This is the second day after Gray became a junior knight, After becoming a junior knight he can feel more energetic and he can go on for days without eating. But today Gray was feeling a little frustrated because of these two days there no sign of the wolf group or any other high-level beast that can provide him with beast cores.
On the third day finally when Gray was about to go to sleep AI chip warned him that a few large life forms are quickly approaching this place.
After seeing that, this is indeed the wolf group Gray ordered the AI chip to scan their attributes.
"Beep Name: Alpha Wolf(High level normal beast) Strength:4.9 Agility:3.3 Vitality+defense 5.9"
"Beep Name: Wolf(High level normal beast) Strength:4.1 Agility:3.2 Vitality+defense 5.6"
"Beep Name: Wolf(High level normal beast) Strength:4.3 Agility:3.15 Vitality+defense 5.7"
"Beep Name: Wolf(High level normal beast) Strength:4.0 Agility:3.2 Vitality+defense 5.5"
"Beep Name: Wolf(High level normal beast) Strength:4.15 Agility:3.1 Vitality+defense 5.6"
Looks like these wolves are stronger than that leopard but much slower,
After seeing the stats of these wolves Gray was thinking about how to deal with them, although after seeing that the leopard didn't die even after falling into trap Gray made those traps deeper but still he can't be sure if all these wolves will fall into the traps. So he quickly readied an arrow on the crossbow and aim towards those traps.
Those 5 large wolves were quickly moving toward the bait but just they were about to take the bait the alpha wolf howled and stoped the group, after that it sniffed and looked around but after finding nothing it quickly approached the bait with the other wolves.
Seeing this Gray was happy that he musked his smell with local herbs before coming here.
Suddenly there was a loud cracking noise and all the wolves one by one fall into the traps set by Gray, But to his surprise, only two wolves were fatally injured and the other three especially the alpha received only flesh wounds.
Seeing these Gray quickly fired an arrow after adjusting the aim with the help of the AI chip.
The arrow hit one of the wolves and it died after running for few more steps but the other two already escaped far, seeing this Gray quickly climb down from the tree and chased after the more wounded normal wolf because he could not catch up to the alpha wolf quickly even though it is injured.
And after about 20 minutes Gray caught up to the wolf but it still had some fight left, after seeing Gray was approaching it from behind it quickly turn around and attack viciously with it claws which surprised Gray a little and its claw almost landed on Gray's body but he dodged just in time and attacked with his sword from the side which left a deep wound in its shoulder but it still tried to attack Gray with all its might but this time Gray was ready and he quickly dodged and again attack it with a vertical slash which landed in its head, blood and brain matter came out with the sword and this time with a thud sound the wolf drop to the ground, dead.
Looks like I need some experience with real battles, although I was lucky that this wolf had low agility and also injured, If not I could have been injured with that sudden attack.
After thinking this Gray quickly dug out the core and pull out its fangs and then return to the place where the other three wolves were trapped, two of those wolves was injured pretty badly from the traps and one already died from the arrow which went through its heart, other two was barely alive but no longer can move. Gray also dug out another three small black cores from these three wolves and fangs as proof of this mission. After doing all this Gray finally thought about the alpha wolf which ran away, as far as Gray knew wolves are supposed to be smart but loyal to their packs but, looks like that is not the case in this world or the suddenness of the attack scared it.
After looking at the map and the place where the wolf ran Gray could help but smile bitterly Because if that wolf ran straight it will reach the place where Gray killed the first human in his life.
Although he can't say for sure but, it might be possible that the place where he first encountered a wolf was their lair. But he is uncertain because that place is very far from here and wolves from earth had something like a 3000 square kilometer hunting area.
Who knows maybe I am overthinking things because this is a Green zone there are very few large animals in this jungle to hunt and even they are good at hiding, that's why they are still alive after the countless hunt from other humans so maybe that's why those wolves have such a large hunting area.
But Gray doesn't really want to return to that place because if he leaves any clue about him or even worst if he meets people from the family that those people came from, then it can be very dangerous for him.
But right now he has no other choice because if he wants to complete this mission and get information about Magus he has to kill that alpha wolf. So although unwilling Gray still decided to go after the wolf.
But I am not in a hurry to chase the alpha wolf, I should use these cores to improve my strength, so even if there is an unexpected situation later, I will have no problem fighting or at list escaping from them. Also according to the map, it will take him 7 days to reach that place.
Thinking this Gray looked at his hand where was 4 black beast core, a few drop of blood was still dropping from those.
After making up his mind Gray climb up the tree where he was planning on sleeping tonight before those wolves came, then started practicing his breathing manual after putting one beast core inside his mouth.
The next day.
Gray was slowly moving toward the place where he killed the unfortunate young man Elric. Gray was using the Breathing manual at the night for an hour every day, First time Gray can practice it for 15 minutes but now with the help of all these beast core he can practice for almost an hour.
Like this 10 days passed although it should have been taken Gray only 7 days to reach that place but because he was very relaxed and rested a lot as a side effect of overusing the breathing manual. On this day Gray suddenly opened his eyes after his practice season, today he finally used up all 4 beast core but unlike other days Today only after 10 days of becoming a junior knight he again advanced to Senior knight.
AI chip show my stats-
"Beep Name: Gray Agarwal(Senior knight) Strength:3.0 Agility:4.0 Vitality + defense:3.5 "
Seeing his attribute although Gray was very excited, but he also furrowed his brows because last few days the increase in his attributes is becoming less and less and now that he became a senior knight, he will have less than one-third of the original effect of these normal beast cores and even that will decrease as his strength increases.
But right now Gray put all these thoughts at the back of his mind because he finally reached near the river which he stayed after coming to this world, in the way here Gray found few traces of that alpha wolf so he is now 100% sure this is the place where those wolves lived. It looks like although its injury was lite but after running all way here it lost a lot of blood because Gray noticed unsteady footsteps which looks like that of wolves in the mud and a few drops of blood.
I think that wolf stopped here to drink water and after seeing that this foots steps lead to a place that looks like a swamp, Gray stars moving toward that place.
After 5 minutes Gray reached the swamp and as he was thinking about ordering the AI chip to scan this area, he found the wolf easily which was lying in the shade of a very big tree.
After sensing Gray's approach the Wolf opened its eyes and looked straight at Gray. Seeing the cold and ruthless gaze at him Gray somehow felt that this wolf recognized him as the person who killed his companions. But without caring about it Gray ordered the AI chip to scan this wolf.
"Beep Name: Alpha Wolf(High level normal beast) Strength:4.9 Agility:3.1 Vitality+defense 4.1"
Looks like its vitality and agility decreased after the injury. Thinking this he took out the crossbow and fired an arrow after aiming at the wolf but to Gray's astonishment it dodged the arrow and came straight at gray with great momentum but unlike the previous time he was ready and he took out the sword from his waist and used the basic sword art with the help of AI chip's predictions to kill this wolf in just a few round. After killing the wolf Gray looked at his palm and thought how it took almost no effort to kill a high-level normal beast but when he first came to this world, he had no other choice but to hide as soon as the AI chip warned him about its arrival.
Satisfied with his progress, Gray collected the fangs and the beast core which was a little bit bigger than those other wolves.and was about to leave this place for Greenwood city, the AI chip gave him a warning.
"Beep warning extremely dangerous lifeform approaching this place host is not recommended to directly fight with it"
After hearing this Gray was a little surprised but he quickly made a move and hid behind the large tree, after about 10 sec Gray finally heard someone approaching near the tree.