Undead Bear

The undead bear roared as orange flames engulfed it. The burning bear knew where the flames had come from as it rushed at breakneck speed towards the bush that Axel was hiding in. Alex dared not to break the direct line of sight as he started backing away in rewarse direction while looking at the bear.

The Flemming bear rushed fast as it roared. Finally as it was close to Alex, it jumped into the air while swiping the claw towards Alex to rip his face off. Alex swiftly jumped backwards as the burning claw swiped a few millimeters away from his face. He fell down on the ground as the bear continued to fly above him because of the momentum.

Fortunately for Alex, there was a tree behind him as the bear crashed into the tree. Alex swiftly rolled aside and stood up. As his eye contact was broken, he could feel his mana stop being drained. Although a little tired, he decided to run. The bear was out of his physical capability and only way to kill the bear was to use his skill to burn it to ash.

Although the new flames stopped igniting on the bear, it's muscles which were already on fire kept burning, the dead and rotton meat acted as fuel as the bear could feel it's life coming to end. It roared as it's flaming eyes looked at Alex. It opened it's mouth as slowly a dark energy started gathering in it's jaw.

The black pool was dark and pitchblack. As Alex backed away, he noticed the bear betting it all on this final attack. He once again locked on to the bear and used immolate. As the bear was about to shoot the dark orb of energy, the flames finally burned off the strings of mass connecting the jaw to the body.

*Boom*

The bear lost the control it had on the dark energy as the black ball of energy turned into a blast. The bears body collapsed into bones as the blast threw it's bones in different directions. Alex who was a few meters away rolled behind a tree to avoid getting hit by stray bones.

Alex was breathing heavily as he calmed down. Slowly he took a peek at the dead bear. There were different bones scattered across the floor. Alex slowly walked back to the blast area as he saw that there was a huge crater in place of the bear's last position and two huge thigh bones were buried deep inside the ground.

Alex knew what he had to do in such situation. As soon as he killed the deer, the bear came. He was tired and he felt that his mana was also low. He was lucky that bear's attack killed it self, if the bear had decided to chase him, it would have been successful in killing him. He decided to scavenge whatever he can from the place and find a good hiding spot.

Alex started collecting the bones of the bear as they were strong material that he could use for some protection. He collected a whole set of bones along with two huge thigh bones that he dug out from the ground.

Unfortunately the deer bones were no use to him so he left them there. Too much weight would stop him from having mobility and he would have to get out of this area soon as the sound of the blast would have attracted the nearby beasts and monsters close to this place.

Alex soon left the area as he backed away into the green Zone. He stopped few kilometres away from the dark Forrest as he looked at his scavanged bones. The first thing he needed was weapons. As per his fighting style, he would mostly be buying enough time until the enemy burned to crisp so the weapon didn't have to be sharp, fortunately the thigh bones were good weapons for him at the moment.

Alex took out the thigh bones as he looked at them. They were irregular but strong. He also had some rib bones which were preety strong as they were not broken even after the explosion.

Alex decided to use them in his defense as he tucked two ribs into his shirt at his forearms. The rest of the ribs were tied around on his back and chest area to look like a bony armor. He thought that they would be useful to protect his chest and back area and the ribs on his forearms would be used as shields at critical moment. At last there was only the skull of the bear left as he put the skull on his head like a helmet.

It fit his head perfectly and he could see through the eye sockets of the bear. The skull was cleaned thoroughly by the flames as all the mass had been burned off. He tied a string around the upper jaws to secure the helmet in place on his head.

Alex then decided to take a rest for now as going back was risky. The monsters were active due to commotion at the moment so it would take a good few minutes for them to calm down. He decided to experiment with his skill. He slowly looked at the one of the small bear bone as he tried to feel the connection with his skill.

Slowly he could see the faint outline of the bone shining. Excited, he smiled and tried to activate the skill. The bone caught on fire but as soon as he broke the line of sight or willed to stopped the activation, the flames went away. ' So if there is no fuel for flames to keep burning, the flames would need steady supply of mana and direct line of sight to keep burning. '

He then took out the food packet made for hunters. It was like standard issue military food bar. Eating one bar would make you full for good few hours. The agriculture was also thrivibg in the current age as the plants also mutated with the influx of different kinds of energies. There were plants that were used in potions like awakning potions, healing potions and strength potions and then there were plants which would give a huge amount of crop within a small amount of time.

In this day and age, the food crisis was long gone as the food was available in huge quantities with the help of agriculture type hunters. There were skills to control plants, nuture plants and even skills to modify plants as the hunter desired.

Alex slowly ate the food bar as he experimented with his skill, he burned a small bush, a rock and some dead leaves. He found out that his skill worked with his eyes. Although he couldn't burn two things at once, he found out that if he was fast enough, he could burn the first flammable object and as it burned, he could then burn the other object. As he lit up both the object, he could then take turns to induce new flames to already burning object and keep two to three objects burning simultaneously.

After a few minutes, he decided to continue with his journey. He moved very slowly as he looked out for any hidden threats. The way that he took was dangerous but this time, he was completely aleart and took minimum risk. He would activate his skills from afar and burn down anything that moved from distance. He found out that the distance also increased the mana consumption as he could barely burn one or two monsters now that he could spot them 700 to 800 meters away.

Luckily for him, he only found some smaller undead animals along the way and a few skeletons that were roaming about in the open field butt nacked. as he reached the red marking on the map while wiping out any skeleton on the map, he saw that it was a huge ravine that ran through the ground. He finally figured out that the red marking indicated the ravine in front of him and he had no choice but to go around it. Alex decided to continue his journey along the edge of the ravine.