Chapter 15. Unequal fight.

"She has a talent for this magic." - thought pleased Eros, seeing how a small fountain of water flew out of the map in Kana's hand, - "But the supply of magic is too small, although ... She is still a child, in the future it will be fixable"

- Well done Kana, - Lily exclaimed happily, clapping her hands.

- Indeed, you have talent.

From all these compliments, the girl blushed.

- Thank you.

- Keep up the good work and in the future you will become the strongest woman magician.

- I will try to! - Cana's gaze lit up after hearing the words.

"Okay, and I can't lag behind, plus or minus two weeks and Gildarts will return, I will have to surprise and smack him on his face, for the whole month and a half!" - a devilish smile did not disappear from Eros's face, and Lily, seeing her, shuddered and turned sharply in the opposite direction, considering the beauty of the bookshelf.

After leaving the guild, he made his way to the Eastern Forest as usual. And twenty minutes later he reached the cave, where one five-meter gorilla should be waiting for him, but there was no one there.

"Strange ..." - his pensive glance fell on a tree with traces of claws, - "This monkey definitely didn't have claws, and I haven't seen them at this place before ..."

From the cave, the sounds of heavy footsteps began to be heard, which became louder and louder.

"It's definitely not him…" - at that moment a five-meter body of a hairy creature, covered in blood, flew out of the cave, - Macaque! - quickly approaching the body, Eros began to examine it.

The Vulcan was still conscious, he raised a trembling hand and pointed his finger towards the cave. Eros quickly turned his gaze in the direction where Vulcan was pointing, and a giant five-meter creature came out of the cave, very similar to a bear with three eyes, and all three looked at the figure of a titan.

- Three-eyed bear, - whispered Eros, with a bit of fear, - Monster of A-rank, no, even among A-ranks, he is one of the strongest! What can this creature do on the outskirts of the Eastern Forest ?!

~ PAP!

- Macaque, can you move? - for this month, Eros became attached to this monkey. He fought her more than once and lost many times, but Vulcan never finished off the titan, they fought on equal terms. There were days when he passed out after their fights and the monkey took him to his cave, where he helped him to recover at least a little.

- Go away, cub ... - said Vulcan in a hoarse voice, trying to get up, but fell back.

- Macaque, don't be silly! You know, I will not leave ... - on the periphery, Eros saw that the bear began to approach them, - Damn! He hissed, and quickly walked away.

The volcano was glad when he saw that the cub began to retreat. Indeed, during this time, he also became attached to him. Of course, when Vulcan first saw Eros, he was going to kill him, since he entered his territory, but then there was a very terrible and powerful person next to him and the creature understood that if it even made a move against him, it would be quickly killed. And after Vulcan realized that they were not going to kill him, but only forced to fight with the "small bugger", he was happy, but when he learned that he could not be killed, he was slightly upset.

They fought every day, the first days Vulcan constantly knocked all the shit out of Eros, because first of all he is a monster, and knows no pity for strangers. A week later, Vulcan began to notice that the titan was getting stronger, because only half of the blows could now hit the child, and the rest went past. The volcano was shocked by this, and became more serious about Eros, but after another week, only rare blows hit the child and he began to fight with even more zeal, because he was afraid that when Eros became stronger than him, he would simply kill his.

And a month later, the worst happened, the cub was able to overcome him and even knock him out, but when he woke up, he noticed that he was in his cave, his head was tied with white rags and the cub was sitting next to him. He was very surprised that he was still alive, and even more that he helped him.

- Come on, Macaque, tomorrow I'll be back, - this little monster told him with a smile.

- Macaque! - having comprehended the last word, Vulcan became very angry, - I have a name! I'm not a Macaque!

- No, you will be a Macaque, - he jumped off the stone and walked towards the exit, - Okay, get well, come on, I'll be back tomorrow and continue! - waving his hand to the taken aback Vulcan, he left the cave.

- Here you are, little one!

This is just fear, or maybe something else, he did not understand.

When Eros more or less regained his strength, it was already very dark outside, but he still left the cave and went towards Magnolia. The volcano also followed him, silently, he escorted him to the border of the forest and when he disappeared from sight, he returned to his cave.

