Chapter 14: Flamvell Wolf

Because of the time it took for Isaac to beat Victor, he needs to rush towards the grocery store, or he will end up worrying his mother. Unfortunately Isaac's constitution was poor after exhausting all his magic and he could only make it back within 25 minutes of time.

"I guess the plan is to tell her that I got lost for 10 minutes so my speed seems acceptable for someone my age". Isaac thinks as he is making his way towards the store. Isaac makes it to the store, grabs the list of the items he needs, and begins to grab all the items he will need and puts them in a basket for him to carry. As Isaac gets close to pay for everything using the 25 copper his mother gave him, the man at the counter stares at him and then smiles down at Isaac.

"For you little guy, you can get a discount of 20 percent, so keep these five coppers". The man says as he returns the 5 coppers back to Isaac.

Isaac looks up in surprise and puts his basket down. "Not that I don't appreciate the discount sir, I don't think I've done anything to warrant a discount". Isaac says with a confused tone, awaiting the answer of the man in front of him.

The man smiles down at Isaac as if finding Isaac's confusion to be such a happy thing. "You saved my mother from that royal brat. She told me all about how a young man wearing black clothing performed magic to protect her. For that, you deserve more than just the discount, but sadly it's the only thing of value I can provide you. Thank you for protecting my mother..." The man stops for he doesn't actually know Isaac's name.

"Isaac, my name is Isaac sir". Isaac finishes for him, assuming he paused to think of what he should call him.

"Smart kid". The man laughs, and extends his hand to Isaac. "The name's Michael, you are free to come here for my produce or supplies at a discount anytime Isaac". Michael says in enthusiasm. Isaac shakes Michael's extended hand, picks up the basket of the things his mom needed, and wishes Michael a good day, and begins his way back to his home.

"Well that was a great event to happen today in comparison to that spoiled brat who tried to cook me like a fish". Isaac thinks to himself, and gets slightly annoyed remembering about Victor. Isaac is walking back and is only about five minutes away from his home when he senses a weak presence of mana in a direction to the northeast.

"I should check out what's happening, it feels like something or someone is slowly losing energy". Isaac quickly calculates in his head and begins to rush back home at a faster speed. While Isaac's sense for mana is nowhere near impressive, and he can only sense disturbances in mana 5 meters around him, it still shows its usefulness in moments like these. When Isaac makes it home, he places the basket of things Isabella needed on the table.

"Mom"! Isaac yells hoping that Isabella can hear him because he needs to be quick. Isabella walks into the room from the bakery's kitchen with flour covering her in some parts of her body. Even though Isabella looked like a mess, it didn't prevent her natural beauty from shining through.

"What is it my little warrior"? Isabella asks curious as to what could be so important that Isaac yelled for her.

"Do I tell her the truth, or do I lie to protect her and make her think everything is fine"? Isaac quickly thinks in his head. "I just wanted to ask you if I can go outside real quick, I dropped something on the way to the store". Isaac lies because he doesn't know if what he is going to check out is dangerous or not.

"Oh well okay, don't stay out too long, dinner will be ready within about 30 minutes". Isabella replies shortly before she returns into the kitchen. As soon as Isabella returns into the kitchen, Isaac bolts out the backdoor, and heads in the direction of where he last felt the presence of mana. It took Isaac over fifteen minutes, but he finally tracks the mana he felt, but it's even weaker than before, and now there is a stronger presence of mana next to the weaker presence of mana. As Isaac gets closer to the presence of mana, he gets further and further from the town and into the outskirts of the forest. After 10 minutes of running, Isaac sees a scene of a flamvell wolf, one of the forest's most commonly known wildlife, stalking and circling around a pond, with a creature in the pond. The creature resembled a small baby mermaid, she had blue skin, pink hair that resembled tentacles, with a blue headband on. The more astonishing features were the fins on the side of her face, arms, and the tail which had fins on the end and sides of it. The merbaby looked not only weak, but also scared by the flamvell wolf. Though the wolf definitely has no way to get to the merbaby, the merbaby must not have eaten because the wolf has been stalking the merbaby.

"This flamvell wolf won't let her get out of here alive, the wolf is biding its time until the merbaby is at her weakest going into the pond and eating her". Isaac analyzes the situation in a instance, but before he can think about how he will take out the wolf, the wolf sniffs, and turns to growl at him.

"Shit! Forgot they have strong senses of smell"! Isaac exclaims, and immediately begins to channel his foundation spell, but before he can even get close to finishing, the wolf lunges straight at him. Isaac dodges the lunge and immediately begins to run from the wolf. The wolf after missing its target immediately begins to chase after Isaac wildly. While Isaac is running, it tries to claw Isaac multiple times, but Isaac would just barley dodge at the last second.

"There is no way I can take this thing, in a frontal fight, I need to use my advantages". Isaac thinks as he begins to run towards a tree with the wolf behind him. Isaac jumps and grabs a branch and then proceeds to throw himself upwards on to the tree, out of the reach of the wolf. While the wolf stared up at Isaac, flames began to gather around its claws, and it swiped at tree causing it to begin to collapse. Before the tree falls though, Isaac jumps to the branch of another tree and then begins to channel a spell.

"Summon"! Isaac yells as the familiar purple throwing spears appear in both of his hands, just as the wolf claws at the tree Isaac's on, and makes it collapse. When the tree is collapsing, Isaac tosses one of the spear in his hand towards the paw of the flamvell wolf, and penetrates the paw and forces it to the ground. The flamvell wolf begins to try to claw at the purple spear that has nailed its left paw to the ground, but before it can finish, Isaac slams his other throwable spear into the other paw of the wolf.

"Now that I've immobilized it, I've gotta kill it quickly". Isaac thinks as he channels his magic into summoning the dual bladed polearm weapon. The wolf begins to struggle madly, and it wouldn't take long before the spears would be uplifted and broken apart by the wolf's sheer strength of force. "Summon"! Isaac yells, and just as the dual bladed polearm appears in his hand, the wolf with bloody paws charges at Isaac and opens it mouth to take a bite out of Isaac with its flaming fangs. In the moment of action, Isaac aims his dual bladed polearm directly at the head of the wolf and thrusts forward. As Isaac's thrusts his weapon forward, he shouts, "Extend"! The length of Isaac's weapon extends by .3 meters, and impales the wolf through its head. The wolf collapses dead, and Isaac falls on the ground in exhaustion.

"Wow, and here I thought I was really going to die". Isaac thinks as he is breathing on the forest's ground. "I guess I should go back to the pond". Isaac thinks and begins to do just as he says and walks back toward the pond.