World Evolution: Starting With The Wind Monarch

Evan, who had just witnessed the Ratman’s head being crushed with a single attack quickly backed away from the Forest Tiger and looked at it carefully.

It was a three-meter-tall magical beast with light-yellow fur and black stripes covering its entire body. Its blood-red eyes were filled with terrifying killing intent, as though it wanted to destroy everything in its sight.

A two-meter-long tail extended from its back, and whenever the beast swung its tail, the surrounding wind was cut apart by its sheer force.

Evan tried his best to calm his rapidly beating heart after seeing the terrifying creature that looked capable of crushing him at any moment.

---) Forest Tiger — Level: Unable to Appraise

He was unable to see its level, which meant that its level was higher than 10.

Evan wasn’t even completely confident that he could kill a magical beast around Level 10, and this Forest Tiger was even stronger than that.

He tried his best to keep his mind calm and think of a solution.

While Evan was thinking, the tiger continued eating the Ratman without even looking at him.

However, Evan was certain that the moment he started running or made any suspicious movement, the tiger would attack him.

After all, how could a predator ignore such easy prey?

While the tiger continued eating, Evan somehow managed to regain his composure.

He carefully considered his situation and tried to think of a solution.

He knew that all of his physical stats were far lower than those of the tiger.

The way the tiger had crushed the Ratman’s head with a single attack was enough to show that its strength was something he couldn’t even imagine.

And when the Forest Tiger had attacked the Ratman, he hadn’t even been able to react before it was already too late.

That showed that its agility was even more terrifying than its strength, and this monster truly focused on him, it could kill him with a single attack.

After considering everything, Evan’s heart sank as he realized that his chances of survival were extremely low.

If he made even a single mistake, he would most likely die.

But at the same time, if he somehow managed to overcome this challenge, the reward he would receive would be worth the effort.

From the moment Evan had started thinking until now, only one minute had passed, and the Forest Tiger had already finished eating the Ratman.

It slowly raised its head and stared straight into Evan’s eyes.

Evan felt a cold sensation envelop his entire body as the Forest Tiger stared at him.

However, he didn’t lose focus and maintained a firm grip on Black Star.

"ROAARR!"

The Forest Tiger suddenly let out a fierce roar and vanished from its position.

Evan, who was paying his full attention to the tiger, immediately jumped sideways.

The instant he moved—

BOOM!

A massive claw slammed into the ground where he had been standing a moment earlier, sending gravel and dirt flying in every direction.

If he had jumped even a second later, the tiger would have crushed him with a single attack.

After evading the tiger’s attack, Evan didn’t immediately counterattack. Instead, he quickly created some distance between them.

The Forest Tiger was also surprised upon seeing Evan successfully evade its attack and didn’t launch another attack immediately.

While backing away from the tiger, Evan controlled his mana to the best of his ability and coated his sword with it.

A light-blue layer of mana appeared around Black Star, and its blade gleamed with a chilling light.

However, he wasn’t finished yet.

His grandfather had told him that he could use mana to strengthen his weapons.

But he had never said that it only applied to weapons and that he couldn’t use mana to strengthen his body.

However, compared to strengthening a weapon with mana, strengthening one’s body was extremely difficult.

While traveling to the Dark Forest, Evan had tried using his mana to strengthen his body instead of his weapon.

However, the instant he did, he felt immense pain, as though his body was about to burst apart.

He had only learned how to apply mana to his weapon yesterday, and his control over it wasn’t skillful enough.

Moreover, he was still Level 0, and his body was too weak to withstand such a strain.

But his current situation didn’t allow him to care about any of these things.

Mana flowed through his body and gathered around his legs.

To avoid putting too much strain on his body and make it easier to control, Evan only strengthened his legs with mana.

Although the pain wasn’t as severe as when he had attempted to strengthen his entire body, he still felt as though someone was pounding on his legs from the inside.

He gritted his teeth and endured the pain.

At the same time, because his control over mana while strengthening his legs wasn’t very good, his mana was also being consumed at an extremely high speed.

At the current rate of consumption, he felt that his mana would be completely depleted within only one or two minutes.

And even if he didn’t run out of mana, he couldn’t remain in this condition for long because his legs felt as though they could burst apart at any moment.

