'Welp it's going to be a hard one Gra, prepare yourself, and let's do this!.'
'Yes and please don't forget that you're almost got hit with the equivalent of a truck because of your untimely self-evaluation.'
'yes yes, I'll be more careful don't worry.'
Angra grabbed his halberd that was strapped onto his back and brandished it to grab the lion's attention on him so Faust can stay at the back and do his magic.
Angra used earth fusion to make his body sturdier, assuming that the lion is stronger than him. He dashed forward and swung his halberd towards the huge lion's body.
The sharp steel edge of the halberd traveled swiftly through the air, with Angra's body in a fusion state being enhanced, thus making the attack even faster and stronger. But all those momentum in the halberd failed to cut the lion's skin and bounced after coming in contact with the tough lion's hide.
Without even able to curse out, Angra already occupied with dodging the lion's attack.
'Faust you better think of something and think of it fast! This thing is on a whole another level that the magic beasts we've fought before.'
Each of the lion's attacks is taxing for Angra to block and dodging them is the best course of action Angra can do to hold on longer against the overpowering white lion.
Faust tried to think of a way to deal with the white lion's whose defense is really high that his gun-javelin just shattered instantly and Angra's fusion attack only bounced off its hide. He tried to think of a way to deal damage to it because any trick he came up with won't do anything if he can't damage the lion at all.
Then he got an idea. If the lion's outer defense is so tough, can he damage the lion internally? Faust then started to gather mana in both of his hands making 2 different poles in each hand. And before long the sparks of electricity appeared between his two hands. He added more mana, making the sparks stronger now and clearly visible by naked eyes. The magic training control he had done all this time didn't become a waste.
The fluctuating electricity made from magic slowly turned into a ball shape, Faust slowly shapes the unstable magic power in his hands. Condensing them together into even more deadly electricity that's as strong as a naturally occurring lightning from the Cumulonimbus.
The rank 3 white lion, of course, realizes that magic was gathering into the palm of the human at the back, but the other human with the halberd is annoying him and many times have the halberd-wielding human tried to attack its eyes every time it left its focus from him. The lion then tried to slap the annoying little human with annoyance to see what the other little human is doing gathering a lot of mana into his hand.
The slap from a rank 3 magic beasts that have the body enhancement type surely is not something you can take lightly. Angra hurriedly changed to wind fusion from earth fusion to boost his speed and barely dodged the lion not so serious attack.
But the extra time Angra bought by annoying the lion is exactly the time Faust needed to finally release his condensed lightning spell.
'Coming Gra!'
The ball of lightning flew at the speed of light to the lion, even a rank 3 magic beasts can't match the speed of light. The ball of lightning hit the lion's huge body and spread throughout the lion's body.
The lion's body twitched and Faust and Angra could see the agony in the lion's face struggling to keep standing cause of the high voltage of electricity coursing through its body. But unfortunately, the condensed ball of lightning is not enough to take down the Rank 3 white lion. After a while, the lightning diffused into the ground and left the white lion standing there furiously.
The now angry white lion stared at Faust and Angra before roaring loudly. Faust was sure even though he doesn't speak lion language, but that roar surely doesn't mean a good thing. The lion's claw protruded from the front paw. The claw didn't disappoint the lion's huge body. It looked sturdy and sharp and proportionally huge following its huge body.
Faust and Angra readied their body just in case the lion launched a lunge attack at them. But although they are prepared, the lion still disappeared from Faust's eyes and appeared before him. Before Faust could do anything, the lion's now huge and sharp claw already in front of him. He gritted his teeth and prepare for impact.
But the hit never came to him. In front of him was Angra holding his halberd as a shield blocking the lion's paw from hitting Faust. Angra used wind fusion to go quickly defend Faust, so his defense is not the best he can do when taking the hit from the lion's claw.
The claw was so sharp that Angra's steel halberd easily cut into three pieces and Angra's body flew from the impact and his body crashed onto a tree. Although lucky his body is in a fusion state so none of his bone was broken from the impact, but it is still strong enough to stun him for a second after he fell to the ground.
And now Faust was unprotected in front of the angry white lion.
"Well shit."
Then the surrounding field became filled with hot fog that is obstructing everyone's vision.
Making use of the time when the lion's claw slashed Angra, Faust conjured water magic in his left hand and fire magic at the other one, making the smokescreen to buy him more time to think about ways to deal with the now angry white lion.
'Gra are you okay?'
'Nope, being swatted like a fly surely didn't feel good.'
'Well, at least he's angry at you Faust, for the shocking gift you give him earlier. I can catch my breath a little with this'
'Really Gra? Shocking gift? But we're really on a bind here, with its speed and power, we just need to hope that Pat Kai runs fast enough for dad to arrive here soon.'
Then Faust felt wind attribute magic gathering around the lion's body and absorbed into him. Faust was now flying high up above the trees and observing the lion below.
'So he's been using wind fusion all this time, that surely explains his speed, Gra can you do anything to hold him?'
'Well thank you for asking, but now my halberd is literally in pieces, it will be very hard to hold that thing down.'
The thick fog eventually thin out and the forest started to become clearer.
'Alright we don't have much time, Gra focus on surviving and just kite it if you feel it is perfectly safe to do so.'
Faust started making death mana balls and throwing them unto the white lion below. Making death mana arrow surely will help the death mana to travel faster and more accurate to throw, but Faust is maximizing his advantage being from above the lion and make as many death as possible rain upon the lion before the lion is aware of his position.
And Faust's gamble on the mana balls succeeded, although the lion has great agility, the sheer amount of death mana balls raining from the sky succeeded in hitting some parts of the lion's huge body.
Although not condensed, death mana balls are still made from death mana which is fatal to a living being. The lion's vitality seemed to dwindle down a little bit, with his face seems to be holding out the pain from having death mana slowly eating its body. But it didn't stay for long before the lion glared at Faust in the sky and made a swiping motion.
The sharp claw that was swiped into Faust's direction seemed extended into the sky. Although surprised, Faust barely dodged it by only losing a couple of strands of hair which was cut by the lion's attack.
'WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT GRA?'
'HELL I DON'T KNOW YOU'RE THE ONE WHO WAS HIT BY IT.'
'It looked so real, but from what I feel, it is from the use of wind magic. It felt like a wind blade like what the rank 2 magic tiger did, but this one looked and shaped like its claws.'
'But why the hell it felt so real? Oh, and isn't he the body-enhancing type? Why the hell can he use wind blade?'
'And that's what I wanted to know as well, even if he is a rank 3 magic beast, shouldn't they still only able to do one type of magic according to what dad told us? Unless he's a rank 4 magic beast...'
'Wait a lion should be rank 3 right?'
'Yes they should be Gra, but I don't know what is different from...'
'FAUST BEHIND!!'
Although Angra's warning has reached Faust, it is still not fast enough for Faust to react. The 6 meter huge lion's body is already behind Faust and its paw was already precisely at the back of Faust's body.
*BAM*
Without any defense and body fusion on his body, Faust was easily slammed hard to the ground and Angra could clearly see with his enhanced senses, the blood coughed out from Faust's mouth.
"FAUSTTT!!"