'Gra, go for its legs. Its main attack are the charging attack, if we limit his agility then he will become a tough lump of meat.' (Faust)
'Damn it Faust you think that an earth fusion rank 2 magic rhino skin is a paper? Why don't you just pick easier opponent for this? (Angra)
'Remember Gra that my soon to be the greatest undead army need to rank up as soon as possible, if they don't fight stronger enemies it will take them longer to rank up and thus longer for my invincible army to take form.' (Faust)
'Killing a magic beast and incapacitating them are whole different games altogether for hell's sake!' Angra said while holding down the rhino's charge with his own earth fusion. Faust death mana arrow seems to be working on weakening the rhino's charge and overall strength so Angra was able to hold the rhino down, but Faust must be careful with how many and how dense the death mana arrow he churned out since he doesn't want to kill the rhino by himself.
'Hurry and do it! This thing is as strong as a speeding truck!' (Angra)
"Alright do it guys!" (Faust)
With Faust's command, the hyenas that now are all rank 2 advanced zombies emerged from all sides of the rhino and start attacking it.
Slashes of dagger from the 4 ex-thieves of the group slowly chipping away at the rhinos' earth fusion and naturally tough hide.
With Ben's halberd have been taken by Angra, now he has to use his fists and bites to attack the rhino. While the ex-mage Edgar doesn't have his magic anymore so he also resorts to good old zombie bites and slashes using his claws.
The strategy of the attack is quite simple, Faust and Angra will weaken the beast and hold it down while Faust's undead army will attack the beast to gain experience and skills.
The beast type like the rhino is good for them because, even though it is a rank 2 magic beast and has strong skin that is not easy to penetrate, it doesn't conjure magic outside its body as the magic boar does. The rhino is actually dangerous for a rank 1 beast even if it can't conjure magic. With its earth fusion and charge skill, most magic beasts will be dead or critically hurt when hit by the charge. And earth spikes that the boar uses can't even slow down the rhino's charge.
But because of Faust's death mana arrow and Angra's incredible strength, the rhino is the perfect target for them to level up Faust's undead troops.
After a few minutes of dagger swinging and, claws slashing, and flesh biting. Finally, the rank 2 magic rhino went down. Faust checked his troops, but unfortunately, none of them managed to level up to level 10 again. The highest leveled one is Husk on level 7.
Faust didn't know what race they will be when they reached rank 3. Will they all be the same race as now or there will be individualization based on the skill and fighting styles of the zombies. And Faust is also curious if they will be able to also use magic when they reached higher rank, 'maybe I should ask dad later' Faust thought to himself.
'Hey Faust, why don't you make a weapon with earth magic for the big guy, he seems lost without a weapon in his hand.' Angra said to Faust while pointing at the big zombie he mentioned which is actually Ben.
'Yes, thank you for reminding me that someone took his weapon forcefully and now I have to mend that person's mess' (Faust)
'You said I could take it!!' (Angra)
'Yes yes whatever makes you happy, brother' Faust said while making a halberd with earth magic and enhancing it to be as sturdy as steel then giving it to Ben which looks slightly happy with its zombie eyes flickered a little even though its face muscles still couldn't function properly.
Seeing how happy his subordinate has become, Faust then said.
"I'm sorry Ben, I don't know you love your weapon that much, if I find anything better in the future that you can use, you sure can have it." (Faust)
Ben thanked his master with bowing his head and played with his newly given earth halberd cheerfully.
Faust felt something in the connection between his mind and his undeads. He then searched where does it come from, it actually comes from Edgar because he felt useless that he can't do his magic anymore. In an attempt to be a good master Faust tried to comfort his subordinate anxiety.
"It's okay Edgar, I'll believe that if you have a higher rank you will be able to use your magic again. For now, let's focus on leveling up and reaching higher rank!" Faust said while patting the zombie's shoulder.
"Okay guys, let's continue hunting until at least one of you reached rank 3!"
With Faust's new job as a necromancer, he also got experience from what his undead army kills, so now he's already level 6 since the last time he chose his first job. And Angra is still at level 4 because of the babysitting that he has to do for his dear brother. But he put up with it because Faust promised that he'll also help him level up once his army reached rank 3 then they will be able to hunt magic beasts easier.
'Faust, why don't u make the halberd with magic beast parts, it will at least be stronger than the earth magic one right?' (Angra)
'Hmm... That's actually a nice idea Gra! Did the guilty feelings make your brain works better?' (Faust)
'Shut up Faust, I'm just trying to help.' (Angra)
'It's okay big guy, don't be shy, thanks for the idea.' (Faust)
"Okay let's search for a deer's antler for the handle part and for the blade we can use the rhino's horn and stick them together using earth magic." (Faust)
Faust then deployed his usual souls searching system and soon found the magic deer.
"Since we only wanted to use its antlers, let me kill it with the gun-javelin."
Faust then conjured the usual gun-javelin magic combination and then quickly shoot it aiming at the deer's neck to preserve the antler and killing it swiftly.
*BOOM*
The usual explosion of the condensed fire attribute magic was heard once more.
The gun-javelin as expected passed through the deer's neck easily and went past the trees behind and travelling further until it stopped and Faust and Angra heard a whimpering sound coming from where the gun-javelin travelled.
'Gra did I misheard or is that a whimper?' (Faust)
'Yes for once I'm doubting my ears if that javelin just whimpers.' (Angra)
Faust then looked at the 6 zombies with a 'am I wrong?' face but the zombies' numb senses doesn't help them hear any better than Faust.
'I'm pretty sure that's a whimper.' (Angra)
'A whimper....' (Faust)
"SHIT GRA RUN!, ZOMBIE CREW LET'S RUN!" (Faust)
Faust panicked so hard that he snapped out of the usual telepathic communication with Angra.
'Faust, what's wrong? Why should we run?' (Angra)
'There's no time to explain, run first ask later.' (Faust)
'Okay..' (Angra)
*Awooooo*
After Angra closed his mouth he heard a loud howl coming from the direction where he heard the whimpers.
'Shit it's too late' (Faust)
'What is that?' (Angra)
'Gra remember that there are monsters that goes around in groups like the rank 1 monkeys?' (Faust)
'Yes and?' (Angra)
'Rank 2 magic beast also have their own magic beast that goes around in groups... or packs... considering what we will face this time.' (Faust)
'Packs..?' (Angra)
With the rustling of leaves heard coming to their direction and the light but many footsteps accompanying it prove Faust's worry to be correct.Not long after that, a large wolf as big as a Lion with grey fur and sharp fangs protruding from its mouth came into their view. And soon 5 other smaller wolves come out following the alpha's lead.
"Prepare to fight guys, Edgar you go with Husk and deal with one of them, for the others to pair up with each other and deal with a wolf each." (Faust)
The zombie crew did as their master told them and paired up with each other, Edgar with Husk, Zayn with Mark, and Robin with Ben and then go straight to each pair fighting a wolf.
'Gra can you hold the leader down while we deal with the smaller ones. I'm glad that at least that damn stray gun-javelin succeeded in killing one of them if not we're in a lot bigger trouble than this.'(Faust)
'Leave it to me to clean up your mess Faust, don't worry.' (Angra)
'You son of a b.... beautiful mother..' (Faust)
Faust then readied his magic to take on 2 smaller wolves. He first made an earth wall to separate the Alpha from the smaller wolves to make the other wolves lost their coordination with their leader. And Angra followed up by luring the alpha to go further away from the smaller wolves. And thus their fight for survival begins.