Chapter 371 - Fled, and at the same time didn't.

When finally settling down for a rest after two days, it is fair to say that they ran in to a little problem. Well at least Grand Master Kazer did. This might already confuse you, how and why would a Grand Master get in trouble and why him alone?

Well, a moment before he was about to sleep, making sure that everyone is settled in for the night, even the Guards since they have practically worked the hardest. They found it the best idea to sleep in mid day since dangerous predators are less common at that time.

However getting to the point, the problem he walked in to is big and harry. A bear arrived near the group and was rather close to the children, although its main motive is reaching the food in the Wagon. Since the child's mother had a bag of food near her, the bear made out with it.

Kazer does feel tired, but not tired enough to protect his people. Furthermore the physical exercises each Grand Master takes in order to achieve their title, is far harder than walking for two days straight.

He sprung in to action, didn't even bother waking anyone up since this bear doesn't look so huge. Getting close to it, he kicked the bear to the face from the right side which moved it far away from the sleeping mother and her kid.

The Bear didn't in any circ.u.mstances get knocked out, in fact it stood up on his hind legs in aims of showing who is in charge here. Apparently it is a he, it is noticeable by the tremendous size.

"Why did this Bear look smaller from over there?" He thought as he noticed the Cave Bear's tremendous size. He specified the Bear's Species too, good work for a guy who misjudged its size.

Standing about 14 freaking feet tall, the Cave Bear took a swing against Kazer accompanied by a tremendous growl.

Grabbing the Bear's arm with both of his hands, he made a quick burst towards the opposite direction of which the Bear took a swing at, aiming to do a rather bold move.

Kazer has enough power to tip the bear over, and so he did! The sudden force put in that opposite direction forced the bear to be tipped off balance. The Bear's front legs are tremendously strong and so are his hind legs, but once standing up being tipped off balance is easier!

"Nice try fur head, I've recieved many spanks on my behind until I learned to challenge this move." He murmured with himself as he saw the Bear tip down and fall on its back.

Considering that Kazer can blast literal Lava from his hands, why is he bothering to fight fist to fist with a large Source damned Cave Bear? It isn't hard to figure out why, there are people here. People who can get easily burned by a sudden outburst of Lava.

Although tipped over, the Bear did stand up again to fight and is more pissed than ever against his opponent. Because not only did the Bear get kicked on the face, but now was even tipped over. Bears hate that if you might not have known until now for some reason.

The Bear stood on his four feet, and afterwards raising his front feet mid way he struck Kazer on the Chest, the impact indeed knocked Kazer off his met and pushed him 4 feet back!

The Bear barely dug his claws on his chest, as the intend was to just push him away and possibly mess up his internal organs. Rather interesting battle method for an animal, but it is actually a hunting method, used to take down bigger game.

"Oh you want to dance?" He murmured, rather pissed about the pain on his chest. Lava burst out of his palms, stretched to the ground and he dried the quantity out quickly once stopping the burst of Lava.

He raised the 4 foot long (Each) Volcanic rocks, trying to act like they are his dual swords of which he forgot to pick up before getting in this battle.

"Let's dance!" He continued, putting his right foot forward to get closer he proceeded to hit the bear on the head with both Volcanic pole like rocks.

The first one broke in half and the second one shattered close to it. With a force dropping them against the ground, he dug his fingers on the Cave Bear's fur on the chest area since the Bear was quick to stand up again.

Kazer felt the Bear's large and sharp claws dug behind his shoulders, but it was a minor sacrifice.

Lifting this bear a foot off the ground, lifting this bear who might be breaking over a ton a foot off the ground and afterwards taking a spin to the right, tossing this heavy weight fighter 10 feet away, taking Victim several trees along the way from small to medium!

Who knew that a 10 foot tall Grand Master had this much fight in him? Well we all knew but who would imagine this situation? Fighting a large Cave Bear! It is even more terrifying when you consider statistics, these Bears aren't nearly as rare compared to tremendously powerful Source Bears.

Considering the Wild Boars of which Bears can hunt, Wild Boars of which this Continent contains perhaps 5 times more than people, it isn't technically hard for Bears to reproduce. Their biggest threats are their own species. Although unknown in numbers, there has to be at least 20,000 Cave Bears in Ignis!

However getting back to the fight, the Cave Bear stood on its four feet again. Angry, growling and with many scratches on him, blood coming out of his back due to the impact with the trees.

The Bear stood on his hind legs, fell back on his four and turned his brown fured back on Kazer, giving up on this battle although not fleeing in pain. He wasn't running, but he noticed who has the rightful claim of territory here.

As a territorial animal, he noticed that Kazer is trying to protect his own. As a solitary animal, he did not like it but as a territorial one it made sense to him. Well although Bears like each animal, want food. They know other senses, like territory and protection.

Male Cave Bears themselves don't really protect anything and on the contrary attack young ones of its own species, they still understand the definition of protection although it might be a blur towards Humans.

The Cave Bear disappeared in the woods, Kazer could still hear its heavy footsteps breaking branches, footsteps of which became harder to listen too by the passing second.

The Bear walked out of this battle without a broken bone, it is a good definition of what they are capable off. And Kazer even won this battle and remained alive, also a win.

Where does this lead us down too? Brutal strength accompanied by high intelligence works the best in a hand to hand, or hand to paw fight!

Kazer found it interesting how this Bear is up this early, it should be a night predator and furthermore should be in Hibernation! While here it is November, and 3pm.

This is obviously a survival situation for the Cave Bear and he felt a bit sad about taking the food away from him. But the provisions they have here might not be enough for a Bear who possibly needs around 15 Kilograms of food a day to survive.

I guess that is the sacrifice for being this big and powerful aye? Survival becomes Harder, a bit ironic really. But this is a ton heavy Cave Bear we are talking about, and there are a hell load of Wild Boars here.

A full grown Wild Boar here can feed this beautiful animal for almost a week, and 20-30 Wildboars will hopefully give the Bear enough fat to sleep for another month before having to go through another hunting session.

For whatever reason this large bear failed to hunt enough throughout the warm seasons, killing 20-30 more Wild Boars could actually take him through the winter if he did mildly good enough throughout the warm seasons.

Eric woke up right after the battle, I suppose all the noise have eventually ruptured his sleep. He asked, "What happened?"

At the same time, he is sleepy enough to not notice the light blood on Kazer's chest caused from the first impact. As for the other people, they didn't really bother to wake up. No animal would be dumb enough to attack large humans and would mostly snoop for food, and these people know it quite well.

Furthermore they are knocked out cold, tired from all the tiring and work a quarter of these people did for the pure purpose of delivery.

"A wild animal just ran in on us, but don't worry he fled the scene." Kazer explained lightly, not mentioning the name of the animal so panic doesn't break.

"I've slept last night, kinda... If you'd like I can take a shift." Eric offered, sleepy but not enough to let his people get in danger.

"You have been sleeping for a couple of hours now, perhaps you should take a shift." Kazer requested, for himself finding a spot to sleep after.