Dante's eyes flickered for a second.

Swish

Dante made the first move, running toward the tiger while enhancing his whole body with the Vitralis Essence.

The tiger, seeing this, also came running towards Dante. Just before it attacked with its claws, its body shook a little as it jumped from its position and landed on a tree.

Kachik

The place where the tiger was before now had a small hole from a silverish knife conjured by Dante a moment ago.

Tch. He got away.

Without wasting any time, Dante leaped towards the tiger, enhancing his legs. The tiger, glowing with a red aura, jumped towards Dante with its claws in front.

Bam

Dante's hand and the tiger's claw collided with a strong sound. At this moment, Dante's hands glowed brightly, and the tiger was thrown backward towards the trees.

Focusing Essence at a specific place really enhances the power significantly...

The tiger's body collided with a tree, and its body shook a little. The leaves of the tree shook heavily, and a small crack appeared on the bark of the root.

Dante raised his hands and immediately sent a barrage of threads of his Vitralis Essence, trying to bind the tiger for a moment. The tiger quickly jumped from its position, and Dante's threads dissipated.

The tiger's claw was now torn slightly, and blood flowed continuously from it.

Suddenly, the tiger's third eye, above the existing two eyes, glowed with an eerie red aura and ruptured instantly.

Pew

Blood flowed continuously from its eye, and the contents of its eyeball scattered around.

Suddenly, the tiger's body grew in size, and its muscles bulged a lot. This caused the branch it was on to collapse. The tiger jumped towards the ground, its body completely covered in red aura, but this time, the aura looked very explosive.

The eyes of the tiger were no longer sentient like before but had a frenzied feeling.

Is this a power-up? Don't mind me interrupting...

Swish

Dante immediately enhanced his whole body and jumped at the tiger with his full speed. His hands let out a small swirl of energy, forming a little ball full of spikes that he threw towards the tiger.

Clang

The tiger's eyes flickered, and it moved very fast towards Dante. Dante quickly tried to fall back, but the tiger leaped at him and threw its claw, which had been healed completely, at him.

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Shit! This speed is significantly faster than before, and its claw has healed completely!

Bam

At the last moment, Dante managed to focus the Essence towards the point of contact—his hands—weakening the impact. Still, he was thrown backward violently and stopped only after colliding with a tree. The tree shook heavily as the bark was on the verge of breaking completely.

Swish

The tiger again jumped towards Dante, who was lying on the ground near the tree. He took a small stone near him and threw it with all his power towards the tiger.

But the tiger swiftly dodged the attack and opened its mouth, trying to butcher him. But suddenly—

Thud

A thread of silver color, binding the tiger, came from the side of the tiger and threw him to the ground!

Dante had previously acted as weak to lower the guard of the Frenzy Tiger and successfully managed to conjure the threads with his hand. He threw the stone with his right hand to divert the tiger's attention.

And so, he immediately conjured the threads from his left hand and used them to bind the tiger.

Suddenly, the threads that bound the tiger glowed as several spikes grew from them and buried themselves in its body.

“ROAARRRRRR” The tiger roared in pain and immediately broke free from the threads.

Don't think I would give you any time to compose yourself.

Dante immediately arrived in front of the tiger and concentrated the Essence on his hands, throwing a punch at the tiger's head.

Baaam

The punch landed, and suddenly, a small explosion occurred at the point of impact.

Dante quickly fell back after the attack and watched eagerly. After a few seconds, the dust dissipated, revealing the tiger's severely bleeding and torn-apart head. Despite the attack, the tiger didn't die and was alive—albeit barely.

“ROAAAAAAR” The tiger roared loudly with a hoarse voice, using all its remaining strength.

The tiger, despite in a frenzied state, was prideful and didn't want to fall back. It slowly got up from its position and gazed directly at Dante.

What a majestic and prideful creature... So bad it is going to die now...

Although Dante felt a little pity for the tiger, he didn't feel the need to spare it. This tiger attacked him with the intent to kill, so Dante would attack it with the intention of killing it.

Hmm... I am different from before. I am now talking about killing a creature so easily without feeling any major feeling of remorse... I was not like this before... Is it due to me becoming a Neophyte?

Dante thought for a second before raising his hands and letting out a swirl of energy.

The tiger quickly ran towards Dante in a zig-zag manner as if it had learned its lesson from before. Its movement on the ground produced a rough sound.

Hmm, he still has a bit of intelligence. Interesting...

Dante immediately jumped backward onto the branch of a tall tree, and the tiger followed him. Dante threw a small silver knife from his Vitralis Essence at the tiger, which the tiger narrowly dodged. At this moment, the knife instantly changed its trajectory and stabbed the tiger's already greatly injured face.

This was due to Dante conjuring the knife with his right hand and controlling it with very small threads from his left hand.

“ RAAAAAAHHHH ” The tiger again roared in pain as the attack from the knife caused it to collide with the branch that Dante was on.

Thud

The tiger was thrown onto the ground after the impact, and the light in its eyes began to dim down.

The last thing that the tiger saw was the image of Dante coming straight at it with his hand covered in a silver aura.

Baaam

The attack of Dante completely obliterated the head of the already exhausted tiger, killing it. The contents of the tiger's head splattered everywhere, making the area bloody.

Dante then focused the Essence on his eye to look around and found nothing.

My left hand is completely numbed due to the impact of the tiger's claw attack... I have scratches also that are all over my hands and legs.... Atleast I didn't suffer any major injury.

Other creatures might have fled from the area due to the fight. I just hope that I don't encounter any creature of the same level as this tiger again. That would be bad for me.

Also, my first battle and my first victory as a Neophyte... It was quite exhilarating but at the same time, scary... But I don't hate it.

The lips of Dante curled up to form a small smile.