Chapter 25

Eventually, after all the running and hiding I was no longer capable of maintaining such a lifestyle.

After some consideration on what to do next, I had chosen to sleep yet, just like everything else in this world, it was much easier said than done.

Sleeping was close to impossible without dying or being eaten while being asleep.

Alongside that problem came another.

"Where the hell am I supposed to sleep" I blurted out, the bags under my eyes as evidence of my lack of sleep alongside the amount of stress I had endured in the last day alone.

My normal human body was not used to having to be alert at all times no matter what, and due to it being this way, I had become incredibly exhausted.

I felt as if every bone in my body began to grind against one another while my muscles had become sore to the point where trying to move was more painful than being stung 20 times in a row by random flying insects.

Thankfully, right before I was about to pass out from exhaustion, I had found a seemingly empty cave at the top of the mountain.

I wasn't sure why, but the instant I had been enveloped in the aqua blue light that had been blocked by the trees of the forest, I felt extremely safe.

However, I did not think about the feeling as the only thing that ran through my exhausted mind was the pain that continuously coursed throughout my entire body due to it being pushed past its limit more than a dozen times within the same day.

Finally entering the cave, could not help but look around even in my exhausted state.

I kept having this constant premonition that I would be attacked at any moment, to the point I would even have visions of random beasts coming to attack me from all sides, as if I was an animal dipped in blood and lifted high for all of them to smell from miles away.

However, even if I was trying to be cautious, even if a beast was hiding within the shadows of the cave waiting for me to lie down and become helpless, there wouldn't be anything I could do to retaliate, even if I were to find it.