Chapter 47
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It took a two days for Jayde to reach the barrier to the second ring, the spirit beasts within the perimeter sensed that Jayde was more powerful than them, and steered clear of her, besides stopping to collect some herbs that she needed to trade, or to make camp, Jayde travelled non stop to the second ring of the Dark Forest.
When she finally came across the barrier between the outer perimeter, it was just as the old man had described in his notes, in front of her she could see a slight shimmery barrier, walking cautiously up to the barrier, she lifted her hand and tried to touch it, but her hand passed through the barrier, just as though it didn't exist.
"Hmm, just as the old man said, the ward only works on spirit beasts" she mumbled quietly to herself, and with that, she walked through the shimmery barrier.
As Jayde headed deeper into the Dark Forest, it wasn't long before she ran into a level five fire lizard, these large reptilian creatures were very dangerous, besides breathing fire, their skin was extremely tough, and they had a long agile tail, that was powerful enough to split a person in two. They were very fast, although their eyesight was poor, their sense of smell of highly developed. The only had one weakness which was their underbelly, which the fire lizard was notoriously known for protecting.
Jayde was quite happy to run into this beast, this was the perfect opponent for her to test out her new abilities. Activating her fire shield, Jayde withdrew her sword, then rushing forward she meet the fire lizard head on.
The fight was long and brutal, the fire lizard was a really tough opponent, finally the fire lizard made a mistake, lifting itself on its hind legs, there was a slight opening, Jayde immediately took advantage of, sliding through on her side, she lifted her sword and sliced open it's belly, then quickly rolling out of the way of the falling beast, she backed away.
Covered in multiple cuts, bruises, and burns, Jayde rested against a tree to recover her strength, it had taken over three hours of intense fighting to bring the fire lizard down, and while her foundation had stabilized a bit, she had come to realize that her magic skills were really lacking. If it wasn't for her swordsmanship she would have lost this battle.
After collecting the fire lizard's spirit stone and scales, Jayde carried on her journey. For the next six days, she continuously hunted strong opponents to battle against. Each fight was long and arduous, with Jayde ending up with multiple cuts and abrasions, but she could feel herself improving after each fight.
She was becoming more familiar with this new body of hers, but she really could feel that her fire spells were lacking, having just two fire spells were really limiting, next time she had access to the Pavilion she would need to buy some more fire spells.
It had been seven days since Jayde entered the second rim and she was feeling icky, deciding to forgo hunting spirit beasts to battle, she wanted to find a place where she could have a decent bath, looking at the old man's maps, she estimated that she was about half a days walk from a lake shown on the map.
Looking up to gauge the direction of the sun, then checking the map again, she turned East and headed off to find the lake mentioned and have a well-deserved bath.
Just before noon, Jayde was about an hour away from her destination, when she ran into a scene of devastation. The ground had been upturned, and many trees were uprooted. Scorch marks marred the land. Just by looking at the scene you could see that a major battle had taken place.
Crouching down, Jayde stayed dead still, she had a feeling that whatever had caused the damage to the surrounding area was something she couldn't handle. Scanning her immediate surroundings she couldn't pick-up anything unusual, but just to be safe she stayed still for a couple of more minutes.
Seeing and hearing no movement, she cautiously moved out, keeping low she stealthy made her way across the devastated land. Looking around at the tracks on the ground, she could not pick up any human tracks, but by the paw and claw marks on the ground, she deduced that it must have been two beasts fighting.
Unfortunately, Jayde was still quite a novice when it came to the beasts of Doha so she could not discern what sort of beasts had been fighting, but from the amount of damage done, there was no way they were low-level beasts.
This made Jayde very uneasy as according to the old man's journals the barrier between the rings should have kept out stronger beasts, so how could two such powerful beasts end up in the second ring?
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It took a two days for Jayde to reach the barrier to the second ring, the spirit beasts within the perimeter sensed that Jayde was more powerful than them, and steered clear of her, besides stopping to collect some herbs that she needed to trade, or to make camp, Jayde travelled non stop to the second ring of the Dark Forest.
When she finally came across the barrier between the outer perimeter, it was just as the old man had described in his notes, in front of her she could see a slight shimmery barrier, walking cautiously up to the barrier, she lifted her hand and tried to touch it, but her hand passed through the barrier, just as though it didn't exist.
"Hmm, just as the old man said, the ward only works on spirit beasts" she mumbled quietly to herself, and with that, she walked through the shimmery barrier.
As Jayde headed deeper into the Dark Forest, it wasn't long before she ran into a level five fire lizard, these large reptilian creatures were very dangerous, besides breathing fire, their skin was extremely tough, and they had a long agile tail, that was powerful enough to split a person in two. They were very fast, although their eyesight was poor, their sense of smell of highly developed. The only had one weakness which was their underbelly, which the fire lizard was notoriously known for protecting.
Jayde was quite happy to run into this beast, this was the perfect opponent for her to test out her new abilities. Activating her fire shield, Jayde withdrew her sword, then rushing forward she meet the fire lizard head on.
The fight was long and brutal, the fire lizard was a really tough opponent, finally the fire lizard made a mistake, lifting itself on its hind legs, there was a slight opening, Jayde immediately took advantage of, sliding through on her side, she lifted her sword and sliced open it's belly, then quickly rolling out of the way of the falling beast, she backed away.
Covered in multiple cuts, bruises, and burns, Jayde rested against a tree to recover her strength, it had taken over three hours of intense fighting to bring the fire lizard down, and while her foundation had stabilized a bit, she had come to realize that her magic skills were really lacking. If it wasn't for her swordsmanship she would have lost this battle.
