Ryuu awoke early the next day, after he got ready his sisters took him to the sea to play, he spend the entire morning playing with his sisters splashing the water, trying to make a sand castle and as it was nearing the midday his sisters stopped him from playing.
Antariskh, "Ryuu it is time for us to leave so go and wash yourself."
Ryuu was depressed as such he tried to protest but was shot down by Sylvana before he could speak, "Ryuu you will get to play in the sea many times but for today we have prior engagement such as hunting, I am sure you will enjoy hunting with us."
Ryuu felt giddy on hearing that, he will go on a hunt with his big sisters, and the beast that they will hunt will be their lunch.
Soon they reached the place of their hunt, Ryuu was giddy as well as a tad bit nervous what if he makes a mistake and embarrasses himself, he will never hear the end of his sisters' teasing.
Antariskh ordered a few of their maids who themselves were dressed accordingly in proper attire for the hunt as they had discarded their maid attire, "Lure the creature out of its hiding place."
They did not have to wait for more than quarter of an hour, as the sea itself exploded as the maids shot out from the churning and frothing sea, and then a loud roar shook the sea beach a few hundred miles away from their camp as Ryuu tried to cover his ears which were hurting from such a loud roar, as he fell on his butt while staring with a mixture of awe and fear at the majestic creature a few hundred feet away from him, a creature which his sisters decided to hunt.
Ryuu stood up as he looked at the serpent in front of him a majestic being of at least a little over half a dozen miles long and his jaws were a hundred feet at least. The great beast was known as 'White horned Basilisk', a descendant of the world eating serpent 'Jörmungandr', a serpent of incredible strength as well as poison the beast was already spewing its poison causing a putrid smell to spread throughout the area.
He turned his back as his shoulder slouched he so wanted to create more sand castle by the sea side why did he agree to follow them during their hunt, as such he murmured something akin to 'Stupid older sisters'.
Shamiran stated in a faux scolding manner, "That is why I told you to not waste you energy and go early to bed yesterday.", which immediately earned her a stink eye from Ryuu.
As Ryuu fumed while thinking, ''Early to bed', it does not matter how early I go to bed I doubt that I a simple Wanxiang Adept level cultivator could even put a scratch on an Immortal level beast even if the beast gave me a couple of hundred free hits.'
A maid came forward as she spoke, "Young Prince, please use this bracelet it will form a protective bubble around you which will filter out any form of poisonous fumes."
Ryuu nodded in acknowledgement before put the bracelet on his left hand as he activated the array inscribed on the bracelet which immediately formed a transparent barrier with light blue hue protecting Ryuu completely.
The 'White Horned Basilisk' shouted out his voice shaking the entire sea beach, "Who dares attack me I will eat you mongrels."
Ryuu deadpanned at the beast's words inwardly thinking, 'What a lame intimidation line, oh well one should not insult someone's last words.' with that he quickly made a small prayer for the safe passage of the poor beast's soul.
Antariskh spoke out loud enough for her beautiful voice to be heard by everyone present, "Well so who will get the show started."
Shamiran giggled as she replied off handedly, "Normally I should have started the show but I would love to give the small worm a free hit so that it does not claim to be bullied by us."
The beast was enraged by Shamiran speech as it gave another earth shaking roar, "As it spewed a blackish substance which covered the entire area, the sand seemed to dissolve as even the sea had turned black because of it, a maid quickly put her hand on Ryuu's shoulder and soon they were on air a little further away from their initial position.
Ryuu muttered a small 'thank you', as a show of gratitude for her help who only gave a short bow to him.
A loud shout came towards him catching him off guard, "Ryuu pay attention I want you to watch and learn."
Shamiran spoke out, "First when dealing with such a large prey try to immobilize you or its rampage will cause problem.", with her piece being said she took out a bow as she took aim and fired arrows so fast that it looked a blur, as she muttered the name of her technique, "Heaven's Cage."
In a blink of an eye the few hundred arrows she fired changed their shape as the ensnared the serpent as if it were tied by thick ropes completely immobilizing it, but the serpent was crafty it changed its form as it took the form of a humanoid being.
