MORNING BEFORE SUNRISE
Lloyd and his disciple Jose were standing out at the orphanage
"Jose you stay here and look after the orphanage whereas I will go into the forest and search the location," Lloyd said as he don the same blue attire but with new armor sitting on his chest and shoulder.
"Okay "
Jose who wanted to go with his master hesitantly
replied.
but Lloyd can not take him if both went to search the location and the orphanage were to be flooded and get destroyed when they are not here.
the mission will be compromised which can lead to the family disowning them or worse leading to their death.
Lloyd used the [LEVITATION] spell to slightly hover over the ground.
BOOM!
with a slight shock wave, Lloyd moves into the forest.
seeing his master dart away Jose started casting spells then he to vanished like the wind.
AFTER 3 DAYS INSIDE THE FOREST
Lloyd was darting through the forest at an inhuman speed that was close to or faster than that of a sports car dodging incoming trees and rumbles in the way.
but suddenly come to stand still as he felt multiple presences before him who were showing killing intent.
"OOO SHIT"
Lloyd cursed as he saw a pack of giant wolves coming out from hiding.
the giant wolves had silver-white fur
"Why the f**k is a pack of Moon wolves here in this forest "
the giant wolves were called moonlight wolves because of their silver-white fur which was normally found in the mountain region and only hunted at night which gave them the title white ghost.
but seeing them hunt in broad daylight shocked Lloyd.
but he did not let get to his head.
he calmed down and looked at the pack with killing intent as he readied him to kill.
wolves not wanting to let their prey escape.
one wolf jumped at him with his mouth wide open to bite his head off.
Suddenly wolf was stuck in mid-air.
Lloyd fortunately, casted his spell of binding at right time.
Lloyd without wasting any time used
[WIND CUTTER] one of his spells.
the air before him condenses into a half-circular blade that launches itself into the wolf's throat splitting it into two.
seeing a member of their pack die at the hand of a being they thought as prayer angered the wolves.
they rushed toward Lloyd to brutally kill him with their fangs.
[WIND CUTTER]
seeing nine wolves rushing at him Lloyd started to cast multiple wind cutters to kill and disturb their advance.
half of the wolves dodged the spell but the others were not so lucky as three died and the other was injured.
seeing members of their pack dying did not hinder their advance
as one reached near Lloyd he casted [WIND CUTTER] a weaker but faster version of his spell which hit the eye of the wolf blinding it.
Lloyd saw it as a chance to pull out a dagger and stab it into Wolf's other eye and another wind cutter to behead it.
as blood dripped from his hand he looked at others of the pack that was alive with a smile that instilled fear in them.
seeing that it other wolves started run.
but the moment they turned around Lloyd killed them with [WIND CUTTER] splitting them into two parts.
"How did a monster that should hunt in the mountain come down to the forest"
Lloyd called at the scene that he just caused
and started to think of some explanation for the situation.
"wait did the surge in Astral Aura attract the bea.."
ROAR!!
before he complete his thought he was interrupted
by a roar
he looked to the side where the sound came to see
a giant wolf far bigger that the ones he killed.
If the ones he killed were the size of a car then this wolf was the size of a double-decker bus.
wolf charged in with its fangs to bite him off.
Lloyd dodged it and used [LEVITATION] to hover over the forest far above from the reach of the giant wolf
"Should I run away or fight it, if I fight using my rank 2 spells the beast will be dead. what I am concerned about the outcome after it is if any dogs from the other families find out that a rank 2 mage fought here they will automatically connect the dots and find it was our family"
thought ran through Lloyd's head as he finally decided to run away.
while Lloyd was thinking hovering over the forest
the Wolf suddenly turned his head towards the direction Lloyd came from with heavy killing intent.
seeing the unusual behavior of the wolf Lloyd was curious about what the wolf was doing.
as he curiously looked at the wolf.
it charged in that direction with full force as the wolf neared the direction a sphere of water was formed and was shot at it.
that hit the wolf directly to its head which did not even put a scratch on it.
"oo you don't you f**ker"
seeing the sphere of water Lloyd knew who it was
as he rushed down with multiple [WIND CUTTER] which were far stronger and faster than the previous ones he casted.
feeling the danger from behind the wolf dodged sideways but was too late as one of the spells cut off one of its paws.
"Did I not tell you to stay at the orphanage? "Lloyd asked
now standing at the place where the spherical water
ball was formed.
"Sorry Master" Jose said as he come out from behind the tree with an invisible cloak on his shoulder
"I was curious just can't hold myself back from following you", Jose said with his head down not daring to look at his master
"sigh..."
seeing his helpless disciple a sigh escaped from his mouth.
"Ok we will talk about it after we return home", he said as he turned around to look at the wounded wolf.
[STORM ARROW]
The air started to spin around him to form a giant arrow.
with Lloyd's command arrow shot toward the wounded wolf at high speed.
killing it.
seeing that everything is settling down Jose said
"master you should continue I will return"
"YES we are returning now, "Lloyd said with a serious face
Jose was about turn around but stopped because of what his master just said
"we but are you not continuing to go in"
"NO"
"but master the mission"
looking at his dumb disciple
"sigh...Jose do you know about that beast" he said as he pointed at the dead wolf.
"Yes master they are moonlight wolves" Jose replied with pride in his knowledge.
not minding the show-off Lloyd continues
"where are they mostly found in"
"in the snowy mounta... wait "Jose stopped mid-way as he understood what his master was trying to say.
"Yes they were attracted by the surge in Astral energy near and we are not even in the inner area of that astral surge if we encounter a beast at this power level here then I don't believe we can come out in one piece from the inner part of the forest"
hearing the explanation both Jose and Lloyd started to sprint back away from the forest back to the orphanage