John had fallen pretty badly down on the ground his whole body feeling ached he was feeling immense pain so much that it was comparable to his body getting burned in the accident in flames he could feel his spinal cord shattering into pieces his breathing became heavy as if somebody was holding his throat and start squeeze it more and more his lungs were also starting to go out as if a candle light sealed in a glass cup no way in or out for air.
John even couldn't get up his strength in his hands had gone and his legs had given up on him. He turned around his neck with difficulty to see the beast it was just standing there some foots away from just looking at him more like staring at him pireceing him with its gaze.
The beast was not just staring at him it was mocking him he knew that from its gaze that gaze was not of some absurdly strong monster but with no brains it was a gaze of a hunter looking at its prey`s demise.
The beast was mocking him as if it was saying that it did not have to even move and use it`s magic to attack him because he will just bleed out and just die. slow painful death.
According to beast the battle was over the winner was clear it was the beast. But it had not killed him just to see his opponent bleed out and die.
John was still on the ground his body now soaked in pool of blood if it was jai without a plan he would had considered this his as his defeat and would be ready to die.
But now he had a plan .
A plan both of high risk and high reward.
This type of situation were the most dangerous ones.
A man on brink of ultimate defeat having a last chance of a high risk
And high reward.
The chances of defeat were higher
But if successfully pull it off he could win .
He was not a man or a child weak ready to die .
But he had hope.
A slim hope a flicker of hope.
It was like a drowning man getting hold on to a piece of small branch connected to a large tree.
It was like a knight on his last bloodied stand against his enemies seeing a reinforcement coming from distant horizon.
A hope .
For johan who was laying he saw it in form of river which was just some feet away and nearby his magical bag in the shallow waters of the river although blurred it was in reach of his itching eyes which were filled with dust.
John saw the beast the black wolf just standing there staring at him awaiting his painful death from blood loss.
But you had made one mistake pal, john spoke up in his thought.
You mistaken me for a weak pathetic human child which was right but also
Wrong, in his mind he was not zohann
The lost weak noble child.
He was jay.
Jay wells.
A lazy genius who was a weeb but also had strong memory his memorization was his main power.
During highschool his peers would just study the concepts maybe even understand it and score a perfect marks ... But after that what?
At most they will remember it for six months those with good memory and
Understanding the concept it will remember it for a year or two at most .
Without its revision it will be lost piece
By piece like a house crumbling away and at last only it's beams remaining standing that too crumbling away eventually fading away. Lost forever.
That was the memorization technique which was mostly used by majority of his peers.
But he was a special case.
He has excellent memory just like a cheat code.
Not photographic but a excellent memory.
If he poured his heart into remembering a subject as if he could recall it like a pulling a book out a vast infinite library of memories.
This ability of him was a secret.
Only his family and few people knew about.
Nobody knowed about his secret but unlike other people like thinking if he had sharp memory he only had memorize and go to exam Tomorrow
This was the easy life.
But no instead of choosing a easy life like this he choose a hard one by his
Grandpa's advised he was a war fought
Person.
After coming to know about the Jays advantage he didn't proclaimed jay like other people calling him genius or gifted one .
Nope he did complete opposite of that .
A flicker of smile Crossed on his now bruised mouth filled with his own blood.
He smiled more openly he looked like a demon with his bloodied mouth opened.
The advise of his grandfather was different from other people.
He spoke "my little fella, listen carefully."
"Your situation is like a soldier on the battlefield a soldier whose marksmanship is excellent, even could be said a legendary one. You could be a excellent sniper. Your fellow soldiers also notice it too they recommend it to your higherups." He explained in his army man language.
"But your skill is like a high danger and higher reward... You can take out important targets of your enemy but in return you yourself could be kill....
Ouch! Ouch! Stop it martha it hurts seriously".
"Don't utter such profinaties against my child, Raymond ". Spoke grandma her
Eyes piercing soul of grandpa like a laser beam her hand pinching and squeezing his hip and twisting it sharply and the other hand ready with steel pan sign of weapon of destruction.
Even a veteran gets shitted out seeing his wife in this stance. Grandpa's stoic
Nature shifted to a hurried tone under the deterrence of granny.
"wWhat I want say is that you need to sharpen yourself up.you are like a sword a legendary sword even little sharpening and you will become a one of the finest blade but if you are sharpen daily then you will become unstoppable and you will be ready for
Every problems the problems which will cause other to fail and fall but... you will overcome it easily."
johan remembered it a faint smile on his lips even remberming it now i miss them. i miss my grandparents even though the old jay had died long ago in crash the memories of them were still with him in another world.
"I ... i should not go done easily i will survive this hellish dog and return alive..."
