This chapter took more time to write than last time.

I tried to make fight as clear and as good as possible.

Enjoy.

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Chapter 6: The Fight

I slowly transformed myself. I knew Anna was looking at me. She was looking at me with amazed eyes. Hehehe I totally impressed her.

I turned toward her and said smiling:

"You are my ticket to this world so, stay safely in my portable house."

After saying such, I sent her to my dimension house, which I have created using space magic. It is convenient really, I can even control the flow of time there to 1:10 ratio.

I then turn where roars are coming from. After around half a minute, a white beast emerged from forest. It was not totally white but bluish white. It was 6 feet in height. It was a tiger. Specifically, Ice tiger, it was called.

After it came out, it's sky blue eyes locked onto mine. It's eyes shone with anger and ferociousness.

"Hello, umm.. mmmh... Whitey, I am Lithius." I said with a grin. It observed me for a moment but did not reply. It made a face like questioning 'who is whitey?' but it's eyes were still angry and it absolutely did not reply.

(A/N: I dont know how tiger made that face. if you want to know ask MC.)

Now you may be wondering if tiger can talk when I say it did not reply. By that, I meant it did not even roar back.

It made a stance as if ready to pounce at me. I also became ready. Then it lunged at me, I also made a fist to deliver full power punch and leapt at it.

BANG

But I was a tad slow because even before I could land a punch, it's backhand side of claw landed on my chest. I flew through the air while spraying blood from my mouth.

BANG

I flew across the road and hit a tree. My body was aching in pain but my regeneration power was no joke, still flying through the air, my body had already started regenerating. If it was someone other than me that single blow would have stopped their heart.

"Alright, that was a good warm up, Whitey. Now, time to get serious." I said.

Looking at me standing right up after that, even the tiger was surprised. It's bluish nose twitched.

I once again leapt at the tiger and it did too. But this time, I elongated my right hand with shape shifting ability and punched right at it's ear. A muffled sound rang but the tiger did not stop it's pounce and hit right in my chest but this time with claw.

BANG

Once again I flew through the air and once again hit the tree. This time my clothes were ripped and I had a claw mark in my chest but that wound was closing rapidly.

It was clear that the tiger was far stronger than me. And why would it not be? I am only at 7th tier while it is a ninth tier beast.

This time however, whitey jumped at me as soon as I stood up, claws stretched.

"Alright", I muttered, and appeared directly above it's head, using teleportation and did a front flip in mid air and kicked it right in the head. A small sound rang out, it was not impeded in the slightest but it's right claw still managed to hit me right in the chest and made a big wound.

BANG

Thud

I fell directly to ground, right where tiger was incoming due to my kick, ready to pin me down with it's claw wide open. I did not even have time to grimace in pain. I hurriedly teleport 10 metres away because if it managed to pin me down, I would surely die.

"Ah, you are good whitey. You managed to hit me back even though I had surprise factor. Now I will take out my weapon." I said.

ROAR

This is the first time it talked after seeing me. But I did not care. I summoned my weapon from dimension house. Immediately, a 2 metres long pitch black stick appeared in my hand. But it is not exactly a stick. This thing is made up of some mysterious metal. It can take any shape I desire by using small amount of mana. This thing I had taken from treasury in my father's castle which belonged to my mother's ancestor. No one used it though it is indestructible and useful because people usually practise one weapon and one style, use their time to grow familiar to that weapon and execute a particular set of moves of the style. And there are weapons of their choices which can give huge boost to their power but in case of my weapon only one special property can be given to it when bonding with it. And that ability should be able to be used by owner.

If it is still not clear think about it this way, suppose your weapon of choice is a sword and you practise a certain sword style. Now although, my weapon can change into sword, why would you pick it, if there is a sword which can boost your power by large margin. And this thing will only give you a ability which you can already use. It's simply waste.

But that was not the case for me because I had great adaptive capability. I could quickly adapt to any situation and condition. When my weapon teacher knew that after trying me out, he told me that I should not practise a particular technique but instead I should use time to familiarize myself with weapon of my choice and develop adaptive fighting style so that I can fight the opponent of any style because my style helps me adapt to opponents fighting style and helps me parry, counter attack or attack easily. So, I should train my strength for dominating opponent, flexibility to counter any type of move and speed for faster and timely reaction. So, my weapon can also be anything so, what better than a thing which is indestructible and change shape according to my will. So, when I saw and heard about it I thought it was made for me.

I turned the stick into a spear with a sharp tip and immediately teleported near tiger's neck but it's reaction was fast, when he saw me disappear it immediately jumped forward extremely fast. I missed it's neck but still struck it's back. I could not penetrate deep though, due to it's though hide and fur and also because it hit me with it's hind legs at shoulder so, I went tumbling back. Small red trickle of blood could be seen on it's side above tiger's right hind legs.

Now we were right in middle of road along length of road and our carriage was parked on left side of road. Tiger pounced claw stretched and me reading the spear to stab. But when we were about to collide the tiger side stepped to right and tried to claw me but I blocked with my spear and at the same time used my tail to attack. It's sharp tip slashed right below its right eye producing thin line of blood. I was also flung to the left because I blocked it's powerful strike. I was about to hit the carriage but at the right moment I teleported to top of carriage. Tiger turned to look at me with angry eyes because I injured it albeit slightly. I smirked and said:

"My first clean hit without taking any damage, whitey."

