Chapter 39 - Two Faced Beauty

After half an hour, I could hear Yefa running towards me at full speed.

"Sorry about that. I made you wait too long."

"No, I don't mind. Let's go."

We began running at full speed. Even when I'm using Sprint, Yefa catches up to me in an instant using her skill Blink. I don't know what it does but I guess its just a short ranged teleportation. After an hour of running deeper and deeper into the forest, we both feel the heavy atmosphere. The gravity suddenly became heavier, the air was thinner, and we became sluggish to move.

"I hope this works. Barrier!"

A golden round ball enveloped our bodies. The gravity, the air and our movements returned back to normal. As if this barrier is completely a different space itself.

"Thank you."

"Don't mind it. Let's go."

We began running at full speed and I recasted Barrier every 5 minutes. Everytime the barrier runs out, we could feel the intense gravity grow heavier and the air running out. I was hesitant to go deeper but we've come too far to back out now.

After running for 30 minutes, we saw a glimmer of light at the end. Me and Yefa looked at each other and nod in agreement. We ran towards the light.

When we finally got through that, I couldn't believe what I saw.

"Wow..." We were both in awe. I mean who wouldn't?

The land inside the light was vast. Surrounded by trees. The trees from the forest were different from the forest here. It was bright, green and bears bountiful fruits. The plants were colorful. Even though they weren't moving, I feel like I could hear them singing.

A humble abode stood in the middle of the land. The house were surrounded in vines. Despite it being a nuisance, the vines adds the beauty and grace of the house. It was surrounded by animals.

A young woman is sitting in a white chair drinking tea. Her white silky hair was beautiful to see.

"Oh?" The woman speaks. "Welcome. Its been a while since there's been someone here other than me and my friends here." She patted the head of the animals gathering around her.

"Beautiful..." Yefa was completely in love with the woman sitting before us.

The woman giggled. "Thank you for the compliment. Why do you seek this place?"

I began to speak, "We were curious to what was deep inside the forest."

"I see... And oh? Is there something wrong with your friend?" She pointed at Yefa.

Yefa was completely smitten. She walk towards her and raised her hand as if she's reaching towards her.

"Ah, my apologies." I tried to grab Yefa but the woman stopped me.

"No, no. Its fine. Come here child." The woman grabbed Yefa's hand and embraced her.

"Ah... Bliss..." Yefa rested her head at the chest of the woman. She was like a baby yearning for her mother's embrace.

"There, there." The woman began to caress her hair. "Let's put you to sleep."

"Sorry about this." I apologized.

"Don't worry about it. After all, I'll put her to sleep." After she said those words, her whole body clicked. Like a machine reorganizing itself. The body of the woman transformed. Her insides were twitching and kind of exploding, bulging through the skin like its wanting to get out. "ETERNALLY."

Her once beautiful face took a turn for the worse. Her hair turned ugly but still retained its silky white hair. Her eyes were twitching all over the place. Her mouth grew larger and she was salivating at the sight of Yefa.

Her hands that were before so small now was larger than Yefa's head. She grabbed her and opened her mouth.

"Damn. I should've expected this. Sprint!" I rushed towards the woman... No, the monster trying to prevent her to eat Yefa. I equipped Bloodlust and pierced her mouth and it went through the other side of her mouth.

"AUGH! What is this...? Are you not affected by my magic?" The monster writhed in pain. "Damn it..." The monster poked Yefa's cheek.

"Hu- huh?" Yefa woke up.

"My child, help me. Your companion is attacking me!"

"As if that would work you're still in your mons-"

Yefa cut me off before I could speak. "Zieglind? What are you doing to her?"

"Eh...?!"

"You know we're just visitors here right?"

"Yefa, snap out of it! This damn monster. Sprint!" I rushed again at the monster and tried to lunge my sword at it.

But before I could reach her, Yefa blocked it using her gauntlets. "Zieglind what are you doing!"

"Tsk. Can't you see tha-"

"Agh, agh! This is taking so long. I don't need to hear that yada yada nonsense. Mind Break!" The monster casted something.

"Eh?" Yefa suddenly lost control. Her body fell to the ground as if a broken doll.

"Kill him." The monster pointed at me.

Yefa stood up. "Yes... Mas...ter..."

"Yefa?"

"Blink." Yefa suddenly blinked to my location. She swung her giant gauntlets. I dodged it barely using sprint. "Magic Spear." A spear formed on Yefa's hands.

"Damn it. Sprint!" I began running in random directions.

Yefa threw the spear at me and I dodged. But I didn't know that it was a faint.

"Blink." Yefa suddenly appeared infront of me.

"Wha-" Before I could speak, Yefa thrusted the magic spear in my stomach. "AUGH!"

Before it exploded, "Blink." Yefa ran away in a different direction.

After a couple seconds, the magic spear thrusted in me exploded. "ARGH!" It wasn't that powerful but it made a hole in my armor and my body.

"Good thing she was on my side." The monster grinned as if it was winning.

"Damn it." I pulled out Bloodlust from my inventory and began chanting Karmic Pain. The hole on my stomach were slowly closing. But I need to hold on or the regeneration will be disrupted. "How can Yefa be captured as a slave if she's this damn strong." Before I could think of those thoughts, Yefa is getting ready to enter combat again.

"Blink." Yefa appeared infront of me again in an instant.