After summoning each of their beasts, the group slowly inched toward the location that the mouse was pointing earlier.
With Shelsea on the lead, their pace was moderate, and none of them made a sound. Her hound was in front of her, sniffing softly in the air as it walked forward, as if following the trail left behind by the Blood Elk.
Not long later, Shelsea raised her hands in midair, signaling for everyone to stop.
Lucas stared at the area ahead. Even with the trees, the striking figure of the Blood Elk could still be seen clearly from afar.
The Blood Elk was a massive creature. It has a reddish coat and blood-red horns that send out ominous vibes to the onlooker.
One look, and Lucas was able to tell that the Blood Elk was a formidable beast.
Shelsea and the other's eyes lit up the mont they saw the Blood Elk. After following it for a week, they finally got their sight on it.
Without intending to let it escape, the group began to send their contracted beasts toward it with the exemption of Sylvia and Lucas.
Leading the charge was the dog of Shelsea.
After crawling softly for a few ters, it imdiately ran toward the Blood Elk like a bullet. Following closely behind it was Darren's bull, and directly behind it was Mariel's fox and Kane's exaggerated goat.
The group sprinted at full speed. Leaving trails of dust in their wake.
The Blood Elk sensed their approach. It turned its head toward the incoming group, and its red eyes stared at them for a split second before it let out a strong bellow.
The Blood Elk ran toward the incoming group without fear.
The mont it was about to make contact with Shelsea's dog, the Blood Elk raised its front legs in the air and tilted its sharp, bloody horn forward, intending to ram the incoming dog.
Boom!
A terrifying explosion ensued as the attack of the Blood Elk connected. The dog got slamd to the ground, but it was not without a purpose.
Following behind it, the bull of Darren slamd its head to the chest of the Blood Elk successfully, sending it a few ters backward due to the strength of the collision.
An expression of pain emitted from its eyes, but it ultimately gritted its teeth and ran forward to ram the bull that slamd against it.
The bull t the Blood Elk's horn with its own horns. The sound of collision once again resounded. This ti, it was the bull who was sent backward a few ters away.
Shaking its head, the bull felt as if its world was spinning after the direct headbutt from the Blood Elk.
Just as the Blood Elk was about to follow its attack, a small fox suddenly blocked its line of sight.
The fox's tail swayed left and right, and its purple eyes stared at the Blood Elk intensely, not intending to move out of its way.
Strangely enough, the Blood Elk montarily forgot about what it was about to do.
Just as it was about to attack the small fox that dared to block its way, a scream suddenly rang in its ear.
Before it could look at where it ca from, a massive force suddenly slamd on its side.
The Blood Elk let out a bloodcurdling scream as it felt the force penetrating deep inside its inner organs. Although its body was not sent a few ters away, the pain it caused was still much greater compared to the one that sent its body away earlier.
When it recovered from the pain, it realized that the mouth of the dog had already sunk deep in its stomach.
Blood sprayed everywhere like a fountain.
With the coordination of the beasts, the Blood Elk was constantly being suppressed. It could only manage a counterattack one or two tis before it succumbs to yet another grueso chain of attacks it could hardly defend.
Away from the battle, the figures of Lucas and the others stared at the intense battle intently.
Shelsea and the others were directing their beasts and also observed any opportunity that might arise outside of their beast's perception.
The dog and the other beasts coordinated very well. Although most of their attack was not lethal enough to end the Blood Elk in one strike, or as early as possible, the Blood Elk was still slowly crawling towards its doom with the various injuries it was constantly acquiring as the battle raged on.
Behind Shelsea and the other summoners, Lucas observed with great interest.
Aside from the videos he had seen online, this was the first ti that he saw how others deal with their target beasts.
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Upon closer observation, Lucas realized that all of them, including the Blood Elk, seed to be around the sa level or rank. However, even with that, the dog and the other beasts still failed to kill it as quickly as possible, even after ganging up on it.
This made him realize even more just how terrifying the Hellhound Manifestation skill was.
