One thing was apparent in that moment.
What was standing on the red, shaggy beast with entirely black eyes and a mane of whitish silver fur that acted as its hair and beard, was not human despite looking like one.
It was a beast.
That in itself was only odd, and not frightening at all.
However, the towering, billowing waves of dense mana, as well as the methodical manner in which they surged, merely seconds away from transforming into something wondrous and fatal, was the terrifying part.
A Territory was coming.
A Territory from a beast.
This was especially harrowing because beasts, as the original users of Majestic Territories, did not need to use Creeds for their activation. As a result, they tended to be, not only better at using them the older they were, but also faster during the activation.
Worse yet, the active Territories of beasts tended to be much larger than that of humans.