In the Forest Expanse near the top of a small mountain behind the Old City Ruins was a boy who looked to be about 16 and a Giant Stone Griffin that were staring each other down. The Griffin using its height look at Danny with disdain as a smirk formed from its beak. 'What a dumb human he brought himself to be eaten by me.' Seeing the Griffin look down on him pissed Danny off so he summoned his soul spear activated a Rune that caused the spear to expand twice its length at the expense of some soul force. The he pierced the ground with the spear balancing it using the ground. Danny jumped to the top of the spear which positioned him higher than the griffin. Finally he looked down at the griffin and gave it the same look it was giving him and formed a smirk on his face then he used the most annoying move to piss off the beast the Uchiha Grunt "HN!". Hearing Danny's grunt pissed off Ay as she said, "he had to do the grunt, he couldn't just attack the griffin. The idiot had to piss it off."

Ye Yan chimed in, "This was a genius move, it's possibly the most annoying taunt out there. Beauty Ay although he pissed it off he can also catch it off guard. Plus look at your boyfriends eyes he seems to have calculated everything. Even the spear is currently being charged with almost all his soul force to severely injure the Griffin."

The Griffin got pissed off and stood on its hind legs reach a height a little bit higher than Danny and roared. Then it clawed with all its might toward Danny. Danny immediately shrunk the spear dodging the claw but he didn't stop there he quickly pulled out his spear and jumped back dodging the beasts tail then pushed all he soul force towards the tip of the spear. He activated another rune that compressed this energy and activated a group of runes that amplify the damage this attack will deal. Danny then rotates the energy clockwise and charges towards the Griffin. The griffin instantly stabilized itself to face Danny when it noticed his quick sprint towards it. Looking down on Danny it swipes down with its claw to where Danny will show up. Danny reacted quickly and jumped in the air. All of a sudden he saw the sharp bone wings striking at him. Danny quickly activates his dragon scale armor compresses his soul armor around his fists then punches downward towards the top of the bone wings. This move helped him evade the attack and he rotated to his left mid air to build momentum.

Danny then pierced down with his spear using his full body weight. Danny's spear strike meet the right shoulder of the griffin closer to the neck and sparks began to fly. Not giving up here Danny urges Ya Yan to activate the blood seals. The seals were filled with blood energy from Danny as well as many beasts Danny hunted over the past month. Danny also spun the spear the opposite direction of the spinning energy which added a synergic effect increasing the drilling power. Once the blood energy exploded outward an explosion occurred from the collision and Danny was sent flying back. Danny stood back up from where he landed he wasn't injured just a bit shaken from the force of the explosion. He held his spear, focused on the area where the griffin was and prepared to launch another attack as soon as the dust cleared.

The Griffin roared loudly dispersing the dust and glared at Danny with blood shot eyes. It was going berserk due to the severe injury it received. The gray rock like layer near its right shoulder was cracked, blood was dripping from the area. Although not seen Danny knew that he also should have damaged some of its organs. Danny covered in black scale armor swiftly attacked the griffin but as he got closer to it he felt his body weight increase and his attack slow down. He changed the direction of his spear strike to the ground using and jumped to the right using everything he had and barely dodged the attack from the beast's bone wings. Although he escaped he still got a few cuts as his armor was scraped off. The soul armor seemed negligible in front of a legend rank beast. "Wow little danny I haven't felt this excited for a long time. Be careful It felt like this beast had a gravitational domain around him. He doubled you weight and decreasing your movement speed by 2 as well. If you didn't have such amazing reaction time you would have died due to that piercing your heart." Just as Ye Yan finished his explanation he saw Danny light wound healing. Ay chimes in, "Old Man this is what make a Danny special of it wasn't for his strong regeneration and heart passive skills he would have died long ago."

"Both of you Shut up and let me focus. This regeneration uses a lot of energy Old Man so its a disadvantage at the moment."

