"Oye Siala , I am the captain of this group. ask me first before taking any decisions "
" If you forget then let me remind you again , don't call my name so casually and who decided that you are captain of this group."
What a rude and stubborn girl , If she doesn't want to follow my decision Then i don't want her to follow me.
" i would like to go solo , please excuse me ."
I walked to the teleportation center alone with a smirk on my face. I am a little worried about her , I don't know why.
I am at Forest of Mountain foothills.
I will definitely hunt more than anyone.
The forest at the foothills is more like an open dungeon because of the sheer amount of monsters here.
The forest was overflowing with nature and filled with a eerie silence,
The trees are tall enough to hide the sun behind them and What left is the darkness between these trees and it is frightening.
Even though I felt the presence of a monster, there was a pin drop silence.
It looks like they planned to ambush and hunt me
but they don't know what is going to happen to them.
A mischievous and sinister smile appeared on my face.
I Activated my presence detection skill to locate them. Skills are just like a well formulated action.
In normal cases, I have to pour my mana into the surroundings and thin it out like air to locate them.
But after two or three times repeating these,the mind will remember it and this will be added as a skill.
Even though there were lots of monsters, most of them are low rank,
I can detect some human-like presence too.
I took out my bow from my bag.
My bag is the only magic item left with me which I can call high quality.
It is an Inter-dimensional pocket which can store things in Other dimensions.
I loaded an arrow on the bow and pulled the bow string,
took a deep breath and poured my mana into it.
I wish I could use attributes like others but the only thing I can do is to increase the strength and range of arrows .
I coated the arrowhead with Aether. I don't know anything about aether but using it gives me assurance.
I shooted arrow toward a monster hidden behind the tree.
When my arrow collided with the tree it exploded and the monster ran toward me to attack but its life ended with just an arrow.
It was a skōlex, a giant, white, carnivorous worm with a large pair of teeth.
The arrow when stuck in it exploded causing its internal organs splattered everywhere, quite a gross.
one after another I hunted down every monster that I found and put them in my bag.
Each time I kill a monster,I can feel energy filling in my body.
Unlike others I am getting 3 times more experience points than ordinary people.
It is Past noon and today's loot is quite good: 5 skolex ,2 Myr Ants and 10 Red fox.
With a bright and happy smile I continued hunting.
but my smile didn't last long because of a bizarre scene happening in front of me. I quickly hid behind a tree.
In the middle of the forest, There was a girl ,soaked with blood and a dark golden smoke coming out from her.
She wore the same dress that girls in the academy used to wear.
I should have left before I got caught in this mess.
It is not my business to take care of others.
The smoke started taking the shape of a monster.
It took the shape of a four legged monster with bird-like face and large wings.
Its golden feathers are shooking like live fire and striped with blue feathers from beak to claws.
Its eyes are as black as abyss.
It has a mane like lion and it violently shaking like fire that could burn everything.
Its size kept increasing until it became larger than Lesser dragons and then it surpassed even the dragon.
It stopped growing any more after that.
I can sense some intelligence in them.
Suddenly from nowhere tens of men and women appeared.
All wore white robes with black embroidery and each had a logo of a broken sword surrounded with snakes at their robe near the heart.
They started to chant in some weird language and the monster started screaming.
As the chants continued, The monster screamed and suddenly it started to tear its own skin with beaks and cloths but instead of blood ,only dark golden smoke came out of its wounds.
It looks like The monster is struggling to free himself.
Their chants turned it mad.
Each part of my body was screaming for me to run away but my legs already gave up seeing this horrible scene.
Those stupid peoples what are the thinking to pushing a calamity like monster in such conditions.
The chant stopped as well as the monster's screams but now the only thing I could see was madness in its eyes.
My intuition is crying me to run away but i Can't run away, I don't know why.
The monster touches the unconscious or dead girl and throws up in air.
It opened its beak to let the girl in its stomach.
I looked at the girl and before I could think anything an arrow left my bow and hit at the left eye of Monster.
