Chapter 18: Chapter-18: Cataclysm-6

The three kobolds started growling. Their growls was producing foam-like liquid from their mouths which was dripping from their mouths. They all looked pissed. While Dave on the other hand was very nervous. He was all alone while his opponents were three. He was at a clear disadvantage. And he didn't know how to handle this situation.

He knew that he could fight all three of them head-on. That would be suicide. As he had no idea what he should do, so he decided that he should do want his instincts tell him to do. That is why he decided to run away. But before he could act on his decision, the kobolds attacked him.

One of them lept in the air towards him. As Dave saw the attack coming, he raised his shield and tried to intercept the tackle. As he raised his shield, he had a brilliant idea of how to handle the tackle. He got this idea from one of the movies that he used to watch as a kid.

Enacting the scene that he saw in the movies, as soon as the kobold made contact with the shield, the force of the tackle made him fall backward with the kobold on his chest. But as both of them made it to the ground, Dave pushed his shield hard upwards. And with the combination of his legs, which also pushed kobold up, he was able to throw the creature backward.

After he had thrown the kobold backward, he tried to get up quickly, but till then one of the other kobolds made its move. As Dave pushed his torso up the ground to get up, one of the kobolds came close to him and swiped its claws. And he was too late to react thus the kobold was successful at its attack. The sharp claws of the creature were able to make 4 red color stripes imprint on his torso.

The cut from the creature burned like hell. And he could feel his blood pouring out of his body through those cuts and it felt very painful. But the kobold who injured him was not done yet.

As soon as it saw that his attack earlier of successful, it used his other claw to swipe at him. Also from the corner of his eye, Dave noticed the third kobold had climbed up to a tree adjacent to where he was lying. And based on the position of the creature it was evident that he was going to jump on him…

It was maybe adrenaline, but at that exact moment, Dave performed a maneuver that he didn't know that he could do. He fell down on the ground once more. He raised his legs up in the air and made them go over his head. And thus he performed the first reverse barrel roll of his life.

With the roll, he was able to avoid the left swipe of the kobold and was also able to dodge the attack of the third kobold who jumped on him from up the tree.

After performing the barrel roll, he immediately got up and raised his shield while facing the two kobolds in front of him. Surprisingly the kobolds didn't attack him but only growled at him. Seeing this he was confused as these guys were so aggressive before. But it was then he realized why weren't they attacking him. But alas, he was too late.

All of a sudden he felt someone strong grab his shoulders. And he instinctively knew that the kobold that he threw earlier was going to bite him. So he immediately started moving backward and then jumped on his back. And then both the creature and he landed on the ground once again.

As they landed, the kobold’s grip loosened a little bit. As he felt its grip loosen, he then rolled away from the creature and got up as quickly as he can.

By the time he had gotten up, one of the kobolds came close to him and try to slice him. But he avoided the attack with ease. And this time he swung his sword toward the kobold.

The kobold saw that attack coming and dogged the attack by stepping to the side. But this time Dave started showing his aggressive side. Even when kobold avoided the attack, he didn't stop attacking. He started to swing his sword up and down with the intent to slice the creature once but the kobold was more agile and was able to avoid his every attack with ease.

Seeing that kobold was avoiding his attack, Dave started thinking about what he should do next. But it was at the time, he was tackled from the side. A kobold that he fell down with tackled him. And this time during the tackle, this kobold bit him.

The bite of the kobold was very painful. Somehow he could feel the teeth of the creature rubbing against his bone.

As the fell down, the creature started making a grip on Dave’s left arm. Using this to his advantage, he immediately slammed the back of his sword in the creature’s eyes. This immediately made the creature let go of his arm.

Dave then immediately got up and then thrust his sword towards the creature’s torse who wincing in pain because he had taken out one of his eyes. The sword went in without any problem. And then the creature struggled for a few seconds before stopping for good.

He then turned around to face the other kobolds who were both looking at him and growling. He then took out the sword from the dead kobold’s body and then raised it toward them.

As his left arm was useless for now, Dave then put away his shield in his inventory. And with just one mental command, the shield was away. It is only after putting away the shield, he realized how heavy that shield originally was. Because now he felt very light weighed.

Then one of the kobolds raised its hands and started running towards him. It tried to grab him, but he easily sidestepped and avoided it. And after he had avoided the attack, he swung his sword toward the creature who came running to him.

SLING

Originally he just wanted to slice the stomach of the creature. But maybe he still hadn't realized his strength at that time. Because as soon as he sliced the creature, his sword cleaved the whole torso of the creature in half. Although it was not buttery smooth when he cut something of that size, still Dave was surprised as he was able to do it with a lot of ease.

And now there was only one kobold left.

Seeing that all of his friends had passed away, he got afraid. And after growling for a few seconds, it turned around the ran the other way…

***

Dave came out of the tree line and sat down by a tree at the end. He had taken off his shirt and wrapped it around his left arm. He had lost a lot of blood and was thinking that maybe his time has come. He had already realized that if he don't get medical attention soon then he would die. And considering his circumstances, it may as well be true.

Now looking at the moonlit grasslands, he started to think that maybe this would be the best place to die. It was very beautiful and peaceful. So he would love to die here.

He didn't know what happened to the last kobold that had run away. While coming here, he did check over and over again to see whether or not that creature was following him. And he could not spot him. But he was not sure.

But now sitting at the end, he wanted to die peacefully rather than by being gnashed between the teeth of a freak of nature.

While lying in the quietness, Dave clenched his hands. He wanted to live. But alas he would not be able to do so. He then started thinking about his friends and started wondering whether they were able to run away or not. Thinking about them, he started to smile thinking that if they are alive, then his sacrifice was worth it.

