Cosmic Paragon-Chapter 45 - 44: Grade 2 Magic Beasts; Wind Wolves!

The Armored Alligator had been about 60 meters away when Drake had immersed himself under the water. It slowly crept up on Drake from the side. Thanks to its camouflage ability, he had failed to notice it all this time.

It had waited patiently for Drake to let his guard down, and the instant he relaxed it lunged.

Drake hastily threw a palm strike in the direction of the Alligator that had already launched itself at him, while activating the full power of his gravity powers repulsion force.

The pressure from two powerful forces closing in on each other caused the water to explode. Drake instantly shot out like a cannon ball. He had made sure to remain very close to the shore so that he could retreat the instant he noticed the first Alligator coming at him in a moments notice.

With this Armored Alligator attacking from the side however, he could not directly retreat backwards; instead he was pushed to the right. He hastily slapped the surface of the lake and let the force from the impact launch him out of the lake.

Drake was thrown onto land and rolled for a few meters, he did not even wait till he stopped and just rolled to his feet. With that, he ran as fast as he could.

’I have to get away from here as fast as possible. I can’t even fight against one Armored Alligator, but now I have to go up against two? That’s suicide!’ He thought.

Without looking back he rushed towards the forest. His right arm hurt badly, it had been broken when he threw that attack at the Armored Alligator.

"Fuck, it was only a single attack and my arm is broken? Doesn’t that mean that if I had not run so quickly it would need no more than three attacks to kill me?"

RAAAR!

Sure enough just as he took off, the giant Armored Alligator burst out from the lake with an enraged roar. In all it’s life it had almost never missed a kill whenever it chose anything to be its prey. In this way it had hunted killed and eaten all kinds of magical beasts over the years, whether small or big none had ever escaped. Even just yesterday it had eaten a Grade 2 magical beast wolf

Yet, today this weak human that could not even be compared to a Grade 2 beast had successfully evaded it? UNFORGIVABLE!

BANG! BANG!

The moment it landed on the shore it slammed its two large front legs into the ground, as it did so its Earth manipulation ability was activated, and several 3 meter long earth spears shot out of the ground.

Drake was only about two-to-three meters away instantly had all his hairs stand on end as the earth spears pierced out from the ground towards him.

Drake hastily drew on energy from the Virgo constellation and activated the full power of his gravity energy. He evaded and bounced off the sharp spears that were piercing at him.

With every step he took, a spear aimed with obvious intentions of impaling him jutted out of the ground.

When he finally got out of range of the spears he reduced the earths attractive force on himself and dashed into the forest.

Earlier, while he had been testing ways he could use his abilities, he had found that even though he could manipulate gravity, he could only manipulate the gravity around his own body.

If you were to explain it, you would have o think of him as the core. Just like a planet, he could attract things to himself like a magnet. Only he did not need to care whether the target was magnetic or not. He could attract anything just like gravity drew everything to the earth. He could also repel things.

These were currently the only things he could do with his gravity power/ it was with this power that he could practically negate all the earth’s gravity on himself. But there was a limitation.

Whether attraction or repulsion he could not exert a force greater than twice the earths gravity.

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When the beast saw that its target was now out of the range of its magic ability the Armored Alligator stopped using the earth ability then spun and swung its large tail.

The tail instantly broke all the earth spears and sent them flying at Drake at break neck speed.

’Damn it, this thing knows how to use its ability like this?’ Drake barely managed to avoid them. But the wind from the tail swing swept him off his feet an threw him a few meters.

Lucky for him he was now much closer to the trees.

The Armored Alligator that had just used its earth ability jumped at him with its large jaws open in a menacing roar. It did not expect that Drake had gotten away from all those earth projectiles.

Now it saw that Drake was about to escape into the forest it immediately grew anxious and rushed at him.

"Fuck, this thing is fast!" Drake exclaimed, "Didn’t the information about the Armored Alligator say it is a very slow magical beast known mostly for its terrifying defense? Who put that nonsense in there its all lies!"

What he did not know was that actually the information was true. Compared to other Grade 3 magical beasts, the Armored Alligator was much slower.

However, just because it was slow among Grade 3 magical beasts did not mean it could be underestimated. It could still be faster than most Grade 2 magical beasts and 2 star Mages.

After all there is no way you could compare someone with only about 2000 Battle Power with a powerful beast having over 200,000 Battle Power. There was a giant moat that could not be easily bridged between them.

He finally got to the trees and now the Armored Alligator could no longer easily attack him since it had to go through so many trees that were restraining its movements.

The beast roared unwilling to be resigned to this loss, its target had gotten away. Even though it was powerful, it would not be able to use its maximum abilities with the trees restraining it in the forest thanks to its size. If it could not use its full power and another Grade 3 magical beast appeared it would be in danger. It knew this, so it did not chase and just returned to the lake.

Drake breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the Alligator no longer chasing and finally turned his attention back to his broken arm. With just a thought healing energy was mobilized and his arm began to quickly restore, it would be completely recovered in just a few seconds. All this he did without stopping his sprint.

Whoosh! whoosh! whoosh!

Suddenly, there were sounds of footsteps and rushing. Drake looked over with the ’Eye of Order’ and his face darkened. He was surrounded by a pack of wolves.

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Wind Wolf

Cultivation level: Grade 2 beast

Battle Power: 7000

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"Damn it, I only just managed to get out of that predicament, I didn’t expect I would simply be going from the frying pan into the fire." Drake gripped his sword tightly.

The first wind wolf jumped at him from the right and he hastily evaded its large jaws letting the beast fly past him.

"Damn it, these things can see that my right arm is injured and are taking advantage of it." he hastily dodged another wind wolf that had jumped at him.

These wolves were pure evil. They did not attack him at the same time instead, they jumped at him one after the other.

One would jump and as it left the ground another would immediately jump at him, in the same way just as that one left the ground another would also jump. There was always only a slight delay between them, but this slight delay was what they had turned into a weapon.

Their timing was always perfect as if they had practiced this formation a thousand times before. The moment he dodged the first wolf he had fallen into the trap. Because of how short the time was between every wolf’s attack Drake was not able to complete a single slash because he was too busy dodging.

There were over thirty wolves around him and each one of them was a Grade 2 beast.

"Fuck I can’t break out of their formation!" Drake complained, "All their Battle Powers are close to each other, that means the pack’s Alpha is not here." His face got even grave, "A pack of Grade 2 magical beast winged wolves would definitely have a Grade 3 magical beast as their Alpha. I need to get out of here fast."

The wolves continued their plan of exhausting their prey, when suddenly they found their opening it was a flaw in the humans steps and he tripped falling backwards. They did not hesitate to take the chance.

One of the stronger wind wolves that had been waiting for this chance pounced and just as its jaw was about to close on Drake’s throat. Drake’s sword which had been in his left hand all this time suddenly vanished from sight when it reappeared again it was already in front of the wolf’s open maw.

The blade pierced though the top of the mouth and went through the wolfs skull. Instant death!

Drake let out a breath, "Finally my arm is completely healed. I’ll bet you didn’t expect that did you!"