Heavenly Forest Wolf 25 Chapter 25 - Sixth Stage

The two groups of nomads stared at each other, both party's were incredibly confused, however, before they could speak to one another, another group of nomads shot out from thin air. The awkward silence continued for a bit longer but was broken by Yizar who spoke out calmly, "This portal... where ever we were led to, it has reunited us after a long time of separation..."

The others looked at one another and then a tall nomad stepped out with a sword already drawn inside his hand, "My fellow brothers and sisters, as this man has said, we have grouped together yet I do not know the reason as to why that is, however, we mustn't be too excited as we are now in a different dimension..."

The tall nomad wasn't wrong, all dimensions were extremely terrifying phenomena with high death rates as all creatures fought to become stronger. Yizar called in all of the other nomads in closer and purposed that they had one representative from each group to become a leader and venture inside the new dimension.

It was obvious that this dimension was incredibly more beautiful than the last as there were much more beautiful and untouched fauna resting on bushes and trees as well as ponds and streams scattered throughout the place. Of course, with beauty comes power and they all knew that amidst this dense forest were creatures of all sorts patiently waiting for them to overstep.

Each leader was chosen respectively, Yizar, of course, was one of them and the others were Tara and Oken, the tall guy. Tara had taken up the leaders.h.i.+p role purely off her experience and her intimidating yet attractive appearance.

When they entered the forest, Oken a.s.signed himself to scout ahead while Yizar watched the back and Tara's group positioned themselves on the offensive for safety. Initially, there was no sign of any danger but after some more exploration, they had stumbled upon a creature that they had never seen before!

It was, to be specific, a boar... however, the boar was much different from what you would usually expect and it had the ability to stand on both feet as it screamed aggressively. Its tusks glistened under the sun penetrating through the canopy and it's body giving the feeling that it had been through many battles.

"Quick, spread out! We can't be grouped up too much in case it clears us with one sweep!" Yizar yelled out and then realized how ironic it was to the nomad's situation in general, as historically they were wiped out in one grand attack.

The boar charged at the most clumped up group with its tusks suddenly changing from a white to a greenish color and glowed brightly. When the boar dived straight at them, one of the nomads was knocked several meters into the air and the other, although he dodged in time, a random patch of vines shot out of the ground and struck him in several places.

A cold sweat trickled down Yizar's head as he watched this great boar pummel two nomads in a matter of seconds, a boar!

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Zaro, on the other hand, decided to shy away from the portal and felt like focusing on pa.s.sing through stage five was more important. Also, he wanted to find out what sort of power was hidden behind the beast souls and what was the point of obtaining them?

When Zaro left the cave, he witnessed the sky above him separating and a black shadow was being revealed behind the cracks. He looked up at the sky a few times while he moved onward but just couldn't figure out the meaning behind it...

He shook his head and powered through the plains once again, however, the dimension seemed so empty all of a sudden? However, before he could speculate more on the matter, a portal had appeared in front of him while he was running and he unwillingly leaped inside.

After a few seconds of portal travel, Zaro was shot out in front of the heavenly dimension exit that surprised him greatly. Everything was happening so suddenly as he was merely in the middle of searching for the exit and out of nowhere he appeared in front of it!

"Is someone trying to get me to leave the dimension?" he thought to himself and then jumped in fear when he heard the sky splitting once again. In fear that something bad might happen, he left the dimension and peaked the corner and noticed that there was no guardian there anymore.

Although it seemed fishy, he went along with it and continued toward the sixth stage which was vastly different from anything else he had ever seen in this world. It was a long pathway extending all the way to the seventh stage, however, it was littered with different types of beasts and most being at the Emerald stage!

The challenge most likely was to cross over to the other side and make it out alive but no matter how he looked at the path, it was becoming harder to advance forward.

Clenching his teeth together, he once again unwillingly went with the flow and proceeded through the sixth stage. In the beginning, he ignored the beasts when he could and chose not to spend too much energy until the end as there was a long run ahead of him.

The emerald core beasts were looking much different over time and he even witnessed some of them transform into mutated versions of themselves out of nowhere! He didn't know whether it was because of the stage or if something was actually happening that he didn't know of.

Everything was going rather smoothly until he started running into some of the more fierce beasts such as five meters tall deer and caribou with majestic antlers. From what he knew, they were very fast and new that if he couldn't make it past the caribou safely, then he would be forced to fight them.

Although they were only at the emerald stage, he was surprised to see how big they had grown and wondered where this sudden mutation had come from or what that giant crack in the sky meant. However, what was more important currently, was how he would make it across the pathway and not die!