(Alex's POV)
Liam and I were each fighting one wolf, it took a few minutes we dealt with the two wolves and then me and Liam landed the final blow on each of them. We then took out the beast cores and took one each
<50 Exp for accomplishment>
I put two stats points into strength, one into agility and the remaining two into stamina
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<01 Rank E Horge spider beast cores stored>
<01 Rank F Crescent wolf beast cores stored>
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We kept on hunting for more beasts and as many as we found. We had killed about 50 beasts and it was already evening. "Ugh dude I'm so tired" Liam said as he sat down on the bare floor. "Yeah me too bro" I replied "Let's head back it'll be dark soon" Liam suggested "Alright let's get movin" I replied and then we started to walk back to the cave.
We walked for a while when we were suddenly stopped in our tracks by the sound of someone screaming. "Ahh..." we heard it again, and it sounded like a girl. We quickly ran in the direction of the sound, only to see a beast closing in on a girl lying on the ground with bruises all over her.
The beast didn't look like the ones we had encountered before. Unlike other beasts that resembled wolves, hyenas, and spiders—similar to animals on Earth—this one was different. It had the body of a lion but was bigger, standing almost five feet tall. It had long tusks in front of its head, long claws, and giant teeth covered in blood. Additionally and it was covered in silver fur.
"Gulp" fear engulfed my entire body and I felt cold in my. This definitely wasn't the the kind on beast we encountered before. "Let's take this one down" Liam said excited, while I wasn't. What the h*ll was this beast doing in a dungeon like this it wasn't even ranked E, it was way over our league and Liam was ready to charge in not knowing the strength of this beast and even with the training I've had by fighting all these beasts, my stats weren't close to that of the beasts at all.
<1440/1500 Exp>
<04 Rank E Horge spider beast cores stored>
<10 Rank F Crescent wolf beast cores stored>
<12 Rank E Crescent wolf beast cores stored>
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"Ahhh!... pls someone help!!" I was snapped out of my thoughts by the screams girl of the girl who was nearly about to be eaten by the beast.
Liam quick made a huge wall of water between the girl and the beast giving her an opening to get out of the way. Liam then the wall surround the beast so it has nowhere to go. "Alex you try to attack it from behind while I'll guard you" Liam said "On three, one... two....."
"CRASH! BOOM! Roarrrr!" Liam was cut short by the beast. As it had Burst out of the wall he made "What the f**k" He said in surprise "Looks like that's not enough to stop you huh" he said and created another wall which was two times thicker than before.
"We have a strong one on our hands. So be careful" Liam said "Attack on three. One... two..... THREE!!" Liam said and then immediately dropped the water wall
With no time to think, I grabbed my dagger and ran at the beast, trying to avoid its front tusks. I jumped high, attempting to attack from behind, and then I slashed at its sides with all my might. However, I only managed to leave a small scratch on it.
Noticing what I did, it was angrier than it already was, the beast came running at me at full speed. Liam shot numerous water balls at it and even erected a few walls, but it burst through them all and still didn't slow down.
"Roarrrr..." It finally caught up to me who was running as far as I could from it "Ugh..." It immediately pounced on me and scratch my face with it's claws. My reflexes were quite fast and I punched it as hard as I could and then tried to stab it again. This time my dagger went deeper into its skin but still couldn't take it down.
I was able to free myself from the beast but it only made it want to fight more. Liam then started to bombard it with numerous water attacks. Switch the beast's direction from me to him.
It charged straight at Liam head first and sending him flying into a tree and leaving a stab wound on Liam's stomach with it's sharp tusks.
"Ughh...cough" Liam groaned in pain coughed up blood and I new the beast's next target was going to be me
"Grllll....." it stared at me with it soul piercing gaze and started to walk slowly in circles around me
"I was scared down to my bones, but I was gonna give up that easy"
It jumped so high and tried to land on me but I moved out of the way in a split second. It started to slowly walk around me again. I had no Idea how I was going to beat it