The Kingdom of the beasts, long stretches of land that surrounded all the countries, outlining their borders, trees with large canopies that let in enough light to beautify their fauna of various colors, generating a dreamlike image, attracting every living being to discover the secrets hidden within it. That view became more changed if one went deeper, discovering that those already large trees, little by little began to rise until they touched the clouds where, like a second green sky, adorned the feet of mountains higher than the sky. Scenes of impossible biomes decorated its depths, as if the God who had created them, imitating a frustrated painter, splashed the canvas with random colors, combining them so that when his outburst ended, he would see in that painting out of anger, one of his greatest creations.
The first to set foot on those lands apart from the beasts during the birth of the continent were the Lihyan, Dilmun and elves.
Not far from where the border of the Lihyan race and the Beast Kingdom connected, Ru was closing his eyes, focusing on his primary senses, letting his blood guide him towards his prey. After a few seconds, with a look that expressed amusement and determination, he began to move silently and quickly.
As if he had lived his whole life in those forests, Ru hid behind the trees and bushes, moving like a snake, looking for his food, his parents a few steps behind him, not bothering him, as they would only interfere if their son found himself in a situation where his life was in danger.
'Mmmm, I smell blood nearby!' Ru thought, with a manic smile on his face.
Slowing down as the smell of blood grew stronger, he walked slowly, where behind a tree he glimpsed his prey eating.
'An Armored Lizard! Known for its shiny silver skin, two meters long and a half wide, they can harden the skin of any part of their body like steel and having their spiked tail as a weapon. Mmmmm the spikes on their tail have not come out and their skin is not as shiny, it means that they are still young, their race when they are adults only reaches level four of body tempering, if my instincts do not fail me this one must be at level three, and it is distracted eating its prey of the day, if I take advantage of this even if it is one level above mine I can defeat it.'
Ru making a decision and with the katana in his hand, began to move to get as close as possible to the Armored Lizard, when he could get as close as possible, taking with his right hand the hilt of his katana still kept in its sheath, he left where he was hiding with a jump and quickly and precisely cut strongly vertically aiming towards the lizard's neck. The lizard, although focused on its food, had its senses alert, but when it realized Ru's attack, it was too late, the katana had cut its neck deeply but had managed to harden some of its skin before they could cut off its head causing the attack to lose strength and not staying behind he counterattacked, pulling out the spikes from his tail and throwing it towards Ru.
'Too slow! A, There comes its tail, I have to dodge it!', Ru seeing the Lizard's attack jumped back narrowly dodging the spiked tail, hitting where it was cracking the floor and leaving the mark of its tail on it, the angry lizard did not waste time and launched itself opening its large mouth towards Ru. Seeing this, Ru quickly crouched down and grabbing a stick that was on the floor with his left hand he threw it with force towards his mouth jumping back again, the lizard without caring about it destroyed it with one bite, and continued his attack towards Ru, he already knowing that that was not useful, he only wanted to gain some time, he ran towards a tree and turned his back to it, the lizard being an unintelligent beast, thought he had him cornered, so he launched himself without thinking much opening his mouth again to bite him, Ru taking advantage of his carelessness, waited for him to be a meter and a half from him, where taking the tree as a base he pushed himself jumping and doing a turn backwards putting himself on top of the lizard and stabbing his kakana in the center of the already open wound with all his strength, the lizard seeing that he failed and that he was on top of him, let out a grunt of pain feeling the katana stuck in his neck again, quickly gaining momentum he threw his tail towards his back to try to get it off of him.
'Good!' Ru anticipated the lizard's attack and with the sword embedded in its neck, used it as leverage and with force as if it were a guillotine, he got off the lizard, finishing cutting its neck on the right side where he moved away as quickly as possible. The lizard, feeling that the right half of its neck had been cut off, began to roll around losing more and more blood until he died.
"Yessss!" Ru shouted at his victory over the Armored Lizard.
'Ahhhhhhh, although it wasn't a clean victory, it's better than I expected, I didn't receive any wounds, but thanks to my katana being stronger than his skin I was able to do so much damage, but I won't always have that advantage, I also made many mistakes where I wouldn't come out well if the opponent was smarter, I have to correct them,' Ru thought while he was standing a few meters away from the lizard with his gaze unfocused, going over in his memory the whole fight from a moment ago, analyzing it and looking for how he could have done better.
Taking him by surprise and snapping him out of his thoughts, his parents came up behind him, where Fa picked Ru up to hug him, with a big smile on his face and a motherly voice he said, "Well done, darling! I was stronger than you, but you managed, I'm proud of my little one!"
Kian approached and ruffled his hair while his mother showered him with kisses said with a smile on his face "HA HA HA, well done Ru, you killed your first prey!", then he approached the lizard picking it up and putting it on his shoulder.
"Okay let's go home, that's all for today like your first day," Kian spoke to the mother and son couple where Fa didn't give Ru a break, making him laugh.
"Mommy...., Let's.... go.... home...", Ru spoke being interrupted in each word by his mother who was handling him like a stuffed animal.
"Fu fu fu, it was okay honey, let's go home to celebrate, I'll do something good with the meat you hunted," Fu spoke but did not let go of her son, beginning to walk with him in her arms and Kian following closely with the lizard towards the village, when they returned to the town it was already night where the inhabitants, seeing what their future leader hunted, gathered around him congratulating him, after all it was not easy to defeat something a level above one. Fa proud, decided to organize a party with the entire town, where the inhabitants in the good mood of the night, called that day, "The little leader's first big hunt."