Whoosh!

Lucas flew through the air while observing things.

A gentle breeze brushed past his cheek while his hair fluttered as he flew.

He was flying over 100 metres above the ground. Lucas could go higher but he feared that if he wasn’t able to control things, it would be game over for him.

As Lucas passed through the forest, he heard some rattling noise and looked up to see the steel vultures again.

There were 4 E ranks and one D rank among them.

Lucas halted in his tracks after noticing their presence. After seeing them once, Lucas already knew about them.

They were the pet of Orcs which they raised and trained to track and gather information.

Lucas decides to observe them for a while. Their movement indicated that they were looking for human settlements while moving forward.

Their direction seemed to be towards Sunset City.

Five steel vultures were hovering around the air and suddenly noticed his presence and all of them took a sharp turn around.

Lucas was alerted by their motion and started to lunge towards him.

Lucas didn’t think of retreating but rather decided to kill them.

"Did you think of me as cannon fodder whom you can kill and eat to your heart’s content?" Lucas grumbled and flew straight toward them.

The vulture tore through the air diving toward Lucas.

Directing his disdainful look at the vulture, Lucas said"Have a taste of this?"

[Fireball]

Lucas summoned a fireball and threw it straight at the vulture.

Pissed off by Lucas’s words, it raised its steel-like beak to cut through the fireball sharply.

SHIING!

It tore the fireball into two halves and let out a mocking sound.

CAW! CAW!

"Did you think this was all?" Lucas scoffed and raised his finger, circling it in the air.

The split fireballs that were falling suddenly changed their shape into the bullet and shot back at the vulture from behind.

BANG!

The Vulture that was proudly rushing toward Lucas was hit from the back and with a shocked expression, it was hurt, unable to maintain its balance in the midair and plunged down, emitting a miserable shriek.

The other four vultures glared at Lucas angrily as if they wanted to eat him alive and unlike the foolish vulture trying to fight alone, they decided to gang up on Lucas.

Lucas frowned a little seeing their unity.

"I will be in trouble if the fight goes on in the air."

Lucas was using telekinesis to stay in the air which required his utmost focus. He may be able to divert it a little to fight them one by one but to fight all of them, he needs to change his focus resulting in his fall.

Without wasting any more time, Lucas started to descend as quickly as possible.

Lucas hadn’t even landed when a vulture arrived before him while slashing at him with its claw in the talons.

CLANG!

Lucas raised his sword to defend but the force of the vulture pushed him backwards and falling to the ground, he rolled on the ground for a few metres before standing up.

Lucas’s eyes narrowed as he saw four of them rushing toward him and he jumped around in fear, missing the attack of one of the vultures while another one’s claw brushed past his armour emitting faint sparks.

Lucas summoned a fireball and started to attack them with it but the vultures instead of taking its head on dodged the attack flying into the sky.

Lucas fired some ice spikes followed by a fireball hoping to hit them but all of them managed to evade it

"Damn it!" Lucas cursed.

"They have a tactical advantage over me and were able to dodge my attacks easily."

"On top of that, my timing seems to be quite bad. I swear that the first thing I will do after returning is to learn archery." Lucas spoke, gritting his teeth while finding a way to deal with these bastards.

Lucas pulled out his sword and slashed at them a few times only to result in getting pushed around as all of them tried to attack him at once, pulling him into using defensive tactics.

"Cowards, if you dare come down and take my blow head on," Lucas shouted and hearing his words they mocked him and descended towards him to answer him with claws and beak.

"These vultures are just like their masters." Lucas grinned and prepared himself.

The four vultures surrounding Lucas raise their beak and claws in their talons to strike him with the motive to make a hole in his body.

However!

Whoosh!

As soon as they were about to clash against Lucas, he vanished into thin air as if he never existed from the beginning.

They were alarmed seeing him disappearing and fluttering their wings up and down to escape but at that very moment, a dome of ice appeared around them and covered them wholly trapping them inside.

They tried to hit and break the ice but the layer started to get thicker but before their persistence started to break.

Lucas appeared before the dome of ice and snapped his finger, a small hole appeared on the dome of ice.

A vulture suddenly flew out but it had just pecked out his head when a sword went inside the beak and passed through its throat taking its life.

The ones inside the dome shivered in fear and even if they saw a hole which allowed them to escape, they didn’t dare to rush out of it but rather tried to break the ice.

"I see, you want to stay cooped up inside it."

"So be it. Today, this place will become your grave." Lucas snorted and pulled the mini-round metallic ball which looked like a good plaything.

But only those who have been with Lucas knew the true horror of this thing.

Lucas’s lips curled upwards and he smiled viciously.

Taking out three of them, he stuffed them throughout the hole and covered the dome with many folds of ice walls.

The vultures were startled seeing the circular object and started to peck it.

Meanwhile, Lucas turned around and closed his hands.

"Amen!"

Behind him, a loud explosion occurred scattering pieces of roasted vulture meat all around.

[Important]

I have just entered university and is busy in shifting places. With a new environment and new schedule, I may find it hard to write two ongoing novels. I will try to get back on it after adjusting a bit. You can think of it as a break for a change in life.