183 Lizard (2/2)
She too was unable to contest against the lizard but at least she was able to catch him out of the air and carry him away.
Flying low, she carried him with her claws towards the direction they had come from. By keeping this low above the ground, with not even five meters between him and her they didn't instantly come to the griffins, which circled above, attention.
With the lizard chasing after them Ivan had to be carried until they nearly reached the wall, he had just climbed up before the lizard let go and returned to its resting place.
Vlada deposited Ivan on the ground, keeping an eye out for any other foe that could appear, be it griffin or lizard.
\”Damn. I didn't expect it to be this hard to fight those lizards. Just wait I'm going to come back and get my revenge.\”, Ivan cursed while starting to take care of his injuries.
Before he hadn't had the time but now he could take out some pills he had refined, which would increase the speed at which he would heal. Luckily the damage wasn't as bad as he had feared since no bones were broken.
\”Was this damn monster weaker than it seemed?\”, he wondered. Considering the impact he had felt he should have some broken bones, so he found it weird that he didn't seem to have any. \”No that can't be. If it was weaker then I shouldn't have flown through the air like this. Not to mention that I felt the impact firsthand.\”
Just thinking back to the way he had been tossed through the air by that beast he couldn't help but feel anger bubbling inside him. To any observer, it must have appeared as if that beast had just toyed with him. Luckily there hadn't been any observer or he would have to feel so ashamed of his recent performance.
After taking care of his injuries he wasn't yet fit to go fight again but at least it didn't hurt that much anymore.
He then decided to stay here and use that damned beast for his training. Thinking about the fight just now, he found many mistakes he had made and also many things he had to improve on.
The biggest problem had been that the lizard had been able to ambush him, closely followed by his incapability of turning the tide in the fight. And his use of magic had been atrocious since it had been nearly inexistent.
This fight had also made him question if it was a good idea to continue on. Instead, it just might be better to give up on his goal of finding a new battle pet and instead focus on training his own survival abilities by fighting against that lizard.
He wasn't sure what the best course of action was and thus he decided that for now he would stay here and recuperate. Tomorrow all his injuries should have been healed fully, thanks to the pills he had taken. Then he would decide if he wanted to continue or if he took the time to learn more while fighting against that lizard.
The question was what he should do until then? Putting up the tent he had brought with him wouldn't take much time and there was still a lot left until the sun would set. Anything strenuous was out of the picture with his current status but he could still train his mana. What he wanted to do was to improve his mana manipulation.
He had only worked on it because of the need for it with pill refining but he had remembered Jacky's offer and he was now tempted to improve his skill so far that she would teach him about spatial magic. The method he selected for this was what Celine had taught them back in the dungeon.
He would start practicing forming thin mana strings and then try to use them to make all kinds of forms and patterns. This should help him to train his fine control over mana. It could also improve his concentration ability and who knows, maybe there are even more benefits to doing this.