Battle Mage

Chapter 4: The White Snake and the Red Fruit

Lara continued on her way. It wasn't until she felt that the surrounding seems to have change that she slowed down. Feeling that there seems to be existences in front, and she can feel that it seems to be stronger than her. Holding her breath and without moment of hesitation she change direction. She didn't know what existence it is, and recieving a feeling that it would be dangerous if she confronted it. Its better to stir away. Whether that feeling is false or not. Intuition may it call, but since she is new to this world its better to be cautious.

So whenever she ran, and when she felt that there is something up ahead she change course. She did this many times, and then she felt the surrounding becoming clearer. A soft light from the sun penetrated to the leaves up above, it seems that, it is now morning. She can tell that she is almost out of the unknowned forest.

Suddenly she smell a sweet scent, she paused. Lara wonderto herself whether to go to the place or not. Then right at that moment her stomach made a noise.

Breathing out, with helpless face she went the location of the scent. Hundred meters away from her, she saw a tree with barely twenty red fruit hanging on to it exuding a sweet scent. Walking to the tree, she exclaimed.

"What a weird tree, with only this amount of fruit, it can barely fill me. Tsk, didn't expect that fruit trees in this world will have such a small and little fruits. Could this world have scarcity in food. If this is the case, then this world really is too mesirable."

Sighing, "I wonder if my transmigration here is to improve food culture." Lara narcissistically thought to herself.

Giggling she walked in near one of the fruit strectched her hand to picked it, but before her hand touches the fruit. She felt something flying to her in front in a fast speed, and without delay she flashed to side.

The thing flew pass, if it wasn't for the unexplained intuition, and her body reacting together with her mind, it would have smashed into her face. Looking at the thing which fallen to the ground, Lara clearly saw the figure of the thing, it is actually a white snake.

The snake is three feet long, slim but exuding strength. It glistened in whiteness when the light from the sun hit it. Its brimming with coldness and brutality. Hissing at Lara with hostility. Looking at the snake Lara looked at it with vigilance.

She knew this world wasn't an ordinary one, that's why, when she felt that there are existences that seems to be stronger than her, she stir away. Even she had a strong strength, she still have no idea what is this world like, so she has to be cautious. She doesn't want to be a first transmigrator, if there are any before her, to die without even knowing what the world looks like.

So knowing this, she was cautious in her step, but she forgotten that if there are existences that she can feel, there are also existences that could hide there trace. Exactly, the snake before her is the example of that.

Breathing nervously, Lara vigilantly looked at the snake that seems to pounce on her on any moment. She knew that a struggle between herself and the snake will happen, and that she can't ran away from it, for the speed snake is comparable to her.

Since it's inevitable, she calmed her breath. Thinking fastly in her mind on how to overcome the situation. Observing the snake, the place, the trees, the stones, and everything. She come up with a plausible way for her, however, barely making up the plan, at that moment the snake move, it didnt dashed like it did before rather it emitted a cold mist.

'Danger'

A strong signal of danger flashed to her mind and Lara jumped five meters back, away from the snake. Without knowledge of this world, and the specie of the snake, Lara can't confront it head on.

The place three meters in around the snake, the stone, the weeds, grass, everything inside the three meter radius of the snake where corroded the by mist. Lara was stunned seeing this scene.

Thanks to her fast reaction, for if she delayed even for second she might be corroded too.

In her world, she only knew that snake will bit lace with poison, spit poison to its victim, or strangle its prey. But now, the snake in front will emit a corroding mist.

She is still blank to other abilities of the snake, but just seeing the scene, she knew that she is at a disdvantage. Without knowledge, and without weapon, still she had to face the snake.

Without casting her eyes away from the snake, Lara walked near a stone and picked. Narrowing her eyes she throw the stone to the snake as well as move to a place where another clamp of stones. Her plan was kiting. Lara plan to exhaust the snake with its abilities and its stamina. The snake can't possibly continue to emit a corroding mist, without tiring itself.

The white snake dodged to the side hissing. And so the picture of a person and a snake, one throwing something and one dodging. The snake hissed at Lara as well as throwing a glob of corroding mass back to counter Lara's offensive played.

Seeing the glob of mass, and its corroding effect, Lara made sure to evade it, still she got scratches from rapidly moving and burns from the splashes of glob where she narrowly avoided.

Though it looks like they are harmoniously playing at each other, only the participants knew at that moment how dangerous there situation is.

The white snake also sustain injuries, though it may not look like much, but Lara's throws has certain force in it, and when the snake was hit the impact is strong enough that the scales in its body was torn. Lara notice this too.

She is aware that there are changes happening to her, but she doesn't have time to dwell on this, and continue to calmly face the snake who is now furious, agitated, and berserk that it find Lara as an annoyance.

With hatred, the white snake charges forth to Lara with inconceivable speed. Lara move slightly when the white was near, but she was not fast enough to evade it. She was bitten in the shoulder. Lara felt an intense burning in the area that was bitten, and slowly, the skin, the muscle, and bones corroded. The area was also expanding.

Gritting her teeth in pain and fear, Lara hold herself, and made a swift catch to the snake who barely unattached to her, and with a force unknown, she broke the snake. Struggling, the snake slowly lose its vitality and died.

How lucky Lara is, it happened that the section she just pinched and broke was seven inch of the snake, its weakness.

Breathing out of relief, Lara felt tired and energy sapped. With heavy breaths, she looked at the pinched snake, and to the shoulder she bitten which is now for some unknown reason the melted area stopped expanding and she can see the part slowly healing. Yes, it seems to be healing on its own, though slow, it's there.

Letting out a sigh, she never thought just because she wanted to fill her clammoring stomach, she will face a danger.

Gritting her teeth, she slowly made way to the red fruit which exuding a tantalizing sweet fragrance and picked that twenty fruit , leaving none behind.

According to her experience of reading novels, plants that have a guardian must be something extraordinary. Knowing this, she picked it all. As for the tree, not knowing what it is, since she can't get it, she let it be.

She put the picked fruits in a big leaf that she found nearby, and holding the corpse of the snake in another she left the place.

The forest is a dangerous place for her now that she is injured. She need to find a place with water source, and a safe place where she could research her gains like the red fruit and the snake, and also the sudden gaining of ability. Seeing that the wound in her shoulder doesn't worsen, she felt relief. It seems for now it is good.

Moving forward vigilantly, Lara gazed at her front as if she was gazing to the future, with firmness and determination realizing that she seems to have transmigrated into a magical world.