Magic Beast

It been 2 days since Luke came to this world, everything was going smoothly in the village.

Hunters were able to catch several livestock including chickens, ducks and rabbits and they are being tamed at this moment.

Unfortunately, they didn't find horses or mules, it would very helpful for plowing the farms, and transporting wood.

As they will begin constructing a fence around the village as a defensive mechanism very soon.

Today, Luke decided to take a team of militia with him to scout the surrounding, although, hunters have been keeping look around, but, under his orders they didn't go to far from the village.

Luke took 5 militia along with Derick, making it 7 men squad including himself.

On the way, they met some wild animals, that been quickly dealt with, when it was almost noon they bumped into their first magical beast.

It was a cat with black fur and green eyes, its size was twice the ordinary one, at this moment it was feeding on a deer corpse.

Luke and his man were observing it from the distance.

You ask how do they know it magical, that simple, because the end of his tail was on fire, but it didn't seem to hurt him as he was enjoying his meal.

"Derick, this is the first magical beast we meet, I want to test it strength."

"although, it doesn't look strong we must be careful."

Derick and the others nodded, and slowly approached the cat, Derick was in the lead as he was the strongest man hear, followed by Luke and the rest.

When they were 50m away from the cat, it ears twitched as if he detected something, it raised its head and looked at them, displaying a vicious and baring his fangs while blood is dropping from his mouth with few pieces of meat stuck between its teeth.

At this time Luke used his skill [Scan].

[Burning Tail Cat: a low-level magical beast, with a high agility, able to use a tier-1 magic spell [Fireball]. ]

Luke quickly warned everyone to be careful from magic spell. Even if it's only tier-1 magic spell it can do a lot of damage to them, this is the power of magic after all.

The cat released a yowl, and get into attacking posture, as a warning for the new arrivals.

Derick didn't stop or slow down, he kept marching forward with steady and calm steps.

The cat seemed infuriated and decided to take initiative, attacking first.

The cat was very fast, it took only 3 seconds to cross 50m then jumping at Derick, its claws aimed at Derick's throat.

Luke and the other were sweating for him, but the next moment they felt speechless.

The cat used a physical attack instead a magical one, this made Luke puzzled, even if the magical beast is confident in itself, they have advantage of number.

Derick easily avoided the attack by leaning aside, then slashing his sword in a swift counter-attack, splitting the cat into two halves.

That easily, no fancy attacks, no tactics, only one slash, and the cat is cut.

The two halves fell near Luke feet, splashing some blood on him, looking down at the cat guts spilled from his abdomen, it was still alive, as his throat released some muffled sounds and body twitching.

Luke almost throw up looking at the gory scene, but he managed to hold on, he had image to keep in front of his men.

"I apologize my Lord, I let your cloths get dirty." Derick apologized while scratching his head.

"No problem Derick, I was just awestruck by your strength, worthy of my militia's Captain."

Luke praised and patted Derick's shoulder.

"Thank you, my lord."

"Okay, everyone should take a rest, and start preparing bonfire, today, thanks to Derick we will taste magical beast meat."

All Luke man cheered, and started preparing for the meal, it's the first time tasting a magical beast meat, they were full of expectation.

Luke went to the deer hunted by the Burning Tail Cat, or at least what's left of it, and he noticed a burning mark on its fur, it's probably hit by a [fireball] spell.

Thinking it through, it's not the cat that didn't want to used [fireball] instead it couldn't, because he previously used it on the deer.

Magic can't be used anytime the caster wish, they need to have enough Mana, and after using it the spell will enter a cooldown period.

It's seems they get lucky, that's all, the cat probably through he can by a bit time for itself, before taking us of guard with his spell.

Luke then called one of his man.

"George, I want you to extract the magic core from the cat skull."

"we've already done that, my Lord."

Then George took out a red finger-size crystal, and hand it over to Luke, the later examined it with interest, then he used [Scan] on it.

[a tier-1 magic core, useful in meditation, with a low chance to learn a magic spell.]

Magician can increase their Mana through meditation, and magic cores can help speeding the process.

As for learning a magic spell that a very rare, and it depend on the persons luck, or else everyone would have to magician throwing spells left and right.

Luke put the magic core in a leather sash, and joined the others over the bonfire.

At bonfire everyone was chatting happily, the cat meat was very delicious, with some seasoning, it was a delicacy.

Every was praising Derick strength, and not forgetting to flatter Luke from time to time.

"My lord, how's the relationship between you and lady Lydia?"

'what the fuck…'

Hearing this question, Luke chocked on his food, he looked at the soldiers itching for gossip, he was dumbstruck.

After two days, basically everyone knew each other, and Lydia was very popular, she beautiful and smart, so there is nothing surprising about that.

Luke was wondering how they are linking him with Lydia, although he doesn't mind, he actually has good impression on Lydia, but he knows she isn't easy to get.

