Blood Of Platinum
Chapters 17. Gems in the Night World bag. 2
The roots that had absorbed the poison instantly looked strange. Kaito cut through the roots that formed the net, but he noticed that some roots did not return to normal and remained cut off. The root part in the spreading ground immediately turned brown and withered, not only one but about five roots were right beside it.
Kaito with a happy smile and his sharp gaze immediately ran through while cutting the roots.The part of the net that was not covered by the roots created a hole that eventually made the gap so big. Again Kaito took out another small bottle of poison and broke it straight away so that the liquid fell to the ground. Basically, the roots appear around the fountain pond overgrown with green grass so it is likely that the soil on the grass also absorbs the poison. The poison liquid that spread in the grass atar gradually began to turn withered. That proves Kaito's theory right then.
Although it could inhibit those troublesome roots with poison, it remained that the number of poison bottles was limited. There were only four more bottles left and he was thinking of breaking through straight away.
Kaito cut the roots again and again. Some other roots started not to grow and withered so that in a short time he managed to get close to the fountain. He used all his remaining energy to run to get to the pool.
“Almost until. I won't let it disappear!!”
Kaito almost got to the edge of the pool back and ‘world night’ is really happy to make it hard. Just a few more meters away and suddenly another annoying thing appeared besides the roots from the ground.
“……!!!”
-CRAAAASH
The fountain pool was destroyed and spilled all the water that was inside. It suddenly felt a tremor from the ground and this time it was like something was trying to get out of the ground.
From the ground came a huge tree that grew tall, growing taller and taller, becoming the only tallest tree in the entire forest. The tree was very shady with a lot of foliage. The surrounding buildings were instantly destroyed not left by the roots growing through the surface, including the altar building beside it. The trees around Kaito were also destroyed and crushed by the roots. Kaito
looking at the purple gem was in the middle of the tree and it shone brighter than when inside the pond.
“Don't mess around!! It's mine, don't try to make it a property!!”
This time Kaito was not surprised by the change of place. No matter how damaged the streets and buildings in the area were, the focus was only on the purple gem. That was all that mattered, everything in front of him was a barrier. Kaito is difficult to control his emotions and just goes forward without a second thought.
The huge roots in front of him were slashed once a slash, Kaito's running speed did not decrease despite the many large rocks and roots blocking it. In his mind was just how he could obtain that purple gem. To the point that he was unaware something was attacking him all of a sudden and making him jump back.
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Kino who had found the corpse of a goblin with an arrow on the road earlier walked following the direction of the soft root source earlier.
“I hope in front there really is a gun shop before. I beg you true”
Kino ran as fast as he could. Until finally he saw to his left was really the weapon shop he went to in the afternoon. With a breath of breath he walked slowly closer to the building until finally he was surprised to make him scream very loudly.
“Ryou!!”
Kino ran over and approached the brother who was fainting. Not only did she look worried, seeing her body full of scratches as well as her face and cheeks filled with blood made her unable to hold back her tears. Kino cried while hugging him.
“No!! Ryou awake! Please open your eyes, Ryou!! I. I've been looking for you...Hixes. Nee... please open your eyes..Hiks, hiks...”.
Kino hugged her sister tightly and continued to cry. He kept repeating those words nonstop and looked at Ryou face while rubbing both cheeks. Not long after, his eyes slightly moved and Ryou started to open his mouth.
“…..Mmm..”
“Ryou?!”
Kino who was still crying was surprised to see him. But she could not hide the feeling of pleasure when she saw the younger brother starting to open his eyes slowly.
“...Ah...Ki...no... Really..Kino..”.
“Ryou!!” Kino immediately reflexively hugged the sister without a second thought
“Auch... Don't hug me. You hurt me”
“Ma–forgive me. I'm just so worried. I'm sorry”
Hearing that, Kino let go of her embrace and wiped the tears from her face. Ryou was instantly refreshed once his broken hand was hugged too tightly by Kino. Ryou looked at the face of the older brother who still looked anxious and gave him a smile while slightly mocking.
“Basic cengengeng. If I wasn't around, you'd be a whiny kid even a year older than me”
“Do not talk like that. I'm really worried, Ryou. Anyone would be shocked to see his brother suddenly found in a state of unconsciousness and bloody so. At first I thought I'd faint seeing you like this earlier”
“But, not so fainted right?”
