In a large cave in a mountain inside the hunting area, 3 young men are arguing with each other, while behind each of them stood five very strong-looking soldiers.
"Can't we just move now?" One of the three grumbled, a sharp-featured young man with a peculiar-looking scarf around his neck, he was Michael Tinley... the one who got burned by Caesar in the restaurant.
"I said no! We'll wait until the last day, and the rest haven't even come yet."
"Why? We are three geniuses with 15 expert warriors at the tenth level, who can hold off our group?"
"Brother Phil, I'm afraid I agree with Brother Michael this time, catching and killing those clowns from the black sun will not need the rest, we are more than enough."
"Do you think they will wait for us to pick them up? No one knows what might happen. We also don't want to kill everyone from the Black Sun Kingdom, but the goal is to kill the squads of the three duchies who are close to the border with us: Everen, stanley, and Alton... finding them precisely in the vast hunting area will not be easy, even if we find a squad of those we would need to besiege them to prevent any of them from escaping.
The search circle is very large, and sieging about six cultivators isn't easy, Our number must be large during the search in order to complete the mission. We can go out now to chase, but in the best case, we can kill one or two squads.. What about the rest? We have to coordinate with the rest, otherwise, everything will fail."
"Tch.. why all this trouble? Let's just destroy everyone we see from the black sun."
"We have to follow the instructions! ..I don't know the exact reason behind this mission, but I think it is a way to evade the Eight Kingdoms pact, it seems that the elders are planning something big… We can't spoil something so huge just because you feel bored!"
"Hmph!" Michael snorted and went to sit in one of the corners of the cave with his followers, "Ok, I'll wait, but I have a request.."
" what do you want?" Phil Narrowed his eyes, this person became unbearable!
"Caesar Burton... he must be killed!" Michael's face seemed to transform, exuding a powerful killing intent
Phil knew very the reason behind this question, but didn't bring that humiliation up to not provoke Michael further"...The Burton family located inside the Duchy of Alton, which is one of our targets. I think your request is reasonable enough, after we've finished the main mission we'll take a little curve to get rid of Burton's squad as well. Are you satisfied now?"
"I won't be satisfied until I rip his head off with my own hands! But, well, I'll follow your arrangements for now." He involuntarily put his hand on the burned area on his neck.. 'I swear I will make you regret this!!'
After about an hour another squad arrived, and three hours later the Fifth squad arrived, then the Sixth... the geniuses and veterans of Dolivar began to gather inside this ordinary-looking cave...
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Hours passed by as if it were years... The suffering of the various squads in the hunting area to find suitable beasts and cooperate to kill them is exhausting for the soul and body.
Things didn't go smoothly with any squad because of the presence of level 11 and 12 monsters, all the teams struggled to escape from one place to another, and the biggest challenge was staying together even in escaping, for splitting up in a place like this meant their death.
But this also made their perspective narrow and reduced Their knowledge of their surroundings makes them more vulnerable to stealth attacks from the beasts
This was even more true for the teams of the Black Sun Realm. Some of the teams were already understaffed, and they all had people with low levels or poor fighting abilities in their ranks, and what was worse was that they weren't used to teamwork...
For them, Seeing any beast higher than the ninth level was a situation of life or death.
During the two days, most of the teams from the rest of the kingdoms managed to reasonably save their lives, most of them had lost one or maybe two followers since entering the hunting area.
Only the Black Sun Realm teams had lost over a third of their numbers so far!
The only good news is that all the main geniuses are still alive, but even that was a matter of time if the situation remained as it is...
The only ones who acted with ease of mind were the trio of Caesar, Peon, and Theo...
This is the first time that the three find an opportunity to experience their new power in a real battle situation.
although Caesar has been in constant duel rounds around the kingdom since he separated from Robin, it was friendly fights on a stage, and under the eyes of the spectators, there was no danger to anyone's life
But now... Peon's immense speed combined with the Wind Blade, Theo's silent sneaking with darkness eroding daggers, and Caesar's brute strength with his unstoppable flames, had finally shown their real fatal potentials.
Already two days have passed since the event started but the three managed to kill 32 monsters combined, most of them between levels 8~11, except for one time when Peon faced a level 12 lizard beast and lured it towards Caesar where the two cooperated to kill him.
This was a level 12 beast!!
If an entire *real* squad of six saw a beast of this caliber, they'd rather run away than bother to fight it!
Rather, the only benefit of the level 12 beasts here is to intimidate the squads and kill some of their members to add some heat to the show... no one was supposed to kill them!
The three stayed within the diameter of the circle set by Caesar and met many squads during the two days, they could easily determine that most of them had collected tokens from about 14 beasts, a little more or less~
Winning the first round was already in their pockets a while ago, but they are currently busy trying to discover more about their powers.
An opportunity like this will not come every day...
After the event ends, there will be a few one-on-one fights to determine the positions. Caesar would run amok in those fights and grab the number one position easily,
Then Peon and Theo would return to help Robin and protect him, while Caesar will return to the routine he formed With the Burton family and bully the young geniuses of the black sun in peace.
'everything will go according to the plan.... hopefully.'
In 22 hours from now, the hunting event will end.