Any beasts normally can start taking a human form as soon as they enter Primal Daoist realm, except some beast who have the blood of a Divine Beast can try taking humanoid shape only when they reach even a higher realm, and for Divine beasts the Immortal Realm is the minimum level before they can try to take a human form. Trying to take a human form and completely gaining one are two different perspectives as it takes years of practice and from what it looked like the beasts has recently gained after it reached Immortal level, meaning it has a very high concentration of Divine blood in him.
Shamiran did not bat an eye at the beast as she continued her lecture while the beast lunged towards her, "During the hunt make sure that you have one Defender who will tank the beast's attack", as soon as she finished speaking Antariskh stepped forward with a two-handed broad sword as she started a battle while taking a defensive stance, she was for most of the time dodging with minimal movement while sometime redirecting any attack that came to close to her.
Ryuu knew her sisters were teaching him as such they were simply toying with their prey, but still the movements of Antariskh seemed to Ryuu as if she was dancing around the beast a very mesmerizing dance, his attention was again drawn by Shamiran's voice, "The Defender's job is simple keep the main focus of the beast towards the defender so that other's do not have to worry about the beast's onslaught while they attack on the beast to finish him."
Shamiran then fired a couple of shots at the humanoid shaped give some breathing room for the Defender but to Ryuu he could clearly see the boredom in his eldest sister, as Shamiran kept on her lessons, "Then comes the role of a ranger, their role is simple provide range support to the Defender as well as make sure that sometimes the heat on the defender is always on the tolerable level.", she shot a couple of arrows at the beast lethargically before she spoke again, "The last one is attacker, their job is to attack and possibly kill the prey.", no sooner did she speak Sylvana suddenly appeared behind the beast as she beheaded him, Ryuu was shocked at the sudden appearance of Sylvana he was so busy focusing on the battle that he had forgotten her presence, he mentally winced at that if she were an enemy such carelessness would have caused him his life.
The beast upon his death reverted back to his original form but before he could touch the water he was thrown back with a swipe of Sylvana's delicate well manicured right hand towards the land away from the poisonous water and land, the beast landed making a loud crater, the impact caused a small quake and huge column of dust rose.
Ryuu looked towards the beast with pity, truly the fellow was born under the most unluckiest star as such he was used as an unwilling volunteer to teach Ryuu.
Shamiran suddenly appeared by his side nearly giving him a heart attack as she spoke, "There are various ways to hunt the method I taught is more liking battling rather than hunting, you are good at battling any prey but you are equally worthless when it comes to tracking and stealth during our vacation we will hunt for meat most of the time, and we hope by the end of the vacation you will be a better hunter or a predator, and if you want to be an apex predator you should know not always all hunt is done using brawns it also requires some brain, but it is something for later currently I have some carving for some snake meat.", as she took Ryuu with her towards the camp.
Ryuu idly watched as Sylvana moved towards the beast as she gathered something golden in a vial she held in her hand from the blood, before she left the maids to dismantle the snake.
Antariskh then turned towards Ryuu as she spoke, "We are also going to teach you how to dismantle a beast properly in order to harvest the meat and various precious ingredients later on."
They made their way towards the camp with Ryuu having various thoughts in his mind which he will clarify later on.. But then one question came to his mind which he could not help but ask, "Big Sis have you ever met with a 'Jörmungandr'?"
At his innocent question her sisters almost stumbled before Shamiran got a teasing smirk on her face as she asked Ryuu, "Why Ryuu, do you want to meet one?"
Ryuu answered with a smile on his face as he looked forward, "Of course I have read about many creatures which are so rare that some are considered Mythical and some are just stories made to scare children, as such when I asked 3rd mistress about them she said that if any creature that is not mentioned in the fictional section of her library are definitely real, 'Jörmungandr' is one such creature seeing its descendant I wanted to one day to meet one a serpent, who is so huge that they are able to devour an entire planet .", as he finished speaking he turned his face towards Shamiran and was taken aback by the strange gleam in her eyes before she gave a full blown laughter sending a chill on his spine.
Shamiran spoke with her voice full of excitement as she put one of her arms on Ryuu's shoulder bringing him closer as she spoke, "My adorable baby brother, just stick around us I promise I will show you something that even a 'Jörmungandr' would think twice about angering", for a split second Ryuu thought his third sister's pupils took a beautiful serpentine look before returning to normal.