Chapter 19

Jumping off one of the enormous roots that I was running on, I grabbed hold of the large vine and swung myself across a lake that I did not know the existence of.

I planned to simply swing to cover more ground, but instead, it seemed like I was fortunate enough to have a lake under me, something I doubted that any dinosaur or animal would ever choose to go through, or that was what I thought anyway.

*SCREECH*

A screech rang out from behind me, causing my skin to crawl in both fear and confusion.

Looking back, I could not help but exclaim the obvious.

"THEY CAN FLY!" I exclaimed, having, completely forgotten about their main ability of flight.

Panic finally started to set in as I slowly swung across the lake, and even though the speed was technically faster than I had been moving before, due to the lack of trees the flying oversized dragonflies and bugs had a much easier time moving, therefore allowing them to also increase their speeds.

'Please! God! God, I beg you!' I cried inwardly. To me, this was the end of my life. The life that I had preserved through the sacrifices of my family and friends. What were the chances that I would be the final human and the last human to perish? Luck... I had been saved purely due to luck, but who knows if I would have been the best choice. The system could have chosen a billion people better than me, yet now that it had chosen me, I only served to fail every human that had died to the hands of those elves.

I had nowhere to run, I had nowhere to hide...

I was powerless.

*SPLASH*

*SNAP*

As I watched my life flash before my eyes, I heard a loud snap alongside the splashing of water echoing from behind me, causing me to look back with hope and fervor lingering in my eyes for one last time.

"Oh my god..." I muttered under my breath, unable to believe my luck.