E.T. SAYS HELLO
"Silly, aim for its wounds", he replied to me.
The guy was right.
Although my magic missile might not be able to penetrate the Fanged Hyena's armor, they could reopen its newly recovered wounds. Although the Hyena's wounds were closed, the armor that was there would not grow back so quickly.
I did what the man asked of me, and my magic missiles continued to pierce into the injury of the Hyena, causing more bleeding to the creature and reopening its old recently healed wounds.
However, despite its injuries, the Fanged Hyena did not let up its chase for us although its speed and momentum were significantly reduced after being hit by a phaser.
"Why are you running in circles?", the man asked me.
"What, do you have somewhere you want to go?" I asked him as we ran in circles while the Fanged Hyena chased us.
"No", he replied to me.
The Fanged Hyena was maybe a Venus Tiered creature according to the Compendium of the Hunters which was extremely rare in this forest or this entire country for the matter and there was little chance for me to trap and kill such a powerful beast.
However, it was a golden opportunity for me to kill the beast now because it was already wounded by a hand phaser.
I remembered the hand phaser was a laser projecting weapon that my previous life used before. It was a powerful weapon that could break rocks and metals and the strongest creature skins. Without that phaser wound, it would be impossible for me to attempt to kill a Venus tiered creature.
"Magic Missiles"
Although my magic missiles continued to pierce into the Fanged Hyena's wounds it wasn't possible for the metal balls to kill the powerful beast.
"What's the point of scratching his wounds if it doesn't kill the cat?" the guy asked me after he realized my "magic" weapon wasn't really effective at killing the Fanged Hyena.
But my purpose wasn't to kill the creature outright because I wasn't capable of doing so. My purpose was to let the creature bleed and hopefully it would die of bleeding before it caught up with us.
"We can only bleed it to death if we can't kill it outright", I told the man.
"Right, that explains running in circles", he replied to me.
Although the Fanged Hyena was quick and his speed did not slow down much, there were some signs of fatigue in the creature as its judgment and thinking slowed.
"The fat cat is getting clumsy", the guy said to me as the Hyena continued to chase us.
"It's the loss of blood affecting its brains", I reminded the guy.
"Yes, of course. At least the anatomy of living creatures in this alien world is same like ours", he replied to me.
"Thump"
Suddenly the Fanged Hyena rammed into a large tree.
The large cat wasn't seeing properly due to the profuse bleeding, and it mistook a tree for us. But the crash on the tree also knocked the beast out while it finally bled to death.
"Is it dead yet?", the man asked me.
"I think so", I responded to him as I sent my magic missiles to poke the beast.
The beast gave no reaction at all to my poking, so it must be dead.
I quickly took out my knife to cut the beast up and carved out its heart.
"What are you doing? Are you a barbarian?" the man asked me.
"I'm absorbing his heart", I told the man as I drew a gathering spell on the ground and placed the Fanged Hyena's heart in the middle as I sat around to absorb the magic.
Memories of my previous life suddenly flashed back to me. In my previous life I actually tried to absorb energy from a dragon's heart while those around me danced and sang to the gods in a ritual.
Although, we were lives and a reincarnation apart, I was actually doing the same things as my former lives.
The guy with the phaser merely sat and watched over me, curious about what nonsense I was doing and basically because he had nowhere else to go.
And I was probably the only human he ever encountered in this world.
"Arrghhhh"
Suddenly I had huge chest pains as my heart was imploding. I must be achieving a breakthrough finally after absorbing a fresh Venus Tiered magic heart.
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The reconstruction of my magical heart took much less than an hour and it seemed that as I progressed in magic the downtime it took for a breakthrough was shortened.
"Awakening Level 4"
Finally, after months of hardships and efforts, I've reached level 4 Awakening Tier in Templar magic which was a walk in the park for most children but was an immense achievement and also struggle for me.
But the reward was huge for me too since now I have the combined Star attributes of at least a Mercury Level 1 templar.
"Who are you?" I asked the man with the phaser.
"Ronnie Grump at your service", the man told me as he studied me with interest.
Then some memories returned to me.
"Damnit, you are the missing Illuminati explorer in the 22nd century", I said to him.
From the memories of my previous life, he learned about a famous explorer and scientist named Ronnie Grump who disappeared mysteriously in space and was never found. But that was in the 22nd century, a hundred years before.
I don't know how he ended up here in Slowan forest, but the fact was, he's here.
"You talk like it's not the 22nd century", he replied to me.
"Well, this is not Earth anymore as you may realize by now", I told him without elaborating more about matters on Earth.
In my previous life, we were enemies with the Illuminati, a faction that Ronnie belonged to.
"Who are you? Are you also from the Illuminati Armada?" Ronnie Grump asked me.
"I'm Orion, a boy from Slowan village, Nymera kingdoms of the Ten-Kingdoms continent", I told Ronnie the Illuminati.
"Ronnie from Earth, Erm..Hail from Earth", Ronnie told me.
I was after all an alien according to Ronnie's thinking and in his culture, when meeting an alien, the correct response was to hail them.
Ronnie raised out his hand toward me and pointed his finger at me trying to make a connection of some kind.
"Damnit Ronnie, I am not an E.T., so save your finger and how the hell does an Illuminati researcher end up in this world", I replied to him.
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(Author's Note)
I've enclosed much details about the world before the Holokauston which may be confusing to those readers who hadn't read the first book, Awakening @end of the world. But these facts don't form a crucial part of this book and are just to complete the back story of Ronnie arriving in this world.