The giant green-edged blade directly slashed a huge gash on the paws of the Violent Bear Beast, nearly chopping them off and even wounding its shoulders. The wound was so deep that the bone was visible!
After unleashing this full-strength strike, the Green-Edged Wolf slumped to the ground.
"Roar!!" Despite suffering heavy injuries, instead of being dispirited, the Violent Bear Beast roared again and pounced towards the Green-Edged Wolf.
Seeing this, a look of sadness appeared in the eyes of the Green-Edged Wolf. It wanted to flee, but with its magic power depleted and the injuries on its body, its limbs were weak and it could hardly move. It could only watch helplessly as the Violent Bear Beast pounced towards it.
"Spread the Light Wings!"
Just then, thirty rays of light suddenly appeared and slammed hard into the back of the Violent Bear Beast.
This time, it was an all-out attack!
Zhang Ye consumed almost four-fifths of his magic power and cast the [Ray] spell thirty times.
At this distance, it was hard for the huge body of the Violent Bear Beast to avoid being hit.
"Boom, boom, boom..." Dense muffled sounds came from the Violent Bear Beast's body. Its body shook violently. After the rays of light passed, it was covered in blood, wisps of green smoke rising from its body, and finally it crashed to the ground.
Zhang Ye was panting slightly. Consuming so much magic power at once made him feel uncomfortable too, but it was worth it as long as he could kill the Violent Bear Beast.
After casting the [Ray] spell thirty times, Zhang Ye didn't rush forward rashly because he found that there was no enhancement in his power, which meant that the Violent Bear Beast wasn't dead yet!
So he waited on the spot for a while. After his magic power was fully restored, he cast the [Ray] spell thirty times again!
Aira: "..."
Can you be a bit more normal?
How could there be a mage like you who casts a spell thirty times its normal power with just one move?!
The thirty rays of light slammed into the Violent Bear Beast. This time, the Violent Bear Beast was truly dead. It let out a reluctant low growl and then completely lost its life. Zhang Ye could also feel that his physique and spirit had been significantly enhanced.
"Completely killed it. Nice!"
Zhang Ye let out a sigh of relief and then looked at the Green-Edged Wolf, which was in a state of shock.
Since the Violent Bear Beast was dead, it was the Green-Edged Wolf's turn next.
Just as Zhang Ye was about to make a move to deal with the Green-Edged Wolf, the Green-Edged Wolf suddenly lowered its head, let out whimpers, and looked at Zhang Ye with its beastly eyes full of pleading.
Zhang Ye could tell that it wanted to live, so he slowly lowered his raised hand.
Aira saw this and asked, "You're not going to let it go, are you?"
Zhang Ye smiled slightly and said, "I don't know if you've ever heard a saying?"
Aira was taken aback and asked, "What?"
"If a wolf turns back, it's either to repay a kindness or to seek revenge!" Zhang Ye said excitedly, "If I don't kill it now and it comes back to repay me, won't I be able to get a Green-Edged Wolf as a mount?"
"Oh my, just thinking about it makes me a bit excited!"
Aira: "..."
Zhang Ye looked at the Green-Edged Wolf and waved his hand, "Go, go. I won't kill you."
"Remember to repay me when you come back. It'd be best if you could turn into a girl with animal ears. Hehe..."
Aira: "..."
That's enough!
The Green-Edged Wolf looked at Zhang Ye gratefully, then propped up its body and limped towards the forest.
Aira looked at the back of the Green-Edged Wolf as it left and said to Zhang Ye, "Are you being too kind-hearted, like a goody-two-shoes?"
Zhang Ye laughed at himself and said, "Would a goody-two-shoes be able to reap the benefits by killing the Violent Bear Beast?"
He shook his head and said, "This isn't being a goody-two-shoes. It's just following my heart. When your strength allows, whether to kill or let go is up to you. Even demons can have moments of soft-heartedness, and goody-two-shoes can also have malicious moments."
"So in order to be able to act according to my own will in dealing with people and things, I need to become stronger as soon as possible, stronger and stronger!"
Aira couldn't help but nod when she heard this.
"Of course, the main reason I let it go is that it's quite cute. I usually don't let the ugly ones go." Zhang Ye suddenly said.
Aira: "..."
"It's getting late. Let's call it a day. Let's go back and roast some rabbits!" With that, Zhang Ye turned and walked back.
However, he soon turned back and ran to the corpse of the Violent Bear Beast. He condensed a metal blade, endured the nausea, and cut off the front paws of the Violent Bear Beast, muttering to himself, "Almost forgot. Bear paws are good stuff. Can't waste them..."
Aira: "..."
"By the way, does this Violent Bear Beast have a crystal core?"
"There's no place where magic power converges in its body, so it didn't develop a crystal core." Aira said.
"Alright." Zhang Ye nodded regretfully, then hugged the bear paws and walked away humming a song.
Soon, night fell. Long after Zhang Ye left, a huge figure appeared beside the corpse of the Violent Bear Beast cub. Looking at the corpse on the ground, it let out a deafening roar. Then its scarlet eyes looked around, and finally locked onto the direction in which Zhang Ye had left.
In the cave, Zhang Ye, who was roasting the bear paws, suddenly shivered.
"Hiss... I feel a chill on my back. Could something bad be about to happen?"
