The snake struggles, making the wires taunt, he glares at it, causing it to pause.
'Heh! As expected of a wild animal, no matter how evolved it is, its intelligence still cannot compare to us!' He leaps to its back and starts stabbing the exact same spot.
Sensing the threat of death, the snake starts to struggle more, breaking the wires one by one.
He was flung away by its explosive movement, he frowns as he stops his flight by grabbing one of the branches.
The snake has now fully escaped, Sean sighs as he says."I really need a stronger weapon or at least strengthen any of my body parts to break my opponent."
He might be one of the few people that would fight against a true martial artist or a monster as powerful as this.
The snake is now thinking of retreating, it is an ambush monster, it reserves its energy for only the prey that it knows that it can catch.
Sean has proven itself more than troublesome for it, sure, eating humans is an innate desire for them but survival is an instinct they cannot control.
'Hmm? It is actually trying to retreat? Well, its scale is too tough anyway and my knives are not sharp enough to pierce through.' Sean is not adversed to ending this fight.
He does not require any high quality meat, he only need a suitable bait and clearly the snake was too strong for him to spend some effort just to turn into bait.
Both retreats, after his encounter with the snake, Sean becomes more cautious of his surroundings.
He is no longer traveling by foot but by branches, his senses are now hyperactive, he does not want to die out of carelessness.
He hears a rustling sound and quickly went to hide on top of the trees, he can see that there are a couple of monsters grazing below the ground.
They look like some sort of boars but all of them have silver spikes protruding in their backs.
"Too tough." He mutters, he heard about these monsters, according to the book that he had read, they are called Iron Haired Boars.
They are terrifying creatures that would eat anything they can get their mouths too, they are also quite aggressive towards those not of their kind.
Just as he was about to leave, he tensed up, he sense a powerful aura nearby, he takes a deep breath as he enters stealth mode.
His entire body seems to become inanimate, blending fully to the surroundings.
This is the strongest aura that he had ever sensed, he felt that he would not be able to escape the being emitting the aura.
A tiger with a pair of wings arrives at the scene, it opens its mouth and the board were sucked into it.
The sound of crunching can be heard as it chew the large boars, blood drips down from its mouth.
BANG! BAM! BAM! It swats the remaining boars away with its tail, from time to time, it would grab one from its mouth and with one bite, their bodies would be broken.
Seeing this, Sean is inwardly trembling in fear, fortunately, in his current state, he would not display any emotion outwardly.
The tiger snorts and flies away, leaving only bits of carcasses, Sean's eyes lights up, he can use those bits of meat as bait but he just need to make sure that the tiger would not return.
After waiting for a couple minutes, he finally comes down the tree and starts collecting the scraps.
Leaving the area hurriedly, he was carrying a basket size piece of flesh, he wants to carry more but it might attract more dangerous monsters.
Returning back to the base with a disheveled appearance, he heaves a sigh of relief.
"Finally! D*mn! That journey is life threatening." He exclaim.
During his journey back to the base, he encounters a lot of different monsters wanting to eat both him and the flesh that he was carrying.
"Boss! The five has finally returned." One of the slaves announced.
He nods his head. "Gather everyone inside, I want to announce something."
They do not know what he is going to announce but since it was his instructions, everyone immediately gathers inside the base without wasting any time.
"Okay, I am going to turn this base into a breeding ground for monsters, do not worry, I am planning to only raise low grade monsters that can evolved into middle grades, all of them are for consumptions."
The slaves are surprised but not that shocked, they have heard that some of the owners that buys slaves would use them as caretakers of dangerous breeds of monsters.
"We are going to pick a chicken, a pig and a cow as our target, do not worry about their danger, you all do not need to feed them by hand or even in close proximity."
He explains, he does not want them to think that he does not care about their lives.
The slaves are inwardly relieved after hearing his explanation.
"For now, I want all of you to focus learning or growing stronger, also, help the workers if you can but do not force yourself to help as you might become hindrance for them."
Leaving these words, he brought his five pupils to the lake, he want them to watch as he captures a pet.
All of them have broken through the skin tempering realm after his painstaking effort and nurturing on them.
[Name: Aivuj
Current Realm: Skin Tempering Realm 1st Stage
Innate: Water Elemental Affinity
Ability: Liquid Transformation]
The blue haired female slave, her name was derived from a martial art hero, she seemed to admire him after he told her his story.
Even through the name was clearly meant for a man, she decided to adopt it and he respects her decision.
[Name: Althear
Current Realm: Skin Tempering Realm 1st Stage
Innate: Spirit Affinity
Ability: Crystal Ball Summon]
Unlike Aijuv, Althear, the black haired female slave, adopts the name of a well-known witch, she feels that a name that strikes fear is much better.
[Name: Melody
Current Realm: Skin Tempering Realm 1st Stage
Innate: Resonance
Ability: Sharing]
Melody, the pink haired female slave's name was derived from her hobby of humming a tune.
[Name: David
Current Realm: Skin Tempering Realm 2nd Stage
Innate: Twin Star
Ability: Boost]
One of the twin male slaves, was named after a character that he knows from his former life.
The reason for this is because he focuses in honing his speed and accuracy, seems like he want to become a range warrior.
[Name: Goliath
Current Realm: Skin Tempering Realm 2nd Stage
Innate: Twin Star
Ability: Boost]
The other twin, was named after a character that is connected to the name of his brother received.
He focuses in strength and endurance, he wants to be strong enough to be useful to him and he has the mentality to achieve it.
"Aivuj and Althear, the two of you do not need to train any technique and just strive to become true martial artists, only then would your ability would truly blossom."
He turns to the three.
"David, you need to continue honing your marksmanship, sure, this world have multiple magical bows but since we are lacking in money and connection, you only need to train your stance and marksmanship."
"Melody, you are the support of the group, what you need to do is to learn on how to attack in your target's blindspot, you also need to learn about medicine."
"Finally, Goliath, you just need to follow the set of workout that I have given you."
The three nodded seriously, the two on the other hand were in a dazed.
They were expecting a grand mission but to think that theirs was much simpler than others.
Having them watch in a nearby spot, Sean wrapped his bait in a tough rope and multiple wires, just to make sure that he can catch his target.
Tying the rope to multiple trees, he turns to the five and said.
"We are going to try and capture a man eating monster inside the lake, prepare yourselves as I might not be able to pull it out by myself."
He told them this just as precaution, he had been feeling proud of himself after defeating Mad Bull but after encountering the monsters deep in the forest, he no longer underestimate them.
They did not need to wait for long as the bait was taken almost immediately, the rope and wires becomes taunt.
Sean did not expect this to happen in an instant but he did react quickly, grabbing the rope, he pulls it hard.
This is not fishing but a battle between strength, he is unable to make his target tired with how tough the monsters in this world are.
His five disciples looks at each other and quickly run up to him and helps him pull the rope, even with the six of them working together, they still have a hard time pulling their target.