Just another day

Another day, another monster hunted. After his first kill, lucian got high on the feeling of taking down beasts. But after having done it for such a long time, it has become a chore now. He kills what comes to his way. he eats there hearts and brains to strengthn himself by absorbing radiation from them. But even the boast he gets after each hunt has become very less. He has to hunt them in masses to make any visble improvements.

But that occasional strong which apper are the once that make his blood boiling again. The game of hunt makes his blood boil. And when he gets that substantial improvement from their vitals, it makes it all the more great.

That is why the heart that he was eating was all the more bland to him.

lilith on the other hand was drinking the blood dry of the beast dead body. Ray was also enjoying a very small pices of the meat after it was roasted on lilith flames. Lilith was first irked but when ray asked, "please." she relanted.

And yes he has been teaching her how to speak the language. But that is only during the night before she has to go to sleep. In the morning he teachs her something of more importance.

That is the of hunting. He has her hunt everyday. He has one shutin pasanger traveling on him, he will not tolerate another.

Everyday he asks lilith to point in the direction where she Ray will not find any imideate predators. But this is the wild, there is always danger. If she is ever careless on even a step she will be a goner.

Like now, it was again time for the daily hunt.

"Lilith, which direction today."

"There," Lilith said, pointing to a direction while still constantly gulping down blood.

"Its time girl, go. You know the rule be smart…"

"…not wild," completing Lucians with a wide smile, Ray collected all her gear and ran to the direction lilith pointed.

Looking at Ray running away into the woods, lucian was deep in thougt.

Ray has been able to pick up language very well this past days. And she has also gotten a lot stronger than before, remarkably so.

In the bigning she would come back with grave injurs and on occasions not even able to hunt anything.

Her improvement in communication and hunting was adiquitely normal. Until some time ago, when her strength sky rocketed and also her mental aqume. It was also not only for lerning to speak but she also got smarter on her hunts.

Lucian had thought her how it was better to ambush a prey or lead it to a trap already set. But he could not do more for her as she has to deal with more danger than him. It will usally be only some monsters that he has to fight but for her the whole of the environment is a death trap. So, she has been making her own phylosopy for the wild. Thinking up of techneques he never thought.

He didn't think that humans of this time were that smart. He is not belittling them, but the way he thinks they live and prosper is thorugh knowledge that is pass down from generation to generation. The father teachs the son and the son to his, this is probably the way how most of the humans are introduced to hunting or just the way of life.

Here he is seeing the girl actually pioneer her way in the forest.

If feels like she is growing day by day, in body and in mind.

He has some guess for why but he has not found any evidence so he has not been hasty in making conclusions.

"All will in due time I guess."

"Hey, I am going to see around a bit."

"Okay."

With even lilith flying away he was now alone. But before he could get lost in his thoughts again a idea come to his mind when he looked to were Ray was sitting before.

They was some of the cooked meat wraped in a leaf, Ray keeps this for breakfast when she wakes up. It was lucian's advice for her to eat some in the morning. When he looked at the package and thougt of how the meat inside is cooked he thinks back to once reading that some people in his past world used to also cook blood.

"Yeah why don't I try cooking the blood then, and if the tast doesn't make me uncomfortable than I can get more out of the beast."

Lucian knew that before he was wasting the source that contained the most amount of radiation source. But now when lilith drinks the blood of mosters that he has hunt while she does not even share the heart and brains of those she hunted, irked him to no end. After all she was being right when she said that it would go to waste since he doesn't drink the blood her having to consume is better anyway.

While he was having toughts on how to experiment with the cooking, he saw Ray coming back.

"Lord, look, look, big hunt," Ray shouted towards lucian with dragging a big tiger behind her.

Lucian came out of his thought and patted the head of Ray with the ever so gentle force, "Good girl."

Rays face instantly lit up.

Later while they waited for lilith to come back, lucian saw how Ray looked a little troubled.

"What is it Ray?"

"Lord, do know Guardian beast?"

"Hmm what are you talking about," asked lucian now confused.

"There this big beast who help us before. He stay our place tree grow very big."

"You mean you have seen a titan beast like me before."

"No, but he feel same. Before you I see him with mama, papa," the girl said in her journymen level proficiency in language. But she seemed saddened when she remembered her parents.

"Do you remember how he looked," said lucian in an attempt to darw her attention away from her drowning mood.

"Yes, yes, Ray remember."

"Can you draw it for me?"

"Okay."

Picking up her spear Ray starts drawing a beast.

Just then lilith is also reaching them from the horizon.

"Lucian, I have found a titan. It is strong, you will love hunting it."

"What, where is it," clearly exited lucian enquires her.

But after lilith reachs them she goes silent.

"What happened, tell me how does it look."

Lilith took a moment than looking at him pointed to what Ray was drawing, "It looks just like that."