Wanting to try something new to eat, I decided to swim away from the shore of the lake and head toward the center. I brought a straw basket, and let it float on the water’s surface, as I dove down and looked for different kinds of seaweed. The water was really clean, so even though the bottom of the lake was rather deep, I can still search for seaweed. Or should I call it lakeweed?
Holding my breath for that long was the biggest issue though, and I can only randomly grab a few of the seaweed before scrambling to the surface for air. After a few hours, of gathering seaweed and goofing off, I swam to shore only to realize how silent it was. There was absolutely no sound of talking. Only the wind and the distant chirp of birds.
The tents I was used to seeing disappeared, but random bric-a-brac was strewn across the forest floor instead. Alarmed, I ran to where my house was only to see almost everything gone except my own personal belongings, and even then, many essentials were not there. Running around the village revealed that it happened everywhere.
Clearly, they all left in a hurry. Yet, the forest looked peaceful with no major threat anywhere. Knowing my parents, they wouldn’t have just abandoned me for no good reason, so there must have been something really concerning.
Giving up on deciding exactly what, I decided to follow the mass of footprints and left home. On the way, I saw random furniture, old spears, and even a tent that was tossed aside on the trail. If they were that in a rush, there is no way I could catch up, and that also means whatever threat they were running from must be imminent, which got me worried.
After hours of jogging and feeling tired, I heard a rumbling in the distance behind me. I turned around and there was a sea of black that was moving toward me.
I don’t know what that is but the reason why my entire village left is clear now, I thought. What I was more concerned about was if I could outrun that before I can get to safety. Chasing after my fellow lupoy is unlikely to work, since they run much faster than I do and still left in a hurry, so wherever they are running to is too far for me to get to before that reaches me. But what else could I do?
I ran as fast as possible, and after an hour, I turned around to see that the sea of black has become a whole horde of giant black rats.
Oh no. I assume these rats are like piranhas, so if I get caught by them, I’d be instantly skeletonized? Can they climb trees I wonder? Or maybe…, I thought as I looked around. Wait this place looks familiar. Isn’t this where the elves live? Maybe I can seek shelter there. I just have to hope that Anortha is around or else I would probably be denied access.
With the plan in mind, I quickly headed to the elven settlement.
Luckily, I saw Anortha outside practicing magic, so with a shout, I ran towards her.
She had a look of surprise, before yelling, “Haltu!”
I had no idea what that meant, so I kept running, only to feel a sharp pain on my forehead, and then I blacked out.
She took 3 days to walk that distance. How long did it take to run back?
3 days walking with a bed on her back. With her physique, it's maybe slightly questionable but not overly unreasonable. Should also consider she's running for her life.
@Creyd1317 the story completely skips over it as if it only took minutes. I'm not saying it's unreasonable, necessarily, but I genuinely don't know how long it took. With her physique she wouldn't have been able to run for her life very far or very long.
I admittedly didn't specify exactly how long, but you shouldn't get the idea that it was a few minutes because I did say "hours of jogging" and ran as fast as possible for an hour.
Also would like to say that if your top running speed is fast, while walking speed is pretty slow, the difference in time would be quite high. Not to mention the walk was including breaks while needing the speed to be comfortable for young children and the elderly too, as well as carrying a whole bunch of baggage. There only needs to be roughly a 10x difference in average speed. Average human walking speed is 2.5-4 mph, so let's say including sleeping and breaks, which would take a good amount of hours of no movement, they end up with an average of say 1 mph, running at 10 mph is not unreasonable.
I didn't do these calculations when actually writing the story, but in hindsight, it's reasonable enough that I don't think I need to change the numbers.
Good
They didn't have to do her like that.
Thx for the chap.
I see you often I think.
@LilBreh ? I think that my profil pic who make you think this
@Stonelight i remember seeing both name and profile often
@LilBreh Hah, I was caught huh. Yeah, that was me, I am the ghost of Scribblehub, in search for good novels.
@Stonelight Same, but with quite specific standards.
@LilBreh First of all I take nearly all yandere novel
Second 90% harem tag are out but the yandere one.
I want read comedy so these one are in but Harem one.
Isekai is good, Isekai in a villainess is better and Isekai in mob chara trying to stay one is the best. Reincarnated in monsters are the one I prefer in these.
@Stonelight I avoid all harems and anything that includes romance. I often search for more selfish or evil protagonist. I also don't like mc being too emotional/illogical.
@LilBreh You go for the rarest one lol.
Selfish or evil protagonist are not really my thing, But that because I don't like things like killing for killing and let someone who didn't do anything bad die while you could have helped without any consequence for you after.
I also don't like mc being too emotional/illogical
So many novels have these. I can already see all Xianxia/cultivation novels are out for you xD
@Stonelight I didn't mean evil as in killing everyone. And I did find a couple of xianxia that are decent. There's one called Absolute Ancestor (i think) on RR.