Satoshi POV

God daaaammnnn, last night was amazing.

(Good thing I decided to come here.)

Perripi, Smirnie's daughter was a beast. While Feriana was a giver, Perripi was a taker. She was so wild, my stamina wouldn’t have lasted against her. I even had to asphyxiate her to make her tire faster. But it was all so very worth it...

Some weird ritualistic shouts had suddenly started to echo in the night so I had closed off the house in a sound barrier. It had the side benefit to let me be the only ones to enjoy their sensual moans throughout the night, so hooray!

In the middle of the night, Perripi had gotten up and was trying to sneak out in the dark. I understood it was because she didn't really come here with parental consent so I made sure she wasn't detected while going back. I made all her movements soundless, from her running, to her opening the door of her home and to her getting back to her room. She had sent a flying kiss into my area of influence and I ran some air through her hair to tell her that I had received her sentiment before finally retracting my influence.

"Mmmmmmm.."

Feriana stirred as I flicked her furry ears. It was morning and I wanted to leave early so that we could rest during the sunnier part of the day.

"Feriana. Wake up."

"Mmmmm…"

She buried her head in my shoulder.

"Five more minutes."

It was a phrase I'd gotten used to.

(I guess it’s time to remind her who is the in-charge here.)

I extended my hand that she was sleeping on, down to her back and started to slowly trace circles around her tail with my finger.

"Mmnnnnn.."

After about a minute, she started to rub her leg against mine, slowly getting closer. I'd found out that the base of her tail was her weak spot and she'd get turned on if I played with it in just the right way.

I kept at it till she started rub her whole body against me. She bit me lightly on my shoulder while slowly moving her hand towards my lower abdomen. I firmly grasped her hand by her wrist. She looked up at me in doubt, her eyes half asleep-half lusty. With my hand that was caressing her hips, I grabbed her tail tight.

Her eyes shot open as she realised what my aim was.

"Punishment."

She barely got to shoot me a pleading look before I pulled on her tail.

"EEEEPP!!!"

She jumped off the bed screaming and fell on the floor, rubbing her hips. I'd put a cushion of air under her so she didn't hurt herself while falling.

"Hahahhaha.. Good morning."

"You meannieee!!"

It was another phrase I'd gotten used to.

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We made our way over towards Smirnie's. Feriana was pretend-pouting due to my having pulled on her tail. Meanwhile, I was also doing my best to ignore her.

She didn't seem to notice but we were getting all kinds of looks from the wolfkins. Many of them were plain afraid while some of the bulkier ones would shoot me a glare, as if trying to get me to start a fight. I couldn't simply be bothered to give enough fucks to entertain those idiots. I did secretly make one or two of them to fall face down for my humour.

In the end, we reached Smirnie's without an incident. They had requested we join them for breakfast. Getting to see Perripi again once again would simply be a plus.

"Rodavie! Good morning!"

Feriana shouted off to the boy swinging a wooden sword in the yard by the house. He was Rodavie, Smirnie's son.

"Sister Feriana! Mister Satoshi! Good morning!"

He stopped his practice after he noticed us and came running over. After I took him to fly, he'd get this longing look whenever he'd see me. As for Feriana, she got weirdly along with Perripi so he started addressing her as a sister. She would also get oddly excited when he would do that, so that only promoted him.

"******* with the sword ***** in the morning?"

('Training' and 'early'?)

"Yes! I want to **** ***** father and sister!"

('Learn to hunt' maybe. I know the word for 'fight' so it can't be that.)

I could sort of- sort of catch the meaning behind the words being exchanged when the conversation was as simple as the current one.

"*******?? You ********* **** father. Don't know **** your sister."

She said something while rubbing his head. He looked like he was really enjoying it. After she was done, he turned to me hoping I'd do it as well.

"Feriana."

I simply ignored him and called out to Feriana. He may be a good kid but I had no obligation to entertain his desires. The flying tour yesterday was because I wanted to do it, as a show of my abilities. Similarly, I would pat his head if I wanted. He had to earn it.

To Feriana, I pointed with my gaze towards the house in front. She nodded with enthusiasm and marched towards the door. Then she suddenly stopped, turned around, puffed her cheeks and then turned to the front again with a 'hmph'. Then she resumed her marching with stomps.

