Chapter 31: Outwitting the Night Leopard II
"Oops! Brother Leopard is indecent!" a fishy stench hit his face, and Elvis screamed in horror.
"Smack!" A few small lightning bolts suddenly appeared in the air and struck the head of the Night Leopard, but this beast had thick skin and flesh, and a few small lightning bolts had no other purpose than to provoke it.
Sure enough, the Night Panther managed to be enraged, and it shifted its attention from Elvis to Felicia, who were casting spells, and roared, turning around and lunging at them.
Alan saw all this in his eyes and loudly reminded the four of them to be careful. Then he quickly ran to Elvis's side, wanting to see how Elvis was doing.
Sean and Elton released two wind blades and ice spikes in a row, but they were nimly avoided by the Night Leopard, so frightened that several people hurriedly retreated behind the rocks, using the rocks as an obstacle and catching and seeking the Night Leopard.
Alan ran to Elvis's side, looked at Elvis's somewhat dull face when he landed outside the earth shield, and asked, "Are you okay?"
"It's okay, it's just that the face was kissed by it. Elvis broke free of the dirt and prepared to get up.
"It's not going to fall in love with you, is it?" Alan reached out and pulled Elvis up, and as Elvis got up, something fragrant fell from the shattered soil.
Alan leaned over to pick up the fallen thing, it was the baked hare he had prepared to make breakfast before, because Elvis had just knocked down the bonfire, and used the earth shield magic to bring out the baked hare that had been buried under the campfire before. Smelling the aroma of roasted hares, Alan suddenly had an idea.
"Hey, Brother Leopard, look over here!" Alan picked up a stick, which had not been extinguished, from near the scattered campfire, and threw it at the Night Leopard, who was playing hide and seek with Sean and the others.
Startled by the sudden shout and the wooden stick thrown at it, the Night Leopard was instantly distracted, and it turned its head to look in Allen's direction. Alan took advantage of this opportunity to raise the hare in Yanti's hand. At the same time, he controlled the wind magic to blow the scent of the hare in the direction of the Night Leopard.
As Alan expected, the Night Leopard was attracted by the scent of the hare, and his attention shifted back to the other four. A pair of green eyes looked at the hare in Allen's hand, and couldn't help but win fiercely.
"Brother Leopard, this way!" Alan shook the hare in his hand as he stepped back, attracting the Night Leopard to follow in his direction.
Just when the night leopard roared in its mouth, getting closer and closer to Allen, ready to pounce and attack, Allen threw his right hand hard, and the baked hare in his hand drew an arc in the air and fell into the grass ten steps away.
As soon as the night leopard saw it, he rushed to the landing position of the hare with a "whew". Then he quickly found the baked rabbit in the grass and sniffed it, and ate it without hesitation, not caring about the few little magic apprentices who were embarrassed by it.
Eren originally planned to take advantage of the Night Leopard's feeding opportunity, prepare thoroughly, and then give the Night Leopard a large lightning bolt, even if it can't kill it, it will be seriously injured. However, at this time, when he saw that the Night Leopard seemed to be only interested in the rabbit in front of him, he stopped instead. As a child, his father would teach him that there are only two situations in which a wild beast can bite a person, one is that it is extremely hungry, and the other is that a human invades its territory. Although Alan didn't know how the beast managed to get to the outskirts of the Imperial Capital, it was clear that this would not be its territory, so if the rabbit could fill its belly, maybe it wouldn't be pestering a few more people.
"El, this leopard's attitude towards rabbits is really like twins like yours!" Alan teased Elvis as he stared at the Night Leopard.
Alan cast another lighting spell into the sky above the Night Leopard, and when the light illuminated it, the Night Leopard roared in dissatisfaction, but did not stop enjoying his meal.
The night leopard in the light still looks like a forest killer, but it looks a little like a well-behaved house cat, it is gobbling up hares, while looking at everyone from time to time, but there is no murderous aura in its eyes just now, but more like worrying that Alan and the others will rob it of its food.
The four Seans also walked over from the boulder, also very curious about this scene.
"El, have you noticed that this guy looks like the black cat that the old witch Moxika had?" Elton seemed to have noticed something.
"It's a bit like that, but it's not surprising, they're all animals!" Elvis said as he patted the dust off his body, not surprised at all.
"Could it be that this Night Leopard has been domesticated by humans?" Alan, abruptly interjected.
"What?" The other five all looked at Alan incredulously.
Although Boulder City is located in the northwest of the Yus Empire, it is still far from the Togolese hills, the habitat of this ferocious beast, and in recent years, there have been no rumors about the appearance of such a ferocious beast in the territory of the Yus Empire. So when Alan and Elvis first met the Night Leopard, they were all surprised and confused in their hearts, and the doubts were naturally where this forest killer came from.
However, after hearing Allen say that this night leopard was domesticated by humans, several young people looked over there to enjoy the delicious night leopard, and they all had a feeling of seeing through the clouds in their hearts, and they were still suspicious.
If the night leopard is domesticated by people, it can also be explained, after all, there are many noble manors near the imperial capital, and it is normal to raise some beasts among them. On the one hand, the cost of capturing and domesticating wild beasts is very expensive, and on the other hand, if the beasts that escape outside hurt the livestock and poultry of the surrounding residents, it is a trivial matter, and if they hurt humans, the captive people will also be held accountable by the Imperial Peace Department.
If this ferocious guy is domesticated, then who is this person?
How did the Night Leopard appear here?
If someone put such a dangerous beast here, then for what purpose?
The more they thought about it, the more confused they became, the night leopard over there ate all of Allen's baked rabbit, and there was no ** that had just attacked, lying lazily in the grass, and arranging his hair with his tongue.
Alan and the others were at a loss, standing or sitting, and they didn't dare to attack rashly, Alan made a color to Elvis, and asked him to slowly retreat to Felicia's side, he thought that even if the Night Leopard attacked again, with Elvis's earth shield protection, Felicia would be a little safer.
After combing his hair, the night leopard stood up lazily, glanced at a few people indifferently, and then swaggered out of the clearing and walked towards the forest, and disappeared into the depths of the woods in an instant, and the nervous young people breathed a sigh of relief at this time.