Damon had gotten four other notifications earlier from killing one low and three mid mature beast. He only needed two more to complete his objective.
The few beasts left were dealt with by seer and cali. Who had seen the last few minutes of Damons fight.
Damon walked over yanking out the yellow dagger.
"Another enchanted blade, I'll take a look at it later he thought to himself shoving it into his storage.
"Not bad pes.... I mean Cali and seer. Damon said.
"Ha, I guess you were ok as well Cali responded. I expect nothing less from my rival."seer added in which Damon gave her a certain look but it faded seconds later and he actually cracked a smile.
"Oh I almost forgot." Damon said as he turned up looking at his static water swords. They shot down splitting up in three directions.
Two stabbed into the ground. The other shot through the very top of a tree. Blood poured and rose from the ground as a vibration of a beast was felt.
Falling out a tree a good distance away from the area was a bird beast around six feet tall and four foot wide its feathers were red and yellow in color. It flayed around in the air and hit the dirt.
"These beasts weren't apart of the group that attacked us but I do believe they were waiting to attack us." He said casually while walking towards them.
Damon had felt slight vibrations under the ground at the very beginning and used oculus. He was able to see small signs of body heat through the cracks of the ground in two places but it was enough for him to see that at least, which he knew where beasts.
He also saw the bird beast hiding at the top of one of the red trees blending in mostly except for the yellow parts of its feathers while he had oculus active.
He made the three swords for them and just suspended them in the air.
Ding!
[Low mature beast have been killed] x3
[Objective completed one free level up of one skill of your choice has been added.] 360exp gained.
This impressed Cali but not seer as she said she was aware of them as well.
"Even the ones under the ground." Damon asked.
"Yes."
Damon squinted his eyes at her as if saying he didn't believe her or why didn't she say anything.
Seer was able to see them the same way she was able to see the golden rings at the underground event when Damon blinded her.
She could actually see a few seconds ahead in time while her skill was active. it was more to her powers than they knew.
Damon shrugged while waving his hand making the static rain disappear and Javalin came to him wrapping around him getting in her spot.
She looked at Cali and seer for a second before placing her head on his shoulders.
"Looks like Javalin likes you two. If she does then I guess you're alright with me as well."
He could tell when Javalin didn't care or like a person by her body language. He was constantly paying attention to her around others and picked up on certain notions.
Little did Damon realized Cali and seer didn't just simply defeat their enemies. They were protecting him at the same time while fighting as their enemies were trying their best to help the beast Damon was facing.
Javalin saw this clearly as she was only running interference for Damon while he fought the beast, she had plenty time to watch them all as they took on the unison boars.
This along with their positive aura around Damon made her feel like they were ok.
"She's beautiful, how many beasts do you have." Cali asked.
She's the only one I have. Our powers are not linked. She has her own and I have mine. He responded.
The two girls looked at each other for a second. So you have an ability core with a soul beast. They both said in confusion.
" Iets just say I have both." Cali and seer were in disbelief.
Originally Damon would have tried to lie but he took shields and jolly advice to just tell the truth because it would cause too many issues to lie and keep up with the lies.
Damon had thought about it for a while and now undrrstood why miss grey told him to pass his powers off as an ability. Jolly had it all wrong. Miss grey said this to look out for Damon not because she was up to something.
The thing was people who had ability cores still were considered an awakened soul because of their power, but ability cores were developed naturally.
People with ability cores didn't have soul beasts and their power were completely their own.
Their were more people with soul cores than ability cores. Both types could be sensed and this was the reason everyone believed Damon was cursed not knowing his power was demonic which came from a demonic core that wasn't fully developed.
Demonic energy was very difficult to sense to the point it was like nothing.
What made Damons demonic power to show and flourish more was learning ki energy which is life energy.
After Obtaining the system it fused the two cores together creating demonic ki which is demonic life energy creating a new type of energy all together which made his demonic energy more harder to sense.
He also obtained Javalin his very own synthetic soul beast and a synthetic soul core which was all fake in a sense but with shields system and power nobidy could tell.
In turn because of their totally different abilities Damon could only come up with one lie that wouldn't have to be fabricated a hundred times to make it stick which was being the first person ever to have both a soul core and ability core.
Him and shield agreed on this and thought it would be the best decision. In hindsight Damon understood what miss grey was saying about passing his ki off as an ability back then in village city even before he awakened a soul beast.
Seer and Cali was still at a loss for words and couldn't wrap their minds around such a thing being true.
They assumed that Javalin wasn't his primary soul beast and that his primary soul beast was how he used the power of lightning but hearing this they now knew it wasn't the case.
They still had doubt but for some reason Damon's words felt true to them.
They suddenly heard many foot steps and felt multiple presences near and coming in fast. They weren't alarmed because they knew who they were.
Soon emerging were both of their squads and by the look on all of their faces they were ready for some action. Once there, they could see dead beasts all around.
"Looks like we missed all the action or either a good show." Lee the leader of the purple puppets said.
Not really. A few beasts tried to ambush us and as you can see we handled them easily.
Cali responded.
How did you all know what was going on. I didn't call anyone for help or anything." She added.
Hearing this Damon immediately knew how they knew something was going on but he let them explain which vora did.
"It was Damons power. We all saw his rain and clouds in the sky in one spot. I knew seeing that something was going down and with you being gone as well they followed after I informed them that the rain was the power of my second in command." She said.
"So it was you." a bright red hair boy shouted that looked identical to Cali.
"Caleb let it go. You got what you deserved. I told you to let it go before it happened last time and you wouldn't listen." She said
making everyone look around with confusion on their faces.
Damon almost faced palmed himself as he rolled his eyes unintentionally while taking in a deep breath and exhaling with an annoyed face expression.
"My stupid dumb luck. I thought it would be a good while before either one of them found out my identity. I must make some adjustments on the face mask part of my cloak." He thought to himself.
The red haired boy named Caleb frowned as he tightened his fists. Flashes of their fight played in his head. The rolling clouds and rain that came in his view just before he lost consciousness was the main thing in his head.
"It was you, it had to be. I challenge you to a guild dual. Right now and right here." He shouted.
Lee and vora stepped in trying to get an understanding of what was happening. It took a while but all of them was eventually caught up to speed.
"Woah, Caleb lost a fight yesterday. How long has it been since he lost a fight. One of the members of the purple puppets whispered to another."
" It's definitely been a while. His record is 19 and 6 if I'm keeping count correctly another whispered back."
"Well shit it's 19 and 7 now if he really did lose a fight. No wonder he been so pissy lately."
Cali tried reasoning with him but it wasn't working. Lee their squad captain stepped in facing Caleb.
"You know the kingdoms guild rules Caleb, which goes for all guilds in the ashwafala kingdom."