I Become Master of Danger Zones as Incubus With Mastery In Genetic Chapter 613 33

"Phew, looks like I'm close to becoming a 5th Circle Mage." Ardent could not stop the smile from blooming.

When he beco a 5th Circle Mage, he will beco the stronger human in the region, able to trample over 4th Circle Mage with ease.

"Ti for the regular patrol then."

Ardent's schedule is busy, with the first few hours from waking up being patrolling few kiloters from the village. Then, he trained in the dungeon, before, completing another round around the village. The next day, rinse and repeat.

Of course, break and al were included, with most of them spent with his family, or with Catlin. The latter were more common as Catlin acted like a housewife, taking lesson from her and his mothers.

'I'm not complaining though. It's nice to eat my future wife cooking, especially when she is good at it.'

His little daydream abruptly stopped when he sensed sothing in the distance. Lowering his altitude, Ardent Shadow Dive into the intertwined shadow of the trees, moving through the darkness and straight to what he sensed.

It took him a few minutes, not due to him being slow, but to the great distance from his previous location and his target. In fact, he moved faster than he ever did when he used Shadow Dive and Shadow Traversing before, the result of his training with one attribute for an entire day.

When he get close, he applied Dark Mantle as extra precaution, even if he did harbor the believe they did not sense him. Better be safe than sorry as they say.

In a reasonable distance from the camp, enough to not be at point-black distance, while being able to hear the newcors talking to one another, Ardent listened.

"To think, Master Grulnar asked us to co to the middle of nowhere." one of them said.

Ardent put to note of the na. If he had to hazard a guess, it's the person who send the bandits, and now, the new group.

"The Red Stone Bandit did not answer any reply. They might take a liking of the place and go rouge." another one said. If he has any doubt of them being related to the previous bandit group, said doubt was put to rest now.

"Oh, or maybe, the villagers put up a fight and kill the entire Red Stone Bandit!" one of them yelled in mock shock, before trembling, his chest heaving before he burst into laughter.

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Others followed, laughing loudly as they shake like a loon. Ardent would have been pissed if not for them being accurate. Without him being more powerful than expected, Slurom Village will cease to exist. Replaced by a new village, under Master Grulnar.

'I can probably kill them now, but, performing a little more spying should be alright.' to make sure it will be fine though, Ardent inspected the border of the newly ford camp, to ensure there will be no raiders from the new group.

Once he was certain, Ardent began spying the new group.

'I'm so excited! It's like playing a real ga of spy, but with the benefit of not being caught a few seconds after running around!' Ardent thought with so excitent, this one being borne of his love of spy movies during his adulthood.

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The first place Ardent inspected is the camp of the grunts. It may seem like a foolish decision, as the grunts will not have many useful information he can dig through. However, what he was after is simple; the number of the group.

While counting one person at a ti will take a long ti, plus the possibility of accidentally counting the sa person over and over again, counting the tents, and multiplying the average people inside is an easier endeavor.

After a lot of counting, helped by the fact it is close to night, so the foot traffic of the camp had slowed down, Ardent counted about 300 to 400 rcenaries, which he learned by listening to their talk.

As for their average strength, that's where it get worriso. After all, when there are no Zero Circle Mage or regular, non Aura using rcenaries, which is because everyone is either a 1st Circle Mage or stronger, or 3rd Rank Aura User!

"The village will be overwheld." Ardent muttered. The Red Stone Bandit is bad enough with a large number of 1st Circle Mage compared to the village, but this new group, they could walk into the village and not noticed a single thing.

"And that's not counting the 2nd Circle Mage and above." and Ardent did not think he did not spot them because they are lacking in such combatants.

He looked at the larger tents, with personal that is not a combatant. Which were the only population of regular people in the camp.

"They should be servants and slaves. Taking care of the need of the higher-ups of the group." Ardent whispered to himself.

The rows of tents should be the residence of 2nd Circle Mage and above, plus 2nd Rank Aura User and their ilks.

"I should count them as well. I will kill them quickly, but maybe I can get them to fight with the other Mages for practice as well." the possibility of giving the Mages and Aura User of Slurom Village so much needed real life combat experience against stronger foes is good, but it can lead to horrible losses.

In the end, Ardent decided to not do so as the village could not afford another round of losses in their combatants.

"I should also get my strength to the next Circle, so I can let them go through the 2nd floor. Catlin should beco a 3rd Circle Ice Mage in a week or so if she completed an entire run through the 2nd floor." The possibility is there, but Ardent will see if his fiance can handle the entire 2nd floor by herself.

"For now, I should count the number of 3rd Circle Mage, and see if there are any 4th Circle Mage." if the last one can be found in the group, only an ambush can took such powerhouse down.