Chapter 7
Pursuit In the Forest
Then he Said "the condition Is you have to escape the pursuit of fiery for about an hour"
Fiery is the hound dog with very fast speed and high senses of smelling, so it is used to track down people and chase them. In my home it is like first level of security. Our weakest of the pet is of mage level and fiery is one of it. So escaping it is much more difficult task for some one else but for me it is easy.
"I am ready for it but I can use any means of escape of even hide there in front of it doesn't matter , even if I kill it you wont say any thing to me" lucifer spoke it hurriedly.
"okay you can do any thing but only with your wit and strength " father agreed with my conditions,
After this we went to forest and we just called fiery. It was 4 feet tall and have a well built body. It have about the strength of about 2nd layer mage realm. Fiery was fire type demonic beast, it is capable of using fire type attack and was immune to fire just like me. Therefor right now non of us had any advantage in fight. He just came and sniffed me and took some steps back. Usually mage realm demonic beasts have some intellect and can follow simple commands. Such as chase or bite etc.
My father spoke " fiery chase him" and pointed his finger towards me to show him my direction.
As soon as I heard it I ran with all might. After running in the deep forest I used so near yet so far and disappeared from the eyes of fiery but fiery kept chasing me with the help of my smell. After some time I removed my cloths and took a deep breathe and jumped into the pond. After swimming for sometime I was able to cross the pond and there I took new cloths and wore them. Doing this it removed the smell of my body and helped me to keep the dog busy for sometime. In mean while I climbed a tree and slept there.
The forest was about the size of 50 square kilometer and was personal property of my family therefore there was no danger that could possible harm me. This forest Is used to grow herbs and elixirs. If I was lucky and I could find any herb it would be my fate or you can say my kismet is great. There were many thick and tall trees in the forest so it was perfect place to hide if there are not many people finding you.
Lucifer was hiding on the top of a tree and while looking around he can see about whole forest. This place was safe as the dog cannot climb the tree and due to change in the smell cannot reach to him so he can just hide there and find a appropriate time to strike. While siting there he was practicing his cultivation technic as the concentration of mana is very high compared to mansion.
After sometime he saw the hound dog coming towards his way while sniffing something as he was trying to smell but unable to find anything. Lucifer went into stealth using a secret skill. While using this skill no one can see you or can even feel your breath. You are like non existing thing.
While using stealth lucifer reached about 3 meter away from the dog, he was hiding behind a tree and waiting for the fiery to lower his guard to strike at once and kill it. If he is able to kill him he could get a fire attribute demonic crystal which can help him in upgrading fire control skill and may get him a new type of fire. He can upgrade the strength of fire by devouring fires from different sources. He can devour any fire other than the fire he himself produced. So the attacks from the fiery will only help him in getting strong yet he have to be careful as the strength gap between apprentice mage and mage is huge. It cannot be overcome by any cheap tricks. To overcome the strength gap of major realms you have to make a absolute plan. At this moment the fiery had reached in his attack range and he is going to attack on the weakness of the dog which is neck. At once a voice came "kachak" this was the voice due to the breaking of a small branch of the tree. Fiery pounced as soon as he heard the noise and his jump was accurate. Next moment he was having his front legs placed on the shoulders of lucifer and lucifer was lying down while trying to push fiery away with his hands.
They were struggling with each other with shier brutal force. Some time hound had advantage so some time lucifer. At once lucifer attacked hound with the kick on the balls of his. Hound jumped about 3 meter away from him and pain of been hurt there was clearly seen on the face of the hound. By doing this even though lucifer got some distance from the dog but it made dog go in rage. While been in range it power increase by about 50%. While been in this state it losses the fear of death and fight till death.
The fiery fired fire ball toward the lucifer. The fire ball was going toward lucifer with very high speed it was not possible to dodge it. He was even unable to think what to do and the ball hit him. His cloths were burnt to shreds and now he was nude but there was no injury over him. After this lucifer just used finger of creation and destruction. The power of this attack was enormous and due to this the forest caught fire and started burning. This was something unexpected. Lucifer just cause a mass destruction in his own property. Even though fiery was able to dodge it but he was heavily injured and was unable to move. Lucifer just took benefit of it and ran toward him with his all might and threw a stone with his all force applying fire on it. The stone hit the dog near his heart and came out of the opposite side of the body. The dog died at once. The fire was going on in the forest and being here was very hard and difficult to be here. He ran toward the fiery body and took the demonic crystal out of his body and even collected his corpse. He collected corpse because fiery was one of the pet of his and he deserve respect and should have proper burial.