Lydia isn't a woman that wouldn't submit to a man easily, actually if her royalty wasn't 'installed', she might not have followed him.

Not to mention he is very busy lately, so how can he have time for love.

"couch…cough…, Mat where did you hear this?" Luke asked the soldier named Mat.

"oh, everyone in the village knows that you to spend a lot of time together."

'of course, she's my right hand, I need to take her opinion, I didn't flirt with her even once.' Luke thought.

"Many women ask Lady Lydia, but she always smile and refuse to answer."

"ooh, I see, actually, me and Lydia are quite busy recently, so there isn't time for us to discuss the matters of heart."

Luke gave an ambitious answer leaving space for imagination, not denying, nor confirming.

"ah, I see it's been hard on you my Lord, we all wish for you and Lady Lydia to have happy life."

All the soldiers begin clamoring and wishing a happy life for him as if he is going to marry soon, but they are right it's been hard on his, having such a beauty by his side but doing nothing, as a man that's hurt.

Derick was watching these soldiers having fun, and he was about to join them, but suddenly his face turned serious and looked at distance.

He felt someone was spying them.

This action of Derick didn't escape Luke vision, he followed Derick's sight.

200m away from their camp, a short humanoid silhouette was hiding behind a tall tree, Luke could see it clearly, as the shadow was hiding in the shades.

After being discovered it run away deeper in the forest.

"Derick, did you see it clearly?"

"No, my Lord."

Luke nodded in serious expression, many possibilities were flashing in his mind.

Sensing the serious atmosphere all the soldier calmed down, waiting for Luke to speak.

"okay, everyone the rest is over, pick your stuff, we will be heading deeper."

Luke decided to follow that shadow, hopefully, they can catch up to that shadow before sun set.

Although, there was no hunters in here, they could still track some obvious marks.

But after walking for several hours they found nothing yet, and the sun is about to set up, they needed to return back.

When he was about the returning order, Luke heard some footsteps, not far away.

He told everyone to calm down, they silently approached the source, soon they reached the edge of a valley, looking down they could 10 goblins wearing leather clothes walking with preys on their backs.

These goblins as you can imagine, are short about 1.5m or so, with dark green skins, pointy ears, and sharp noises.

Their weapons are mostly clubs, except for one goblin, that seemed a special one, he is probably the leader of this group.

He 1.8m tall, the same high as Luke, with a chainmail armor on his chest. And a great sword on his back.

Luke used [Scan] on normal goblins then on their leader.

[Goblin: a race that like to live in forest, with a low intelligence, and weak bodies, the goblins are known for their high productivity and greedy and cowardly nature.]

[Hobgoblin: an evolved goblin with a higher intelligence and strength than normal goblins, usually taking leadership in goblin tribe.]

"Goblins… what do you think Derick."

"My Lord, the goblins are a weak race, a soldier could handle two of them with relative ease, as for the leader, leave it for me."

Derick made a judgment on the goblin's strength.

"You're right, but it not the right time now, we need to bring more men as a backup, plus we need some rest we've been traveling all day long and the soldiers are tiered."

While they were talking, goblins disappeared inside a cave within the valley.

"Everyone let's go back."

Luke led everyone back to the village, while thinking of some plans.

.....

Back in the Kaylin Village, everyone was resting peacefully in their houses.

Luke was sitting ins bed holding the magic core, he decided to test his luck, and see if he can learn a magic spell from it.

He didn't put much hope in to it, but if he gained a spell it would be very helpful for tomorrow battle.

"Do you wish to use magic core?"

He received a system announcement, and answered with a simple "Yes".

The magic core shone with a red light, then a red ray of light drilled between Luke's eyebrows.

"You have learned a new skill [Fireball]."

Luke was dazed for a short time looking at the magic core turning into dust, while hearing that mechanical voice.

Then he jumped for bed from happiness, celebrating his success.

"HAHAHA… people should call me Lucky Luke from now on."

"Should I go test it now."

"It's already too late, I can only wait until tomorrow, huh"

Luke laid on his bed, full excitement, unable to sleep, he couldn't wait to test his first magic spell, even it only a mere tier-1 spell.

In Argus spells are divided into 9 tiers, tier-9 being the highest.

From tier 1-3 are called Low magic, and are easy to find, and there is nothing extraordinary about it.

From tier 4-6 are called Intermediate magic, the people who can cast this magic are rare and view importantly by other, and can be called powerhouses.

Especially, a tier-6 magic spell, in the entire world only few legendary figures can use it, that's how rare it is.

As for tier-7 or higher, the Advanced magic, there are only mentioned in ancient records, in the current era no one can cast them.

But one thing for sure, they all have an overpowered destructive force.

Luke kept dreaming about how cool he would look while casting his spell tomorrow, until he fell a sleep.