Chapter 10

The duo set off, for them, moving through the forest was child's play, this place no longer held any secrets.

Edward and Sylphie walked calmly along a stream while checking the surrounding area for footprints.

Looking for footprints near a water source gives a lot of information about the animals in the area, it's one of the basic lessons Sylvano had taught them.

While Edward was looking for traces, he suddenly felt a jet of water wet him from behind, turning around, he saw Sylphie with her feet in the water looking at him with a teasing smile.

"Hehe, don't be so serious~" With a small laugh the girl dipped her hands back into the water then splashed her friend again.

Edward got the water in his face, his mid-length black hair pressed against his eyes and a smile crept onto his face.

"That's too bad Sylphie…" Edward used his hand to brush her hair out of her eyes and spoke in a threatening voice.

"It's a shame to play with water in front of me." Suddenly a ball of water materialized in front of his hand and rushed at low speed towards the half-elf's face.

The young girl received the magic in the face and took a few steps back unbalanced.

"It's unfair Ed! Don't use magic!" The half-elf cried out as she regained her balance.

Taking advantage of this moment, Edward jumped towards the stream and started splashing the girl.

"It's not unfair, to begin with it was you who made a surprise attack! And it's not like you can't use magic!"

At that moment, Edward let his childish side take over and continued to splash the half-elf, making himself wet in return.

About ten minutes later, both children were lying on the ground alongside the stream wet from head to toe.

Sylphie was torn between giggles and deep breathlessness while Edward simply smiled.

'Lately I may have been too serious… I must not forget that it is moments like this that make life so precious.'

The smile on his face deepened as he turned his gaze towards his young friend.

"Did you see that Sylphie? Don't attack me again except if you're ready to finish…!!!" Suddenly Edward's smile froze, he felt his hair stand up on his head as his breathing quickened.

Sylphie frowning at Edward's strange behavior, she then turned her head in the direction he was looking at before freezing too.

A few meters from them, a huge wolf was looking at them, its mouth was full of foam and drool which flowed down a jaw full of long teeth.

The wolf's gaze seemed filled with madness and murderous rage, but despite this, he stood majestically like the king of the forest looking at the two children before him with a mad desire for violence and blood.

Suddenly, with a burst of speed, the wolf rushed towards the two children.

Edward recovered from his shock and stood up, grabbing Sylphie's hand, still immobilized by fear, he pulled her towards him, narrowly avoiding the predator's bite, he dragged her with him in a frantic race to escape.

Edward shivered, for a moment he saw the wolf's mouth dripping with foam, with a brief glance he saw many pieces of bloody flesh stuck between its teeth.

'Shit shit shit shit...' Panic took over and Edward's mind scattered, his teeth starting to chatter together uncontrollably.

'Shit shit shit shit shit shit'

While Edward was filled with panic, he suddenly felt Sylphie's hand tighten more strongly against his hand, like an electric shock, this little pressure against his hand gave him a short moment of lucidity.

He created around fifteen balls of water rushing towards the wolf, stopping his course towards the children for a few moments.

'Damn, I need to calm down, priority is to get Sylphie to safety'.

Edward saw a tree that was easy to climb and headed there accompanied by the half-elf while sending dozens of water balls towards the predators in the hope of distracting them.

At the foot of the tree, he shouted to the half-elf, "Climb quickly!"

The girl wasted no time and started climbing the tree straight away, Sylvano had long ago taught them how to effectively climb to the top of trees for this kind of situation.

Edward sighed in relief, he then turned around and saw the wolf, the predator was soaked with water, his madness seemed reinforced, the growl he produced was enough to make Edward shiver.

"What are you doing here, this is not your territory, get out!" Edward scoffed to motivate himself, his remark was not wrong, no wolves were supposed to live in this part of the forest.

However, this was not a major concern at the moment, Edward picked up a branch from the ground and shook it several times testing its strength.

In his training with Paul, he had partially learned the 3 sword styles, but the style in which he was by far the most efficient was the sword god style.

The golden rule of this style is simple. Speed ​​and…

Edward rushed towards the wolf as quickly as possible, a bestial cry resounding from his mouth.

"Always attacked first!!"

The wolf leaned forward slightly ready to pounce, however a particularly powerful ball of water met his leg causing him to lose his balance for a moment.

However, these few moments were enough, Edward cut the air with his stick, the fragility of the piece of wood did not allow it to be cut or injured, however that was not his objective.

The wolf opened its mouth wide ready to bite his arm, however before it could close its fangs, Edward achieved his goal, the stick embedded itself in the predator's left eye, a large amount of blood leaking from it. the now hollow eye of the king of the forest.

The wolf seemed to lose his mind from the pain, a low growl escaped his mouth and he began to run directionlessly to forget the pain occasionally banging his face against tree trunks to chase away the pain.

'Damn, I wanted to hit his brain, my blow wasn't powerful enough...' Edward gritted his teeth, to succeed in gouging out the monster's eye, he had to take a big risk, his arm was covered in blood, his, an immense bite had torn off a large quantity of flesh.

Taking advantage of the wolf's mad state, Edward created another ball of water, he concentrated all his remaining energy in this last attack, pouring out his mana reserves without limits, increasing the dangerousness of the attack to the maximum.

The ball of water formed in front of him, its presence alone was impressive, its creation took around ten seconds, however the temporary madness of the wolf gave Edward the time necessary to create this last attack.

This ball of water seemed out of this world, its size was tiny resembling a revolver bullet, yet its dangerousness was clear.

This was not a normal attack, even for a powerful mage given water ball such power was a challenge.

Suddenly she flew at very high speed towards the wolf, the latter perceived the danger a second too late, he turned his face towards the ball of water only for a hole to form on his forehead, propelling a sea of ​​blood onto the trees behind him.

The last traces of life disappeared from the predator's remaining eye before it crashed heavily to the ground.

"I won…" Edward looked at the dead wolf for a moment before turning his gaze to his arm, despite his victory, his loss of blood was just as dangerous as the wolf, maybe more.

"Eddddd!" Sylphie's worried cry was the last thing Edward heard before losing consciousness.

'Damn wolf…'