''to thank my gramps my grandma who were there for me"
John spoke up his voice like a whisper due to his blood loss from his body barely audible .
but a new energy was filled in his broken body his mind running like a highspeed train his adrenaline on full rise his body getting strength his heart beating faster and faster his lungs taking in oxygen like vacuum engines his brain calculating using everything in his power calculating time to pull it off the thing which was dangerous but could also free him from that bastard.
His brain gave him his answer he at least needed five seconds to distract the beast during that time he could jump in the river. just five seconds if it took longer than that the beast will catch him with his terrifying speed and kill him because it's own species had speed advantage he knew that from his previous encounter with two wolves but this one was their leader his speed was so fast he just could not sense it at all.
ok this is just one chance for me if i could not pull it off i am screwed he thought .
whether i will get a second chance at life or not that is also uncertain .
''nah i should pull this shCOUGH!COUGH!'' blood came out his mouth .
john stood up with using his one hand with great difficulty his right hand numbed out due to his broken fingers.
he turned and saw the beast which was sitting with mocking face a now filled with a hint of surprise on the beast face the beast stood up camed a closer to him .
john also moved ahead with his broken legs with difficulty now their faces were just a hand apart.
Suddenly the beast face was covered with sand and stones were thrown on it.
the preparator was john his plan starting now he when rising had filled his hand with sand on the ground and now that the beast was rubbing its eyes in the irritation and pain with its paw the ticking of clock started the deadly gamble begun. if beast cleared its eyes before and early then the only option for him was death.
As soon as he saw beast rubbing its eyes with its paws shaking its body and growling annoyingly john made his jump. he ran towards the river even though his body was engulfing in pain only adrenaline and hope was pulling his whole body together.
The running was feeling like an whole eternity finally river was his close enough he jumped in river without any hesitation.
Jumping in the river and water reaching in his wounds made his wound itched up more the fishes in the river seeing a object landing suddenly swimmed away scared .
But john could not care less he saw on the other side of the river in its shallow part a bag its mouth opened high above him.
So he swimmed upwards his body grunting his lungs out of oxygen his right hand in immense pain but still he continued.
He came out his whole body wet with water and blood on it he hurriedly caught the bag with his right hand and then he came out of the river he viewed the other said of the river but he could not find the beast.
Suddenly he felt a wind coming towards him his senses screaming him to dodge he dodged but it was too late for that.
something pierced him on his cheek his cheek getting destroyed blood flowing out from there.he was safe so what he thought but he was wrong .
A black flash appeared and before johnn could understand it that stabbed him in his shoulder and then a with powerful smash smacked him into the ground . the smack was powerful enough that some cracks had appeared in the ground .
John's whole body felt like it was getting crushed by a industrial heavy machine .
John could feel that many of his rib bones had broken .
Blood coming out more faster from his already damaged mouth which now had some teeths missing from his mouth.
His nose was also bleeding his head was also now oozing out blood and his shirt was fully torned with a long scars on his stomach and chest full of blood which was also flowing out .
If this was situation of johan before he would had expected to die quickly to ease this pain.
But now he had hope .
Hope to defeat his enemy the wolf.
Even if ... I die I will bring that bastard down with me he thought while gasping for air his chest obviously damaged as blood was oozing out of it as if a pump was placed.
The beast came near him to give him a last finishing blow.
Right now if he was in this situation before he would had died long ago from fear only of death.
But he had experienced death .what it feels like to die how it pains how much painful it feels he experienced all of it .
So he was not fearful of it he was not afraid of him the death for him he was meeting him just second time .
Also his body was screwed but his adrenaline and his brain had not given up.
His body was cold started by adrenaline rushing through his veins
Like a high octane fuel for a machine .
His body forgot all his pains all bone fractures, all injures all body pains forgot about it only his enemy remain in front of him.
The beast which was advancing was surprised by it but still started to released a faint dark glow around it
It's green stone on its forehead shining brightly.
John also stood up and stood despite his numerous injuries and broken bones thanks to adrenaline.
The final stand had begun.
For one it was a puny weak bug which was just refusing to die.
For other it was a last stand if he was going down he will take him together down.
The beast this time covered in black aura rushed towards him like a bullet.
Suddenly, a voice was heard barely loud enough full of pain like shouting taking a huge toll on the speaker.
It was none other than john.
He shouted "I had already died if you are going to take me down then your demise is with me you BASTARD!"
He shouted to beast blood spraying from his mouth like saliva.
Now the beast was near closer than ever just some feet away.
"Now die you BASTARD!!" He spoke screaming.
He opened mouth of the bag which he had stuck in his left hand even though he flew away and crashed he was holding it like his life depended on it which was true from situation in which he was stuck in .
