You quickly reinforce your body to a greater degree than before, and allow yourself to tumble to the forest below without a single care. You do of course cover your face almost as an instinct as you see the trees rapidly approaching below. You can barely see through a gap in your hands and are forced to twist your body to prevent yourself from literally being impaled upon one of the trees. Reinforcement or not, something like that would go straight through you, and you'd likely bleed out even with the natural healing ability of your body. You wouldn't have much luck in trying to heal away a tree trunk in your chest.

Thankfully, it doesn't come to that, but in reinforcing yourself, you really ignored the potential damage this might cause anyway, as your body crashes through dozens of tree branches before you smash right through a hollow rotten log, dozens of large wooden splinters piercing into your skin for maybe a few centimeters before the massively improved durability of your body stops them.. Ow.

Your arms are both broken, you can feel from the pain exactly what a broken arm feels like, and while you should be able to heal from the damage in perhaps a few minutes, less if you're lucky, you don't want to remain in this forest separated from your allies for any longer than you have to.

It's quite a struggle to pick yourself out of the remains of the tree trunk, and you are relieved that it doesn't feel like anything else was broken... well, not anything that you can't safely ignore. A few cracked ribs aren't too bad, right? Both of your arms dangle uselessly at your side as you finally manage to get to your feet. You really wish that you could remove the painful splinters in your back, but the bleeding isn't too bad, and it's impossible while your arms remain useless anyway.

Part 14