faes wanted the fox to let its guard down before the real fight began, if the fight continued for some time even after the ginseng matures aiden can collect it without worrying about the fox attacking as it will be busy with her.
'and its more fun that way' faes was excited as the fox became enraged and growled at her. faes had already made the shield around her using her qi and she was ready to attack too but she wanted to see the attack of the fox first and know how strong she was in comparison to a top tier 1 beast.
the fox gathered the fire magic particles and then formed many fireballs from it. faes was rather disappointed watching this but her eyes sparkled again when the spell went to next level. the fireballs that were floating around the fire fox began to merge forming a clone of the fox though smaller.
faes was amazed by the idea of using the magic to form clones but it would have cost huge amount of mana and if it would help much in fight.
the fox gave another growl and the clone charged at faes. when it swiped its paw at her faes was sent flying away. thanks to her shield she was not hurt but the shield itself was cracked. this made faes more excited as she landed on the ground with a flip.
'the clone have more strength than the original' faes was shocked by this discovery after doing a scan on the fox after landing but she didn't have time because the clone charged at her again.
'shit! if this continued she will be in trouble'
faes noticed that her shield was not helping much. after another defend faes used her movement technique and vanished from the fox's sight. when she arrived she was already at a distance and then she grinned.
"you are strong but not more than those two knight establishment" faes said.
it was a fact because the fire fox was just a tier 1 beast whose strength was similar to body strengthening or soul strengthening stage of cultivation, but faes was vary of it because it was a magical beast which is about to break through tier 2 which is similar to core formation and strengthening stage of cultivation and even then the beast tend to have more strength and mana than a cultivator making them stronger.
faes had already prepared her new techniques and was ready to use it now that she knew how strong she was and the fire fox was she was ready to end this battle.
'the ginseng is about to mature soon too' faes noticed the notification system sent and decided that the battle have to end soon
"lets finish this" faes shealthed her sword and stood up straight. the fire fox watched her actions and sent the clone to attack her once more trying to end her life. he watched as faes lifted her hand and pointing her finger towards the clone and then the clone exploded into nothing.
the fire fox became way too shocked watching the clone die and didn't know what happened at all.
faes had used her new technique known as transcend qi mystic arts. in real it was just a technique she created but when she was naming it faes remembered the names in the cultivation novels she read and hence named it similarly. what she used now was initial move of the technique called as qi bullet. faes simply copied the gun from her hand using qi to form the bullet after condensing it. then she released the qi bullet from her finger and boom! the bullet will hit the target and cause a small blast killing them. the fox didn't see that bullet because it was simply not able to sense qi. it only used fire magic particles and cultivated using them, qi was something it wasn't able to sense as it wasn't affinated with it.
the bullet could be easily dodged, but the clone didn't know that and ended up dying.
faes turned to the fire fox and grinned pointing her finger towards it and fired a bullet but as she knew the fire fox dodged it making her click her tongue.
'indeed fox are clever, it cant sense the qi bullet but it still knew i was attacking and dodged to the side'
the fire fox then created another clone and sent it to attack faes but even before it got to her faes pointed her hand to the clone's head and fired her qi bullet ending it.
fire fox though cant sense what was killing its clones continued to create more and sent them to faes attacking her and slowly moved towards the ginseng, but to its efforts went in vain. whenever it took a step closer to the ginseng faes would point at it making its hair stand in fright.
there was a saying that the thing unknown is more dangerous and frightening. the fox didn't know how she was attacking and hence it was more scared and cautious against her. he was continuously sending its clones but they all burst and died when faes pointed at them. soon faes heard a notification
[host the ginseng has matured]
faes was trying to get a hit at the fire fox but it wasn't allowing her, sending clones after clones. faes was no different than the fox they both can neither hit the other nor get to the ginseng.
'but that was the plan!' faes smiled as she sensed aiden going towards the lava pond to collect the ginseng.
the fire fox noticed that too and its anger grew. all this while he was forced to fight a kid and didn't managed to kill her, now the treasure he was saving and waiting patiently to mature was going to be stolen away by her comrades! it wont allow them to take the ginseng away, it was its chance to break through tier 2.
the more the fox saw aiden go closer to the ginseng the more angriy it became and soon it exploded.
[host the fire fox went berserk be careful!] the system notified faes but she had already sensed that and was already in position to defend.
"roar!" the fox strangely let out a loud roar alerting aiden who was just about to go to jump over the lava pond to get the ginseng. he glanced and saw that the fire fox was glaring at faes its eyes were turning red the fire magic particles around it were being absorbed and used rapidly.
'it went berserk!' aiden watched with wide eyes as the fox charged at faes who was in a defensive position with her sword still in its sheath on her back.
'how is she planning to defend without the sword?' aiden thought as he watched the fire fox approach faes who was unusually calm.
sky was in aiden's arms watching as her worry grew for faes but it wasn't like she cant help faes. sky lifted one of her paw just as fire fox got in few meter around faes.