The group enjoyed their victory and took advantage of the following minutes to rest and renew their magical energy in preparation for any emergency, especially after the teacher laughed previously. He only laughed when something was out of the plan or something fun happened. Both cases were not good for the group as it meant another risk they had to face.
'What a bad luck!! Why now of all the time?'
'It seems that no one wants us to go through the easy road.'
Many of them sighed from the upcoming disturbing situation even though they did not feel the danger coming from afar.
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"There is one kilometer before they arrive. Let's see a fun challenge this time."
Maximus, who sat on a chair in the sky at an altitude of thirty meters, had a wide view of the entire region, waiting for the fighting to come while sitting at the edge of his chair.
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The floor began to shake with the steps of the two huge monsters who swept everything that got in their way towards their brother's position.
The sound was getting closer and the vibration increased little by little until they entered the group's forty-meter sensing range.
'Two at once?? Isn't that a lot?'
Tai Min wondered why two ferocious beasts of this caliber came together when they are supposed to be rivals for dominance of the territory.
'They may be family and they felt their brother was injured and they wanted to help him.'
Yoon Hwa’s assumption was correct: although they were monsters with different animal bodies, they had the same parents. When they are born, their size and shape are of a small black leopard, then they develop and their shape and size change according to the nature and strength of the tail. Between the brothers who now came, one of them is a buffalo with a hammer tail and the other a beaver with a shield tail. Their size is larger than the 'sword tail' and their defense is stronger, but they are much slower than it was, giving an opportunity to balance both sides of the fighting.
Dante stepped towards one of them and tried to attack it to draw its attention towards himself and keep it away from the group so that the rest could deal with the other and then return with the other one to defeat it as well.
| I am going to drag the beaver away and you take care of the buffalo at that time. My time limit is twenty minutes so try to end it quickly. |
| Do you need support or something like that or are you able to do this role on your own. |
| Stay here, Tai Min, as your speed is essential in the process of subduing this buffalo. I will take care of the other one myself. |
Dante examined the beaver with quick glances looking for fragile points and his nose was unprotected unlike the rest of its body. He rushed towards it and tried to cut it with the aura.
"Why is even his nose so hard? Where am I supposed to hit it like that?"
A superficial wound is the best Dante could do but it was already enough to get the attention of the 'shield Tail'. The chase was rather slow compared to the previous tail monster, the body is slow but the tail is no less fast despite its huge size. Just being in it attacking range keeps you in danger.
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'I can procrastinate but is not there a quick way to solve it?'
Several ideas flowed into Dante's head, but he could not implement them because he did not have all the necessary elements until he spotted a cliff in the distance. The idea of dropping the enemy from a high cliff is now available and Dante began leading the beast towards the cliff after he has turned around it.
"I can't drag him towards the open area because he'll notice it and won't fall so I'll head the other side where the trees and shrubs are dense up to the rocky ledge."
Dante, who was leading the prey into the trap, was also thinking about the success rates of the plan.
"The cliff has a height of about sixty meters, the length of this scoundrel is eight meters, and its weight is supposed to be at least forty tons. A fall from this height must be fatal, if it is not it will cause serious injuries at the very least..."
| I will deal with this monster myself; I found a way to do it. Take your time with the other and make sure you get as few injuries as possible. |
| Clear, do not put yourself in a dangerous situation either. |
Dante continued to drag the 'shield Tail' towards the cliff while taking care to avoid the sharp shovel-like shield blows characteristic of its tail.
"Its tail's shield is sharp like a sword; this is a weapon, not even a shield."
Another thirty seconds and Dante almost reached the top and then made a side jump away from the path of the huge monster who could not stop in time and his front ends slid off the edge of the cliff.
The soil was fragile on the edge, as it could not bear its weight through its hind legs, the 'shield tail' wanted to prevent itself from falling off the cliff at all costs and planted its tail in the ground so that it could stop the slide but the unexpected happened. As soon as it planted its tail, the rim collapsed successively and it tried to hold on to anything. Its enormous weight prevented it from clinging to the trees that were uprooted once it grabbed them.
"Please fall. Please drop off the edge, you heavy bastard."
The soil continued to collapse due to the huge weight of this monster until it collapsed all at once. The monster fell off the cliff and tried to prevent its body from crashing into the ground by planting its tail into the rock wall. The 'tail of the shield' managed to hold on, but its tail was torn as it could not carry all this weight and fell from half the height.
'His damned tail, he's still alive... Where is he heading now?'
Dante, who was disturbed by the monster's survival from the fall, was shocked by the monster's sudden departure. Dante got off the cliff and realized why; the tail became useless, the nerves and tendons were torn and the joints were dislocated. The monster withdrew because it had lost its only weapon.
| The danger has been neutralized from this side. What about yours? |
Dante activated the communication device as he drove back towards the rest in good shape. The fight ended quickly without procrastination, Dante exhausted his shadow abilities but was still in a position where he could fight normally.
| This is fast!! We are in the final phase of the subjugation process. We will be done in a minute. |
| Good job everyone. Once we are done, we will quickly set off to leave this forest. This amount of combat is largely enough. |
Dante hurried to meet with the rest who were nearing completion.
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'We easily trapped him.'
Orion was catching his breath after working hard with Tai Min to lure the 'hammer tail' into the trap. Tai Min was in a slightly better shape, with his speed higher and dodging being easier for him. That did not mean he was doing his best, he was amazed at Dante's skills, as he had previously done the role played by the two of them.
'Dante is much better than us. Even with our cooperation, we couldn't keep up with it.'
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The two girls continued their role and drowned the buffalo as well, it sank very quickly compared to the cheetah, its hooves are small compared to the palms of the cheetah and its weight is more than double. It sank in the mud in thirty seconds and could not resist and ended up next to his brother.
'Good teamwork, it wasn't as difficult as the first because we got familiar with a proper strategy.'
Everyone stared at Aliana who cheered the teamwork and smiled as they had won two consecutive victories.
'You are right, sister. We can apply the instructions accurately and with high skill. But we are missing something fundamental.'
They now turned to Yoon Hwa, who noticed high coordination even in tense and life-threatening situations but noticed another fundamental flaw.
They thought of an answer to her question until Orion answered it.
'Strategic skills are what we lack. If Dante hadn't been with us before, it would have taken us twice as long to find a decent strategy and try to implement it.'
'Do we ask the teacher or Dante to teach us?'
Little Eric spontaneously asked for the simplest solution to this problem. The rest laughed at his question, which was the solution to the previous problem...
While everyone was laughing, Dante came back and everyone paid attention to him and prepared to leave...