Chapter 41 - Level 25 [p4]. Traveling and Hunting (1/2)

Pack of wolfs were cornering their prey. It was a small human, with enough fat to not be considered fit. With no weapons whatsoever, he was shaking in fear, eyes darting from one wolf to another, praying inside to all gods. His glasses were lying somewhere before him, but eyesight was his last worry in the current situation.

*Screech*

Both the pack and the human were startled by a sound similar to the eagle's cry. Everyone, turned their heads in direction sound came from. However, they didn't see a thing. After staring for a few seconds alpha decided that there was nothing dangerous and made a sound to his pack to continue the hunt. The whole pack turned back to watch their prey and continued cornering him.

One of the members of the pack jumped at the human, but midflight it felt air moving in his direction from the right. Such senses were beyond human. Nevertheless, it didn't help in any way, because the enemy was just too fast.

Giant grey eagle, big enough to press grown wolf to the ground just by stepping on its body crushed into it and using its claws it mangled the body to the point of no return.

A combination of sharp claws and flight momentum was enough to crush even bear, what to say of the wolf.

Eagle raised its head while standing on the dying body of its enemy and cried into heaven.

*Screech*

Wolfs were both scared and surprised by such a sudden attack. After all, describing it takes a lot of time, but in reality, the time it took for a wolf to jump and get stomped was less than 2 seconds.

Dying wolf tried whimpering but as soon as the sound came out of it, the eagle lowered his head to look at it and shut his right claw which was still holding its neck.

*Crunch*

The sound of a neck being crushed was quite loud in the quiet atmosphere of the forest. Especially, because it wasn't a short sound of a neck, breaking, it was a sound of something being continuously crushed into small bits.

When shadow covered the most pack members, they started retreating but it was too late. Eagle's eyes opened wide and he flapped his wings, however, the shadow from uncurled wings remained on the ground as if drawn on the ground. But nobody noticed that, because as soon as the wind coming from that flap reached the pack, giant thorny pikes started thrusting from that shadow straight up the sky, piercing anything they met along the way, including members of the pack.

Nothing was spared. Trees were destroyed, animals were pierced and very air was fluctuating due to the sheer speed and force of these pikes.

Suddenly, the surroundings became a beautiful yet scary painting with blood particles slowly moving in the air, organs spilled on the ground and pikes colored red and black. Air was full of intestines smell intermixed with the freshness of the upcoming sunrise.

Eagle curled his wings back and turned its head to the human, who was close to insanity if not fallen into it already. The bird has unclenched his claws and started moving towards the human. During his movement shadows around him became alive and started encasing its body, after which that giant ball of shadows slowly turned to male humanoid. He was quite tall, which was only accentuated by how thin he was. Overall, this monster gave a terrifying vibe. Why monster? Well, how otherwise would you call a creature who had no face? It had neither eyes nor mouth nor even nose. It was calmly walking towards the youth lying on the ground. On his way he heard crunch under his feet, so he looked down and slowly picked up the glasses he just stepped on. Then he moved closer to the man and slowly squatted down before him, before giving glasses to the teen.

However, the boy was so scared that he didn't understand what to do with these glasses. The creature just put glasses on the legs of the sitting boy. Suddenly surroundings changed, but boy didn't notice anything.

The youth mind was overwhelmed by ups and downs during the last 2 minutes, so he lost consciousness.

After that, the monster tilted his head and disappeared with a loud *pop* sound.

...

*A few seconds later, around 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) away from the bloody scene*

I was sitting and enjoying the moment I had a few seconds ago. As usual, I was training my Animagi form, when I noticed that some teenager was running from wolves. Thus, I decided to intervene and have some fun. And indeed I had fun to the fullest. Shame, that wolf pack were such weaklings.

It was a week or so since I went rogue. First few days, I was on my way to France, while going through the wildest zones. I had enough of provisions and wasn't in any need of a bath or shower, because I have a cleaning charm, so I mostly stayed in the forests or other wild zones. For some reason, I felt better in free and wild surroundings.

In two days I made it to Hastings. I and Bucky rested there for 5 or so hours, before starting our crossing to France. The closest location, based on the map, I bought in London, was Boulogne-sur-Mer adjacent to another foresty area. Distance to fly was under 80km(~50 miles), so I knew we can make it in a few hours of uninterrupted flight. Distance from London to Hastings was only 100 km or so, yet it took us 2 days and that only because I was making often stops to collect herbs, look for magical creatures and stuff like this.

It took us around 4 hours with our normal traveling speed. I told Bucky to converse strength ”just in case”. No need to fly with the fastest speed and waste stamina, because you never know what can attack you from water. I mean magical creatures are real, and I don't want to be ambushed by some overpowered Kraken or whatnot.

Anyway, currently, we are halfway to Italy, somewhere in the middle of France.

That's was one of the reasons, I was excited when I met a pack of wolves in there. After all, wolves were extremely rare in this part of Europe. But then again, that's another Universe. Anything is possible.

As for the boy in the wilderness. Well, I don't care at all about him, but I do believe in doing good deeds, if convenient. So, I apparated with him to the closest city. Thankfully, the boy lost consciousness halfway so I left him there and apparated back to the place I was staying at.