The Phoenix's eyes widened in surprise and it slowly took a few steps back after it sensed the magnitude of the mana oozing out of the barrier.
As a rank fifteen beast, the phoenix could never let a weakling in rank eleven try to tame it.
Besides, it didn't like anyone, so there was no way it would allow anyone to tame it.
The other students in the forest were between rank seven to ten, so they were all insignificant individuals the phoenix could easily defeat, and the same went for Orion as well.
It didn't see him as a threat. The phoenix only saw him as the first target he had to get rid of before facing the other students in the forest.
Orion was a rank eleven mage, so it shouldn't be difficult for the phoenix to get rid of him. But it didn't expect Orion's mana capacity to suddenly skyrocket the way it did.
Now that it had risen way higher than that of the phoenix, the Phoenix's initial expression changed from fury to fear.