The next day, Eduard settled his instructions to Estrella before he leave. He leaves all the needed management work for his territory for her, including the security.
Estrella on the other hand was angered to the attitude of Eduard. She feels that Eduard treated her like a free labor while Eduard will play in the forest.
At the end, Eduard had to please her before he left.
When they reach the entrance of East forest. He informed the knights of his plans and give them direction of their hunt strategy. After giving all his reminder, he parted to them.
He was now inside the East forest to start his hunt. His right hand was holding a spear, while he wear a light armor on his body. There is also a short sword hanging on his waist.
His chosen spot for hunting was on the southern direction of the forest, it was near the spot where he met Roxy.
He arrange their location According to their numbers, since he venture the forest solo. It will be easy and safe to leave, even if he met some beast man mercenaries from the Orc Kingdom direction, that roaming around the East forest.
As long as he does not meet a Bronze Warrior, he is confident that he can run away unscathed even if it was a group with more than 5 people.
Eduard movements was quite quick. Even though his walking speed was quick, his feet didn't make a lot of sound when it touches the ground.
After few minutes of looking around, he encountered his first hunt for the day.
It was a horse type beast, the size was the same as the typical horse on earth. The black color of its skin makes it more unique, with a red color of hair on the neck and tails.
It was currently sleeping soundly underneath a large tree, 200 meters away from Eduard position.
"I am lucky that my first prey was sleeping" Eduard muttered while observing the surrounding.
He carefully look for a hiding spot nearby. Since the beast was a horse type, it is probably specialize in speed.
Eduard has no way to catch up to it once the beast chose to run away.
Looking from a far, the beast was around 3rd to 5th Tier of iron level.
Eduard climb on a tree within 100 meters away from the beast.
He positioned the spear on his hand in a javelin position and throw it to the beast direction.
"Please don't miss" he chanted to spear before he throw it to the horse beast direction.
"Hyaa" the beast howl in pain. It was shocked when the spear hit its hind legs. It immediately run on the opposite direction of Eduard.
.Unfortunately, it did not manage to run faster to get far away on Eduard.
The spear was still stuck on its body, sinking a quarter of its shaft on the horse back.
The wound was deep, affecting the speed of the horse type beast.
The horse beast try to look back on the position of Eduard's before, fear can be pictured on its eyes.
When it look at the top of the tree. Eduard was already vanish on his original position, he was already following its trail and anytime will reach the beast.
The beast try harder to speed up, but it was too late. Eduard was already near, holding his sword and slice its other back leg.
The sound of the horse beast crashing on the can be heard in the forest. Birds on the trees nearby flew away from the sound.
Eduard sliced it again on the neck, finally killing the beast.
He falls on the ground after killing the beast, it was his first time doing it solo.
"This is much harder than having my knights with me to hunt" he pulled the spear on the body of the beast.
His works was now doubled. Unlike when he has his knights, there will be someone who will act as bait and the rest will focus on ambush.
After resting for a while, he pull the horse beast on a location where other beast may not easily find it.
He continued his hunt until noon.
He was now facing the third beast he encountered. This was a giant brown snake, around 15 meters long. The body was large, seem like can it a whole person in one mouthful.
Eduard was now observing the snake. He was thankful that this beast was only in the 8th tier of Iron Level and do not have any poison ability.
He only need to be careful not to entangled by this snake or else he will be squeeze to death.
The snake was also vigilant with Eduard, it sense the danger coming from the human in front.
Even though it can already run away at any time, it is not on its nature to do so. The danger that it can sense towards Eduard was not enough for it to turn back and start to runaway.
The snake was first to lose patient and started to ram Eduard by it head with its mouth open widely. When the snake mouth was near on Eduard, he position the spear on his hand.
The spear was pointing on the snake head, while the end of handle was pressed on the ground.
It was able to pierce the upper jaw of the snake. Sadly, the snake did not die from it and go on a rampage.
The snake tail was now whipping everywhere. When the tail was coming towards Eduard direction, he wanted to try block it by the short sword on his waist.
On the last moment, he chose not to block and dodge. He sense a great danger meeting the tail of snake.
The tail only hit the air, but when the tail touches the ground, it created a half meter mark on the ground.
Eduard was grateful, if he try to defend or clash it head on, he will be sent flying by the tail.
The snake life sign also lost after the last whip of its tail.
"Beast are really dangerous when they are on their last breath" he sighed while taking the spear on its head.
While he was pulling the spear, he notice that the pointed tip of the spear was broken.
"Huh? How can this be broken. This spear could easily pierce through normal metal without breaking the tip. Also the spear should pass through the head since I use its momentum to be pierced" he suspiciously look inside the head of the snake.
He try to insert his hand on the wound, he suddenly touched a crystal like object from the inside.
When he touch the object, Eduard expressionless face suddenly brighten into smile.
A white object in a diamond shape was pulled out by him inside.
"You won't really expect it when it is your lucky day. This beast crystal could be sold a high price, it is in demand for a potion master and rune master" the smile on his face can't be hidden.
He pulled the rest of the body of snake, walking to the location where he hid his other prey corpse's.
Looking at his system panel, his progress of beast hunting was raised from 50/100 to 56/100. This value indicates that they were able to hunt 6 beast in total, three from each party since he have three on his hand.
"The knights, should be at the meeting spot. I should go and meet them" he continued to walk on the northern direction.
....
On other side, Dencio was now walking back while holding a rabbit on his arms.
Dencio was the Captain assigned by Eduard for their hunt today. He was chosen as Captain because he was the one with the highest cultivation. On the ninth tier Iron Warrior.
He was one of the three most strongest knights of Eduard among the Ten knights, his two team mates are not weak either. They are on the 8th Tier Iron Warrior in their cultivation.
They are on luck in todays hunting. The beast they hunted doesn't exceed the 5th tier of iron Level.
They only takes a lot of time in looking for them, giving only half of hour in time on fighting them in total.
When they reach a tree with a sword mark on its bark, they stop walking and sit beside the tree.
This tree was their agreed spot, they are able to hunt down one boar beast and two horned rabbit beast.
They were anxious while waiting for Eduard.
"Captain do you think that Lord will be fine?" One of the knight question Dencio.
Dencio frowned hearing the question of this knight. He was also worried about Eduard safety, since it was his first time hunting solo.
He is afraid that some accident may happen to his Lord, if there's something happen on him it would be a big loss for them.
Their Lord was nice and gave them the opportunity to get stronger. As his knights, they are willing to serve him with all their heart and do everything to defend his territory.
"Don't worry, the Lord can manage it. Remember that he can fight Knight Captain Martin on Close Combat without losing" Dencio said to ease the worries on his team mates.
The two knights also nodded, but the worry on their eyes didn't decrease.
After half an hour of waiting, they heard a footstep coming to their direction. Their down mood suddenly lighten up when they saw the person creating the sound.
"Lord welcome back" they greeted while bowing their head.
Eduard wave at them putting down the snake and horse corpse that he was pulling , "Go on, take also my other prey. I leave it on the big tree five hundred meters away from here ".
The knights nodded and one of them walk to the direction where Eduard came from.