"R-Rank 3 B-Beast, Fire Lion and Azure Thunder."
Upon realizing the identity of the beast he was facing, despair filled Abel, making it very difficult for him to calm emotions quickly, with his body shaking a little, his eyes turned to the beast in front of him, which had not yet made no move, watching him silently.
"This is not the time to lose your cool, after all, I already expected this type of situation when I understood what this world was like, but even so, there is a big difference between reading how the protagonists face their adversities and doing it yourself."
Only the mere presence of the beast, the aura of dignity and majesty that filled it made Abel's body tremble, enduring this was already a difficult task for him, let alone face it.
The lion still did not make any movement, he only looked at Abel with a hint of interest, perhaps in his eyes, Abel was nothing more than an ant that, unfortunately for him, caught his attention.
This gave Abel time to mentally prepare, the lion before him was without a doubt a rank three beast, although if there was anything to celebrate, it was that apparently with his recent breakthrough, he should be able to use the full power of his double sword technique.
Even so, without two swords, Abel would find it very difficult to face an opponent in the martial soldier stage, if not impossible, and less a beast that, by nature, were more physically powerful than humans.
Noticing this, Abel began searching his memories for all information about the lion in front of him.
"Lion of fire and blue thunder, as its name suggests, is a beast that specializes in attacks with fire and thunder, using thunder as speed and fire to attack, it is one of the most dangerous beasts in the martial soldier stage. Besides, her azure fur makes her very difficult to… wait, azure fur?"
Thinking about this detail, Abel immediately looked closely at the lion, only to notice a fact that terrified him greatly.
"That lion does not have blue fur, it is black, besides now that I look at it, his eyes have a different color, don't tell me..."
The words stuck in his mouth, the calm he had managed to achieve immediately vanished when 2 words appeared in his mind repeating themselves like a broken record.
"Mutated beast, rank three mutated beast, fire lion and azure thunder."
Reaching that conclusion, any thought of victory and survival disappeared from Abel, if possible, even he would enter directly into the mouth of that animal and ask for a painless death, after all, a mutated beast of that level was completely out of their league.
"And here I dreamed of a great future, hahaha, how laughable, does the heavens want me so dead so that my pursuer is such a rare mutated rank three beast?"
His thinking was not wrong, the beast in front of him was why the guard back then wished him luck, back then, the lion was still rank two peak, but the hunters mistook him for a rank three beast, so it said a lot about his strength at the time, not to mention now that he was already officially rank three.
"A mutated beast can transcend cultivation levels, if it has just reached rank three, it can easily kill a cultivator at the early martial soldier stage, only an intermediate martial soldier can fight it."
That's right, just fight her, don't defeat her, that's how powerful the mutated beasts were, besides being extremely rare, their power far exceeded those of their normal counterparts, it could be said that, if Abel had a 30% hope of survival to a normal azure fire and thunder lion, in front of this beast and without his 2 swords, his hope was very close to zero.
The lion apparently found the change of expressions on Abel's face amusing, since, even after a while, he still didn't attack, while his gaze was that of a hunter watching an interesting ant make a fool of himself.
But the lion's patience was already running out, so even with Abel's dynamic vision, the lion's attack on him almost caught him off guard.
Suddenly, before Abel, a huge fireball was about to crash into him, so he quickly evaded, but even so, part of his clothes ended up burning.
"Damn, that was just a test attack, and it almost made me instakill? It looks like this beautiful waterfall will be my grave."
The lion didn't seem to care that Abel had dodged his attack, so quickly, he began to shoot more fireballs from his snout.
Abel desperately dodged, barely if he had room to observe each trajectory and narrowly dodge, plus his head was in a mess, unwilling to really fight the beast.
The lion seemed amused to see Abel dodging without defending himself, so he threw more fireballs faster and faster, unfortunately for Abel, he was unable to properly dodge one, sending him flying crashing into the waterfall.
For a moment, Abel fainted, but the pain overwhelmed him, waking him up quickly, to which Abel observed his state, only to despair even more.
