Everything was dark inside the cocoon. Despite it being made of holy magic,
it was nothing less than eerie for the beast trapped inside.
The huge werewolf, even in his sleep, was not at peace. It was growling
lightly while snoring. It seemed that it was not liking its current atmosphere
inside the cocoon.
If the beast would have been awake, he would have growled in disappointment
and destroyed the cocoon to get outside of it. The beast was also finding it
hard to breathe inside the cocoon. The holy air making it more difficult and it
was also burning the skin of the werewolf.
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The old man who has just thrown a fireball in front of Daniyal was of course, Novias, who was the grand mage of tesq and also the village chief. He loved the village more than his life because this was the place where his parents grew and they also died here while protecting this same village. And an unknown bastard of the holy order has dared to kill one of his direct subordinates and this was just like an utter humiliation to Daniyal. It had been more than a hundred-years since the grand mage was humiliated like this! And even the mere thought of it was enough to fill Novias with rage and he threw a giant fireball towards Daniyal in a fit of anger which was heading towards him at tremendous speed.
Upon seeing the fireball Coming to burn his handsome face, Daniyal just swung his staff in front of the fireball and as the fireball came in front of the staff it exploded with a resounding explosion.
'Booooooom!'
Daniyal was successfully able to counteract the fireball's damage, but it was too near to him, so he was grazed by the flame's lick and was singed.
Daniyal wanted to get this situation over peacefully, so he thought that offering a few silver coins would be enough for the death of a minor peasant and the old man will let him go.
"hey hey, what if I just give you a few silver coins and we can consider this matter even. I will not mind the burns I just received from your disgusting fireball alright…"
Daniyal was thinking that it will be over and the old man will accept his generous offer but novias was not such kind of a person. And hearing that the death of his men was worth just a few silver coins, sparked Novias's anger and he threw another giant fireball towards Daniyal in rage and being unprepared, he was not able to use the previous skill he had used to counteract the fireball's damage and thus had to bear the full brunt of the fireball with his armored body.
The fireball singed his entire body, and he fell on the floor writhing in anguish.
"Ahhhhhh! It hurts, please, make it stop!" Daniyal begged at first but when the flames burned out, he chanted a spell and his body started to heal at tremendous speeds and in some seconds, he was as good as new. No one could tell that Daniyal was ever injured in the first place if not for his armor which was cracked and burnt from various places.
This was the reason why many people coveted his holy powers so much. The ability to heal life threatening injuries on a Whim wasn't something everyone possessed after all but it was nothing new for the man in front of him, and he just snorted in disgust when he saw Daniyal healing himself.
"do you know that you can never defeat me if you are just going to heal yourself and do nothing." Novias mocked and another fireball of the same size shot out from the staff again and headed for Daniyal but as it was going to attack his body again it tilted slightly to the right of Daniyal and went instead for the cocoon hovering behind him!