Danny the extended his spear using the ruin and began to attack the beast long range. After several exchanged seeing that he failed to even scratch the rock layer he decided to go in the beasts domain the beast on the other hand kept charging and attacking furiously. Time slowly passed and Danny was getting injured constantly and if it wasn't for his skills he would have died by now. Thanks to the beasts ability Danny was in a tight situation as he hardly put a scratch on the berserk griffin. He then decide to take away one of its eyes. After the few hundred exchanges Danny memorized the types of attacks and how it executes them thanks to his golden eyes. He began to focus the beast seem to move slower now that these eyes were activated but Danny also felt strained as he was using a lot of soul force hidden in his body. Ay activated the EGL to keep him focused and Danny began to time the beasts moves as he charged towards it. He kept getting closer by deflecting the attacks coming his way in a way that pushed him forward. The beast finally stopped using only its claws and sent its left wing towards Danny in. Expecting that attack Danny took One step back and jumped up causing the beasts attack to land in front of him. Using his left hand he pulled himself towards the beasts head and struck with his spear right in its left eye.

The spear pierced the eye but could go any further so Danny pulled back his spear trying to quickly leaves the attack radius of its beak. The creature howled loudly from the pain and directly launched an attack from its right wing some How piercing through Danny's right chest. "Danny!!!" Both Ay and Ye Yan yelled at the same time. Both Armors were broken through decreasing the attacks strength by half but that is still half the power of a legend rank beast. Right after piercing Danny with its wing the griffin slammed Danny right onto the rocky ground. Danny grit his teeth and stood up, he was still shaken by the attack. He didn't have a way to dodge that attack as he barely noticed it from the corner of his eyes as he was too focus at the immediate danger of the bird's beak. As he was slightly dizzy and felt light headed from the attack he failed to realize that another attack was sent his way. Ay and Ye Yan were yelling his way but Danny didn't seem to hear them.

Somehow Danny with minimal movement without looking at the incoming attack moved his head slightly to the left stretched his right leg bent his left leg which caused him to dodge the beasts strike. Danny lifted his head and stared at the beast took two steps forward dodging a second strike from its wings. Danny didn't know what's going on. He felt his heart beating rapidly, his senses heightened and everything was slow around him. He couldn't hear anyone or anything. He looked down at his wound and saw it spilling blood when he did that he slowly bent his knees and again dodged a tail strike. This frustrated the beast greatly while Danny seemed to figure out his state is not permanent and will be gone. Once he is out of this special state he is as good as dead. Danny remembered that many MC's and some soldiers in the army said that they reached a state between life and death.

They described the same thing Danny was feeling now. It was either he kills the beast and lives or he dies. Danny then took advantage of the state and with all his might threw the spear upward in to the Sky with a spin. He told Ye Yan to use his spirit force to increase the spinning of the spear. Danny the faced the Griffin and yelled,"Let's see who will survive on this stage of life and death!" Then he began to taunt the beast while dodging its attacks.

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"The stage had been set Danny began has prepared his last stand. Will he make it out alive? Or will he perish and be forgotten with the passage of time? Find out next time... owe !!! Ay why did you hit me. You should respect your elders you know."

"You old fool Danny is hurt and might die and your making a stupid commentary."

"I was making a commentary throughout the entire fight how come you hit me now. Just because little Danny got injured. This is his baptism to growing stronger, every warrior must go through a number of life and death struggles to become an expert.... OWE! You witch I hope Danny survives this and spanks the hell out of you."

"What did you say!"

"I hope Danny survives. He is a genius of geniuses and it would be awesome to see home rise. He is in a state of life and death if he survives he will change from a spark into a huge fire illuminating the skies."

"Good Old Man but why can't Danny hear us in that state. In order to survive his body cancels out all noises and heightens he body senses. This state differed from one person to another and you should be thankful that Danny boy has a strong body. Most people who enter this state end up not being able to handle the strain it puts on the body so even if they win the fight they are usually crippled or die..... OWE! What was that for?"

"Hmmm! Just focus on spinning old fool."

"Unreasonable woman, they are still unreasonable regardless of the time."