happened when crossing the lava river.

'oh come on, it wasn't that bad...' - said silvi while subtracting how dangerous what they did was.

'...' - wutong didn't say anything since she was tired after all she did to cross the lava rivers.

'HAHAHAHA WE SHOULD DO IT AGAIN... WHAT DO THEY SAY?' - Buck laughed as she didn't notice the look the girls were giving her.

and well, what did they do to make alba and wutong so tired, silvi tried to calm them down and buck laughed... well.

It all started after arriving in front of one of the lava rivers that they had to cross, they saw the options they had to cross them... but none of them could work.

alba and wutong were fine since they could fly... but, they couldn't take silvi and buck because they would be exposed to monster attacks... yes, there were monsters living in the lava... so they came up with a plan.

since they couldn't cross using the rocks that were all over the lava river... because, every time they tried, some monster would come out and try to attack them, which didn't bother them much when they tried to pass since they could kill them before they do something... but, the monsters, seeing that they couldn't attack them like that, used their brains and the idea they came up with was instead of attacking them directly, they should attack the rocks where they are passing, from fireballs to flipping the rock for them to fall on... well, with them it's silvi and buck. alba and wutong were flying.

so there is where wutong comes in, she has to create one platforms made of light for silvi and buck to pass, so she had to create more than 3 at a time for them to pass fast while using the rocks just to gain momentum and come back to jump onto one of the light platforms.

Alba was helping to keep the monsters busy by attacking them with ice shards… or at least the ones that could last in flight until they reached the monsters, since they would melt if she didn't make them tough enough..

and well that's why alba and wutong are so tired... wutong for having to do several spells in different places at the same time and alba for having to attack in a place where there is not enough water in the air to create the fragments and You will have to use more mana to create them and replace the water in the air.

[20 minutes later]

'Well... what do you say, do we rest or continue on our way?' - Asked Buck after a few minutes that they were sitting passing the heat a bit... the temperature had decreased because they moved away from the lava rivers and the volcano.

'...' - wutong even though she had already recovered 20% of her mana she still didn't want to talk… she's mentally tired from doing that thing of controlling multiple spells at once in different directions.

'I have no problem... I didn't do much to be tired' - Silvi was fine since apart from being hot from going through the lava river she didn't do much.

"Yes... better let's continue" - Alba agreed to continue since she had already recovered 30% of mana and while they continued on their way she will be completely recovered.

'alright...then let's continue on our way' - buck spoke as he started to walk towards the front where there is a path that goes straight into the woods.

'Well...' - said silvi as she followed him but not before taking wutong on her back... she was the most tired of the group.

"'...'" - both alba and wutong didn't say anything, alba followed them while she flew and wutong when silvi placed her on her back she fell asleep directly with the thought that she had to train more.

and so they continued their walk towards the forest to be able to leave this place... forgetting the problem that they will find later.

[1 hour later]

[Andrius POV]

a few hours had passed since we started going down now we are resting a bit after eating, tsubasa had to convince orobashi to rest, kanna is eating an incept that was obtained by there while I was looking at my more specific inventory the place where it was the essence of ice.

And I can say that my resistance against cold and freezing is very high... I resisted enough to get closer than 5 meters away even though I'm a low range monster even though it's also using mana to reinforce my body along with to the breathing technique... but, I still managed to get very far before I turned into a block of ice.

[9,500 year old ice essence]... Yes, it's a sir rank ice essence... I mean, I hit the jackpot this time... Unfortunately, I can't use it since if I do I'd have to go directly to the inner zone and I don't want that... not yet, there are many interesting things here in this zone and if there is a protagonist here, I don't want him to keep all the good... no, no, everything is my own.

But hey... and now how things are for now I'm going to keep it who knows maybe in the future I'll need it.

for now tsubasa is talking to orobashi about how to control the magical aura, i must say that tsubasa still doesn't know how to explain well, orobashi is understanding her well... or so i think.

'Well... orobashi, now you know the basics about how to control the magical aura so now try to increase your strength with it... it shouldn't be difficult after the explanation I gave you' - he spoke with his eyes closed without noticing Orobashi's insecure look... apparently he didn't understand much either.

*sssssss*

'Yes... tsubasa' - orobashi nodded as he began to control his magical aura and the aura came out of his body with a blue tone that began to spread throughout his body... his physical parameters began to increase in range. .. I'm looking at it with my [observe]... here.

[Name: orobashi.

Race: white snake.

