Chapter 392 Communal Will (1/2)

I revel in my triumphant bite for a fraction of a second too long. Even the tingle of my antennae and a lightning quick response isn't enough to completely save me from the retaliatory sweep of Garralosh's mid leg. It's hard to twist an ant body. Hard in the sense that you can't do it. So she clips me on the way through and all of a sudden I find myself airborne.

Ouch! That stings!

How much HP did I even lose just then? Thirty?! She barely touched me!

THUD!

I land in a heap and quickly scramble to get back on my legs and running. I don't want to stand still with this ma.s.sive Croc on my case! With Vibrant nearby, all my movements are that tiny bit sharper and that makes all the difference when Garralosh dashed toward me.

Let me tell you. Watching something large move fast, is kinda weird. Tiny with his fancy feet, which he uses to move with a lightness and delicacy that an over three metre tall gorilla has no business moving with. Even that sight pales in comparison to seeing Garralosh dash.

The Croc must weigh as much as a truck, if not more. Even lying down she's absurdly taller than I am, and the sheer ma.s.s of her is ridiculous. But clearly she's been working on her skills over her long life, since she essentially teleports in front of me, her jaws flas.h.i.+ng before my eyes.

DODGE!

HOLY MACKEREL, DODGE!

SNAP!

My legs explode with energy and I throw my body to one side so hard I can't even land and instead roll end over end before I can get my feet underneath me. So scary! She's so d.a.m.n quick!

AH! AGAIN!

Without pause, Garralosh uses her dash once more to appear directly in front of my face!

MOVE IT OR LOSE IT ANTHONY!

I swear to Gandalf, if I check the menu later and realise there's a dodge skill I never bought I'm gonna kick myself right in the abdomen!

I scramble my legs beneath me again and push with all my strength and I nearly make it. One leg gets caught in those cavernous jaws and pain rockets up my front left leg as half of it is simply gone. Even as the pain rocks my head I can't sit still. I smash together a mental illusion with my sub-brains and slam it across the mental bridge and I blindly dodge once more.

I know she's coming for me, I can feel it!

It works! In the mind of the giant Croc, she gets an image of my dodging to the left but instead I fling myself to the right and she takes the bait, her indescribable jaws slam shut where I'm not and I take a moment to accelerate away to get some distance.

Gravity bolts!

Mentally I inspect the damage as my sub-brains try to slow down that stupidly fast monster with a few gravity bolts to help weight her down. My poor leg! It hurts like fire! Holy heck! Not to mention I'm already feeling tired from the constant das.h.i.+ng and the one use of my all new, all powerful bite skill. The effect was great but the stamina cost was real!

Actually… I'm not as tired as I should be?