Star Dou Forest;
A Black Tiger is running very fast, as if running for its life. With every second passing, its breath grew heavier. Looking carefully, it was covered in various wounds, from deep cuts to burns. His body was battered from the fight.
And the opponent seems much stronger than him, because even with such injuries he was running wildly.
After running for half an hour, it stopped near a stream. From continuous running his stamina had hit the bottom and it also felt very thirsty.
Well, it crosses a large part of the forest so maybe he was safe now. That's what he was probably thinking now. But, he didn't know that death was right above his head.
Brushing aside his worry, he slowly started to drink water from the stream. After drinking it full, he sat there and began to lick his wound. This may help to heal the wound faster.
But, just as he relaxed a silhouette fell near him making it jump in fright. The fallen object causes some dust to blow making it impossible to know what it is.
After a few seconds the dust settled, looking at the creature in front of him the black tiger's fur exploded all over his body. He lowered his stance in defence.
The creature looked like it was carved entirely from metal and mechanical parts. And its chest glowed red, making it look like it was burning. The creature looked like a western dragon with two wings and a long spiky tail. It looked like this creature was just born to kill.
Though his height is not big, just under one meter, his appearance looked menacing enough to scare anyone.
This was the same creature that black tiger fought ignorantly after feeling its lower cultivation age, yet the same creature inflicted the life threatening wounds to him. That's why he was fully alert now, but a certain part of wisdom told him that he would die today and nothing can save him now.
Knowing what will happen to him black tiger still has not backed down this time. After all, he is king of beasts, how can he back down? Yet he still hoped that the opponent would spare him.
But, it is said that sometimes hope can change into despair real quick.
The creature looked at the black tiger with disdain and cruelty. It was just walking forward to find what place it was, then suddenly this black tiger, who is a millennium old, attacked him. If not for his instinct, he could be gravely wounded.
This creature is Predacon who just transmigrated here. He already is tense and angry and this Black Tiger attacked him, this made him more angry and he attacked fiercely. This caused him to understand his strength and ability more clearly.
Looking at the Black Tiger, he snorted. No matter what happens, today he is gonna kill this Tiger.
With that in his mind, Predacon started walking toward the Black Tiger. It was not ignorance, but the confidence in his own strength.
Seeing this, Black Tiger began to back down. After fighting one time, he clearly knew what kind of existence this creature was. So, if possible he did not want to fight it anymore. But, how can he be humiliated as a Beast King?
So, he once again lounged at Predacon with full strength. Yet, when his attack is going to land on Predacon, Predacon takes a sharp turn and swings its spiky tail toward the oncoming attack.
Both the claws of a tiger and tail of Predacon collide. And the result was obvious from the start, the Black Tiger's claws were pierced by the spikes and he was thrown heavily on the ground.
Predacoon didn't waste a single second and lounged at the fallen tiger. He bites his neck and holds him with both of his claws. The blood started spilling rapidly from the neck of Black Tiger. He also tried very hard to get out of the clutches of Predacon, but his neck was tightly bitten and the sharp metallic claws were holding him like an immovable mountain.
After trying everything, the Black Tiger fell into despair. And now he has lost all will to live.
Predacon also knew this so he stopped biting Black Tiger and opened his mouth wide.
Fire started to gather in his throat and after gathering enough he attacked with his Fire Breathing wanting to finish this Tiger with one strike.
The Black Tiger knew that his death was near, yet didn't resist. He is already wounded enough that even if he won this fight, he would die.
The searing hot flame hit its head and in an instant his skull burned to ashes.
"Ding, congratulating the host for its first kill."
"It is detected that the soul beast is a Millennium Year old."
"Congratulations, you gained 100 points."
"Since it is Host's first kill the points get doubled. 200 points."
After killing Black Tiger, a system voice sounded in the ears of Predacon. But, he decided not to pay attention to it for now, because he saw something gleaming inside the body of Black Tiger.
"Is this a soul bone? But what type of Soul Bone is this?" Looking at the middle section of the spine, which is shining with black light, he thought.
"Maybe, this is an incomplete Torso Soul Bone." He thought again.
According to the information stored in his mind, he knew that a soul beast could produce a soul ring and soul bones, but there is a very low chance of a soul bone appearing in the soul beast cultivation age lower than one hundred thousand.
But what use of this soul bone to him? He is a soul beast, certainly he could not eat them, could he?
"Dear Host, you could only eat or take energy and minerals as your food and also to increase your cultivation years." the system voice told the Predacon.
'Can you give me an example of these?' He asked.
"Host, you could certainly guess about minerals, like eating rare metals or minerals could help you to increase your cultivation age. The more rare the metal is, the more your cultivation will increase. As for energy, it is like soul power. You can breathe soul power present in nature, not only that you can also absorb the soul rings of dead spirit beasts to increase your cultivation."
Hearing this, he became delighted. While it is true that he can fight above his levels, cultivation is also important which is hard & slow for a soul beast.
Now, he knew an easy way to increase his cultivation level, he had no worry about his slow cultivation.
Looking at the soul ring of Black Tiger which is glowing purple, he decided to try it.
Opening his mouth, he bit one side of the soul ring. A crunch sound was heard and then the soul ring cracked and all the fragmented soul power entered his body. And the feeling of fire burning spread throughout my body which made him feel like burning.
'System, what is happening to me?' He asked while groaning in pain.
"Host you absorbed a soul ring beyond your capacity. But there is no need to worry. As long as you guide that soul power and digest it successfully it will naturally increase your cultivation levels." The system replied.
Hearing the answer, he lay down in a comfortable posture and focused his mind to guide and digest that soul power. Yet, it wasn't easy to do so.
But he still tried very hard and after sometime he began to succeed. It's just that it will take too much time to digest it fully. But he had enough time.