Battle of Ascension

Chapter 230: Hunting Time

In the burned forest, there were four beastmen with an ox's head wandered around. After half an hour, the fire had not died down yet as the fire kept burning the trees.

But despite having burned for a long time, the trees were still standing. The green lush forest changed into the fire forest. The leaves on the tree changed into fire, but somehow the fire could not burn the trunk.

Meanwhile, the four beastmen with an ox's head explored the fire forest thoroughly. But suddenly the foremost beastmen stopped and looked back.

The beastmen scanned behind him, behind the other three beastmen.

"What's wrong, chief?" One beastmen startled and asked the beast which called chief.

Between the four beastmen, there was an obvious difference between the chief and the other three. The beastmen called chief had four big sheep-like horns, two horns warped downward while the other two horns warped upward.

Meanwhile, the other three beastmen only had two horns which warped downward. Also, the beastmen with an ox's head with four horns were half a meter taller than the other three beastmen.

"I feel we are being watched," The chief said as the beastmen with four horns scanned the surrounding.

"Are you sure, chief? I feel nothing," One beastmen said in doubt as it felt nothing.

The other two beastmen also nodded its head, but as the chief said so, the other three also checked the surrounding.

"There's nothing chief," The three beastmen confirmed.

"Maybe I was wrong, let's go. We have to find that human quickly," The chief also found nothing, so they continued advancing forward.

The four beastmen continued. After they moved far away, there was a human appeared behind the group, besides a burned tree, "Tha four-horned ox has a sharp instinct,"

It was Randy, he followed the Crimson Princess "Grand Plan". He was scouting the area, looking for the Mythical Grade Beast, when he found the group Mythical Grade Beast, he would get back to Audrey, and they would ambush the group Mythical Grade Beast together.

Actually, he wanted to take action alone and ambushed the group Mythical Grade Beast alone after leveling up his Shadow Elemental Essence to Shadow Elemental Core which granted him an ability to hide in the shadow, but Audrey bared his flaw before him if he was acting alone.

Ambushing alone could work if only there were two Mythical Grade Beasts in a group, but if there were over two Mythical Grade Beast in a group, then his plan to ambush the Mythical Grade Beast was not working as he could only kill one in one ambush.

If he could only kill one Mythical Grade Beast, then the survived beast would grow alert and would regroup with other Mythical Grade Beast if it realized Randy too strong for it.

Moreover, that was not the worst. The worst was if the beastmen realized his Shadow Elemental Power, then the survived beastmen would spread it to other groups, then it would be hard for him to ambush the other Mythical Grade Beasts.

The Crimson Princess kept pointing out the flaw about him took an action alone, convincing him to follow Audrey's grand plan.

But what the Crimson Princess him was right. Taking an example the four beastmen with an ox's head just now, he could kill one out of three of the beastmen, then what about the other three beastmen?

After battling Lamia early, Randy aware the Mythical Grade Beast was hard to deal even for the current him. So it was out of the question to face the three Mythical Grade Beast at once.

Also, just now he tried to ambush them, but the four-horned beastmen noticed his presence despite hiding in the tree's shadow.

"Mythical Grade Beast indeed could not be underestimated,"

Randy muttered in a low voice before disappearing into the tree shadow. He was going back to where the Crimson Princess was waiting for him.

Currently, the Crimson Princess was killing the survived King Grade Beast. She was idle as Randy scouted for the Mythical Grade Beast, so while waiting for Randy came back, she was hunting the survived the King Grade beast.

"Hey, I found them," Randy suddenly appeared behind Audrey and spoke, startling the Crimson Princess.

Crimson Princess unwittingly flicked her spear to her back, but fortunately Randy raised his sword, blocking the spear before saying in displeasure, "Hey, it's me!"

Crimson Princess realized she was overreacting, but of course, she didn't she was wrong. She snorted at Randy, "Hmph, it was your fault. Why do you startle? You deserve it,"

After over half month interaction with her, Randy already knew Crimson Princess' nature well. So he didn't argue about it, only shaking his head, "Let's go, I found a group of beastmen,"

Hearing Randy found the beastmen, Crimson Princess' eyes shone, "Where are they? Let's hurry, lead the way!" She was so eager to hunt the Mythical Grade Beast of beastmen and immediately ordered Randy to lead the way with her bossy attitude.

Randy had nothing to say about this, he led the way to the south. After a few minutes, they caught up with the group of the four Mythical Grade Beast.

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[Romry - Igor Chief]

Grade: Mythical Beast

Level: 443

Skill: ???

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[Masar - Igor]

Grade: Mythical Beast

Level: 412

Skill: ???

