A huge shadow looked over Allen and he felt suffocated by the pressure coming from behind him. Aura materializes, and can be used as pressure and when dense enough can be seen, as he remembered one of Aurora's explanation on the rankings of the lower mortal existence, he slowly turned his head around despite being under the pressure coming from behind him, as he got a clear view of the scene behind, there it was, standing on a very large tree was an eagle to be precise, the Africa fish eagle, when it saw Allen look at it, it spread out its wings showing off a wingspan of 16 feet with the intention of intimidating its target. It screamed so loud that Allen's ears began to bleed and it was the pain he felt from his ears that woke him up. Allen, are you alright, he heard Aurora call him as he took in a deep breath and exhaled, he responded calmly, I'm fine but how can I hear you when that scream ruptured my eardrum, for the last time we're connected on the soul level, just what trouble have you gotten yourself into. Were you not watching? I can't always be keeping an eye on your every actions. Allen took note of the statement but made no comment as there was a serious problem right in front of him. Rank 2 existence, Aurora muttered in disbelief, isn't it a bit too early for rank 2 existences to start showing up? I think it's an anomaly, any plans? She asked Allen as she looked back towards him, yes... survive.
The wingspan of the eagle was so large that it could be compared to the height of the average male giraffe of the past world. Whoosh... flapping its wings, it created a strong gust of wind that pushed back Allen slightly as it flew into the sky, by this time Aurora had already gone back into Allen's body as they came to an agreement that when he's in a serious battle, she is to stay inside of him to avoid distractions as he once forgot that she is like a holgram that only he can see an touch when he jumped in front of her and took the damage of a stray attack, something that actually increased her admiration towards him.
When the eagle flew up into the sky and looked down at Allen, due to his good eyesight an the large size of the eagle he saw its beak move. Allen was already in battle mode as he said why do I feel like it talked, it actually did, it said big fish, wait it really talked? This time Allen was really surprised. As the eagle dived towards Allen, it was so fast but with 'super fast reflex' he was able to dodge at the last moment with the aim of making it impact the ground but to his surprise, the eagle redirected its trajectory and in a spinning motion got back into the air, plan A failed. The eagle did not attack irrationally again but stopped in the air as it was re-evaluating its rating of Allen.
At unranked lvl 10, a beast begins to develop intelligence as its brain is refined by energy, at rank 1, it has the intelligence of a human child at age 3 but can't speak in the human language though there are some exceptions like the thunder porcupine Allen met before, had the intelligence of a 5yrs old but could not speak. As for rank 2 beast, they have the intelligence of a 10yrs old child and can utter some words in the human language. Those were all the things Aurora had told him before concerning rank 1 and two beasts. He knew it was only the beginning an the eagle had not even made use of any energy constructs nor its affinity. And it was being overly cautious about Allen despite him being an ordinary unranked existence and this made things harder for Allen, because its far easier to take down an arrogant enemy than it is to take down a cautious one. As both opponents, man and eagle sized one another up, the eagle attacked first as it released wind slashes and at the same time began creating water spears which it began launching at Allen, all while keeping it's distance.
It's a water and wind type, why is this coward so overly cautious? If Allen had known that the eagle was overly cautious because ever since it stepped into the second rank, it has not met anyone capable of remaining conscious after its scream, he would have punched himself for not pretending to have passed out despite knowing that it was impossible to tell. He kept dodging all of the water and wind attacks but things started becoming harder when he realized that the eagle was trying to tore him out and finish him up with a single move. He had minor cuts that were bleeding all over his body but no fatal injury. But he suddenly had a bad feeling and his danger sense began warning him of danger and then he heard Aurora's voice "Allen get out of this area now" there was a tone of urgency in her voice, as soon as he heard her, he began to feel a tightness in his chest as the danger alarm of his sixth sense began to ring loudly, he got distracted for a moment as when the eagle saw the opportunity it sent four water spears, which pierced through his body, one in his abdomen, one in his right thigh, another in his left arm and the last in the right side of his chest, luckily not the left but Allen did not care about any of that as he jumped behind a huge tree and activated OPPORTUNIST, the eyes skill to be precise. As the eagle saw that it hit it's tar get, it wanted to go over and claim its reward when it felt the danger of death in the air so saturated that it didn't even want to know what happened to its prey as it quickly took off in a certain direction.
Allen had already activated eyes of seeker, when he saw all around him a deathly dark grey color, he knew that there was no point in running away as he could not escape the region of the danger within a few seconds.
He immediately started searching for the golden light he saw previously but it seemed as if the dark grey mist had swallowed it whole. Aurora was readying herself to use the last of her energy to save Allen even if it meant damaging her already damaged soul and going to sleep for another one hundred thousand years or more but she still clinged to the hope that he would find something because she knew that if she did it, he will never forgive himself for bringing harm to his loved ones.
Everywhere in the region, covering a square of 10km was covered in the grey mist and within five kilometers around where Allen was, space and reality began to twist, as Aurora was about to act, she heard Allen's voice, I've found it as he moved quickly into the center of the twisting space and reality, she wanted to stop him but when she saw a unique essence, she let him be.
All hope was lost and Allen wanted to give up as his felt his time was up, but when he felt Aurora's emotions he decided to continue searching, he promised to help her and not to be a burden. His eyes even began bleeding as he pushed them to a level higher than what his body could take. It was then just like a little spark Allen saw a little spark of light which reignited a spark of hope in him as he 'shouted I found it' to stop Aurora from doing anything crazy as he dashed towards it not even noticing that it was the eye of the storm he was trying to escape from.