Chapter 69 - Lurion's First Appearance

The Ravon that Kira had summoned had been following Aaron all this time. It was true that Aaron was quite a fast runner, but by no means was he faster than the summoned Ravon's flight.

Of course, Ravon prevented itself from being detected by Aaron. Also, the Ravon was quite careful in following because it couldn't possibly forget about informing Kira!

Well, the Ravon maintained an equal distance between Kir and Aaron. It didn't miss Aaron because it had exceptional eyesight which was called 'Eyesight of the Dark Ravon'. 

'Just how far has Aaron gone to?'

Kira was worried even now, in fact, his worries didn't cease. But there was something else that he was worried about at the same time.

'I hope nothing wrong would happen while I'm not around...'

'I guess Siara would take care of them...'

That was what Kira was thinking. He trusted Siara to take care of anything so he had nothing to worry about. But little did he know about the little but terrifying trap that was laid in front of all of them!

It took around an hour for Aaron to reach where he had planned to go from the start however for Kira, it took ten more minutes.

Indeed, Kira was slow when compared to Aaron if it were in terms of a long run, but he was pretty much one of the fastest runners in the forest. 

Also, he had long and strong legs with almost never-ending stamina thanks to which he was able to run continuously.

'Alright, I'm almost there...'

"..."

"Huh?"

Kira was running with all his might when suddenly he lost contact with the Ravon. Of course, he was detecting Ravon's presence and was using it to follow Aaron, but just when he thought that he had arrived at the right place, he could no longer contact the Ravon.

"What just happened?"

He was confused indeed. The power of darkness wasn't to be underestimated, since Ravon was a dark summon, it could essentially be indefinitely strong as long as it lived in a dark area.

Since it had been flying and hiding in the shadows of the trees which were rather dark, it was able to gain and conserve a large amount of strength so it was wild to think that the Ravon had died.

Kira could still feel the little connection between the Ravon and himself but he had no idea where it exactly was so he was completely sure that it was alive but something had definitely happened to it!

He was about to summon another dark creature to find the Ravon when suddenly he could feel an intent amount of blood l.u.s.t.

"Wha-"

"Who?"

"Who is it?"

"Show yourself!", Kira raised his voice.

Suddenly he felt the blood l.u.s.t getting closer. He could sense that the bloodl.u.s.t from his back.

He almost immediately turned back and opened his mouth as if he was going to attack when he found that the one behind him was Aaron.

He almost immediately refrained from launching the attack because it was Aaron after all. He would never want to kill his own brother, not blood related, but still, Aaron was a brother by the Oath so he decided to stop the preparation of the attack.

But to his surprise, Aaron just tackled Kira without hesitation.

Kira was pushed back however the attack didn't have much of an effect on him. Kira was quite large in size, larger than Aaron so the attack didn't have any more effect other than pushing him back.

At first, Kira was startled after getting hit by Aaron but then he thought that Aaron might have ended up attacking him by mistake.

'The momentum of his jump might have led him to dash me...', that was all that Kira thought off.

He could never imagine that Aaron had attacked him purposefully while being completely in control of the attack.

"Aaron, are you alright?", Kira asked.

It was supposed to be Aaron to ask the question but oh well, why would an enemy ask such a thing?

Aaron rushed towards Kira once again with his fangs poised towards him. In the blink of an eye, a part of the fang grazes Kira.

Indeed, Kira dodged it but not completely.

"Aaron?", he was confused. 

For a moment he thought that Aaron was joking however he realized that Aaron was actually aiming for his life the moment he felt the same bloodl.u.s.t as earlier being emitted from Aaron!

"Fool, do you really think that I wouldn't attack you?", right after saying that Aaron rushed towards Kira again.

But Kira was no pushover, he was strong and his strength had come through hard work and no shortcuts. Thus he trusted his strength more than anything and moved his right forelimb with all his might.

'Bam'

Aaron's head was slammed into the ground. There was a huge crack right where he was slammed.

"You forced me to do this Aaron...", Kira was still thinking if something was wrong with Aaron.

For a moment he thought that Aaron was being controlled but that too didn't seem to be the case. He concluded in such a manner because he had a great sense for detecting spells but there seemed to be nothing of that sort that could control Aaron.

"Well well, you are indeed as strong as all the beasts of the forest tell...", while saying this another wolf appeared in front of him.

It was a bit far away, around ten to twenty meters, but its presence and aura could be felt all the way.

But the only thing that was visible was the shadow of the wolf that had appeared. It would be appropriate to say that the wolf had blended itself with the shadow of a tree because of which it wasn't clearly visible.

However, as soon as it walked forward, Kira was finally able to look at it. He almost immediately figured out who the wolf was.

Well, he did call its name while trembling, "Lurion?"

"..."

To be continued...