24. First Fight Against Humans

Zion rushed at the left-sided archer first. This guy had the least armour and defence, so he decided on him first.

The archers noticed him approaching and nocked arrows, then raised their bows towards him.

Zion spotted their movements, and his lilac eyes glimmered before he dashed, increasing his agility to 64 for 35 seconds.

As he quickly reached the left archer, he panicked and released his arrow too soon. Zion easily dodged it and then pounced at the guy's face causing him to stumble back and fall to his ass.

Zion didn't give him a chance to react as he immediately bit at the guy's throat, causing him to yell in pain, "Stupid mutt!" The guy pulled out a small blade and stabbed it toward Zion.

Zions' eyes immediately curved slightly, and the archer, who could see the fox's eyes very clearly, suddenly realised he made a mistake.

Zion let go of his bleeding throat and quickly ducked down. Before the archer had a chance to react, he had stabbed himself in the throat.

Zion had backed off the minute he let the man's throat go and had already rushed halfway to the other archer, who was about to shoot an arrow at him.

Zion suddenly had a bad feeling and dodged to the right just as an arrow from behind him hit where he had been, causing him to turn and look at the archer who was fatality wounded a second ago.

The guy was pointing a crossbow towards him, and an empty glass bottle was sitting in his other hand while the neck wound had almost completely sealed up, although a faint scar was still visible beneath the blood.

'A healing potion! Of course. You idiot, Zion. Aala had mentioned mana potions before. I should have guessed healing potions would be a thing, too. Damn it, I wish Abraham had books about potions at his house. All he had was history.' Zion dodged the other archers' arrow that had been released.

He returned to the still recovering archer as the man couldn't reload his crossbow quickly and pounced on him again.

This time, he was ready, so the archer quickly raised his crossbow and used it to block Zions' attack.

Zion shook it off as he landed on the ground then quickly slashed at the archers heels. He screamed in pain, feeling his tendons being slashed, and he fell to the ground.

The minute he was down again, Zion ran towards the other archer, but unlike what that archer expected, Zion didn't go to him.

He grabbed the crossbow bolt stuck in the ground with his teeth, then pulled it out and ran back to the one who fired it.

The archer was confused, but then his eyes widened, and he hurried to nock another arrow, "That fucking..." He grumbled and hurriedly raised his bow, but it was still too late.

While he was still nocking the arrow, Zion had arrived at the downed archer and then abruptly stopped while releasing the bolt, throwing it towards him with his teeth just as the other one raised his bow.

After Zion had activated the dash again to increase his speed as he ran to the archer, the arrow was released almost as fast as if it had been fired from a crossbow.

The bolt flew from his mouth and into the eye of the archer in a split second. It pierced through his eye, causing him to let out a blood-curdling scream and grab at the bolt.

Sadly, it hadn't gone deep enough to pierce his brain, but Zion didn't let this moment Escape as he ran at him and quickly bit at his throat again. However this time, he actually activated a kick against his chest to push away from the archer, tearing his throat.

The archer's remaining eye widened slightly as he gurgled in surprise before he slumped to the ground. Zion had no time to wait for him to bleed out, however as the remaining archer shot the arrow at him.

Zion couldn't dodge this time, so the arrow hit him. However all that happened was there was the metallic ting of metal against metal as the arrowhead hit his armour.

Zion rushed at the archer, and this time, knowing he would be expecting it, Zion didn't pounce immediately. Instead, he smirked and activated Mind Talk on the archer.

'"Jeremy Kent... Age 28."'

The sudden, unfamiliar voice speaking his name and age made the archer shiver and eyes widen as he spun around, "W-Who said that?!" He shouted in horror.

But by doing that, Jeremy left himself wide open as Zion smirked again and pounced on the man's back.

The panicked and unprepared archer instantly fell to the ground when the large fox leapt on his back.

Zion snarled at him and slashed at his neck a couple of times before biting down on him. Jeremy yelled in pain and tried to get the fox off him; however due to his positioning, his hands had ended up under him when he fell, and Zion wasn't exactly light.

He managed to roll enough to get one arm free, and when he reached back to grab Zion, Zion bit his hand. Jeremy screamed in pain but grabbed Zion anyway and threw him at the nearest tree.

Zion hit the tree with a soft grunt and a thud, but thanks to the armour, it didn't hurt him too badly. He stood up and was about to attack the recovering Jeremy when he suddenly heard a ding.

[[Ian Ober (E) killed, 75 EXP gained.]]

[[First human killed, 50 EXP gained.]]

'Oh? Killing humans gives me quite a bit of EXP...' Zion glanced toward Jeremy, then grinned so wide all his sharp teeth were showing, 'Let's test that again, shall we?'