Early in the morning, where the sun is still not high in the sky and the sunlight still couldn't disperse the cold from the night before, A man with his 2 twin sons, and what seems like 6 walking corpses and a bone animal are walking through the forest.
"So Dad, how are we going to investigate the forest? This forest is so big and I and Aiden have traveled quite far yesterday but we've found nothing." (Isaac)
"We will investigate it, but we don't need to go far too deep into the forest." (Mark)
"Why ? Isn't the deeper we go the stronger the enemies will be? And smarter also." (Aiden)
"Because this forest is large and there is also a very strong magic beast guarding the forest. If we go too deep we may interrupt its territories and if it doesn't like us meddling in its territory's business it will be quite troublesome for us." (Mark)
Aiden was about to ask why, but after he thought about it, it will just be a rhetorical question like "Why you don't like people trespassing your home?" so he didn't do it.
"My soul radar system also didn't find any group of magic beasts working together except the ones who usually do hunt in packs or teams." (Isaac)
While the many spirits under Faust's control roam around the area, The Zombie Crew plus Pat Kai just obediently walked behind following their master. Faust thanked the magic system in this world that undead could function normally in the sun, not like some of the stories he had read back on earth about undead dying when they are exposed to sunlight.
All the members of Faust's undead army are now at least rank 2 nearing rank 3 and 2 of them are rank 3 except the newly added skeleton pig whose only rank 1 because he was just born yesterday. Its main method of attacking, for now, is only using its harder than normal bone skeleton and its unordinary strength to do a charge just like an ordinary rank 1 magic boar. But Faust hoped that this skeleton boar with the body and soul of a mutated magic boar will soon be able to use magic.
With Mark leading the way, the group goes deeper and deeper into the Forest of Beast. The Forest of Beast is just like any other forest you can find in the world. With tall green trees, thick roots blocking the way here and there with the only difference is that, instead of finding the usual animals is that you will find magic beasts roaming around the area.
The Forest of Beast is a natural border between The Kingdom of Brandia and its neighboring kingdom, The Kingdom of Zandia. The two kingdom have friendly relations and they trade with each other, but the trading route became longer because they have to avoid going through The Forest of Beast.
Where Faust and Angra have been hunting so far, is still considered at the outskirts of the Forest of Beast. You can find rank 1 until rank 3 magic beasts roaming around the outskirts of the forest. Rank 1 magic beasts are not easy to hunt for ordinary hunters while rank 2 needs specialized people or experts to successfully hunt without losing people. On the other hand, rank 3 magic beast is impossible to hunt for people who haven't got their second job, and they have to do it in teams of people specializing in different aspects, tracking, defending, and attacking for the hunt to be successful.
But remember that all of this is just only for the outskirts of the forest. The middle part of the forest consists of even stronger rank 4 and above magic beasts. And the center part of the forest is where the Rank 4 magic beasts that specialize in conjuring magic are capable of even more complicated magic conjuring. If rank 1 magic beast that specialized in earth magic can make earth spikes, the rank 2 counterpart can make earth cages to traps the enemies, while rank 3 can make the earth cage enveloped by fire/water/wind depending on its specialization. Rank 4 magic beast is able to make 4 different cages in 4 separate locations with pinpoint locations and envelope the 4 cages with fire/wind/water. While the physical type is more straightforward, the higher the rank the stronger its fusion skill will be and the higher-ranked magic beast even capable of full-fusion with the elemental attributes.
Faust and the group have been searching around the forest for hours, occasionally hunting magic beasts because they're bored and now the sun is already near their heads. The Zombie Crew and Pat Kai surely aren't bothered by the heat but it stills bothers Faust and not finding anything on their investigation after so long surely doesn't help in alleviating the heat. Frustrated that they will really find nothing Faust then said
"Dad, let's split up in our search!" (Isaac)
"Hmm.. Why now?" (Mark)
"It's very boring and if we split up we can cover up more grounds." (Isaac)
"But we're nearing the area of a rank 3 magic beasts it may be dangerous for you guys." (Mark)
"It's okay dad, if we found anything, I will send one of my spirits to come and get you so make sure your soul vision is activated dad!" (Isaac)
"Yes dad please, I want to train fighting rank 3 magic beasts too. Rank 2 magic beasts isn't really a challenge now." (Aiden)
"Yes dad with the help of zombie crew, rank 2 magic beasts are like warms up for me and their usual prey is now rank 2 magic beasts, it is not a problem for them." (Isaac)
"But I can't know soon what you guys are finding because you spirits can't talk right?" (Mark)
"Hmm what about this" (Isaac)
Faust asked for paper and pen from the bag that Ben was carrying. The bag was filled with their lunch and other necessities and pen and paper were included in those.
