>>5812382>>5812406>>5812408>>5812426>>5812466>>5812467>>5812477>>5812527>>5812576>>5812947Several plans occur to you in rapid succession.
You could blast a water bullet. You’d likely be able to take down the giant centipede, but you’d be unconscious afterwards and you had no guarantee that the wolves would be able to finish off the rest of the centipedes on their own, nor were you 100% sure that one or more of the remaining centipedes wouldn’t climb the tree and bite your unconscious body if they realized where you were at.
You could throw shuriken and kunai at them. Less decisive than using the water bullet, but at least you’d be able to stay awake. You might distract the centipedes and goad the wolves into helping you clear them out, but you doubted the wolves would be able to succeed without stronger help, and you’d surely be forced to retreat anyway if you were attacked, and at a sluggish, unhealthy pace at that.
What you really needed was some way of summoning your teammates. You could blast a water bullet into the air, but that wouldn’t last long, and you’d drop immediately afterwards.
You could generate mist which may be noticeable and less likely to make you pass out, but that had similar issues with effectiveness.
What you needed was something simple, prolonged, and low in resources. Constructing a signal fire would be your best bet. Eventually someone would notice the smoke and come for you. The problem with that would be that it would take time the wolves may not have in defense of the old woman, but considering you weren’t any good to her dead or floundering that was probably your best bet.
You would construct a signal fire as fast as possible and then support the wolves with ranged attacks for as long as you could, hoping your teammates arrived to take the edge off.
That in mind, you begin hopping back south along the branches, eventually finding yourself at the dirt trail you initially noticed heard the commotion from. The packed dirt of the trail was mostly clear of debris that would cause the fire to spread, so right in the center of the road was as good a place to build it as any.
You gather sticks, twigs, and dry leaves to quickly construct a fire. You don’t have fire starting tools so you’re a little nervous about how fast you can make a fire happen, but you use your figurine carving acumen to construct a decent fire plough with immense swiftness and manage to get a spark going quickly. All in all, you’re able to get a fire going in less than ten minutes. A new record. It wouldn’t last long of course, but it didn’t need to last hours, just enough time to be noticed.
You toss some wet leaves in it to produce an excess of smoke before quickly returning to the clearing.
