Path [2]

I continued to walk through the forest with the skull tied to my pocket. As night time arrived, I sat down by the tree with a campfire in front of me with the flesh of wild beasts hanging on top of the fire.

"To think you were a camper, not many people these days know the basics of outdoor camping.", Jean spoke.

"Starting a fire is as easy as snapping your fingers, with the existence of magic, I won't have to worry about my daily necessities.", I responded.

I rested my head at the tree's trunk as I waited for the meat to roast.

"Where do you plan on going? I don't believe that you left the empire without a reason with all the resources they have.", Jean asked.

"Did you even forget what you are? You're a necromancer that deals with taboo magic and I'm an asura. If one of the church saw us, we'd have long been hunted down.", I responded.

"Right... you're half demon.", Jean mumbled.

"We're going south, to the kingdom of Kredan. It's a safe haven for us since the country does not have a religion.", I took a bite of the meat.

"For now, I should try the art of body refinement, my daily training isn't effective anymore ever since I went past the second-rate level."

I sat down in a lotus position and allowed the nature's energy from the vicinity to permeate throughout my body. I felt the screeching pain as my bones started to harden itself and my body releasing the impurities within. I breathed heavily as I tried to withstood the pain of my organs shifting and refining itself with the nature's energy.

"This is exactly why most didn't choose the murim path.", Jean says as he continues watching me.

As the transformation finished, Angel fell to the ground as his eyes slowly closes and rests. Two days passed after Angel fainted from the body transformation. His eyes slowly opened at the sight of Qilin licking his face, as if trying to wake him up.

"You can stop now.", Angel chuckled 

Angel's body ached due to starvation as he stood up from the ground. Jean remained quiet at the ground. Angel looked for any leftover roasted meat but unfortunately the remaining meat had already rotten.

"Just my luck... I better get food fast.", Angel muttered to himself.

He rode the Qilin and let it track the nearest beasts. Fortunately, there were wild boars resting near them. 

"Baden's Magic Beast Arts: Thunder F-fenrir..!", Angel's voice weak and dry.

The lightning fenrir appeared but it was immediately dissapearing due to Angel's weak energy after consuming all his energy for the body transformation. 

It bit the boar's heads and sent large amounts of voltage inside, causing to fry their brains and immediately killing them before the fenrir fully disappeared. Angel came down from the Qilin's back and started butchering the dead boars. He placed the meat on a leaf and used simple fire magic to quickly roast the meat before eating till full.

"Ahh, this saved my life...", Angel holds his belly

"You've finally woken up.", Jean spoke tied at Angel's pocket.

"How long was I asleep?", Angel asked.

"Two days, you fainted two whole days!", Jean replied.

"What!?", Angel gasped in shock.

"No wonder I was so hungry...", Angel held his belly after the sudden revelation.

Angel straddled at the Qilin's back before continuing the walk.