The next day Levin woke up a little early and went deep inside the forest so that he could examine the terrain where the battle will happen later he wanted to use this terrain to his benefit so that he may sustain less damage.
After inspecting the area for a while Levin went back and waited until sun comes up agter that he will gi to fight the monster , in the meantime Levin wanted to test his new profound ability he had gained which he named as "shadow domain" when he first used that he didn't had any opportunity to use it again.
But right now he wanted to conserve his strength so he wanted to try something else ,he also learned a new technique for his fire affinity which was he can coat his whole body with fire and maintain that for whole day which was very exhausting at first but he had been doing this for several days so now it has become a habit of his.
He has also created some other abilities like he can focus all of his fire power on hands and with a slight use of wind he can fly using his fire magic and he can maintain this for a couple of hours which was a boon for Levin and other than that he can also focus all the power on his feet and with that he can maintain the flight.
Levin has been trying to create as many abilities he can,using his magic which will be convenient and unique only to him .
Apart from that he also created another technique for his shadow element first was that he can make any weapon using his shadows the second was he can manifest a small domain of shadows around him in tge area of 30 meters and the ability which he created now was shadow sense , when using this ability he can react even before the opponent could attack it's like he knows where the opponent will attack and he dodges before the attack is connected which will be very helpful to him even in the long run , and while creating this ability he discovered something new too it was that if he focus the power of shadow element on his eyes he can even see in the dark so this was going to be very helpful.
Levin was still sitting near the river when he felt the sun rays greeting him first thing in the morning with that Levin opened his eyes and stood up and said " It's time to hunt that fucking monster,with that being said he went straight into the forest".
After arriving near the cave Levin waited patiently sensing even the slightest movement of the monster in the cave but to his surprise the monster didn't make even a slightest move ,like it was asleep so after thinking for a while Levin shot a fire spell directly in the cave so sensing danger he may come out to see who has the audacity to wake him up but to his surprise even that didn't work.
Levin sensed something was off so he waited for a while and after waiting patiently he was quietly making his way towards the cave , he was moving very carefully not to make a slightest noise so in a matter of moments he reached the cave ,Levin hid his presence and hid himself in the shadow of the rock which was at the entrance of the cave ,but to his surprise Levin still couldn't sense any signs of life and that was when Levin's perception warned him that he shoul flee and hide himself or he will be caught in a trap , when Levin tried to flee it was at that moment that the " 8 headed monster" made his presence known it came from up and landed infront of Levin , it was hiding at the ceiling of cave , which means yesterday when Levin was observing him he sensed that someone was eyeing his place or himself so it let them fool themselves so that when they came for him and don't sense his presence , so the enemy who came to hunt him fall right into his trap and that was when levin realized it was too late to flee without encountring this monster , Levin clearly felt the pressure it was omitting and then Levin exhaled and said " I'm in a deep shit ".
After coming face to face with this monster Levin confirmed one thing that this type of monster was unique it has intelligence, it lured me right back into my own trap that i created for this monster but it left me speechless, levin thought that there should be some monsters who had intelligence and must be very dangerous to encounter because he had seen a 'Dragon' and he knew that being talked like he was ruling over every single life on this world and it was right to say that the Dragon must be tge strongest creature on this world and in which state Levin was right now he had no intention fo facing one, this encounter with the 8 headed monster confirmed one thing that Levin had doubt about that other than 'Dragons' their also exists certain monster who are high likely dangerous to the humans and must not confront head on , but it right now Levin have no choice but to face it head on and he know he won't be coming out unscathed from this battle.
At first the both of them didn't move just kept staring at each other then Levin twitched and that was the moment when that 8 headed monster lunged towards Levin with speed it was so fast that Levin evaded it with difficulty and it was thanks to " shadow sense" that he awaken beacuse of it he saw it coming beforehand , Levin evaded it and ran outside the cave because fighting inside the cave was suicide and then Levin used his fire spell " ignite" on this multiple head monster right now Levin didn't knew what to call it so he made up a name and said "it's hydra" that suits him ,so after that Levin launched multiple 'fire spells' to see if it caused any damage to the monster but to his surprise there wasn't even a scratch on it, Levin wanted to see how strong the monster was so with that he also wanted to gauge the level of his spell and this time he launched '2 fire spells' simultaneously and worked "ignite with flame explosion" it will surround him with the fire and then the other spell upon connecting will explode , sseing this the hydra got enraged and it threw venom from its mouth which he avoided it and in the next breath Levin launched '4 Gale attacks " at one of his head and which cleanly beheaded one of it's head seeing this Levin was happy but that happiness didn't last long because in next second his head which got beheaded grew back instantly and it shocked Levin.
After seeing what the hydra did Levin said " it will be a long day" and in next moment the hydra attacked Levin from the front but this time the hydra changed it's tactics from on mouth he sprayed venom and from others he attacked ,mouth wide open like he was ready to swallow me whole , levin evaded the venom because he didn't knew what kind of poison it might be although he knows it's lethal because upon hitting the rock it melted it completely so levin dodged it and in the next moment he launched a fire spell " blinding flash' when he said that a bright burst of power came and disoriented the hydra seeing this as an opportunity he blended in his shadow when the burst of light faded the hydra was puzzled because his prey was right in front him but now it has slipped through .
For a while Levin was hiding in the Hydra's shadow thinking of a way to kill this monster but nothing came to mind he has multiple 'fire and wind spells he had created but didn't used so right now was tge perfect opportunity to test it " levin has mostly focused himself on fire spells so his arsenal of fire spell was big as compared to " wind and shadow' so at that moment he emerged from beneatg tge hydra and muttered "Immolate' this spell was different because Hydra's full body was engulfed in fire and tge speciality of this spell was that it causes continuous damage to it's target and right now the hydra was screaming in pain , Levin watched as the hydra was screaming and he felt nothing because in tgis world only 'Power' decides who will be the one standing at last and at that moment Hydra's gaze. bloodshoted and met his, Levin made a mistake of letting his guard down and hydra took that opportunity and sprayed venom on Levin's body and tgis time Levin couldn't dodge and when the venom connected to his body he felt his body melting he was trying to endure it somehow but to his surprise he couldn't and fell to his knees at that moment Levin turned his gaze towards hydra and saw although he was dying he was grinning like he had won but that enraged Levin and at that moment Levin muttered another spell "Hellfire" and every part of the Hydra's body from inside out got on fire and tge hydra couldn't even scream in it's last moments , truly a ruthless death for a monster of its kind , but Levin wasn't doing well either his body was melting Levin used another spell"Cauterize" this spell uses precise heat to stop bleeding but it didn't work, Levin refused to die he had to take revenge for his family's death he was starting to loose consciousness .
At that time his storage ring dropped from his finger and the two things that were inside of it came out as well one was a bag with '101 gold coins' and the other was that shinning stone he took out from 'Phoenix' head he subconsciously picked that because he didn't know what it was or what it could do if Levin didn't do anything instantly he would die anyway so he crushed the stone in hands and at the same time he lost consciousness.
It was almost night and outside the Forest the small army of awakened had reached the people who were sent to lead this expedition '2 from the order and 2 from the Holy santuary' along with the carriage of Prince Brad , Princess Elenor and Princess Flora had arrived , seeing that the night was approaching 'Saintess Aria' of the Holy Sanctuary said "We should camp outside the Forest and we will enter first at the dawn."