Chapter 47

The crystal, just like her eyes color, shone with a crystalline emerald. The crystal was barely the size of the tip joint of the thumb, but even then it just happened to find itself being the most eye-catching thing about one of the most beautiful creatures on the planet.

The creature, unlike everything I had seen up to that moment, has a twinkle of free will and intelligence within her eyes.

Her eyes were currently looking in a certain direction, them eventually narrowing when seeing that I was following a herd of red monkeys that ran around in numbers that far exceeded a hundred.

"So that is the human huh... To think he is this weak..." The woman shook her head and was finally enveloped by tree roots which eventually dispersed and left no one atop the canopy.

After traveling at a speed at which I could conserve energy, I finally became incapable of seeing the red monkeys anymore.

This was mainly due to the fact that they were abnormal creatures that moved as slow as me, but at the same time could keep moving at that same speed for hours if not days.

The journey so far had not only made me more hungry than before, but the injuries that I had developed from being chased by the creature were beginning to come up once again as if they were old scars losing their ability to seal the wound anymore.

Of course, this was a huge pain in the ass since I knew that there was a very high chance that I probably would not be able to catch up to them, but I had already gotten this far and as if a devil was whispering to me from my shoulder, I chose to not give up and continue to move forward.

After running, jumping, and swerving from side to side every now and then to both avoid large tree roots as well as any ferocious beasts nearby, I finally found evidence of them having gone down this direction, making me sigh in relief.

It seemed like they had all dropped down to the ground for a reason I could not understand since they clearly had the advantage up at the rooftops of the forest, jumping from branch to branch, yet my question was answered rather quickly after I strolled a few hundred meters ahead of where they had landed.