Very soon the kidnapper climbed up the ladder to the wooden platform. Everything seemed clear with a white cloth covering the fishes in the corner. But one thing was missing, Rudra. His disappearance made him panic at an alarming rate. The kidnapper ran to the other edge of the platform. He sweeps across his eyes only to find a black cat on the ground chewing the fish in its hands.
"You bastard!", the kidnapper screamed.
But very soon he realized something and jumped down the wooden platform running towards the forest. Rudra knew that if the kidnapper chases him it wouldn't take much time for him to be caught, therefore, going deeper in the forest, he continuously kept running through those dense trees.
But still the kidnapper was able to chase him through those woods and Rudra was also in his struggle to maintain the distance between him and the kidnapper, to avoid being caught. The kidnapper took out his dagger and threw it towards Rudra. But Rudra senses the swift blade and immediately ducked down avoiding the dagger.
Taking advantage of the situation Rudra immediately changed his course through those dense trees, and within a second he disappeared from the kidnapper's vision. His foots stopped right there as he looked around in the eerie silence if that forest.
Suddenly with a bustling sound of those leaves, the kidnapper felt a hand on his shoulder. But as he turned his head, he realized it was nothing but leaf that fell on his shoulder. In that silence he suddenly felt a keen blade that slice through the air on his left.
He stepped aside and narrowly dodged that dagger that flew right past him, but before he could compose himself, a fist came out of the darkness of the forest and landed on his nose. The kidnapper staggered back as his hands covered his bleeding nose.
He looked at his hands only to find a lot of blood, the kidnapper lost his temper took out another dagger and sliced towards Rudra. Rudra was easily able to dodge that slice but then the kidnapper delivered a swift kick on his leg causing him to lose his balance.
Rudra fell on his knees but immediately punched the kidnapper's stomach as a retaliation, causing the kidnapper to stagger back as he spat a mouthful of blood. Rudra taking the advantage drew out his rusty dagger, and aiming it he threw it towards the kidnapper.
But a smirk appeared in the kidnapper's face as he was easily able to dodge the dagger and was about to strike Rudra when astonishingly the dagger swiftly curved back and pierced through the air moving towards the kidnapper.
"Ah!", the kidnapper screamed in agony, as he felt a tearing pain in his back as if something sharp ha skin, he immediately turned around to find the dagger he had just now dodged floating in the air, which then flew away and swiftly landed on Rudra hands.
Rudra just had used his spiritual energy to control that dagger and manipulate it, making it float in the air. As soon as the kidnapper realized this fact, it hit him hard that Rudra was a saint. Which was extremely shocking for the kidnapper.
But lost in his thoughts before he could even sense it, a blurry fist hit his chest with a tremendous power, causing him to be thrown back and collide against a tree. The very next moment the kidnapper fell down as he was knocked out senses due to the impact.
Rudra finding the perfect opening ran away as fast as he could, the kidnapper had suffered through a severe cut on his back and in that state it won't be much easy for him to chase Rudra anymore. Rudra kept running to make enough distance from the kidnapper, although he had tackled the kidnapper by hitting his vital chest for a while but since he was on the fifth stage of practitioner it won't be easy to completely subdue him.
Right now moving in a particular direction through that dark forest Rudra didn't know where he would end up. But his main goal was to exit the forest as soon as possible, otherwise the noise of his movements in the silence could even attract dangerous beasts, risking his life.
Fortunately after rushing for an hour, Rudra finally found the spot which looked like an edge of the forest. Rudra immediately ran to the edge to find a vast field that spread to large expanse. It was the nighttime and the moon alone among the dark clouds illuminated the sky.
Rudra walked into that that vast land and looked around to only to find the broken ruins of a town just few hundred meters away from him. But just the sight of those ruins in that dark night under the only light of moon felt very horrific even to Rudra.
With the curious thought sin his mind, Rudra took his steps towards those ruins. Upon approaching the ruins Rudra found nothing except of broken houses and wall debris , the infrastructure of that town was completely destroyed without any signs of life.