Status: confused, important, excited, happy.

Range: Medium Mana(E+), Low Physical(F+++)[Medium(E)]

Affinity: water(medium)]

yes, physically he is weak but his mana makes up for it I thought he was a medium range (E) but it turned out to be medium range (E +) how long has he been training his magical aura so that he has raised his level or is he bad at choosing what , to train first, since as far as I saw the first time we met, he knew how to control his aura well to pressure and intimidate... I can see that he doesn't like to fight head-on.

'Tell me Tsubasa, who taught you how to control your magical aura?' - I asked curious to know... I'm really curious to know who taught him.

'Mmmm... no one taught me I learned by myself, when I crossed from low to mid rank, I didn't have anyone to teach me since at that time, I might have ended up bothering some monsters' - she said as she was proud to say that I learned her alone but then he avoids the look when saying why... seriously.

'Mmmm... that's good, then why don't we continue on our way, I think we've rested enough' - I asked as I watched Kanna playing with an incept... Seriously, what did the poor insect do to him so I didn't leave him alone?

*ssssssss*

'Yes, you're right, we've already been here a long time, besides, we don't have long to get to the place' - Orobashi nodded as he kept his magical aura back, I can already smell the aroma of the forest and others so we must be close as he says orobashi.

'... well let's continue' - Tsubasa agreed as he jumped on my back and lay down next to Kanna... seriously, who am I for you?.

But well... that's how we continue on our way towards the girls... they must be fine, they are careful... at least Alba and Silvi are, wutong... I better not say anything.

[AWS team point of view]

'...' - they all fell silent as they saw the large number of monsters in front of them as they roared and hit the ground with their paws... because, whenever they enter these places, they always find something wrong.

(they don't know the names of the dinosaurs but I'll tell them so I don't get confused... so)

In front of them were monsters from small to very large, fat and thin, with scales and horns or just scales, sharp teeth or sharp beaks... but, something in common that they all had was a white flower that was up on their heads .

*ROAR**ROAR**ROAR**ROAR**ROAR* (X hundreds)

'Wow, wow, but what a welcome they have given us today here in the forest... but why is that?' - buck spoke while he spoke calmly as if he didn't have hundreds of monsters in front of him with the intention of attacking them... even though, you can see that he is on guard with his hand ready to grab the dagger that is on his waist of the.

*ROAR*

'Oh... so that's how it is...' - buck nodded after one of the monsters (tyrannosaurus rex) roared at him.

'What... what did he say?' - Silvi asked as he looked at Buck.

'Well...I don't know, I don't understand these monsters' roars' - he spoke after a pause...making almost silvi, alba and wutong slip their hands and a peaks of earth, ice and light came out of the ground.

'but... what I did understand was... that today there will be... WAR' - she said as he gave a small roar before running towards the monsters and starting to attack.

'...' - the girls watched as buck ran towards the hundred monsters and they just started running creating tremors because of how heavy some of them are.

"Well... finish this quickly, there isn't much time left before we can get out of here" - Alba said as she began to fly high to attack the monsters with ice fragments, taking advantage of the fact that there is more water in the environment here that makes it easier for her to do so.

'Well... let's go silvi the faster you finish the faster, we'll go' - said wutong as he began to fly towards the battle creating arrows of light to attack them.

'...' - Silvi didn't say anything because she had remembered something that everyone forgot and she only remembered after seeing the flowers on the heads of those monsters... that a mid-rank nature spirit was looking for her... and possibly is near.

trying not to think about it for now, she started running towards a herd of small monsters (velociraptor).... even bigger than her that were trying to surround her after seeing her alone.

'They won't be able to touch me'-she said while using [mental shock] on one of the velociraptors that had jumped towards her.

The velociraptor group of pain while she fell to the ground passed out from the attack, Silvi trying not to miss the opportunity she tried to create a ground spike to kill him but before she did, another velociraptor had jumped to attack her.

'Tsk' - I clicked her tongue as she dodged the attack but not before creating a spike of earth in the place where she was before, passing through and killing the velociraptor that had jumped towards her.

While Silvi was surrounded by velociraptors, Alba was fighting bigger and heavier monsters, Diplodocus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, among others.

alba could hardly hurt him, he had to create an ice spear to be able to kill a diplodocus and use it again since he couldn't be creating so many having so little mana, creating a spear took 20% of his reserves and that It's thanks to his mana control training, otherwise, it would have happened to him like the first time he created one. (taking 100%)

Buck was jumping between dinosaurs while attacking with his dagger, fortunately their defenses were not as strong as that of the treant's, in that he suddenly wanted to know what the flower on his head was for... so with a few movements rapids reached the head of a tyrannosaurus rex and cut the flower.

surprisingly the tyrannosaurus rex began to fall to the ground with no intention of getting up, realizing that, she begins to check and realizes that he is dead... that means.

