After those words were spoken the forest became noisier as many beasts near the area came to challenge or spectate the event. Many answered to this challenge for the chance to become the blessed by their god. They rushed to challenge Rapt as the Ferda Family also begin to make their move towards the direction where Rapt's roar came from. Slowly groups of beasts showed up creating a circle around Rapt. Overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the different beast and their mana, Rapt could be seen trying to inspect each beast as they arrived. The sheer volume prevented him from inspecting them all as many arrived at the same time or together.
Rapt could sense some strong beasts in the crowd that he felt instinctual could easily kill him. Those beasts didn't step forth to challenge him for some reason. He also noticed that while most beasts arrived alone, those that arrived in groups were preceded by one lone beast followed closely by 4 or 5 other beasts. These were the beast tribes, a collection of beast lead by a strong leader and wise elders. Rapt continue to take in his surroundings until his first challenger stepped forward.
The first to challenge him was a water boar Beast with boar's tusks, a turtle's shell and webbed feet with blue and greenish coloring. The boar beast walked towards Rapt, he greeted him," I am Botur, blessed one prepare yourself".
Rapt respond in kind," I am Rapt, Blessed of Lord Bados". The two began to size each other up before Botur used the abundant moisture from the rain to use his skill [water bullet] towards Rapt as he rushed in. Rapt dodged the three bullets before rushing towards the heavier and sturdier Botur, who was enraged by Rapt's charge. Botur lowered his head readying his tusks, thinking 'such a foolish Blessed beast', as their clash seemed unavoidable. Rapt noticed how Botur lowered his head before jumping on his head as he activated his discharge skill shocking Botur right his body. Botur felt a surge run through his body as Rapt disappeared from his sight. Due to his element and the soaked environment the shock knocked Botur out sending him crashing to the ground after the first clash.
The crowd were intrigued as to what element Rapt had since Bortur was known to a fairly strong and durable beast. Some had fought against or beside him before and personally knew of his defensive capabilities. Soon his body was drag from the area before the second challenger approached. Rapt watched the new challenger that looked like a lion with red scales instead. "I'm scion the leader of the flame Leo. prepare yourself".
"I am Rapt beast blessed of lord Bados", Rapt said.
With the introductions out of the way and both prepared, Rapt took the initiative this time and charged towards scion who unlike Bortur didn't rush to match his charge but instead fortified his stance. The thought process of Scion was that a long battle would be in his favor since it would give him the time to gain proper insight into Rapt's abilities and element. With the abundant amount of static energy still in the air as well as the water acting as a conductor had increased Rapt's mana recovery rates along with the strength and speed of his skills. Taking advantage of his opponents not knowing his element Rapt suddenly halted his charge 5 meter before reaching Scion and fired two balls of lightning hitting scion and shocking his system. But unlike Bortur he remained standing and seeing this Rapt charged again. Once in the one-meter range of Scion's head, he spun slapping Scion with his tail activating [discharge] upon contact delivering another shock to his head shortly after the first two rounds of lightning passed through his body.
With that two challengers were defeated and Rapt roared again announcing his victory over the two. The youths of the crowd began to murmur as they saw the prowess of a blessed beast. The tribe leaders and elder weren't impressed as that had firsthand experience with the might of a proper blessed. "Those weaker than Bortur and scion submit" and with that warning issued half of those waiting to challenge him joined the rest of the crowd. While waiting for the third challenger Rapt checked his mana level and saw that he had 30 mana left. He noticed that he also was regenerating mana quicker than usual because of the abundant lightning mana in the air. He thought to himself,' I should developed a mana recovery on his own'. While in his thought's the third challenger had arrived. This beast was snake-like with two forearms, no hind legs and was covered in a rock-like covering over his skin. Seeing this Rapt had a bad feeling about this matchups between different elements. 'I need more knowledge about the different elements' he thought as the knowledge bestowed by Bados acted similar to a dictionary. It gave him information like word definitions, leaving comprehension and deductive reasoning to him.
Watching the new challenger Rapt was trying to figure out to handle the third challenger before starting with their introductions being for the third time. "I am rapt Blessed of the Beast God", which was follow by, "I am Sorc of the droc tribe. Prepare yourself". The battle commenced with Rapt still unsure what to do against his opponent .
Sorc was known as one of the more powerful beasts due to his out of the box thinking. When it came to use of his element and battle prowess only his chief could defeat him. His only issue was he was fairly young and sped through his first two levels meaning he was only middle tier in the third level. Sorc began the battle with three rock shots while preparing [rock whip]. A skill that used the rocks attached to his tail to launch attacks that combine his tail's strength with his [rock shot] skill to increase speed and damage of the skill.
Rapt dodge the first three easily and circled Sorc with the intent to learn his opponent. Being able to sense mana movement in his opponent's, Rapt figured it was best to only attack when he was sure that his opponent was to wore down. Rapt was being cautious since his opponent knew what element he had and probably had a better grasp on the knowledge about mana. This also made Rapt think of how he would deal with his knowledge and comprehension deficiencies in the future.
Sorc unlike the two before him didn't rush Rapt, instead chose to use long distance attacks to batter him. Sorc used his most basic attacks the earth shot forcing Rapt to dodge continuously. Rapt dodged each easily and remained cautious believing Sorc would have learned from older and more experienced beast. Beast that had their entire life to learn and test their knowledge on how stats, skills, and elements tied into each other. It came to no surprise that soon Sorc stopped using skill after firing continuously for about 30 minutes. This had upset those waiting to fight Rapt and the hot-headed and young beasts in the crowd. Rapt charged towards Sorc, making sure to study him with [mana sense] trying to understand how much mana he had left. Sorc simply watched as Rapt charged at him until he reached about 3 meters before using his skill [rock spike]. Paying close attention to Sorc mana, Rapt noticed the activation of the skill immediately. Not knowing what type of skill it was Rapt decide to press on trying to bet the skill in terms of speed. Rapt suddenly burst with speed, he closed in for the first successful attack of the battle. Sorc jumped back dodging the bite and upon landing spike burst from the ground in-between the two. Thinking quickly Rapt tried to turn as hard as possible which ended with a gash in his side from the spikes.
Creating distance between each other again, Rapt tried to think of a way to win. He noticed that the rocks attached to his body were still wet after Focusing sharply on Sorc. He charged again moving from side to side erratically, like before the spike shot out again. Being prepare this time Rapt dodged and continued the charge. Seeing Rapt enter his tail whip range, Sorc swung his tail at Rapt. Rapt jumped over his Tail onto his back and activated his discharge skill and sending two shock bolts at him. With his being mana replenished and unsure if his attack had succeeded. Rapt jumped and stomped onto Sorc's head crashing him to the ground. Unleashing discharge and two bolts again, aiming for his head to knock Sorc out.
After landing on the ground, he quickly turned around to face Sorc and found him getting up looking slightly unfazed. Sorc looked at Rapt and said," Nice try Blessed one but not good enough. I hope you have more in the tank because it's time for round 2, hehehe".