I ran toward the monster and caught the girl before it hit the ground and ran quickly to hide.
I checked her heartbeat. She is alive but merely.
Why the hell of all the girls in the Academy, she has to be here in this condition.
"Hey Siala, Wake up?"
I am trying to wake her up but it is impossible.
I hold her on my back tightly and Continuously transfer mana into her to speed up her recovery.
When I turned behind, My spine turned brittle with a chill.
The monster was massacring those people.It is tearing them with claws and beaks, crushing them with its weight but those stupid are not running away instead of it they are making it even more mad.
Some of the people are following and some are trying to hold down the monster.
I am running as fast as I could but they are faster than me. I am holding
"Hey Stop,You fool"
"How do you get here? Stop you bastard."
"Catch that brat "
"Stop, you can't run away from here alive."
"Give us back our ritual sacrifice."
They tried to catch me but I did my best to dodge them. One after another they keep trying to catch me.
Even though they are more powerful than me , I am still more agile than them.
But Continuously transferring mana causes my movement to become more and more dull.
And the monster is also following us. I can hear screams of people behind me.
One after another the number of followers keeps decreasing.
I can see sunshine at the end of trees.
I thought I could leave them behind but soon I found myself at a dead end.
I found myself at the edge of a cliff and behind me ,There were villains like people and behind them was the nightmare who was coming closer with every passing second.
"Now Boy you are going to die"
"I will tear you body in pieces and throw them from here."
They said with a frustrated face.
I took out my sword and poured mana into it.
It turned into a long curved sword.
"Where did you get this sword ? Who are you b.."
Before he could finish his words a claw tore him in half.
And others faced the same fate.
Now only me with my shivering hands and the monster is left .
I stopped pouring mana into siala and created a mana barrier around her.
"Hey monster, It's a very bad day for you to face me."
I tried to make fun of it with sweat dripping from my face.
My breaths are haggered due to running too much.
It didn't attack me but like a hunter trying to play with its prey,
Its eyes are searching for an opening.
After rotating a quarter distance around me it jumped on me with its claws ready to tear me.
I took the attack with a sword but the impact was so mighty that it broke my wrist and It threw me back some meters.
I bite my tongue because of such impact.
I want to run away but i don't want to let her die.
Even though I could die here, I will not give up.
The monster falls back and keeps circulating around me like before.
Holding my sword with one hand and looking at its eyes, I increase the amount of mana in my wrist to increase its recovery as fast as possible.
The monster rush toward me one again and instead of taking its attack head on I slide under its belly and thrust my sword in it
but I wasn't able to push it deep because of one hand.
The monster fell back once more but this time i can see it is cautious.
When my wrist recovered, I started pouring mana throughout my body to reinforce my muscles.
I even poured all the Aether I could. I am still holding my sword with one hand.
Once again it ran to me but this time it attacked with its wings and threw me side.
This attack was so powerful that it tore my muscles even though I reinforced them.
Blood is dripping from everywhere.
I stand up once more and my eyes are on its eyes. It roars like laughing on me.
I poured some more mana on my legs and jumped on it, It hid its head with its wing to take my attack.
My reinforced sword cut through its wings but what awaited for me was claws.
Before I could react he tore my chest and blood poured out like a fountain.
I quickly supply these wounds with mana to stop blood loss.
My body stopped feeling pain.
My visions are dizzy.
My hands are shivering even more.
One last attack of it and I will die for sure.
One more time I ran toward it and it ran toward me.
It thrust its claws to tear me in half and I jumped above its head before its claws could touch my face.
I landed on its back and without delaying anymore I put every drop of mana in my shoulders and thrust my sword deep in its neck and about to behead it.but It thrust its back claws in my back and tore deep and at the same time I beheaded it.
It dropped dead and i am going to die very soon too
The monster started vanishing leaving behind dark golden smoke.
Everything was turning black. Last thing I saw was her face before closing my eyes for eternal slumber.