''hey... you have to aim for the flower on their heads, these monsters are already dead' - buck said as he told the girls his discovery and what they had to do.

(first of all the dinosaurs are alive but the roots of the flower are so connected to their brain that when cutting the flower, it loses the signal with the spirit and the flower and the roots begin to wither destroying the brain of the dinosaur killing them directly ... I hope it was understood.)

'...' - wutong didn't say anything as she created a ball of compressed light and shot it towards the flower on the head of the monsters trying to eat it... she had been a bit frustrated that her attacks weren't as effective if it didn't hit a lethal spot since to spend less mana he had to do small ranged attacks...since mana was his only form of attack not like alba and silvi who could physically fight monsters.

so that's how the slaughter began... buck using his agile and flexible body to climb on the monsters head and cut the flower, alba taking advantage of his ability to fly and launches it to attack from the air with a "safe" distance, silvi kept the strategy of waiting for them to attack for her to attack since she didn't exactly have precise attacks I wait for the best moment for her to attack... and wutong she took advantage of her ability to fly and her "precise" attacks to kill all the monsters nearby and not near her.

[30 minutes later]

and so the minutes passed and now there was a pile of monster corpses everywhere, after seeing the place to attack quickly and directly it was not difficult to kill them in a short time... but, doing so ended with everyone tired and almost without energy for another fight... now they are trying to find a place to rest... but, they heard very heavy footsteps that they didn't like at all.

'did you feel that?...' - Silvi asked as he felt the ground tremble.

'...' - buck had a bad feeling as he looked around looking for who was the cause of the footsteps.

'Oh... please I'm tired' - complained wutong while she was resting on the ground since to prevent the monsters from attacking her she had to make several quick movements and her body is tired.

"That must be very big for her footsteps to create tremors" - Alba said as she looked to the side but the trees prevented her from seeing well.

*ROOOAAARRRR*

In that while they are trying to find out who is causing the tremors, a loud roar is heard coming from the left side... the girls are a little scared by the loud roar but buck recognized it.

'That roar... I know it' - she said as she tried to remember whose roar it was... she knows a lot of monsters and many types of roars but this is the first time she hears a roar so loud but familiar at the same time.

'IT'S RUDY... but why is the roar so loud?' - suddenly as if a light illuminated the memories of him, she remembered whose roar it was... but, she doesn't remember that it was so loud.

'eh... Rudy, that rudy who took your eye out?' - wutong wanting to confirm she asked... still, she didn't want to know the answer.

'Yes, that rudy... but, I don't remember his roar being that loud' - answered buck as he nodded and placed his hand on his chin and thought why.

"There isn't time to think, we have to run" - Alba said as she dodged a tree that was coming towards them.

'Yes...' - Silvi agreed as she created a wall of earth to protect herself from the tree that threatened to crush her.

'CORRAAAANNNNN...' - shouted wutong as she began to fly away from the place, since trees began to fall from the sky.

*ROOOAAAARRRRR*

As the group began to run, rudy's roar was heard again followed by his footsteps in their direction... and the worst thing was that he was catching up fast.

The more they kept running since they didn't want to fight again they were too tired, they came to a ravine.

'HUFF HUFF... now what do we do?' - asked wutong tired as she listened to the footsteps closer.

"(sigh) what else is left... we will have to fight" - Alba sighed before their destiny... they ran because they were tired and thought they could find a place to hide... who would have thought they would reach this place.

'...' - Silvi remained silent while she saw how the trees and plants began to move.

'I'll take care of it... I have pending accounts with him' - buck said as he stood in front ready for anything.

*ROOOOAAAARRR*

At that, out of the lush forest came a large gray lizard on two legs, just over 25 meters tall, red eyes and a jaw full of sharp teeth except for one place... on the right side of the upper jaw one is missing .

[rudy's photo]

'this one doesn't have a flower...' - said wutong as he looked at rudy's head trying to see if he had one of those flowers.

"Buck...we can help you if you want?" - Alba tried to convince buck since rudy was a true low rank monster not like the ones they faced before that barely ranked as one.