(She totally forgot she was supposed to be pissed.)

Rodavie looked sad that I didn’t pat him but regained his joyous attitude in a second. He cut in our way and after exchanging a few merry sounding words with Feriana, we followed him into the house. I could only guess that something similar to inviting us in had been said.

Inside there were Tanami and Smirnie. Something immediately struck me as odd as Tanami sent a panicky greeting our way and rushed off, out of sight. She was nothing like what she was yesterday. I could tell she was trying hard to pretend nothing was wrong. Maybe I was being too observant but I noticed Smirnie himself was more stern than usual, as much as I knew of his ‘usual’.

"Roda, ***** Perripi and Dora ***** *****."

Smirnie told Rodavie to do something and he left towards where I remember dropping off Perripi last night.

"Satoshi, I have ***** **** ask you."

Smirnie suddenly spoke towards me in a determined tone.

(From the atmosphere, it's maybe a 'favor' than a 'question'. Is this why they’re acting weird?)

"Yes."

I prompted him to speak on. I had a feeling I wasn't really going to be able to understand what he was going to say.

(Let's at least try to hear him out.)

Practice made a man perfect. And I wouldn’t know if I would understand unless he spoke.

"There is a beast, ***** ***** **** **** ***** *********."

(It's been a while since so many words went over my head in a stretch.)

"****** killed my sons(?) and father. It is ***** **** and ***** ******.”

(Can’t he use simpler words?)

“For **** years, it ***** ****** forest **** ******** ******* **** village.”

(...)

“Smirnie.”

I put a stop to his rambling.

“Wait.”

I tried to formulate my intentions in their language.

“Beast?”

He nodded.

“Strong?”

He nodded.

“I kill?”

He hesitated but then nodded again.

(See, that wasn’t so hard..)

I’d shown them I was strong so he was asking me to get rid of some kind of beast that wasn’t in their own capabilities to handle.

(My deduction skills can beat Sherlock Holmes haha)

“Eat. Then go.”

I didn’t mind doing something so simple for them. No matter how powerful the beast, in the worst case I could always kill it by bursting its lungs.

(If you’re alive, I can kill you. Actually, that may not be exactly right.. How would I burst the lungs of aquatic beasts? Are gills burstable? Is ‘burstable’ a word? ...Let’s rephrase. If you’re alive on land, I can kill you. That might be better, yup. Now I just hope he doesn’t point me to a lake...)

“That ***** **** but ***** **** after ****** ***** forest.”

Smirnie said something more which I didn’t understand and called for Tanami to bring breakfast over.

(I really should try to fight some strong opponents. After that encounter with the beast king where I had no choice but to run away, I really need to figure out how to fight well. I can’t always hope for there to be an overwhelming power difference between me and my opponent.)

While I was mulling over some stuff, Perripi walked in.

“Good morning, Satoshi.”

She sent me a greeting. Her tail was swaying with charm as she walked over to the table we were sitting on and sat opposite to me.

“Aren’t you going to greet me?”

“Oh Feriana, I **** not see you ****. When did you ****?”

(Here they go again.)

“Oh *****? It’s *****.”

Replied Feriana in a sarcastic tone.

“I ******* ****** saw you yesterday…”

“Wawawawawa! Feriana! Good morning!”

“Huh, aren’t you forgetting *******?”

Perripi sent a glare at Feriana.

“Good morning, ‘miss’ Feriana.”

Her speech was full of venom.

“Ho ho ho, a very good morning to you too, little girl.”

I could almost always follow their childish fights. It was good practice for my language comprehension too, so I didn’t bother to stop them most of the time.

Tanami brought over the breakfast and we all dug in. Rodavie and Dorafi had also joined so it became a full family meal with two guests(us). Tanami and Smirnie were quiet throughout the meal. Perripi and I played with each other under the table while Rodavie pestered Feriana with questions that I didn’t really understand, though she was excitedly answering most of them.

After the meal, Smirnie shooed the kids off to something or the other and took me out of the house.

“Where?”

I asked him the way to the beast. No point in delaying it. I didn’t really need any preparation and even if I did, I wouldn’t know what to prepare for, since I wouldn’t understand his description of the beast.