And again the days went on as usual, every day the cub came to his cave and with each new day, Vulkan understood that he was beginning to lag behind, after all, over the past three days, he had never been able to hit him, and even in strength they became equal and it was even more frightening, and at the same time, he felt sad.

This afternoon, he was preparing for this battle as usual, but his warm-up was interrupted by steps at the entrance to the cave. At first, Vulcan thought that this impudent boy had come, but when he heard the roar, he immediately realized that it was something very scary. And it looked into his cave ...

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The strength of this creature was on a different level, Vulcan had nothing to oppose to him. He saw how this monster was approaching him and preparing for death, but what he expected did not happen, only a dull blow was heard. Opening his eyes, he saw that the face of the bear looked to the right and looking there, he saw Eros, who was throwing stones at the monster.

- Come here stupid bear meat! I will make a fur coat out of your skin, and I will fry and eat your meat, and then give a shit on your skeleton ... - and turning around, he began to quickly flee from the angry bear. And the fact that he was chasing him, Eros understood by the red eyes of the bear filled with rage.

He did not keep himself waiting for a long time, the next moment, the titan jumped abruptly to the side and accelerated, trees began to fall behind him ...

And Eros understood one thing for sure, if he stops, he will die. Bear that a fucking monster among the monsters is chasing him.

The next moment, Eros jumped back sharply and straight ahead, he saw the afterimage of black claws, as well as felt a slight breath of wind.

- I caught up, yes, although, here it would be more accurate to say, I overtook, - Eros said with a sigh, looking at the bear fifteen meters away, - And I can't run away, right?

In response, he received only a growl full of rage.

- I was joking, you don't understand jokes? - while the titan tried to speak to the bear, he examined his surroundings, trying to find something that could help in the upcoming battle. For the next thirty meters, there was just an empty clearing, a bear, as if on purpose brought him to this place.

In the next moment, Eros saw a hanging paw over his head ...

- Here is a bi*ch! - he put his hand under the blow and jumped back, but Eros did not have time to completely evade and a crunch sounded across the whole clearing, but it was not the end, the bear brought its second paw right into Eros's chest. His small body was thrown like a bullet into a tree.

The bear growled in satisfaction and began to slowly approach the titan.

"Two blows ... Here it is the difference between magicians of rank B and A ... No, this bear is a monster, a real monster compared to Karl, who was considered an average in strength A-rank magician ..." - he experienced terrible pain throughout his body and could hardly move your still good hand, - "That's what I did to you stupid bear ?! I calmly practiced here, did not touch anyone and you SU * KA DECIDED TO APPLY AND EXCUTE EVERYTHING! NO EXPENSIVE! IF I'M SLEEPING, THEN SUCH A CREATURE AS YOU WILL TAKE WITH MYSELF! - With difficulty raising his still good hand, he closed his eyes and again touched that power. A lot of time has passed since then and Eros has become much stronger, so ...

When the bear was already a meter from the boy's body, he froze abruptly, his eyes narrowed, and the fur stood on end. He felt a wild danger emanating from a half-dead body in front of him and all his senses screamed about leaving this place as quickly as possible. And the bear, used to trust his instinct, and the next moment he pulled away from the body.

- Late, - a wild smile appeared on Eros's face, and his teeth covered with blood complemented it very well, - DIE! - a black ball flew out of the hand, which in a split second caught up with the bear, which did not have time to squeak, as it was covered by dark energy, which began to rapidly expand, absorbing everything around it. The sky around the clearing was covered with a dark cloud resembling a mushroom. For the next kilometer, there were no signs of life, and the monsters, even at that moment, as soon as they felt the surge of this wild magical power, fled from their territories, abandoning everything.

A meter from the feet of Eros began a giant funnel. The titan himself looked at this with a grin and was glad that he did not dare to bite off more strength.

"I guess it can be called luck, right?" - his gaze was directed to the sky, - "This attack ate the last grains of strength, now I won't lift a finger, let alone go ..." - at that moment, he heard a rustle to his right, and in the depths of his heart began to emerge fear, - "Damn! Now even an ordinary boar can kill me, but I generally keep quiet about other monsters ... How wrong is it! " - he again tried to move his hand, but there was no reaction, - "Am I going to die so young? HEY! I'm not ready to die yet! "