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Chapter-12
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After 1 hour leaving the town, he entered a dark forest which has a short route towards his house.
But in the forest, there are many dangerous mana beasts resident in this forest.
Ron, when usually comes with someone else, they have to take a long route to avoid this forest.
Mana beasts mainly attack Living beings with mana and devour them, so if a normal person comes into this forest without any preparation, they will likely be in grave danger.
But now Ron is alone and also he wants to go back home fast so as not to worry his big sister anymore.
And there is also a factor, he is manaless, so basically he is just like a small stone pebble to the mana beasts which is useless to them.
The entire forest is covered with big trees, with little sunlight coming through their leaves gaps.
As Ron, now walking through the forest, he started to see many aura's of many beasts.
Some have strong aura while others have more strong aura but there isn't a single one who has a weak aura.
Mana beasts normally don't have any intelligence, they only have instinct to attack, so their aura are of the same colour but not the same pressure.
Ron, who has been living in the mountains since a very young age, has seen many mana beasts before and then he realised that the stronger the beast, the denser the aura they have.
But mana beasts in this forest are on completely another level compared to mana beasts on the mountain.
*Roar* *swiss* *waaoooooo*
As he is walking straight through the forest, and hearing several beast noises, a sudden thought flashed in his mind 'Maybe I should test my mana tool here to hunt some beast before going back home?'
Ron asked himself, even though mana beasts are dangerous but now Ron awaked his mana tool and can't wait to test it out.
For a very long time, he has had a dream for this moment where he will awaken his mana tool, and then fight against strong opponents using his mana tool to become strong.
But the mana beasts on the mountains are not strong . Even the manaless Ron can hunt them with only sustaining scratches or small injuries on his body.
But here, the mana beasts are the real challenge for anyone, even a Level IV person can die, if they are not careful enough.
"It will be probably fine, if situation got bad I will run away" As Ron muttered this, with that he made up his mind for hunting a mana beast as he continue his muttering "Maybe if I bring back a mana beast from this forest, then maybe sister will finally understand that I am not little kid anymore and then maybe she will be stop worrying over me on very small thing"
As he also started to imagine the shocked face when he brought back the corpse of the mana beast, he couldn't help but show a silly smile on his face due to his day dreaming.
Even though mana beasts are dangerous, danger also comes with several benefits.
The meat of mana beast is very tasty but only high class people can afford it, bones used to make weapons and the core of the mana beast can increase the mana pool of the person.
He then puts his bag down, takes out blades warped around the purple cloth, then he picks the chains which are binding the both blades together, and wraps them around his forearms.
Then takes both blades and his hand while his bag is on his back.
{0%}
The parameter appears again in his mind, but it doesn't pay any mind to it for now.
He then started to look around to scan the area from his eyes to find a weak aura compared to others.
He started to move around aimlessly in order to find a weak mana beast in the forest.
"Got it" Ron suddenly found what is looking for, a perfect mana beast, he started to run towards the right in that direction at full speed.
After a while, Ron passes through the bushes and sees a beautiful lake white a giant turtle sitting resting near the lake.
"Bingo" as Ron saw the turtle, his eyes started to shine.
The turtle is the same size as the full grown tree, it seems to have a hole in the top of its shell, and it has a big tail.
This is a mana beast which specialises in illusions, when any living creature with mana contains comes near, it creates an illusions to confuse his target and then wait for his target to lose consciousness and after that it will devour it's target slowly.
Ron saw this mana beast before but it was very small compared to this, and this mana beast looks very old.
It looks like it is sleeping soundly, as Ron slowly dropped his bag and then covered it with leaves.
He slowly wakes towards the back of the turtle, takes a stance and aims both of arms upwards and swings his blades with all of his might.
*clank*
His entire body trembles due to impact but there isn't even a scratch on his shell.
{0%}
Ron then focused his attention on the parameter and thought '..sign…still zero, what can I do to increase this number'.
'Let's try again but this time going out full this time' as he again that's the stance and tightens his muscles and then swings his arms with full force.
*clank* *clank* *clank* *clank*
Multiple times he tries to attack the shell with full power, but this time also the same, he isn't able to do anything to it.
The mana beast who is sleeping suddenly felt an itching in his back, then the mana beast slowly opened his eyes, to see a small creature without mana, trying to attack.
Mana beast slowly started to move.
Seeing the mana beast start to move, he became alert as he jumped backwards, and then battled position.
Mana beast then slowly moves his tail in the air.
'Oh no!' Ron opened his eyes in horror, as he understood what is it trying to do, he tried to run but alas it was too late.
Mana beast then swings his tail strongly towards Ron.
*slam*
Tail hits Ron, and makes him fly in the air, as he crasheshh into nearby trees.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh"
*crash*
He slammed against the tree, as the impact was strong enough to make the tree bend.
*Thud*
He falls down from the tree.
"Ouch!" His face hit the ground as he struggled to stand up to see the mana beast closed his eyes again and started sleeping again.
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Ron couldn't help but gritted his teeth seeing that mana beast treating him like an annoying bug.
*gulp*
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But he swallowed his anger, he knew that this mana beast was not serious, even then it was still able to fly like nothing.
Then I looked towards his mana tool and started to think '..sign…it's no use, I can't figure out how to use the mana tool, maybe big sister Helen is able to help me out, after she is way smarter than me'.
As he started thinking about his sister Helen who always taught about mana, spells and mana tools then anybody else,
He then difficulty stood up and then slowly started to move where his bag was, and on the way he glared towards the mana beast and thought 'Just you wait, when I will understand my mana tool I will come back to you, to show who is an annoying bug'.
As he reached the place, he dropped the blades, as he started to lift up the leaves hiding his bag with difficulty as his entire back was hurting due to earlier impact.
He then takes off his chains from his forearms, seeing the marks are getting darker than before but for now he ignores them.
He then packed his blades and chains again in his purple cloth and then placed it inside of his bag.
Then he started to move towards the lake and started to wash dirt on him from the fall as he took off his shirt to see there wasn't any kind of wound or even scratch on him.
But he didn't think much about it, just thought that maybe his body is strong to other people. That's why he didn't sustain any injury.
After washing himself, he picked up his bag and took one last look towards the mana beast as he turned around to leave.
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