Seeing the blood puddling on the ground, my eyes were opened wider than it has ever been.
"Hoooooddddd!!!!!"
I screamed to the top of my lungs, burning both my throat and my mouth.
But I didn't care...
I enchanted my leg using all of my magic energy. With a single leap, I closed the distance between me and the dog in an instant.
The mutated hell hound was unprepared. By the time it realizes, its vision was already tilted and warped, and the only thing it can see is the ground.
The hellhound was beheaded in an instant.
I continued my dash towards Hod. When I arrived, I quickly healed his whole body, and I specifically focused the healing on the gore on his right foot.
His body got caught in a large explosion, and his foot was blasted off from his knee.
It all happened while I was knocked out, all because I let my guard down from the beast.
"R-Riz... E..."
"Be silent."
I poured more energy into healing. After a few seconds the wounds on his body healed, and the bleeding from his right leg has been stopped. But, his right leg won't be growing back.
The wounds around his body are also getting healed. But with one leg gone, we won't be moving very easily.
"Hod... Your leg-"
"I know... The beast outsmarted me... Sorry..."
Hod's entire body was healed, but he still felt very exhausted from that. He lost a lot of blood, and he was still in shock from the pain.
He is in the worst position now.
At least the beast died. I can just parkour up the hole again while carrying Hod, we don't have to stay down here.
But… our luck has really run out for today.
More footsteps can be heard coming from the other entrance. The right entrance, which is on the other side of the room.
Me and Hod can only watch as tens of mutated hellhounds poured into the room. They all emitted a heavy pressure and bloodlust, and a lot of them were pretty much the same with the one I just killed.
"Damn it!!!"
I immediately placed Hod on my back and enchanted my legs with as much energy as I could, to the point that my fingers started to feel numb. I ran towards the other entrance as quickly as I could, but the hounds were just as fast as I am.
As I ran, I spotted a couple more hell hounds waiting on the path. Lucky for us, my running speed is too fast for them to react, so I just ignored them and parkoured past them.
Just keep on running… as fast as I can...
Please, anyone… Help us...
I don't even want to turn around and count how many hounds there are. From just the pressures they are emitting, I already know that there are more than fifty chasing after us.
All of them are mutated… and some even had pressures much more powerful than the one I slayed previously.
I kept on running in this cave. Both of my hands are busy holding Hod on my back, and my legs are starting to give in.
"No, legs, please!!"
I enchanted even more magic energy to my legs, but even with more magic, the fatigue from running is different. Plus, my feet are literally burning out from using too much magic energy in one spot. My feet are decaying, and I continuously use healing magic on it so that it wouldn't destroy itself.
After running for quite a long time, I noticed that the hounds are starting to get left out. But somehow, I chose the wrong path.
My luck ran out, and we arrived on a dead end.
It's a large cave with at least twenty meters in height and fifty meters in diameter. Aside from the gigantic size, there's also multiple gigantic light crystals that were decorating the wall, completely illuminating the room with yellow and blue light.
Doesn't matter how big the room is...
Seeing that it's a dead end, I dropped my fully tired legs and we immediately rolled as we fell to the ground. I turned my body towards the entrance, and I conjured a powerful firebomb as fast as I can to shoot the ceiling above the entrance.
The entrance collapsed as the rubbles closed the path in front of us. On the other side, the hellhounds are doing their best to make it in time.
Three hellhounds managed to run in.
"Damn it!!"
I stood up forcefully, but before I could completely stand up, my legs felt like jelly, and I immediately fell back down on my knees.
My face turned incredibly confused as my eyes stared at my incredibly powerless legs.
"Legs?-"
BAKKK!!!
The first hellhound arrived in front of me and smacked its body at me. That smack was very powerful, and I once again got knocked really far away across the room. I can feel my bones crack from the crash with the walls as I coughed blood.
I did not protect my body at all, because I was too busy healing my legs. I got caught off guard by the hounds, which caused me to get thrown away.
But, my eyes still can't leave the sight in front of me.
The hellhounds arrived on Hod's body, and they started chewing.
"Aaakk!!!"
Hod screamed from the pain, which gets me even more enraged.
"Noooo!!!!!!!"
Once again, I screamed until my neck burned.
I enchanted my legs with more magic energy and leaped.
Too much energy…
I can feel my legs being ripped apart from the explosion force of the leap, but that doesn't matter. I just need to save Hod.
Using a single sword, I sliced away the heads of the hellhounds in just one leap, and they all died right away.
I didn't land properly. That leap was too powerful, and since my legs can't be used properly, my body was forced to become the landing gear. I bounced on the ground a couple times before finally crashing into the walls on the other side of the room.
"Ghaahakkk!!"
How many times I coughed blood today?
My body is on the floor, fully covered in wounds and bruises. I can't feel my legs, but at least my hands still works.
I began using my hands to pull myself towards Hod. It took me a whole minute of scratching the ground until I finally reached all the way to Hod's position. Once I arrived, I lifted my body using my hands and studied his condition from a higher point of view than the ground. I noticed the poor condition he is in, and I immediately started healing his body.
"R-Rize... Don't..."
"Shut up."
"Just leave me here... You can still survi-"
"I said shut up!"
My healing is slowly working on him. He had three bite marks, all looking horrendous. One on his neck, another on his right arm, and on his left abdomen.
If he got bitten even one more time on the neck, he could actually die. If he had lost any more blood, he could have died. If he was forced to move now… he might die from the stress…
He is really in a critical condition… the worst he can be.
"Rize..."
I did not reply.
The healing is finally done. All his wounds are now closed. But, as to whether or not we will survive here, is still unclear.
I started healing myself, but to my surprise, my healing magic wasn't working as properly.
I lost… all of my magic energy. Running with full energy for that long, multiple super leaps, as well as healing Hod with my highest magic capability. I had a glance at my right leg, and found its unhelpable condition.
It might as well be amputated.
Big bumps of veins can be seen from the already charred skin. Some of my fingers weren't even facing the right direction. Hell, the entire foot wasn't even facing the right direction, let alone the fingers.
That giant leap was done by my right foot, but my left foot is also similarly damaged.
The already charred skin, plus the despicable state of the leg.
Might as well chop the whole leg off.
That is what I thought, but then the rubbles started knocking loudly again.
"ROOAAA!!!"
"ROOOOAAA!!!!"
BAAMM!!!
Howls from the hundreds of hell hounds waiting outside the rubbles can be heard. The ground shook when the explosions came from the rubbles.
BAARRRRR!!!!!
The hellhounds are using their fire beams to open the path, and judging from how the explosions kept on getting closer, it really is only a matter of time.
This is... really the end.
My eyes closed as everything around me turned silent.
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