beast aura

Jack looked down at the wolf and felt tired, as the adrenalin of the battle wore off he truly started to feel the splitting pain in his shoulder.

He placed his hand on his shoulder and saw that it was covered in blood.

"Jack come here," his uncle said

He went over to his uncle and sat in front of him, Josh pulled out some bandages from his bag and started to wrap them around jacks shoulder.

As he was doing this he asked in his teacher's voice

"Do you know where you failed?"

"I didn't think past the kick"

Josh lightly smacked jack at the back of the head

"You didn't think past the kick"

"Dave, Helmer grab your wolfs and find a way to bring them back, I'll cray jacks since he's injured"

While Josh was trying to seem calm on the outside, on the inside he was so excited he was barely able to hold back.

'These kids are fucking insane, barely a week of training and already bringing down basic tier beasts, and jack, while he had a slip up near the end his growth has been like that of a monsters, he has a high talent for magic manipulation, kife based combat, and hand to hand combat if he joins if kingdoms academy I have no doubt he can make it far'

'Hell all 3 of these kids have a lot of potential and talent'

"Ummm josh" josh was knocked out of his thoughts and trend around

"Can you explain what that thing Dave did earlier?"

Josh suddenly remembered what happened with Daves battle but decided it was best to explain it later once they were out of the forest.

They continued to walk along with the forests but jack was caught in his own thoughts to be paying attention to them, he didn't notice it himself but he was subconsciously playing the battle back to back in his head, trying to find flaws in his style.

The battle was going the same up till the point after the kick

'I should've gone right for a stab to the head'

He played it in his mind but realized it would have not worked, he would could not stab the wolf fast enough with no mana in his hands and whold of still gotten bit

'What if I jump back'

He played it again and saw it would have worked

Jack still didn't realize it but what he was doing was called analyzing.

When the group arrived back outside of the forest, they lied the wolfs down and josh showed the group how to skin the wolves and how to separate the good meat from the bad.

After that, they all sat down to discuss what they did today and how they might possibly improve.

"I have nothing to say, you all did a lot better than I ever expected." was all josh had to say

"Do any of you have any questions?"

"Yah I have a question, what the fuck was that thing Dave did, it felt like suffocating"

Dave looked at Helmer confused

"What do you mean?" he asked

"What he means is this" josh suddenly said

All of the sudden the boys felt this pressor and felt fear when looking at josh, but the next second it was gone

"Ok what the hell was that," Jack said gaining a smile on his face

"It has many names but it's mainly called is beast aura, you see beasts release a natural aura that puts pressure on other living creatures, and as they get stronger the aura also gets stronger itself, I wasn't planning to explain this to you today but it seems like its necessary, humans can also gain beast aura but it will never be as good as an actual beast, there is an exception to this rule and that's what Dave has"

Josh looks at us to see if we're paying attention

"It called 'natural beast aura' what that means is that Dave already had beast aura and can subconsily use it when battling, what he has is extremely rare tho"

"Can we learn beast aura?" jack asked

"Yes and no"

"The only way I know of to gain beast aura is to live among the beasts themselves, iv only gain beast aura du to me spending years in the woods, there are probably other ways but I'm not aware of them."

"Now then, now that that's over let's do today's run"

"Seriously?" all the kids said at once

"Yes seriously, now get to it"   

After the kids were done with the run and the sun started to set, josh headed to the centre of the village where the chief lived.

"Ah, josh so what do I owe the pleasure," the chief said

"It's about the kids"

"Ah, another dud, shame I thought due to there low awakening time, they were going to be the hope of this village, but what can we do you can stop training them if you wi"

But before he could finish his sentence Josh chimed in.

"quite the opposite, these are some of the most talented kids that this village has ever seen, I had to begin phase 2 of there training a week early due to how quickly they were growing, today was their first hunt"

"ARE YOU MAD" the village chief screamed

"WHAT IF THEY GOTTEN HURT, 2 WEEKS OF TRAINING, 2 WEEKS OF HUNTING" the chief rubbed the bridge of his nose trying to calm down.

"We do this for a reason, josh, ever since your father"

"We've never had kids this talented when my father was around" Josh replied with a stern voice

"What happened then won't happen again, also that was a one-off incident we've never seen a beast that strong since it moved back deeper in the forest"

Almer (I don't remember how I spelt his name) stood the and stared at josh with a stern expression

"and what of the hunt?" he asked, still not happy

"Helmer killed a basic tier wolf by frying its brain, Dave had a natural beast aura nearly as strong as mine so the beast was too afraid to move and just got shot, and Jack... "

"and Jack?"

"Jack killed a middle-class beast with minimal injuries, be possessed enough speed to avoid all of its attacks, and enough strength to break one of its legs, I'm not saying this because he's my nephew, but he has the potential to be the strongest out of the 3 due to the rate he's growing"

The chief was looking at Josh, with a surprised expression, he was shocked at how these kids had all grown so quickly and where already able to fight low-level beasts with minimal issues, but his expression turned serious.

"Do not tell them how talented they are, it will only make them cocky and they won't try as hard, when I take them to the local lord I want them thinking they're on the same level as everyone else there, we need these kids to go to the academy tests"

"Of course" josh replied

Josh prepared to leave the room but the chief stopped him

"I'm sorry of questioning your judgement josh"

Josh just nodded and left to go back home

Awair looked to his desk and picked up a photo of 2 young men and a woman holding a baby

"he's just like you where my old friend"