Flying through the sky Talmir noticed a dead spike boar in a clearing on the ground ,he didn't approach it immediately but flew in a circle around it, surveying the forest of any movement. Fairly certain that it wasn't a trap as he couldn't see or sense anything ,he flew back towards the pig to see what killed it.
Landing near it a gruesom sight welcomed him ,the boar had no innards,its eyes were gauged out and it had claw and slash wounds all over it.
"Hmm well i can exclude animals or monsters ...a demi human maybe as it was slashed by a knife? But why kill it like that? This is way to wastefull and barbaric"
After he examined the corpse he took to the sky again and traveled north, deeper in to the forest as the trail of blood was leading him there. As hunters they had to cull the beasts around the village and procure meat from them but they were also the first scouts incase anything too big came near them or was in general a threat to the village.
With his sights set on discovering what this savage thing was it didn't take him too long to find one of them. It was a kobold, a bipedal wild dog like creature . They usually forged bone weapons of what ever they killed but even without them they had sharp canines and claws. In this world they were a lesser species as they had an intellect of atmost a poison fox .
Talmir was very lucky to find it before it found him ,as it currently had its head burried in another boar . Altho not smart they have excelent sense of smell and also hearing. They were usually hunting in packs but this one was alone right now.
'Shit this is a problem, first i have to kill it quickly before it notices and calls it's friends over"
With that in mind he drew his short sword and quickly flew towards it like a hawk hunting its prey, with no time to react he thought he had it, but because of its hearing, flying that fast made a bit of a whisteling sound so after looking up directly at him it managed to pick up its bone knife and dodge a fatal blow.
When the clash happened it tried leaning away from his sword and tried to parry it with the bone knife, but at that speed Talmirs sword cut in to the bone knife and pushed his sword towards the kobolds neck. Augmented by wind mana his short sword was very deadly but still that short reaction of the kobold managed to prolonge its life, tho it was sent flying in to a tree while Talmir landed at the impact zone .
Now all bloody and a deep gash from its torso towards its neck, the kobold all groggy from the blood loss and the impact on the tree still tried to howl as its survival instincts kicked in but sadly for the kobold Talmir was an experianced hunter so he didn't stop even for a second once the kill failed.
In the process of raising its head to howl and call its kin Talmir simply appeared before it and cut off its head ,forever silencing the kobold.
"Phew now that that's done i better fall back to Kosak and return to the village ,we have to inform them that kobolds are near us and gather a raiding party"
Knowing that the kobolds somewhere closeby had probably heard the clash,he had to fly directly up again so they wouldn't follow him back to the village right away.
Kobolds could form packs from 50 to a 100 all depending how strong their leader was. As all beings of Tegrra they could acumulate mana ,but because of their lesser intellect most of them were physical beings ,meaning that they all used mana as an inward fuel rather than using it to cast spells.
As Talmir was ascending in to the sky suddenly a fire bolt was shot at him from somewhere in the forest. Barely reacting to it he managed to avoid fatal and grave damage ,but was still hit in the shoulder and knocked down from the air.
Landing roughly but as safely as he could muster in that situation Talmir managed to not split his head open on the ground, looking back up he saw three kobolds rushing towards him and a fourth standing behind them all and preparing the next spell. Luckily he landed close to a tree and they were still about 300 metres away so when the next bolt came he safely hid behind the tree.
Talmirs wound from the first bolt was luckily not bleeding as it was comepletely burned and black, hurting like hell and making him want to curse out loud but it was also helping him with having a clear head and adrenalin pumping through his veins
'Oh my god a shaman kobold!...there are atleast a 100 of them in that pack if not more, but how in the everliving hell did they arrive so fast? Maybe that first boar wasn't killed by the kobold that i killed? That would explaing its half eaten state'
While thinking he didn't stay idle and was preparing a spell of his own . His only thought was escaping so he was preparing a tornado spell, which would throw him up in to the air quickly but also scatter his scent so he could buy time and wouldn't be followed immediately . It would probably rip appart the 3 kobolds rushing him but also might not be enough to actually kill them, still slowing them down was already good enough.
As planned when he released the tornado on the ground and was sent flying up and in an instant reaching an altitude of about 200 metres ,the tornado managed to kill the first and fastest kobold of the three but also shredding the last two of the group to arrive in the area of effect . The shaman did manage to fire another spell but because of the tornado spell and the speed of Talmirs ascent it missed.
Now free for a few seconds he instantly channeled all the mana he could muster and flew away at full speed. He made sure to not directly fly back towards Kosak and instead more towards the mountains, after about 4-5 kilometres he turned back towards Kosak .
'Phew this was more action than i needed in my life ,i can still make it to the village easily but looking at my shoulder it's probably gonna take a healer and a week of rest before i can go hunting again. Good thing we already bought supplies for this month and there is still money left over but next month will probably be harsher'
Arriving at the earth fortress Kosak made he quickly found him.
Supprised seeing Talmir wounded the only response he could give was "Holy....what happened to you?"
After a brief explanation they both rushed off back to the village to inform them of the danger, Talmir flying and Kosak traveling through the ground burried.