Unbound Mantra Chapter 11 (Patreon)

Time passed by all too quickly when you were busy 'building Rome' because this wasn't just a short stop for me. The Church back home could teach me a spell to send me back here whenever I wanted.

But I woudn't have the protection of the church's wards in terms of safety in getting here or back. 

Still, Palworld was a good place for me to build up a bit of my own power base and acquire resources.

"Teaphant makes the best form of fried pork crisps." I muttered, my mouth making a loud crackling noise as I ate the smoked meat I had packed for my trip.

Five days had passed by at this point, I caught a full five stack of the common pals in my surrounding area, and I even caught a Foxsparks that hadn't made its way back to its burrow yet.

And now with a set of thin scale mail armor and the lowest-grade energy shield. I decided it was time for me to go out and try to find some actual people. Because I was going a bit stir crazy.

It was well into the day, so I was safe from those flying bastard Daedream's and Tombat's that loved to fly around and eat people at night as I made my way fully down into the flat area where the Mammorest pack liked to live.

And as I reached the bottom of the mountain, where this massive 'island' had a land bridge to the mainland. I could see them in the distance where the tree line abruptly cut off.

The land was a mostly flat region with extremely thick and tall grass and I could see several packs from my elevated position of massive green elephants covered in moss and what looked like tree's.

And in each pack there was an Alpha Mammorest that like an extra meter or two taller then the rest of it's pack.

'Yeahhhhh, FUCK that.' I thought with a shudder as even the 'child' Mammorests alone were bigger than an African Bull Elephant in my old world. Even my with cultivation allowing me to use an even stronger triple arrow bow right now...

I knew for a fucking fact that a family unit of twenty-something massive Mammorests was a death sentence to fuck with. Not happening until I had my own much stronger pals that could keep these monsters in place while I tried to kill them from a distance.

"Alrighty Jake... Time to just sneak past an army of massive elephants that can spit seeds at you hard enough to cut you in half and with the same fire rate as a minigun." I 'cheered' myself up as hard as I could.

With that, I followed the edge of the ridgeline on the western side as I could tell that these Mammorests were alike normal elephants despite their power and size. In how they didn't like steep hills nor the soft beach sands.

Once I reached the beach, I could see several pack's of Pengullet's and even Penking's as well! So I didn't try to mess with those large family groups as well. 

Thankfully, they, saw me clearly minding my own business and just traveling the edge of the beach with my own foxsparks following alongside me. They didn't care enough to mess with me for no reason.

After another hour of just following the beach, I finally crossed the land bridge that seperated the starting area, Windswept Coast from the Bamboo Thicket. 

But as I reached the large ruins that were built as a sort of clear barrier from this island to the mainland. I coudn't help a sigh as that couple that was supposed to be there in the game weren't there either.

"Ok... Hopefully, hopefully there is actually people at the Small Settlement. I am going to scream if I have to join the fucking Rayne Syndicate to get things done." I cursed under my breath.

But things weren't entirely a loss. Because while these ruins were currently empty. I could tell they had been used as shelter not too long ago actually. A raised section had clear signs of being used as a camp fire spot as well.

"I just hope I can teleport to my home base at least." I muttered helplessly as I kept moving past the ruins and into the extremely tall mountain valley's that seperated these ruins from the stronger pals of the mainland.

But as I entered the valley, and I could literally see wagon tracks that I could follow. A loud call from a larger animal rang out loudly.

I slowed my steps as me and my foxsparks came around a corner. And I paused as I saw what was clearly the local 'Alpha.' That damned Chillet was a blur of motion as it launched itself through the air to attack a pack of Eikthyrdeer

'The Chillet Alpha is supposed to be only like level 10 or something... It's not too strong, or huge, but it's just a danger noodle of extreme speed and ferocity.' I thought, frowning as this thing was blocking my way to the Small Settlement.

And with this thing's crazy mobility, I had zero doubt's it could climb up the sides of these valley's so I woudn't be able to keep track of this local terror...

So with a mental. Fuck it! We ball! I stepped forward and as the Chillet was wrapped around an Eikthyrdeer to strangle it's entire body as well as tear out it's throat. 

I nailed the Chillet with three arrows that slammed home into it's body. The softer scales were unable to protect it's flesh from the trio of arrows that slammed home into its 'upper' body

A warbling shriek rang out from Chillet, whose body snapped into a long, straight form as its head whirled around to look at the arrows and then followed the angle directly towards me!

In answer it's furious gaze, I gave it another trio of arrows shot at the same time. But it quickly shot forward to dodge the arrows. Sadly it only managed to dodge two of them with another one hitting it directly in the face around it's cheek/jowls area.

The Chillet shot forward at me with a bloody gleam in it's gaze and as it curved around me to build up speed to launch itself at my side.

I grabbed my Foxsparks from the ground and as the Chillet lunged at me with a leap complete with bloody fangs aimed at me.

I gave my Foxsparks a squeeze, and the Chillet screamed bloody murder as I bathed it with flames from the Foxsparks, who breathed a fire that was enhanced with my own Mantra of Wrath.

"Fuck your water and ice type bullshit!" I shouted even as I dropped the Foxsparks, who tiredly stood up to launch another much smaller fire ball at the Chillet who had a flamethrower turned directly on it's face.

But that extra fire didn't hit as I threw a palsphere at the Chillet like it was a Master Ball being aimed at a much shittier Rayquaza I was trying to catch!