"Has it finished?" Lu Wan asked with rough breath.
"I think so," Chen Zi Quan stood in his place as he looked at the boar's corpse. It was truly a long fight.
The two of them were still standing in their spot when they heard a rustling sound and saw a teacher come to them. The teacher's face was filled with surprise when he saw the condition of the students.
"You're late," Lu Wan blurted out.
The teacher's face turned red. "My apologies. There are a few students calling for help at the same time."
"Never mind that, give us medicine," Chen Zi Quan ordered.
"Yes, Your Highness."
Even though they were students, the teacher still has to treat the second prince with more respect. After all, the difference in status was painfully clear.
While Chen Zi Quan checked Wei Cheng and Wei Yin, Lu Wan headed to Mu Xin and Ye Jiao. After the crash, Mu Xin moved her body to the side and sat down while inspecting her own wounds. There were only some scratches here and there with no life threatening wound.
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah," Ye Jiao nodded. "There's just some scratches on my arm and legs. I'm sure they'll heal by tomorrow."
"Still, use this," Lu Wan gave the medicine ointment to Ye Jiao and Mu Xin. "Also, try to rest and recover your Eon Energy, Mu Xin. You use quite a lot in the battle just now."
"You should say that to yourself."
Ye Jiao was busy applying the medicine ointment as she could see the two of them sitting down. They were busy recovering their Eon Energy to care for other things. That battle just now forced them to use a lot of Eon Energy.
Her eyes landed on the side where she saw the similar scene on Chen Zi Quan's side. Wei Yin and Wei Cheng were wounded, but they also had gotten first treatment before they were busy recovering their Eon Energy. The teacher headed to the boar's corpse and retrieved the sword while assessing the boar.
After an unknown amount of time, Lu Wan opened his eyes.
"This feels much better."
"Have you recovered, Young Master?" Ye Jiao asked curiously.
Lu Wan nodded. "Yeah. I'm already feeling much better right now. Let's check the spoil this time."
As Lu Wan stood up and walked to the teacher, Chen Zi Quan also did the same. It seemed that the two of them took around the same amount of time to recover their strength and Eon Energy.
"Is there supposed to be any rank 2 beast in the forest?" Chen Zi Quan asked straight to the point.
The teacher shook his head. "We already drove them away from the area two weeks ago. They shouldn't be able to return because we place a barrier at the outer layer."
"Then, how do you explain this?"
"This…" the teacher was tongue tied. He looked at the two of them with dejected expression. "The principal asks us to call all the students back to the city because this is the third time we encounter rank 2 beast."
"Call the student back? What about the hunt?"
"It means the hunt is over," Chen Zi Quan translated. "Rank 2 beast is more challenging, but it's too hard right now."
The fight just now showed how much they needed to learn how to cooperate with their teammates and the difference in strength. Even though Eon Energy Master rank 2 was supposed to be able to fight on equal grounds with rank 2 beast, Chen Zi Quan was unable to do so because of his lack of strength.
"A few more teachers will come to escort you back. Before that, you may divide the spoils first."
The two of them looked to the boar and then turned to look at one another. "Who's the leader in your group?"
"I am. Your group?"
"Me," Lu Wan pointed to himself. "How do you feel about dividing it? There's no way we can present half a core, right?"
"One of us takes the core and the other one takes the body," Chen Zi Quan replied.
Lu Wan frowned. "It'll be unfair for the ranking. They only count the core and not the body when they count the ranking."
"How many cores have you got so far?"
"I have 142 cores," Lu Wan replied.
"We have 153 cores. Even if you take the core, it'll only give you additional 10 point, so we'll still win," Chen Zi Quan replied.
"…" with the difference of one point.
"What's your decision?"
Lu Wan knew that he didn't really have any use for the core. Even though it could help them in their training, it took a long time to process even just one core. He was not patient enough to wait for the expert to process it.
Besides, he preferred to just use places with large concentrations of Eon Energy rather than using cores.
"Fine, I'll take the body, but you should give me something else as the compensation," Lu Wan haggled.
"What do you want?"
"Just give me 10 beast's bodies. Those rank 1 that you hunt before, you should have kept their body, right?"
Chen Zi Quan looked at Lu Wan with an indifferent expression. "Indeed. Here you go."
With a sweep of his hand, ten beast's bodies appeared on the ground. Lu Wan nodded satisfied and put them into his own storage bracelet.
"I'll take the core first, then you can take the body."
"Got it."
Chen Zi Quan moved steadily and picked out the core before leaving back to his group. Putting the body into his storage bracelet, Lu Wan gleamed. Some kind of beast could be eaten and this boar was clearly one of them.
As he walked back to his teammate, he thought about what kind of food he would like to make from it.
On the side, the teacher didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he listened to their transaction. It was known that the meat of lower ranked beasts didn't have much value except for commoners, so it was weird for him to see the boy traded it for something like that.
Well, it didn't really matter for him, though. He just has to do his job.