"A ferocious beast is approaching. Max, prepare for battle!" Charles took out his supre spear from the storage space, remaining vigilant.
After Charles noticed the ferocious beast approaching, it didn't take long for the surrounding forest to start trembling. Birds scattered in panic as a monstrous creature erged, its jaws wide open!
——[Thorny Chomper]——
[Attribute]: Wood
[Level]: 13
[Quality]: Silver
[Skills]: Thorns Regrowth, Devour
[Emotion]: Hungry
[Health]: Healthy
[Weakness]: Wind Attribute / Severed Flower Stem
[Description]: This is a mutated plant that uses vibrations to sense nearby prey. Without a central nervous system, it feels no pain or satiation and will continuously feed purely on instinct.
"It's a Level 13 ferocious beast!" Seeing the system prompt about the Thorny Chomper, Charles beca tense.
Max was currently stuck at Level 9 due to lacking breakthrough materials, a full tier below this ferocious beast. Clearly, Max was not its match.
However, Charles still intended to give it a try. If things got too dangerous, they could always use [Darkness Cloak] to escape.
"Max, avoid its attacks. If we can't win, we'll run. Don't get hurt!" Charles warned.
"Sigh!!!" Max's tone was defiant.
How could the master underestimate it?
Determined to prove itself, Max displayed agile movents, constantly dodging the Thorny Chomper's spreading thorns. It ford ice spikes in front of it, launching a barrage of icy spears at the Chomper like a rain of arrows!
Under this dense attack, several tentacles were severed, and the Chomper was riddled with holes.
Seeing its pitiful state, Max raised its chin proudly. But in a mont of carelessness, a thorny vine erged from the nearby bushes, wrapping around its body!
"Max, watch out!"
Charles dashed forward, slashing the vine with his spear to free Max. He then activated [Bone-Achingly Cold], causing pale flas to ignite on the ground, burning the dense vines to ashes.
Just as Charles was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the vines regrew and began to wrap around him again.
"These wood-attribute ferocious beasts are really troubleso. With this regeneration speed, we'll be fighting until morning." Charles was frustrated. He then checked the light screen for its weakness: to defeat it, they had to destroy its core flower stalk.
Charles understood how to defeat it now, but the surrounding thorns were so nurous that they ford an impenetrable web, making it impossible to reach the core!
"Attacking the vines is useless! Aim for the flower stalk, you fool!" The little flying squirrel, perched safely on a tree branch, looked anxious.
In the forest, it had seen a three-eyed crow hunt a Thorny Chomper before. It simply dodged the vines at high speed and bit through its flower stalk, causing all the vines to wither.
Mousey spread its wing mbranes and leaped lightly, flying above the Chomper's head. Its tiny body didn't attract any attention.
"Seeing you in such a miserable state, I will reluctantly lend a hand... If he dies, who will provide free roasted at? Who will massage ?" Mousey thought to itself.
Mousey was only doing this for the free food and drinks!
And the personal massages!
Not to save him!
Already fantasizing about a future where Charles serves it, Mousey let out a "squeak" of laughter and then unleashed its ultimate move!
"Mitic Illusion!"
With a wave of dark energy, a ferocious beast identical to the Chomper appeared out of the darkness.
The real Chomper noticed the imposter in front of it and beca extrely agitated!
Vines began spreading from the ground, trying to entangle the fake Chomper.
At the sa ti, the mitic illusion's Thorny Chomper also activated [Thorns Regrowth], producing vines from the ground!
The vines grew and intertwined on the ground until they eventually ford a tight knot...
"Great opportunity!"
Taking advantage of the mont when the two ferocious beasts were entangled, Charles swiftly charged forward with his spear!
"Crack!"
With a crisp sound, Charles swung his spear down, severing the Thorny Chomper's flower stalk. The round head of the Chomper, with its gaping maw, fell to the ground.
Once the flower stalk was cut, the surrounding vines began to wither rapidly, losing their life force.
[Ding! You have defeated the ferocious beast [Thorny Chomper] (Lv13·Silver Quality)!]
[Spirit Beast Max (Lv.9) Loyalty 1! Experience 300 (Stored)!]
[Spirit Beast Mousey (Lv.11) Loyalty 3! Experience 100!]
[Obtained Thorny Vine ×1!]
[Obtained Chomper Fang ×30!]
