"Lune, have you seen Ray?"
"No i haven't, he is probably in the forest again, go check on him."
"Hahaha, let him, he is most likely training his body, him having a strong body will give him a headstart."
"That might be the case, but I am still worried about him, the forest is dangerous, hurry up and go," said Lune as she looked at Aaron
"It will be alright, the outer forest has barely any magic beasts, the chance of running into one is quite low with the many hunters hunting there."
Aaron carresed her face as he tried to change the topic
"Since he is not here anyway, should we have some lone time for just the two of us, it is not like he will face anything dangerous"
"If you dont wanna sleep on the couch for the next week, hurry up and go." And with that Aaron went to look for Ray.
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In the outer forest, Ray was training his body, he would be seen running and lifting heavy objects, most of which were rocks or dead trees, as a 10 year old, his physic was limited, but it was still stronger than most athletes back on Earth.
'This world is not the one where I was in before, one thing is for sure and that is that reincarnation exists and the most possible reason as for why I am aware of my memories is that something went wrong.'
While doing his daily speed exercise, he heard footsteps behind him. He stopped his practice to look behind him, he saw 2 children there, on of which was a 11 year old girl, her name was Wendy and she is the daughter of the city lord, while the other one is a 12 year old boy, his name is Zac, son of the richest family in the city.
"Oh Ray, what are you doing here? it is dangerous, go back if you don't have your Mana Ring yet." Wendy went up and looked at him with a stern look.
"Yes Ray, Magic beasts are more dangerous than you can imagine, even start up mages will have trouble doing anything to a low tier magic beast, train in the city." Zac seemed to share the same opinion as Wendy and they were totally correct. Magic beasts have strong fighting instincts and can be very dangerous to confron.
"oh hahahahahaha, hey guys, am just staying in the outer forest for some training, you know, to get a stronger body."
"That is fine Ray, but be it is dangerous here, you need to be very careful." Zac once more cautioned him then went to go back the same way he came from.
Wendy also gave him one last look and followed behind Zac.
'It shouldn't be long now, I can already feel something in my body unlocking, this must be the forming of the Mana Ring, a sign that I can absorb mana, almost there." After bumping his first in the air Ray went back to training.
Aaron was there for quite a bit now and kept following Ray, he decided to see what he was up to every time he came here.
After tiring himself out, Ray went to River a bit deeper in the forest to clean himself up. it was his daily routine and nothing ever happened to him.
Ray walked deeper in the forest, the outer forest is relatively safe, with close to no Magic beasts in it but that does not mean that there are never any magic beasts, the hunters hunt here on a regular basis but even they sometimes miss a beast, while the price for the magic beasts in the outer forest is not high, a magic beast a day keeps the hunger away. Ray went near the river, but before he got there he felt his back turn cold and he started to involuntary tremble, a huge pressure felt like he was standing in 10 times the gravity he was used to He slowly turned around and saw a magic beast looking at him. it was a wolf type magic beast known as the Golden Furred Wolf and it was one of the most common magic beasts, but it was still strong enough to deal either a 100 of him without trouble.
No matter how brave Ray was, he can't help but be scared, even his 89 years of his old life were of no help, he had never faced a live and death situation as dire as this, he felt despair, who would have expected that he would meet a golden furred wolf as his first magic beast. 'Seems like I underestimated the strength of this world, and this is the weakest of them all, the most common. Is this how I will die?'
Was his thought as he looked at the wolf in front of him, it revealed its razor sharp fangs and slowly circled around him. Ray was pushed on his knees, the pressure was too much for him to handle.
The golden furred wolf glared at his his prey, after circling around him for a bit it seemed to make up its mind and lunged itself at Ray, who only had time to have a single thought
'Fuck'
All of a sudden an ice lance came from the side and impaled the wolf to the tree at the other side, Ray just watched the wolf struggle before an ice cone pierced through its head, instantly killing it.
He then heard a sound to his right, he looked only to see beautiful girl that seemed to be 18 jumping down from the a tree branch, she had blond hair, green eyes, she was wearing short pants with a white T-Shirt that had what looked to be a Phoenix magic beast on it
"You are a weird one alright, what are you doing so deep into the forest kid?"
She looked at Ray full of curiosity, you have to know that even Mages would not dare to come so deep alone, while it is not hard to run away from a few magic beasts, but if a horde of them surround him/her, they would die. Yet this kid that has no traces of mana on his body was somehow either brave or stupid enough to come this deep into the forest.
Ray looked back at her and then at the wolf with envy and admiration, to be able to kill a golden furred wolf so easily he could only look at her in admiration and a slight bit of envy.
"Thank you for saving me." Ray bowed a bit while thanking her.
"No need for the that, tell me why you are here, even the outer forest is dangerous for you." The girl waved her hand at his gesture of gratitude and asked him once again.
"I was training in the outer forest, after which I came to clean up at the river but then I got attacked by the wolf."
"Well, you almost left the outer ring, the wolf was one of my targets, after I killed 10 or so the rest ran away, he was the last one, anyway, go back to the city, it is not safe here."
"I will thanks, uhmm.."
"What is it? No need to be shy." She smiled at him, her smile was bewitching, Ray felt like she was an angel at that moment.
"What is your name? I want to know my heroes name." Ray smiled foolishly, while scratching the back of his head.
"Name is Lucy, now leave, it is not safe."
"Thank you Miss. Lucy, I'll be on my way then." After expressing his thanks once again ray turned to leave at the direction he came from.
"Wait, your name?" Lucy asked, she intended to tell his parents about it, although she saved him this time, there might not be a next time.
"My name is Ray River." Ray answered before leaving.
"Alright Ray, let's get out together, I think I wanna take a break too." After which she Absorbed the golden furred wolf into her Mana Ring before going.
All the while Aarron was sitting on top of a tree just watching the scene play out, he was ready to intercept the wolf but he then saw the Ice Spear and decided to let the girl handle it. With a smile on his face Aarron went back to the city.
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