Humanity Return

Ch. 4 – Physical Strength?

The trees with a height exceeding 30 meters filled the view in all directions, making this forest look very majestic. Some small animals can be seen moving and taking care of their own affairs until suddenly...

Swooshes!

A shadow moved swiftly between the tall trees, shocking them all.

“aaaa...” the sound of weak screams can be heard coming and going with him.

Then the shadow stopped after running for 10 minutes at its full speed and began to look around.

“This looks pretty good”

The identity of the shadow was none other than Leinn who was carrying the Aura in her hand, with a wide smile on her face.

He stopped under a large tree that looked at least 50 meters tall, whose roots had formed a large enough hole that could be used as a place to rest.

“L-leinn!” a weak scream suddenly sounded.

The sound woke Leinn who was inspecting the large tree in front of him.

“Oh, sorry” he lowered the girl in his hand it back to the ground.

Aura immediately fell down and started trying to stabilize her breathing.

“Huff.... huff..” the girl looks very exhausted.

Looking at the state of the girl in front of him, Leinn only showed a puzzled expression.

“Why are you out of breath?” he said while raising one eyebrow.

Seeing that Aura was still unable to move, Leinn began to check the circumstances around her to make sure that the place was safe or not. He also saw some small animals seen fleeing from the direction of the deeper forest.

He saw the creatures pass by where they stood and made up his mind.

“I'll be there” Leinn pointed towards the arrival of the small animals he saw.

“Phew... huh?” Aura looked at the young man in front of her.

Having just managed to return her breath, she had already seen Leinn's back start walking again.

“T-wait for me!”

Aura started running after Leinn and started walking beside her.

He also occasionally turned his head towards the large tree behind him and thought for a moment, why did Leinn suddenly walk away from the tree after saying it was already good enough?

The two of them continued walking and Leinn did not look like he would start to divide the reason.

“K-where do we walk?” finally Aura asked what she had been thinking since.

“Entah”

Aura looked at half the face of the young man beside her then realized that she was indeed seriously unaware of their purpose.

“Eeeh..

Seeing Leinn saying nothing afterwards, Aura chose to ask him some other things that made her curious.

“J-so, What kind of beast are you going to do Contract?”

“Contract yes..?”

Leinn raised his face and started to think for a while, then turned his head to the side.

“Actually what is it?”

“...eh? Y-you don't know what a Contract is, then w-why do you want to be a Beast Trainer..?”

Leinn stared at Aura's face without stopping her steps.

“I came here only to fulfill my Promise. Other than using Beast as their partner, I don't know anything about this”

Aura put on an expression like she could not believe what she had just heard.

“T-but the first test will be to contract with the Beast in this forest before time runs out..?”.

“Yes? I just need to catch a Beast and bring it to the supervisor earlier, right?”

“Of course not! How did you get here without knowing the test you were on?! This was already clearly a test line for prospective disciples who did not yet possess their own Contracted Beast!”

They both stopped walking.

Leinn started to nod his head after hearing the explanation and started to stare at Aura seriously.

“Ya in short, this Contract does make the Beast your partner, they will grow strong and fight with you. If you get stronger then your Contracted Beast will also grow stronger, and if your Contracted Beast gets stronger then you will also grow stronger, too, this was the greatest advantage a Beast Trainer” Aura began to draw out his knowledge of Contract from his memories.

“OK..” Leinn began to ponder the new information.

“There are two most famous ways of manufacturing Contracts. The first way is to make the Beast who will be the target of the Contract like you, and receive the Contract with his own desire”

“Hm..” Leinn nodded his head while making a small sound.

“The second way is to defeat the Beast one-on-one. Some Beast Rank C and Rank B and above had high levels of intelligence. If you can get them to acknowledge your strength, they will try to follow you and you can contract with them just like that”

Hearing this made Leinn become very interested and start walking again.

The aura also regained its senses and returned to walking as well.

Moments later, they both saw a shadow sitting next to a tree and looked like they were chewing on something. Even from a distance they could see the size was quite large.

This creature is aware of the newcomer and looks unhappy someone interrupts its meal time.

“...!” Aura held back her startled cry when she saw the scene in front of her.

The body of a red deer lay lifeless in front of a large blue bear.

The body of this deer is almost eaten up, leaving its head and bones scattered around it.

The beast stood up and its entire body became clearly visible.

With a height of three meters, dark blue feathers and large claws on all four legs, making this Beast look quite dangerous.

“Grrr...” a low growl comes out of the mouth of the beast.

“R Rank C Beast, Blue Grizzly The voice of Aura spoke out started to tremble.

The Blue Grizzly stood back on four legs and began to lower his head, his savage gaze never escaping the two of them.

Their distance and this bear was only slightly less than 50 meters, and the Beast did not lower his guard at all.

Leinn just stood staring at the Blue Grizzly with a small smile.

“GRAAAWR!”

Together with his loud roar, the Blue Grizzly started running towards the two of them.

Aura started to panic, but turned into shock when she saw the young man in front of her start to walk forward casually.

Leinn seemed to have no intention of pulling out his weapon and just stepped up while staring at the bear who had almost reached his position quietly.

The bear finally reached in front of the young man and jumped up while swinging its huge claws towards the head in front of him.

“Graw-!”

The bham!

The roar was cut short by quite a loud impact sound.

“Huh..?”

The Blue Grizzly had already vanished from where it had stood before and appeared on top of one of the branches of a large tree.

Aura could only stare at the three-meter body stuck on top of the tree in a daze.

Aura saw the bear's claw almost reach Leinn's head, then she retaliated with a?

Aura already knew the status of the young man and she should not be able to thicken a Beast weighing hundreds of kilograms all the way to the top of such a tree.

“Gr...” a weak voice suddenly sounded from the top of that tree.

Aura looked at the unconscious Beast and became even more stunned. That much power without killing his target...

“B-how can..ah!”.

“Come go”

Leinn's call cut through Aura's mind, forcing the girl to walk after her already back walking towards the direction they had come before.

“E-eh... Wait!”

The aura began to run after giving one last glance at the tree branch that was able to hold the bear's body.