“Um... Not to be passed out but–”
“Instead yell while crying. Heh, crybaby” Ryou continues to give a smile while teasing the older brother
Ryou still had time to tease the brother without seeing his own condition. Even so Kino still smiled when she heard Ryou speak so. With her mouth still able to tease him with those scathing words it meant that she was fine and Kino realized it. He breathed a sigh of relief and cleaned the blood on his sister's face.
While cleaning up the blood on Ryou's face, Kino realizes that there is an empty bottle next to him.
“I just realized there are a lot of small bottles here. Are these bottles yours, Ryou?”
“Aa. I drank it all when I was hurt and .. hmm?”
“What's up?”
Ryou begins to try to sit up straight and realizes all the pain is gone. The wounds he received had also closed including the wounds on his head. The part of his body that hurts as if it is crumbling is also no problem. He kept checking all of his body but nothing hurt anymore except the broken part of his left hand was still a little painful and it was a bit difficult to move freely but not as painful as before. Kino who heard that looked shocked and took the medicine bottle in the cloth bag she had.
“I did not know that these drugs had an effect until they could close the wound and repair the broken bone. But, do all the drugs in this ‘world’ have such quick and instantaneous effects?” Kino gives one bottle to Ryou
“I don't know either. When I took it out, I didn't even know if this medicine was smeared or taken. But since my body was already unable to move so I immediately drank it all. I hope this looks like an in-game potion drug or at least has a pain-reducing effect on the wound. Who would have thought it could really be like a drug in the game” world
“Isn't that good. Ryou won't drink it again? Just try drinking again, maybe your left hand can heal”
“Will I drink”
Ryou drank it one gulp. They wait for the effect but it is not felt immediately.
“I don't think it reacted immediately. Speaking of that, how did you find me here Kino?”
“That's because I followed where that soft root came from”
Kino recounted everything he had gone through since the city turned into a forest, ranging from chirping in a strange place to suddenly having roots coming from his front. Hearing that, Ryou opened his eyes wide and tried to hide his surprised face. It was similar to what he experienced but not like that. Something is different with what he experienced.
“Kupikan Ryou also walked backwards to the previous place like me”
“I think this forest makes us go elsewhere in a different way for everyone. Even I'm sure Kaito experienced it too. This forest seems to have some kind of magical power capable of separating us. If you want to know, from the beginning the city turned into this strange forest, I think this forest moves even though I can't think of the reason”
Ryou tries to move his injured left hand. The result was unexpected. The drug does not deliver results as quickly as in fantasy games, but it can actually repair broken bones. Both of them could only put on astonished faces at once anxious.
“If this drug can get like this, the population in ‘world noon’ definitely do not need a doctor. I still can't believe and worry about the side effects” Ryou started to look a little worried
“This is proof we are really in another world based fantasy”
Kino looked at his pocket watch. Time shows at 02:50, remaining 3 hours 10 minutes before 06:00. Kino helps Ryou stand up and they decide to go towards the source of the soft root it came from.
“I hope at the end of that road, we can meet with Kaito-san”
“You're right. The longer here, the more I can feel the bad feeling”
In order to get there faster, they decided to run as fast as they could. As Ryou ran, he was very surprised and smiled with a happy face when he knew that his body was really in a normal state like nothing had happened. Kino was also happy to see Ryou's condition improve. However, it was only for a moment.
While they were still running, they suddenly stopped due to a tremor from underground.
“Forge again?!”
“Yang is right. I just survived fate to the afterlife in another world, does this place want to turn again into a forest wilder than this” Ryou expressed his frustration
Kino saw the ground in front of him start to split apart and it started to approach where they were.
“Ryou, step aside now!!!”
“……!!!”
They quickly jumped to the side and sure enough. If they were to jump too late, the two of them might be split to death. Not long after that from within the ground reappeared the roots of a large tree and seen from afar something grew very tall, tall and taller.
“What's more now!! Why did this place become even stranger after those goblins were annihilated!! Kino, you're okay, right?”
“I'm fine. Just scratched a little, no problem. But–” Kino saw from a distance
The huge tree grew to become the tallest in all the places in the city that had turned into that forest. In addition, the soft roots that guided their direction were also cut off due to the sudden appearance of a large root splitting the path. Kino looked frantically at her and tried to look at the root again to be sure of something.
