Chapter 5: Potential (2/2)

BOOM!

”It exploded?” Tyler stood rooted to the spot as he watched the dust from the shattered orb fly everywhere.

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At the Red River bank.

Rain and Liz where taking turns watching the area while the other gets some rest, Rain was standing a few meters from the camp fire when she sensed something moving within the forest.

*whoosh...

it was fast and agile and she didn't get a good look at it.

She slowly retreated to where her friend was resting and whispered. ”Hey Liz, get up. Prepare to leave we have company the noise will attract other creatures.” She said while tapping her friend's shoulders while keenly being aware of her surroundings.

Liz got up without saying anything and prepared to leave while being on high alert and ready to provide backup for her friend. Even though her leg wasn't healed she could use various enhancement spells to regain full control of her body for a while, it was how she made it in the river to begin with. Now that she and her friend had regained some Mana they weren't afraid of the monsters that patrolled the outer areas of the forest.

As soon as Liz had gotten up though... three flash of light flew at her from the forest at lightning fast speed it was a silvery-white claw shaped energy attack, even though she was expecting an attack she was still a moment too slow to react in time.

”Water Barrier!”

Water drops was extracted from the air as it formed a barrier around Liz at high speed. Tier 2 Elemental magic - Water Barrier. Rain had reacted in time as her left palm that had formed the magic circle was stretched out facing Liz, she instantly raised her right index fingers at the spot the attack had come from and instantly cast a spell.

”Twin Max magic Lightning ricochet!”

Two thick bolts of silver lightning shot out of her finger straight at the spot the monster had attacked from.

whoosh...

The monster instantly left it's location and appeared to the right of the girls, away from the terrifying attack. It was a silver wolf almost the size of an adult male. It's eyes glowed with a red luster, his fang were large and sharp and it had a hint of intelligence as he prepared another attack to finish off it's prey, it had used the silver wolf innate ability °Speed Bust° and successfully evaded it's prey's attack.

Thanks to it's fast reaction and insane speed it had escaped the attack before it even reached him, giving him a chance to finish off it's prey with it's next attack. After all, it knew they would not be able to cancel the attack half way through and even if they were able to cast another spell it still had a few more °Speed Bust° in him, it could simply repeat the process.

It's fur started to stand on end as he prepared for it's most powerful attack °Rage Destruction° which would enable him to launch an endless barrage of a more powerful and faster version of the previous attack it had used °Silver Claw Slash°.

At that moment though, two thick bolts of sliver lightning struck him right in the head as it streaked through its entire body sending electric current to attack it's internal organs taking him down in his confusion.

As the silver wolf was overly confident in it's speed and was in the process of casting a spell of it's own, it wasn't able to react at all to the speed and might of the Tier 5 spell - Lightning ricochet. it didn't notice the magic circle that had appeared in it's previous location and redirected the two bolt of lightning to him with greater might, in the end it body fell to the ground convulsing.

After seeing her friend's spell make contact, not taking any chances Liz immediately cast a follow up spell of her own.

”Max magic Ice spikes!”

The moment the magic circle appeared under the silver wolf body, the ground around it froze. In the next second incredibly sharp ice spikes grew from the frozen ground. The convulsing silver wolf stopped breathing.

”Phew... if it was more than one we might have been in trouble. It's almost Dawn we should start heading for the Demon King's Castle.” Rain said with relief in her tone, she hadn't known what kind of monster would come out of the forest, but she could tell it was fast so she made preparation to counter its speed. She hadn't fully recovered her Mana so she was unable to cast any Tier 6 spell, if the silver wolf was with it's pack they might have had to retreat into the river and hope no monsters appear.

Liz look at her friend and nodded without saying anything else. After Rain retrieved the wolf's core and cut out some flesh for their trip, the two women started to walk along the river bank towards the direction of the demon king's castle.

Some distance away, deep in the Darknar forest, a figure was sitting on the branch of a giant tree with his eyes closed, his right arm on his right knee cap as his right leg was on the tree branch and his left leg swayed below. He slowly opened his eyes and stood up, he turned his head towards the east in the direction of the Demon King's Castle.

His lips curled up as he smiled and said in a low voice ”Interesting.” after the words left his mouth he slowly faded away like an oil painting.