A strong water jet comes out of the bag hitting the beast which lets out a painful scream shriek as it was injured and the water jet hitting it properly and squarely on its head area.
John's confidence rose he went near and near sheer adrenaline letting him move out of his place.
But then amidst the waterjet attack which was causing all the dust and mist in the area causing visibility to go down.
A bright green light similar to stone on the forehead shined but much brighter even can be called blinding with two green reddish eyes glowing out of the mist.
He then looked at something which broke his spirit.
The beast came down with his right side of area missing above its's eyes but it was healing it was healing!!
The red and green energy were as if pulling up its missing part as if it was just getting 3d printed in thin air.
First it's above parts were healed and then sooner all its body part was healed.
It was repaired as same as before.
His attack was useless against this.
His ultimate trump card had just failed
Now the hope was shattered his adrenaline waning out pain and despair
Washing through his body.
Then came the attack of the beast of the beast it released a shockwave a black shockwave.
The shockwave sended john flying in air crashing his body in a large tree with huge impact.
His backbones cracked more injuries from wood splinters which were embedded in his body.
And top of that pains from getting burned from that shockwave.His body area where shockwave had directly hitted him had melted yes melted his skin had burned away and the burning was piercing his muscles his face down from his nose was burned his torso was burned.
He wanted to scream from pain but he couldn't because his mouth itself had gotten burned so he just couldn't not open his mouth and scream.
His situation was like having no mouth and having to scream.
His mind was racing with many emotions...
Despair, desperation, fear, regret and a calm thank you to universe itself.
He couldn't believe that beast was able to survive his strong attacks which had taken down that strong monster boar.
His heats beats now slowing down as pain was overwhelming him now .
He thought his end was near .
He was going to die again just in three months.
He had regrets about this life.
Not able to identify himself.not able to understand himself.
Not able to know about this world's mysteries about magic.what were monsters how does humans look like are there any other species which are intelligent?
Many questions but now it was too late to find out answers.
So now this what it feels like feeling our end is near he thought. While breathing heavily bloodied skinned alive not able to even grunt due to his pain not a tendon of his muscles moving.
all the adrenaline rush was gone and all the pain tiredness overwhelming him all together.
he noticed that his body was also struck into a large tree like a axe which was too dull to cut a tree and getting stuck.
so for last time of my life let me check my situation he thought while breathing heavily.
head.... cut on upper side of the eyes blood flowing out heavily
arms.... my left arm has countless bruises and has gotten stuck in the bark of the tree due to impact and my right arm was bruised with splitters inside and some fingers of my right hand was also missing due to that sphere attack pinky and ring finger was missing completely with middle finger half broken and yeah my shoulder also fractured.
legs... one fractured and other torn opened due to shockwave attack and also some wounds on them here and there i just don't have time to count all the wounds.
my chest... is skinned away my muscles are clearly visible and also some of my ribs are also broken from the feeling of pain from my chest.... and dozens of cuts....
stomach area has long wound marks with blood draining out but at least it was not burned right?
So, in short i am screwed? right? if i was in modern world with same situation i would have died long ago.
IT'S EVEN A MIRACLE THAT I SURVIVED TILL NOW.... maybe because of hope
HOPE...
In hope of saving myself at first then as it got worse so i thought if i die i can take my nemesis down with me right?
But then he survived.... he survived my trump card my last hope... vanished.
So in a fight...strong wins every time ?
even though weak uses his full potential he will get defeated ? always?
As he was thinking he saw with his grogging eyes that the beast had healed fully and now was moving towards him.
I can`t even scream for help because who is going to come save me in this large forests with not even a sign of humans here.
As his eyes were shutting down he tried to keep them open but it was no use his breathing became harder he coughed up a blood heavily his eyes going dark.
In his final moments he saw the beast moving towards him.
After all the hassle of playing like mouse cat game with me this bastard is going to eat me now of all time.
so yeah of all time i am going to die in this forest by getting my brutalized body in this MFs mouth yeah so glorious death he replayed sarcastically to himself.
as his eyes closed a feeling of tightness started to enveloped his body he could feel his heart slowing down his body growing cold his hands and feet not responding a weird dizziness and feverish feeling in his head and sting of agonizing burns all of those feeling numb was weird .
but he could hear distant sounds outside.... maybe that's sound of my body getting consumed by that beast.
SO THIS IS HOW IT FEELS LIKE TO DIE...
I had died in that crash my body maybe burned in that blast as that tanker blasted right in my face.I just could not feel pain that time because it was too fast because my body was scorched before my neurons could react .
SOON EVERYTHING WENT BLACK.
his pains
his memories
his thought's
his emotions.....
EVERYTHING WAS CONSUMED BY DARKNESS a quiet darkness.
• Chapter ends•