After collecting the fire lizard's spirit stone and scales, Jayde carried on her journey. For the next six days, she continuously hunted strong opponents to battle against. Each fight was long and arduous, with Jayde ending up with multiple cuts and abrasions, but she could feel herself improving after each fight.
She was becoming more familiar with this new body of hers, but she really could feel that her fire spells were lacking, having just two fire spells were really limiting, next time she had access to the Pavilion she would need to buy some more fire spells.
It had been seven days since Jayde entered the second rim and she was feeling icky, deciding to forgo hunting spirit beasts to battle, she wanted to find a place where she could have a decent bath, looking at the old man's maps, she estimated that she was about half a days walk from a lake shown on the map.
Looking up to gauge the direction of the sun, then checking the map again, she turned East and headed off to find the lake mentioned and have a well-deserved bath.
Just before noon, Jayde was about an hour away from her destination, when she ran into a scene of devastation. The ground had been upturned, and many trees were uprooted. Scorch marks marred the land. Just by looking at the scene you could see that a major battle had taken place.
Crouching down, Jayde stayed dead still, she had a feeling that whatever had caused the damage to the surrounding area was something she couldn't handle. Scanning her immediate surroundings she couldn't pick-up anything unusual, but just to be safe she stayed still for a couple of more minutes.
Seeing and hearing no movement, she cautiously moved out, keeping low she stealthy made her way across the devastated land. Looking around at the tracks on the ground, she could not pick up any human tracks, but by the paw and claw marks on the ground, she deduced that it must have been two beasts fighting.
Unfortunately, Jayde was still quite a novice when it came to the beasts of Doha so she could not discern what sort of beasts had been fighting, but from the amount of damage done, there was no way they were low-level beasts.
This made Jayde very uneasy as according to the old man's journals the barrier between the rings should have kept out stronger beasts, so how could two such powerful beasts end up in the second ring?
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It took a two days for Jayde to reach the barrier to the second ring, the spirit beasts within the perimeter sensed that Jayde was more powerful than them, and steered clear of her, besides stopping to collect some herbs that she needed to trade, or to make camp, Jayde travelled non stop to the second ring of the Dark Forest.When she finally came across the barrier between the outer perimeter, it was just as the old man had described in his notes, in front of her she could see a slight shimmery barrier, walking cautiously up to the barrier, she lifted her hand and tried to touch it, but her hand passed through the barrier, just as though it didn't exist."Hmm, just as the old man said, the ward only works on spirit beasts" she mumbled quietly to herself, and with that, she walked through the shimmery barrier.As Jayde headed deeper into the Dark Forest, it wasn't long before she ran into a level five fire lizard, these large reptilian creatures were very dangerous, besides breathing fire, their skin was extremely tough, and they had a long agile tail, that was powerful enough to split a person in two. They were very fast, although their eyesight was poor, their sense of smell of highly developed. The only had one weakness which was their underbelly, which the fire lizard was notoriously known for protecting.Jayde was quite happy to run into this beast, this was the perfect opponent for her to test out her new abilities. Activating her fire shield, Jayde withdrew her sword, then rushing forward she meet the fire lizard head on.The fight was long and brutal, the fire lizard was a really tough opponent, finally the fire lizard made a mistake, lifting itself on its hind legs, there was a slight opening, Jayde immediately took advantage of, sliding through on her side, she lifted her sword and sliced open it's belly, then quickly rolling out of the way of the falling beast, she backed away.Covered in multiple cuts, bruises, and burns, Jayde rested against a tree to recover her strength, it had taken over three hours of intense fighting to bring the fire lizard down, and while her foundation had stabilized a bit, she had come to realize that her magic skills were really lacking. If it wasn't for her swordsmanship she would have lost this battle.After collecting the fire lizard's spirit stone and scales, Jayde carried on her journey. For the next six days, she continuously hunted strong opponents to battle against. Each fight was long and arduous, with Jayde ending up with multiple cuts and abrasions, but she could feel herself improving after each fight.She was becoming more familiar with this new body of hers, but she really could feel that her fire spells were lacking, having just two fire spells were really limiting, next time she had access to the Pavilion she would need to buy some more fire spells.It had been seven days since Jayde entered the second rim and she was feeling icky, deciding to forgo hunting spirit beasts to battle, she wanted to find a place where she could have a decent bath, looking at the old man's maps, she estimated that she was about half a days walk from a lake shown on the map.Looking up to gauge the direction of the sun, then checking the map again, she turned East and headed off to find the lake mentioned and have a well-deserved bath.Just before noon, Jayde was about an hour away from her destination, when she ran into a scene of devastation. The ground had been upturned, and many trees were uprooted. Scorch marks marred the land. Just by looking at the scene you could see that a major battle had taken place.Crouching down, Jayde stayed dead still, she had a feeling that whatever had caused the damage to the surrounding area was something she couldn't handle. Scanning her immediate surroundings she couldn't pick-up anything unusual, but just to be safe she stayed still for a couple of more minutes.Seeing and hearing no movement, she cautiously moved out, keeping low she stealthy made her way across the devastated land. Looking around at the tracks on the ground, she could not pick up any human tracks, but by the paw and claw marks on the ground, she deduced that it must have been two beasts fighting.Unfortunately, Jayde was still quite a novice when it came to the beasts of Doha so she could not discern what sort of beasts had been fighting, but from the amount of damage done, there was no way they were low-level beasts.This made Jayde very uneasy as according to the old man's journals the barrier between the rings should have kept out stronger beasts, so how could two such powerful beasts end up in the second ring?=======================Interested in supporting this novel?https://www.patreon.com/djrogue1Donations:https://www.paypal.me/djrogue1=======================Check out my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DJRogueAuthor/Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJRogue2
