Hunt and being hunt

 On a bright day in a vast forest, many figures quickly shuttle between the trees, some are slow and some are fast, and below them, there is an animal running away from them, this seems to be a hunt

 The animal was like an ox that has rhino characteristics, a strong sharp horn stood on the tip of the nose, and its short fur was whole gray, with well-developed limbs, a strong tail, and a round head. It looks like a combination of a group of animals.

 Suddenly, a young boy stretched out a hand and gathered jade green mana upon his palm, jade green mana started whirling and forming a finger-sized needle-like projectile, it cycling with raging wind and swift to his middle finger as if ready to shoot.

 "Alright, cyclone needle... aim... and... fire!" The young boy shouted.

 The boy snaps his middle finger and launches the cyclone needle. The cyclone needle is shot out at high speed, and the strong wind roars past, flying close to the ground and even lifting the turf.

 The cyclone needle got closer and closer to the prey, then impaled from the belly to the heart and penetrated the head. The prey was splattered with blood, its eyes turned white and fell to the ground motionless. As for the cyclone needle, it lost its mana replenishment and immediately dissipated.

 "Aha! I got him!" The boy shouted happily.

 "Good job, Saze! You have slain 7 of kaulk now, impressive!" Moty gives a compliment.

 Seeing the kaulk lying on the ground motionless and lifeless, Saze felt a bit of nausea but also became stronger. This animal wasn't weak, it was strong and muscular and it's actually hard to kill kaulk due to the thick and hard skin that protects its body well.

 Moty also knew that Saze couldn't defeat kaulk by himself, so he brought other spiders to help. What's more, kaulk is a social animal. The reason why this kaulk was alone was that Moty used her third-stage aura to scare them so there would be single ones.

 "But let me take a rest first, I need to recover my mana." Saze said lightly.

 With that, he sat instantly and swept off the sweat on his forehead with the back of his hand. He also raises his head and looks at the sky, the eye rune of the day is located at the center of the sky, it is noon right now.

 "Gruu gruu!" Three medium spiders jump off from the tree and land beside Saze.

 "Yeah, fair enough, you should take a rest. After all, you just did training with me and slain 7 kaulks this morning." Moty said lightly.

 "Moty, are we just heading to the east? Why don't we go in another direction? Maybe north will be better or something new." Saze asked.

 "Nope, we are not heading north, there is more dangerous because its more deeper, the more deeper the more dangerous." Moty shakes her head.

 "Ah, okay... but I want to know that, what is the center of the forest? You said the deeper the more dangerous, will there be a lord of the forest?" Saze asked with excitement, two eyes gleaming with curiosity light.

 "Ugh... there is no lord of this forest but the center of this vast forest is a huge hole, a very very big and also very very deep hole. The size of that hole may be... hundredfolds of the ruined palace." Moty thought deeply and said.

 Saze took a hard gulp and didn't expect that huge also a question came to mind with confusion but after thinking about it, he chose not to ask.

 With a comfortable breeze blowing and the warm temperature, Saze closed his eyes comfortably and enjoyed it. The flowers and plants swayed in the wind, and the three spiders next to him also lay on him to rest.

 Suddenly, Saze felt a slight pain on his forehead, when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was Moty flicking his forehead. He gently rubbed his forehead.

 "Ugh... why?" He asked

 "What do you mean why? Here is a forest, there are many crises hiding everywhere and you are still enjoying with your eyes closed, maybe the next time you open your eyes you will find yourself in heaven." Moty laughed because of anger.

 Saze was enlightened by this, he touched his nose and tried to hide his embarrassment. What Moty said was right. He couldn't refute it, so he simply admitted his mistake and apologized.

 "I'm sorry! I won't do it again." Even though Saze apologized, he still had a smile on his face.

 "Alright, are you done resting now? I think we can go for another round." Moty chuckle.

 "Ah, yes, I'm done! Let's go!" Saze said happily.

 The prerequisite for restoring mana is that you cannot fight. Mana cannot be restored during fighting, so you must cherish your mana and not use it randomly when fighting. However, you can still absorb other's mana by taking the enemy's arcane attack.

 A few seconds later, five more figures were shuttled through the woods, heading east and looking for the next prey. As they moved eastward, Saze killed more prey, including kaulks, as well as other dangerous animals like a four-eyed python and a giant fire-breathing lizard.

 In this way, they hunted until nearly evening and then decided to go back. The three spiders dragged all the prey aside to sort it out, while Saze and Moty walked quite far away with some of the prey to choose a good place to roast them.

