The surrounding hundreds of metres turned bright however there were still a few shadows. He stood amidst the flames waiting for it to make a move.
He was not disappointed, it jumped from the shadows aiming for his back. He turned swung his sword with a slash. Instead of dodging it opened it mouth and bit the blade.
The sword shattered into pieces and it jumped into the shadows again. He pulled a second blade from behind, he was glad he had brought extra.
Another thing he noticed was that he could clearly follow it movements now. Because of how fast his brain was working, it movements appear a bit slower than before.
With the fire lighting up the place and his perception high enough to track it movements, it was impossible for it to sneak up on him like before.
However it was still able to hide in the shadows making fighting it incredibly vexing. He closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing.
He had no intentions of dragging this fight on, he just wanted to kill this thing and end things but it was fast and sneaky, the perfect assassin, killing it will not be easy and he knew that.
He couldn't chase it into the shadows so he will have to draw it out, he knew closing his eyes in this situation was foolish and he was hoping it knew that as well.
It appears it did since it jumped from his left side, it teeth aiming for his throat. He opened his eyes and swung his left sword at it from the side while swinging the right one from below.
It waved it claw and deflected the left sword but he covered his right hand with a ghust of wind increasing it speed. It claws missed the blade and for the first time in this fight he drew it blood.
It roared and tried to jump into the shadows but he threw his blades in the air and grabbed it tail intending to pull it but the next thing he knew he was in a completely dark place without ground or air, it was like a sea of endless shadows.
This lasted for only a second and he was suddenly over 30 metres away from his initial position. The feeling was disorienting and before he could adjust himself huge fangs were upon him.
He raised his right hand to block and felt his bones shatter as the sharp fangs of the beast clasped them. He wanted to scream from the pain but he did not.
Nor did he let go of it tail, it jumped into the shadows with him again and they were now far away from the fire, he looked back and the flames were burning high a few kilometres away from them.
He knew if he let it go right now he would be dead. In this dark part of the forest, it could easily evade his senses,he would have no way to see or fight it, his demise would be guaranteed.
It kept running around trying to shake him off, it hit him on trees and rocks and he broke through them with his body, even with the durability provided by the boars ability it was still painful.
However painful it was he still did not let go, he could not afford to. Tired of being dragged around he planted his feet on the ground. He was still dragged a few metres forward drawing two tiny trenches on the ground.
Eventually they stopped, he moved his blood essence to his left arm and his hand was covered in dark dried bark. System, heal my right hand, he said with a grimace.
An itchy feeling overcame his right hand, he could feel his bone mending itself and his skin stitching itself. While his right hand was healing he swung the cat with his left.
The thing probably weight over 200 kg, which was very light to him but it could move and struggle making it much harder to deal with.
He banged it on a tree and broke it. It was time to pay it back, he ran with it across the forest hitting it on anything he could find. He hand expected it to jump into the shadows but it did not.
Maybe it had run out of blood essence, he couldn't sense how much blood essence something had left, he could only estimate it rank and stage through sensing it essence.
However it was different for this thing, he couldn't sense anything from it, it appeared no different from a rock to his senses but he could see a flicker of fatigue in it eyes. He knew he had to end this fight right now before it recovers.
He was also losing a lot of blood but he did not want to waste his blood points on healing those wounds, not yet atleast. He ran all the way back to the part of the forest on fire.
When he got there he noticed the flames were dying out and even the trees on fire did not look as bad as he expected, it was as if the forest was putting the fire out.
This made him want to end the fight even faster, he couldn't let it into the dark again. His right hand had healed and he pulled his last remaining blade from his back.
He tried to stab the cat but it jumped causing him to miss, before he could react a claw hit him in the chest, he had covered himself in bark just in time.
However the bark was not as strong as before, he too was running out of essence. The claw ripped his chest apart and even broke his rips.
Bones stabbed his lungs but by some miracle none touched his heart or he would've died immediately. He kicked the cat and felt it bones shatter.
It roared to the sky and tried to break free and run but he did not let go, he yanked it back and it used that momentum to jump to his him, catching him off guard and tried to bite his neck but he was able to react and dodge in time.
It bit his shoulder instead, this time he screamed loudly, it teeth were deep in his bones and the pain was unbearable, however it was also a chance. He stabbed it in the chest before it could react.
It eyes opened wide with surprise, a deep but low roar escaped it mouth, he felt it grip on his shoulder loosen and it dropped down. He looked it right in the eye as it lay there, it breathing heavy, it chest heaving aggressively.
They had hatred and anger in them but instinctively he could tell the hatred was not for him. He doesn't know where he got the idea but he outstretched his hand to it.
Submit to me and you'll live, it just looked at him and nothing happened. I see, so that won't work. Okay then, how about I help you with whoever you hate so much?
It eyes lit up and a system notification came. ( Notice, Shadow Walker wishes to form a soul pact with host) soulpact? ( Shadow Walker will be enslaved to host and host with gain it bloodline) he grinned, he didn't expect to gain it bloodline as well, he just wanted a pet, a strong pet but this was even better. Yes, he replied.