Burning Soul

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From a distance, that creature might not have been so gigantic, but from up close he was surely more of a monster! Even though it was sitting on the ground he was no shorter than two men standing on top of each other!

He was covered in a thick black coat of fur with bloodstained all over his body. His palm was enough to smash him to bits.

This creature was certainly big, and to make matters worse, it looked like it was giving off a lot of creepy aura, same as that of the astral beast he had faced long time ago, though he could feel it more intensively from up close.

Holding and swinging a sword was not something he knew, he had gotten basic training at home and fortunately a few days ago, he had trained with an Ace and a Paladin!

He knew a thing or two about swinging the sword but two at such a situation?

He had always relied on daggers as he never did any real fighting before, and as an assassin’s class he didn’t need to either.

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“Hey! I’m being blunt here, but why didn’t you ask him what weapon he uses before handing out one?”

Vivian was still mad at his decision, so she asked Lumiere about his actions.

“Just wait and watch girl!

Who knows if he never was born to fight with daggers? I’m just testing him, should he fight with the weapon of choice, the test won’t be valid!” Hearing his explanation didn’t settle her wary heart though she showed a calm face and instead decided to focus on Theo who was getting close to that creature.

She out of everyone had seen one being slayed by an almost legendary powerhouse, Merida!

But only she knew that even back then, Merida was not fooling around with that ‘Baby astral beast’ in her contrast, Theo had never faced such a creature.

She couldn’t help but worry about what was going to happen.

Ember and Luna had their eyes fixed on him as well, she was just ready to jump in and kill that monster if something looks amiss.

If not for Luna telling her to hold back, she had almost jumped in!

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‘This is bad!

I can’t hold a grip on the sword, it’s heavy!

But I have to take advantage of the situation to kill it in an instant!’ Theo was thinking hard while taking each step carefully, not making any sound.

In the forest where there are a million reasons to make a sound, he was really walking on a thin end of rope here. He was taking each step with the utmost care, but quick enough to not miss the opportunity.

He was still a bit far away from him, this gave him time to understand the creature a bit.

Being a bear, it had a thick skin for sure, slicing it open was no good option. The best way to get a shot at this was to stab the sword in the neck and go for his head.

But it was no joke.

‘If I had my dagger, I may have been able to use multiple slashes and take him out while lowering his vitality, but this sword is heavy, if I miss, I can’t even evade a reverse hit, damn I’m in a pinch here!’

Theo was still not so sure about this. In about a minute he was close enough to that creature who was still busy munching onto the food he had scored.

Theo stood there a second and planned the heck out of it! ‘This might do it’ thinking, he took a stance.

“That stance!” Aeneas pointed towards him with a questioned look,

“He’s a quick learner!” Nuae replied as he saw that stance was the one Aeneas used while fighting with Lamius.

Theo while standing concentrated the Mana essence at the tip of the blade, his eyes were sharp, his stance was firm, almost as any veteran warrior.

After gathering enough mana, he pounced on to that creature,

‘Pincer Thrust: Using this skill allows the user to trust their blade in forward motion.

A straight Dagger stabbing skill converted to a sword skill to adapt to the situation, his speed was high, maybe because he used Boost beforehand.

The blade was closing onto the creature tearing apart the air in between at frightening speed, it hit the bear before he could evade the attack.

A huge bang and shockwave followed by the landing of the slash on the bear’s body made a rumble in the forest!

There was a thick cloud of dust where they fought, everyone was sure the bear was done for until they saw him standing unscathed! Not a single scratch!

“Did you really think this was going to be so easy?

Kid!” Lumiere spoke in a low voice to which Dimitri and others gave a hint of disgust. But there was one person who had spotted that bear’s next move,

“Move from there!” A sound echoed through the forest making Theo alert and evade incoming hits from the bear.

‘This is bad!’

Theo thought while evading his attack.

The predator had just turned into a prey now!