He took out a map from behind.

(Good thing he came prepared.)

He explained some stuff to us on the map and drew some markings. I wouldn’t really get lost since I could just travel straight towards where I could expect to find the beast so I just told him to point me in the right direction and get me a drawing of the beast so I knew when to stop flying. He immediately took another paper out, one with the drawing of the beast.

(Isn’t he a little too well prepared?)

Anyways, I took the drawing of the beast and took off in the direction he’d told me with Feriana.

“Isn’t this a chimera?”

The drawing was of a lion with wings and a snake tail. It was crudely drawn on some kind of cloth with charcoal but since it was big (the piece of cloth was as wide as the width of my outstretched arms), I could make it out clearly.

He had actually given me two different drawings, one of the beast itself and another of what it’s habitat was supposed to look like. It looked like a rocky cave and so I hoped it would be easy to spot.

“It being part lion, I guess it must have some similarities with that beast king. It’d be nice to practice on.”

The fight with the beast king had been too one-sided since I was already at a disadvantage due to the fire elemental messing up the atmosphere but here I was at my full power with a full stomach.

“Let’s have some fun.”

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After a few minutes of flying at my top speed, I reached my destination. As I expected, it was very noticeable. There was an outgrowing cave in the middle of a clearing.

“Phew..”

I could immediately tell there was something inside that was breathing.

(Nice!)

If the beast wasn’t here, I don’t know how long I could have bared to wait so I was glad it decided to stay in for my welcome.

I settled the two of us down nearby behind some trees while simultaneously scouting inside the cave. Feriana was experienced enough by now to know not to make a sound but I still maintained a sound barrier around us, just in case.

I poked around the inside of the cave with some air to make a mental picture using the sensory feedback. The beast felt to be around 3 meters in length. I could feel its wings and tail as well but I couldn’t determine their size since they were folded.

(No point in delaying the inevitable.)

I gathered a bit of air behind the beast and gave it a nice wake up slap on its ass.

(Huh? Where’d it go?)

I certainly felt the air slap connect but the next instant, the beast disappeared from my area of influence. Not just inside the cave, I couldn’t feel it anywhere in the vicinity. As if it simply disappeared.

(That’s not possible!)

No matter how fast it was, there was no way I would have missed it moving out of the cave. For a beast as large as that, it would split the air apart for as fast as the movement had to be and that should only make it easier for me to detect it. In a normal environment, I was sure even that monster of a beast king wouldn’t be able to escape my detection.

(Where is it!?)

Panic suddenly took over me as I felt losing control of the situation.

(It has to be somewhere around here!)

I closed my eyes and blocked my ears with a sound barrier to focus all my will into detection. At my best I could cover upto a kilometer in radius crudely.

(For a beast as big as that, my crude has to be more than sufficient!)

Yet, I couldn’t find it anywhere. I could feel smaller beasts throughout my area of influence but nothing matched what I had felt inside the cave.

(No! I will find it!)

I channeled my breathing to take the overload on my brain as I prepared to extend my range of detection when I suddenly felt something shove me.

“Wha…?”

I opened my eyes to the very beast in front of me that I had been madly searching for.

Being pushed aside without warning like that and all my focus on detection, I couldn’t stabilize myself over my single leg and fell over. The beast clawed through where I had been a second ago and its momentum carried it forward. Some kind of liquidy substance spread as it passed though but I was too perturbed to notice what it was.

(I can’t sense it….?)

The world started to slow as I channelled my breathing to its limit. I once again focused on my detection ability but there was no response.

(Teleportation!?)

That was the only answer I could think of. But soon I realised that wasn’t it. Even though my mind had sped up, my body was still constrained to the laws of physics, and the momentum from falling and the instinct to turn around had continued to turn me in the direction that the beast had gone. And there is was, its back turned towards me… I could see it perfectly with my eyes. It had beautiful golden fur with the head of a lion, complete with the mane. A pair of dark black bat wings sprouted from its back, ruining the image of its mighty frame. And from its back, the thick serpent tail overlooked its surroundings, hissing at its opponent, that was me.

(How is this possible……?)