'No... I took care of it, you guys tried to get out of this place' - buck refused as he started to walk towards rudy who was looking at him with not very friendly eyes.

'...' - Silvi was silent watching how buck was going to attack rudy.

"come on ... we have to get away from here, this can fall because of how heavy rudy is" - Alba said as she began to fly to one side ... while in the distance buck tried to get rudy away from the place without much success .

'Well...' - wutong nodded and followed her while silvi tried to get away from the place.

Meanwhile with buck and rudy they were in their fight forgetting about the girls.

'hahaha what's wrong rudy you're not so fast now right?' - Buck taunted as he dodged rudy's tail attack.

*ROOOAARRR*

Rudy roared in annoyance as he kept trying to hit the weasel in front of him without much success, then a red glow appeared in his eyes before he opened his mouth trying to bite buck but he manages to avoid it by jumping back... but, before he can fall to the ground feels danger in front of him.

in front of him where he should be looking at rudy's mouth, what he is seeing is a large amount of very hot flames heading towards him.

'...' - buck without thinking much falls to the ground while he starts running forward trying to avoid the flames.

a few meters later the flames stopped and buck breathed a sigh of relief as he saw rudy looking at him annoyed but with a mocking look...

'AH!!' - buck wondering why he suddenly starts to smell burnt... when he looks he sees that his back is starting to burn.

'Lie down and roll' - he said as he lay down on the ground and began to roll on the ground trying to put out the flames.

*ROOARRR!!!*

Rudy roared as he started to run towards Buck who was trying to put out the flames on his back.

In that, a spike of earth comes out of the ground making him have to move to the side before the peak sticks in his throat... and he almost did but he managed to avoid it.

'Tsk' - silvi clicked her tongue as he saw that his surprise attack hadn't worked.

"..." - Alba stared at her thinking if silvi had forgotten her second affinity.

'...' - Silvi didn't look at Alba because, she had already realized her mistake.

*ROOOAARRR*

Rudy roared in annoyance at the girls at the surprise attack that almost killed him, then he started running towards them.

In that while rudy was running towards them, wutong begins to fly at rudy's height and opens and spreads his wings completely so that they give out a faint white glow before that glow will intensify a lot causing rudy to lose his sight from the sudden sparkle in his eyes.

*ROOOAAARRRR*

roaring in pain and annoyance as he steps back rudy shook his head trying to regain his sight.

"Silvi now" - Alba said while she and Silvi made a movement with their hands and two pillars came out of the ground, one of earth and the other of rock, hitting rudy hard on the left side causing him to lose his balance and try to recover it. .. but, when he tries to step on the floor with his right foot, there was nothing to step on and he begins to fall down the ravine, losing it from their sight.

"fuuuu~~" - Alba breathes a sigh of relief seeing him fall.

'QUEEE... Rudy... died' - buck was the most affected when seeing the death of his eternal rival at the hands of others.

'Well... we better continue before someone else comes to attack us' - said wutong not aware of what he just said.

"TSK... stupid creatures can't do anything right" - a click of the tongue was heard and then they heard a recognizable voice for all.

'WHAT...' - Silvi yelled in surprise as vines wrapped around her body very quickly preventing her from moving.

"FUFUFUFU... Hello little ones and weasel, it's a pleasure to meet you in person... and excuse this but I'm in a hurry you see how things are, so I'll take this little squirrel with me... bye and don't worry that My little ones will keep you company" - the spirit of nature spoke quickly as she attracted the vines that held Silvi towards her and said goodbye while beings made of roots began to appear behind her.

"SILVVIIIIII!!!" - Alba screams when she sees Silvi go with the spirit of nature but before she can do anything a ray of magical energy almost hits her if it weren't for wutong who took it away at the last moment.

'careful... if something happens to you like we can go save silvi' - said wutong super serious while he looked at the beings made of roots... that seem very strong.

'...' - buck didn't say anything while he was on guard trying to see how he kills these beings.

"This... will be difficult" - Alba said desperately as she began to feel the magical power of those beings and they were bigger than hers and wutong together... that is to say, those beings are almost reaching her average range.

'andrius... this is a good time to arrive' - alba thought as she felt the connection between her and andrius... and a touch of hope came to her.

So... that's how Silvi was kidnapped by the spirit of nature. alba, wutong and buck in danger from the beings left behind by the spirit of nature and andrius, tsubasa, kanna and orobashi on their way... what will happen in the next chapter no one knows. (Neither do I. :v)