Chapter 3 Ranked Beasts (1/2)

Chapter 3 Ranked Beasts

In the middle of a prairie, surrounded by a thick forest, stood aman's clothes where tattered, dirty and clearly a size too s black hair had dry leaves and broken twigs stuck in them, and covered his face alot back on his feet, he started touching his own body in search of injuries, but to his surprise, there were none

Relieved yet skeptical about not being injured in the slightest after such a lengthy fall, a new spark of faith towards his otherwise bad luck was ignited within the young h his hair

As his hair were moved aside, a handsome face was uncovered

He had a diaed into a slightly pointy and protruding chin Underneath a straight and well defined nose, were a pair of thin lips of a healthy rosy color, which almost coht and naturally full eyebrows stood above a pair of sharp, upturned eyes evenly spaced apart

Inbetween the young man's eyelids, an ivory white sclera surrounded a pair of uhter shade the closer it got to the black ring that enclosed the man's eyes, anyone would see the decisiveness this youth had to adopt in order to take care of himself In fact, his calmness after such a fall, would surprise many

One would also notice, to the unbeknownst of the youngat the bottom of his pupils

”You look worse than when I've left you, Daniel eh eh” said a voice that cah

Daniel turned around and noticed that the voice belonged to the old ht of earlier that day

He was standing a full head taller than Daniel, which was not short by anyoff a dientle

What broke Daniel out of the surprise of seeing the old o back to his sister He hated leaving her alone, and the idea of ht in the city by herself,to brush the leaves and twigs off his hair, he looked towards the old , the old man's voice anticipated hio, don't worry about entle s ti the old man back into the city, since he wasn't sure if any ranked beast would leave the forest to the prairie and hunt for prey But after realizing that the oldor a weapon he convinced hi care of himself

As Daniel was about to bid farewell, once more, the old man interrupted him ”The fruit you've picked make no mention of it to anyone” Said the old man as the warm smile suddenly left his face, for the first time since the two met

”Good and evil exist in this world ine” Added the oldto look at the ure, then, disappeared into thin air

Daniel surprise was at its peak, yet he ed to say out loud ”WAIT! Who are you?” Unfortunately, nobody was around to answer Yet, a fah the entire prairie, shaking Daniel's soul to its core

”I have already told you that HA HA HA” Answered the voice, before a loud laugh started to reverberate in the air, forcing the grass to bend in awe As the thundering laugh ended, the last words Daniel heard fro voice, left him dumbstruck ”Farewell, Dan of the Hiel's” Said the voice before disappearing completely

It took a few minutes for Daniel to leave that surprised state of mind, and remember why he was so anxious before Unfortunately, it was too late to avoid going through the forest at night

He are that traversing the forest at night would take far longer than it took hiet here His sense of direction wasn't bad, the only reason he got lost and ended up finding Ieas because he had been chased for hours What could prevent hih would be only one thing Beasts

The city of Phyrri had been built nearby the legendary tree on purpose A s one of their travels, and after one of the Tree and decided to settle close to it

When the city was at its earliest stages, es traveled to Phyrri in order to obtain the blessing of the tree That had caused the ranked bests which inhabited the forest between the city and the tree, to be hunted to a state of near extinction What was left of theest ranked beasts that had been reported were of the second rank, which any patrol of city guards could kill

The re low level beasts which inhabited the forest, had turned into prey of unranked hunters Their ranked cores would still be collected by hunters, but their value was shtest a to hunt the beasts themselves