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Her Black Spear was loaded with her magic, enhancing its physical damage dealt, as she quickly pierced through the wolf's armor for a bit, leaving several holes, but the wolf roared, unleashing an explosion of flames through its red jewels.
B O O O O O M M M…!
"Unnggh…!"
Celeste was thrown away, as Mist quickly began healing her burn wounds.
"GRRRRHH…!"
The wolf slowly stepped forward, as he began to gain confidence yet once more.
"Hey, did you forget about me?"
"G R A H?!"
I appeared right above him, as I swung my sword vertically!
The sword began to overflow with a red and fiery aura, strong enough to easily slice through its tough armor and then get all the way down to its flesh and spine!
SLAAAASH!
The flesh easily sliced off before the mighty blade of mine, the shockwave of demonic energy coming from my sword easily overwhelmed the wolf completely. The pack leader was thrown into the ground with a loud thud.
CLASH!
"AGROOOO!"
The wolf cried in agony as it gave its last breath before perishing.
[Your Party have slain the [Crystal Wolf Pup (Tier 2: Rank 3)] x1]
[You have slain the [Crystal Wolf Pack Leader (Tier 4: Rank 5)] x1]
[Your earned EXP has been multiplied through your Skills.]
[You earned 95000 EXP]
[Your Familiars have earned a large quantity of EXP!]
[Naturia] Level has increased from Level 12 to Level 14!]
[Ignatius] Level has increased from Level 12 to Level 14!]
[Furoh] Level has increased from Level 12 to Level 14!]
[Beelzebub] and [Curse] have accumulated EXP]
[Accumulated EXP will be administrated once the subjects evolve.]
"Phew, that's that…"
I looked into the rest of my party while sitting over the big wolf's carcass, only to find the other wolves slowly beginning to regain control over their bodies.
"GGGRRRHHH!"
"GRAAAH!"
"AWOOO…"
The wolves looked at me with anger as I had slain their pack leader.
However, they remained in their own position and didn't seem to approach further.
I noticed several pups with them already. I guess it was valid that they wanted to kill us if we slain a pup that stranded far off their pack.
"Go away, I don't want to kill you all."
My eyes met with the wolves, as they remained in silence.
They suddenly stopped roaring at me, relaxing.
"These ruins would overflow with Horned Moles without a natural predator, which means that the crystals would get completely eaten before they can regenerate again… Don't think I am doing this out of good will!" I sighed.
"Woof!"
One of the wolves looked at me and barked like a dog, before everyone quickly walked away without doing a single thing. I guess Fenrir kind of softened me a bit too, that wolf helped us years ago and I still remember him. I wonder how he's doing.
And well, my father also taught me that I shouldn't hunt more than necessary… if possible. Even though I could had earned some more EXP that way, it is better if we don't fight more than this, or I'll end up feeling bad.
"Well done, you did great." Said Celeste. "It would had been too sad if we killed them all."
"I mean we already killed a whole pack of Tyrant Tigers…" Aquarina said.
"And that giant squid you killed…" Said Zack.
"Huh? Don't you remember how you killed over a dozen wild boars?" Asked Aquarina to Zack.
"A-Ah, right…" Zack sighed.
I quickly saved the materials inside of the Dimensional Bag, as we quickly made our way through the ruins. The specific crystal we needed was one imbued with life element. I used my eyes to analyze them and slowly find the one we wanted.
However, it was sure taking a while. Most of the crystals were either fire, earth, light, wind, and water. We couldn't find any Life Element Crystal at all. It was getting hideously hard!
"We can't find any Life Attribute Spirit Stone yet…" Sighed Celeste. "Why are they so rare?"
"Yeah, what's up with that?" Asked Aquarina.
"Uuggh, I am a bit tired." Mist yawned.
"Hey, Sylphy! Are you hearing us?" Zack wondered.
CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!
CRASH!
A large pile of crystals fell as I mined them using my sword.
"Huh? Ah, well, we just have to keep searching, that's all."
Of course, I've not just watching, I've been mining crystals since we got here and finished our deal with the wolves! I've picked a good amount of every new color we found. I've got fire, water, ice, light, darkness, poison, earth, wind, and more!
"Look, a pink crystal!" Mist said.
"Oooh! An Illusion or Dream Crystal?!" I jumped towards it and swung my sword.
CRAAASH!
A large chunk of it fell from the ceiling.
"Nice… it is a mix of both!"
I quickly saved it inside of my Dimensional Bag.
Meanwhile, everyone looked at me with bored expressions.
"W-What?! I'm just having fun!" I sighed. "You agreed to come with me."
"Hahaha… I guess you're like that." Aquarina giggled. "Though I am also interested in using these materials as well!"
"Yeah, yeah, but still…" Celeste said. "We've only found small critters crawling around."
"Ah, gotcha!"
SMACK!
Zack suddenly smacked a Horned Mole that showed up from a hole near him.
"GRYYYYHHH!"
The creature gave a little cry before dying.
"Heheh, this one's fat and big!" Zack grabbed the dead Horned Mole while giggling playfully.
"Zack aren't you hunting too many? Poor little moles…" Mist sighed.
"Ah… R-Right…" Zack said. "I am just a bit bored. Sylphy, can you store this one too?"
"Alright~!"
As I stored the pile of crystals and the Horned Mole carcass, I suddenly felt… somewhat of a presence.
"A… e…"
"Huh?"
I looked around, I could swear I heard some sort of voice.
"Alice, did you said something?"
"Hm?"
Alice was resting inside of my Soul Scape.
"I didn't, what's wrong?"
I could swear I heard something though…
"I think I heard something…"
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