The chimera was really in front of me, I could see it. In my hastened state of mind, I could even perceive its movements affecting its surroundings, like the grass that bent at its weight or the footprints it had left behind. But my detection registered nothing..

(No, its not nothing..)

There was something, yet there was nothing. Now that all my attention was focused on it, I could tell what was wrong. I only looked for objects in my detection range that would displace a sizable amount of air and that was how I would perceive their movements. The only other way was to create a mental map of the entire area and that was simply impossible for my brain to process past about 10 meters. But that was unless I knew what to focus on. And right now I had a perfect target to focus on.

In my hastened state of mind, the chimera was still turning around. Maintaining this for long would leave me with a splitting headache later but I had no choice but to push myself. I closed my ears with a barrier to ease some load on my brain. I couldn’t close my eyes, since there was no other way for me to reliably figure out the situation around me. Like that, I focused all my detection ability on the chimera and it started to make even less sense.

(There’s nothing there!!)

There was a gap in my mental map and inside it, there was nothing. I couldn’t detect anything in it but the fact that there was a hole was something in itself that I could detect. It was as if the air would cut off from my influence as soon as it would come in contact with the chimera.

It had finished turning around and I finally got to look at it from the front. But the first thing that my sight went to were the red splotches. It lifted its front paw to pounce in my direction again and that's when I saw it. Blood. Dripping fresh blood dripping from its claws.

(No….)

I focused my detection on the place where I been shoved out of to sense shredded remains of a person.

“Fer..iana….?”

I perceived my mouth utter it slowly due to my mind being hastened and before I could pronounce the last syllable I had already understood what had happened. I had my eyes closed and ears shut to focus on detecting the chimera with my wind ability, so I had no way to know that it was, in fact, right in front of me. Feriana pushed me out of the way of its attack with her whole body weight behind it to make sure that I was pushed far enough… That put her in my position…

“Youuuu…… You killed her..?”

The world slowly started to return to normal.

“I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU!!!!!!”

I threw the most massive wind attack that I had ever done.

"DIIIEEEEE!!!!!!!!"

The immediate atmosphere around us converged at the chimera’s location, ripping apart trees in its way.

"HOW!!???"

I barely managed to push myself to the side as the chimera jumped at me with its claws outstretched. It was completely unscathed.

"Damn it!!"

I gathered a bunch of air to stabilize my movements and get me out of here. It had some way of nullifying all my attacks.

"Shit.. Feriana…"

My vision blurred as I recalled my partner for the last several days. I didn't love her by any means. For all I cared initially, she was simply a convenient tool to help me get used to the world. But her presence was something I had gotten used to. She had given me a lot of things; she taught me words, she fed me, she bought me clothes, she was my partner in bed, she was my partner in crime, she was my partner in adventures, and much more.

(More than anything, she was my possession. This kitten had no right to steal her from me….)

I turned around to face the chimera. Even though the chimera could escape my detection, the surroundings couldn't and I maneuvered around the trees in an attempt to get away. The chimera was right on my tail so I flew backwards to keep it in my sights. It was fast but I had better control over my trajectory. I kept dodging to the side at its pounces, going around the thick trees to confuse it. It was a cat and mouse chase where the mouse had to evade everything but the cat had to just get a single swipe in.

"I am not going to run away, you stupid little furball.. I swear on my freedom that I will kill you RIGHT FUCKING HERE!!!!!"

I shouted at the top of my lungs as it jumped at me again and I dodged behind another tree. I couldn't do anything but dodge. I looked around to try to find some way to attack the chimera but it didn't give me time as it pounced again.

"Why is this thing so bloody fast!?"

I was sure my top speed was faster but my acceleration came nowhere near as close to what it could produce with its strong muscles.

I dodged again, maneuvering behind another tree. It's claw ripped out a massive chunk of the bark and it came flying towards me. I deflected it with a dense gust of wind.

"That's right! I can't attack it directly but I can use something else!”

I broke a branch of a nearby tree and threw it at the chimera while dodging another claw swipe. The branch was as thick as my own waist but it did jack shit against the beast.

(It just fucking headbutted it off!)

“Do I have to fell an entire freaking tree over it!?”

