Dagger

"I really can"t believe that it actually came here to attack.", the elf muttered under her breath.

Seeing the demonic bear, the elf didn"t hesitate to slowly retreat, but before she even started to run, the beast jumped with its powerful limbs which shook the ground and landed somewhere behind the elf.

The elf immediately shot the beast with it"s arrows while hastily retreating, but contrary to its large size, it moved swiftly and dodged all the arrows.

When she stopped shooting, the demonic bear charged towards them. The speed of the monster was incredibly fast to the point that it has already reached the both of them.

The bear swung down its claws.

-clang-

Edwin met the bear"s claws midway with his Firm Fists while holding the daggers. Blood seeped at the corner of his mouth.

He was already injured, couple with the fact that he had to take on the full brunt of the beast"s attack, the wounds that were left further worsened.

Due to the strength of the demonic bear, he took several steps back, after that, an another claw came towards him again, which he blocked too.

Another claw came for him again, but he still managed to block it. However, a fast claw came from his side and swiped him away.

He was knocked some distance away. Edwin immediately attempted to stand up, but the beast was already upon him and it raised its claws.

-boom-

"ROAR!!!", before it could even crush the boy, an explosion occurred on the monster"s back and it roared in pain.

From far away, the elf nocked an another arrow and shot again.

This time, the arrow didn"t hit the demonic bear because it was prepared for it. Now, the monster charged towards her at a shocking speed.

A few arrows were also sent out, but it didn"t the bear again nor even grazed it for once.

As the bear got close enough, it sent out two consecutive claw strikes to the elf.

The elf already predicted it and dodged them, but the beast sent out a fast third attack which caught her off guard.

However, it never hit her, because Edwin sent out a Dagger Flash which wounded the demonic bear"s claw, rendering it from continuing the attack.

"ROAR...!", the demonic bear roared again, not because of pain, but because of fury. Earlier when it was. .h.i.t by the elf"s attack, it wasn"t even wounded, it"s because that even though her attack was powerful and explosive, it wasn"t as sharp like Edwin"s.

It ignored the elf and pounced towards Edwin with it"s powerful limbs, shaking the ground.

His eyes widened and jumped back so that he won"t get crushed by the beast.

When the demonic bear landed, it didn"t waste its time and attacked Edwin with both of its claws.

The boy blocked the attack with both of his daggers, but he got into one knee and more blood seeped out of his mouth.

The bear placed more pressure on its claws, trying to get him on both of his knees.

But just like earlier, the elf intervened again by shooting two arrows at the same time, making the monster roar again.

It didn"t pay attention to the boy again and charged to the elf.

Relieved from his predicament, Edwin panted and inwardly said, "This monster is more powerful than I thought."

Most demonic animals were more powerful than the other creatures in terms of strength in the same level, and they had different kinds of specialties depending on what kind of animal they were.

For example, the demonic crocodile that Edwin encountered was almost unbeatable in terms of its defensive capabilities and short range destructive attacks.

Now, the demonic bear that they were encountering was much better in terms of the beast"s maneuverability and bone crushing instantaneous attacks.

After thinking deeper, he couldn"t help but remember his earlier thoughts, "Why did Allen even send me here? Doesn"t he know the real strength of that demonic bear?"

His line of thought was cut off when he recalled that they were still fighting. As he was about to help out to the elf, the latter shouted at him, "Cover your eyes!"

Immediately knowing what would happen, Edwin closed his eyes and even covered it with his arm.

The elven lady dodged a sweep, retrieved something from the ground and threw it at the bear.

On the other hand, the monster didn"t even mind what was thrown and even bashed it"s head to it.

Afterwards, the tiny projectile emitted a light that was as bright as the sun!

Slowly bit surely as the blinding light subsided, Edwin stopped covering his eyes and saw that the demonic bear was dizzily wandering around shaking its head from time to time.

Taking this chance, he regrouped back beside the elf and took out a bottle of pills.

He swallowed one and felt cooling sensation all over his body. The cooling sensation didn"t increase the coldness that Edwin could feel, but it in fact stabilized it.

His injuries healed at a noticeable rate, just like the deep cut on his wrist from the short sword which returned back to normal.

"Do you want one?", Edwin asked.

"No, I have my own pills.", the elf showed her palm, on one of her fingers was a ring. The ring faintly glowed and a shiny, green colored with a tinge of violet, medicinal pill appeared.

She consumed it and her pale face went back to normal, in fact, it was actually much better when Edwin first saw her face.

"We can"t just go separately attacking that beast like we did earlier, or else we"re going to get killed one by one.", the elf said.

"I have a plan, but it"s risky.", Edwin said.