"By the way, you said that the Violent Bear Beast was a cub. If I killed it, will its mother come to cause trouble for me?" Zhang Ye suddenly remembered something and asked.
"It's possible." Aira said.
Zhang Ye took a sharp breath and then said, "If its mother comes looking for me, I'm afraid I'm doomed..."
An adult Violent Bear Beast has at least the combat power of the seventh rank. If Zhang Ye encountered it now, it would definitely be a dead end for him!
"Don't worry. With the magic power fluctuation of Leona around, even if an adult Violent Bear Beast discovers you, it wouldn't dare to approach." Aira said.
Zhang Ye let out a sigh of relief and nodded, "Then there's no problem... Wow, these bear paws smell so good!"
"Add some honey..."
...
After practicing all night, Zhang Ye opened his eyes.
"Your magic power fluctuation has already advanced from being newly promoted to the third rank to the early stage of the third rank. It's estimated that you'll be able to break through to the fourth rank in another three days." Aira said.
Zhang Ye nodded and asked, "Is the advancement from the third rank to the fourth rank a bottleneck?"
"Yes. Those below the fourth rank are considered low-level mages. Reaching the fourth, fifth, and sixth ranks are considered intermediate mages. The seventh rank is a high-level mage, the eighth rank is an archmage, the ninth rank is a magus, the tenth rank is a grand magus. After the tenth rank is the saint rank mage, also called the saint magus."
"Each of the first ten ranks is divided into newly promoted, early stage, middle stage, late stage, and peak. In the same rank, each small stage represents a combat power level." Aira explained. Then she slightly shrugged her delicate shoulders.
"However, for you, the division of these small stages in the early stage isn't that important. With your ability to cast spells without a cooldown, you can completely be invincible among those of the same rank and even fight across ranks."
"Of course!" Zhang Ye said confidently. Then he went to deal with breakfast. After that, Zhang Ye sealed the cave and continued to prepare to enter the forest to fight monsters and level up.
In Zhang Ye's opinion, what he needed most now was to improve his combat skills, such as the release of spells, the connection between spells, and the use of pure magic power.
In this world, magic power had many wonderful uses. For example, magic power could be directly converted into forces of various attributes, like metal, wood, water, fire, earth, light, dark, ice, wind, and thunder. All of these were possible. However, due to differences in personal attributes, the efficiency of converting attribute magic power was also different.
For example, if a person had a fire-attribute physique, then the efficiency of him converting fire-attribute magic power would be higher compared to others. He could convert one unit of pure magic power into two units of fire-attribute magic power.
But if he were to convert it into water-attribute magic power, which was contrary to his physique attribute, then it might be that one unit of pure magic power could only be converted into half a unit of water-attribute magic power.
Moreover, with continuous practice and conversion, the difference in conversion efficiency would become larger and larger.
These differences might not be obvious in the early stage, but the later it got, the more obvious they would be. This was also one of the reasons why mages needed to confirm their own development directions after reaching the third rank.
If a mage with a fire-attribute physique insisted on cultivating and converting water-attribute magic power, then his achievements would definitely be inferior to those of mages of the same rank, with extremely low efficiency.
However... Zhang Ye didn't have this worry.
He had full attribute compatibility!
So when he converted magic power of any attribute, the conversion rate was the highest!
Isn't it wonderful?
So Zhang Ye walked while constantly converting the magic power ball in his hand into various attributes, using this to practice magic power conversion and improve the conversion efficiency.
He walked along the forest path, gently stroking Gu Jiu on his shoulder with one hand and holding a magic power light ball in the other. The light ball constantly changed into various colors, red, yellow, blue, green, black, white... It was colorful and really beautiful.
However, after practicing for a while, he felt a bit dizzy.
After asking Aira, he learned that converting magic power consumed mental power. He had been practicing all the way here, and his mental power had been greatly consumed, so he felt a bit dizzy and sleepy.
He had to stop practicing.
Mental power was different from magic power. It couldn't be restored through cultivation but had to wait for natural recovery or use corresponding potions and magic arrays.
However, for Zhang Ye, there was another option - killing monsters.
He planned to kill a few magical beasts later to enhance and replenish his mental power.
However, he hadn't encountered any magical beasts even after walking for a long time. He had already walked seven or eight miles.
Moreover, the surrounding forest was quiet, without even a single sound of insects or birds. It was extremely silent.
It was so quiet that Zhang Ye felt a bit creepy.
"Usually when I walk here, I can always hear some sounds. But why is it so quiet today..." Zhang Ye swallowed hard, "In movies, something always happens at times like this."
The more he thought about it, the stronger the ominous premonition in his heart became.
So he made a prompt decision and turned around to leave.
"Eh?" Aira looked at him with a confused expression, "Aren't you going to kill monsters and level up?"
"That also has to ensure safety. The further I walked forward, the more something felt wrong. Although I haven't developed a sense of danger yet, I believe my judgment. There should be danger ahead, so it's better to leave first!"
Aira was a bit speechless and said, "You're too timid, aren't you?"
Zhang Ye glanced at her and said, "Hey, what do you mean I'm timid? This is called being cautious!"
"I'm not a reckless protagonist who just rushes forward blindly. I haven't grown strong enough yet. I'll be reckless when I'm stronger in the future..."
"Roar!!!"