But I knew that would never work. The chimera was too fast for me to successfully trap it under the weight of a falling tree.

“I need some time to think!”

I needed some rest. I’d been pushing back the headache that came from overusing my ability but the bastard beast wasn’t giving me a moment to even look away.

I maneuvered beside a tree. It accelerated again and the next second, it was on me.

“Take this!”

I dodged to the side and blew a lot of dust around it to block its vision. Then I quickly covered myself in a sound barrier and flew up the tree in hopes to take a breather. But the chimera immediately jumped out of the cloud of dust towards the branch I sat at.

“Damn it!”

I again dodged in the nick of time as the chimera ripped through the entire branch and landed on the ground.

*RRROOOOOOOOAAAAARRRRRRRRR*

It let out an angry roar towards me. It was so loud that it even pierced my sound barrier and reached my ears.

“Fucking!! How did it find me through that much dust!?”

I started flying on the ground again as the thick branches made it really hard to go fast whereas the chimera could simply rip through them in a single jump.

“Are you freaking invincible!?”

There had to be a way to defeat it. I just had to look for it. While continuing to dodge its attacks, I looked around its body for any signs of an Achilles heel. Its head of a lion was freaking invincible. Its bat wings wrapped around its body were invincible. Its serpentile tail…

“That’s how you’re detecting me!! AAHHHHH!!! Fucking heat vision!!!”

That’s right. I had studied this something in high school that snakes had bad vision so they hunted by relying on the heat of their prey.

(I wouldn’t put it past this magical world to give that thing a full on heat vision!)

I tried to throw some branches at the snake tail but it was hard to land a hit. The tail was long- about a meter and a half and as thick as my arm but the movements of the chimera made it incredibly hard to aim reliably, especially when the tail had a mind of its own and kept moving in the air in a wavy fashion.

After several attempts, the branch finally managed to hit the tail but it simply wrapped around it and snapped it in two.

“Oh cumon! You’re got to be shitting me!”

This was way too unbalanced. I had been dodging desperately for about half an hour now and the beast was showing no signs of giving up. In fact, it seemed to get angrier as time passed from the frequency of its roars.

*RRRRROOOOOOOOOOOAAAARRRRR*

“This is getting nowhere.”

I had gotten the hang of dodging its attacks. The monster was fast, big and powerful and probably never needed to make efforts in its hunt. That is why all its attacks were straightforward and easy to dodge. But that didn’t mean I could defeat it. It only led us to a stalemate where I had no means of damaging it and it had no means of catching me. Yet, if this continued, I was sure that there was no way my stamina could outlast its. I would have no choice but to run away.

“God damn it!”

I couldn’t turn my tail and run. I didn’t have the kind of pride that would get me killed but this beast had made it personal by killing my woman. There was no way I was going to let it go.

I dodged once again and this time, I flew straight up, blasting through all the branches in the way and reached atop the trees. I couldn’t see it anymore through the overgrowth and I couldn’t detect it either. But somehow I was sure it wouldn’t be willing to simply let its prey go.

“Let’s see you finally use those bat wings.”

I suddenly noticed a tree breaking beneath me. Several thick branches fell to the ground as the beast clawed its way up but eventually the tree top gave away under its weight and the chimera fell down.

“I can’t even find it funny.”

There was a splitting headache at the back of my head. That, coupled with the rage at it having killed my only partner in this world was messing up my head. Otherwise I was sure I would find the sight of the chimera trying to reach and failing to, incredibly funny.

I flew a little more up and looked around. We had come a long way from the original spot due to the nonstop cat and mouse chase.

“Let me take you back to your home land.”

I flew low and towards the beast’s den where I had found it. I kept my sights on the trees below and through the small gaps, I could see it following.

*ROOAAARR*

The occasional roars only boosted my assurance of having it at my tail.

Soon, I made it to the clearing and from below, the chimera burst out of trees unfurling its wings with a roar.

*RRROOOOOOAAAARRRRRR*

“NOW FLY FOR ME, YOU DUMB PIECE OF SHIT!!”

It sped up and let the air collect under its wings to take off. I knew at the moment I could collapse the air pressure under it to make it fall. I smiled.

(Finally.)

It glided up with its accumulated speed, then started to slow down.

