Owen wasn’t the type to speak when he was fighting, he would merely get knocked down and stand back up. His will was not something normal warriors could understand. No matter how much pain was inflicted he would continue to get and fight. And because of this determination to never lose, in the face of death he would welcome it willingly. Owen’s hand slashed towards the throat of the oncoming cougar, just as the cougars paw was about to strike. Suddenly though, Owen made his first step, as he pivoted on one foot, bringing in his left leg as he swung with the short sword.

“Roar!”

This action allowed him to move back as the cougars slashed downwards barely dodging the strike. With his quick movements the bells rung, and at the same time Owen put all his strength into slashing down onto the cougar straight for its throat. But the cougar wasn’t stupid nor was it as slow as the bear he encountered previously, as soon as the cougar saw the approaching blade in the corner of its eye it also made a move. Though because it was too fast and didn’t make a single sound Owen was immediately knocked away, causing the short sword to fall short of its target into empty air.

Crash!

Owen was tumbled into the ground rolling straight into the trunk of a tree. This action caused him to cough as the air within his lungs was forcefully shot out. He couldn’t understand what happened, but what he heard a certain swoosh against the ground he realized what had hit him.

‘So you can use your tail like that huh?’

The cougar’s tail was much larger than it was as a normal cougar, now it was thick as man’s arm and from the impact alone Owen could tell it was probably as hard as steel. But it wouldn’t be helpful to him if the fight was easy. He wouldn’t become stronger from weaklings after all as Owen smiled as he stood back up. This time he didn’t speak to start the next bout. But instead patiently waited for the cougar to make his move. Although he it looked like the same strategy in fact Owen was thinking of a possible solution to the tail. He couldn’t hear the movements of the tell and thus wouldn’t be able to tell when the tail was coming for him. The bell would help but it was only helpful to larger objects that weren’t constantly on the move.

“Grrrr!”

However the cougar didn’t allow him any more time to think as it pounced straight for him. As Owen hadn’t come up with a plausible enough strategy yet, he jumped out of the way from the oncoming cougar. But the moment he did the cougar anticipated that and used the trunk of the tree to launch itself straight towards Owen’s location.

At this moment Owen could feel that his life was severely in danger, if this blow hit him he could become a ragdoll that would never be able to get back up. So he did the only thing he could do and block the claws. He was one to sacrifice any part of his body to win. Although when he was sparring with the other warriors, both he and his opponent weren’t willing to ever get to that point, now that he was fighting for his life he could.

When the cougar’s paw came slashing down Owen didn’t use the hand with the sword but instead used his bare hand to collide with it. As the two forces collided, it would be obvious to tell at a single glance Owen was the weaker of the two. Without any way to stop the force Owen’s arm was immediately blown backwards, although his arm was mangled and possibly destroyed, it at the very least managed to stop the rest of the cougar’s force.

Although that was the end of the cougar’s attack, it was only the start of Owen’s AS he used his sword to strike straight into the eyes of the cougar. The cougar couldn’t react in time even if it could it would still take considerable damage. The sword dug straight into the eye of the cougar and a loud roar was heard. The roar alone made one feel that it was suffering incredibly so. Even still the cougar toppled over and attempted to escape, but Owen knew that the wound wasn’t deep enough and that if he let it go at this moment, with his mangled arm he would completely be unable to fight off the cougar.

Although the cougar would be blind in one eye, it could still kill Owen with one more strike. As Owen pushed his body into the cougar causing them both to topple over onto the ground, Owen grabbed the sword once more and pushed in into with all his strength. Luckily due to the pain the cougar was feeling it was unable to react fast enough and was stabbed through the same eye, but this time the blade didn’t stop at only the eye and pierced straight through to the brain.

“Roarrrr….. “

The cougar made one last growl before he become limp. As Owen was sure that it was now dead, he stood up holding on to his arm, he made his way back to the cave. He didn’t bring the cougars body with him, because he was worried he might find another Devourer during this time. He could only hope his master would be kind enough to bring it back for him.