Chapter 3 Ranked Beasts (2/2)

Furthermore, those who had reached the rank of those bests, were unwilling to risk their lives to hunt for the cores in the forest at night

Of course, even though cheap, Daniel would have never been able to afford one He had to work hard only to reach the required amount of money for his monthly payments, and as left of it, was used to take care of his sister and hih from the tattered state of Daniel's clothes, or by his underfed physique

Daniel entered the forest at sunset For the first hour he saw nothing more than a few unranked beasts, which at their worst, made a bush rustle nearby him

After two hours, he started to hear roars and howls in the distance, but none of the beasts they came from Almost ready to thank the unusual behaviour of his luck, he heard the sound of water, and it was close

When he reached the source of the noise, he noticed a large pond at the base of a enormous bouder The surface of this pond was covered in broken twigs, floating leaves and water plants, things which h theamble, he waited for a few e pond He was about to approach the bank of the pond himself, when a rabbit like creature approached it from the other side

This rabbit like creature was very large, probably enough to not fit in a big cauldron It had bright red eyes that shi+ned in the dark, and a snohite fur Two long and thin horns grew on its head, right at the base of its fluffy ears

Daniel had heard of this beast from his father It was called 'bloody-eyed Hare', and it was a rank 1 beast of the lowest level

Considered by etarian nature, its combat proas lower than many carnivorous unranked beasts The only way it had to evolve was by consu spiritual herbs, which were far too rare for an entire species to thrive on This had put it at the bottom of the food chain

Daniel observed the beast for a couple ofthe bank of the pond, then it started to drink its water Daniel's storumble He had only eaten half of the piece of bread which he had taken with hih for him, but he hadn't expect that he would not be able to co back ho froround with his arerous and if I ht Daniel as hisa feast for dinner, together with his beloved sister

The rock was big enough to do da it a few times The hare had a cowardly nature, so he was certain that, even if he failed to bash the rock on the hare's head, the beast wouldn't fight back and just escape

As Daniel left the cover of the trees and approached the hare frohtly in his hand Step after step he got closer, until there were less than 10 meters inbetween them But the moment Daniel was about five meters away from it, the Blood-eyed Hare suddenly stood up in place and straightened its long ears

Daniel thought that he had been sensed by it, but since the beast didn't leave, he stood co that it would relax once more and allow hiiant openedsharp teeth, appeared frohtly on the white ball of fur Biting off half of the hare's body

Terrified by the sudden appearance and the gory show, Daniel stood paralyzed, a fewcrocodile head that had just popped out of the water

As the crocodilehalf of the hare's body, Daniel was able to see the beast more clearly

The crocodile had three sets of yellow colored grooves that went through his entire length, starting from the back of his head and all the way down its tail The end of its tails was deformed as compared to a normal crocodile, it had the shape of a spiked mace, which the crocodile clearly used to hit its eneht The last detail that Daniel noticed where the two oddly long teethlike a pair of straight horns

This crocodile was called Yellow-striped Caiman, and it was a rank 3 beast

Of course, Daniel was unaware of what this beast was The forest surrounding Phyrri was said to have no beast above the second rank, and that had been the case since many years before Daniel's or his father's birth Inside Daniel's mind, the type of beast this crocodile as possibly the last thing he needed to know His only thoughts were on how to escape this predicament

None of his muscles moved, as his eyes were stuck on the beast's teeth, which still dripped with the hare's blood Crocodiles could stay still for a very long aiant crocodile looked at each other without ly calry at the giant crocodile for having stolen his prey

Of course, that thought came and left in the span of a few moments His full focus was still on the crocodile's , Daniel noticed the giant crocodile starting to slowly step back, and entering the water oncehim, possibly because it didn't have the element of surprise, Daniel took a step back as well

Unfortunately, Daniel couldn't be ed crocodile sprung out of the water and rushed towards hi around and taking off into the forest