"Tiny two-headed amber Lion" Malia cried out in shock.

"Tiny?!" Both Jason and Greg shouted.

The red-furred Lion with flames enveloping its mane was at least three-meters high without considering its neck or heads…

While it bent down to spit out flames, Malia formed a thick wall of water to defend against the flames.

Jason had to think for a moment before he remembered the tiny two-headed lion. It was already a magical beast and it looked like Malia was about to use up her whole mana pool to defend against a single usage of flames as the water wall was slowly being evaporated.

Malia sweated heavily and it looked like she was on her limit as the flames suddenly stopped.

The two-headed lion stopped spitting out flames and looked through the hole if its prey was already dead, only to see a small golden-eyed youth taking out a pistol, shooting at it.

But the youth's speed was way too slow for the lion and it closed its eyelid to prevent any injuries to its eyes.

"F**k" Jason cursed and he lamented his speed but his move gave Greg enough time to pull out a mana grade-2 desert eagle (mana) equipped with armor-piercing bullets.

When the tiny two-headed amber lion opened its eye again it was greeted by a batch of bullets, instantly piercing its eye.

Unfortunately, the bullets missed the lion's brain but one head was severely injured which was very fortunate, considering their situation.

Right at the moment, the two-headed lion was about to spit out another batch of flames, Malia cried out with a few fragmentation grenades in her hand.

She was sweating heavily and not a single speck of mana was left inside her.

Considering the ways to injure the tiny two-headed amber lion, she could only think of the fragmentation grenades, she had, as they didn´t need mana to detonate.

Jason was frightened and almost peed his pants as he looked at the bunch of grenades flying through the hole between the lions' heads where they exploded, causing a loud stirr within the shopping street.

While the injured head was severed, the other head was now spiked with metal alloy fragments and the tiny two-headed amber lion cried out in pain.

There was only one problem!

Because of the explosion, the gate was almost completely demolished and the two holes made by the lion's flames were their smallest problem.

While the lion seemed to be on its deathbed another few beasts noticed that and a group of evolved ranked hyenas stormed towards the dying lion killing it, while receiving heavy casualties with 10 hyenas getting burned, as they began feasting on the tiny two-headed amber lion that was still hanging on it´s life.

Jason, Greg, and Malia knew that they had to remain calm now and not say anything because the more time passed, the better, when one of the middle-graders suddenly cried out in fright after he saw the hyenas killing, and tearing apart the lion carcass.

`S***h**d` the three youth´s thought at the same time and Greg who wasn´t the smartest even though, that he couldn't be compared to such a low IQ brick head.

There were around 20 evolved thick-skinned hyenas with their specialty having a thick skin in front of them, gobbling down the lion meat.

Jason´s normal bullets would be useless and he switched out the magazine to armor-piercing bullets as fast as he could while Greg shot at the hyenas who noticed the human group inside the torn safety room gate.

The Lion corpse wouldn't give them enough food and nutrition for all of them and humans were delicious snacks, causing around 10 hyenas to switch their attention to them.

Malia wasn't scared to fight them and she shot out five water jets which blew apart five hyenas without leaving much of their body in one piece.

But this was the most she was able to do, as her legs gave in from mana overexertion.

The hyenas cried in agony and everything that happened over the last minute attracted more and more attention, which could be considered the worst-case scenario.

They had to hold out slightly less than 4 minutes but Malia´s mana pool was completely dried up and she could only use non-mana-operated weapons.

Greg still had some reserves left and his desert eagle was shooting out bullets as if its magazine was infinite, killing one beast after another.

More and more beasts were gathering close to the lion's corpse and Jason could see its core which radiated loads of mana with liquid floating around the inside of the mana core, causing batches of beasts to gather nearby the magical ranked lion corpse.

But fortunately, these beasts were preying on each other, observing the situation, waiting for the first beast to approach the lion's mana core.

Once the first beast approached the core, the others would follow suit.

Instead of attacking the humans, Jason hoped that they would rather prey on each other in order to obtain the magical ranked corpse to improve their strength instead of them.

A minute full of tension passed and Jason could swear that he smelled something fishy, when he turned around to see that there was a small puddle forming below an embarrassed girl.

Throwing out a towel from his storage device, Jason decided to ignore their situation as he looked through the torn gate once again.

Nothing happened in the meantime, but the beasts slowly began to understand that time was running out as they felt powerful humans approaching them slowly.

When the first beast finally began to approach the magical beast core, the long-awaited massacre among them began.

Hyenas, wolves, bison´s, lizards, horses, snakes, bufflewumps, foxes and so on tried to catch the magical ranked beast core but not a single one was able to get it, because each beast obstructed one another which also happened within the same race.

Everyone inside the safety room was overjoyed and the tension from the people in the background eased slightly, while the three youths were still completely on guard, attentively looking outside.

Two minutes passed and it wouldn't be long until their rescue would come but suddenly the beasts decided to ignore each other and to rush to the beast core.

While one beast after another was hunted down, a few were thrown away by brute force, and unfortunately for everyone, there was an unblemished beast that was thrown directly into the already torn gate blowing away Jason, Greg and Malia.

Greg´s desert eagle was pushed out of his hand and now a tall stepwind wolf was on top of the torn gate that laid on the youths, while their backs hurt from the impact they received.

Jason still had his pistol close to him but it would be useless against the stepwind wolf which was an unblemished ranked beast

Only the torn gate was between the wolf and them.

Malia couldn't do anything because of her not-existent mana reserves, and moving alone was already extremely difficult, while Jason and Greg had nothing to defend themselves…

Jason felt pain in his leg and he knew he was injured but the pain caused him to stay awake.

While the stepwind wolf shook its head around and groaned in pain, Jason looked around searching for the desert eagle, activating his mana eyes.

And a moment later, Jason saw the desert eagle next to Malia who completely lost her composure as the stepwind wolf´s head came closer and closer to her with bloodlust filling its eyes.

She tried to use her physical strength to push away the torn gate with the wolf on it, but it was useless as her energy was drained to the last drop.

Right at the moment when the stepwind wolf´s mouth was above her face ready to kill Malia by biting off her head, she closed her eyes in fright.

A loud *BANG* caused her eardrums to vibrate violently and liquid streaming on her face.

`I´m not dead?` Malia wondered and his whole body was shaking in fright.

Opening her eyes, she saw the stepwind wolf, with a large hole in its head and the light in its eyes diminishing slowly.

Turning to the right she was Jason with Greg´s desert eagle in his hand smiling drily with his ashen face that was completely drained from mana before he groaned in pain

"F****ng heavy…"

Malia was still scared and powerless but she and Greg pushed away from the torn gate, only to see that soldiers arrived at the shopping street.

Jason saw this and tried to get up.

His left leg was injured and it seemed as if a sharp part from the torn gate had penetrated into it.

By pushing away the torn gate, the wound teared up even more and it was difficult to walk without feeling pain but Malia looked worse because of her overuse of mana and including traumatizing situation she was in, a few seconds ago, she looked like a zombie that feasted on humans, with the wolf's blood splattered on her face.

When everyone got up, Greg looked like he was the most uninjured of the three of them and he was already able to smile naively, when he picked up the remaining parts of the "tiny" two-headed amber lion.