*Swoooshh!!!
Suddenly in the shadows Within the cave, a silhouette suddenly appeared brandishing its katana!
It jumped towards the sleeping beast, who had instinctively woken up and even managed to evade Akai's attack!
"RROOOAARRRRR!!!"
Seeing a human in front of it, the tiger roared angrily!
It felt angry for having it's nap interrupted and the human barging in in its territory and sneak attacking it!
*Swoosh!
"Rooarr!!"
With a roar, the tiger pounced towards Akai!
*Baanngg!!
Akai used his katana to parry but the pure strength of the tiger was so strong he flew the moment his katana made contact with the tigers paws!
"Aarrghh!!!"
Akai couldn't help but groan as he spat out blood from his mouth!
The power of the tiger managed to injure him in one strike!
Even though he was still a bit dazed, the tiger once again pounced on him! If he get hit now, it will be the end of him!
*Swoooshh!!!
Before the tiger could pounce on him though, it suddenly stopped and looked left and right in a daze.
*Swoooshhh!
Marco appeared behind one of the trees near the entrance of the cave with his right hand open towards the tiger!
Akai saw the state of the tiger and knew what had happened, without hesitation he used all his remaining Strength to stab the tiger below its throat!
*Pssshhtt!!
Blood flowd continuously.
"RROOOAARRRRR!!!!!!"
Angered and in pain, the tiger howled!
But ....
*Swoooshhh!!!!!
*Pssshhtt!!!
Blood flowd out once again!
But this time it wasn't just because of a small puncture, but because the whole head of the tiger was severed!!
Eiji was already sheathing back his katana as he walked towards Akai.
"You alright?!"
"Yeah! Thanks! Still, your quick draw is as sharp as ever!"
"Yeah! Akai's katana only managed to cut a few inches deep into the tiger but you directly severed it's head!"
"Ahaha! Thanks!"
Eiji could only laugh awkwardly at their words.
After a few cooperation from the sparrings before, Akai and Marco found out that Eiji was the sharpest of the three of them!
They just couldn't reach his level in terms of pure swordsmanship sharpness!
It was unreal!
Because of this, they used a bunch of tactics to defeat Gautam!
Gautam was wary of Akai's Blood sword power suddenly appearing so they actually made him their vanguard, when Gautam was a bit perplexed, Marco used his Blood Sword Power to darken his sight, then that was where Eiji comes in!
Although they still lost in the end, it was the tactics that was the closest in defeating Gautam!
Akai was the ambusher while Marco was the one that would assist Akai or when the fight drags out they would swap out, making Marco the Vanguard then Akai was the one that assists.
But Eiji's role was to end the fight instantly!
Although they couldn't end Gautam, Gautam was actually very scared at Eiji's sword!
He had only ever felt that sharpness in Muri! As expected of his disciple!
"Hahah! You really are a disciple of Muri, Eiji!"
Gautam appeared at the top of a tree as he talked to Eiji.
"Hmm.. you three did great! But Akai! You were careless! Do you really think you can over power a tiger?! Much less a tiger that had become a magic beast?!"
"Uhh...sorry, I was a bit distracted!"
"Tsk! As for you Marco! You were only able to use your Blood sword power! If you didn't have that, then you are useless in the team!"
"And Eiji! Why the hell are you only appearing at the end?! You could have sliced this thing up the moment Marco used his blood sword power!"
"..."
Gautam continued on his chide at them.
They didn't say anything and just listened.
Although the words were harsh, they were the truth, they weren't idiots, they could know their short comings when listening to Gautam, so they just listened and didn't bothered with the trash talk which was clearly aimed to provoke them.
"Hmmm....."
Seeing that they were just listening to him, Gautam was bored.
"You guys are boring, I originally had a lot of words prepared to chide you guys but you did great against a powerful foe, so this counts as a success!
Over the next few months, we will still be doing the same training regime that we did, but would have these trial missions every week!
Get the the tiger's carcass and we could sell it, you guys can split the profit! Now let's go and treat akai!"
"Yes sir! "
And just like that, their trial Mission was successfully completed!
*End Of Chapter.