He started to assign different training regimens to each individuals.
"Don Don, the training you will do is learning martial arts. I want you to go and fight any monsters that is on the same realm as you. This time, I want you to only use your fist, kicks, headbutts, do not use other materials. You must engage in a fight at least once a day."
"Sans, you will search for your partner deeper in the forest and only return when you tame a suitable one."
"Lucy, Dorothy, Foxxy and Flare, the task for the four of you will be upgrading your [Fireball] into [Foxfire] just like that of mother and Flora. Next, find any mid level Silver Rank monsters to fight with."
"JM, your training regimen is to find any hard boulders or ores and break them using your claws. Additionally, I suggest that you eat the ores you are able to break."
"France, you are already powerful. However, the last time you had a fight, you were careless. Besides it, you don't have an experience of fighting any flying type monsters as of yet who are as fast as you. Therefore, your training regimen is to find any strong and fast flying type monsters and try to beat them."
"Karl, you are also already powerful so I suggest you to find any strong monster that is on the same rank as you, especially monsters that are from beast race like bears and tigers. Also, search for any spouse that you can find along the way."
"Clwyd, I am going to have France release you in the ocean or lake that is teaming with many powerful monsters. Your only task is to able to survive."
"Flora and Mother, the mission for the both of you will be fighting high level Silver Rank monsters daily."
"Lastly, my task is just searching for rare plants. But while I am at it, I will make sure to find any high level Silver Rank monsters and try to create a new skill."
"We will start the training regimen tomorrow. As for today, le us just prepare ourselves."
Shadowslash then had Flora and Mary train the four girls.
Sans suddenly came in front of him and asks, "Master is there any method or tip for me in finding a suitable partner that you know?"
Shadow ponders but decided to ask the SYSTEM the same question as Sans as he is clueless.
(Sans is an undead. Let him search in any place that is dense with yin energy or a place full of death aura.)
He then told Sans what the SYSTEM have answered him.
After that, he told Sans to train with Don Don. They must have a mock battle but of course, Sans should not use his death sword.
Following that, he called France and Karl to tell them something.
"The two of you should stuff yourselves with dragon meat today so that tomorrow after you fight, you can easily assimilate the energy into your bodies."
Hearing this, France and Karl nodded and went to where the dragon is. They immediately start to stuff themselves with its meat.
Shadowslash goes to where JM is and he as well gave him a tip.
"JM, there are many ores underground so I think you should dig deeper underground. I also suggest to stuff yourself with some dragon meat, after all the training might take a long time."
Listening to this advice, JM then joined France and Karl in eating the dragon's meat.
When the three are busy eating, he look over at Don Don and Sans having a mock battle.
The fight resembles like that of humans battling with their fist and kicks.
Don Don was in an advantageous position in terms of attacking but with Sans' thick armour, it resulted in making Don Don's hands and feet sore ans become a little red.
Sans sent out a punch towards Don Don's face only to be dodge by Don Don skillfully. Surprisingly, the latter was able to have some counter attack using an uppercut in a process.
Shadow grinned. "The two of you should kept on training until lunch. It seems that this training was a great help for the two of you, so expect that I will add this to your training regimen."
"Sans, when you return from your search I want you to fight with Don Don using only your arms and feet. No skills nor items should be used, understand?" Sans nodded at him.
After reminding the two of them, he then also started to train himself. He was fighting his 3 clones all by himself.
All of his clones have the same strength and speed as his so he got beaten pretty badly by his clones but he is quite happy with the result.
After training for 3 hours with his clones, he slumps into the ground fairly exhausted.
He was truly beaten up fighting his clones. It was actually truly tiring and he also decided not to use any of his skills throughout the fight making him very pitiful.
He crawled towards the dragon's dead body and started to chomp down some of its meat to regain his energy.
At the same time, he saw Karl and France sleeping near the Luminous Tree of Life after having their fill. The tree have grown much bigger as well which makes it better for them.
After a couple of minutes, he saw JM came out of a hole.
He felt strange. Did JM already started his training? He asked him.
"Hey JM did you already start your training?"
JM nodded and started to dig again. It seems that he already decided to start his training on his own.
After resting for a couple of minutes, he goes to the Yin Pond.
When he got there, he saw the four girls concentrating on their [Fireball].
