Chapter 15
Michelle and Snow walked together, both in silence, as they slowly reached the depths of the forest where thick vines were hanging from tall trees and the sound of birds' singing penetrated the air. Snow was clearly unhappy because she didn't like what Michelle was about to do, but she didn't dare protest, as even though she had never experienced it herself, but the contract, she knew that Michelle's wrath and killing spirit were horrifying.
When they were so deep in the forest that the vines were starting to obscure their movement, Michelle took out her magic weapon which was at the moment in the shape of a small pendant. She twisted her hand slightly and the pendant turned into a gleaming sharp small knife, similar to a scalpel.
Snow stepped back a bit to make space, and Michelle brought the tip of the knife to the back of her hand. She pressed it against her skin and slowly made a straight line from her fingers to her wrist joint, stopping there. Instantly, blood started flowing out from the thin but quite deep line.
Michelle took a deep breath and her nose was suddenly filled with an intense sweet smell which caused her to be momentarily dizzy. She let her hand down, leaving it to bleed, and closed her eyes to listen to the forest. It was early quiet, with the birds no longer singing.
Slowly, Michelle opened her eyes and with a slight motion of her hand, the sharp knife in her hand turned into a long and thin whip with sharp, sword-like edges. Then, Michelle glanced at Snow, and she transformed into her fox form, but only the size she had right after she was born, so she was about the size of an adult human, not her true size which was about the size of an eight-story building.
For a short while, the forest remained silent to the point that Michelle felt like she was deaf. But that all changed when an earth-splitting roar filled crashed against her ears. After the deafening silence, the roar was like a painful wake-up call, causing Michelle to wince a bit from the pain in her ears.
But she didn't have the time to focus on that, because she felt the ground shaking beneath her.
She gripped the whip in her hand tighter and took a deep breath to calm down, cold mist leaving her mouth. Snow also prepared to fight, but she retreated a bit, as Michelle had told her that she wanted to fight alone and only if she seemed to be in danger could Snow interfere.
Constantly, the quaking kept getting stronger until Michelle and Snow saw a horde of magical beasts and even some monsters running towards them. All had bloodshot eyes and were clearly in a state of hunger. The weaker and smaller beasts weren't running away even in the presence of bigger and stronger predators and the big predators didn't seem to notice their usual food and prey.
Seeing that tide of frenzied beasts and monsters, Michelle frowned a bit and lifted her hand with the whip. With a single swing of her whip, she killed a bunch of smaller beasts, which were still bigger than herself.