"This guy is relentless!" Alros yelled, dodging another vine heading his way. Normally, he would have outspeed the monster, but with his wings screaming in pain, he could not hope to fly faster than his current pace.
'Still,' he turned around for a brief moment before firing a large Fireball, infused with demonic mana.
The attack seem to cause the monster to hesitate before dodging. Apparently, it's instinct told him that such attack could harm him.
'This is good, but hitting it would be hard, not to mention my objective is to flee, not fight,' he thought to himself before dodging another green beam.
As try to fly faster, the pain in his intensified, forcing him to slowly descend.
'I should go into the system space, but who knows what will happen if the monster get it?' the best case scenario would be the monster leaving after failing to sense him. The worst case would be the destruction of the crystal, which will lead to his demise.
'Looks like fighting would be necessary,' another thought formed as he saw the monster slowly heading towards where he was descending.
He took out his spear, one he obtained from one of the B-rankers he killed long time ago and prepared himself for a fight that is not in his favor.
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Clash of metal and hardwood resounded in the forest, as two figures, one enormous and one small battled it out.
"You're a persistent one aren't you?" he remarked before his spear collide with the monster's claw. The remark seem to annoy the Forest Drake as it opened its mouth, a green glow coming out of it.
Alros dodged to the left, as the beam harmlessly passed through where he was before. As it hit the ground, plants of varying kind grew along the path, including on a now very dead deer and boars.
Alros gulped, not knowing what will happen if he is hit and not planning to find out.
As it closed its mouth, Alros threw another Demonic Fireball, sailing through the air and would have hit the monster if it is not abnormally fast for a being its size.
As it hit the ground, the Demonic Fireball exploded, letting a large Demonic Fire to start, with it having a chance to turn into forest fire. The monster must have realized this as well as it unleash a smaller but more concentrated beam on the fire, destroying it.
"What would cause the monster to hunt me for no reason?" Alros muttered to himself. It is a question that made his stump as he is sure he never met the monster before. But it's already put him in the kill list.
"Does something order it to attack me?" he said to himself before bursting into laughter. The demon did not believe there is anything thar could tame the monster without being way stronger than it.
Since the Forest Drake likely stood at the top of the A-rank, far stronger than the Troll Overlord he had met, then nothing could hope to match it.
"Still, looks like I am going to fight it sooner or later," Alros add to himself. With how determined the monster is in killing him, such confrontation is nothing but certain.
"Making myself stronger will took the precedent," he opened the system menu to see how ,uch Sp he had.
< System Space Tier 3 Level 4
Space Limit (Population) : 27896/50000
Space Limit (Equipment) : 7500/12500
Space Limit (Lair) : 515/2500
Mana Point: 50000/100000
Soul Point: 5 820
Lust Point: 38 057 090 >
"As expected," he muttered. Unfortunately, to gain SP, he need to kill human or monsters, and he did not want to kill the later unless necessary. After all, they will form the bulwark of his force.
Though, from the looks of it, he will need to do such thing.
"I will have to destroy the weaker monster groups if I want to get enough SP for another upgrade