Upon observing closely Rudra also found many scratch marks of class on those walls, and as he walked further, Rudra even found a lot of dead bodies torn apart and pure fresh blood streamed out of them. Clearly signifying that this all had happened recently.
The weird smell spread in the surrounding even caused Rudra to feel nausea but somehow controlled himself. This was when he heard wierd munching sounds as if someone was violently chewing down some meat.
Tracking the direction of that sound, Rudra arrived near the center of the where a lot of ruins if huge monuments were spread across, leaving only a little space to set foot. Near the center were also a lot of human bodies which seemed to be completely devoured by the mystical beasts.
Beside those bodies Rudra spotted a wolf who ripped of the meat from those bodies and chewed them very contently. Rudra also spotted a huge cut on the stomach, through which the blood wouldn't stop bleeding.
Rudra got it that this town was assaulted by the same beast group, that Grandpa Vihaan mentioned about a few days ago, and it meant that there would be many more such beasts hiding throughout the town. Causing Rudra throat to go dry.
Here that baby wolf raised its head and began to scan the area which indicated it had sensed something unusual, fortunately Rudra at the right time took the cover of a broken stone wall. Rudra had decided to run out of this town as soon as possible. But as he moved back, he stepped on a small rock, which suddenly rolled away, causing Rudra to stomp on his own leg, and losing his balance he fell down, leaving out a huge thud sound. Which was enough to attract that wolf. Rudra stood up immediately but the wolf had already pounced at him, without leaving him with a chance to escape.
Rudra narrowly avoided that attack towards him as he moved to the side as fast as possible. Rudra knew that now he had to face the wolf, and since not knowing it rank, Rudra had to be aware from that wolf. But this was when an idea struck his mind and after taking a look on that long cut on the wolf's stomach Rudra drew out his rusty dagger.
That wolf again lunged towards Rudra and swung its claws, Rudra just jumped aside and was able to narrowly dodged that tearing strike while he swung his dagger on the injury of that wolf, leaving behind another severe cut.
The wolf fell down screaming in agony, but still somehow he was able to stand and limped while it moved towards Rudra. Indignant, the wolf sprang towards him. This time the wolf displayed an impressive speed, cashing it difficult for to avoid. But still in his try to do so, when he moved aside the wolf swung its claws and Rudra's right arm deeply.
A lot of blood coursed out of those three deep claw cuts, Rudra grabbed his right arm very tightly to slow the blood flow, other wise excessive blood loss could cause him to weaken which wouldn't prove to be so good in such situation.
But the wolf seemed relentless as it again and again tried to attack Rudra, while all Rudra did was to dodge while grabbing his arm injury. After dodging a lot, out of frustration Rudra used his spiritual energy to control his rusty dagger which began to float through the air.
The dagger launched towards the wolf at an enormous strength, and enclosing the wolf it took a swift turn and cut a long red streak on that wolf's body. That long cut on the wolf was an add up to the injuries it already had, which caused the wolf to weaken even more.
Rudra took the chance and recited the mantra, which made his fist surge with an incredible power, which he delivers towards that wolf. Due to the injuries it had the wolf was unable to dodge that strike, and that fist hit the wolf's hard skull head. Under the impact of that power the wolf was thrown away, and crashed on the ground dragging for a few meters leaving behind a lot of blood and drag marks.
The wolf was quite hard to deal with it, Rudra couldn't even imagine how powerful the other members of that beast group would be. But that wolf was still taking its last breaths but before Rudra could take even a step closer the wolf let out a loud bowl in pain.
Rudra sighed as the wolf finally left its last breath, still the problem was the injury on his right arm and the continuous blood flow, which had increased even more due to excessive movement kill that wolf. Suddenly Rudra heard a huge howl if another wolf from some other corner of the town, terrifying him to the last bit.
Rudra had understood that the howl pain let by the in front of him was a call from it to the other members of it pack.