Although he managed to stop part of the blow since at the last moment he attacked with his dagger, even so, he received a lot of damage, much of his body was burned, his hair had practically disappeared, and some of his bones were fractured by the impact, his situation was critical.
"Damn, though I barely responded in time, still, just one ball of fire was enough to almost kill me, and that thing throws them at point-blank range, not to mention it's not even getting serious."
These thoughts only made Abel despair more and more, it seemed that this place would really become his grave.
Thus, getting up shakily, Abel managed to stand up, the water of the waterfall that had evaporated a moment ago due to the lion's attack was already running again, its coldness made Abel calm down a bit while trying to find some chance of survival.
"The lion is only using weak fire attacks, he hasn't used his lightning element yet, otherwise, he would have already left this world minutes ago, so his only weakness is that he underestimates me."
"Besides what I read, the lion species have their weakness just below the chin, near the neck, if I land a full power blow of mine, I may be able to defeat it."
This thought was not entirely unreasonable, if Abel were in Kunlun, where the same environment favored the growth of beasts, Abel should have already entered the cycle of samsara, since even with an outstanding technique such as the art of double sword and his physique purified by the double spiritual cleansing would not have been enough to face such a beast.
However, in this lower realm, where martial techniques are somewhat mediocre and cultivators with the same physique as Abel are extremely rare, the opportunity to defeat the azure fire and thunder lion was no longer so ridiculous.
With this thought, Abel quickly made up his mind and looked in the direction of the lion, finally willing to risk everything for a chance of survival.
Meanwhile the lion, seeing the look in Abel's eyes, was enraged, he felt that his prestige as a superior beast was challenged, after all, in his eyes, it was as if an ant saw him as an equal, trying to challenge him.
At this, the lion roared with fury, suddenly, his limbs were filled with the sight of lightning, disappearing from his place and appearing right behind Abel.
Although Abel could no longer keep up with him, his instincts told him that the beast was most likely attacking from behind, so, seeing the lion disappear, he quickly dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding the claws of him.
This only made the lion even more enraged, attacking faster and faster, even launching an additional ball of fire.
Abel could only dodge passively, finding no opportunity to strike back, so in order to avoid being an easy target, Abel had no choice but to move away from the clearing and cover himself with the forest trees.
"He's too fast to keep up with him, if I want to slow him down for at least 1 second, I have no choice but to use the forest trees as cover for his fireballs, plus I doubt he's that agile in an environment with so many trees."
It was more or less as Abel guessed, while the fireballs burned some trees around, this also prevented the lion's speed from exploding to its full potential, it seemed that it was not agile enough to dodge while trying to kill Abel.
In this way, both of them went deeper and deeper into the forest, but Abel still could not find an opportunity to hit him, not to mention that, although his body was recovering little by little, his resistance was running out, it would not last. a lot if he kept dodging and not attacking.
"This can't go on like this, at this rate I'll be the one who gets tired and ends up in the stomach of that beast."
This thought arose in Abel's mind every second, only to be stifled by it, as he tried to keep his mind calm and calm even despite the danger he was in.
Little by little, and without him realizing it, they had gone deep into the forest, the beasts of the area had long fled, leaving this pair of beast and human alone, who were destroying the entire forest through which they passed.
Thus, Abel came to another clearing in the forest, much deeper, it also seemed that he was upriver from the waterfall, since he could hear the river water running not far from him.
Meanwhile the lion was completely furious, the ant that he could crush at any moment was not only more elusive than a fish, but every time he dodged his attacks it seemed to mock him, attacking his pride.
Thus, the lion roared louder, suddenly, purple rays completely covered his body, while he raised his snout creating a huge ball of fire and lightning.
At this sight, Abel knew that his opportunity had come, his concentration was pushed to the limit, allowing him to capture in detail every movement of the lion, which seemed to be preparing a devastating attack.
"It's now or never!"
Finding the exact moment just before the lion launched his attack, Abel lunged straight for him, while gathering his celestial qi into his dagger, soon, this qi began to grow and lengthen, making the dagger more like a sword.
Thus, gathering all of him in that desperate attack, he ran and cut the lion's throat with that sword.
For a moment, time seemed to stop in that instant.