115 Chapter 7 - Sapped Strength (1/2)

There were not that many demonic beast in the world that ran around in a pack, but the ones that did were terrifying. Fighting one or two wouldn't be much of a problem to an average EXO user. However, things changed when you were going against ten or more.

You no longer had to watch the movements of one or two, instead you needed to strengthen your senses. If not, you'd try to use your eyes to keep track of the beasts movements which was wrong.

A person's eyes could only take them so far, if you relied on it all the time you'd never be able to increase your fighting potential. Nick knew that well from personal experience growing up.

'Tsk. I keep telling you to stop watching my body and instead feel the change in the air, notice the shift of the ground. It's these small changes that turn you from an average person into one of the elite!'

'I don't understand what you're talking about at all sensei! How does a person feel the change in the air? That doesn't even make sense.'

'This is why… nevermind let's continue.'

It took him a long time to understand what his sensei meant, but its not something a person could learn overnight. It was a skilled that needed to be learned.

In all honesty, it was like a sixth sense. You didn't think about it, your body just reacted to the motions. The hair on your back stood tall as all the muscles in your body tightened.

That's how Nick's body felt right now as he remained calm despite the numerous eyes focused on his squad.

The demonic beasts that surrounded them weren't normal, anyone could tell that by the essence they were radiating from their body. It was more dark, more corrupted. Almost as if they were drunk on something.

”Be careful, we are outnumbered. Stay on guard and let's see what they are going to do.”

Thomas said in an authoritative tone as he looked at the pack of demonic lions.

He had a bad feeling inside his stomach and he did not know why.

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”What are demonic lions doing in Ohio? This isn't right… they are only found in Australia.”

”That was never confirmed to be a hundred percent true. They were only found there, but there has never been reports of other sightings. So naturally everyone assumed they were only located there.”

”Still… it's the first time i've seen one like that. They are different than i've heard. Gray fur, blood red eyes, spiked tail… even those paws of theirs don't look normal.”

”That's because this is a pack of Alpha's.”

Thomas said as he could tell the strength of the demonic lions with ease.

”Alphas! What? Since when do lioness have the strength of an Alpha? Whoever wrote the encyclopedia on demonic beast is a fraud. It clearly stated that they had the strength of an Omega while the male lion was an Alpha.”

Thomas realized why he had a bad feeling. It was because the demonic lions in front of them were only female. Although there were only ten of them, they were used to hunting with each other.

The females in the pack always went out hunting together, and most of the time they'd take down beast ranked higher in strength than themselves. The male was the protector, but most importantly all demonic male lions were tyrants. They fought constantly and took what they wanted, as long as they had the strength to do so.

There was no way the leader of this pack would leave his females. He had to be close by, somewhere watching them.

The disturbing part was that Thomas had no idea where it was.

While dealing with a pack of Alpha ranked demonic beast would be a problem, he felt they could do it with a few casualties. However, the male was always stronger than the female in this scenario, so if the females were already Alpha rank then that could only mean he was a Demon ranked beast.

Judging by the expressions from his squad, Thomas could tell that no one understood that was they were more worried about the ten female lions.

No! That wasn't correct.

Thomas grinned, there were a few that had the saw worried expression as him.

'Seems there is hope for the future generation after all.'

Rachel summoned her lance as she stared at the demonic lions. She knew if she was at the peak of her strength taking out a few of them wouldn't pose a problem to her. Unfortunately, her strength was still sapped from her match with Nick.

Summoning her lance was no problem, but doing a full transformation was asking too much.

From the corner of her eye she spotted Nick seemingly calm, but she wondered how he felt about their situation. How was he faring to her in terms of remaining strength?

Was she worried about him? No. She just did not want him to cause a problem if he was lacking in strength due to their duel. Considering she had around thirty percent of her essence remaining, she figured he'd have around twenty percent.

She snickered as she thought about it.

Indeed. She was superior to him.

”Sitting here doing nothing won't accomplish anything. At most they'll just wait for us to starve then attack us when our strength is weakened.”

”He's right. The longer we sit here, the worse it'll become for us. We need to act first.”

Thomas heard his squad members complaints, but his mind was elsewhere.