Rowan entered the mountain range behind Jayden. As they walked in between the trees on the mountain. The rustling coming from the trees got even worse. Jayden acted like she didn't care but he knew she was on high alert.
Rowan suddenly felt the rustling sound behind him hitting an all time high so he turned around and saw a monkey jumping towards him. He gathered chakra into his palm before hitting the monkey with an air palm. A monkey also attacked Jayden but one Crescent Moon Slash cut the monkey in half.
Seeing the monkey get up after being hit by an air palm, all the rustling noise closed in on Rowan. The monkeys wanted to get rid of the weakest one first before attacking the strongest one. Rowan smirked and took a battle stance that he hadn't used in a while.
A huge amount of monkeys began jumping from the trees towards him. Jayden tried killing most of them with her crescent moon projectiles but they were really agile and dodged most of the projectiles. Rowan didn't actually care and waited for them to enter his range.
"Eight Trigrams, Sixty Four Palms!" Rowan roared with red eyes. His body moved at a speed that was barely traceable. Rowan tried hard to keep up with the huge amount of monkeys but he could feel himself getting overwhelmed since he didn't possess the Byakugan.
The monkeys stopped attacking and Rowan finally got a breather. Rowan listened to the rustling sounds still coming from above and realised that there were still a lot of them. Those that attacked him had their hearts crushed from the outside though so he didn't have to worry about them.
Sensing the rustling sounds reach a peak again, Rowan took a stance that slightly differed from the former one. He really hoped he was strong enough to pull this technique off. Before he could second guess himself, the rest of the monkeys attacked.
"Eight Trigrams…, One hundred and twenty eight palms!" Rowan could see the monkeys coming towards him slowing down before everything in the background turned dark. He could only see the monkeys around him. Rowan couldn't help but grin.
One palm was enough to crush a monkey's heart. Jayden looked at the spectacle in front of her. She couldn't see Rowan move but she could see monkeys flying left and right and after the monkeys fell on the ground, they never got up. Jayden felt that Rowan was a really mysterious figure.
Rowan finally finished off the last monkey with multiple hits to end the hundred and twenty eight palms. He was shocked at the power that this technique possessed. He didn't understand why Neji Hyuga didn't use this technique more often since he was totally capable of doing it.
Rowan looked at all the bodies of the monkeys and got ready to take out their crystals when another rustling sound came from the threes. A giant ape jumped from the ground and landed in front of Rowan. It created a crater where it landed but it stood up totally unaffected.
Jayden readied her sword but Rowan held up his hand before looking at the ape. This ape made him think of the honourable saiyan and thus decided to give it a one on one. That didn't mean he was going to go easy on him though.
Rowan placed his hands together and created a shadowclone. He held out his hand to the clone and a small swirling ball of chakra appeared in his hand. The clone infused more chakra into the ball, making it bigger. When it was finally ready the clone turned into a puff of smoke.
Rowan ran to the ape and the ape did the same. When they finally got to each other, the ape punched Rowan in the face and Rowan smashed the Rasengan into the ape's face. Rowan was sent flying due to the force behind the ape's attack but the ape stood still.
Jayden looked at the ape and small hole on it's face but when she looked at the back of it's head, a huge was there and inside the hole was nothing. She felt like vomiting but kept it in and went to make sure that Rowan wasn't badly injured.
She found Rowan touching his broken nose but except for that, he had no injuries whatsoever. Rowan got up and began collecting orange crystals. Jayden kept pestering him about rest but he felt absolutely fine. He didn't even use much chakra.
He found the ape's crystal and was kind of pissed to see that it also only had a bit of yellow on it but he was also kind of relieved. How hard would that ape's fist have punched him if it was an actual yellow crystal demon beast. He shuddered when he thought of the possibility.
With all the crystals safely picked up, he took that rest that Jayden wouldn't give up on. He managed to get his chakra back and Jayden gave him some food. He also got used to a broken nose since it really bothered him at the beginning.
They didn't want to stay in the dungeon too long since Jayden's space bag didn't have an endless supply of items that the might need so they kept walking. They avoided any suspicious places and got to the third floor safe and sound.
"No more trees huh," Rowan said as he looked at the naked mountain range ahead of them. Jayden took the lead again and they began walking in the direction that the compass was pointing. They walked quite a distance without actually having to avoid any demon beasts.
Rowan came to a realisation that he was too scared to share with Jayden. Unfortunately, this didn't escape the eyes of Jayden. She looked at him with and asked him why he looked so worried. Instead of telling her that they might have entered a demon beast's territory.
Instead he asked her a casual question. "What animals live in mountains?" This question was answered with a growl that came from the front.