Testing The Water

[Level 23 Avadhi Ranata]

versus

[Level 28 Ancestral Beast Stregasaur]

Ranata only have two choices from now on, and he must made a quick decision for that.

The first choice is, of course, run as fast as possible, or teleport right back to the starting portal and return to the real world.

The second choice is for him to test the water and try to fight the beast to assess the power, if it is proven to be far stronger, then try as much as possible to run away from it.

The difference of five levels is, after all, are no joke.

Monsters are known to have far more superior physique than a mortal man like himself.

It need a man to wear a full set of equipment with matching level to be able to stand on par with a monster which level is equal to the man.

Even with all the equipments and skills he have, Ranata can only be said to be on par with a monster four levels above him, and that is even after both of them resort to all their tricks and power, leaving the even winner so close as to put one foot in the grave.

And with the difference of even a single level, Ranata would not think of defeating it in this one battle.

But running away immediately is not a choice he would pick to.

At the very least, he must get back with something in his hand (or his mind), such is his principle in live, to never waste any kind of opportunity, and make full use of everything that life and fate throws at him.

While thinking like that, the Ancestral Beast have begin its charge toward Ranata.

Every step that the Ancestral Beast stomped on the ground are so heavy that it make a small quake which make Ranata's footing quivered and unstable.

[ Lightning Bolts ! ]

Ranata try his best to run and make a distance from the Stregasaur while shooting lightning bolts at it, which are only bounces along the Ancestral Beast's scaly hide and not leaving even a single burn mark.

[ Fire Balls ! ] [ Earth Spikes ! ] [ Wind Cutters ! ] [ Water Blades ! ] [ Ice Fangs ! ] [ Vine Whips ! ]

Ranata throws all kinds of offensive spells available to his level from all kinds of attributes.

From conventional four attributes like fire, earth, water and wind, to unconventional, rarer ones such as ice atttribute that is a combination of water and wind attribute and wood attribute that is a mix from water and earth attribute.

However, even when it is facing all kinds of attack from different kinds of attributes, the Ancestral Beast's charge are still unfazed.

The Stregasaur seems like it did not sustain even a single damage as none of Ranata's attack leaves any mark on its body, if anything, that barrage of attacks only make it even more enraged and charged even faster toward him.

"This can't do!" Ranata quickly moved to the side to evade the Stregasaur's charge from crushing him head on.

Ssswwwwiiiisshhhhhh!

A menacing sound ripping in the air make the man alerted and he raised his sword to parry whatever comes at him while casting a barrier magic.

It turns out that the Ancestral Beast are flailing its thorny spiked tail at him, a tail filled with many spikes and a pair of sharp, barbed antlers atop of it.

Crasshhhh! Boommm! Thud! Thud! Thud!

The sound of a scattered barrier broken from the booming impact can be heard from the fight, followed by three dull sounds coming from the man who is thrown ten meters on the way while his body is rolling and crashing with the hard ground three times before he comes to a stop.

"Uhuk uhuk, just a single hit already make me becomes this mess...." Ranata coughed as he felt some of his bones broken from the impact, making his chest and back hurts.

[ Burden ! ] [ Burrow ! ] [ Burrow ! ] [ Burrow ! ] [ Burrow ! ] [ Smoke ! ]

Using his old good tactics, Ranata casts a burdening spell to make the beast which are now trying to charges again at him become slower and heavier, before casting four burrowing spells to bury its heavy legs down underground to halts its movement for a moment.

For safety measure, he also don't forget to cast a smoking spell to make a smoke screen so he can hide from the beast while he rolls his body to the side until he have made some distance from the place he formerly lying around and he began trying to cast a teleportation spell on him, on which the target is of course the stone gate with portal that leads back to the real world.

However, as he tried to reach into his destination, he felt as if there is something that is like a barrier which is preventing him from reaching his goal....