Tiger pounced but this time jaws open. I flew back from top of carriage gliding with the help of wings. I could feel mana gathering in it's mouth when it saw me gliding back but I was late to react when I try to stop flying to fall to ground faster but an ice spike still hit me in left shoulder and I was sent flying from impact but before I could hit the tree I stabilized myself with the help of wings. I took out spike from my shoulder and my wound started healing immediately. If I had not stopped flying then that spike would have hit me right in heart. I would not have died but I would be too weak to fight against tiger for a while.

I looked at tiger and said:

"Ahh, Whitey, you are too ferocious. Abruptly using magic like that."

It was still looking at me with angry eyes.

"Alright whitey, magic for magic, -dark blade-." I said.

I condensed a blade made of darkness and sent flying at the tiger but it immediately formed an ice armour around it's body. When the dark blade hit it only small line was seen in it's armour.

-dark lightening step-

I created this technique by fusing shadow step and lightening step to use as agility technique where you could move extremely fast without any sound. It uses less mana than teleportation.

I arrived in front of tiger extremely fast. The tiger deflected the spear using it's claw and sent extreme cold through the spear toward my hand. The spear was covered in ice in a blink of eye and extended toward my hands. I hastily retreated so that tiger cannot send more mana. But it jumped from carriage to pursue with open mouth and formed five feet long ice spear and sent it to impale me. I flew high up to evade the spear.

It lands down on ground and I also came down. We stared at each other for few seconds. Then I throw the spear toward the tiger but it dodges it easily. I rush toward the tiger and it jumps at me but when we are close instead of punching it I fly above it and take the spear and rush 8 metres away from tiger. I turn back to look at tiger but it is also looking at me. I run a short distance and hurl the spear once again but this time after flying short distance it disappears and directly appear near it's neck but tiger still reacts faster and spear slightly lodges itself at tiger's stomach but spear is only able to penetrate ice armour and slightly into stomach. This time though It was not me who teleported only the spear as I can only teleport objects 1 metres around me. It was special ability I gave to spear. I can use my mana to teleport it from any distance as long as it's bound to me.

I did not want to give up this opportunity so I teleport in front of spear and try to push the spear further into tiger. Tiger's reaction is still faster, tiger side steps as soon as I touched the spear and spear came out of tiger's stomach. I was too close to tiger so I teleported away.

At this moment, a loud bang could be heard above the tiger and it raised it's head to look what was happening. Two, 2 feet large dark clouds containing lightening had struck each other and a meter long, 1cm wide lightening bolt came crashing down giving the tiger no time dodge and was struck by it. Though effect was not large because it was clad in ice armour it was almost paralysed for a second. So, I teleported above it, changed spear into big heavy twenty thousand kilogram hammer and let it fall on it's spine but tiger still moved slightly and hammer only crashed in tiger's rib.

CRACK

This time I could deal a major damage, a rib bone cracked due to weight. Though I can make my weapon's weight up to fifty thousand kg, I did not because If I did I could not have time to release the hammer and I, myself would be crushed under it.

ROAR

Tiger let out a painful roar. But I still underestimated it, still in pain it was able to strike my chest though I was rapidly retreating.

BANG

I flew through the air and hit the carriage. I hit one side of carriage which was instantly destroyed but I continue to sear through air and hit other side of carriage.

BANG

Splinters were sent apart, whole carriage except for wheel, floor and driver's seat were destroyed but I continue to fly and only come to stop when I hit a tree.

BANG

It happened too fast so, I did not even have time to stabilize myself. I only came to realize I was struck to chest when I hit the tree and after shaking my head to fight dizziness. Every single cell in my body was roaring in pain.

'It would be dangerous to continue the fight, I am too low on mana because that thunder move uses too much of mana, also due to all the teleportation I have been doing. And I even have to protect my heart from being invaded by coldness sent by whitey in that last strike by providing a layer of mana.' I thought.

"Sorry, Whitey. I have to go now, I am low on mana. I don't want to die unnecessarily. You should also return to check on your cub. If fate has it we will meet again." I said to angry tiger. Then disappeared from it's sight. I could still hear it's angry roar. It at least have been 15 minutes, Gerard and other also should have reached quite far.

I appeared within my Dimension house. I appeared behind house, near pond. I sat down cross legged, closed my eyes and started to recover my mana and dispel the coldness. It took me near an hour to be recover mana. After my mana was at peak condition I opened my eyes. Though I say one hour but it is near this pond where time is 1:10th faster than outside. Outside this Dimension and house in here only six minutes have passed because here I can even manipulate time. Like I said earlier I can make it 1:10th time faster or slower.

Time here is basically same as earth: 60 sec, a minute: 60 minute an hour: 24 hour a day, but 6 days a week: 5 weeks or 30 days a month: and 12 month or 60 weeks or 360 days make a year. This is year 4526 A.W. ( after war), 12th month, 22nd day. There are no name for month, days of weeks etc. They are counted with numbers, like months are said as 1st month of some year , or 2nd month of some year and so on. For days it is, 1st day of 1st week of 1st month, 2nd day of first week first month and so on until 6th day of first week of 1st month. Then it will be 1st day of 2nd week of 1st month and so on. You should get the idea. It looks complicated to write but if you think about it, it's really simple and also easy to understand.

I get up from my place and walk toward house, where I can sense Anna is.

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Sorry guys, if the fight is not good or boring. This is the best I could do for now.