"Let's call for help, let's call the sergeants." The boy with the doll like face said, he was already finding his way out of the forest.
"Blake what do we do." Jake asked him as he noticed that Blake hadn't moved, although Jake looked calm, and his demeanor wasn't like the others who were shaking but he was also scared because he knew they couldn't handle this and he was starting to have different thoughts.
'Why is Blake not using his power? Why is he just standing there looking like a coward?' He wanted to shout at Blake but when he turns his head, he saw a devilish smirk on his face.
"Isn't this a blessing in disguise." Blake said with a smile as he moves forward the air around him was moving, it was moving so wildly that the weaker trees around the area were breaking.
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In another part of the same forest, some group had just dealt with the same bug beasts, there were about twenty dead bugs on the floor while ten students were also there, some on their knees gasping for air while some were lying on the floor, heavily injured, they haven't got the time to take the healing pills or to extract the beasts' core as they were all exhausted.
After some minutes they stood up and took the healing pills for their body to hill, then drinking little water to regain their stamina, they started gathering the beasts' core together and after extracting everything they sat down round a thick tree as they were ready to share the core among themselves as it was agreed beforehand.
"We haven't spotted any beast, we are just walking around the forest, how are we meant to rank up." They heard a voice coming out from where they just battle with the beasts and looking back they could see five students standing there looking at the dead beasts.
"They are all rank H students, they might ask for the core we extracted, let's just hide here." A fair-haired boy said.
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"Who did this?" A green hair boy asked as the five of them was staring at the body of the dead beasts.
"It might be Blake's group, no lower ranked group will be able to kill this much beasts." A boy next to him replied.
"Let's move forward we might find who did it, who knows maybe they're lower rank students." Another boy replied.
Moving towards the large tree they could hear ruffling of leaves behind them.
"What's that." One of them asked and as they turn their heads.
Running out of the of the bush was a humanoid black wolf, 4'6 tall, its ears were pointed slightly forward, steel gray claws extended from the wolf's large black paws, black fur with gray tips stood straight up. The wolf ran on its four and in a minute, it had gotten in the middle of the dead beasts and started feasting on them.
The students looking at this were already having a sick feeling in their stomach it was making them want to throw up, turning their heads back to run towards the large tree because they knew this wolf is not a match for them, they head the trees shake a little, one of them was already saying his last prayer as he imagined the same creature to come out behind the tree but to their lucky self they could see ten students wearing the same uniform as them.
"What's that?" One of the students that just came out asked, they step out because they had heard the grunt of the wolf so they thought the five students might be battling with some beasts.
"A wolf?"
"Let's run."
"Let's use this to our advantage, we run and let the student deal with it." One of the rank H students said as they dashed towards the ten students pushing them out of their way but before they could even get pass them, the beast had moved from its position and was right in front of them all.
The beast snapped stepping closer to the five students at the front, two large fangs appeared between the jaws, its tongue moved around its mouth and saliva dripped from its lips.
As the wolf lifted its right paw partly above the ground, five claw the size of a toothpick shot out going straight for the five student at the front, they were too shocked that they didn't know an attack was made and before they knew it, the claw had hit them right on the knees, they scream in pain, the lower rank student behind don't know what to do as they were also shaking.
"We have to fight it or we'll all die, so someone should call for help while we fight." The fair-haired boy shouted as he charged forward, he pushed the other five students at the front away.
He's only a rank M student and the others behind him were also range between rank M and O while the five at the front were rank H.
The others were wondering if they should charge forward or not, two students with the communicating crystal had quickly contact their teachers and sergeants.
He swung the scythe in his hand towards the beast head but it slightly moves to the side then throwing its paw, two claw of the same size shot out going straight for the boy, the two claw hit him in the stomach piercing his body but he didn't fall and stood there with his scythe held upward.
"You idiot's let's attack together." He shouted and the five rank H students were the first to act as they ran forward with their weapon, now they didn't care of the claw from before, the other student also acted throwing an attack towards the wolf, spears, arrow, axes and some even threw out their sword as they all thought it couldn't dodge all the attack at once.
All the weapons had it the wolf and as it did, some of them were bouncing back, none of the weapons had pierce the wolf's body, they are all high level weapons because they've all upgraded their weapons although none of their weapon is above the level of three, it was from level one to three and seeing none of their weapon doing next to no damage to the beasts, they knew its higher than the level of the weapon. At first they all thought it's a level two beasts but now they knew it's even above the level of three.
"What should we do, we shouldn't have attack it, we should have run." One of the rank H students said.
"And what happened when you first try to run." The fair-haired boy said as he stood opposite the wolf and few meters away from the other students, none of them had moved from their initial position before attacking the wolf.
The wolf stood like a human being no more on its four, it swung its two paws, ten claws shot out heading straight for the students, none of them had their weapon as they've hurled it at the wolf moments ago, the fair-haired boy at the front still had his scythe with him.
He waited for the right moment and as the claws were getting closer, he moves forward before swinging his scythe sideward he used the flat side to smash the claws away like a tennis player, more were still coming at them and he quickly moves to the side as he noticed where the claws were heading to, he didn't want any to gone past him because the other students didn't have any weapon to protect themselves.
He smashes three more claws out, the wolf seeing this didn't throw its claws again as it charged forward on its four running towards the students.
"It's coming." They all shouted, and the boy was distracted by this, looking at the front he could see the wolf and before he knew it, the remaining four claws had hit him in the chest making him fall to the ground, the claws were not really strong and dangerous but for four to hit him he couldn't stand it and he fell, coughing out blood.
The wolf was about to pounce on him before they all heard.
*Bang*
The wolf's head shattered into pieces and the body fell to the ground, the first thing they saw was a yellow flicker before a young fair man could be seen with his black curly hair, black blood covered his fist, and when he came into their sight, they could see who it was.
"Sergeant Sunny!!" They shouted in awe, because looking at him, he didn't have any weapon or armor on, he had just killed the beasts they were unable to injure with all their weapons, he killed it in one hit with his bare hand.
"Hope nobody had a grave injury." Sunny asked as he clean his hand on the beast's body.
"Teri, he's really injured." A boy said as he ran over to the fair-haired boy who was on the floor.
"That was a level four wolf beast, thank God the injury is not more than this." Sunny said as brought out a pill from his pocket different from the one that was given to the students, the one given to them was a yellow pill while this was a red pill, he places it in his mouth and the other five that got injured by the claw earlier.
He asked the student how they encounter the beast and they explained everything to him in details and how Teri had been the one to fight the beast and protect them, the rank H student were slightly embarrassed for not having the confidence to fight the beast but Sunny told them they might have been dead by now if they try to fight it and also told them to report immediately if something like this ever happen again.
"Teri, extract the beast core and take the body, that's your reward for protecting your mates." Sunny said and the other students couldn't believe what they were hearing now.
They knew they didn't have the confidence to do what he had done, charging forward when none of them did, they knew he deserve it, but they were jealous because they knew the worth of the beast body not to talk of the core.
After everyone had recovered, a portal open and one the mages step out of it before transporting the student back to where the teachers had camped.