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Chapter 7 - Stagnation

'Gra, beware of its fangs.'

'Ay ay capt, btw why don't you just blast it with your gun javelin thingy? It is quite taxing to keep up with its movement.'

The tiger roared then released a wind blade with its paw aiming at Angra at the vanguard. Faust then made an earth wall to defend against the wind blade.

'Thanks, Faust, so where is the gun thing?'

'First, I have not given it a name yet, and second, it's a rank 2 magic tiger. It will never let me finish my preparation when sensing a lot of magic gathering.'

Angra then saw a small gap in the tiger's movement, he side-stepped forward going into the tiger's blind spot, and punched its side with full power. But the tiger's hide not only strong that Angra failed to damage it, the punch makes the tiger more annoyed.

'Damnit its skin is so tough my fist can only scratch it'

'Gra, I have something I want to try. Can you throw me to the sky?"

'What?Where?Sky?? Okay, no problem."

Faust then made the javelin for 'the gun javelin (name not official btw)' with earth magic.

'Now Gra!'

'Here you go!'

Angra infused himself with earth magic to shatter the earth below the tiger, making the tiger move to dodge it. Angra then changed to wind fusion and retreat to where Faust is and throw him upward.

Faust used wind magic to make him fly even higher, He then condensed the fire elements in the back part of the gun javelin like usual.

After Faust reached the maximum height from the momentum of Angra's throw and his wind magic, He makes a thin film that wraps around whatever passes through it using death elements in the tiger's direction, then he aimed the gun-javelin to pass through the film.

He then released the javelin and detonate the condensed fire elements. The javelin shot out rapidly passing through the thin films. The javelin traveled at a bullet speed and when the javelin passes through the death element film, the javelin is now coated in death attribute mana.

By using the sticky thin film, the death element won't eat away the condensed fire elements at the back for the initial explosion to propel the javelin. But the javelin is still infused with death mana to deal significant damage to the rank 2 magic tiger.

A loud bang in the sky did catch the tiger's attention, but bullet speed is still too much for its senses to catch up. The death infused javelin is aimed straight at the tiger's body, Faust is going for the tiger's head but since the direction are so far, and his magic control is not that good yet, he misses the head but still succeeded in piercing the tiger's middle part of the body.

The tiger roared fiercely because of the intense pain that spread throughout its body because of the death element infused in the javelin constantly weakening and eating him from the inside.

But that roar seemed to be the reason why it loses the fight.

Angra saw the gap that Faust made, and he infused death element into his body, concentrating it in his fist. When the tiger roared, with its body as big as an elephant, its not hard for Angra to go for the tiger's head when its mouth was opened. Angra aimed at one of the thinnest parts of the body which is the mouth ceiling and his death-infused fist pierced through the mouth's ceiling straight to the tiger's brain and splattering it with the force carried by the fist.

With its brain becoming a smoothie, even a rank 3 beast can't stay alive for so long.

-Rank 2 Magic Tiger Killed-

-Level Up!-

'Faust, can I have it?'

'Sure, rank 1 or rank 2 souls are pretty much the same for me.'

-Rank 2 Magic Tiger Soul consumed, Strength +1-

'It's been so long since I only have to eat 1 soul to get additional attributes, thanks Faust'

After a few months of going hunting with their father, Angra and Faust finally got their parent's approval of hunting on their own in the Forest of Beast. With Lily's condition being they will not go too deep in the forest and go back home before dark.

They started hunting the usual rank 1 magic beasts like the boar and deer from before, and they also fought a group of rank 1 monkeys. But after a month of hunting those rank 1 beasts, they felt that it's too easy for them and after reaching level 7 they did not level up again even after defeating 10 rank 1 magic beast, hence they decided to try and fight rank 2 magic beast.

To keep their promise with their mother, they did not go deeper into the forest.

First, they defeated a rank 1 magic boar with as little damage as possible to its body.

Then Faust infused the boar spirit to possess its dead body. With Faust's fusing his death attribute mana to the boar's dead body, the boar is now an undead or zombie you may say.

Faust told the zombie to go deeper into the Forest to search for rank 2 magic beast then bait it out to where they are.

And the poor zombie boar succeeded in attracting a rank 2 magic tiger.

After leveling up again after stuck for so long, they are now convinced that rank 1 beasts are no good anymore and they soon have to go deeper into the forest if they wanted to become stronger.

