Alive

" I have the stongest what?!"

" You didn't know? You have the strongest energy exuding from you, and that means that you are really powerful," Shreya said with an amazed look on her face. How could Ethan not know how powerful he was. It's like saying a bodybuilder didn't know the size of his muscles!

" I don't get it, how is that possible? I'm only an E rank animal tamer,"

Kenji was confused by her words. How could he have the strongest energy she had felt in all her years of living? Wasn't he just an F rank animal tamer, but then again, he did buy enough resources to increase his rank, but it only got him to increase his rank to E, and he was very sure that an E rank was just a little bit stronger than a normal human from his original world.

" Kenji, don't worry, all of your confusion would be cleared up once you're back alive," Shreya said, as she flapped her wings with more power and sped up the more.

She knew what was buried deep in him, she knew his potential, but she wouldn't tell him yet.

* It's better for him to find out himself*

They passed through many different portal realms; nine to be exact, as they got closer to the realm of the living.

And by the time they were at the last one and only a few miles away from leaving this death realm and bringing Kenji back alive, she paused in the air, and said to Kenji solemnly.

" Kenji, once you leave, I want you to remember something: you are an animal tamer, not a domestic tamer," Shreya said, as she then flew into the final portal, with Kenji having a confused look on his face.

•••••

Kenji's body laid in the grass surrounded by a dried up puddle of his own blood. His face was pale and his hands were cold, as his whole body had already lost the luster of life that once lingered on.

But suddenly, as the body laid lifeless on the ground, a huge portal appeared beside the body, and a soul was thrown out!

Kenji's soul moved towards his body with a blank mind. When he had come out of the portal, he felt the need to do only one thing; to remerge with his body and be alive once again, every other thought was thrown to the back of his head. As he took a step closer, he then bent down onto and laid on top of his body.

Slowly, he began entering into the body once more, as both the body and soul merged once again.

The moment Kenji's soul entered into the body, the blood pool surrounding him began receding back into his body through the opened wound in his chest.

His cold, freezing body began to regain it's warmth, as his eyes fluttered from time to time.

A mysterious energy exuded from his body, and the wind immediately went wild as it destroyed and ravaged the surroundings.

Tearing out trees and grasses, as the wind raged on. Slowly Kenji's body soon began to being lifted from the ground. He seemed so Etheral and impossible.

After a while, the phenomenon ended, and Kenji opened his eyes!

He then sat up and looked around, trying to figure out where he was, when flashes of memories suddenly caught him off guard, as everything that happened returned to him.

As he remembered all that had happened, a bitter smile crept up his face, as he laid back onto the ground.

" I can't believe I got killed by a rabbit, then got saved by a phoenix, in one day! I'm both weak and magnificent" Kenji said with a smile.

Getting up from the ground and looking around him, he was a bit suprised when he saw trees uprooted from the ground and laying all around like uprooted weeds.

But after a while, he thought that it was probably the rabbits that had gotten angry and destroyed the surrounding area.

Kenji then walked a few steps forward and saw a stone on the ground. Picking it up, he realized that it was the Phoenix core that he had been carrying around all this while. The same stone that had saved his life.

He silently thanked the king, for if he hadn't mistakenly given it to him. Kenji would have probably died by now," everything happens for a reason," he finally understood the meaning behind those words.

He then placed it into his pocket and decided to head out, he could go herb picking another day.

" Alright, let's get out of here before another mad rabbit comes over and tear me apart," Kenji said jokingly, as he began walking away and heading back to town.

Aaahhhhhg!!!

As Kenji was leaving, he heard the loud cry of someone screaming from somewhere. It sounded like they were in danger and we're about to be killed!

" What was that?" Kenji thought. But then the thought of another creature coming over to kill him if he goes to help suddenly crossed him, and in a quick fit, he decided to quicken his pace and walk away faster.

Aaahhhhhg!!!

He heard it again. This time, he was torn between getting out of here and preserving his life or going over to where the origin of the scream cane from and go help out.

" Agh, fine!" He exclaimed with gritted teeth, as he turned around and ran in the direction of the scream.

Aaahhhhhg!!!

It came again, this time, Kenji ran with all the strength in his body, passing by trees and bushes in a blink of an eye. He didn't think he could ever run like this, this doesn't seem to be him, but somehow, he was doing it. And he was doing it fast!

Soon he got to where the screams had come from and he decided to climb on top of a tree to get a better range of the situation.

After climbing, he looked towards the precise area and was shocked to see what was happening!

•••••

Three little kids around the age of five to six, were surrounding a tiny little green skinned creature; a goblin!

The area was already covered from top to bottom with about thirty bodies of dead goblins, and there was traces of blood splattered on the kids clothing. It wouldn't take a genius to know what was happening; these kids had just murdered over thirty goblins, and judging by their size, they should all be D rank goblins.

And it seems the one the kids were surrounding was the last one, the final survivor.

The goblin had a frightened exppression on his face as he stared at the kids. He seemed so scared that if he could, he would have preferred to have fainted then die.

There were two girls and one boy, as they released a murderous aura that sent shivers down even Kenji's spine.

The kids moved closer to the goblin slowly, and the goblin moved backwards quickly. But before they could do a thing to it, they were interrupted.

Rrraaahh!!

Suddenly, a huge creature made out of dark flames suddenly jumped out from an area of the woods and appeared in front of the kids and goblin.

In a flash of light, it swiped it's claws and killed the goblin in a swift motion.

The children looked at the flaming creature with fear. This was no goblin or Phoenix; Fire sprite! It was a fire sprite, and it's size and shape signified B rank fire sprite!

Seeing this, the children realized that they would be no match for it and a fearful look appeared on their faces.

Rrraaahh!!

The creature roared again, as he looked at the kids with hungry eyes and moved closer to them.

It then raised one if it's hands into the air, and was about to strike one of them, when a huge tree branch suddenly appeared in his sight, and was immediately smacked away by it!

The fire sprite flew backwards a few miles, but then when it finally stopped and stabilized itself, it looked up angrily.

He then found a human staring at him menancingly with a tree branch.

And the human it found wasn't just any human, it was the weak animal tamer, Kenji holding a huge tree branch, standing in front of the kids like a guardian.

" Hey beast! Pick on someone your own size!!"