He watched it happen as he suddenly thought,
"I'm going to die..." he thought to himself
"I'm going to die" "I'm going to die" "I'm going to die" "I'm going to die" "I'm going to die"
"I won't exist after this, no existence... void" Suddenly he felt fear, fear of dying, fear of not existing, fear of no longer being alive. He forgot about the claw as he had a panic attack, but not for long as he felt wind about to touch him.
He panicked as in this moment of life and death, his body suddenly moved on its own and dodged the claw faster than the claw could touch him. For some reason, he felt his katana was different like he could feel the katana like its whole structure as if it was his limb. It was a weird yet comforting feeling.
In that very same second, he had dodged his hands moved as he stabbed at blinding speed at its head, the cold light gleaming off the katana as it went to slice its head off. The blade this time sliced through its neck like a knife cutting through butter instantly killing it.
The tiger had no time to react as Evan had moved at a speed it couldn't resist, a speed too fast for it to see. It only realized it died after the world turned round saw its headless body, as its head fell on the ground.
"PLAP"
Evan looked at this scene expressionless, as he looked at his katana. Its exquisite handle and a green dragon's design hidden within the blade to its tip. Trying to get to the bottom of that feeling, he tried to 'feel' his katana. Yet to no success that feeling had disappeared.
"Ughhhhhhhhh" Suddenly feeling the tremendous pain in his body, he fell. Struggling to stand tall he bent his back and slowly moved to the tiger's corpse. Looking at the corpse and feeling the pain in his body.
"Sigh" Suddenly a ring appeared out of nowhere on this index finger, it had the symbol of a green dragon as the corpse suddenly disappeared.
"WIZZ"
Suddenly a bunch of high-grade healing potions appeared on the floor, as he took 3 drinking it up, he felt his body healing at a fast rate.
Being healed enough to have normal mobility the corpse of the tiger appeared once more. He extracted the materials from it to sell. He knew this would sell for a lot as a late-D-rank. As he finished a bag appeared out of nowhere as he opened it and put the materials and changed his clothes since his wounds had already healed.
Finished, he moved to leave this wild forest outside of the city. As he moved he suddenly felt a sense of danger as he ducked.
"BOOM"
A spear landed right on the tree next to him followed by laughter as a group suddenly appeared behind the trees.
"hehe, what a lucky day. I only came to rob but what a surprise, a spatial ring! Hand it over boy or things don't have to get ugly! Something as good as that in your hands is a waste." A black-haired man with a scar from his cheek down to his neck said,
"He's right, hand it over. You know what's best for you" one of the goons behind him said, as he held his saber licking it.
"What if I don't?" Evan said as he stood confident, he had already killed a late-D-rank and probably none of the people here were C-rank. Why would a C-rank work as a bandit?
"Hehe, brave I like that. Break his arms" The person with black hair said, as two D-rank late aura's exploded and two brawny bald goons one skinny and one fat moved at Evan.
Seeing this Evan backed away, as he could not deal with two aiming to escape. He was no fool who thought he could take two at once and if he surrendered, as soon as they got his ring they'll silence him. As a ring was exceptionally expensive but more importantly had sone had special meanings.
Running to the direction outside of the wild plain, He hurried as two late D-rank were after him. He had to get into the city as fast as possible as in cities, no killing was allowed. It was followed up by a B-rank watching over the city.
Running, the two late D-rank weren't as fast as the tiger on all fours. He was almost out of the outskirts. Seeing this the black hair man said,
"Useless, Do I need to do everything myself"
"Go get him, boss!" Cheers were heard from the goons as the black-haired man disappeared.
As he disappeared, appearing right in front of Evan, he punched out a seemingly weak blow yet just the air from that blow pounded Evan right back to where he had escaped from yet the goons unaffected showing great control in his power.
"BLEH"
Getting up on the plain grass, Evan puked blood as he fell struggling to get up, his insides full of pain. He could feel his ribs broken and his insides wounded.
*Kick*
"BOOOOOM"
Evan was kicked, crashing against the nearby trees.
"UGHHHHHHHH" Evan groaned in pain.
"Boy, I gave you a chance and you didn't take it" The voice of the black-haired man resounded as an unfathomable aura exploded.
Feeling the pressure of the aura, Evan muttered
"C-rank... I see..."
"After I kill you, I'm taking that ring. How dare you run!" He said as the surrounding mana concentrated on his fist, a feeling of indescribable danger was felt from that fist.
"Remember the person who killed you, in your next life was Damien, Damien the nightwalker"
He punched out.