Free Web NovelChapter 31: Razor Squirrels
Jimmy managed to regain his balance a few feet before he hit the ground.
Right after, he began to fly upwards as fast as he could. He flew at an angle to quickly make some distance between himself and the squirrels, but he wasn’t fast enough.
The squirrels saw White Blade’s mostly unmoving body flying upwards. This seemed odd to them, but it did not taint their hunting senses.
They jumped after White Blade, even if they couldn’t see the cloudy coloured bird who carried White Blade across the air.
Within two seconds, they flew above White Blade, and then plummeted towards him. Their razor-sharp claws pierced the air in front of them!
Cling!
Their claws were once more knocked away by a tiny sickle. She managed to knock two of them away.
However, despite her best efforts, they were being chased by a scurry of twelve of these squirrels, so it was only a matter of time until she got overwhelmed once more! She couldn’t fight all of them.
One of the squirrels got stuck on Jimmy’s tail. It was heavy enough to pull him towards the ground a few feet at a time.
As the squirrel held on to his tail, it also thrashed its legs around, kicking and scratching everything it could reach!
It scratched White Blade, enough to wake him up! He woke up screaming, and immobilized in the middle of the air.
Then, the dagger that Jimmy had prompted over White Blade’s back, fell. The squirrel kicked it so hard that the dagger could’ve cut Jimmy’s claws clean off if he hadn’t let go of it.
"Motherfucker!" He shouted.
With the additional weight of the squirrel, Jimmy was forced to crash-land.
White Blade suffered a bruise upon landing, and quite a few scratches from the frantic squirrel.
Jimmy was aware of this, and he couldn’t help but fall into a fit of rage in response! He was up on his feet less than a second after the crash.
Spotting the squirrel who brought them down, he pecked it on the face, or more specifically, in its eye! The squirrel didn’t see Jimmy, so it didn’t see this attack coming.
The squirrel was as big as him. It certainly was as tall, and it had these short, thick spikes across its body. It was a horrifying creature, and Jimmy was spatially aware enough to avoid its sharp spikes as best as he could.
The squirrel had a lot of things at its advantage, but it could not withstand a blow through the eye, and a blow to the brain which hid behind its eye. It collapsed right after the blow!
[+210 system points]
[Razor Squirrel killed. Task 8 complete.]
[Reward: 500 system points]
Jimmy tried to ignore that notification. He couldn’t care about the task whatsoever right now, however, the name of this species of squirrel was something he could not ignore!
"They’re Razor Squirrels?!" He panicked.
Five more of these horrid, silver-furred squirrels were within a foot away from him. Six more were charging towards him like rabid dogs! They weren’t strategic, they weren’t hesitant, and they simply wanted to destroy everything in their sight!
"Virena, swing to kill!" He squeaked at her as loud as he could, in her language.
White Blade’s dagger had landed several feet away from him, and he couldn’t get to it without getting pounced on. He was surrounded, and he was unarmed.
Three squirrels pounced on White Blade. He was their main target.
Virena killed one of those three pouncers. She slid its throat clean open.
Jimmy saw that she couldn’t get to the two other pouncers, so he charged a few steps forward, and slapped them away with his wings!
The Razor Squirrels may be as tall as him, but his wings worked against them well enough. They couldn’t see him coming, and so, they were knocked away like a pair of dung-beetle balls.
As a result, he suffered several stab wounds across his wings! These spiky rodents simply were too dangerous to touch.
"Son of a bitch!" He shouted.
Several squirrels wiggled their ears around after they heard him shout.
Two of them sniffed him out. His wounds then began to bleed, and this gave him away instantly!
Just like that, he went from being invisible, to suddenly targeted by the remaining ten Razor Squirrels!
Jimmy was bleeding, White Blade was bleeding too thanks to the mid-air scratches from before, and yet, although immobile, White Blade was under a lot less trouble in comparison.
Most of the scurry of squirrels charged towards Jimmy!
Four of them managed to pounce on him, and knock him against the ground! After that, three more squirrels jumped on his back.
All seven of them were clawing, and biting away at him.
At this point, survival appeared to be unlikely. He knew he couldn’t win. The squirrels were simply too fast, and too difficult to fight off even if he had a dagger on his claws. He was out-numbered.
"Damn..." He held his breath.
Psychologically, he felt like giving up. He wanted to submit to this untimely, brutal death, but physically, his body refused.
Waves upon waves of adrenaline stormed his veins, and the waves got taller every time he got bit or scratched.
Within a blink, he got a good footing below himself, and jerked his body up with every bit of power he could muster!
At the same time, he flung his wings open, and tossed all seven squirrels away from himself!
"Well fuck, I can still move?" He almost mustered a smile.
From the looks of it, the scratches and bites weren’t deep enough. He had countless wounds, and he may be moments away from bleeding out, but he didn’t have any broken bones!
Motivated, he pecked another squirrel right through its eye, watched it drop dead, and then he moved to his next target.
[+225 system points]
[Iron Beak skill: Level 2 >>> Level 3]
Jimmy’s next target suffered major cranial injuries. He refused to use his beak this time, and simply tossed his target away with a direct, frantic head-bud!
That squirrel stopped moving shortly after.
[+201 system points]
[Stone Head skill: Level 1 >>> Level 2]
Virena had not stood idly by. She had already killed two more squirrels who had initially tried to eat her whole!
Six Razor Squirrels remained.
