Chapter 17

*ROAR*

To my dismay, even after everything I had done to run away, I watched as a maw got closer and closer to me from the corner of my eye.

The maw was humongous while the sheer power, that I for some reason could feel now, radiated from it like heat radiating off the surface of the sun.

My instincts kicked in almost immediately, causing me to do something I would have never thought I would be able to do in a million years.

In a split second that it took the maw to reach me, I spun on my heel and performed a roundhouse kick, hitting the creature in its eye.

Even though I didn't think it would have done anything, I was still surprised to see that it did not even receive a scratch.

I did not waste another second because while it might have not flinched, my kick did surprise it to the point where it did not attack me straight away after failing its first attack.

Without knowing what had come over me, I felt like millions of years of muscle memory hit me at the same time, and while I might have not had the physique to perform everything that I was about to do, it was still beyond my capabilities of anything I could have imagined a human to do.

*Swooosh*

Before I knew it, I had already pierced the giant hippo's eye with two fingers sticking straight into them without a single hint of hesitation.

*ROAR*

The hippo's roar shot through the forest and could be heard by almost all the creatures that lived in the forest within a 5-mile radius,

I chose to not waste another second a quickly jumped away from the hippo before sprinting in the other direction of where I had come from and where most of the roars had originated from.

For the next 10 minutes, I ran with my life hanging from an untethered thread.

I could not count the number of close calls I had, from the maws of large lizard-like monsters snapping their maws shut an inch away from my head, to almost landing incorrectly and falling back into the deep mud that would have killed me within minutes, if not even less than that.