Kairos walked slowly, heading towards his destination. While thinking, " So my Hiding techniques still bad?"
" Father known it all along. Is he still mad? Is that's why he didn't come to meet me?"
Such thoughts circled around his head. As he walk. Before a rustle on the bushes broken such thoughts.
Kairos eyes right away widen as he jumped sideways at the opposite side with pure instinct, materializing his soul gear as he retreated.
As soon as he did, The bush shaked up and shilloute of black jumped out.
Grrr!
Bang!!!
It hit his soul gear with a powerful bang. With its power claw, the sword vibrated upon such impact. Thankfully none of that vibration reached his hand. As his sword nullifies such vibrations from reaching him.
Kairos jumped backwards taking another steps making some distance between them. And finally gazed at the thing that has ambused him.
"An Ironfang wolf" kairos thought as he right away started circulating his Aura expanding outwards.
The wolf glared at him, It's red eyes glowed. Taking steps slowly towards him. It's muscles were basically bulging with force.
Kairos realized it was a variant of it's kind. And judging by the scars on its body, Kairos realized it had survived quit a bit encounters with Adventurers.
" Two star would be enough I think" kairos thought also taking a step back as aura inflated around his body.
And as expected, As it sensed its prey was becoming stronger. It didn't care about being cautious and lowering it's head bulging it's front legs with more force it leaped towards him, As if it was a lion dominating it's prey without letting it escape.
It claws flared outwards, Towards it prey as it falls down. But then a strange thing happened, Instead of seeing fear or terror on its prey, It felt something was odd in that moment. Just the moment in its mind the thought of escaping came..
A red light flashed before it's eyes, And all of a sudden its visson become upside down.
Thud, Thud
Puchiii~
It's head rolled right in front of Kairos, while the detached body little bit far away. It was dead, It didn't even know what killed it.
Kairos swing his two handed heavy sword like a one handed one flickering away the blood that covered the blade in a swift motion.
" Would be a 2 star peak beast" Kairos mumbled walking forward towards the headless body plunging the sword right at it's chest. Parrying out a small orb sized brown core that had hint of yellow color.
It was a core. That Exists Within Every single living being. Seeing it was brown in color and had hint of yellow. Kairos realized his hunch was right it was at the verge of breaking through.
Unlike humans who's cores doesn't changes. Beasts cores does change.As more their core evolves more stronger they become.
The rank followes by this, Green ( 1 star )
Brown ( 2 star ) , Yellow ( 3 star ) , " Blue (4 star) and afterwards this. The inside of core changes depending on the element each beasts has but for outer layer it stars from green all the way to blue in order.
And starting from 6 star beasts instead of their core evolving further more. Some weird unknown unexplainable reason, Their core multiplies, further unlocking elements and streanthening the bloodline.
Such cores are very useful in many factors and areas. Making them highly valuable.
"This will fetch quit a bit of money." Kai mumbled, putting it on his pouch. That has father gave him.
But was shocked seeing the contents that were inside it. He didn't cheaked what that pouch had. But now seeing it he felt more gratitude towards his father.
The pouch contained dozens of Yellow cores.
Unlike brown cores which are equal to 10 mana stones.
1 yellow core is 100 mana stones. As finding them are rare and not every beast can evolve into 3 star easily.
Kairos counted the cores. There were fifteen of them. Which was enough to last him quit a while. He doesn't have to worry about money until he enrolls at the academy.
He departed early from home. But it didn't mean his plans have changed. It remained the same, he had to enroll the academy. But before that were was something, that gotta be done before that.
Kairos entered the deep forest,cautiously. Heading towards his destination thats located at the southwest part of the edge of the forest.
Time slowly passed by, as he started walking forward, Cautiously as possible. Encountering another two wolfs. Those were just begginer stage of brown star. It was nothing difficult for him who has reached 3 star in aura and with spacial method can surpass 4 star peak aura.
And finally after few hours of walking, he has finally reached the passage. Right Infront of him was a high stuff cliff.
Kairos gazed down at the edges where the soil ended ended and the cliff begun. Finally after looking for sometimes, Kairos finally located a small branch buried underneath a rock in the soil.
" It's same as always" Kairos muttered and bend down gently pulling it. It may look, it will come out very easily, But infact it impossible for it to be pulled out.
Right as he did Kairos took a step back and looked in the front. The seemlessly stiff rock that goes upward. Out of blue a small magical circled appeared before a line appeared like a shape of a door.
Kairos's gently pushed it inwards. It slide away at the right side, like door. Revealing a small path leading to light obscured by thick hanging mosses like curtains.
Kairos felt nostalgic seeing this, he has seen such scene again and again in his past life.
As this was the place, A very close person of his lives. The very person that made him what he was..
He walked forward while the door behind him close gently and blend in seemlessly.
Kairos's reached out his hands moving away the moss, Light entered through revealing a espactical Viwe one could have never imagined existed within such scary forest.
Green land with fresh fruits hanging from the trees while a beautiful white milk crystal shined, making the only pond glitter and beside it was a small hut made of wood and decorated by thick veins here and there.
Slowly the wooden door opened revealing a wrinkly hand holding a stick to support the body.
It was a old woman, She stepped out looking at him. Her sharp ears peaked out of her white hair while despite being old her eyes glittered with life gazing at him curiously.
Kairos heart involuntarily trimbled, remembering some past moment. She was the master, while him was the infelier disciple that failed to protect it's master.