33 Risen#re

Lirian turned towards the mystic beasts with an unimpressed look, he knew that he had to be more careful of them than the normal cultivators.

Mystic beasts held natural cultivation techniques in their cells, that allowed them to develop their centres of power and it gave them bloodline skills.

But the perks came with its own restrictions, there was a limit to how far mystical beasts could develop, it was the rule of the heavens, all things must be balanced, an advantage will come with an equally difficult disadvantage or price.

Lirian heard what sounded like an ape pounding its chest as it swiped at him with its two long and large arms, he took a quick step back.

The ape pressed its two long arms on the ground and swung itself between the its arms, its two massive feet, each one the size of Lirians body, came rushing towards his face.

Lirian ducked and barrelled on the ground underneath the ape, as he slid along the ground he raised the katana and ran it along the back, its muscles were thick and tough, but the sharpness of the blade was impressive.

The ape growled loudly as it collapsed with a heavy thud on the ground, it released a blast of wind that made Lirian stumble forward as he was getting back to his feet.

Lirian sighed he regained his balance, 'That would have broken every bone in my body,' he thought as a saber-tooth tiger jumped at him.

'Screw it,' Lirian thought he was holding back as he fought to preserve some energy and switched to using tension forms.

As soon as he released his first strike, the battle changed once more, the katana came down with the force of a warhammer and the tiger took the full brunt of the attack, it's entire body split into two from the head to the tail and its blood decorated the land it a splatter pattern.

As more mystic beasts rushed at him, Lirian went on a killing spree, the katana hummed in his hand as it split the first-grade flesh as if it was butter.

A bald-eagle swooped down at him with it's claws reached out, Lirian cursed internally, aerial creatures were difficult to deal with, Lirian couldn't use the vibrations in the ground to keep track of it.

"Fine then," he whispered, silver energy wrapped around the blade, giving the sword a brilliant glow, raising it above his head with both hands Lirian brought it down.

The air split visibly and where ever the beam of silver energy went, it cut through and incinerated the bald-eagle before coming back down and splitting the earth.

The energy didn't disappear immediately as it slowly corroded away all that it had touched.

As Lirian took a deep breath, the ground underneath him opened up revealing the snake that had been stalking him from the beginning.

"Stupid snake," Lirian chuckled as it opened it maws wide in an attempt to swallow him whole.

Lirian side stepped and wrapped an arm around it's body, its body was so thick that he couldn't completely wrap a single arm around it.

He spun it over his head and slammed it into the ground and before it moved he jammed his katana into it and pinned it to the ground.

"You'd get along with number 12." He commented, thinking of number 12's venomous nature.

It thrashed in desperation and hissed venomously.

"I know you want to melt me with your poison," Lirian interpreted for it, he jumped onto its head as it opened it jaw wide, sensing the opportunity, Lirians threw both his hands to its mouth and caught its fangs.

As he slowly ripped the fangs out of the snakes mouth it threw its body around smacking Lirian into the ground many times making it impossible for any other beast to approach.

Lirian took a breath as he realised what a bad idea this was, but he couldn't help it, when he faced a snake, he always had the urge to defang it.

As he rolled himself around the snakes head to stop the impacts from being to violent he heard the sickening crunch as the fangs were ripped clean from the snakes gums and big chunks of it gum came out as well.

Lirian raised the fangs up and smashed them through the snakes head it shook one last time before falling completely still.

'That will teach it about how dangerous its fangs can be,' he thought as the fangs broke through its lowered jaw and locked the corpse in place.

Lirian climbed back to his feet shaking his head, 'That was one rough ride,' he thought while dusting the mud from his clothes.

He heard the ape return smashing its two fists into the ground, "You just don't learn," Lirian laughed jovially and raced towards the ape that was at least six times larger than him.

He avoided its punches and brought the flat of his blade on it head, the sound of an explosion echoed as its head popped open splashing all over his face and clothes.

Lirian licked a drop of blood from his lips and felt a rush course through his entire body.

He stood in the centre of the battle field laughing hysterically, despite his lowered guard every creature began to steer clear of him and the students looked on in fright.

He marched by himself into a horde of beasts and there he stood laughing like a madman, and yet the beasts fled from him in a wild panic, even the mystic beasts began to flee in the opposite direction when they saw his smile.

The students couldn't help but wonder who the real monster was on the battlefield.

With the creatures growing panic it became even easier to lure them towards the waterfall, but just when the students thought the tide had changed in their favour the ground began to stir and shake.

Lirian felt the intense tremors in the ground and needed to take a calming breath, the weight of whatever was coming, was far too much, if it was a mystical beast it had to be from the third-grade.

Lirian knew that he couldn't beat a third-grader by himself, he'd get squashed, it would be different if he had the students help, but they were too busy fighting the horde.

Lirian quickly ran back to the main group, the growing blood lust inside him had been somewhat satiated, with this attack and he need to know what they were dealing with.

Edith had seen Lirian rushing towards her, but she couldn't take her eyes of the mystic beast in the background, it was fear inducing, and every other student felt despair as they saw it, it was all they could see.

A towering and moving mountain, that stood at least 60 feet tall and it's every step was slow, but it brought with it a pressure they all knew, it was the difference in life hierarchy.

Unlike the rest Lirian sighed in relief as he felt the pressure descend on him, 'It's only second-grade,' he realised.

"What is it?" Lirian asked.

"It's a rock drake," Edith muttered as it took another step forward, sending tremors through the ground they were walking on.

'it's a rock elemental creature," he figured, 'No wonder it's so heavy.'

'The creatures actually woke up a guardian of the forest to deal with us,' he thought wistfully, 'Didn't I transfer all my fate particle to myself, so why is my luck so shitty.'

"Someone go and grab me the mountain climbing gear," he ordered loudly, he paid good credits to get his hands on those things, he had never expected it would come in useful to fight some rock drake.

"You aren't planning to fight that thing?" Edith cried out looking at him like he was insane.

After seeing the way he battled earlier, she couldn't help but feel like he really was insane, who stands in the middle of a battlefield and laughs like this entire thing was just a game?

Sadly, for Edith she had an answer and it was two words, 'Her Boyfriend!'

"Lirian, please don't do this," she cried out, "We can give up the expedition and run away!" she shouted with a small sob in her voice, they had just started their relationship she didn't want things to end this way.

Lirian grabbed her hand with one of his hands that were covered in blood in animal guts, "Do you think that I'd do something that could get me killed," he gave a light chuckle, "Trust me," he reassured her, and quickly added one last word, "I'm incredible," he let go of her and turned around.

"Just keep leading them, and keep them together," Lirian told her as he heard someone running up to him while panting breathlessly.

"You're still alive Mordred," Lirian laughed with surprise as he recognised his scent.

"Thanks for your high opinion of me," Mordred breathed out sarcastically, feeling anguish at Lirians surprised tone.

"Here's the mountain climbing gear you asked for," he said handing a big bag to Lirian.

"Pull out the climbing axes and the shoes leave the rest of the stuff," Lirian told him.

As Mordred pulled the items out he handed them to Lirian with a concerned look on his face, "How sure are you that you can take that thing down?" he asked he felt that it was a crazy idea, but he also knew just how crazy Lirian really was, it seemed like an oddly good match.

Lirian flashed him an amused smile, "Are you worried about me?" he teased.

Mordred sighed but didn't reply, he didn't know why he wasted his breath.

Lirian patted his shoulder and laughed, "It's a rock elemental creature, so the only way to really take it down is by locating its cores and destroying all of them simultaneously, since it's second grade there will be two cores, so I just have to hope that both cores are in close proximity."