Chapter 10 Mythical Creatures

Letting the two girls have fun in their own world, I spent more time alone. It's more fun to search for clues to the whereabouts of the animal I want to hunt. My eyes narrowed, I scanned the forest, treading carefully. Undergrowth, dry twigs on the ground. I sharpened my sense of sight by channeling Spirit Aura into my sense of sight. My eyes moved here and there, searching for the slightest hint.

A small smile appeared on his face. My blue eyes lit up to see something that was a clue, animal footprints in the muddy ground. The footprints led south. I slowed my pace, there was no sound of footsteps.

My father taught me many things, especially not to make noise, not to panic the animals, and to let them know where I was.

It didn't feel like I was going anywhere. I no longer heard Lyra and Helen's conversation. I was busy with myself, preparing the arrows. I found animal footprints again, saw the footprints that I could recognize, it was possible that the footprints were those of a deer.

My smile grew wider. This time I tried to get the game on my own, without Lyra's help. I have to be able to do it and make my father happy that his good-for-nothing son is showing off his skills.

Following the towering trees, the path begins to slope, climbing over the rocks. The big question mark in my head became clearer. I'm pretty sure the footprints are those of a four-legged animal, possibly a deer. But how could a deer climb rocks like that? There's no way that four-legged animals are good at climbing rocks.

I stayed alert by preparing arrows. I aimed my arrow at the sound of breaking branches, an animal ran through the trees very quickly and disappeared into thin air.

The animal was very fast, I could only catch its tail, which was running very fast. It's impossible for a deer to move so fast that I can't see it clearly. I stayed alert, following the footprints of a mysterious animal that disappeared behind the trees.

My footsteps widened as I searched for the whereabouts of the mysterious animal that suddenly disappeared. My hearing is very acute this time. Those sounds, low moans and groans that weren't too far away. I ran toward the sound, and when I arrived at the place where the sound came from, my head darted back and forth, looking for an animal or something that made a mooing sound.

There wasn't anything. I didn't see any animals at all, but my head dropped into the ravine below. My blue eyes widened as I saw something I had never thought of.

An animal that looked like a deer, with two broad and pointed antlers. But there was something different about the deer. The entire body of the deer radiated a glittering light, and I could feel a power that I could recognize from the glittering light that surrounded the deer. A spirit-magic aura radiated from the body of the deer.

"Mythical creature. White Deer."

This was the first time I saw a mythical creature in the Ankila Forest, a forest where ordinary animals live. Meanwhile, the White Deer is a mythical creature that lives in the forest of the Zero Zone. There's something strange about the White Deer. He noticed that a red liquid was dripping from the wound on his body.

I tucked the arrow back into the sleeve of the bag I was carrying and ran down the cliff. I arrived at the bottom of the gorge. I could see from the eyes of the mythical creature that it looked sad, looking at me with a look that made me feel pitiful and unable to bear it. It didn't matter if it was a mythical creature that was very dangerous and feared by the people.

"What a pity. Who hurt you?" Maybe I look like a fool talking to a mythical creature that can't possibly respond to what I'm talking about. This creature is not just an ordinary animal with no reason.

In fact, none of this is true. I could feel the pain that this white deer was experiencing as it looked at me with its sad gaze, as if it was asking me for help.

Stroking the skin of this creature, I felt soft and warm. My eyes turned to the cut on the creature's back, a cut, or you could say a claw, that was scratching the creature. It was likely that a mythical creature or demonic mythical creature had injured this poor white deer.

But I thought about it again, so much so that it raised a question in my mind. It was likely that the creature that attacked the white deer was also a mythical creature, but it was on a different level. Just like a magus who possesses spirit power with levels of spirit magic power. Like a food chain, the highest level mythical creatures hunted down the lower level mythical creatures.

Apart from that, there were no traces or signs of the appearance of the Dark Mist.

This makes me wonder even more. Why did that white deer escape into the Ankila Forest? What mythical creature had attacked the White Deer?

I'm getting more and more worried that there really are high-level mythical creatures in the Ankila Forest, while this forest is a paradise for hunters, most of whom are ordinary people. The Magus Army is supposed to strictly guard the Zero Zone Forest to keep mythical creatures from entering the Ankila Forest area, which is mostly inhabited by ordinary animals.

