This morning was a cold one it had been a few days since David was at the farm. It looks like my plan to make everyone loves saunas is going quite well and I will eventually make the majority not just love it but need it.

I often think about if I should have told him that my mind is not from this planet, but I don’t think it would change his mind about helping us achieve a safe place for us to live.

Watching the sun rise over the frozen lake is quite beautiful. The fresh cold air here is so wonderful and helps me relax. I found this to be a perfect place to train my energy. What I love even more is how impervious I have become to this kind of weather that most people would not be able to handle for more than an hour.

I have never been to the other side of the lake yet I’m always curious when I sit here and gaze over the lake. Beyond it energy levels keep getting higher and who knows what kind of monsters live even deeper into the forest. I want to go and explore it, but I know I’m not yet strong enough.

I might win a few battles, but I will eventually tire out if there are too many strong opponents. Thinking back on the undead battle I am amazed I was able to keep going that long, but mostly it was thanks to the low-level and mostly stupid undead.

While we all would like to continue with our plans to make our nation, the winter just doesn't let us continue. So currently David is just back at the village keeping his ear out for what’s happening there.

I should be training my combat ability or start practising my forging but currently, it's so wonderful just being alive out here. Even at my farm back on earth air wasn't so clean, and the cold is so welcoming. I always knew that I liked winter but who would have guessed that my body was keeping back my enjoyment of it?

At least I can tell myself that I’m doing energy training that way I’m not feeling like I’m wasting time. I guess it’s sort of like in the summer for many other people and myself as well but it's just too nice of a day to do something and you just want to enjoy it. For me the current weather is like that but even more so because the cold makes my body also feel alive like it’s in survivor mode but somehow it's enjoyable not like in a battle where the body is pumping full of happy-go chemicals.

The control over my body that I have achieved is quite amazing and why I know that I absolutely love the current weather. What I’m currently doing is that I am holding back my body from releasing endorphins to make me even happier.

Without them everything is sharper you can think clearly about what’s really important. This helps power train my body skill and mind skills better than any other training except for messing with my energy core, which is still the best way to train those skills.

After a few more hours my relaxation I was interrupted when I noticed a huge beast on the other side of the lake. The other side of the lake was not on my land, so the skill did not help me notice the beast because of that we both saw each other at the same time.

However, this monster was not unfamiliar to me. I have sensed it before on my land sniffing around, but it never got deep in. I am guessing that it knew that this was someone’s land, and it didn’t want to encroach.

Looking at it through my eyes I finally understood it wasn’t just a big feline it was a Saber tooth cat that was about 3 meters tall. Its fur was beautiful. It was white with brownish streaks almost like a tiger stripe but not so regular. The canines were as long as swords and truly terrifying.

I wonder if the territory beyond the lake belongs to it and wondered if it would want to take mine. We had never met before so perhaps he didn’t think that I might be human and was another monster like itself so it respected my land boundaries but the question is what would it do now?

If it decided to attack it would be the most difficult battle I have had as this creature was solidly in gold. The density and the amount of energy it has surpassed mine which was something that I was not used to. Although the amount of energy was not too much above me the density and the strength certainly were. Only my core energy was a bit stronger, but I had so little compared to its vast amounts. Still, I would not back down and protect my territory if needed.

We kept eyeing each other for quite a while. I think it understood that it was more powerful than me, but I think it knows that I won’t be an easy prey. Usually when a predator attacks it would not want an injury as a full belly means nothing if afterwards, you would die because of the wound. But in this world the stronger you got the less normal nature rules applied to you. So, in mounting horror and excitement, I see the monster’s muscles ripple under its fur as it started to move towards the lake.

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I had no other option. But to mimic its movement. There was still hope that there wouldn't be a fight but as we got to the ice that was underneath a meter of snow, we quickly understood that there was no longer any backing down, it will be a fight.

