In physique, the beast seems to resemble a tiger sixed pit-bull terrier but no dog can look like such a massive piece of living muscles. Shoulder-to-shoulder, the creature has a muscular width of over two feet and a height that is comfortably over three feet!.
The beast's legs are huge and truly muscular in a manner that looks trained rather than rough. The beast has four limbs that end in claws. Looking at the creature, Zenor eyes narrows as he observes its claws. Each of the beast's claws are as thick and long as his thumb bent forward though with a more dangerous twist, they are metallic!.
The claws are not of keratin but of a reddish brown element with golden undertones. Curved and sharp, the beast holds five of these death weapons at the end of every paw. Zenor swallows because despite the deadly looking claws, this is far from the most terrifying aspect of the beast!.
The creature has its skin plated with a brown layer of keratin that is arranged over its body like pieces of dry cracked mud. Only beneath its underbelly, it's face and its paws are spared from the natural armor and instead covered by leather thick brown fur.
With its tail covered by spine keratin flickering in the air, the beast slowly walks towards its left like an human would do when scaling it's opponent. Danist's fireball has grazed it body with force and heat hence the keratin armor over the creature's left shoulder is cracked, charred and broken.
Dark green blood can be seen to be pouring out of the blackened injury but the beast does not look fazed by the scarring as it bares its powder white fangs. A sound resounding like static thunder echoes from the creatures throat as a drip of dense saliva drags between the gaps of its fangs.
Danist picks up the second sword she had put in the ground and gets into a battle ready position. The creature lowers it's head though not in submission but in aggression and Zenor breaths deeply as he observes from a distance.
The forest smell the same but Zenor's mind picks up a future scent of blood and ash. Gripping his axe, the chill of its metal give Zenor confidence as he looks back towards the fight.
The beast charges forward with a sudden acceleration that cracks the root beneath its paw as it paces at Danist who seems completely ready to tangle with it in a blood-lusted fight. A second later, Danist and the beast entangles and Zenor observes the rapid and brutal exchanges.
Untouchable, Danist is continuously moving backwards yet she seems more on the offensive than the beast who is constantly charging forward. Danist seems to dance with the beast's momentum as she redirects and avoids every attack with her blades slowly littering cuts on the paws and back of the creature.
Barely thirty seconds into the wild tango, a paw sweep into Danist's hand causing her to lose a blade but unlike what Zenor expected, her hand did not go flying off. Somehow, the seemingly fragile leather armor that Danist is wearing holds strong as she shifts her momentum to the right before delivering a superhuman punch to the side of the beast's face.
The beast's body tumbles into the ground with a rumble but it immediately gets back up as Danist rolls backwards with a cloud gathering over her free hand. The beast growl and a fire-ball flies as it charges forward.
BAM!. Danist had been targeting the beast's face but a forward leap to its side ensures that she misses as the fire smashes into the creature's side. The impact of the strike throws the beast off balance but not for more than one second as it bounces back into the fight once more but this time, there's an obvious limit in the creatures pounce cause Danist's fire-ball seems to have struck it where it hurts!.
Zenor silently observes the battle. The level of their fight is far beyond Zenor's current limit though a prompt from his system sends an extra rush of caution through Zenor's veins!.
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INNATE PATHWAY GENERATION ACTIVATED..
STIMULUS: DANGER IN RELATIONSHIP WITH HOOK POINT!..
GENERATING OPTIMAL RESPONSE..
CHECKING RUNE POWER LEVELS..
INSUFFICIENT RUNE POWER LEVEL FOR OPTIMAL RESPONSE..
GENERATING IMPROVISED RESPONSE..
ADAPTING GUAGE LEVELS..
GENERATING VISUAL SINK MAP!..
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The next second, Zenor's vision changes into cloud of colors. Everything becomes highlighted. The tress takes on shades of lemon meaning neutral, the plated muscular beast takes a shade that is closer to red than orange, the area where Danist and the beast are fighting takes a hue of orange but none of this matters to Zenor right now.
Zenor feels a chill run down his spine as he observes a hue of stark red from somewhere completely unexpected. Within the tree cave that the beast had come out from, Zenor sees a glowing mass of red sitting within the darkness.
A sudden realization makes Zenor's pupils constrict as he tilts his head in wild realization. "No way.", Zenor whispers and as if in response to his word, the mass of red within the cave stirs as a pair of yellow vertical slits reveal themselves through the darkness of the cave.
Everything clicks in Zenor's head as he steps out from behind the tree with his heart racing in his chest. Danist has made a major mistake, there is not one but rather two beasts living in the cave!.
Looking at the current battle between the already injured plated beast and Danist, Zenor observes a deadly trend that had formerly seemed casual. Danist still seems to be controlling the pace of the battle and the beast seems to be the one controlled as all of its attacks becomes stray or redirected. The big problem now is that Danist is currently moving backwards with her back approaching the cave!.
Knowing that there is another beast lying ambush in the cave, the injured beast no longer looks like the one being controlled anymore!.
Zenor does not hesitate!. The visual overlay disappears as his axe slips into a battle grip. The world slows down, fear becomes pointless as Zenor's mind and body begins to resonate as one!.
Zenor's overthinks positively. Tens of scenarios and possibilities rushes through his mind in a second as his mind filters for the most optimal ones with his body acting in accordance to his will.
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