A large bear with earthy-green fur and mushrooms growing on its back charged toward Adam in a frenzy. It towered over Adam even while running on all fours. Currently, it was profusely bleeding from everywhere and seemed to be on its last breath.
This would be its final attack on the person who had made him this way. Although death was imminent, the bear's eyes gleamed with anger and insanity.
However, before the bear could even reach Adam, the latter had already completed all the required components and cast a spell.
The youth pointed his index finger at the bear, and the next moment, blue lightning crackled on the tip of his finger. And then, the beam of lightning lanced toward the bear and penetrated its head.
Rank 1 Spell: Lightning Streak!
ROAR!
The massive bear let out one final bellow as it fell face-first onto the ground. The light in its eyes slowly faded away and it perished.
After making sure that the bear had died, Adam walked toward it and carefully observed it. If it was up to him, he would have avoided confronting the bear.
However, Valerian had been constantly nagging him about eating fresh meat. So he couldn't help but give in to the little guy's request.
After all, it had already been three weeks since they'd arrived here. They were surviving on beef jerky and other dry rations all this while. And Valerian, still being an infant, naturally got bored of it and wanted to eat something different.
While Adam was examining the many mushrooms on the bear's back, a gray light flashed and Valerian appeared in front of him, strutting toward the bear's corpse.
Adam wanted to reprimand the little fellow for coming out again without permission, but after seeing the excited look on Valerian's cute little face, he couldn't bring himself to.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})Valerian pointed at the dead bear and then glanced at Adam with bright eyes. 'Meat! Meat!'
Adam gently picked up the young dragon in his arms and warmly smiled. "Yes, we will finally have some meat. But first I need to cook it. Can't let you have it raw. Okay?"
"Myu~" Valerian put his arms around Adam's neck and gave him a warm hug. Then, it started to fondly lick his cheeks. Adam couldn't help but chuckle at this.
The next moment, he placed his hand on the bear's corpse, and following that, it disappeared inside his earring.
This space-type storage artifact of his was quite strange. It couldn't store live beings but could store corpses. Well, Adam never complained about it since the convenience afforded by the earring was simply too great.
He made his way back to his temporary dwelling—a cave in a mushroom tree. After skinning the bear and taking out its innards, Adam skilfully butchered the meat. He was used to doing such work. After all, as a kid, he had done plenty of such work to get by.
Adam started a fire and then took out the cooking utensils from his earring. After setting everything up, he started to prepare everything for the meat stew.
Valerian patiently waited on the side, his eyes shining like stars and his mouth drooling like a flowing stream.
When all the ingredients were put inside the pot, an extremely appetizing aroma drifted out and assaulted the young dragon's nostrils, causing him to involuntarily reach out for the pot.
"Myu!" However, he stopped in his footsteps when Adam flicked his forehead.
"Patience, you brat." Adam chuckled seeing Valerian's actions. After the latter sat back down, he turned his attention to the mushrooms that grew from the bear's back, wondering if it was edible.
After experimenting on himself, the youth confirmed that the mushrooms were indeed edible, not poisonous in the least. In fact, they tasted very nice, much better than the mushrooms he had tasted in the outside world.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})He added these mushrooms into the pot and about ten minutes later the meat stew was finally ready.
Adam poured the contents of the pot into two bowls. He placed one in front of Valerian and took the other one for himself. He looked at the little guy and smiled, "Go ahead, eat it. Tell me how it tastes."
"Myu~" Valerian merrily started eating, and judging by the speed at which the stew inside his bowl was depleting, Adam figured that it indeed tasted very good. The youth then started eating as well.
…
In the forest area where Adam had fought the mushroom bear a while back, a female elf suddenly appeared out of nowhere, hiding behind a mushroom. Her footsteps were silent, and her presence nigh indiscernible.
The elf first vigilantly looked around and made sure that no one was around, only then did she come out in the open and begin examining the battlefield.
From the traces left behind by the battle, she could deduce that the parties involved were a large beast and a human. To be able to infer so much from so few details, one could tell that this elf was very skilled at her work.
A few minutes later, she muttered under her breath, "The human Magus is very strong… It seems that the battle was over quickly."
She then gazed at the periphery of the battlefield, trying to discern the human Magus' footsteps. She searched for a very long time, but still couldn't find any tracks.
"He's very cautious as well," she said with a frown. But the next moment, she scoffed. "But so what?"
The elf weaved a series of hand gestures, and the following moment, her emerald eyes shone with a yellow glint. She once again looked at the battlefield, and this time, she was faintly able to see footsteps leading into the distance.
Seeing this, she smirked. "I have a feeling that If I follow you, I'll be able to get out of this damnable forest."
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…
A week later, the elf was finally able to track Adam down. She was greatly shocked at how skillful Adam was at covering his tracks.
Even with her tracking spell, she had lost him plenty of times. But fortunately, she managed to track him down in the end. Currently, she was hiding in the bushes at a distance of about a hundred and fifty meters away from Adam.
However, her gaze wasn't on Adam but on the periphery of the Mushroom Forest in the far distance where she could see sunlight seeping in. Seeing this, she was extremely happy. "Finally, I can leave this forest!"
Suddenly, she glanced at the person she had been following over the past week. For some strange reason, she found him very familiar.
After casting a spell to enhance her vision, she finally got a clear picture of this person. And when she did, she was shocked!
This person was wearing black robes and a cape of the same color. Moreover, there also seemed to be a gray kitten lying on his head.
When the elf gazed at this person's visage, her hands clenched tightly and her eyes turned bloodshot in fury. "It's you!"
She took out an arrow from her quiver and readied her bow, aiming at Adam.
"This is karma for what you did back then."
And then, she fired the arrow.
THWOCK!
