When Shang heard what he had to do, his mind quickly changed directions.
He put his earlier thoughts to the back of his mind as his old instincts from the wilderness returned.
Without saying anything, Shang shot towards the Wild Forest. rvin watched him from afar and slowly followed him from a distance.
As soon as Shang reached the first tree, he jumped to one of the branches in near-perfect silence. Then, he simply jumped from branch to branch with practiced ease.
Shang looked at the ground of the forest for the entire ti while always quickly checking the tree he would jump to next.
Shang hadn't even realized that rvin had essentially made it harder for Shang than necessary.
Pest Cats were only active at night. Right now, it was morning, and the sun was already shining down from above. This ant that the Pest Cats were hiding inside their nests, which were nearly impossible to find for soone that didn't know about the Pest Cats' habits.
When rvin saw the thodical thod at which Shang was searching for the Pest Cats, he sighed.
He wanted to teach Shang a lesson. Shang had acted in a self-destructive way by not at least pretending to be polite, and rvin wanted to make it a bit harder for Shang as a lesson.
Action and consequence.
Shang wanted to make his life harder? Sure, rvin would comply and make it a bit harder.
However, rvin had underestimated Shang.
Shang had been living in the wilderness for over half a year, and he had been forced to learn the habits of the beasts around him. After all, if he didn't, a Pest Cat might have jumped out at him from its nest if he didn't notice it prior to that.
Pest Cats might only be active and hunt at night, but if so prey decided to directly stroll right past its ho, it wouldn't decline the al.
After a couple of minutes of jumping from tree to tree, Shang noticed so dried drops of blood on the ground.
Pest Cats hunted every single night because they needed a lot of food to produce offspring. Pest Cats were famous for their astounding ability to reproduce quickly.
When Pest Cats hunted at night, they carried their prey to their burrow to consu it over the day. The Pest Cats had an impressively fast tabolism, and their stomachs were very efficient in digesting food.
However, there was still only so much Pest Cats could eat at once, and they often hunted rather big prey.
Because of that, they had to eat their prey over half a day, one stomach-load at a ti.
After around a minute of following the trail, Shang found an area with light scratch marks and so dried blood here and there.
Shang looked over, and he saw a small but wide hole below a tree. The hole looked like an enlarged version of a mailbox's slit, thin and wide.
Due to their form, Pest Cats could make themselves very small while still being able to move very quickly.
When Shang found the small hole, he looked at the tree from all sides. Sure enough, there was another slit on its other side.
Shang didn't climb onto the tree above the two slits since the Pest Cat would be able to feel the vibrations.
Then, from the other tree, Shang readied himself.
SHING!
Shang threw his sword towards the entrance of one of the slits. His sword hit the ground in front of the slit and vibrated.
Shang looked at the other slit and readied himself.
BANG!
Suddenly, Shang heard a commotion from the other slit, and he looked over with so surprise.
The Pest Cat had jumped out of the first slit and had attacked the space above the sword, which was sothing Shang had not expected.
However, Shang quickly adapted and shot toward the Pest Cat by pushing himself off the tree with all his power.
The tree creaked under the power of Shang's legs, and Shang shot with incredible speed right at the Pest Cat.
The Pest Cat was still confused about why there was no enemy in front of it, but it was already too late.
BANG!
Shang's kick hit the Pest Cat's spine near its chest, easily breaking it.
The Pest Cat collapsed, and Shang also broke its neck. His body was more powerful, which made it rather easy for him to kill it from such a position.
The task had been completed.
"Well done," rvin said as he silently appeared beside Shang. "You can go back to the academy. I'll quickly catch up with you."
Shang looked at the corpse below him. "What about the corpse?" he asked.
"You can keep it or sell it to the academy," rvin said. "By keeping it, you can sell it for gold. By selling it to the academy, you can get so contribution points."
SHING!
Sothing appeared in rvin's hands.
It was a large, black blanket.
"That's a Beast Sack. As its na implies, it's sothing to transport beasts. You can't just drag a bloody corpse through the streets of the cities since that would make the entire city stink of blood and guts. That's why you have to carry it inside a Beast Sack. They're inexpensive, and they're ant to be used only one ti," rvin explained. "You can have that one."
pᴀɴdᴀ nᴏveʟ Shang nodded. "Thanks," he said absentmindedly as he grabbed the Beast Sack and put it around the corpse of the Pest Cat.
Shang didn't think of his actions, but rvin noticed it.
'Interesting,' rvin thought. 'Earlier, he had issues with thanking , but now, he does it easily.'
"No problem," rvin said. "Get on with it. I still have sothing to do."
However, Shang didn't go, and he looked at the burrow of the Pest Cat. "Are you going to deal with the offspring?"
rvin frowned. "That's not sothing you have to be concerned over. You've done your task, and that's that."
Shang looked at rvin with a neutral expression. "Do you think I can't deal with the image of several babies being killed?"
rvin's frown deepened. "It's not about being able to deal with it or not," he said. "It's about if you should or not. Even if you can deal with it, you shouldn't have to. You are a new student, and you aren't even an adult. Killing a dangerous enemy is different from killing sothing that is no danger and hasn't threatened you."
As Shang heard rvin's words, he got reminded of the night he had killed the several beggars.
Shang rarely thought of the night since thinking about it always made him uncomfortable.
rvin noticed that Shang's eyes beca absentminded for a second when he said that, and rvin quickly realized what that ant.
'He has already done sothing like that before,' rvin thought without changing his expression. 'That explains quite a lot.'
"Go," rvin ordered.
Shang threw one more glance at the burrow.
As soon as he had seen the Pest Cat jump out of the wrong hole, Shang had realized that it had probably offspring in its nest. That was the only explanation he could co up with.
Pest Cats in the Wild Forest should be used to humans, and humans should be the biggest danger around here. No sane Pest Cat would attack a human with a weapon that had suddenly appeared in front of its nest.
Unless it had sothing to protect.
In the end, Shang took a deep breath, put the Beast Sack over his shoulders, and walked off.
For so reason, it was rather difficult for Shang to just leave like this.
When Shang had left, rvin looked at the burrow of the Pest Cat with narrowed eyes.
Then, a green bottle appeared in his hands, and he poured the contents into the hole.
After making sure nothing left the burrow, he left the forest and caught up with Shang.
The job was done.
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