At the same time, he felt a little bit angry at the kobolds. He wanted to slice down the last kobold so that at least he could have his revenge before dying for good. As he sat there lost in thought, he then started hearing some noise coming from the forest. He started hearing screams.

The screams that were reverberating through the forest were very weird. It sounded much like a human was screaming in a very high pitch voice, after inhaling a lot of helium. The sound was weird, but the concerning part about the scream was that it seemed like the source of the scream was coming toward him.

Dave then got up and raised his sword up and then went inside the forest. He didn't go deeper into the forest. He just went inside a little bit and then hid behind a large fat tree. As he hid there, he could hear the screams getting closer and closer, and they soon came to him.

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As he was hiding by the tree, something rushed past him. He noticed that a black color beast was running behind a green color midget. And Dave instantly recognizes the black fur beast as the kobold.

The kobold chased the midget to the edge of the tree line and then finally tackled him to the ground. The midget was screaming and yelling and weird strange language. But the screams and yells weren't able to faze the kobold. And we know it, the kobold went straight for the little creature's neck.

The sharp teeth of the kobold bit the soft skin of the little midget's throat and then ripped it out. And before it could anything else, Dave who had sneaked up to to it, swung his sword and sliced the neck of the kobold and thus killed him…

“This is for my hand mother fucker” Dave cursed while looking at the kobold’s corpse. And then he slumped down by the corpses of the midget and kobold.

Now he was truly tiered and had accepted his faith. While sitting there he started thinking about his past, specifically the part where his parents fucked him up really well. He started remembering the dark stuff that his parents did when they were alive.

As he was lost in his thought, his attention was then suddenly shifted when the corpse of both monsters vanished in thin air. He was amazed and a little shocked as he saw this. The blood, of the monsters, was still on the ground. But other than everything had vanished like a fart in the air.

Along with the blood, something else grabbed his attention. There was a satchel on the ground where the bodies were just now. Curious about what was in the bag, he grabbed the bag’s strap with his leg and pulled it towards him. He was feeling a little bit lazy at the moment so he didn't want to get up. So he used his leg to get the bag.

As he got the bag, he started looking inside it. There were three glass bottles inside it. Two of them were red in color while the third one was green in color. Seeing this he became curious as to what these liquids were. He first opened the red color liquid and smelled it. The liquid had a fruity smell to it. Thinking that it was a beverage, Dave chugged the whole red liquid bottle.

After he had drunk all of it, he started feeling weird sensations all around his body. He then looked down towards his torse and was shocked to see that the claw marks on his body were healing at a visible rate. He hadn't seen anything like this before in his life so he was amazed at the sight. And after the weird sensation had ended, he started feeling better and more invigorated than before.

He then unwrapped his cloth shirt to look at his arm. And he was shocked yet once again to see his arm looked better than before. His arm hadn't healed fully, but still, it is better than before. Immediately he chugged another red liquid bottle and sure enough, then his arm started healing at a visible rate…

The red liquid was not enough effective to heal his arm completely. But it did a hell of a good job. His arm had stopped bleeding and his wound looks better than before. And the amazing thing now was that he was alive and he was sure that he would live.

Dave then got up from his place as he was full of energy. He then opened the last green liquid bottle to see what it contained. But as soon as he opened it, he was assaulted by a rotten egg smell that almost made him throw up. So he quickly closed the bottle. As he closed it, the smell vanished as well.

He didn't know what is in the bottle, but still he decided to keep it. He picked the satchel and started moving outwards the forest line. And as he got out, about 300 m away from the tree line he spotted something familiar. He spotted his horse…

***

“Something is wrong,” Thoth mumbled as he looked at the numbers.

They had already calculated and knew that the number of death in the cataclysm would be very huge. And as he was seeing the numbers he was getting a little bit confused as the number of deaths till now had already surpassed their estimates. And they had surpassed it by 800%. This is something that shouldn't be possible.

“Guys, I think something is wrong. The number of deaths has gone up by 800% of what we have initially estimated.” Mimir said from the other end of the room.

“Brahma, could you take a look at it?” Thoth said to the triplets who were playing cards by the other end of the room.

“Yes, we will.” One of the brothers suddenly said and then snatched the cards from his other two brothers.

“Whoa, I had a very good hand.” One of the brothers protested.

“And I had a very bad one. Now, let's just focus on people.” The brother who snatched the cards said with a smirk.

“Fine” the other two brothers said and then all three of them got up. The triplets then came towards each other and put their right hand on each other shoulders and chanted…

“All for one. And one for all”

A bright light then engulfed the tree brothers and after the light was extinguished, emerged a man with three heads. With one head in the middle and two on the side this being looked quite powerful and distinguished.

“Do you have to chant that ridiculous chant every time you guys combine?” Mimir asked annoyingly.

“No. But it is called showmanship.” The head in the middle said.

Then Brahma started floating in the air. He then sat down in the air in lotus position and magically conjured 6 different screens by his side. Then the three heads started looking at the screens simultaneously.

And after a minute or so he finally found the mistake…

“It seems that Mimir's code had a fault. And because of it, our whole calculation was wrong. I would suggest that you guys should stop the cataclysm. Or otherwise, more or less no one in the Midgard would be alive by sunrise.” He said.

“My code isn't wrong,” Mimir said annoyingly.

“I have sent you the report. You can check it out.” The head in the middle said.

Hearing this Thoth sighed in frustration. But then he immediately did what Brahma had suggested him to do….

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