“Ryou, the big tree growing in front of us is in the direction of this root source. Even if it's disconnected, but we can still follow the rest. Besides, somehow I felt a bad feeling when I saw that tree”
“You're right. It is impossible that suddenly there are trees growing that high if there is no trigger. I thought that there was a possibility that Kaito was also at the end of that road. We can't waste much time. Kino, we're running now!!”
They hurried away towards the tree and followed the rest of the severed roots. After they finally have the chance to meet again with Kaito, they probably won't expect that the meeting they expected would probably be very far from reality.
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Kaito jumped up to avoid something that attacked him suddenly. The attack was in the form of a root whip that attacked from the front. After successfully dodging, from under the roots of the huge tree something appeared.
It was a group of tree-man troops numbering around eleven to fifteen with a height the size of an adult human armed with a sword made from tree roots. They appeared suddenly out of nowhere and it was clear their goal was to block Kaito from getting the purple gem.
“So now [Arbre Soldat] Yes. Don't try to monopolize what doesn't belong to you!!”
Kaito's furious face could not hide his emotions. He looked even more angry and more crazed as he carried out the attack.
“Don't bother me!! I will never forgive this ‘world’!! Continuously preventing me from getting what should be mine, actually what do you guys want to do so far!!! Get all of you out of my sight!!”
The arbre soldat troops began to run. They ran up and drew their swords towards Kaito. Kaito did not consider it a problem because the emotions that controlled him made him able to kill one by one the tree troops. However, it may not be as easy as thought. Of course the arbre soldat troops had other weapons besides swords.
From their left hand came a root whip that could extend and shorten as they wished and that thing was quite troublesome for Kaito.
Unlike their swords that were easy to fend off, the root whip was not that easy. They easily grew back after being cut, the attacks that were launched were also very fast and by being held back using a sword, the root whip could still push his body far enough. If not held back with his sword, the whip could pierce through Kaito's stomach and cause serious injuries to him.
“Kgh...!!!” Kaito held the drunk with his sword
But another whip attack came and this time the whip hit him on his right calf. Kaito's face was filled with sweat and withstood the pain from the damage he received. Not until there. Seeing his opponent's movements stalled, the arbre soldat army began to simultaneously advance to attack him.
The remaining number of the army of arbre soldat trees was only ten since Kaito had managed to kill a portion of them. However, their numbers have not changed since Kaito last did. The number is still the same coupled with the intensity of their attacks getting stronger and the resulting speed is also getting faster.
“If it's not fast I'll just spend time”
Kaito's gaze during the fight continued to look at the place where the purple gems were. He kept trying to withstand the attacks from the tree troops but the more he tried to break through, his position would be further pushed back. That meant he was getting further and further away from where the jewel was. Until something unwanted happens.
Kaito began to feel exhausted from enduring the barrage of the arbre soldat root whip. In addition, the wounds on Kaito's body were getting more and more. Not only was his calf injured now but his hands, face and waist had already started to bleed a lot and the blood kept flowing as he moved to attack while dodging their sword and root whip.
His breathing began to pant and it might only be a matter of time until he completely ran out of ways to dodge. Kaito intended to take the poison out of the cloth bag and use the same way as when he made the roots near the fountain pool to wither. But, the creatures that appeared there turned out to be more quickly adapted well than thought.
The root whip cut off his bag of cloth and of course all the medicine bottles including the poison and the antidote broke out.
“Sial!!”
Kaito had no other plan and now he could only advance attacking by cutting the root whip that came. An arbre soldat jumped at him and tried to attack Kaito with his sword root
but the attack could be repelled and Kaito counterattacked by cutting the soldier's arbre into two pieces. Who would have thought that it was just a diversion. A few seconds later, a root whip quickly attacked from the front.
-CRAAAT
This time, the blood fell down in large quantities. Kaito received a serious wound that left him unable to move. The whip pierced through his right chest until his sword fell and his leg could not
maintain balance again. One more attack came but Kaito could not stand to hold it because his gaze was starting to darken with a lot of sweat.
When all he did was in vain, from behind there was a sharp object that repelled the roots.
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