The Power Of Wrath Chapter 16: Live Dam

After dealing with what would not have been a future threat going by the action of the two-headed direhog, Rio returned to the creek and continued his cool, bath, paying no mind to the two-headed beast that followed him and collapsed by his side in deep sleep.

Though he couldn't get it completely clean, rubbing his clothes against itself in the water he got so of the blood out and about three hours later he began heading downstream.

Unsure of his location and its geography, Rio figured it was better to stick to the stream where he could easily access food and water and potentially encounter human life.

Rio began his journey downstream without the two-headed beast but after so minutes was joined by it and he could only shrug at its presence.

With all his focus on work and climbing the company ladder, Rio had never been one for pets and he didn't know what to think of this unique beast which had ended the life of its own family.

"It might have just done that for its own sake"

For the rest of the day, other than the overgrown version of the animals he would see on Earth, Rio encountered nothing amazing but when the sun set and the moon ca out, sitting beside the creek, he lay on the ground and looked up the skies, taking in by it's beauties because rather than stars twinkling up there, there were several massive planets.

"These things are too darn close" Rio muttered as he looked at the planets, which stretched backwards in a curving line.

The fact that despite them being this close he could only see them at night and not during the day alerted Rio to the fact that the planet used a day to make a trip around the sun and that this was Earth.

"This isn't even the Milky Way" Rio realized and he couldn't help but groan internally realising that he might have just dood himself.

"I'm fucked"

With all the at he had consud in the morning, normal hunger was no problem for Rio and he had no problem falling asleep, but so hours into the night, his eyes shot open as a chattering sound reached his ears, the aggressiveness in it not hidden.

Imdiately Rio's eyes snapped open, he pushed himself to the side, rolling to his feet and escaping the bite of what looked like a spider but had six long thick legs, a scrawny body, a hunched back and a shielded head that reminded him of an armadillo.

The creature stood at the sa height as Rio, but this was no concern for him as he closed the distance between the two of them in a second and swung his axe down on it.

Rio's axe sunk deep into the creature's head and as it collapsed dead, he sneered.

"Weak helt"

As Rio pulled out his axe, he turned looking for the two-headed direhog which he had thought of as watchdog, surprised not to see it.

"Did it get eaten?"

"Na, that bastard's desire to survive surpasses even mine, he would growl and scratch even in the stomach"

Rio observed the dead creature's belly for so seconds before turning on his heels and hearing so faint barely detectable noises coming from down the stream shot in that direction.

Keeping his senses keen and eyes peeled out, Rio sped downstream and minutes later whilst he was still so ways from his destination, he began feeling a heavy pressure from ahead.

Rio stopped for so seconds, peering ahead before he continued forward his expression turning hard the further, he advanced and it wasn't just because of the increasing rattling sound.

By this ti, Rio had already realized a certain number of things about the new life he had been thrust into and one was that just like the level 4 direhog could freeze him with its roar this being so sort of fear attack, so could he with the bloodthirsty aura he gave off, and the sa applied for several other creatures.

Sothing ahead was releasing a powerful scary aura and what was worrying Rio at the mont was that though he was still so distance from it, he could feel his desire to see blood be quenched.

The closer he got, the more his predatory desires were dampened and even now he could feel fear popping up sowhere in him.

Hardening his heart and mind, Rio charged on and soon he was near enough to realize that the sounds he was hearing weren't just from one source but multiple. At that mont, the only thing keeping him going forward and fighting the fear that was telling him to run in the other direction was his will and the phrase he kept repeating in his mind.

"Let just see"

Rio's body trembled and shivered as he moved forward and fearing that it would freeze if he stopped other than slowing down the closer he got, he kept his legs moving.

Rio had no idea when he left from moving beside a creek to a river and just as his eyes chance upon a cliff, the clattering and the blue light coming from over it, his legs gave out.

Falling to the ground, Rio tried to get up to his feet, but he found his legs unable to move and his hand sluggish. He had lost control of them to the powerful force in the air.

Though Rio couldn't be sure, calmly feeling out his body as he lay on the ground, he arrived at the bizarre conclusion that sothing had told his legs to give out and they had.

"Betrayed by my own body"

With the goal just a few ters from him, Rio dragged himself all the way to the edge of the cliff, taking a deep breath and then looking over at the valley below.

Though it took his eyes so ti to adjust to the light, Rio spotted a large blue cube floating in the air, this being the source of the light.

He saw two large portals floating just so ters above the air at an equal distance on both sides of the cube and though this threatened to bring him happiness the sight of thousands of huge caterpillar-like creatures crawling around the valley filled him with a deathly chill.

There were so many of them that Rio noticed they were even crawling on each other. But then the worst was yet to co as he realized that the powerful pressure which he had been feeling and had rendered his legs paralyzed hadn't co from the culmination of the thousands of creatures but from one super large gigantic caterpillar which lay at the end of the valley completely covering it's end and serving as a live dam.

Just looking at its body stung Rio's eyes, but then when he looked at its head and got a glimpse of its eyes, his mind beca consud by darkness and he passed out.