Chapter 13: The Formless Seed (3)

"Grghh.." A low growl came from Rio's back. It was a monstrous growl. One that could be summarized in a single word, beastly.

"Damn it…" Rio cursed under his breath. He couldn't be this unlucky. He didn't even have a choice. Rio, preparing for the worst, turned his head to the back. And he was wrong, he was indeed quite unlucky.

It was a bear, a large dark brown colored bear that towered him over. It's sharp claws protuding, as it stood tall with it's mouth open and fangs exposed. It's body full of hair and fur.

'A Rank D Magical Beast, The Starke Grizzly Bear. This is better than anything…'

Rio thought relieved, as sweat poured down his forehead. This was good, it was Rank D. A rank lower than him, he could overpower it by the sheer difference in power.

The Starke Grizzly Bear approached him menacingly, its fangs protuding, and hairy body slowly walking over to him. A towering brown bear, with fangs and claws so sharp they could rip a human head with no effort.

He was going to die if ever get caught in those claws and fangs, Rio thought in nervousness. Sweat poured out in his forehead, his legs felt wobbly. He wanted to do something, but his body wont move. It was static, paralyzed in fear.

Now only if he could control the innate fear of a modern person out of his mind, everything would go well. However, were things really that easy?

The bear walked, getting nearer and nearer every second. It was like death itself slowly enstrangling Rio's life. If he wasn't going to do anything he was going to be pre—

Hgrkk!

"Ah!" Rio screamed in pain as he bit his hand. He needed to focus, and if his body wont respond. He will force it to respond. Pain was the best distraction for emotions in general.

Blood oozed out from his hand as he moved. The Starke Grizzly Bear was shocked of the sudden scream, it took a step back in wariness. Rio noticing that retreated further in the back.

He was a Sorcerer first and foremost, long distance and powerful spells was his forte, not physical augmentation. As he retreated, he took out the wand in his pocket.

A long silver rod, with a small glowing star in it's top. It was his personal wand. Now he was going to use it for the very first time in a real life combat.

'This is going to be a little hard. But with some focus..it was not impossible..'

Rio thought as he applied the «Speed» skill as he ran. The bear, noticing the sudden rocketing speed of its prey as it ran away, chased Rio.

Now to use magic. Rio closed his eyes to focus intently. Access the «Miracle Core» to use magic. Imagine the skill. Apply it to reality. Your will dictates magic, and magic will follow your will. Magic is a tool, and you are the user.

Swoosh!

"«Gale Wind»." Rio muttered as he finished casting the spell. A small sharp curved wind blasted from his wand to the Starke Grizzly Bear.

The bear noticed it but it couldn't avoid nor dodge it. The wind blade was fast and small, and it's body was too big. It grazed the Starke Grizzly Bear's body and a small clean cut was afflicted.

"Ggrhkk!!!" The Starke Grizzly Bear growled in anger, it's prey dared to harm him. It ran faster, chasing the blitzing Rio. The bear didn't care for the small cut, the pain was neglible.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

"«Gale Wind»" Rio muttered once more, but now instead of one sharp curved wind, it was multiple sharp curves of wind. If one wasn't enough to damage it, multiply it until it does. He was using this spell for it's speed and size. A large bear wouldnt be able to avoid a small wind.

The Starke Grizzly Bear noticed the sudden multiplication of the sharp wind that harmed him, it's instincts screamed, warning it's body and mind to not let those attacks hit him.

The Starke Grizzly Bear stopped. It grabbed the tree beside it with it's bare arms. It's monstrous strength ripped the tree apart from the land, and then it swung the tree to the sharped curved winds that accelerated in the air.

'Thats one deadly weapon, and monstrous strength…if I were to add.'

Rio thought as he continued running. He could easily destroy the tree by using a fire related skill of sorts, but that was an idiot move. He was in a place with dense trees. He would just cause a destructive fire that would burn everything to the ground.

Then, if he couldn't destroy it, the other option was to make it unable to be used. So what could he do so the Starke Grizzly Bear would be unable to use it?

Rio had an idea, it was foolish and luck based, but it was effective if it was a success. Rio took the backpack he was carrying and opened it. There were only a few things inside the backpack, they were just basic neccessities he could replace.