I bet the sabretooth felt confident enough that it could beat me but I’m going to make it regret ever challenging me. But I still know I needed to pull everything I had out of myself so I could survive this fight.

We didn't rush at each other immediately but slowly got closer to each other as we learn as much as possible about our opponent. The more I learned the less I liked the outcome of this fight. This wasn’t a lucky monster that got this power level by accident. It was an old and seasoned hunter probably surviving countless battles.

Yet I was the same. While it had the strength, I had to tools of mankind to help me. In the end, I am guessing the outcome will be decided by either luck or who has more experience. I had to hope for luck to be on my side.

There was still half a lake between us but the tension in the air started to rapidly increase. I took out my rabbit foot necklace kissed it for luck and when I tucked it back inside the armour a silent signal went out and we both started to rush at each other.

The bow I left at the shore because it would be too weak to do anything and the other weapons I have was my two-handed sword and my knife and dagger combination that I always wore. Luckily, I still wore my full armour which gave me at least a bit of confidence in surviving this fight.

I was the most afraid about my sword. I will need to be pushing it to the limit so I just had to hope that it will be able to survive long enough so I could finish this fight. The monster was so fast and even if I turned around to try to escape I wouldn’t be able to because I was quite certain it had some sort of a movement skill that helped it cover so much distance.

Thankfully I did have a ranged option so I took another stride forward but this time I started to fully circulate my energy. I could feel my entire body activating and growing stronger waiting for my every command.

I didn’t let it wait and quickly made a horizontal slash towards the monster barreling towards me. I could feel my heart racing and blood being pumped and I let my body do its thing as it started to flood me with adrenaline and everything else that was required.

My first attack proved successful as it interrupted its mad dash which I would guess was faster than 100 mph. This made it jump to the side and roll a couple of times before it was able to drag itself to a stop leaving behind claw marks on the ice.

I didn’t let it get its bearings but sent another slash towards it while moving closer. This one only grazed it as it was still able to dodge most of it. Only a few tufts of fur floated to the ice as another slash flew towards it.

It was too fast and dodged another one. I was too far away to get into melee, so I had to send another slash, but it seems the creature wasn’t bound to melee similar to me. An attack like my own came towards me as it slashes the air with its claws. As we both released our attacks, we were also too slow to dodge them properly.

I was able to cut off the tip of its right ear and it was able to get a small scratch on my shoulder. Its attack was able to get by my fully energized chainmail armour, but my armour was still able to protect me enough to just leave a small bleeding scratch on me. Still, I need to be extremely careful as I had a feeling that those claws were even more dangerous up close.

We were now staring at each other preparing for another attack. Now I know that this creature has energy-based air magic, but the question is how much more can it do. Again, like the last time a silent bell rang out and the next round started as we both rushed at each other.

This time we were close enough for melee. Its speed was ridiculous, but I was able to keep up if barely. My sword was able to stop the attack of its claws and that made me smile as I know it won’t be a slaughter but a battle. My sword quickly slashed out, but it was either dodged or stopped by the claws.

My strikes happened quickly, the 5th it dodged. The 6th it bushed to the side with its claws. It took until my 17th attack when I finally got an opportunity and was able to get a wound close to its eye. Unfortunately, I was not practised at fighting on the ice and the strike caused me to move too close.

Its experience allowed it to make this small mistake I made into a bigger one as it took a deeper wound than it could have in exchange for getting a devastating attack on me. I had to use some of my core energy to boost my armour around the claw strike spot and make myself as light as possible so the strike could send me flying away.

I flew quite a lot and tumble in the snow and ice before I finally was able to get onto my feet again. Even then I slid back a few meters. My armour held and although I will have a huge bruise there it won’t affect my fighting capabilities. The beast however was now bleeding quite a lot from the wound close to its right eye.

As it stared me down, I could feel the hatred it now had. It had hoped to finish the fight with that move, but it now roared so loud that I thought the bass will shatter my ear drums. There was another peaceful moment before we both started to rush at each other again.