As soon as the Elf ran towards Fei, he switched his bow with a knife, and lunged towards Fei.
Prepared, Fei dodged the incoming attack, and took 4-5 steps back but to his surprise, the Elf followed after him quickly.
For any normal mage, Distance is the key. As long as you can keep enemies at a certain distance, you can swarm them with spells before they can get close. Because of that, most mages have a very weak body and hence are vulnerable to physical attacks. This was the case with Fei too.
The Elf was familiar with this information and because of that he kept pressuring Fei into close combat.
But he forgot one important thing: 'Fei was a Druid.'
Fei can control plants to either stop incoming physical attacks or divert enemies' attention towards his plants and get away.
As expected, as soon as the Elf tried to attack Fei once again, the ground beneath him paved and tree roots came out restraining his feet. The elf tried to cut open the roots, but before he could get free, he felt hot air coming towards him!
As soon as Fei saw the Elf restrained, he directly used his newly learned skill 'Fireball'
"Shit…!" The Elf knew that he could not get away in time, so he had to take full blow of this fireball.
"BOOM…!" as a loud boom sound resounded throughout the forest, Fei saw the Elf engulfed in flames! and heaved a sigh of relief.
Fei looked at the arrow stuck to his left shoulder and spoke, "Phew, that was tough."
Fei removed the arrow from his shoulder and wrapped his bleeding shoulder with cloth and got up to check up on the Elf.
As Fei came near the Elf, Elf was lying motionlessly on the ground. Fei relieved, ready to rob the body of the Elf Fei got close. As soon as he came into the attacking range of the Elf, Elf's body suddenly moved. "Haaaaaaa…..!" the Elf roared and lunged towards Fei, swinging his knife towards Fei's neck.
Fei's face changed. Fei tried to dodge, but the blade sliced through his right shoulder. Fei tried to back away quickly before the second strike came his way, but the knife was faster and sliced right through Fei's stomach. Fei felt pain all over his body and to his horror he was unable to sense his right hand at all.
"huff….. huff…." While panting the Elf roared "Die….!" And again, lunged toward Fei while swinging his dagger.
Panicked, Fei started throwing anything that came to his hand including plants as well as poisonous vines he collected throughout his journey but nothing worked.
As Fei was losing hope his hand suddenly got hold of the fire panther's tooth. Fei saw the dagger coming with no options left; he raised his left hand while holding the tooth.
"Clang…..!" there was a metallic collision sound and both sides backed away.
Fei finally got a breather!
"No…! this is impossible…!" Fei saw the Elf looking at his dagger in disbelief. Fei followed and his eyes landed on the dagger. The dagger was still beautiful but half of its blade was missing…!
Fei also felt shocked. You have to know that in blacksmithing technique, Elves were second only to the Dwarves. Their swords made from Ethereum were the best swords in the world. The dagger in the Elf's hand though not made from Ethereum, but still was made from finest materials.
Fei looked at the bone in his hand. There was not a single mark or damage on the bone.
Fei felt his confidence coming back as he ran towards the Elf.
There was finally a look of horror in the Elf's eye as he started running in the opposite direction of Fei.
"Stay away..!" Elf roared as he desperately ran… but Fei didn't give him any chance to run away. He used his plant manipulation ability and surrounding plants shot up in the direction of the Elf.
As more and more plants came in the Elf's Way his face was full of unwillingness.
"Why..? Why me..?" This was the last question in the Elf's mind as plants engulf him.
Fei came towards the elf and stabbed the tooth of the fire panther right through the elf's skull.
But Fei was not convinced as he kept stabbing the tooth 8-10 times before coming to a stop.
As he looked at the body of the dead Elf, Fai's body relaxed as he fell down next to the Elf. Still half unconscious, Fei tried to got up but he was unable to do so. He looked around and his sight landed onto Elf's right hand. There was some kind of bottle in the Elf's right hand with a strange blue liquid in it which resembled water.
'This is where I will die…!' Fei thought.
'Thirsty...!' in the last moments he subconsciously opened the bottle and drank all the liquid inside the bottle.
'Sweet...!' these ware Fei's last thoughts. As Fei's consciousness faded.
Unknown to Fei, this 'blue liquid' he drank changed his whole life. This blue liquid was actually a sacred item called 'Life Water'. Life water was a sacred item to elves because it had the ability to bring back people from death. But the thing was, the life water was very scarce, it took around 1000 years for a single drop of life water to be formed naturally. Hence, only the elven royal family had access to the life water.
The Elf earlier drank just a single drop of life water which helped him to recover from Fei's fireball attack quickly.
As Fai was lying on the ground, completely unconscious. But looking at Fei's outer appearance one can see that Fei's whole body was actually glowing Green. The plants around him grew at a speed visible to naked eye.
While this was happening,
Inside the deepest part of the magic forest.
A woman who was sitting on a rock, meditating suddenly opened her eyes in surprise. She got up and waved her hands. A black portal appeared in front of the woman and she stepped inside it disappearing.
At the same time a black portal appeared in front of Fei and the same woman stepped out, waved her hand and took Fei away from the location of battle towards the deepest part of the magic forest.