I don't understand at all and something strange is going on right now. However, I pushed aside all the bad thoughts that came into my head. Right now, this white deer needs help. I couldn't heal this mythical creature, unlike Mother, who was a healing magus, or Gisella, who was quite adept at healing small wounds.

"Don't worry, I will heal you." I tried to convince the white deer.

Something strange. The White Stag nodded his head slowly, as if inviting me to treat him. I'm not at all sure if the creature understood what I said. This is very ridiculous.

A small black bag that I always carry with me, even when I go hunting in the forest. In this small sling bag I keep various kinds of medicine, small equipment for healing. I am very grateful for the small gift my mother gave me, this time the gift from my mother really helped me.

I took out several bottles from the small bag, injections, bandages and plasters. This is the first time I have healed a mythical creature. Actually, I have never done it myself, and I feel that my mother's doubts may not be true.

For ordinary animals, of course, you can do it. But healing pets is different. This is a mythical creature. Just armed with determination and compassion for this mythical creature.

Every day in my house there are always sick people or sick and injured animals who need a mother to heal them. Armed with a little knowledge. First, I channeled the power of the spirit aura. My hands glowed, glowed. I tried to concentrate, concentrating the magical spirit power in the palm of my hand. I stopped the flow of blood in the poor creature's wound.

It took so much energy that I started to sweat. Gisella, who is still young, is very good at cultivating spirit magic, so she doesn't get tired easily. Meanwhile, what I did with little knowledge, which I could not necessarily do, could have ended up hurting that poor creature.

I managed to stop the blood coming out of the scratches. I wiped the sweat off my head. Now I can start the treatment. I grabbed several bottles lying on the ground and carefully observed which ones were painkillers, special medicines for healing injured animals.

I took a small bottle, inside the bottle was a clear liquid. After pouring the clear liquid into the syringe, my hand shook a little. I had never treated a person or a living creature before. But with my courage I wanted to help this poor creature. The syringe stuck perfectly in the thick skin of the mythical creature. The White Deer reacted slightly, moaning and holding back the pain as the clear liquid entered its body through the syringe.

Finish the first aid. Cover the scratches on the White Deer's body, using bandages to cover the wounds perfectly. I am quite satisfied that I have treated the mythical creature with basic knowledge. The treatment I have done has produced results.

The next step is to take the deer to a safe place. However, I couldn't possibly carry the white deer that was so heavy, and besides, I was sure that the mythical creature that injured the white deer was still in this forest.

A flash of red light flashed quickly in front of my eyes, and the flash disappeared behind the trees. I was alert, I had the arrows ready. Of course, I still remembered the lesson that Professor Lupine had taught me about how to channel the magical aura power into magical weapons. At present, I can't cultivate the primary elemental.

I have magical arrows and bows, the magical weapons I like best. My blue eyes wandered through the forest. A flash of red light flashed in front of me again. Shooting arrows. Unfortunately, just a few seconds before my arrow hit, the red flash disappeared. The rocks in front of me were shattered by the arrows.

Ready again, with bow and arrows. The red flash was behind me, but the movement of the red light was very fast. I lost track of it.

Using the power of Spirit Magic Aura. My body emits a clear blue light aura, different from the bright blue aura. This time, I used Spirit Eyes to follow the movement of the red lightning, which was probably a mythical creature.

Even though I couldn't follow the movement of the creature, I could see that the red lightning was indeed a mythical creature. But... I can't really sense the power level of this mythical creature.

No matter. I'd better prepare to shoot at the target. My arrow shot towards the red lightning. Very quickly, the creature couldn't move and finally revealed its true form. My arrow flew out when it hit the spirit magic aura surrounding the mythical creature.

My face suddenly froze. It was unexpected that I was facing a level 30 mythical creature. The Crimson Flame Wolf, this creature was quite a powerful mythical creature.

There's no way I can defeat this mythical creature when my magic power is only at level 10. You can see the gap in strength, it's no longer just about the gap in strength. Even a level 30 magus might not be able to defeat the level 30 mythical creature in front of me.