Chapter 29 - 29. A Human Mage

The next day at dawn, his clone jumps out of the passage leading to the valley and lands on the snow-covered ground. With a burst of speed, the clone entered the forest.

Now, he does not have to slow down when a tree suddenly appears in front of him. His body shrinks half the size as before. But if anybody thinks the clone becomes weaker then it is an entirely wrong assumption.

He is now twice as strong as before he can tear apart two of his previous selves without using any ability. He then suddenly changed direction and after running for some distance he spotted his prey. 

Not one but a herd of Snow Bison and they are not magic beasts but fierce beasts. They are aggressive and attack anything they see that is not part of the herd. Normal Snow Bison are also aggressive but choosing to advance to become feral beast increase their aggressiveness.

And now they are running they are aggressive to the point of madness but they are not fools. They felt his aura, even before he sensed them. Feral Beast evolution is different from magic Beast and the opposite spectrum of Spirit Beast.

Feral Beast body evolution is their priority, they cannot control and produce magic energy in their body but they produce a different energy named Feral Energy. Feral energy is highly aggressive with corrosive attributes, even corroding the body of the user. If their body is weak.

But a Beast can sustain the corrosive Feral energy they become the strongest to anyone in the same realm and their senses also advance.

He found them because of the fluncation of unfamiliar energy.

He nears one of the Bison, He then leap and jumps on top of the fleeing bison. He was astonished to find the Bison kept on running, it slow down but franctically mowed and kept on running.

He then jumped ahead before his last paw left the bison's back it shined with purple energy and then a shockwave erupted giving him the push to jump further nearing another bison. And to test the strength of the Bison, he opens his wide jaw and bites on the flank of the bison.

While holding the bison's flesh in his mouth, he pulls back to see if the Bison will stop or not. But the Bison mowed in pain but kept on running his feet on the snow. And at last, the back thigh where he kept holding separate from the Bison.

And the Bison unable to control himself as he was released crashes into a tree and tears apart the tree. Gavin gulps the flesh inside his stomach and slowly wakes toward the Bison his paw hitting the snow.

He watches the bison stand up before it can take a from beneath the snow a stone spear emerges and piercess the neck of the Bison. This time the spear did not return to its element.

But remains, he controlled the soil underneath the snow, and changed the material composition of the soil into stone. And the stone spear comes from underneath the snow and pierces the neck of the snow bison instantly killing It.

Gavin then started eating the snow bison, he did not even leave the bones. The taste of meat of fierce beast is different from magic beast meat. The fierce energy in the flesh of the bison after entering inside his body tries to corrode his body.

Gavin let the fierce energy corrode his body, even removing his magic energy from the part to help the intense energy. 

He is interested in finding how fierce energy differs from magic energy.

After finishing the snow bison, he turns around to the other bison. He broke the backbone of this snow bison when he jumped from its back.

After finishing around a two-ton bison, he starts to eat another, all this because his vital source is damaged.

Before he can recover from his damage, his realm will be at a standstill.

When he is halfway through the meat, he feels a magic energy from a distance coming toward him.

He feels the fluctuation of the magic energy but he does not show any reaction, only his eyes move in the direction of the magic energy.

He finds an ice arrow shooting toward him, a magic wave spread from his body and the ice arrow returns to its elemental energy.

He raises his head toward the direction the Ice arrow came from and finds Elan standing with a female wearing a white robe.

His eyes remain on the woman because he feels the woman's aura is similar to him. A Bronze rank professional, wearing robes then she is a mage Gavin concludes.

A mage, Gavin thought," Interesting." He does not move because he senses he is surrounded by people below the bronze rank.

Among them, only two can said to be alive from the rest he senses death aura.

Elan and the Woman jump from the tree and start to come toward and he feels the encircle tightening around.

He then takes a bite of the snow bison, and he thinks,' They will take a few to come close to him.'

They came around 10 meters around him and stopped.

Gavin looked at them and he took another chunk of flesh from the snow bison inside his mouth. And in two and three bites the flesh turns into paste inside his mouth and starts to travel towards his stomach.

Gavin turns to face her, as energy start brewing around the woman and he feels threathen from the energy the woman is projecting. 

The Woman shouts," Dead Arrow." And a black arrow forms in front of the woman and shoots toward Gavin.

Gavin this time did not disregard the arrow as before and jumped out of the way. 

The black arrow lands on the bison and bursts covering the bison. The bison's vitality disappears and it turns into a skeleton.

Gavin then reacts with a howl and earth spikes comes out underneath the snow and advances toward the Woman and Elan in rapid speed.

While the woman and Elan step back to get out of the way of the earth spike. With the two, five more people are surrounding him.

He recognizes the two knights James and Reed they remain at their palace. But the other three corpses of Silver Swordmen. He never saw anyone from the Silver Sword Race but he heard their description people from the tribes.

The three silver sword corpses with their sword charged at him, Gavin's eyes did not move away from the woman with the earth spikes turning back into its elemental form. He runs toward the woman, She is the only threat.

Kill her, the rest will be his plaything. Noticing him, Elan takes out an arrow from the quiver behind and nocks the arrow shot toward him. In mid-air, the air is covered by Ice becoming a frozen arrow.

The Two knights also move at the same time from both sides of Gavin to block him.

He cannot ignore this Ice arrow from the previous Ice so he slows down and swatted the Ice arrow with his paw. 

Gavin slowing down gave the two knights with energy surrounding them to stand in front of him with their shields.

Gavin leaps on the shields and uses the shield to jump back. He lands on one of the corpses and with his jaw he removes the head from the corpse. His attack was a success because it was a surprise attack.

Gavin then suddenly moves when he hears the woman's voice," Death Ball." A black ball of energy shoots toward him incredibly speedily and he finds he is too slow to escape. 

The black ball of energy collided with his right hip and burst throwing him in the air. He controls his body and lands on the snow. He glances toward his right hip and finds his fur, and skin has disappeared. What remains a bloody wound with dead energy infesting the wound.

Without removing the dead energy, he will be not able to heal the wound.

In anger, he let out a howl and consumed 20% of his magic energy from the magic core. Black stone spikes starts to erupt around him, it first pierce the two remaining corpse into hedgehog. 

The two knights are protected by the woman with an energy shield which lets them when the spike collides with the shield it slows down the subsequent spikes to come out in their direction.

Which gave them time to escape the 12-meter radius of the black spikes around him. The sudden eruption of spikes from the ground cause the snow to burst and hide his figure. When the snow settled and the stone spike return to their origin, he vanish from the spot.