 Although the three spiders were not big, they were able to carry a lot of prey, and there were some remaining prey that they couldn't carry away, so Moty started roasting them with flame arcane.

 "Let's eat, an afternoon tea without tea." Moty focuses on controlling the fire.

 "Heh ok, I bring those three spiders come here to eat with us." Saze said lightly and headed in the direction of those spiders.

 Saze trotted all the way to where three spiders were handling their prey, but there was no trace of the three spiders on the prey that was wrapped in spider silk.

 Suddenly, an orb of orange mana formed a fiery fireball in the bush behind Saze and shot it directly at him! The moment it is launched, the flames instantly burn the bush to ashes and the fireball quickly enlarged as it flew. When Saze turned around, he found a fireball as big as his body flying towards him.

 Saze acted instantly and subconsciously and used arcane magic to avoid. Suddenly a gust of wind gathered at his feet and helped him up.

 "Wind step!" Saze shouted in mind.

 Suddenly a gust of wind gathered at his feet and helped him up. With a thought and a little mana, the wind at his feet took him back to the side to avoid the huge fireball.

 "Who the hell was there!" Saze shouted angrily.

 Boom!

 There was only a huge explosion in response to Saze. The shock wave at that moment almost knocked him down. When he looked back, he found that the huge fireball seemed to hit a tree and then exploded. The scope of the explosion was not small, and the wrapped prey had melted.

 "This is definitely the second stage!" Saze gulp and said in mind. Although the flames behind his back were hot, there was cold sweat on Saze's back.

 "Gruu!" With that, a spider figure comes out from the top and then blasts out a poisonous black needle.

 It was one of the three spiders, the spider shot a poisonous needle from the mouth to a bush and landed before Saze. When the poisonous needle was inserted, the bush shook a bit and then let out a scream.

 "Ahh!" It was a voice from a girl.

 "This brute! How dare you hurt me?! I will rip you to shreds, you ugly monster!" The girl shouted and charged towards the spider.

 At this moment, Saze also sees the girl's appearance. She is surely a teenager that older than Saze a little bit, her face has exquisite features, fair skin, and brown long hair but her face twitches from the anger and pain in her arm which makes her seem an ugly girl.

 She wore a crimson attire with a great line design and a badge on her chest. The poisonous black needle has pierced her skin and is bleeding but her head was carried away by anger.

 Just when the spider was ready to attack again, Saze attacked the girl first. The jade green mana formed a cyclone needle on his fingertips and shot it directly to the girl.

 "Cyclone needle!" Saze shouted.

 The girl was in disdain when she saw the green whirlwind needle pointing towards her head. She stops and raises her arms and opens her palms as if casting a spell but nothing happens. She was shocked and tried to dodge the cyclone needle but it was too late.

 The girl closed her eyes subconsciously and just when the needle was going to hit her head an arrow suddenly hit the cyclone needle, the cyclone got interrupted and dissipated instantly.

 "What...?!" Saze subconsciously look in the direction where the arrow comes from.

 But at this time a rapid footstep sounded behind Saze. Saze's mind rang with an alarm bell, and a strong sense of crisis filled his mind. His thoughts flashed quickly, and then he used Wind Step to quickly move to the left. His intuition seemed to tell him that the left side was safe.

 "Gru! Gru!!" The spider shouted to Saze.

 Before Saze figured out what the spider meant, a cold metal blade touched his neck. Saze quickly realized that was a sharp knife and there was a person behind him.

 "Heya~ Little clumsy boy, where are you running at? You enjoy the hunt, right? How about being hunt?" A very magnetic female voice sounded behind Saze.

 "Hahaha! Sophia, you got him! Nice one!" A laughter burst out from the direction where the arrow came from.

 A black hair male teenager comes out behind the tree with a mocking smile at Saze. He has a black wooden bow and arrow in his hand. The bow looks extraordinary and some parts are made of blue crystal. He wore a brown robe and white culottes.

 Saze didn't look at the black hair boy but asked the girl behind him while placing a sharp knife on his neck.

 "Is that... Illusion arcane? You use that on me to let me think the left side is safe and the footstep is also fake, right?" Saze asked.

 "Hm? Yeah, seems you're not too dumb." The girl chuckled.

 Just when Saze was about to ask more, the brown-haired girl spoke first, but her voice didn't sound right.

 "H-Hey...! I feel dizzy..." The brown hair girl fainted after speaking.