’If I don’t want to face the same outcome as that Ratman, I need to finish everything within less than two minutes.’

This thought came to Evan’s mind, but he didn’t charge directly toward the tiger.

He knew that even after strengthening his legs with mana, he still couldn’t compete with the tiger in terms of speed.

Instead, he raised his sword and made a throat-slitting gesture toward the tiger, deliberately provoking it and trying to make it come closer.

Although the tiger couldn’t understand what Evan was doing, it could tell from his expression that his actions were anything but respectful.

"ROAR!"

The tiger let out an angry roar, and its figure suddenly disappeared.

Its speed was even faster than before.

Evan immediately tried to dodge, but this time, the monster’s attack was too fast.

Although he quickly shifted his body, part of the claw still made contact with his left shoulder.

It was only the edge of the claw that touched him, but Evan still felt as though someone had struck him with a stone.

Luckily, the leather armor he was wearing absorbed most of the impact, preventing his shoulder from being dislocated.

Gritting his teeth to endure the pain, Evan didn’t back down.

The instant the claw made contact with his left shoulder, he swung Black Star with all his strength.

SWISH!

The mana-coated sword cut through the air and struck the tiger’s right shoulder, digging deeply into its flesh.

"ROAR!"

Bright-red blood immediately burst from the wound, and the tiger roared in pain.

But Evan didn’t stop after his first attack.

He quickly pulled his sword back and made a horizontal slash toward the monster’s neck.

The Forest Tiger reacted quickly and swung its left claw to defend its neck.

However, its claw didn’t have enough momentum because it had barely recovered from Evan’s previous attack.

As a result, when its claw collided with the mana-coated sword—

SWISH!

The sword sliced straight through its claw and the Forest Tiger’s claw was severed from its front leg.

"ROAR!"

The Forest Tiger hadn’t expected the ordinary-looking black sword to be able to sever its claw, and it roared in pain.

Stimulated by the pain, the tiger’s eyes turned bloodshot and before Evan could react, it swung its remaining right claw toward him.

Evan quickly brought Black Star in front of him and tried to defend himself.

However, the power behind the tiger’s attack was far too great.

BOOM!

The claw collided with the sword, and Evan was sent flying backward.

He flew nearly five meters before crashing heavily onto the ground, an intense wave of pain engulfing his entire body.

"Cough!"

He coughed out a mouthful of blood and used his sword to barely support himself as he stood up.

Fortunately, the attack hadn’t fractured any of his bones.

This was mostly because he had injured the tiger’s shoulder at the beginning of the fight, making its attack far less powerful than it would have been at its peak.

If he hadn’t injured the tiger’s shoulder at the beginning, there was a high possibility that most of his bones would have been shattered by its last attack.

Thirty seconds had already passed since the fight started, and Evan’s legs had already begun bleeding from the inside because of the strain caused by the mana.

The monster wanted to attack Evan immediately after sending him flying.

However, because one of its claws had been completely severed and its shoulder was injured, it couldn’t move as smoothly as before.

Although his entire body was sending him signals of pain, Evan still quickly got back on his feet.

His breathing was rough, and blood dripped from the corner of his mouth as he stared at the monster.

The tiger was trying to move toward him, but it stumbled because of its severed claw.

Evan carefully assessed the condition of his body and realized that he would only be able to last for a few more seconds before his body reached its limit.

"So be it..." He muttered with a cold look in his eyes before suddenly shooting toward the monster on his own.

The tiger was stunned when it saw this. But the next second, a furious look appeared in its eyes as it felt that the weak creature before it was challenging its dignity.

Ignoring the sharp pain coming from its severed claw and injured shoulder, the monster also shot toward Evan.

Just as the monster charged toward him, Evan swung his arm with all his strength and threw a stone he had secretly picked up earlier when he had fallen to the ground.

WHOOSH!

The distance between Evan and the Forest Tiger was extremely close.

When the stone came flying toward it like a bullet, the tiger didn’t even have time to blink before it struck directly into its eye.

ROAR!

The Forest Tiger’s eye instantly burst apart into a cloud of blood mist.

The tiger staggered as it continued running before finally losing its balance and falling to the ground while roaring in pain.

"This is my only chance."

Evan’s eyes turned sharp and just as he reached the tiger, he poured even more of his mana into his legs and suddenly jumped into the air.

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