"Good luck grandmaster," The attendant at the gate said as he waved goodbye at Shu's back disappearing down the mountain away from the temple grounds.
"Hope he is still alive" Shu uttered in a half-joking manner. He was worried about his disciple since he was the weakest of the bunch of them in the beginning, and up until now that still rings true where normal disciple could defeat 1 water type at least,
But he has trouble with mortal type monster but there's one thing he has that the others don't, determination and an attitude that even to those stronger than him by leaps and bounds couldn't match.
If there is one thing he has its resilience and a fire in his eyes when he wants something, and Shu respected that because he saw himself in his eyes. A boy with something to prove.
"Just stay alive.....if you can. just a bit longer please," Shu said with sadness welling up inside "Please Shen"
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Meanwhile.
Shen felt a shiver down his spine hearing the snarl from behind him.
"Enemies inbound"
"Yeah I f*cking noticed," Shin said turning to face the three type wolves from yesterday, They were standing all around him each blocking his exit route.
Shen tossed the boar across the way distracting two of the wolves except the leader Shin began to run and the leader gave chase into the forest.
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Shu has just made it down the mountain.
"I haven't been down there in a while" Shu scanned his surroundings to check for any sign of where Shen went,
but for now he would just aimlessly walk through the forest while thinking of his memories with shin and how many times he has to save Shins from bullies, pissed off brothers, as well as a bear when he played with her cub, And let out a wry chuckle.
"Doesn't matter if your animal or human that boy pissed of everyone" Shu shook his head " Oh well even then his still like a little brother to me"
Shu grinned "Don't worry Shin your brothers on his way" Shu began to walk a bit faster.
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Shen was still running with the wolf hot on his tail. No matter how many twists and turns he made he couldn't escape it somehow it always found him.
"F*cking a" Shen could feel it getting closer with every second and was thinking in his head.
"I found a way to get stronger and now I have to die???? This is bulls*it" He was so engrossed in his thoughts Shin didn't notice the fact that the wolf was ready to attack. It swiped at him with feral intensity, just barely whizzing past his head as he quickly sidestepped out the way but, in his moment of confusion the claws carved a deep gash on his arm. He quickly distanced himself from the wolf. Then he felt something click in his head.
[Entering combat stance] When the system finished this sentence Shin's body moved on its own and he was in a battle-ready stance, The wolf took a leap at Shin which Shin responded with ducking under while landing a blow to the body of the wolf.
"Did I just do that?" He said looking at the wolf also get on guard, Shin noticed its movements seem slower, And his own was faster by a small margin.
He asked the system
"Can I beat it?"
[Affirmative, But an external instrument needed to dispose of the target] The system promptly responded and Shin immediately assumed the "External instrument" Was some type of weapon so he quickly scanned his surroundings, He quickly picked up a log and baited the wolf into attacking and when it did he dodged to the side and bashed it against the wolf's head.
With a loud "crack" He saw his weapon snap in two, Although it broke it did leave the wolf in a dazed state he quickly took another look around and found a large rock and gripped it and began to hit the wolf violently with it.
"Thwack!" The first hit landed and created a slight dribble of blood from the wolf's head.
"Thwack" The second it seemed to turn the dribble into a flow.
"Thwack" With this the beast seemed to stop moving, But Shin was not convinced and continued to whale on the monster of an animal.
"THWACK" THWACK" THWACK" After three more hits he saw that the beast's head has turned to mush, It was dead Shin let out a sigh of relief before the system said.
[Congratulations on killing lower mortal type wolf behemoth]
"I did it?!?!?" Shen was stunned he killed a mortal type! Shin has never beaten a mortal type in his life, No matter how much he trained.
He was elated with the fact that he did this, He was more confident with himself about the duel now. But the sad thing was he was still dying of hunger and the system said.
[To gain its skill and power eat your kill and be upgraded to lower mortal type] Shin heard this and thought he was dreaming. He had to pinch himself, and it hurt!
"Why?" Shin said with a confused expression.
[To process its skill you must eat] Shen shrugged and sulked, There was nothing he could do, he was disgusted but he wanted power, So he began to chow down on the wolf.