Invisible Reaper Dragon (A Reincarnation Story)

Chapter 22 - Training (Part 3)

I immediately turned invisible again and did my best to swim away, with my newly shortened body getting to the nearest pillar I could climb up took forever. I couldn't help but look back every so often, only to see the giant creature just lazily making its way over! 

I am not going to be toyed with dammit!

I looked at Pops scornfully and did my best to 'doggie paddle' my way over to the only rows of pillars near me. They were on the other side of the damn pond; though, thankfully, they weren't on the side behind the lazy dinosaur...I really hoped this was just a projected imaged or something--that nothing here would be able to actually hurt me, or even kill me... like Pops had said they wouldn't be able to...

The next few minutes--and I got to see this due to the stupid clock--were mental torture. Sure, I might not be getting tired from this , or at least so far, but I also didn't seem to have an immediate reaction-response like most creatures had when faced with an threat or another dangerous creature. Which meant that I had to react to things on my own and just hope that I did so fast enough.

This really put into perspective what I needed to work on in the future for when I was going to be fighting other creatures, as the only levels I'd gotten were from the exhausted Humans I'd stolen from Red...though now that I thought about it wouldn't they have been wasted on her anyways? Since beings at higher levels should get a cap or something for killing anything a certain amount of levels under them?

There was a loud snap behind me that made me increase my pace a bit, getting more used to swimming now and finding that using my tail as a sort of rudder rather than just dragging it behind me helped out a lot. It also helped that it was a decent deterrent thanks to the blade at the end, I was glad the thing didn't decide to just speed up a little and drag me under, using my tail against me; Though, I guess I would've gotten the last laugh in the end, because of the 'extremely dangerous venom' I had. Something that I generated naturally as a sort of biological weapon of my own.

It took me ten agonizing minutes to reach the first pillar, and the process of hooking my claws into the wood was easy but dragging myself up was much harder than I thought it would be. Despite not having fur it seemed that I was pretty lacking when it came to the muscles requiring me to actually pull up my own body weight, so I guess that was another thing I would have to work on later...

Made me glad I didn't have a lot of fur like Redline had: even if it wasn't thick, I'm sure that it still had to be annoying when having gotten wet...Speaking of Redline. I took a quick glance up to look at her when I got to the top of the pillar. She was sitting up and watching the proceedings with reluctant interest, though I didn't know how she could see me. The croc couldn't, thankfully, or I'd have already been scrambling for the next pillars whilst trying to keep my paws from slipping off.

Moving with four legs was sometimes worse than having only two: I needed twice the amount of steps to catch up or go somewhere, it felt like it was twice the distance traveled too, and I needed twice the amount of foot-holds than if I had just two legs. Twice the amount of effort needed, just for doing the simplest of things...There was a sudden flare of light and I tensed.  Expecting the last few rows of pillars I was traveling on to fall over and the creature to know where I was based off of that, but it came towards me for a different reason:

My entire body was surrounded by a multi-color glowing light coat. Making me into some kind of rainbow beacon, I was practically ringing the snack bell for it! And the giant ass croc was hell-bent on crashing it's way towards me, the brightly glowing snack. Was this how Red was able to see where I was and what I was doing?

"Can't have you using your ability to skip out on the main point of this..." I jumped at the sound of Pops' voice seemingly right next to me. Almost missing the next set of pillars as I continued to travel forward atop them. A quick glance up showed him and Redline still floating several hundred feet in the air, and he was looking at me with an amused smirk again!