Finding the Sacred Tree

Mysterious Creatures part 2

Actually my parents have used various ways to make me stronger, but the results are still nil. I can't master what they teach, all I really master is setting traps. And it was actually not very useful when fighting an opponent who suddenly appeared.

"Huh.it's okay Rakka. We leave next week. You still have 1 week left."

My mother was very good. He will continue to encourage me even if I continue to fail.

"True your mother said. So tomorrow we're going to do the last exercise as well as the toughest exercise of your life. So be prepared."

I swallowed the bread in my mouth and said.

"I have this bad feeling."

Next day.

Usually I wake up after sunrise, but this time I was told to get up early because my father and I were going to travel far enough.

I wasn't told what training I was going to do, but I clearly felt that my life would be threatened this time.

My father took me out of the kingdom, strangely he did not bring his weapon as usual and only I brought my weapon.

After walking far enough we finally arrived at a very dense wilderness, to make the sunlight could not penetrate into it.

The aura in the forest was terrible, even there I could not see any animals. There were no birds chirping, but there was a strange sound that kept making the atmosphere in the forest terrible.

"Umm..we won't enter the forest right."

"Of course not..."

"Thank God I thought..."

My father pushed me into the forest so hard that it made me fall.

"But you're the only one who goes in there."

"Why should be pushed anyway, can you use the good way." I woke up patting my dirty ass.

I wanted to get out of that forest, but somehow there was some kind of invisible barrier separating that terrible forest from ordinary forest.

"Eh...? Don't tell me that..."

"Truly.this is your last exercise. What you have to do is easy. You only have to survive in this forest for three days. And if it works, you can come with us on an adventure."

"survive? There's no way I can survive in this forest, let alone here no animals at all, how I'll eat them."

"Who says there are no animals. There's 1 rabbit behind you."

I looked back and there was indeed 1 rabbit there, but then the rabbit was eaten by a giant snake. We were silent for a moment to see the rabbit being eaten round by the snake. Then I looked back at my father while putting on an anxious face.

"Err. actually snakes can also be eaten if you can cook them properly."

I stared flat at my father, as if to tell him it was impossible.

My father took out the venison, but it was just a piece.

"This. I give you one venison, and the rest you do yourself okay."

My father threw it and it turned out that the meat could penetrate that invisible wall. I caught it and I'm so happy to get some venison.

"OK fine. Thank you dad."

"Yes yes. Then I'll go home first." My dad walked home.

"good. Be careful on the road."

My father didn't answer and didn't turn around, he just waved his hand at me.

"Alright if I manage to survive here, I can go on an adventure."

I walked deeper into the forest with confidence. I thought, I can get through this exercise easily, because I just need to hide until the day after, but it's not. In this forest if you hide, then you die and if you don't hide then you die too.

In this forest it turns out a lot of monsters that have a sharp smell and also sharp hearing, so if you hide will definitely meet. And the only thing you can do here is just keep fighting until there are no monsters around.

While in the forest I did not have time to cook, because every time I lit a fire, there must always be monsters one by one. And it makes it difficult for me to cook.

To be honest, I have a hard time fighting these monsters here. They are so strong, there is even one of the monsters that is so strong that it makes me scarred and I have to run away from it.

I don't think I'm going to get through this exercise. I was already covered in wounds, had not eaten at all, even the throat was already very dry, as I could not find any clean water I could drink. When I found clean water, it must have been guarded by a horde of monsters and it made me unable to drink it.

When it was night time I tried to rest in a place, I was very tired and wanted to close my eyes, but then in the darkness of the night there appeared a monster that attacked me and it made me lose one hand. Not completely gone anyway I managed to kill the monster, and managed to take back my hand.

I stopped my bleeding by eating some kind of herb, and also tied it to the cut so I wouldn't bleed out and die.

Fortunately my mother once taught me about herbs and how to deal with bleeding. So for now I can survive. Hope so...

Next day.

My father went back to that horrible forest to check on his son. He walked leisurely, as he thought his son could definitely cope with this exercise, but once he was in front of that monstrous forest. He was very surprised to see my critical condition.

He saw me lying in my arms hugging my puffed up. My eye bags blackened because I did not sleep at all, even now my eyes are still glaring. My lips turned blue with cold, I was actually cold not only because of the night wind, but also because of the herbs I ate last night, the effects of the herbs could make your body cold. And it also made my blood freeze that saved me last night.

"God! You're okay, son." My father immediately hugged me who was in critical condition

I looked at my father slowly. When I saw it, there was water coming out of my eyes. Whether it was because I was grateful to still be able to meet my father or because I regret not being able to complete his training. I didn't know that, but obviously I couldn't hold back my tears. I just cried and kept crying in my father's arms without saying anything.

My father, who saw me so, felt guilty for giving me a pretty heavy workout. He hugged me firmly and said.

"It's okay, son. Its alright. Let's go home."

My father took me in his arms and then walked back home. At that moment, I finally fell asleep.

After a few hours of walking we finally got back home. My mother was surprised to see my condition so bad.