Chapter 18 Almost Won

The Fire Lion now ran towards Yukikaze to attack her while she prepared herself for the upcoming fight.

Yukikaze still had around ten seconds before the Fire Lion would reach her. She used that time to use all her remaining stat points to raise both vitality and defense from 20 to 40 and strength from 40 to 47.

With raising defense and strength she improved the damage she can cause and lessens the damage she takes while the raising of the vitality stat gives her extra HP. With now a total of 200 HP she felt far safer than with the previous 20.

As soon as she was done she jumped to the side and dodged the Fire Lions charge. Before it managed to turn around Yukikaze activated (Invisibility Lv.1).

The Fire Lion fired one of it`s fireballs at the spot were Yukikaze was before he charged. It was a futile attempt since Yukikaze already got away from there causing the explosion to hit nothing.

Yukikaze ran up to it and started using (Claw Lv.5) on it`s side.

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

After she managed to hit it five times with (Claw Lv.5) she had to stop her attack and use (Jump Lv.3) to dodge the incoming claw from the Fire Lion.

Yukikaze retreated a bit to get some distance between her and the Fire Lion. The Fire Lion directly charged at Yukikaze again but she still had time to check it`s remaining HP.

Remaining HP 21.975/24.400

Yukikaze prepared to dodge and counterattack but the Fire Lion launched another Fireball at her forcing her to dodge early right into it`s path.

- 35 HP

The Fire Lion rammed her causing a lot of pain as well as her flying a couple meters away.

Yukikaze was still in a bit of a daze and nearly didn`t notice the Fire Lion charging right at her again. She jumped to the side and strikes with (Claw Lv.5) at it`s side when it passed.

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

Remaining HP 20520/24.400

This time she only managed to hit twice. She looked at her own remaining HP and Stamina and was confident in victory.

HP 165/200

Stamina 31/35

` My HP don`t look to good but as long as I am careful and keep dodging I should be able to win this. I can restore HP with my Potions but I have no way to restore Stamina so I don`t worry much about my HP. `

+ 2 HP

`Oh I completely forgot I have this new (Regeneration Lv.1) skill. " HP in 10 seconds that is around 1% of my health not bad but it could be better. `

Yukikaze turned herself invisible and jumped on the back of the Fire Lion. Her original plan was to use (Bite Lv.4) on it`s neck but with that mane made out of fire she decided to instead to bite in it`s back and use all four paws to scratch it.

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

Of course the Fire Lion didn`t like it but and started to try and throw her of his back.

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

In the end it manages to throw her of but it still took 11 scratches leaving it with 15185 HP.

The Fire Lion tried and crush Yukikaze with one of it`s paws. Yukikaze managed to dodge it and used (Bite Lv.4) on one of it`s legs to try and cripple it.

- 500 HP

The Fire Lion growled in pain and used it`s remaining leg to kick Yukikaze away from it. Yukikaze flew a bit through the air until she crashed into the ground a couple meters away from the Fire Lion.

- 50 HP

+ 2 HP

Although Yukikaze kept regenerating some health during the fight she now has almost less than half her health.

` Only 119 HP left I can probably still survive two to three hits. And that thing still has 14685 HP. I need to find a way to increase my ability to attack and retreat. A place were I can ambush the Fire Lion would be ideal. What about the forest? The Forest has trees from which I can attack and bushes in which I can hide myself in. It isn`t to far away. `

Yukikaze quickly sprinted towards the forest but the Fire Lion followed her and was surprisingly fast.

` I crippled it and it is still catching up. Hopefully the forest can restrict it`s movements. `

Yukikaze probably could have continued the fight on the open grasfield. But fighting there would have meant that she would have probably been forced to use some of her healing potions to win. She only has four remaining and she can`t get new ones in the foreseeable future.

As soon as Yukikaze reached the first tree she dodged behind it. She didn`t look back but she was able to her claws scratching against the tree.

+ 2 HP

She ran up one of the trees and jumped and used (Bite Lv.4) to hold herself on the Fire Lion while using (Claw Lv.5) to keep scratching it`s back.

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

- 485 HP

The wounds of the Fire Lion became visibly worse with each scratch and soon blood started flowing out of it.

` Looks like I hit a vein. `

Yukikaze kept on scratching it`s back and the deeper she got the more damage she caused.

- 500 HP

- 500 HP

- 500 HP

- 500 HP

- 500 HP

The Fire Lion struggled to throw Yukikaze of it`s back and tried to throw itself against a tree to get her of of it. The Fire Lions plan didn`t succeed in throwing Yukikaze off but it caused some damage to her.

- 510 HP

- 510 HP

- 510 HP

- 510 HP

- 510 HP

- 510 HP

` Every scratch counts just a couple more. `

- 530 HP

- 530 HP

- 530 HP

The damage she did on the Fire Lion increased the deeper she got and the more blood it lost.

In the end the Yukikaze had to jump of it`s back because the Fire Lion threw itself on it`s back to crush her. Yukikaze looked on it`s health and was happy to see that it only had a bit more than 5000.

Remaining HP 5595/24.400

` I have almost won just a bit more. `

While the Fire Lion was still on it`s back Yukikaze saw a chance to attack the vulnerable stomach of the Fire Lion. She quickly ran up to it and jumped.