5 Graduation (1/2)

After spending a week reading pretty much everything in the library Fei Lei had managed to learn ten level-0 spells, Fei Lei was told to go hunt a magical beast that has been giving travelers a hard time on a nearby hillside road.

Fei Lei nodded his head and left that day with only a steel rod that was around 6 feet long in his hands.

Running as fast as he could, it took him around 5 hours to arrive at the designated location, seeing the terrain Fei Lei smiled, a large and expansive, hillside covered in greenery, showed many winding roads that led to different trade routes along their higher locations.

Fei Lei started to search for the magic beast in question, in order to draw it out he ran along the side to the path it was most known to attack. Fei Lei didn't have any luck, however, and decided to stake out the location.

Fei Lei perched himself in a nearby tree, and stayed there for three days, surviving off of the vegetation and regular beast such a boars and rabbits. As he sat back in his tree on the third day, Fei Lei noticed a caravan coming down the trail.

He lied in wait, and as expected a strange bulky and large magical beast appeared, the fur of the beast was a soft golden yellow, like the color of the sun. Its height was around 6ft high and 8ft long, and judging from the weight of its step, it appeared to weigh a little more than a ton in a half.

Every part of the beast screamed lion from the neck down, almost making the beast look majestic, however, its face was more that of a rat than that of a lion, thus ending up with an overall grotesque appearance.

Its nose was in the shape of long protruding and crooked cone, random whiskers and patches of hair ran along the base of its brow to the tips of its snout. Two vicious looking fangs hung from the tips of the creature's lips shining with an almost metallic glint, and a long stream of drool fell to the ground from its mouth as it chased after the caravan.

Fei Lei hopped out the tree and jumped in between them, raising his pole he slapped down on the creatures head making it fall on its chin before tumbling over a few times in the dirt.

Fei Lei tried to slap down on its head again when the creature reacted and quickly pulled itself out of the way. With a single pouncing like motion, the Lion Rat swiped its paws at Fei Lei's head. Reacting, Fei Lei leaned back and placed the bottom of his pole into the ground and the top against the Lion Rat's chest.

A claw struck out cutting Fei Lei's cheek as the steel rod began to bend, Fei Lei gripped his fist tightly around the pole as he kicked at the arch, snapping the pole straight, and sending the creature flying back.

”This beast skin is so damn thick!” Fei Lei shouted. As he pointed the end of the rod at the Lion Rat, he felt the blood drip down the side of his face.

The magic beast leapt towards him and tried to bite at his torso, Fei Lei jumped back and swung his staff at his teeth, a loud cracking noise was heard as some of the creature's fangs shoot off into the ground.

It howled out in pain giving Fei Lei the chance to strike at its throat, he activated his spell boost causing his skin start to glow red, his entire body felt like it was boiling and his muscles and bones were screaming out in pain. Gritting his teeth Fei Lei shouted as stabbed out with all his might, at the same time the Lion Rat reached out its claws and cut a large gash across Fei Lei's chest.

As Fei Lei's blood splashed across the ground, the center of monsters neck made a loud snapping noise and a large pool of blood soared out of its mouth as it howled out in pain.

Fei Lei didn't stop there, staring down at the beast he raised his arms and used one final swing of his staff to crushed its head into the ground.

After undoing his Boost spell, Fei Lei felt like his muscles had been stressed to the limit, he was about to claim his prizes by harvesting the beast, when a loud roar sent chills down his spine.

Fei Lei looked over and saw a large white striped, black tiger beast, with two long tusks that formed from its mouth, it was around the same size as the lion rat but gave off an even fiercer aura.

Fei Lei raised his staff, but the creature jumped off the ledge it was on and completely overpowered Fei Lei, he stuck his staff between its teeth and held back its head as its claws pressed down on him and tore into his skin.

Fei Lei took a deep breath and channeled this breath of summer while he activated the Boost Spell.

Fei Lei let out a loud Lion's Roar Spell directly next to the creature's ear, rupturing its eardrum and causing a small spurt of blood to shoot out of it.

The creature felt a wave of disorientation just long enough for Fei Lei to push him aside. He then struck out with his pole, aiming his attack for the same ear that he wounded. The beast countered by swinging its paw and sending Fei Lei's pole flying off of the hillside forest.

Blood fell to the ground from Fei Lei's palms, a patch of the skin had been torn off along with the staff that he tried so hard keep in his hands.

”This damn tiger must be a 2 Star Beast!” Fei Lei thought as he stared down the creature.