Chapter 69

In the next moment, I had already pulled out a long stake and had thrown it toward the creature, giving me a split second to run away.

I had felt it before and it was clear what was happening.

After every step, the dread had increased while the pressure around me had done the same at the same rate as the dread. It was as if the air around me was becoming denser and heavier, feeling like I was moving through water instead of air.

With the hatchet back in my hand, I shot through the forest, moving towards the source of the smell until I finally saw it.

It radiated with a bright light that shone onto the area around it. At the same time, the immaculate smell only became more concentrated as I got closer.

The most surprising thing however was not the light or smell, it was how easily I could breathe around what I had finally found out was a fruit.

While at first, it had been hard to get used to the oxygen levels when I had found myself in this world filled with 'dinosaurs' that weren't supposed to exist for another 10 or 20 million years, alongside flies and animals that weren't supposed to exist at all, I had eventually gotten used to the oxygen levels.

Breathing it in for the first time felt as if my lungs had been cleansed and my breaths had more meaning than before. It was like being introduced to a much more efficient way of breathing where I could make the most out of every breath I took.

Another thing I realized was that fire was something that I had found much easier to make in this world even though many of the trees, greenery, or wood that lay about were a lot damper than the ones in my era, yet that is something for me to talk about later.

Right now I was still being chased by the creature, which even though had been moving at the same speed as me the whole time, was still strolling rather than running.

It was as if I was being pulled back by a mysterious gravitation pull, or that my steps simply meant much less than one of hers.

However, when I had finally gotten within a certain range of the fruit, I felt something other than the amazing breathing I had felt before.