The journey was about ten minutes of running, and we were already in a place surrounded by trees. Even when the sun was out shining bright, the shadows of the trees certainly made the place darker.
As we walked in, we were able to see many small magical beasts inside. The ones like Haunt dogs and Forest Hounds came after us.
My father started to teach me how to find the magical beasts' weaknesses as he calmly used his wind mana to levitate them all, completely overpowering them.
I even walked near the beasts and took a good look at them all. The haunt dogs were all weak, and I was able to kill them off without much effort as soon as my father let them go from levitating.
However, the Forest hounds were bigger and stronger compared to the haunt dogs. Even though they are all from the same family breed, the forest hounds' strength was on the red-light stage.
"Look Ryan. These forest hounds have an ultimate weak point, and that is their legs. Break their legs, and you win the fight!" my father said as he killed off one of the forest hounds.
"Now you try!" he said as he released the remaining two forest hounds out of levitation and asked me to kill them.
With my cultivation progress currently, I can condense air and attack them without worries. I took two days to test those out, and it was pretty easy once I mastered the control of the technique.
As the two forest hounds jumped towards me, my father was already ready to kill them if I had failed to counter.
With my hands suspended in the air, I willed my mana towards my fingertips, condensing blades of wind in each of my fingertips. Then with mana manipulation inside of me, I released the blades towards the forest hounds. The mana manipulation I did helped me in controlling the speed of the blades' strike, and the amount of speed the blade travels, the stronger it hits.
Aside from that, my precision was something I had trained all my past life mastering the Divine Bow of Sloth, Oblivion, the second form of my former divine weapon Celeste.
And now, "It's over father!" I said to my father with a gentle smile as the hounds' blood spattered over my face.
He was surprised, and I get that he is not able to understand what I did, but I'm pretty sure he would be able to do the same attack with more power with some training.
"Great. Seems like your training is paying off. You will become a great adventurer my son!" He patted me on my shoulders, and we both walked away from the place after gathering the magic crystals that the haunt dogs and forest hounds left behind.
Walking for a few minutes, we reached a river nearby. I went down and cleaned myself as my face was covered in blood. As I was washing my face, I could sense mana from even the river.
As I went back and my father smiled and used his wind mana to levitate me above the trees.
"You have to see the world with your own eyes. Even if we kill the magical beasts, we aren't killers. We are doing our best to learn from them, and they are just as much a species like us all." He said as I was levitating in midair, admiring the forest from above. With the dense fog and the trees covering the sky and obscuring the sun. Having said that, I can clearly sense the countless mana particles emanating from the forest's depths, it was a sight to behold.
"Yes father. I understand." I replied.
Suddenly as my father was bringing me back to the land, "Father!..there seem to be people around us but.."
"What happened Ryan?" My father asked.
"There seem to be some people aside from us here. They are having a hard time fighting against a giant lion having flames all over its body!" I said to him while watching them fight.
There were four of them fighting the magical beast.
There was a middle-aged man with a sword, a young man in his twenties with a spear, and the other two, a boy and a girl who appeared to be young and similar in age, around their teen years.
"Ryan, lets go and help them!" My father said as he landed me onto his back and started to head down the stream as I navigated him towards them.
Just as we neared them into our sights, my father stopped, and we both stood somewhat away from them all. "Son, they don't seem like adventurers or mercenaries either. I will go and figure out" he said curiously.
"No father. Lets just wait and watch what happens. We will sort those all out afterwards!" I said to him, sensing the girl in the back willing mana for an attack.
My father looked at me and sighed. But hearing me, he and I got a panoramic view of everything as we watched the fight.
The magical beast was the size of a lion, with fur that blazed with flames when it roared and an orange glow that gave off the aura of a fire mana beast. With what I know, the beast seems like a Flame lion. But Flame lions are B-rank magical beasts and never come out from the middlemost part of the wilderness.
"Is that a flame lion?" My father was baffled.
"Why is a flame lion here? the magical beast of its rank shouldn't be in this region!" he expressed in confusion.
Well, damn. I thought they were all struggling, but even though it's a B-rank magical beast, they are pretty good. They coordinated well against the flame lion. With attacking, defending, and support were all excellent.
I thought the girl in the back was powering up for an attack, but she was actually manipulating the fog around us with mana, and she was also constantly healing the team when they got hurt again and again. She seems to be a water mage as she's utilizing the water content in the fog to manipulate mana and heal their teammates.
"Ah"
"Yaa"
Bang
The team was on the verge of victory. Finally, the girl's brother-like guy took a huge leap from the ground.
"Flame Meteor!"
The boy yelled, his hands engulfed in flames, striking from the Flame Lion from above and delivering a direct hit.
"Roar"
"Roar"
The Flame Lion roared twice as it fell to death.
What a spectacular move. It would be nice if he just didn't yell that out loud.
"They are pretty good huh?" My father complimented them with a smile.
"Yes father," I replied.