"If I found anything different or interesting, I will write its description and tell Patkai to deliver them to you, I will have the zombie crew to follow you so I will know wherever you are dad, and I can tell Pat Kai to go and give you the letter." (Isaac)
"Alright, we can split up, but remember boys. Report anything to me first before you decided to do something." (Mark)
"Yess thank you dad! Good Bye!" (Isaac)
"Bye dad, we'll be careful" (Aiden)
"Remember, Report First!" (Mark)
"Yes yess, see you later dad!" (Isaac)
Mark only shook his head and watched his twin sons and the 7 undead go to the other part of the forest.
'Okay, so what do you want to do Faust?' (Angra)
'Me? What?' (Faust)
'Don't play dumb with me Faust, why are you so eager to split up with dad?' (Angra)
'I really don't have any plans or schemes!' (Faust)
'.....' (Angra)
'But I mean if we can at least find one or two rank 3 magic beasts and fight it, this trip won't be useless right?' (Faust)
'I SEE NOW! OKAY FAUST LET'S GO FIGHT RANK 3 MAGIC BEAST!' (Angra)
'Hey hey remember that we need to report it to dad first, but if the magic beasts is already dead when father arrived that means we are strong enough to fight rank 3 magic beasts right? Maybe dad will allow us to soon fight rank 3 magic beasts on our own if he saw that we can handle them.' (Faust)
'Okay Faust I'm in, let's go!' (Angra)
'What do you say Gra, of course, you're in this no matter if you agree or not, you're not going to leave your weak twin sibling all alone right?' (Faust)
'Weak your ass! Oh and I don't care by the way, you can drag me around your plans and schemes, just make sure that I got the simple parts and you do the complicated and hassle parts then we're all good.' (Angra)
'Ehehehe thank you Gra!' (Faust)
And with that, the twins scurry around the opposite sites of the forest than their father, in their search of a rank 3 magic beasts, they occasionally find rank 2 magic beasts such as the packs of wolves that they used to hunt together with the zombie crew, but now Faust alone is enough to deal with the pack. And the extra experience is good to help Pat Kai who is currently under-leveled.
Faust and Angra's growth in strength are based on their control over their magic with overtime they get better and better at controlling it, despite they are still on their first job, Faust and Angra's strength are on par or in some cases better than people who already have their third job. This is because of their demon bloodline and their talent in magic which surprisingly is very high, Faust in conjuring while Angra in fusion-ing and not taking into account their adult mind, most people their age right now were only able to hold their sword properly and the ones who are not that talented in magic maybe only just developed their mana sense. While Faust already nearing his second job with him being level 7 right now from the experience that all the monsters that the zombie crew hunted also partly being given to the zombie crew's master. Angra is still lagging behind in level 4 because he didn't have the luxury of a tireless undead army, but he got a cheat on being able to get attributes from eating souls so Angra's body is actually stronger than Faust's.
Their walking around the forest for another hour finally bore fruit, one of Faust's spirits told them that there's a unique creature a little deeper into the forest so they followed it. And when they arrived, what they found is a huge 6-meter tall white lion.
'Faust! It's a Lion! Dad said that Lion is a rank 3 magic beast right!?' (Angra)
'Yes, wait a minute, don't start anything.' Faust said while his hand is busy writing the lion description on a piece of paper. 'Tall 6-meter lion with white body and white mane.'
He then called Pat Kai, attached the rolled-up paper to one of Pat Kai's skeleton ribs with a string then told him to go in a certain direction in the forest.
"Be careful okay!"
Pat Kai then nodded with its bare bone head then started walking slowly until some distance before he starts running.
'Okay now, how are we going to do this?' (Angra)
'Want to do the usual gun-javelin thing?' (Faust)
'Alright let's do the gun-javelin thing' (Angra)
Faust then prepared his gun-javelin spell combo. And aimed at the lion's head.
'If that Lion dies in 1 hit, I'll be sad from all the hype dad gave us.' (Angra)
'I don't know yet Gra, but it's better to be careful than sorry.' (Faust)
Faust then launched the gun-javelin.
*BOOM*
As usual, the gun-javelin propelled forward with a boom. With the speed of a bullet, the gun-javelin traveled straight to the lion's head. If usually what followed after the boom is the sound of either a splattered brain or a shriek of the target, this time no such sounds were heard from where the gun-javelin was launched.
Before the gun-javelin could penetrate the lion's head cleanly, the lion noticed it's coming. Even though he is still not fast enough to completely evade it, the lion succeeded in moving its head making the gun-javelin hit its white mane which destroyed the gun-javelin completely.
'Now well that's a scary reflex and a tough defense, okay back to the strategy board..'
Before Faust finished his evaluation of the gun javelin, Angra grabbed Faust's body and dashed of sideways with wind fusion.
Before Faust was able to complain about Angra's rough treatment to him and ask what's wrong, he saw the place where they were hiding and saw the huge lion was now there and looked at them with what Faust described as 'pissed-off' face.
'Welp it's going to be a hard one Gra, prepare yourself, and let's do this!'