Chapter 45

Jolts of phantom pain had forced me awake multiple times last night, but I guess that also must have been for the better as it was when I had woken up for the last time when I had finally heard something pass by the cave where I stayed at for the meantime.

When leaving my cave, I found that the passing tide was one made out of hundreds upon hundreds of monkeys with deep red fur with scattered yellow across it.

I felt a fiery flame within their eyes, a determination I had never seen on any creature before, and also the building power that emitted from every single one of them combined.

The power was more symbiotic than individual, and even though I could not take away the reality that their powers were far higher than my own, they were far weaker alone than the monstrous threat they emanated as a group.

I even theorized that it would have probably been possible for them to take on the pterodactyl with only a quarter of their tide alone.

At that moment, I had looked at the monkeys before looking at my crumbling stomach, causing me to decide that in any other instance would have been seen as being the worst decision I could ever make.

Desperate and hungry, I followed through the forest, jumping around trees and swerving my path to make sure that did not realize that I was right behind them this entire time.

Thankfully, this worked for a while but after a few hours of this, I finally felt the aching pains from the night before assaulting me alongside my limits as a human, simply not being capable of moving for that long without rest.

It was then that I had decided to climb one of the tallest trees with an array of different branches, just strong enough to hold my weight but at the same time not noticeably large enough for them to ever pay attention to it.

These monkeys, while looking and having the agility of monkeys, looked closer to being gorillas instead.

Their weight was probably comparable to a rhino's while their size was 2 or three times larger than the average black gorilla.

from a distance, one could probably mistake them for being a flock of giant fireflies rather than being apes with red fur, yet even though they might have looked like fireflies from a distance, the danger they emanated was no joke no matter how far away you were looking from.