She looked at the demonic bear, who charged head-on towards a tree. The thick body of the tree didn"t even stand a chance against the monster and it crashed down to the ground.

The elf blinked repeatedly with a emotionless face when she saw what happened to the tree.

"Alright then, human, what kind of plan do you propose?", she asked.

After a pause, she added, "The plan should be fast, or else there would be more beasts that will come here after being attracted by the noise."

Edwin became inwardly relieved when the elf agreed to work with him, he thought that she"d refuse to help him because of their pride as elves just what was written on the stories he knew.

After which, he discussed his plan.

...

Some time later, the bear"s eyesight returned to normal.

-boom-

An explosion occurred on its side which prompted it to look where the attack came from. It saw the elf who had just released an arrow.

Even so, before it could even start to attack, it roared as it felt extreme pain on its back.

Even not seeing what happened, it knew that its b.u.t.t was now full of deep cuts from flashes. So, it savagely turned around to face the attacker, which was Edwin.

"ROARRRRR...!!!", this time, the monster pounced forward from a distance towards Edwin, the latter rolled back and evaded the former"s body along with its attack.

The bear tried to crush the boy to his demise several times with its claws, and even with its mouth, but he dodged them all.

-bang-

The beast raised both of its claws and sent them down towards the boy, but the latter dodged to the side while using Shadow Steps, making the attack only leave clear bear paws on the ground.

Soon enough, the monster tried the same attack, but Edwin reacted fast enough and sent a Multi-Flash while the former"s body was wide open.

-pshew-

Several wounds appeared on the bear"s body. Making it howl in pain.

Now, he immediately retreated because knew that the bear would go berserk and would relentlessly attack without defending itself.

His prediction was correct and the demonic bear had indeed gone berserk.

Pound, sweep, chomp, pound, sweep, chomp, repeat. Now that it could only care less its own attacks, they suddenly formed a pattern unlike earlier, and flaws also started to emerge!

One might wonder, why would something be raging like the demonic obtained a pattern on his or her attacks?

It was because when a beast became demonic, they would also gain sentience and could control their attacks.
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And due to them being once former animals, if they just let their instincts run througb them then the flaws of their once former selves would show up!

"All or nothing!", Edwin shouted as he evaded a sweep and threw his daggers to the mouth of the bear as it was about to chomp.

The daggers accurately hit the part between the jaw bone and the upper mouth bone, rendering it from closing its mouth.

Rather than backing off, the boy charged forward and created clone which hopped on top of the mouth of the beast, while Edwin held down its jaw.

He also activated Firm Fists to keep his grip on the jaws and also redirected most of his internal energy to the lower part of his body to keep sticking on the ground.

"Gah... gah... gah...", however, he could still get attacked by the claws of the enemy, nonetheless, he didn"t decrease his grip and instead increased it further to keep the bear from moving away.

"NOW!", he shouted while still getting attack. "I could have let my clone be in my position right now if it wasn"t so weak! This hurts so much that I feel like I"m being crushed from all directions!"

Meanwhile, a lot of distance right behind Edwin, a silhouette of a bow appeared on the elf"s hand while an arrow made of energy formed.

It was none other than the Spirit Bow!

The elf nocked the arrow on the bowstring, aimed it at the mouth of the beast.

With a deep breath, she then let go of it!

-whoosh-

As soon as the energy arrow was launched, Edwin let go of the jaw of the beast and rolled backwards and ducked to avoid the arrow.

The energy arrow immediately arrived at the beast"s mouth and entered its body.

-boom-

An explosion occurred inside the monster"s body, of which, the light of the explosion even leaked out of the beast"s mouth and eyes!

After the light subsided, the demonic bear"s body collapsed on the ground, its eyes lost its glow and smoke came out of his mouth.

Holding his sides due to his injuries, Edwin still smiled victoriously as he said, "Haha... yes!"

He turned around to the elf, who gave a thumbs up for Edwin"s plan.

The plan was in fact, only dangerous for him, the elf would only need to shoot with her Spirit Bow while he had to keep the bear from staying at one place while its mouth was wide open for the energy arrow to enter.

This was the only thing that he could think of to kill the monster in a fast manner.

Suddenly, cracking sounds could be heard and Edwin fell to the ground, gasping for air while some sort of green liquid oozed out of his mouth.

"Human!" With a worried tone, the elf called out and ran towards Edwin.

In a slow manner, Edwin"s vision became dimmer and dimmer, but before he totally lost his consciousness, he remembered the day before he left Allen"s shop, of which, he saw Allen muttered something under his breath, at first Edwin didn"t know what it was, but it was as if he got a moment of clarity, and he read his lips.

"Die, Edwin."