Rio focused as he stood still. Accessing the «Miracle Core». Imagine the skill. Apply it to reality. Your will dictates magic, and magic follows your will. Magic is a tool, and your the user.

"«Acid Bomb»" Rio muttered as a gobblish ball of acid was made, this was an intermediate skill. He took out a large cup from the bag and removed the contents of it. He redirected the acid inside the cup, and put the cup back in the backpack.

The bear was nearing as it held the tree. Rio, without hesitation, throwed the backpack to the Starker Grizzly Bear. This was his chance. Now what happens next relies on luck.

The Grizzly Bear noticed the backpack the human threw at it, it found nothing threatening about it. The backpack was nearing the bear as it flew in the air.

The Grizzly Bear stared, confused on what the backpack was. But regardless, it thought of breaking it into pieces. It prepared it's arms to swing the tree but, before it could even react. It heard a loud sound and the next thing it knew, it felt massive corrosion.

'Yes!'

Rio cheered as he thought. It worked well. His plan was to disguise the acid inside the backpack, and relied on luck that the bear would let its guard down. The «Acid Bomb» exploded in mid-air, near the body of the Starke Grizzly Bear.

The acid was highly destructive and fluid, it easily withered down the backpack and the tree as it exploded. The Starke Grizzly Bear was also caught in the explosion, it's front body burned in corrosion as it's bones were visible.

"GROOOOOWWWWWLLL!!!" The Starke Grizzly Bear screamed in agony and pain, in shock and hurry it threw away the tree it was holding out of anger.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

"«Gale Wind»" Rio ordered as his wand spawned off multiple sharp curved winds, he pointed his wand to the bear. The sharp curved winds accelerated and wounded the bear.

The pain was originally easily neglible, but with the bear in agony and multiple cuts grazing it's body. It growled, as blood poured out from the multiple cuts in it's body.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

"«Gale Wind»" Rio muttered again. Again. Again. It was not enough. Multiple sharp curved winds accelerated, inflicting clean cuts to the body of the bear.

Again.

"«Gale Wind»"

Again

"«Gale Wind»"

Again.

"«Gale Wind»"

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"Awoooo….." The bear howled in agony and grief as it fell. Unresigned to it's death, as it's body looked tortured and deformed. It's chest full of small clean cuts, blood oozing out from it. The bones were visible by the corrosion of acid.

It was a far cry to it's former appearance.

"Ha, ha, ha…" Rio panted as he sighed in relief, he sat leaning his head on the tree beside him. He did it. He won. He survived to live. However, the adrenaline and pain that distracted him from fear was now gone.

"Fuck!" Rio cursed under his breath, that was easily the most terrifying thing he had ever done in his life. And something told him that he would do far more crazier things in the future. Truth to be told, he wasn't excited about it.

He wanted to drink water but his backpack was gone, Rio was disgruntled. However, after killing the bear he approached its corpse.

As he walked over the bear, he cut down it's flesh and skin. The flesh teared apart as he searched for something inside of its body.

'What am…I doing..?'

Rio thought absurdly, he was grotesquely removing the flesh and skin of a dead carcass as he searched for something inside it's body. However absurd the notion was, he didnt stop.

And there he found it. It was a stone with a dim glowing light. This was named, Magic Stone, or Spirit Stone. It was a crystallized form of energy. If he exchanged this Rank D Magic Stone to the Miracle Plaza he would easily get 100,000 Credits.

These energy were useful for any many things. Thats why the price of it was expensive, Rio planned to kill off some Rank E Magical Beasts along the way on this journey.

Rank E Magic Stone can be exchanged for 10,000 Credits.

Rank D Magic Stone can be exchanged for 100,000 Credits.

Rank C Magic Stone can be exchanged for 1,000,000 Credits.

As for Rank B and A, they were tremendous amount that Rio couldn't imagine getting. After he got the magic stone, he stood up and looked at the path where he was going.

He was finally able to continue his journey. He really, really, hoped that the seed would call onto him as he's just tired from this journey.

"Ha.." Rio sighed, if only he was that lucky, he thought. He fixed his appearance as he walked downwards to the dense of trees.