Predicament

The following day he went back to the guild. Hi, said the Clerk from yesterday, what can I help you with today? I would like pick a mission.

Ohhh,well then please head towards the mission board. Thank you he said. A few people were over at the mission board. He looked around, most of bronze rank missions involved running errands.

Picking herbs and the like, only when one had completed atleast one such mission can they be allowed to take extermination missions.

So right now he had to pick a simple mundane mission. He did not mind,he did wish to grow stronger faster as that would increase his chances of find clues about a way back home.

With his healing magic he might have a way to heal his family. He was not even certain Earth was from another universe, it possible it was one of the new star worlds among this world.

He had learnt about them, new worlds with young civilizations. It was against the law to disturb them or introduce the outer civilizations to them.

Only when they achieve outer space travel can they be introduced to the empire. Yes he learnt that space ships were somehow a thing in the empire.

However since they were slower than Sovereigns and star gates were considered more efficient they were dropped. Due to the influence of magic science as whole in the empire was largely abondened.

He understood why, nobody would have need for a car when you have a horse than run at 200km/h for days or when you can fly in the sky either through magic or flying beast.

He was thinking about all this as he left town, he had chosen a her gathering mission. He had to pick 50 white essence lilies, they were a necessary ingredient for magic potions.

They were abundant but only found in places with magic beasts like horned rabbit or white hooved deers, they were the favourite food of these G to F rank beasts.

He was not scared, well he was never scared of beast but now he genuinely believed they could not do much to him, at least not G rank. He felt his own strength and he was much stronger than a normal human.

As he was running towards the forest he measured his speed. He sped up to his full speed and he could run at around 50 km/h. Before he picked herbs he needed to rest his strength.

He lifted a boulder that weighed about a ton. It was not easy per se but also not as hard as one would expect. He dented a tree with a single punch and did not even feel any pain on his hand.

Now done with that, he waited a little to regenerate his lost energy. No matter how confident he was he would never go into a risky situation while not at full power.

A few minutes later he stood and started jogging. He was still fast but not enough to drain more Stam than he can regenerate. Within a few hours he arrived at the white fields.

It was deep in the forest but not so deep as to find higher grade beasts. He started plunking the flowers when a smell entered his nose. Notice limiter activated.

It was the smell of iron, blood, he thought. He picked the remaining flowers at a faster pace and stood to leave. He could feel something stalking him from behind.

He started increasing his pace and so did whatever it was that was behind him. He went full sprint after that and the beast started chasing after him.

He still could not see what it was but he could sense it. It was quiet, eerily so, he could not even hear it footsteps but he could smell blood.

Either the blood was from it victims or it but it was helping him. As he was running he smelled it pass him, still hidden by the trees. He stopped immediately when something jumped out from behind the trees.

It was a leopard, it was the same size as leopards from his past life but it claws gleamed like metal. He used heavenly eyes on it.

His eyes glowed gold and it stats appeared before him.

Type: Stalker leopard

Grade:--------

Rank: E

Level: 37

Mana: 80

Stam:420

Vit: 340

End:324

Str:223

Agi:506

Int:23

Charm:0

Affinities: earth- sub metal

Skills:

Iron claws

His heavenly eyes were still low rank but they did show him a lot. This beast was much stronger than he was. He could not see a way to win.

The leopard growled and jumped towards him. He had deactivated his heavenly eyes as that would be a waste of mana. He instinctively casted a barrier.

A blue hexagonal shiel appeared before him. It was floating in the air. The leopard swiped it claws at the shield. A crack appeared on the shield but it held.

The fact that his barrier held was impressive, however the difference in power was great, his affinity for barrier magic was transcended yet it still cracked.

He could not even follow the creatures movements. He was really unlucky, it was his first mission and he was already faced with such a predicament.

His dead fish eyes scanned around when he heard a whistle of wind behind him. He turned around and tried to move the barrier he casted towards the creature but the barrier only changed shape slightly but did not move.

He immediately casted another small barrier over his left arm, the creatures paw his the barrier but it did not even crack. He was sent flying 30 metres away.

He collided with a huge tree and dented it then fell down. He stood up bleeding from the forehead. His back was throbbing with pain and his left arm completely broken.

He casted healing hand since he was healing himself he did not need to use the hand. Light appeared where he was wounded.

He healed his back and forehead. The broken arm was healing slowly. The beast was already looking at him. Now that he looked closely at it the creature looked hungry.

It eyes were red and a black mark was on it stomach. He looked at it with his blank face, it was actually creepy. He watched as it jumped towards him.

The wind screaming from it speed, the stench of blood assaulted his nostrils, he raised his hand and whispered death hand.