Damien stood at the very top of a towering tree as he gazed around. The tree towered higher than any tree within a thousand metres and stood at almost two hundred metres in height.
The top was a rounded panel that was a foot wide with a blackened surface. It hinted at the fact that the tree had been even higher and something had reduced its top.
Damien watched his surroundings, his eyes lingering on a spot for a little longer that he’d done to the other places. “Eat well. We’ll be going hunting nonstop in a short while.” Damien smiled as he stared at Luton expanding and covering a Grade Six mana beast.
He took a brief look at the sky and sighed. The once blue sky was slowly turning red and while it was still a long way from reaching its final transformation, Damien knew it was only a matter of time. “I need to get even stronger at an even faster rate.”
Slowly, Damien began to descend, jumping down from tree branch to tree branch without a break.
Thud!
Finally, Damien touched the ground with a soft descent. He turned toward the East, the location with the most population of higher ranking mana beasts. Majority of the creatures toward the East were Grade Five with a lower number of Grade Seven and Grade Six.
“Fenrir needs a hundred and twenty more Grade Five mana beasts to advance and Cerbe needs a hundred more.” Damien murmured, his face still fixed toward the East. “Two months since their first summon and we’ve reduced their requirements by almost half.”
“Let’s spend the next two months bringing it even lower.” Damien’s resolve hardened at that moment and he began walking toward the East.
“What’s my Magic Essence units looking like?” Damien asked, a panel appearing almost instantly to fulfil his request.
«Magic Essence: 650/700»
“Oh,” Damien nodded at the panel before proceeding to ask another question. “And my life Force units?”
«Life Force: 4690/4700»
Another nod, albeit simpler. “Convert half of it to Magic Essence. I’ll need it for the journey ahead.”
«Converting 2,345 units of Life Force to Magic Essence!»
«+23,450 Units of Magic Essence!»
“Now, summon Fenrir and Cerbe.” Damien ordered, another barrage of panels springing forth one after another.
«Summoning Fenrir, the Monstrous Wolf…»
«-100 units»
Fenrir summoned!»
«Summoning Cerbe, the Three-Headed Hound…»
«-100 units»
«Cerbe summoned!»
Two blue shimmering portals of different sizes opened up and from within them appeared his white fur creature, Fenrir, and his three-headed walking essence consumer, Cerbe.
“Yeah, yeah, you both. Come over here. We’ve got serious work to do if we want you both to get in shape quickly.”
Without a single hint of hesitation, Fenrir and Veebe began walking toward their summoner with anticipation growls.
“We’ll be hunting nonstop until you both arrive at the fourth grade.” He walked forward to Cerbe this time. He placed his hand on the forehead is Cerbe’s middle head and with an excited glare, he spoke. “During the next few weeks, we’ll be hunting Grade Five mana beasts to ensure all three of you advance.”
“I’ll deal the final blow as well as it ensures I gain Exp for my own advancement.” He then walked back to Fenrir who’d been standing beside Cerbe, a stark contrast to the three-headed beasts even though both of them were canine creatures.
“This time, we all stick together so I can get the most kills and rise steadily. While you both will be hunting Grade Five mana beasts, I’ll be training against Grade Six mana beasts with Luton.” Damien explained to his summons.
His strategy was being laid out for his summons who surely understood him. “When you do manage to fight off any beast, signal for me to arrive and do not go for the kill except I’m pretty far away from you which will seldom happen.”
Woof! Woof!
The two summons barked at his orders to show they completely understood his words.
“Good,” Damien stated as he climbed to the back of his strongest and fastest summon, Fenrir. “Now, let’s go. I’ll grab Luton later.”
With that, they sped off toward the East to begin another hunt for powerful beasts.
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Boom!
A mild explosion rocked a certain swampy area of the Forest of Twin Disasters as a heavy battle took place.
The location was denser than normal, preventing even more light from reaching inside. It was dark even as the sun shone in the sky and worse. The entire ground area was a pool of dark water almost a metre deep with deadly creatures lurking within.
Boom!!
As if the first wasn’t enough, another explosion even louder reverberated through the ground.
Boom!!
The third one was even worse.
Thud!
Splassssh!
Following the third explosion was the collapse of a giant mana beast back into the swamp. A Grade Five mana beast called a Swamp Crocodile. It was a seven metres long and half a metre high beast that used water attacks to attack prey and with swampy green scales that blended almost perfectly with its environment so it could ambush its targets.
Even in a swampy area—its turf—which was supposed to be an advantage, this creature had met its end. Defeated by Cerbe, it could only await its demise.
Puck!
A bone sword dug into its skull in a blink.
Roooaar!
The creature roared one last time, the pain or the attack obvious through its cry of pain.
Huff…
It drew its last breath and then finally, its chest stopped rising and falling. It was dead.
Ding!
«You have slain a Grade Five Mana beast! +100Exp!»
Damien pulled out his sword with a smug grin. “That’s the ninth Swamp Croc we’ve dealt with and all I can say is that I’m enjoying this almost too well.”
Indeed, he was enjoying it. Proof of his enjoyment was the fact that just like the crocodile he’d just killed, there were two more partly submerged in the swampy ground they stood on.
“I think they’re avoiding us deliberately.” Damien frowned as no crocodile had taken this moment to attack despite Fenrir sensing multiple beasts scattered through the swamp. “We’ll have to fish them out.”
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