Beatitudes

Episode 48.

Harry  regained his calm after he witnessed the wolf dissipate completely into the surroundings without a single mishap, after which he let out a wry smile and turned around, with his back facing them, he then spoke up albeit with an odd tone

“Come on, let’s just go already"

The rest of them shared a glance as a rare chuckle escaped Adam ’s lips, “Alright then.”

The air in the tainted zone retained its slightly stiff air even as the sun began its descent and a slight coolness presented itself. The zone had become significantly rifer with the feeling of danger at every turn, it seemed like the beasts were waking up from their deep slumbers at the moment. Getting ready to go out in search of a delicious dinner.

The outskirts of the zone had truly been cleared off completely by the fighters and warriors of the hall, no other beast had been spotted or approached to attack them yet, that was how the three former to be slaves felt, unknown to them a certain black eyed young adult kept a constant vigilance over their whole surroundings, keeping a range far beyond what their eyes could see. Adam made sure to steer away any and all beasts at the level of the second tier if they so ever took a single step into his radius of vigilance. It wasn’t that the beasts of the tainted zone were scarce around these areas, they just didn’t dare to approach without Adam ’s approval.

He didn’t intend to participate in a single fight during this period given the fact that there wasn’t a single beast that could catch his attention or sight around here, only if they moved deeper into the untainted zone, about a mile or so in at least, but that would only be detrimental to the intention behind stepping into the untainted zone If he actually wasn’t able to protect his fellow weak acquaintances. But just because he wasn’t didn’t mean he would allow anything to go awry. It was a slight worry to witness Isaac this weak given his former self, but there was ultimately nothing he could really do to speed up the process.

Very soon while the silence prevailed and the sun drew nearer to the ground, a flash of light flickered through Adam ’s eyes as he mumbled to himself, “This should be a perfect match for him, have to make it harder I guess.”

Isaac didn’t know why but he suddenly had a faint feeling that something was going to be easy for him. He shook off the feeling not giving it much thought as he advanced with the rest.

Very soon though, he heard a beast roar from a distance as the faint sounds of it sprinting towards their location could be heard.

The others also seemed to have heard it as they all grew silent and waited while they moved, very soon the beast appeared before them for all to see.

Its appearance was definitely a unique one. A lean body with compact muscles that extended all the way down to its four fairly long legs, a thick line of fairly long silky hair grew from the top of its head all the way down its neck, red pupils filled with malice locked onto the group as it galloped along the path of the mountainous forest they had recently stepped into while the single horn extending out from its forehead gleamed with eerie light due to the light from the sunset being cast on it. 

Isaac stared at the dark looking horse like creature as it got closer to them, it was moving at a constant rate as its sight never left the four of them.

“This is an Agbadokan, a beast known for its ferocious charges and extreme love for piercing cleanly through its enemies…”

Those words about the beast couldn’t be questioned as the three besides Adam who was speaking stared at the menacing horn on its forehead that it had current lowered down to a piercing pose with its charge, Harry hearing the description couldn’t help but gulp just the slightest bit as the horn gleamed like a vicious blade ready to pierce through. Adam ignored their reactions as he continued, “Are you ready Isaac?”

The one being questioned said nothing as he stepped forward closing the distance between him and the charging beast slightly, he was currently having a rapid conversation with Astral as he moved,

Isaac: Its funny but I’m a little nervous…

Astral: Hm, don’t worry you won’t get beaten too bad…

Isaac replied him with a slight frown on his face: What are you trying to say?”

Astral: *chuckles* calm down, I trust you can handle it… but you still seem a little odd.

Isaac: *sight* yeah I guess I am, I mean look at me, I’m currently incapable of will manipulation even after so long, look at how Harry ’s flaunting his class, I can’t do anything like that.

Astral: … in the end you can still bend flames, your will manipulation probably needs a special understanding, something possibly like enlightment.

Isaac: I need enlightment at tier one?!”

Astral: Pretty much what the writer wrote for you, perhaps not exactly enlightment… maybe a moment of inspiration

Isaac: “…”

After the quick talk session with Astral in his head, he focused his mind on the target in front of him, no other thoughts in his mind.

He whipped out a sword from seemingly nowhere as he willed his ever increasing mastery of the flames in the surrounding to coat the sword with a layer of burning hot fire. Originally when he first unearthed the ability to control flames, he wouldn’t have been able to do something like this, but now after all this while he had increasingly improved his mastery and control alongside his cultivation.

On seeing this, the corner of Adam ’s lips twitched faintly as an odd look flashed across his eyes, but he did nothing ultimately choosing not to say anything as a few words were spoken in his heart.

Horace: Why won’t you tell him

Adam: Let him handle it, he should be able to do it…

Horace: “…”

And so he said not a single word as he looked on at Isaac who had already broken into a dash, as an imminent collision was about to happen.

Isaac watched the beast warily as he sprinted towards it, the Agbadokan had been sprinting from a fair distance, the momentum behind its charge was sure to pack a punch. He wasn’t going to be stupid or be the berserker that Harry was and collide with the beast forcefully, hence when there was only approximately five feet between the two, he pushed off lightly from the ground, borrowing the force from it to swivel along a parabolic path as he immediately arrived behind the still charging beast. Not wasting his time, he balanced properly as he sent out a burning s***h as the beast’s behind, a look of focus in his eyes as he tried not to make the mistakes others did.

But the outcome of the s***h was already set in stone as the s***h drew a faint visible line on the beast’s behind and nothing more than that.