Beast like man

Second prince had not even come out from the shock after seeing the display of extreme speed by shiva but Pranay didn't waste this opportunity and within seconds he was in front of the group. And he first attacked the two man who were the easiest target here from his intuition.

An elbow thrust to the one man breaking his ribs in one shot and using the momentum he landed a heavy punch in the abdomen of another guy. They were rendered useless in fight even before they had a chance to fight. His attack was backed up by the full force of peak grandmaster.

But pranay had a forbidding feeling and he tried to jump back quickly but he was still slightly slow as two black blades sliced his chest. Now he was few meters away from the second prince. His robe was soaked in his blood. There was blackish gas around the wound and it was making it more painful. Pranay knew this opponent can't be underestimated so he took out his golden umbrella. Even though his wound was painful but his training back in the forest had increased his endurance.

Meanwhile...

Shiva was standing in front of the shadow horse. And the man on it looked fearsome. He was wearing an animal skull on his neck giving him a wild appearance.He started laughing after seeing shiva. It was more of an eerie sound rather than a laugh.

He said in a creepy voice that was more like an animal voice,"So you killed blacky (black tiger)."

Shiva was just standing there observing the man. Even though the man looked like a deranged person there was something else that was more concerning for shiva.

Shiva could feel that the shadow horse had been tortutured and forcefully tamed. The man was also reeking of animal blood. And it felt like the man was half human and half animal. He could feel that the man had used some atrocious technique to gain power. It was not simply by killing and taming animals but more like this technique needs a lot of torturing and a lot of animal blood. Shiva had developed a keen intuition. He had never ever seen this type of technique before. But he was very sensitive to life energy. And could feel different types of life energy into this person.

And after seeing this man memories and nightmare all came into shiva's mind. They were the real culprit not the moon Dynasty. They interfered in the fight of his simple Dynasty that has not even seen magic. They have caused the loss of multiple lives for the reason unknown. And he remembered the black robed Mystics that had taken away his family from him.

He was not not some crazy revenge seeking person but seeing this man many different types of emotions crossed his mind. The feeling of sadness, despair, powerlessness all replayed in his mind. These few people have killed thousands of people and they will still continue to do so. And the last thing remained in his mind was," I will destroy these hidden forces that plays with lives of people and this man must die."

A tornado of sand started forming around shiva. And the man finally got serious. A magic of this level performed by this young boy. It was like a ticking bomb, if they didn't stop this boy now then the rapid growth of shiva will soon surpass them all. And from the look of it shiva didn't look like Mystics at all. And beast like man could sense it too. It was totally different type of power not same as most earth Mystics usually possess.

Shiva's path of power was totally different than others. There were no guidelines for his path. It was just a leap of faith. All due to his understanding of life and elemental nature of Earth. There was no teacher and he didn't even know how these all power that felt like it always belonged to him came to him. And most important question was," If all mortals are capable of this or he was the only exception."

All these thoughts were processed in a very brief amount of time.

Beast like man touched the animal skull that he was wearing in his neck and suddenly the shadow horse started twitching in pain. But soon there was frenzy in its eyes. And shadow horse's body started growing many black spikes.

Shiva eyes were focused on the Shadow horse. Shadow horse jumped towards the shiva. And it's speed was very fast but the sand tornado reduced it's speed and within few seconds it was in front of shiva ready to pounce on him but before the black spike could penetrate him a golden shield made by golden sand formed in front of him. And the spike on shadow horse stopped just in front of his face.

But shiva's attention was more on the beast like man who had come from behind.

As soon as beast like man came near him the tornado that was already present around shiva intensified by 5 times. And the shadow horse was taken by surprise as it was blown away. But beast like man was only pushed back few steps.

He said in very mocking tone," Kid, it was a nice trick but in front of pure strength no trickery works."

"Is that so", shiva smiled and slowly uttered.

"Domain of life"

For his domain of life to work opponent must be near him and must be caught off-guard because his domain of life was not an offensive power. It was just the starting level of this domain and maybe in future it may bring wonders.

And within moments a web of roots came out from earth beneath immobilising the entire body of beast like man. Shiva didn't give him a chance to act as he jumped and punched the man. There was a heavy impact and man was pushed back at a very fast speed.

"Earth spikes"

A slab of spikes appeared behind the man and he slammed into it and it shattered. Beast like man stopped after several meters. His ribs were broken and his back was covered in blood.

Now he understood that the boy is much more adopt in art of battle and was much more powerful then he estimated.

He had been severely injured because he underestimated his enemy. He stood up shakily and laughed eerily even though he was in the worst situation he had ever come across in his entire life. And he took the skull of the beast in his hand and shattered it.

"Beast impersonation"

His eyes started turned pure black and his size increased by double. His muscles started bulging and his wounds started healing. His nails grew in size. And he looked like a gaint beast. And along with him the shadow horse's size also doubled. It's black spikes also doubled in size. Black smoke was coming out from both of their bodies.

And and when the beast like man fixed his gaze towards the shiva then shiva felt like some dangerous beast had locked onto him as prey.

But there was no fear in his eyes only the will to battle.