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[Halmas - Igor]

Grade: Mythical Beast

Level: 411

Skill: ???

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[Parran - Igor]

Grade: Mythical Beast

Level: 421

Skill: ???

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Even though this group was compromised four beastmen, but their level was higher than the Naga and Lamia group they faced earlier. Especially for the four-horned beastmen, its level was higher than the rest.

Randy and Crimson Princess appeared about 50 meters away from the group. Even though it was far, but it was the distance could reach only within a second. They were sneaking up there until Randy stopped Crimson Princess to move closer.

Audrey looked at Randy with query look, "Why are you stopping me?" It was what Randy read from her face.

"We can't move closer, except you have Shadow Elemental Power like me. That four horned beastmen have a sharp sense. It can even detect me while I was hiding in the shadow when I scouted them earlier," Randy reminded Crimson Princess to not move closer.

Apparently, Crimson Princess also aware the beastmen with four horns could not be trifled; she stopped, complying Randy's words which surprised him.

"Can you kill the four-horned Igor in one ambush?" Crimson Princess whispered to Randy.

Randy looked at the four-horned Igor and a trace of hesitation appeared in his face. He didn't have a confidence to kill the four-horned Igor in one ambush, Randy had a premonition he would fail if he was ambushing the four-horned Igor, but if he could ambush it he believed he could it in one hit.

"I don't know, it has sharp instinct. I'm not sure if I can ambush it?" Randy shook his head.

"Then I will attract its attention and you are ambushing the four-horned Igor with your Shadow Elemental Power," Crimson Princess proposed her idea, but Randy felt unsure about it.

Without waiting for Randy's response, Audrey summoned Mumu, "I will try to kill one of them in the surprise attack and you take care of the four-horned Igor,"

After saying those words, Audrey dashed forward to the backmost Igor, Halmas. In the split seconds, Audrey and Mumu were two meters away from Halmas' back, but Igor named Parran turned back and rushed toward Audrey and Mumu while shouting, "Be careful!"

Randy was ready in the tree's shadow which was 10 meters away from the group, waiting for the right time to ambush the four-horned Igor. Randy noticed the four-horned Igor was the first one noticed Audrey's surprise attack, but instead of helping its friend, it retreated for a few steps.

He guessed right, 'Luckily I'm not directly ambushed it, It's bound to be failed' Randy thought as he looked at the cautious four-horned Igor.

Meanwhile, Crimson Princess' spear and her seven flame spear were blocked by the named Igor, Parran. Even so, Mumu's attack still shot toward the target, seven soccer-sized fireballs shot toward Halmas.

The seven fireballs hit Halmas' back and exploded. Halmas was blown 20 meters away, unknown if Halmas was still alive or not. After that, Mumu rushed toward Crimson Princess, intending to help her to deal with Parran.

Igor's group was in the disadvantaged position, but there was no sign for four-horned Igor to move. Romry was scanning the surrounding cautiously, it didn't have any intention to help his underling at all.

Looking at this, Randy could not help but cursed, "Sly Bastard!" Even though its underlings in the disadvantaged position, it didn't help. Randy believed if Romry found something amiss, it would definitely the first one to run away.

Randy even had an urge to move behind the four-horned Igor and launched his attack, but he prevented himself to do so, waiting for the right time.

However, this situation was not bad. Audrey and Mumu got the upper hand against Parran and Masar, but Randy also suffered as he could do nothing except waiting for the four-horned Igor to loosen his guard against the ambush.

But soon, the four-horned Igor could not ignore the grave situation its underlings faced more. Romry rushed toward Crimson Princess with its swift speed and smashed its ax at her.

Crimson Princess caught unprepared by Romry's sudden attack and could do nothing about it.

Bam!

Crimson Princess got hit in her chest. She coughed up mouthful blood and flew back for over 20 meters.

It seemed Romry found there was no danger around them, he shouted, "Take care the wolf, it's a low-level Saint Realm, it's not less precious than the human with dragon bloodline!"

After saying that, Romry rushed toward to Crimson Princess, "Hehe, little girl! You are seeking for your own death by coming alone!"

Romry swung his ax at Audrey, but suddenly there was a dangerous feeling aroused, he wanted to move away, but it was too late as black slim sword passed through his neck accompanied with a chuckle,

"Got you,"

After that, the four-horned Igor's head slid down and rolled away on the ground. Blood spurted out in all directions from Romry's neck.

Randy soon felt an ominous gaze directed at him, he noticed the Crimson Princess looked at him with full of resentment.

He could do nothing about it, the four-horned Igor was so cautious. Randy took out a healing potion and tossed it to Audrey, "Here, Ancient Grade Healing Potion, there are still two Igor waiting for us to kill!"