Beast Evolution

"We're going straight, Archers in the middle and the rest of us will form a circle around them," Leia said and all the students in her group did as they were told.

It was clear she know what she was doing, Archers are weak in close combat but good in long range combat.

The group advanced forward and still haven't found any trace of boars, Ray was at the back of the group, he knew that boars would be in the area, it was just a matter of time.

"I'm not sure they are beasts in this area, we should move left or right" one of the Archers shouted.

The archers were five in numbers including Sofia.

"Let's keep going, if there are none then we can head the other way," Leia said and the group kept moving forward.

'This is strange, why haven't we seen a single boar all this while, I know I killed a lot but they have a dungeon full of boars so why haven't we seen any' Ray wondered.

*Ding*

The system notification ringed in Ray's head.

[Dark Energy detected]

"Shit, shit this is bad, excuse me" Ray shouted and tries to struggle past the group.

"Hey where are you going"

"What's wrong with you" the students complained as Ray pushed his way through them, but Ray didn't mind and kept pushing through till he got to Leia.

"What's wrong?" Leia asked as she heard the students complaining.

"We need to head back and call Authur and tell him to get all the students back to the camp, something is not right"

"Did you sense that energy again?"

"Yes, and it's very bad so we should go, the students can't face an infected beast so we need to go back," Ray said with a serious expression.

"Ray are you sure?"

"Do you think I'm joking, why would I joke about stuff like this?" Ray asked her.

"I don't know, first you said we shouldn't go straight that it's just boars but we went straight and we still haven't found a single boar"

"Now you say we're in danger, Ray if you are joking please stop now is not the time," Leia said.

"Why are we stopping, shouldn't we be moving," a girl said and all the students supported her.

"Ray we need to keep moving so stop your jokes," Leia said.

"You really think I would joke about this kind of thing, I'm really disappointed in you," Ray said angrily, Ivan found his way to the front and so did Lily, Jack, and Arya.

"Let's keep moving," Leia said and the students kept moving forward.

"Hey Ray what's wrong?" Ivan asked.

"Did you sense something?" Lily asked.

"Yes, the same Dark Energy from the wolves is present in this forest, though I don't know where but I can sense it" Ray replied to them.

"Then shouldn't you tell Leia to stop?" Lily said.

"I told her, she didn't believe me," Ray said.

"Hey guys, I don't understand Dark Energy, what Dark Energy," Ivan said.

"Ray, didn't you tell them?" Jack asked.

"Tell them what, should I go around tell people that I can sense a Dark Energy when I don't even know how I sensed it or where it's coming from" Ray shouted.

"Relax bro, I just asked, no need to get angry," Ivan said.

"Beasts, prepare yourselves" Leia shouted.

All the students readied their swords, bow, spears, and axes, but they didn't do anything and the two boar that was in front of them fell to the ground.

Ray and the other ran to the front as they heard Leia's voice, but the boars were already on the ground.

"Did you kill them?" Ray asked her.

"No, they walked towards us and just fell on the ground," Leia said.

The two boars on the ground began to move a little then their body began to shake furiously and it stopped, the boars stood up like they were puppets being controlled, their eyes were pure black, and spit drool down their mouths.

"Infected, everyone get back, this is not a joke, Archers get ready to fire" Ray shouted.

"What is infected?"

"Did that boar just die and come back to life, isn't that bad" the students mumbled.

The boars slowly walked forward but their eyes were not on Ray instead it was on the students.

"I don't think we can face that, we should run back to camp, Leia contact Authur quickly," Ivan said and slowly moved back.

"The crystal isn't working" Leia shouted.

"Then we should run" a student shouted and panic kicked in.

All the students turned back and ran for their dear life, everyone was scared and didn't listen to the voice of Leia telling them to stop running.

The boars also used this opportunity to attack the students, Ivan didn't run but instead, he stood at Ray's back.

Ivan wanted to run initially but as he saw Jack, Lily, and Arya standing there fearless he also stood there.

As the boars attacked, Ray also rushed towards them and swung his sword with all his strength, Jack, Arya, and Lily didn't stand they also attacked the second boar.

*Bam*

Ray's sword snapped and broke in half because of the force he used, the boar that Ray attacked didn't even flinch as Ray attacked, instead he ignored Ray and went after Ivan.

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In the boars' dungeon, not quite far from where the students were.

"Master I think this is a waste of boars, I know they are much but we shouldn't send them to destroy the knights' camp, they are going to be killed by the senior knights" a voice echoed in the dungeon.

A man with silver hair spoke as he sat down on a stone in the dungeon.

"Did you think I sent them just to destroy the camp?" Another voice spoke.

"But there is not to do apart from that, or do you want to send them to the knights academy?" the silver haired man asked.

"Master we have a problem, there are knights in the forest, and they are much it's like they knew we would be here" another silver hair man emerged from the shadows.

"He's doing that thing," one of them said to the other one.

The master held his face and closed his eyes, immediately he opened them, his eyes were pure black like one of the infected.

"There are just students, and they can't even defeat the boars so there is nothing to worry about," the master spoke and his eyes turned back to normal.

...

Ivan jumped as the boar got close to him, he wasn't afraid like he was before, he was now a knight.

The boar wanted to crush Ivan with its head but missed, the boar quickly turn back but was met with a sharp spear that stabbed its head.

The boar was still able to move with the spear in its head, it was clear that the main boar was dead this was just like a zombie.

Jack, Lily, and Arya struggled to defeat the boar because their swords couldn't penetrate the boar's skin, they could only give it small cut which would heal immediately.

"Ray this beast is healing itself what can we do" Jack shouted as he avoid the head of the boar making Arya and Lily deliver a powerful strike to the boar.

"Try to finish it off in one strike" Ray shouted as he used his second blood spear to stab the boar's neck causing it to fall down.

Loud noises were heard and all the students who ran away ran back to where Ray and the others were.

Boars chased all the students back to where Ray was, the students were now surrounded by boars from all sides.

The boar stood there looking at the students and didn't attack them, it was like the boars were keeping them contained.

"Ray I'm sorry I doubted you," Leia said as she got close to Ray.

All the students were shivering in fear as the boars could attack them any second from now.

"Ray, what do we do?" Jack asked

"I don't know, we can try to hold them off and pray that Authur and the other knights come to our rescue" Ray said.

"Don't you have any spells that can keep them away" Jack whispered.

"I don't, I'm still new to magic, I don't even know if I can still cast a spell" Ray whispered back.

"We haven't done anything and we are going to die"

"Leia please check the crystal again and call Authur, I don't want to die".

Ray looked at the boars, they were just standing still.

"I don't think the boars will attack us" Ray shouted.

"How do you know that?" a student shouted back.

'Wait, I just remember something, for some reason infected beast seems to ignore me and attack others, maybe because I'm not human'

Ray wanted to test his theory, he needed to test it, Ray walked slowly towards one of the boars.

A loud thud made the ground to vibrate and Ray looked at a large boar unlike any he had seen.

"T..This isn't the fanged boar I faced in the forest, this is an infected evolved fanged boar"

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