"I defeated 16 and you just 8 today," Qi Huan concluded.
They had traveled in the forest for several days. The three of them kept on going deeper into the forest in order to escape from the monitoring and to search for rank 2 beasts. So far, they only managed to find rank 1 beast and defeated them along their way.
Lu Wan's face darkened. "I'm not a killing maniac like you! Besides, I have to use this crappy sword."
If he could use his real weapon, Lu Wan was sure that he would become a better challenger to compete with Qi Huan. Unfortunately, this sword limited his movement, making it impossible for him to fight too fast.
"There's not much monitoring over here," Ye Jiao returned while dragging a beast. Her clothes were stained with blood, but she didn't seem to care in the slightest.
"You also hunt?"
"I need exercise. Don't worry, I always search for the one outside their range of vision."
The three of them have keener sense because of training. The teacher didn't really hide their presence that well, so they found out where the teachers were watching them. The number of students compared to the teacher was completely uneven. Adding with a lot of incompetent student, the teacher had to work harder.
Because of that, at times, there wouldn't be any teacher who watched over them.
"They're paying more attention to us because the two of us are quite important in our respective kingdom," Qi Huan pointed to the alley hundreds of meters away from them. "Let's head over there. We're already days away from the capital city, so the number of teachers lessened."
There was no restriction of how far they could go. The consequences would be the teachers couldn't rescue them right in time if they were too far.
"If there's a rank 2 beast, it'll be for the better."
"We have to hunt 10, right?" Ye Jiao recalled their mission that Qi Huan told them not long ago.
Qi Huan smiled. "Right. Let's go."
The three of them dashed through the forest again. A teacher, who was located several dozen meters away from them watched helplessly. He felt that there were too many reckless students lately.
As they headed deeper, they made sure that there was no teacher nearby because they planned on defeating rank 2 beast by using their original weapon. The corpse of the beast wouldn't be checked, so there was no need for them to worry so much.
"There's strong pressure coming from there," Ye Jiao's keen sense immediately detected the difference in the air.
Lu Wan nodded. "Got it. There must be rank 2 or rank 3 beasts over there. Let's go."
"How do you know?"
"Our little junior has a keen sense of Eon Energy. Because beasts above rank 1 already used much more Eon Energy, she can detect it from afar. I already tested it a few times before and it's true."
When they were in the forest, Ye Jiao would be the one to lead them because she could sense the beasts. If they needed to hurry, they would surely pick the route that avoided the beasts and only fought some lower rank 1 that was far weaker. That way, they could save a long time journeying.
Qi Huan's eyes flashed in interest. He never knew that there was that kind of ability to be able to sense the movements of Eon Energy in the air so keenly. They always have the ability to detect Eon Energy around them because they would absorb them, but the distance between Ye Jiao and that beast was still quite far.
"Ah, I can sense it now," Lu Wan's face turned grim. "Prepare for a battle."
"I can't detect anything," Qi Huan frowned.
"It takes me a long time of practice to be able to detect them too, so it's fine. I think you're more used to dealing with concealed killing intent compared to the faint movements of Eon Energy from beasts."
He couldn't refute that. Before he could say anything else, there was sudden pressure coming at them. This time, there was no way Qi Huan could miss it.
"Prepare for battle!"
The three of them already took out their weapon when they saw a massive spider coming to their direction.
"Ah, spider, huh?" Lu Wan grinned. "It's time for a battle then."
As soon as the spider saw them, it spread its web at rapid speed to their direction. The three of them scattered to several directions before heading straight to the spider.
Slash!
From a distance, Lu Wan started the attack by using his chain blade. He has gotten much more proficient as he could control it well despite the distance.
Scree!
The spider was angry. It turned around to chase after Lu Wan, but Ye Jiao and Qi Huan had arrived. Her dagger and his sword immediately hacked down the spider's leg. It was hard as if they were meeting a metal.
"Jump back!" Lu Wan yelled.
His blade returned back and this time it also attacked the leg.
Clang!
Their face turned grim when they realized that the spider has higher defense than their expectation. It was as if the legs were made of steel metal. Even with their weapon that they got from their master, it was extremely hard to break the defense.
"I'll attack its body."
Qi Huan dashed to the other side while Ye Jiao headed to the legs once again. Her eyes were locked on the joint as she swung her dagger as hard as possible with its point of contact right at the joint.
Clang!
'It's shallow, but it cuts.'
Compared to the attack to the legs that the spider repelled immediately, this time Ye Jiao could sense that the attack worked. A smile made its way to her lips as she jumped back because the spider had attacked with its web.
Stab!
Qi Huan focused his attack and stabbed the spider deeply. His eyes widened when he realized that his sword couldn't go any deeper.
"Watch out!"
The spider spun around with its leg aiming for Qi Huan. He swiftly pulled back his sword and dashed to the back. At the same time, Lu Wan's chain blade was swung to the spider's direction once more.
"Attack the joint! It's weaker than the legs."
"Got it."
Spider's legs were made of a joint between the outer and inner legs, similar to that of humans. The two of them quickly moved to attack the joint of the spider to make sure that it couldn't move.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
With three slashes, the attack penetrated the joint and cut it off!
"it works!"
"Watch out!"
Scree!
The angry spider was still able to move properly with its seven legs. It was so quick that the front leg nearly cut down Qi Huan if he didn't move fast enough.
"The blade on its leg is so sharp," Qi Huan informed when he realized that part of his clothes were cut.
"I got it."
It was not only hard to break; the legs were also sharp. Lu Wan kept on making the spider busy by attacking with his chain blade while Ye Jiao and Qi Huan attacked the other legs, trying to cut them off the main body one by one. It was good that the spider didn't have any regeneration ability because it would surely make things harder.
Two, three, four, five, six.
When Ye Jiao cut off the sixth leg, the spider was unable to balance itself any longer. It swayed and fell down on the ground. It was still trying to move and attack with its web, but it was no longer able to move.
"Qi Huan, hurry!"
By now, Qi Huan jumped up above the spider. He raised his sword and made thrusting movements to the center of the spider's body.
Jleb!
Green colored blood splattered all around as Qi Huan repeated his movements several times until the spider stopped moving.
Their first hunt together was over.