Mutation
Elijah moved swiftly like a gale towards the Tier 2 Fire Salamander, he unleashed the first move form the Tyrannical Blade Art, Cleaving Slash.
His blade slashed merciless at the petrified Fire Salamander, while his right draconic eye was locked into it.
His movements were swift and his killing intent reached its peak.
The Fire Salamander tried to move but it just couldn't resist.
It could only watch how Elijah's blade ended its life when it seperated its head from its body.
Elijah didn't slack and activated his left eye quickly, devouring the struggling soul.
Both the Thunderclaw Falcon and the Purple Death Cobra guarded him in the meantime.
The little panther devoured the struggling soul happily like it was a snack. Elijah felt how his Soul Flux growed.
He looked over to his two tamed beast, "Be quick the two of you!" Ordered Elijah.
Both of them pounced greedily at the corpse, eating its flesh and drinking its blood.
One month had passed since Elijah entered the Forbidden Forest.
He broke through and became a Rank-2 Senior Warrior after killing and devouring the the first soul from a Tier 2 Demonic Beast.
He had been killing a lot of Tier 1 and Tier 2 Demonic Beast and felt that he was already on verge to become a Rank-3 Senior Warrior.
His beast had been improving too, they ate all the resources the Guildmaster left him and started to eat the corpses from the killed beast as long they had enough time.
It wasn't rare for more beast to flock towards his location after smelling the blood in the air.
The Thunderclaw falcon had grown quite a lot. It was almost two meters tall now and had become a Tier 2 Demonic Beast. The Purple Death Cobra was about to become a Tier 3 Demonic Beast.
*ROOAARRR*
A beast came charging at them, it's eyes were red and its body was burning with violent fire.
Elijah's eyes narrowed, 'Rank 3 Wildfire Salamander? Did it come to revenge its buddy?'
It was large, 4 meters long and over 1 meter tall with a glossy red skin.
Elijah dashed swiftly towards it, unleashing a tyrannical aura.
This was the reason why Elijah dared to fight against a Tier 3 Demonic Beast.
His Tyrannical Blade Art reached the Aura Stage.
It wasn't only him, the Thunderclaw Falcon soared into the air, it was around 8 meters wide when it spreaded out its wings.
The cobra wasn't effective against an enemy that was surrounded by fire that's why it stayed back, continuing to feed on the corpse.
The falcon was overtook Elijah and clashed first against the Wildfire Salamander.
Its speed was unlike a month before, it cawed mightly, aiming its metallic claws at the salamander.
The Wildfire Salamander roared angry and spat out flames from its mouth, aiming at the falcon in the air.
It flapped its wings quickly, dodging the fire before rushing down at the salamander, its claws sank deep into its flesh. It immediately soared up after the attack, The falcon didn't dare to stay too close it, the Wildfire Salamander was still a Tier 3 Demonic Beast after all.
This distraction was all that was all that Elijah needed, activating his right eye.
The Wildfire Salamander felt how its body froze, it was shaking violently, trying to break free from Elijah's gaze.
A piercing pain passed through his right eye, he gritted his eyes and jumped up.
Elijah grabbed his black blade with both hands, hacking down with everything he had, this was the second move, Splitting Slash.
He ignored the pain coming from his right eye, executing the Splitting Slash.
His tyrannical aura exploded out, mixed with his killing intent.
His blade came crashing down on the head from the Wildfire Salamander like a wrath from an Asura.
He noticed how his Soul Flux was consumed at a fast rate.
*BOOM*
His blade had split half of the head from the salamander into two, killing it instantly.
Elijah breathed out and activated his Soul Devouring left eye.
The soul struggled fiercely against him, forcing Elijah to pour more Soul Flux into his left eye, "COME HERE!"
The struggling soul couldn't escape the stronger devouring force coming from his left eye.
It was finally sucked into his Soul Space.
He was surprised when he entered his Soul Space, the little panther, Thunderclaw and Purple Death Cobra started to fight together against the soul from the berserking Wildfire Salamander.
They ripped it apart and devoured it together, the little panther alone devoured around 80% of its soul leaving the remaining 20% for the other two beast souls that were ecstatic.
It looked like the little panther left it for them as a reward for helping it.
A huge amount of Soul Flux exploded inside his body, Rank-3 Senior Warrior, he sensed his power growing again, making him laugh out delighted.
It was risky but he managed to pull it off.
His right eye was still in pain but it wasn't too intense like before.
His Soul Flux was recovering faster than before.
Elijah's joy was interrupted by the cobra who hissed excitedly.
The mana in the surrounding started to move towards the cobra. The mana became so concentrated around it that Elijah could faintly see it without activating his eyes. The cobra wriggled excited.
This was his second time witnessing a demonic beast breaking through.
It started to shrink a bit, its black scales changed their color, becoming dark-purple.
A small horn grew slowly out from its head.
Elijah and the falcon observed its transformation with great interest, when a skull like pattern became visible on its back.
The aura around it became deadly and the Purple Death Cobra breathed out black gas.
Everything that came into contact with it died, withering quickly.
"Jesus Christ, a mutation?" Exclaimed Elijah.
He observed the cobra interested, he knew that Demonic Beast had a possibility to mutate under special circumstances but his Purple Death Cobra didn't eat anything special since he had tamed it.
It opened its reptile like eyes looking over at Elijah, it hissed happily, making its way towards him, coiling around his arm. Elijah carrased it happily.
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"Nothing?" Asked a majestic cold voice.
"I'm sorry your Majesty the Ranger Guild hid him too well. We have no clues about his whereabouts. We tried to capture his grandparents but they vanished too. They have already fled or have been captured by another force." Reported the man kneeling.
The man sitting on the throne leaned relaxed back on it.
"Place the highest mission possible on his head at the Blood Pact League, the price doesn't matter. Also send the member from the Gold Clan to the border around the Forbidden Forest, they should start to search there. That is where I would hide him if I was the Ranger Guild."
"Your Majesty is wise."