'Gra I think we should negotiate mom's condition, we don't want to lie to her right?'

'I don't mind lying but I think it is better to be honest with mom.'

'Gra don't you think it's not normal that we as 5 years old could kill rank 1 magic beasts that are considered strong by normal people, but it is still not enough to reach level 10 and get our first job?'

'I don't know Faust but don't we only need to kill a stronger monster? What matters is that we can get stronger and level up.'

'Yes yes. It's no use to think about let's just focus on getting stronger. Let's go back for now Gra it's getting dark.'

With Angra's constant eating of souls, his attribute is now higher than Faust's. With wind fusion, he can easily carry the boar's body back to their home.

They wanted to bring home the tiger's dead body and brag it to their parents, but Lily might be worried and prohibit them from going hunting again, so they only buried the tiger's body so it will be useful for the forest as a fertilizer.

Angra threw the boar's body outside of their home to a small hut where their father used to clean and separate the part of the magic beast to sell.

"Welcome home Isaac, Aiden what did you guys hunt today?" (Lily)

"Hi mom! We just hunted a boar and some other animal that we're too lazy to bring the body back home." (Isaac)

"Yes, Boar and other animals" (Aiden)

"Alright go inside and wash up boys, I will prepare dinner to eat together when your dad comes back from the village later." (Lily)

Not too long after that, Mark finally comes back home. And they ate their dinner.

"How are today's hunt boys?" (Mark)

"As usual dad, It is getting easier and easier to hunt rank 1 beast and our progress seem to stagnate. I think that me and Aiden need to go deeper into the forest into the forest." (Isaac)

"Usual dad" (Aiden)

"Alright, I will see how you guys do against rank 2 beast later on and if you guys do well, maybe your mother will let you go on your own." (Mark)

"Jeez you demons are scary, you boys are 5 years old you know! You should be still helping me at home and creating mess here and there, not hunting rank 2 magic beasts." (Lily)

The three demons (Aiden, Isaac, and Mark) looked at each other and grinned awkwardly hearing Lily's statement.

"Oh, and I heard a news from the merchants in the village that bandits are attacking the other villages near ours. Going from 1 village after the other, leaving after robbing a few houses at night and disappearing in the next day." (Mark)

"The village near us already announced the news and warned the villagers to be careful regarding the incident." (Mark)

"Our house is a little distance from the village but with no other people around, our house might be an easy target for them so beware." (Mark)

"Don't worry dad, I will make a surveillance system with the spirits to warn us when something like that happened. And with our strength, I doubt that you need to deal with them yourself." (Isaac)

"Easy" Aiden said while looking smug

"Don't underestimate them, robbing a few houses without being noticed needed some skills, or they have a mage with them. Just be careful, and if you find them tell me first." (Mark)

"Okay dad!" (Isaac)

"Okay" (Aiden)

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Race: Cambion

Name: Isaac Marchosias (Faust)

Age:5

Title:-

Level:7

Job:-

Job History:-

Attributes:

Strength=20

Agility=17

Endurance=16

Intelligence=32

Mana=265

Skills:

Chantless Casting 4

Multi Casting 3

Unordinary Strength 2 (Passive)

Soul Vision

Mana Sense 5 (Passive)

Unique Skills:

-Soul Telepathy (to Aiden)

-Loved By Death

*Charm undead: Souls and Undeads naturally are not hostile to you, and weaker soul/undead will willingly submit to you

*Help of the dead: You can borrow death mana from undead/souls who submitted to you

*Death Mana Talent: You have a natural affinity in controlling death mana

×you can't directly harm souls/undead with your death mana

Race: Cambion

Name: Aiden Marchosias (Angra)

Age:5

Title:-

Level:8

Job:-

Job History:-

Attributes:

Strenth=44

Agility=32

Endurance=27

Inteligence=19

Mana=165

Skills:

Close Quarter Combat 2 (NEW)

Mana Sense 3 (Passive)

Unordinary Strength 6 (Passive)

Soul Vision

Unique Skills:

-Soul Telepathy (to Isaac)

-Feared By Death

*Scare undead: Souls and undead will naturally avoid you and the weaker ones will be scared of you

*Death Eater: You can consume death mana and souls to strengthen yourself.

*Death Mana Talent: You have a natural affinity in controlling death mana

×You can't use your death mana to control undead/souls