Ch.4 RANK 4 MAGICAL BEAST

Yes, there was not one beast, but a whole pack of them. The corridor before him was shrouded in darkness and mystery. Black realize that he stood at a crossroads.

There were a totally of seven wolf's. The wolf leading the pack was a fourth rank low level Hurricane wolf, though Black was able to tell that the magical beast had completed it's evolution to the transformation stage not to long ago by senseing it's unstable undulations.

In the eerie darkness of the cavern Black had already moved away from the dead deer-like junior rank beast he had killed when he heard the footsteps of the approaching beast after taking his improvised weapon he made from the deer-like beast horns.

Right now he was standing in some sort of large clearing or plane in the cave system, the ceiling of the cave was more than thousands of meters in hight, the cave stretched for about 300 meter long.

There were three different path connecting to this clearing, he came from the one behind him and there were two more paths, one straight ahead and one on the right were the small pack of wolves were standing eyes him like a chicken waiting to be slaughtered. But he didn't know what a chicken is though.

The Hurricane wolf had fully released its beastel aura trying to suppress and Intimidate Black but seeing no reaction from him the wolf finally became more cautious. A Hurricane wolf is aggressive by nature but it doesn't mean they are mindless.

Black felt quiet amused by the wolf's entices as he watched it with keen interest

since everything was new to him.

How the wolves acted or what they did, he watched everything intently.

he knew about the Hurricane wolf from his memory. Since it was a Transformation stage beast with intelligent equal to that of an adult, it had the ability to lead a pack composed of mortal stage beast as a rank four Magical beast because of it's sentence.

At the mortal stage, magical beast don't have sentience. While they do have vagus thought processes for certain matter as eating and mating, still they mostly tend to act impulsive or by there instinct.

The ranks in the mortal stage also aren't divided into low, mid, high and peak. Since From rank 1 to rank 3 all the magical beast are at the first stage of there evolution.

There bloodline purity is so low that there bloodline couldn't be tracked to a certain race only gaining a bloodline when they enter the next stage.

Rank 4 to rank 6 is the second stage of evolution called transformation stage and from here each rank is divided into 4 levels.

Magical beast also gains sentence and are able to speak and assume humanoid forms after reaching rank four.

At this stage the magical beast also awakens there bloodline. The higher the bloodline they awakens the higher there species Calss.

There are Four species classes for magical beast in the Mortal Phase.

Earth Class Magical beast species,

Sky Class Magical beast species,

King Class Magical beast species,

Lord Class Magical beast species.

Magical Beast from rank four to six are Earth Class Magical beasts and the magical beast in this class have intelligent equal to that of a teen at rank 4, are able to speak and take there humen form at rank five.

Magical Beast of this class can easily reach the sixth rank by hunting and consuming other beasts of the same class.

To advance further they would've evolve to the next class by devouring higher class beasts.

Earth Class Magical beasts can evolve into Sky Class Magical beast by consuming 2 to 3 Sky Class Magical beast corpses.

If Magical beast from different Classes but same rank and level are locked in a life or death Battle then the beast with the low class would certainly die.

Hurricane wolf is a Sky Class Magical beast species, this class has beast from rank 4 to rank 7 and the beast in this class has intelligent equal to that of an adult, can speak and assume there humanoid forms at rank four and are able to enunciate there thought and emotiona distinctly.

Hurricane wolf's are aggressive by nature once they set's there eyes on a prey they would not rest until it's last breath. Being wind attribute magical beast they are swift and agile by essence. And by using there wind attributes they can increase there agility by one level becoming as fast as mid-level Fourth Rank magical beast.

The good part is that since this Hurricane wolf has just ascended to the Fourth rank not that long ago it is not able to completely utilize 100 percent of it's ability.

Being quiet weak compared to the other Hurricane wolf's but it is still as strong as a normal low-level Fourth rank magical beast.

Since it's a Sky Class Magical beast and with the other six mortal stage magical beast that it was leading, It can easily Battle normal mid-level Fourth Rank Magical beast or can even win a Battle of attrition against a High-level Fourth Rank Magical beast.

While Black was lost in thought, suddenly he heard the growling of the wolf's in the silent atmosphere around him becoming aware of the fact that he had already been surrounded by the six mortal stage magical beast.

There were two rank three Beast, one to his front-one to his back and four rank 2 wolf, two to his right and two to his left.

The Hurricane wolf had already hidden itself in the inky black darkness of the cavern as it stalks him waiting for the right moment to punche and ripping him to shreds.

He tried to sense it's presence just like he did with other six beast but he couldn't, he couldn't even hear it's footsteps.

It was mostly because the beast has already gained sentience and was accustomed to hunting in the gloomy and cold darkness of this undergroundcave system.

Secondly it was Black's first time encountering a situation where his opponent had enough skills to camouflage itself using the surrounding.

'The Hurricane wolf can hide in the darkness without alerting my senses. it's definitely on a completely different level then these six mortal beast. no matter how strong these mortal stage beast are I can still kill them easily as long as I look out for there pack leader' He thought with a solmen look on his face.

Black didn't know how to use magical energy to scan his surrounding, so he was only using his eyesight and hearing to find the Hurricane wolf.

'The fact that this Hurricane wolf decided to hide instead of launching head on since this particular wolf species is know for thers aggressive nature and sent the lower rank magical beast, waiting for an opportunity to land a fetal strike on me even after knowing the fact that in a frontal Confrontation these lower ranked beast would be completely massacred.' He stared analysing his situation trying to understand what the enemy was trying to do.

'Tells me that this wolf is quiet wary of me and that is not good.' A cunning enemy is one of the most dangerous kind of enemy to have, After all.

But the wolf made a one simple mistake, it had clearly overestimated Black.

By sending the weaker wolves it has given Black the much needed opportunities he needed to learn more about his ability and there is no better way for him to learn about his ability then to fight.

'I also want to learn about that strange energy I used to kill the deer-like beast, I want to learn to control it at will and not on instincts like I did previously' he thought as he watched the rank three beast in front charging at him.