Chapter 72

Of course, it was riddled with fear, terror, and fatigue, but something had visibly changed.

I was no longer just simply going through the motions. I felt stubborn for once.

After kicking the woman, I immediately began running again yet to my dismay, the woman did not even need to run anymore to catch up to me.

Her entire existence kind of just defied reality, making one of her steps worth many of mine and allowing her to move several meters with one step.

It didn't even look like she was lunging across the land. It was just that when I happened to look back at her, she was always closer to me than before while walking at what seemed to be the same leisure as before... With that same monstrous smile on her face... Ridiculing every fiber of my being.

'You know what?'

I looked back with a mocking smile and stopped running, simultaneously stopping the woman in her place, mainly out of curiosity about what I was doing rather than out of obedience.

Lifting her hand into the air, I felt countless gusts of wind around me as if something had stopped right before hitting me, and I would be correct to think so.

I could only watch as several creatures retracted their attacks all varying from ones that were invisible to ones that just had a speed I could see to even ones that had long-ranged attacks, an example of one of them being the creature that had retracted back its tentacle right before it had shot through my head.

I had felt all of them about to attack me, yet even if I wanted to dodge, with my current physical abilities it was near impossible.

"Who are you?" I asked once again, yet I did not receive a proper answer.

Instead, the woman in front of me simply gurgled some words while letting out some noises that sounded like what a person with an extremely dry throat would say if he wanted to try speaking.

It was as if her vocal cords were made out of sandpaper, constantly creating soul-shivering sounds whenever she tried communicating.

"Seems like you can't communicate huh." I sighed and stood upright with drooped shoulders and a relaxed stance.