“Wait what? Flap those fucking things! Up, up, higher, you cunt!”

But it never did. Just like it had glided up, it slowly turned directions and glided down.

“YOU CAN’T EVEN FUCKING FLYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????”

What the hell was this balance!? Even if I couldn’t directly influence the beast with my ability, I could have made the wind under it collapse to make it fall from a height. But it could only glide using its wings!?

“You have got to be shitting me right now…”

I grit my teeth. This was a perfect stalemate. I did not have a way to damage the chimera while it had no way to reach me.

*RRRROOOOOOAAAAARRRRR*

It did another run up to attempt to glide up but it didn’t even end up reaching a height over the trees. It was pointless to even try to make it fall from this distance. I had seen it firsthand jump to a height like that and land effortlessly.

I wracked my brain to figure out some other way to kill it. No, killing wasn’t enough. I had to destroy-fucking-obliderate that sack of shit.

The headache was getting harder to ignore as time passed and I continued to use more and more of my ability. The sun rising and showering me its precious heat rays wasn’t helping the situation any either.

“The sun..?”

I turned around and as the sunrays threatened to blind me, I instinctively lessened the air pressure in the way to cause the light rays to diverge. It was something I had learnt once when I was doing experiments to test how the density of air affects sound, light, material objects etc. And that gave me an idea.

“Lets see if this works.”

The beast was still trying to glide its way up without any success. For how powerful it was, it didn’t seem to have the necessary smarts to optimally utilise its strength.

I closed my eyes and focused on the air above me. I compressed air as much as I could in a flat plane perpendicular to the direction of the sunrays. I made this plane circular, to about a diameter of 50 meters and slowly adjusted its shape into that of a convex lens. The light dimmed in the area that the lens blocked the light of.

“Ugh.. Too much..”

I eased out the shape, slowly letting the light converge. The light made some distorted shapes on the ground and I fixed the lens to get a perfect circle. Then I focused the circle more and more till the spot it was converging to suddenly ignited.

“Now that’s what I’m talking about!”

The lens was incredibly hard to move while conserving its shape. I slowly tried to maneuver it to aim at the chimera, drawing a line of fire on the ground where it hit.

The dumb beast was still trying to glide its way up and though it was getting better, there was just simply no way it could ever reach me.

I waited till the beast came into a position where I could attack it. After a few more failed attempts, it landed near to the focused beam where the ground had even started to turn into lava. I didn't have enough speed with shifting the lens so I pushed with all my might to displace the air making up the lens in a horizontal manner.

"AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!"

It was one of the hardest things I'd done. Air was voluminous and free. To move across like a solid object took more out of me than anything I'd ever tried.

*ROOOOOOAAAARRRR*

Finally I had some success. The beast roared again, this time in pain as highly focused laser cut through its wings burning a part of the right one.

"Haah.. haaah.. haaah…"

But this one attack had taken too much out of me. I felt the smell of iron and something liquid run down my nose. I didn't even need to check what it was and wiped it across the sleeve of my robe.

"I know I've overdone it more than I've ever overdone it.."

I grit my teech and spoke to myself in an attempt to ignore the blearing pain in my brain.

*ROOOOOOAAAARRRR*

The beast kept roaring in pain and anger while looking up at me, daring me to descend.

I closed my eyes and channeled my breathing to try to get some boost. As my mind started to slowly work a little better, I noticed something strange. The line of burning had stopped a little way upto it's wing but no damage was visible on its body.

From where the attack had happened on the ground, there was a line of fire from the small pit of lava, then a gap and it continued on for a bit on the other side. And the gap was exactly chimera sized.

"My attack started damaging it but stopped working midway on its body but then it worked again on the ground?"

I just couldn't under what was this beast's deal. It was too freaking invincible. But I had swore to take it down right here and now.

"Wait.. I can sense it again…"

I could again detect the chimera. And it wasn't like the hole in my mental image either.. it was like the first time I had found it inside it's den. I could feel it's breathing.

"Haha.. hahahahhahahaha… This has gone on long enough, stupid beast."

I aimed my palm towards it for focus.

"Now die."

