Chapter 109: Hunting Done
This time, Axel was much more ruthless and savage with his attacks. He specifically targeted the area of the monster’s body, where it was already injured and blood was dripping out, but just like the legends about the werewolves, the wolves had disgustingly good regenerative capability.
But to his own surprise, Axel found his own regeneration quite impressive as the wounds closed not too long after they were inflicted. And now that he was physically empowered by his mana and the sword in his hand, given by the master forger Gareth, it was also empowered. The sword didn’t seem to have any magical enchantment on it, it seems to be a True Forged Sword. And its only empowering quality seems to be increased strength and sharpness. Not that he was complaining.
Axel could have finished the fight much sooner, but he was dragging it on, not showing too much strength to the wolves but also not too little at a time, and making sure they could not go away as well. Thus, in their eyes, he was a pretty attractive meal. Supernatural creatures had a pretty simple way of ascension. Eat more powerful beings, absorb more energy, and then eventually, through evolution, become a beast of the next tier. Compared to the complicated system of the intelligent species, it was extremely simple and straightforward.
With a powerful and carefully constructed vertical slash, Axel severed two legs of a single wolf. It howled loudly in pain, as the others became furious. Wolves were heavily pack-based creatures, they cared for each other greatly despite being mere monsters with barely any intelligence.
They attacked him with even more fury, wishing to tear him apart, but that only led to a greater advantage on Axel’s part. Since they were quite large, using that to his advantage, he slid down from between their legs and appeared behind, jumping high into the sky with a powerful slash downward, he severed the head of one of the wolves, which he caught off guard with that move. One has its two legs severed, while the other one is dead. Only three remained.
Two of them attacked him with full fury without caring about their own safety, while another one remained with the wolf, which was injured. Axel mercilessly hacked away, and two became seriously injured, using that very opportunity, when the third wolf wanted to bite off his head, but Axel’s perception was always on, and he himself was careful of the surroundings. Fully expecting the remaining wolf to pull such a stunt. He carefully stabbed the sword right through the chest of the wolf.
[You have killed five dire wolves of Tier 1], notified Prime Nexus.
All 5 monsters lay dead, motionless, while blood covered his own face. It looked gruesome, painting the perfect picture of the butchery he committed with relative ease. Axel himself did not feel the slightest bit tired. He grasped the handle of the sword and felt the power coursing through him, and smiled, while the peak power he achieved on the trail was far greater. But that body felt foreign to him always, and the rules of that world were too damn weak.
On the other hand, the laws of the Eldarion continent were extremely heavy and suppressive.
With a sigh, he collected all five of the monsters in his space ring. Only a little space remained in his ring after that, so he kept searching. Finding another group of wolves, he killed them as well. And 8 wolves were barely held in his ring. The first thing he would do after selling those corpses is buy a bigger space ring with all the credit he would get for this hunt.
Another thing to mention was that, unlike many stories he read, in this world, you don’t gain anything by killing beasts or monsters or any other Seekers for that matter. The only thing you gain is replenishing your mana reserves. But the gradual progression to the next level of power does not increase with killing.
The progression between sub-levels of each phase, which are Initial, mid, and late, depends on solving the challenges within your respective aspect chambers. Deepening your understanding and expertise in both aspects. As for the major breakthrough from one phase to another, that depends on the achievement of various kinds within the Eldarion continent itself. You don’t need to go through a trial like that until you advance to the 5th phase. That is another major breakthrough.
With a sigh, he used mana to evaporate all the blood and grime on his body. Thankfully, the academy uniform is quite solid in itself, it has a self-cleaning and self-healing mechanism. If nat parts of it are torn, it would grow back after eating your mana. He went out and ignored Olgar, who seemed to want to ask him how his hunt went, but Axel simply ignored him and went straight to the academy shop. They took him to a separate storage chamber where there were already many corpses of various beasts. He emptied its contents into it.
The receptionist inspected the bodies and, while counting, in his 50% extra privilege, offered him a good price. He immediately asked for the largest space ring he could get with that money. Since he was purchasing things again, he would now get a 50% discount for that; essentially, with the total discount, he was getting a pretty expensive space ring for basically half the price. He internally chuckled, feeling a bit happy on that note.
Going back to the beast forest in the next day, as the earliest, he started his hunting again, and this time, Axel alone hunted literally 50, 1st tier creatures of various species alone, one by one. Hunting them wasn’t a problem unless there was a large number of them hanging around in one group. But the difficult part was finding them, he couldn’t go to the 2nd area because of the stupid rules.
But being alone made it easy for him to move around; still, the entire process took almost a full day for him. When he emptied 50 1st-tier corpses of various creatures in one go. All the staff members present at that moment in the academy shop looked at him in baffling shock. It seems the first time he brought the 8 wolves to sell, they thought he probably came to sell on behalf of his team.
But now, seeing 50 corpses, and for these to come out from the very ring he brought yesterday, they instantly bombarded him with questions, and hearing that he had hunted all of them alone, they all stared at him in disbelief. One of them immediately contacted Olgar to verify if he indeed went hunting alone or not. Hearing that as truth, they became even more baffled. Axel was amused at their reactions, but he did not wait there too long and simply went on his way after buying the necessary amount of materials he needed to start the forging and engraving procedure.
50 Golden Tickets = 1 Extra Chapter
200 Power Stones = 1 Extra Chapter
1 Magic Castle = 4 Extra Chapter