Chapter 64

After doing so, I left my little cave hideout and began to stroll towards the forest behind it.

When I entered, I felt a very light dread, something that felt like it was just a cold breeze passing by yet at the same time, a premonition of something worse to come.

For that reason alone, I had chosen to not go deep into the forest while also making sure to keep an eye on the sun so I could return before nightfall.

Walking through the forest, I encountered a few creatures here and there yet I had already learned how to avoid most of them.

On the one hand, the dragonflies were really easy to kill, only having to draw them into a narrowed space where I could turn around and indent my ax into their heads.

The recurring hippo on the other hand was a lot harder to run away from.

Hippos are bodies of water that are extremely fast, and these were not even normal hippos. These were hippos on steroids mixed in with alligators while also having a tail that seemed to only function for the sole reason of making them swim faster.

Of course, I could just avoid large bodies of water like lakes or larger rivers, but there was also one more thing that made them unique compared to the hippos in my era.

They could camouflage pretty well!

You might be asking, 'Hey Ezra! How is this possible?'

Well, the answer is quite simple young lad!

They cover themselves in mud and start rolling in leaves and grass, and while that would usually work pretty well on smaller animals, the hippo somehow made it work as they could use their claws! Yes... You have heard me correctly. They had claws.

Anyway, they would use their claws and simply dig into the ground, leaving nothing but their gigantic maw above ground as well as their backs that kind of just poked out yet at the same time was almost invisible to the passerby.

Anyway, today was a different day, however.