8 The Thrill of Battle part 2 (1/2)

As the headless corpse of the Snow Leopard lay on the ground, Rahz felt an indescribable heat coming from his Rune of Awakening.It was time to absorb the energy.

The absorption process was intense yet short.Rahz felt the temperature of his rune go from 0 to 80 F in about 2 seconds then the warm energy in the rune radiated outward to all parts of his body.Once his Rune finished absorbing the energy from the Leopard it increased his level of completion by 10%.

Checking his progress towards the next level,Rahz was stoked to discover that he only need it 20% more.This meant he only needed two more Snow Leopards like the one he had just killed in order to make it to level 5 and clear the test.

With a new goal in mind Rahz stood up and prepare to move further out.Rahz took two steps forward and was about to start jogging when he stopped and look to his right.

Standing about 30 feet away from him, there was a Timber Wolfjust looking at him.Sensing that there was no pressure what so ever coming from the wolf , Rahz was pretty sure that the Wolf was at a lower level than him.

LUCKY!!! Rahz yelled feeling quite happy.

AOOOW!!!

The wolf howled and continue to stare at Rahz.

” You can howl all you want but there is no escaping me, Just roll over and let me kill you”.

Rahz rush towards the wolf intending on colllecting easy experience but the wolf was no fool and took off.

”Don't think you are getting away from me.”

Rahz quickly followed but it seemed like there was a bargain on the dash skill because all the beast in the forest had it.Rahz continued chasing for about 5 minutes but it was hopeless.No matter what he did he realized he couldn't catch it.He finally decided to give up the chase but then something peculiar happened.The moment he stop so did the wolf.

AOOOW!!

Another howl.

Rahz decided to stop wasting time and turned to go his own way but he didn't get far.

5 more wolves surrounded him from all directions.It was an ambush.

Rahz blinked a couple of times in an attempt to verify that there were in fact 5 more wolves surrounding him.

Hmm...

” I thought the elder said that beast had no wisdom until the first evolution.Aint that a b...”

Rahz observed the situation with fairly calm eyes.He quickly determined the level of the wolves and felt a little more confident about his chances. ”Looks like 2 level 2 , 3 level 3s and a level 4”.

” If I can kill one of the level 2, I can break the encirclement and escape”

He grabbed Mr choppy with both hands and made a v line straight towards a level 2.Rahz swept the axe horizontally towards the beast's legs in order to incapacitated it but was unsuccessful.

Before he could finish his attack out of the corner of his eye, he saw 2 wolves launching attacks from different directions .Instinctively he cancel his attack and block instead.

It was very difficult to change the trajectory of a 2h weapon midway.Just as his teacher had thought him during training, Rahz use the Axe handle to counter-attack one of the wolves but he exposed his back to the other one.In order to mitigate some of the damage, Rahz use Strengthen Defense but it was not enough.3 red lines appear across his back and he felt a stinging ardor.