Ahriman felt his own side throbbing with pain, he cuold feel his own broken ribs, his body was stuck into the tree the creature's tail launched him in.
"It seems this is not my best day" he slowly arose from the tree, even if incomparably weaker than his past his body was still stronger than your average human.
The creature launched itself towards him, it's mouth open, razor sharp teeths ready to reduce in mush Ahriman's body, as the distance decreased Ahriman took a rock near him and launched himself towards the beast.
At the last moment he slided under its belly disappearing from his view, taking that moment of advantage he rolled himself to the right side and proceeded with a dash to pierce the creature right eye with the rock.
The beast screamed so loud that Ahriman felt his brain go numb, the scream made him back down, something that didn't happen for years, he knew that this was a fight that he wouldn't have been able to win.
The creature began releasing a strange liquid from his teeths, it was a faint green and melted everything on its way, it was probably some tipe of acid, Ahriman felt his legs give out, the pain he got at the start mede he feel tired, slowly making him close his eyes while the creature approached him, saliva and acid pouring out of his mouth.
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Tories and Lucas were wandering in the forest searching the wyvern that the guild asked them to kill, it was a special variant known for its ability to release numbing Poison and invisible sleeping gasses, it also had a strong acidic substance dripping from its mouth making it really dangerous to the normal folks.
Thank god the two of them, were gold adventurers, they could defeat such creature with ease.
Tories was a young bestman from the southern tribes, she looked like a twenty years old girl, really tall for a human standard, her body was full of muscles and it was of a bronze tanned color, she was 2.30 meters tall, she had that aspect because of her race, every average beastman could easily overpower even thirty humans, she had two round bear ears and teeth that that seemed to be made specifically to devour any prey, her eyes were those of a predator, they were of a shiny yellow with her pupils similar to that of a cat.
She wore a metallic armor that covered almost her entire body and she had on her back a black halberd, with some golden details on it.
Lucas on the other hand was 1.87 meters tall, a human taller than most, he had long brown hairs arranged in a ponytail, his face was that of a forty years old, he was a seasoned hunter and scout, he was the best the guild could obtains in time, his body was muscular, but not to much, the right amount to remain agile, he hunted many wyverns in his life and this was a day like many others for him.
He wore a simple cape with a suit appropriated for a ranger, he had in his hand a big wooden bow, the kind that gave a strange energy any time he neared his finger towards the rope.
Tories talked first "Hey small guy, when will we meet this big lizard?" She sounded annoyed and on the point of sleep.
Lucas keeping his calm demeanour answered to her calmly "First, it's not a lizard, it's a wyvern, Second, I know you really want to show your strength now that you just became a gold rank adventurer, but for these things the key is silence".
"You really know how to spoil all the fun of the hunt old man" continued talking Tories taunting Lucas.
They continued to walk Tories made all kind of rumours while walking making even Lucas loose his patience in no time.
He frustrated turned around suddenly locking eyes woth her "With all the rumours you are making it will be impossible to hunt the wyvern, what the hel-".
A loud scream stopped Lucas' speech, Tories ' ears began twitching and her smile grew with each passing second, she started running towards the wyvern's scream.
She arrived at the beach in a few second, seeing the creature dangerously close to a small human she swung her halberd cutting the talons of the wyvern, it started to scream louder but it seemed to have no effect on Tories, an arrow from Lucas pierced the remaining eye of the Wyvern making it growl in pain.
In that moment Tories leaped in the air and mashed the Wyvern head woth a punch, Lucas observing this thought 'I don't understand who is the monster between the Wyvern and Tories'.
Tories gave a closer look at the smashed head of the Wyvern, his right eye seemed pierce by something, she dismissed it as an attack from another beast, she slowly walked toward the unconscious body of Ahriman before taking it up with care before screaming to the far Lucas "I found a guy lying here unconscious, do you have any healing potion?"
Lucas started to walk towards her thinking 'who was that unconscious guy? And what was he doing here?'.