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Chapter 7 - Going on a Mission II

Liam led them forward into the woods and they kept waking for a while not letting their guard

down.

Alex was holding his dagger from combat class.

Mia was also holding a weapon, it was a sheathed katana. She was a level 3 and had 'Vision' as her ability. Carly had a bow and arrow with her, she was also a level 3 and had 'healing' ability.

Gorge and Liam were both high level ability users and they weren't holding any weapons. Liam was a level 4 water ability user and Gorge was a level 4 earth ability user.

Though Liam was not very muscular, he still looked strong. Liam had to be the leader because he was level 4 and he had the highest ability and the most strategic amongst them.

Grrrr

A growling sound was heard by all of them. What was that?" Mia said, "Just keep looking around,"

Liam said.

Look out!" Carly shouted and they looked in the same direction she was pointing, and they saw a

creature jump out of the hiding."

This creature looked like a wolf but even bigger and more terrifying. It had dark grey fur, muscular limbs and gigantic teeth.

"Agrrr,"

It growled again and tried to jump on Gorge, but he quickly used his earth ability to build a strong wall of earth which the wolf like creature crashed into 

The wolf, however, couldn't break through the wall, which meant it wasn't very strong and it was probably an F rank monster.

Before the F rank monster regained its balance, Carly quickly shot one of her arrows straight at it and it pierced into its back, but the wolf like creature didn't pay much attention to it. And started to attack them again.

"Next time, shoot the head or its neck!"" Liam shouted."

It jumped up again this time almost landing on Mia, but she went out of the way just in time and

slashed it with her katana. Leaving a wide cut on its stomach.

"Agrrr!!"It growled loudly, then it tried to attack Liam."

Just like it was magic, water drops started to come to Liam forming a hand armour. They punch the creature straight in the head. Everyone was shocked as to how it made so much impact on the creature, since it was just "water".

But it wasn't the case for water ability users, because when they summon water the energy that's put into their attack makes the water hard. Making it seem as strong as metal, "if not stronger"

The monster stumbled backwards after the strong punch Liam gave it. Carly shot another one of her arrows at it and it pierced into it's it neck, which made it weaker and made it slower to move.

Alex was just standing confused on how he would contribute in the fight against the monster. Everyone kept attacking it, Mia was shooting arrows at it, Gorge was throwing earth spikes at it and Liam was doing the same with water. And the monster was getting weaker then at the last minute it looked like the monster regained all its strength and jumped on Gorge.

It was now standing right on top of George's body and holding his hands down, making him unable to summon earth.

Everyone stopped attacking so as to not hurt Gorge in the process It was clear everyone of them was panicking.

"Roar," The wolf as monster growled as it stood on top of Gorge. Liam then tried to throw one of

his water spikes at it without hitting Gorge, but his aim was completely off.

It leaned closer to Gorge's face and then moved its head back un again Then it used its claw to

scratch Gorge's arm, leaving a very deep wound going from his shoulder down to his forearm. It

looked like this monster was playing with its food.

Ahhh!" He screamed in pain, and tried to look at the wound.""

The monster then opened its mouth and was leaning towards Gorge's face.

"Roar," the monster immediately fell off George and was now lying on the floor. It happened so fast but they realized that Alex had just thrown his dagger at the monster and his dagger cut into its head.

Everyone immediately ran towards Gorge to see how he was doing. Are you okay?" Mia, I said."-

"Just hold on a bit," Carly said as she started to use her healing ability to heal Gorge's wound.

Then Alex walked towards the beast and pulled his dagger out of its head.

"Grill, the monster makes a last growl before finally dying."

<120 Exp for accomplishment>

Alex was quite surprised although he expected this be he had already analysed that the system was like a video game where you get Exp and points for every kill and a reward for every quest accomplished. So, he decided to place 2 points on strength and, 3 points on agility.

<120/300Exp>

This is amazing, Alex thought. He then felt weird because he thought everyone would start to ask him about the screen in front of him. 'Does that mean that I'm the only one that can see it? he thought 

'That's right, I'm the user' Alex thought.

A few minutes later and Carly had fully healed Gorge and everyone was ready to continue hunting again. Before starting their hunt again, other members of the team except had gone to thank Alex for saving Gorge's life and he also apologized for underestimating Alex.

After their brief conversation they set out on their journey to continue their hunt five minutes after they found a cave and Liam decided to go and check the cave first, but they all disagreed and said they were going in together with him, once they had agreed on that they all walked into the cave and found more Crescentwolves there.

This time around they had no diffculty in killing the beast since they already knew it's a weak point. So, they decided that they would distract the wolves while Alex kills them due to his speed so he won't be noticed. About five hours later they had already killed 70 Crescentwolves and had cleared the cave.

When Alex was killing the beasts, he noticed that he would get rewards if he killed any beasts,even if he contributed to giving only the final blow, which made Alex happy because he had succeeded in Killing 50 beasts out of the 70 because Liam and Gorge took care of the remaining 20.

On their way out of the cave, Liam suggested that they rest for some time since they had been fighting for an hour and they had the whole week to complete their mission. The group agreed on this and decided to rest for five minutes, Alex started to check all the system notifications he ignored while trying to kill the beasts.

"Open notifications," Alex said in his head

...

Alex received this notification 50 times, so he decided to keep scrolling until he saw a new

notification.

<2850/500Exp>

<2380/700Exp>

<1710/900Exp>

<840/1200Exp>

Alex was happy because he had leveled up so much and also had a total of 120 points for himself,although he noticed that the reward he went for killing the Cresentwolf for the first time was not the same for the rest.

<840/1200Exp>

He decided to add 40 points to his strength, 44 to his agility, 30 to stamina.

<840/1200Exp>

While Alex was celebrating with himself at a corner, he heard someone call his name, "Alex come here weirdo and be useful to us," Gorge said. Alex thought that he had redeemed himself when he saved Gorge from the crescent wolf but that wasn't the case. "Seems like his ego is too much," Alex said to himself as he walked over to the group.

A/N:Wait till he finds out that Alex is now two levels higher than him.

Liam suggested that since they should stay in the cave for the night, since they had already cleared it and it was getting late. Liam brought out a touch and they decided to take turns to watch the cave while the rest where sleeping, the first person to do so was Liam and they all agreed to this.As they where about to enter the cave, Alex slipped away from the group and went off into the forest.

Few minutes later, Alex was exploring the forest in search of beasts to kill. He was too excited to sleep after finding out he could level up this quickly by just killing beasts. It was way more effective than completing the daily quests. If he was lucky, he could finish his main quest with the mission or even before the mission ended.

A pile of beasts, this was the scene before Alex. It has been more than two hours and he had just killed the 20th beast. Turns out that killing Crescent Wolves alone wasn't as easy as he had thought. It was now extremely late so he decided to return before the group found that he was missing. He cleaned up and changed deciding to check his stats after he returned.

He was finally done cleaning and had removed the beast cores. He turned around but before he could take a step forward, a giant spider appeared in front of him out of nowhere. 'Fuck!' he thought, 'It is a rank-E beast.'

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Do you think he will make it out alive??