He smiled and left. Aftwrwards, he goes to where France is and wake him up ask him to accompany him to train.
After making sure he is okay and alert now, he said, "France, I want you to dodge all of my [Flame Bullets]. In addition, you need to attack using your wind blades."
France nodded and flies above Shadowslash. They stared at each other silently.
Then Shadowslash shoots [Flame Bullets] towards France.
France easily dodged and also started to attack Shadowslash with his [Wind Blades].
Shadowslash kept dodging at the same time firing [Flame Bullets]. However, some of France's attacks have hit him in the process.
On contrary, France is able to easily dodge Shadowslash attacks and using his [Keen Eyes], every attack made was on the spot.
The battle lasted for one hour. The result was overwhelmingly just a one sided. The beat down Shadowslash could not even land one hit but he received at least 30 [Wind Blades] on his side. Thankfully, France have weaken the attack a bit so it will not truly harm Shadowslash.
*Sigh* Shadow lamented.
"It seems that I am still weak and had a specific disadvantage against flying type monsters. Thank you for making me discover that much earlier France." Shadowslash was not depressed that he lost, rather he was actually greatly grateful as he never thought that he was actually in a stumbling block with regard to fighting a fast flying monster.
His [Flame Bullets] have also been greatly weakened by the force of wind, especially if he was aiming above.
After resting for another couple of minutes, Shadowslash saw that everybody was exhausted with their trainings.
They then started to eat to get back on their feet. With the training regimen, it seems that they worked up a lot which in turn increased their hunger and the amount of dragon meat they consumed is much greater than their normal consumption.
After eating, they started to train once again. Most noticeable ones are Sans and Don Don.
They spent the remaining day training, even though Shadowslash had said that the training will start the next day.
The following day everybody woke up early and started leaving the cave.
Shadowslash also left. His today's task was just to find rare plants. Neverthelles, he gave himself a weekly quota but there is no limit on different {Red Quality} plants, 7 different {Blue Quality} plants and 3 {Orange Quality} plants.
He began to search throughout the forest. Eventually he went the deepest part which they termed core zone.
He decided to search in the core zone, even though he just broke through a Silver Rank, because he can flee very fast. Besides, he has his [Shadow Clone] and [Shadow Blend] ability so he have many escape methods.
After searching for rare plants for many days already, Shadowslash have now develop an acute sense of smell for rare plants.
In just a couple of minutes he had already found 3 different {Red Quality} plants.
An hour later he found and teleported 10 different kinds of {Red Quality} plants and 2 {Blue Quality} plants.
He was rather cautious since nearly all the monster of the core zone is on Gold Rank and some of them were in ever higher realm so he was very careful in his endeavor.
He was just about to pass a creek when he saw a gravely injured wolf with horns. Moreover, in front of it was also an injured black goat.
He did his scan to the both of them.
Bull Wolf
(Gold Lvl 2)
(Rare)
(Strength)
Steel Horned Dark Goat
(Gold Lvl 4)
(Rare)
(Strength, Steel and Dark)
He then witnessed the Steel Horned Dark Goat rammed the Bull Wolf against the tree causing the Bull Wolf to let out a pained yelp.
Even though blood continuously flows within its injuries, the Bull Wolf retaliated and scratched the eye of the Steel Horned Dark Goat blinding it in a way.
The Steel Horned Dark Goat let out an angered bleat and started to ram the bull wolf again.
Continuous thud was heard in the area and the tree was also continuously shaking.
The Steel Horned Dark Goat was now full of injuries. Both of its eyes were scratched but the one who truly is in a worse situation is the Bull Wolf.
Shadowslash watching to the side heard the sounds of ribs breaking.
Shadowslash lets out a smile. This is another opportunity. He was thinking of recruiting the bull wolf to his team or making it his summoned monster.
He then hop to the Steel Horned Dark Goat and used [Double Dark Slash] against it.
He slashed and slashed until the Steel Horned Dark Goat died. It did not even manage to retaliate for the fact that its horns were still in the Bull Wolf's body. Apart from that, it can be seen that they were already fighting fiercely before Shadowslash came. Therefore, this resulted for it to greatly expend its Energy and Mana.
Shadowslash then signed the contract with the wolf.