After the herd of bighorn rams had been killed off, Arran and the group could finally settle down for a while as they only had to focus on cleaning up their spoils.
While everybody was cleaning up in a leisurely and relaxed manner Arran was still pissed about having to run all around the place while drawing the attention of the herd to himself as the rest of the group attacked from behind.
Looking at the corpses of the bighorn rams that were littered all over the place Arran could find nowhere to release all his pent-up frustrations and could only stand sulking in one corner.
While grumbling lowly to himself Arran noticed that Charmy and Eris were making their way over to where he was and seeing the smug smile that was still on the edge of Charmy's lips, Arran became increasingly frustrated.
When the two of them had gotten close enough to him to be out of shouting distance, Arran immediately started complaining.
He said to Charmy, "I'm sure you had
Seeing the plant with all the visual enhancements was like witnessing the procession of a king standing amongst its subjects in all its glory and it left the group stunned.Shandra let out a loud exhale as she exclaimed, "Wow it's actually a spiritual plant. We've really struck the jackpot this time!"Wesley who was by her side also said after using his hand to rub against his eyes to make sure that he was not seeing things, "You're right, I can't believe how lucky we are to be able to come across such a rare piece of treasure?""It's like all the ordinary luck we've ever had has been accumulating for a long while just to provide us with the opportunity to come across such a treasure!"Everybody nodded their heads in agreement with what Wesley had said too stunned to even form a coherent reply.Arran was very confused right now.While he could agree that the sight of this plant was very visually stimulating he could not for the hell of him u
Arran's group has already finished harvesting and gathering the herbs and the spiritual plant found in the small valley.Right now they were making their way to the next destination on their agenda which was the dire beast forest, specifically the place where a lot of high-class dire beast was said to be congregating.Because they had taken a detour by first going into the plains west of the dire beast forest they were actually very close to the place where they were headed but they had no idea that their group was not the only one who had set their sights on this particular stretch of the forest.Either way, even if they had lost a lot of time in hunting the golden fleece bighorn ram, they were not very far behind the other group and it could even be said that Arran's group had had a more fruitful trip than the other group since apart from catching the golden fleece bighorn ram as well as obtaining the entire herd of bighorn rams, Arran's group had also unexpec
As it turned out, the culprit of the entire commotion turned out to be a small and petite girl that was swinging a massive hammer everywhere as she battled two dire beasts together. One of the dire beasts was a five-meter tall bear that had massive claws, massive teeth, and generally very massive proportions. The fur on the bear was a deep black that shone with a kind of luster that resembled obsidian and as it moved and swiped with its massive arms, as its muscles flexed, a lot of its power sent columns of wind everywhere it aimed at. That was not all, as it seemed to also possess iron-like skin that gave it a powerful defense that was unlike that of the golden fleece bighorn ram that was from its unique talent of gathering essence energy into its body to buff up its defense. In the case of the bear, its defense came directly from its powerful physique and its defense did not lose out at all to that of the golden fleece bighorn ram. The other dire beast was a kind of large snake th
On the other side were the second group of academy cadets was staying as they watched the battle between the girl and the two dire beasts.This was the group that had previously been making their way towards the center of the forest.This group was made up of four males and two female with the two females being the one that was currently fighting against the two dire beasts and the other being the one that was previously been hanging off of the arm of the other male who looked like he was the leader of the group and went by the name Clyde.Apart from them, the three other men looked more like subordinates than teammates and it didn't seem like they had a lot of say in this group.Currently, the girl Trish, who was still hanging off of the arm of Clyde drew his attention away from the fight between Vanna and the two dire beasts as she gestured towards where Arran and his group were located on the other side of the forest as she said, "it looks like we have
Just now as Arran was playing around with Charmy and Eris while also keeping an eye on the other group, he suddenly felt something and he turned to look at the other side.That was when he saw Clyde looking at him with a fierce gaze.Arran could have sworn that he saw naked killing intent revolving in Clyde's eyes but before he could dwell further on this the killing intent in his eyes disappeared and all that was left was cold indifference.Charmy who noticed Arran's abnormal behavior asked him, "What's happened?""Is everything alright?"At first, Arran did not answer since he was still thinking about the killing intent that Clyde had previously displayed.If he was not wrong Arran felt that the killing intent was directed directly at himself only and not the whole group, but that begged the question... Arran had never met Clyde before so what could cause him to have the intention to cause harm to him.It was only when Charmy shook
Vanna had just finished her battle against the obsidian strong-armed bear and green-backed foraging giant snake and as expected it was a resounding victory on her part.Just like it was with the pack of dire wolves, the two dire beasts after having suffered the brutality of Vanna's mighty hammer were left with not a single piece of flesh intact. even the strong and sturdy rock-hard body of the obsidian strong-armed bear did not escape from being ravaged under the might of Vanna's hammer.This was a testament to Vanna's violence in combat and her total lack of regard to the objective of the current assessment which was to gather enough resources that would earn herself and her group the points that they would need to pass the assessment.Naturally, in order to acquire points to pass, the quality and quantity of the resources acquired as well as their overall state of being when retrieved would determine the number of points awarded. But looking at the totally rav
The tone of voice that Clyde used to speak to Eris was one that showed a total lack of respect that he was otherwise trying to come across as.Naturally this pissed of Eris and her group but for the sake of peace and also because they truly did not want to have anybody sabotaging their efforts during the assessment, none of Arran's group said anything at all.Besides, it was not like they could not work with Clyde at all just because he was disrespectful and bore clear misgivings against one of their group members. Like they say it was better to keep your friends close and your enemies closer.With that mentality in mind, Eris ignored Clyde's offense and instead said, "Well then we do have to talk about this issue. Seeing as both our groups are headed in the same direction then our objective is most likely the same.""Well, then how are we going to go about things so that we do not get in each other's way?"Arran and the rest of his group all nodde
As it slowly registered to Clyde just what Eris was asking for, he started to consider where exactly Eris got her confidence from that made her suggest such a suicidal sharing method despite the risks involved.Looking at Eris closely and then Charmy and the rest of their group... even taking a little look at Arran... Clyde could see that every one of them did not seem to be against Eris's suggestion and even seemed to look forward to it very much.This made Clyde cautious as it seemed that Eris's group really had something to rely on.Still, no matter how much Clyde racked his brain to come up with any possible explanation to their confidence, he could not come up with anything. but that did not stop him from refusing to agree to Eris's suggestion.The way he saw it, it did not matter what it was that Eris and her group were relying on, so far as they had a burden like Arran but still wanted to go up against him, then he would gladly accommodate them.