28 The Trek Through Thunder Mountain 1 (1/2)

The morning sun had barely risen above the horizon and grey clouds still continued to coalesce in the sky as several footsteps could be heard under the shade of red and orange trees. As the over one hundred Magician's and Magical Beast's traveled their way up Thunder Mountain, they stayed in their own small groups and walked along separately, making sure to keep the group in front of them in their sight.

In the Wilderwolf party, after walking for one hour in a rather lax manner, a sudden loud growl broke their moment of peace.

Instantly, everyone's gaze fixed to the source of the growl and in the dim light of the forest a shadowed predator slowly walked into view. This beast walked on four lean legs and had a long, two meter long sleek, black furred body. Its red eyes glowed in a menacing light.

”Its a Black Hunter!” Uncle Kil shouted out, his eyes turned vigilant as his body rapidly took on a fighting stance. ”It seems to be at the Minor Transcendence Rank!”

”Got it!” Jonathan quickly joined Uncle Kil's side while shouting. ”Everyone else stand back, me and Uncle have got this!”

The little kitten leaps out of Jonathan's grasp and retreats along with the other soldiers and servants. In a matter of seconds, Uncle Kil and Jonathan are already in a scuffle with this lean predator.

The little kitten watched as the Black Hunter beast leaped and dodged a series of icicle attacks before sucking in a breath of air before exhaling out in a large growl!

Boom!

A black flame shot out of the beast's mouth, no larger than a tennis ball and smashed into the ground where Uncle Kil once was. Fortunately, Uncle Kil had reacted quickly and had dodged that black flame that proceeded to explode into a human sized explosion.

Jonathan took this chance as the Black Hunter beast was distracted with Uncle Kil to make a strike of his own.

Zzzttz!

The sound of electricity buzzed in the air and one could see lightning coalescing around Jonathan's right hand. As quick as lightning, Jonathan's Flash Palm struck down towards the distracted Black Hunter beast!

Despite being distracted, the Black Hunter noticed this dangerous threat in a matter of seconds and quickly rotated its lean body to dodge the brunt of the Flash Palm's attack radius. Yet, the speed of Jonathan's attack was too fast and the beast still suffered from the residual electricity that coursed through the beast's body, forcing the beast to let out a shrill cry. In seconds, the beast leaped back away from its two opponents to save itself from suffering a second blow and to give itself some time to recover from Jonathan's attack.

As that battle continued on, the little kitten and everyone else watched with rapt attention, not noticing another predator sneaking up from their side!

BANG!

The sound of a heavy footstep ringed aloud and brought the little kitten's attention from Jonathan and Uncle Kil's battle. Looking to her left, she found a large shape leaping out from the darkness, its large jagged teeth on display as it came down upon one of the Wilderwolf soldier's.

The wilderwolf soldier, despite his shock, reacts quickly and raises his long, ruin empowered spearinto the air. He is holding it with one hand holding the far left end and his other hand at the far right, right below the spear's pointed blade.

The attacking beast's mouth is caught by the spear's metallic pole and is held back by the Wilderwolf soldier's strength. Each one of the Wilderwolf soldiers are at the High Stage Foundation Rank while this soldier, the spear wielder is the leader of the six soldiers and is at the Peak Stage. All of the Wilderwolf soldier's main asset is their physical prowess and it was clearly put on display here as the spear wielding soldier was beginning to push this beast that is larger than himself backwards. The large beast's bottom feet began to push into the soft dirt as its large shape was pushed further and further back.

This beast, which one could see as being a bear like beast with long red fur and a large swirling ivory horn is quickly identified by the little kitten as the Crimson Furred Horned Bear. This was a beast she had seen while hunting with Jonathan and was usually around the Major Magical Beast Rank. Obviously, with her only ranking at the Minor Rank, she would avoid a beat of this beast's large strength so she had not seen one fighting before.