Although the Blood Elk would fall sooner or later, the commotion that the battle caused was still quite loud, and Lucas was already worried that they might attract unwanted attention with such great fanfare.
"Do you guys need help?" Lucas decided to ask after so hesitation.
Shelsea turned her head toward him before focusing back on the battle.
"No need. Don't worry, we can handle it."
Seeing that, Lucas rely nodded his head, not saying anything.
Even though the Blood Elk was already at its limits, Lucas was still on alert.
Although he may look carefree from ti to ti, Spot was also always in alert mode. Even when he was just observing the battle ahead, his ears still kept on twitching, trying to discern any movents around them.
The battle continued for two more minutes after that interaction with Shelsea.
"Are you sure you don't need help?" Lucas asked once again.
His heart had already grown restless a minute ago.
Though wounded, the Blood Elk still held onto its life. It was quite tenacious and hard to kill.
As its wounds kept on increasing, Lucas also realized that the Blood Elk was also continuously growing stronger.
Having observed the battle, Shelsea also realized that sothing was wrong.
The Blood Elk would just not go down despite its nurous injuries.
"Is it healing?" Shelsea muttered with a frown.
"It seems so," Lucas answered.
In fact, he had observed it a minute ago as well. However, since these were their target beasts, Lucas assud that Shelsea and the others were already aware of the Blood Elk's healing ability.
And from the looks of it, it was not a simple healing ability as well.
"It looks like it's going to evolve to the Bronze Grade-Berserk Elk soon. It's good that we interrupted it midway, else, the situation might beco even more troubleso," Shelsea stated.
Sylvia and the others nodded their heads as well, agreeing with her thoughts.
Seeing that they were calm, Lucas did not say anything any more.
So ti later, the battle gradually shifted away from their favor.
The more injured the Blood Elk beca, the more it attacked ferociously as well.
Like a madman, it would even sotis abandon its defense just so it could land a solid attack of its own.
Seeing that their beasts were gradually getting wounded, Shelsea finally summoned her grimoire once more as she flipped it open to summon another beast.
It was a bird-like beast with a wingspan of at least two ters. Its size was just adequate—not too big and not too small either.
"Mariel, let your Enchanting Fox retreat, my Homing Pigeon will cover its retreat."
Mariel nodded her head and followed Shelsea's order. Her fox slowly retreated to the rear while the Homing Pigeon swapped in to join the battle.
The fox went toward Sylvia's tree, resting beneath it. The tree shook for a mont before dust slowly fell toward the fox's body, alleviating its pain and fatigue.
Lucas nodded his head in understanding upon seeing the scene.
After that switch, Lucas saw the group summoning one beast after the other, except for Sylvia, who still maintained her role as a support situated in the rear, healing and alleviating the fatigue of her teammates' beasts.
Darren summoned another bull, but it was smaller and clearly weaker than the first one. Mariel summoned rabbit-like beasts that constantly jumped around to distract the Blood Elk.
Kane was the most extravagant, summoning two beasts at the sa ti. One was a massive tortoise, while the other was a duck.
As the newly summoned beasts joined the battle, the first batch slowly began to retreat to recuperate with the help of Sylvia and her tree. From ti to ti, Sylvia would also heal them on her own, having learned a healing ability after she reached the Iron Grade.
The goal of the second team was just to delay and occupy the Blood Elk while the first team recuperated in the back.
With the summoner's control, the second beast team was also coordinating splendidly.
Although they were not able to provide much damage to the Blood Elk like the first group did, they at least fulfilled their task of occupying the attention of the Blood Elk.
Not long later, the first group joined in the battle once more.
At this ti, the Blood Elk was slower and weaker.
Its previous vigor and ferocity dwindled.
From the looks of it, there was a limit to its healing ability as well.
Sensing the opportunity, the dog and the other beasts attacked the Blood Elk relentlessly, not allowing it to recover or escape.
A few monts later, with the seamless coordination of the beasts, the Blood Elk finally fell to the ground with a thud.
Just as the group was about to rejoice with the successful hunt, a humongous shadow was suddenly cast at the top of them.
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