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

"Tiny?!" Both Jason and Greg shouted, giving her an incredulous look.

The red-furred Lion had flames enveloping its giant mane, and was at least three meters high without considering its neck or the two heads…

As it bent down to spit out flames, Malia formed a thick wall of water to protect them against the flames.

The tiny two-headed amber lion was already a powerful magical beast and it looked like Malia was about to utilise her entire mana pool to defend against a single attack of the lion as the water wall slowly evaporated.

Malia sweated profusely and it looked like she had reached her limit when the flames suddenly stopped.

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

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 that made him miss a crucial opportunity to injure the lion, but his move gave Greg enough time to pull out a mana grade-2 desert eagle gun equipped with armor-piercing bullets.

When the tiny two-headed amber lion opened its eye again, it wasn't so lucky as it was greeted by a batch of bullets, instantly piercing its eye.

Unfortunately, the bullets missed hitting the lion's brain, but one of its heads got severely injured which was very fortunate, considering their situation.

Right when 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 buckets and not a single speck of mana was left inside her, she had completely exhausted all of her reserves.

While she racked her brains to find a way to seriously maim 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 beyond frightened and almost peed his pants as he looked at the bunch of grenades flying through the small gap between the lions' heads. The grenades exploded with a series of loud bangs that rocked the surroundings, causing a commotion within the shopping street.

The injured head fell to the ground with a resounding thud after being severed, while the other head was now spiked with metal alloy fragments. The tiny two-headed amber lion let out an anguished howl, as its terrific roar shattered the windows of the nearby buildings.

There was only one problem!

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

While the lion seemed to be on its deathbed another few beasts noticed the same and a group of evolved ranked hyenas stormed towards the dying lion. The lion tried in vain to save itself in a last-ditch effort as it tried to injure the hyenas, but in its heavily injured state, it was no match against the horde of predators. The hyenas began feasting on the tiny two-headed amber lion that was still hanging on to its life.

The reality of the outside world was cold and cruel but in a dog-eat-dog world, power and strength prevailed over everything else. Jason, Greg, and Malia knew that they had to remain calm now and stay put because the more time passed, the better their situation would be. However, one of the middle-graders suddenly cried out in fright after he saw the hyenas tearing apart the lion carcass as their jaws grinded the lion's bones and dripped in blood.

`S***h**d` the three youths thought at the same time. Even Greg, who wasn´t the smartest of the trio, couldn't be compared to such a low IQ brick head.

There were around 20 evolved thick-skinned hyenas with their specialty being a thick skin that made it difficult to kill them, gobbling down the lion meat and they would have no qualms including the rest of them in their meal. And, the youth had just invited them over!!

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

The Lion corpse wouldn't provide enough food and nutrition to 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 unstable water jets by overexerting her mana. This sent five hyenas flying, tearing them apart, without leaving much of their body intact.

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

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

They had to hold their defense for slightly less than 4 minutes, but Malia´s mana pool had been wrung dry and she could only use non-mana-operated weapons.

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

More and more beasts were gathering around 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. It attracted hordes of beasts to the magical ranked lion corpse.

But fortunately, these beasts were preying on each other, and observing the situation, while 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 attacking the humans.

A tense minute 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 sensed 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, bisons, lizards, horses, snakes, bufflewumps, foxes, and so on tried to grab the magical ranked beast core but not a single one was able to get it because each beast obstructed the other which also happened within the same race.

Everyone inside the safety room was overjoyed and the tension of 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 arrive, but suddenly the beasts decided to ignore each other and rush to the beast's core.

While one beast after another was hunted down, a few were thrown away by brute force. Unfortunately, there was an unblemished beast that was thrown directly into the already torn gate, that blew towards  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 had 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 trying to move on her own was extremely difficult, while Jason and Greg had nothing to defend themselves…

Jason felt the pain shoot up in his leg and he knew he was badly injured, but the pain kept him 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 inched closer to her with bloodlust filling its eyes.

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

Right 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 warm liquid streamed down her face.

`I´m not dead?` Malia wondered and her whole body was trembling, 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 saw Jason with Greg´s desert eagle in his hand. He was smiling dryly at her with his ashen face that was completely drained of mana before he winced in pain.

"F****ng heavy…"

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

Jason saw this and tried to get up.

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

As he tried to push away the torn gate, the wound teared up even more. He screamed as the sharp part piercing his leg was forcefully pulled out, and fresh blood oozed out of the wound. Jason sagged a little, but now the worst part of it was over. It was difficult to walk without feeling pain but he willed himself to get up. Malia was the worst hit of the three because of her overuse of mana. And including the traumatizing situation she had been 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 remains of the "tiny" two-headed amber lion.

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