As I closed my palm into a fist, I felt that moment of ecstasy of bursting someone from the inside. But my excitement was short-lived. I suddenly couldn't feel it anymore and I knew that I hadn't been able to get the entire job done. The chimera, still alive, puked out blood. The damage was indeed there, but it wasn't fatal.

"It's like that time.."

I remembered when I could initially feel its presence. It disappeared from my range of detection after I attacked it. Then none of my wind based attacks would do anything to it. Then the same happened with the light based attack I did. It did some damage and then stopped, as if the beast had suddenly become immune to that element. Now this again..

"I think I got its ability.."

I quickly got to work. I recreated the lens but the aim this time wasn't to attack the beast. If I tried to do the same attack again, I was sure I would immediately collapse and I had seen that the attack wasn't sufficient to kill it. I needed a more optimised way of taking down its defence.

I aimed the laser at the trees surrounding the forest and they immediately started to catch fire from the intensity of the beam. I slowly rotated it in a circle to get all the trees while simultaneously blowing a small and steady wind outwards. The steady wind was for two reasons: not to let the beast panic with the heat and try to escape and to get the fire to spread faster. I myself descended from to keep the beast occupied. I maintained a height it could jump and jump it did, now that one of its wings was damaged.

It took several minutes of keeping the beast in as bait but I was done.

"Now the time is for your funeral, little kitty."

I flew back up and started to blow a circular wind in the clearing.

"Be the test subject of my newest invention."

I grinned.

"Fire tornado!"

I the last of my will to fuel the tornado. The wind slowly started to take shape, pulling the fire from the surrounding trees and entrapping all the heat.

If my guess was correct, the beast could make itself immune to one type of attack, be it air or light or fire. I got the idea from the entire elemental situation and that I'd fought the fire elemental.

The beast tried to escape but it would either start to get burnt or get pushed into the tornado.

"Hahahahaha.. I FINALLY get to laugh at your misery!"

My guess was spot on. If the beast tried to run from the tornado with a wind immunity, it would get burnt by the forest fire. If it tried to run with a fire immunity, it would get sucked into the tornado. And once it got sucked in the tornado, the only way out was to equip wind immunity again but that would burn it down with the immense heat trapped inside the tornado.

I watched with glee as the chimera desperately tried its best to make its way out of the perfect trap and failed again and again, bringing it closer and closer to death with each failed attempt.

Its golden fur got charred and its wings were shredded. And it continued to get worse. Finally, it got sucked into the tornado. I could neither see nor feel the inside of the fast and super-heated tornado so I simply waited. A charred structure of the beast leapt out of the tornado, the wind having no effect on its frame anymore but there was no point now. It collapsed on the ground, it's vitality sucked out. I directed the tornado to the sides and it uprooted some trees. I brought the tornado directly overhead the beast and slowly resolved it, felling all the trees on top of the beast. Weirdly, the beast still survived, having changed its immunity to something else. But that meant my favourite attack was back into the game. This time I made sure it couldn't escape my attack and thoroughly burst its lungs from inside. The battle was finally over.

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Several dozens of hunters in the village of the wolf people witnessed the giant fire tornado.

Smirnie cursed the heavens as he knew that there was only one person who could create such a massive tornado. But just a few minutes later, the tornado died down. They could see the fire and smoke from the same direction but somehow it just stopped, if the fire was and smoke was literally sucked out of the atmosphere.

What does this mean?

Many wolfmen thought. The attack was certainly the elemental's doing but the beast Sheraja was also one of its kind. It had been around for generations and it had become a custom for the strongest of the generation to attempt to slay it, but for several hundred years they had never succeeded. They just couldn't imagine Sheraja losing. But they had to be ready, just in case.

The dozen or so hunters were armed to the teeth, in wait for the elemental should he win. Their plan was to send the elemental to Sheraja and let him be killed by its hands. If by some miracle the elemental survived, they would stay prepared and would kill him in his moment of weakness. This was the best shot they had.

They kept waiting. The sun started to set and then it was night but they waited. They waited in rotation while half of them slept but no one came. Had they succeeded? Was the elemental indeed dead? They would wait 2 more days in a similar manner before declaring so.

All the while, no one noticed the single wolf girl who shed tears in her room at her father's betrayal towards the man she had come to love.