[Obtained Beast Core [Tier 1 · Wood Attribute] ×1!]
[...]
A series of system prompts echoed in Charles's mind.
"A Tier 1 Beast Core? I didn't expect to be this lucky!" Charles smiled, ignoring the wounds from the thorns.
A week ago, Charles struggled to face a Level 7 Resurrecting Serpent alone. Now he could defeat a Level 13 ferocious beast. Despite the difficulties, this progress made Charles very happy.
If he could defeat this Level 13 ferocious beast, he felt confident he could face Felix too!
"See that? This is the power of Mousey!"
Next to Charles, a brownish-yellow little flying squirrel spread its wing mbranes and circled around him, squeaking continuously.
"That huge monster just now, seeing you both in danger! At the critical mont, it was who stepped in!"
"One move, Mitic Illusion!"
"In an instant, the sky darkened, a fierce wind rose, dust swirled, lightning flashed and thunder roared... Under my attack, the enemy was easily defeated..."
Watching the little flying squirrel vividly recounting the recent battle, Max's eyes narrowed with amusent, and it covered its mouth with a paw, chuckling softly.
"This place would have fallen apart long ago without Mousey!... So, where are the tasty cookies and nuts?" The little flying squirrel widened its round eyes, staring at Charles and wiping a bit of drool from the corner of its mouth.
Seeing Mousey like this, Charles felt his heart lting.
Mousey's loyalty wasn't very high, and it had a chance to avoid fights. In the recent crisis, Mousey didn't choose to hide in a safe place but tried to save him. Charles noticed it all.
"You're really silly and adorable..."
Charles murmured softly, then took out a bag of nuts from his storage space and tossed it into the air. In an instant, a yellow blur shot out like a cannonball!
"The ferocious beasts around here are getting stronger. I need to help Max break through quickly. Otherwise, the experience we're gaining will just be stored, and our strength won't improve..." Recalling the intense mont of the recent battle, Charles looked worried.
But where could he find the [Polar Cold Spring], the key to Max's breakthrough?
"I'd better ask the teachers at school. They're knowledgeable and might know." With this thought, Charles took out his phone.
There was no signal in the ancient tomb near the bloody pool, and he hadn't contacted the outside world for a long ti. As soon as he clicked into the "Trial Team Group Chat," he saw that there were tens of thousands of unread ssages accumulated over a week, impossible to go through all of them.
"I seem to have fallen behind. I've searched the whole forest and haven't seen a single classmate. What should I do?"
"I heard another team went missing. I'm so scared. Could they all be dead?"
"Don't scare ! What's the plan for this route? There were never so many accidents in previous years' trials!"
"After entering the middle layers of the ferocious beast mountain range, I can't beat those ferocious beasts at all. Does anyone else feel the sa way?"
"It's not just ferocious beasts! Mosquitoes, rats, poisonous snakes... I'm going crazy. I want to leave this horrible place!"
"The problem is, even if we want to go back now, it would take over a week to get out of the mountains. I've lost contact with the main group. I won't survive one night alone."
"Whimper... I don't want to be a Beast Master anymore. I don't want to die... Whimper..."
"..."
The chat ssages were full of despair. It seed that while he was in the tomb for a week, many accidents had happened outside.
It wasn't really the Beast Master Guild's fault for not planning the route properly. Sothing seed to have happened in the ferocious beast mountain range, causing so powerful ferocious beasts that were supposed to be deep inside to appear in the outer layers.
Charles had already seen several waves of frightened beast migrations.
After reading the group chat ssages, Charles opened his private ssages. Among the dozen or so ssages from female classmates, one ssage from Fletcher caught his attention.
"Charles, we reached the designated location and waited for half a day. We didn't see you, and you didn't reply to our ssages. Have you really given up? We're heading south toward the bloody pool now. We've left so food at the camp. If you see this ssage, you can go and get it."
Seeing the words 'bloody pool' in the ssage, Charles imdiately felt worried.
"Felix and his band of outlaws are near the bloody pool. Going there now is suicide!"
Putting away his phone, Charles was about to head toward the bloody pool. The surrounding area was misty, with the sound of flowing water and a cold chill in the air. Despite it being sumr, Charles couldn't help but shiver.
Max seed very excited, suddenly breaking free from Charles's embrace and rushing toward the water.
Charles was amazed. "Is this... the polar cold spring?"
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