First Rank 1 Monster Kill[2]
[Ace POV],
It was just as I thought. This rank 1 Fire Eagle was dead set on planning to make me breakfast this morning as it still didn't attempt to fly away even after failing so many times to kill me.
Though this was good in my opinion as my chances of finally having a rank 1 species kill increased. Of course, killing a rank 1 specie was easier said than done in the end, as I had already suffered from several injuries and burns during my fight with the Rank 1 Fire Eagle.
I also managed to injure one of the Rank 1 Fire Eagle's wings, making it difficult for it to fly if it didn't get rid of me first.
Slamming my palms together, I created several fire spears around me and shot them at the rank 1 fire eagle in front of me, who retaliated by releasing a massive fireball in my way while using its wings to block the fire spears I shot at it.
When I saw a massive fireball the size of my upper torso approaching in my direction, I used all of my strength to jump to the trunk of a nearby tree near me while watching the fireball explode when it made contact with the earth.
The exploding power of the fireball was no joke. It was one of the reasons I got injuries in the first place because when I initially saw it, I assumed all I had to do was dodge and I never expected the fireball to still explode when it made contact with anything.
Now that I think about it, instead of simply calling it a fireball, I should call it an exploding fireball.
'I might try it sometime to see if I can replicate it,' I thought as I hopped to another nearby tree that was close as I dodged the exploding fireball that was thrown in my former spot on the tree.
What I didn't expect was for the rank 1 fire eagle to throw another exploding fireball attack at me while I was still in mid-air.
In this position, there was no way to avoid the attack, so I had to either ready myself and face it head-on, or unleash my own attack at the fireball, causing it to explode upon contact.
It was obvious which option I would choose since I couldn't afford the damage that the exploding fireball would cause if it touched me. If this happened, I would be unable to battle again as I would have to watch my teammates kill it, wasting all of my effort up to this point of killing the rank 1 fire eagle alone.
As these thoughts ran through my mind, I circulated the mana in my body, creating a long fire spear and hurling it at the exploding fireball that was heading my way.
When both attacks collided in mid-air, they detonated due to the effect of the exploding fireball as the gush of wind it created reached me in mid-air and flew me in a different direction than where I was going to land before.
Fortunately, even though the trees around were not closely packed together, they were still dispersed throughout, so I used one as leverage to get back to the rank 1 fire eagle.
As I got closer to the rank 1 fire eagle, I noticed it open its beak and turn to face me.
Danger alerts began to sound in my head as I sensed something dangerous was about to happen, and I was correct as a laser-like beam appeared for the fire eagle beak as it headed in my direction, but because I utilized the trees surrounding me as leverage to get to the fire eagle, I was in mid-air again as the fire eagle launched its attack.
This time was different since I didn't believe a fire spear, fire arrow, or fireball would be able to stop this particular attack, so the only thing I could do was to somehow dodge this attack in mid-air.
As this thought occurred to me, I forcefully tilted my body in mid-air as I watched the laser-like beam pass through my eyes.
My body was so close to the attack that it was only a fist's distance away. Even though the attack couldn't hit me again, I could feel the heat it emitted as a small portion of my air burned.
Unlike the rank 1 fire eagle, whose body was in tune with the fire element and could lessen the damage caused by fire-related attacks, I knew that if the specific laser beam attack touched me, I might get crippled.
The fire eagle pulled a big move this time and I was right as I didn't receive any attack again after this one.
Seeing this, I knew my opportunity had come.
Without hesitation, I rushed to the fire eagle's location as I jumped on the tree beside me and used it as a lever to get to the back of the fire eagle so I could get away from its line of sight.
Something I noticed from the rank 1 fire eagle is that it could only give a straight attack so if it couldn't see me, then it couldn't attack.
As I considered this, I was already at the back of the fire eagle in mid-air, deciding to end this combat with a single attack.
The fire eagle obviously consumed a lot of mana when it launched the laser beam at me in the previous attack, so I could have taken it easy and slow to kill the fire eagle while it was exhausted, but I didn't.
No one knew if the rank 1 fire eagle had one more massive attack planned for me.
Something I've noticed is that the higher the level of the monster, the higher its intellect level. I've seen situations like this from the mutated level 18 zombie I previously fought, and it became more apparent in rank monsters as I could see they could think.
It may not signify much right now as their intelligence is still fairly low, but who knows what will happen in the future if monsters develop the ability to think like humans.
But that is still some time away.
Perhaps because it was exhausted, the rank 1 fire eagle was slow to respond to my appearance at its rear, but this was good for me as I pumped every last drop of mana I had in my mana reserve to produce a massive 2-meter fireball and flung it towards the fire eagle's head.
BOOOOOM!!!!!
When the fireball met with the rank 1 fire eagle, it emitted a sound comparable to that of explosives in movies.
The gush of wind caused by the fireball was also no joking matter since it whisked me right to another position. Fortunately, there were trees all around to help me stop it.
'I wonder if it's dead', I thought as I waited to see if it would appear anytime soon and it did.
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