After retrieving the monster core, Jianchen and Tie Ta continued their journey of hunting magical beasts.
Hunting a Class 1 Magical Beast with the strength of a Saint was definitely an extremely difficult mission for regular students of the academy. Their lives could be in danger at any time. However, in the eyes of Jian Chen and Tie Ta, it was nothing more than a game. The second zone had completely become a golden ground for the two of them to hunt for monster cores.
A day passed very quickly. Night fell. Jianchen and Tie Ta sat in an empty space that had been cleared out. There was a torch between the two of them. The bright light constantly flickered in the dark night, causing their reflections to constantly distort. They seemed like demons baring their fangs and brandishing their claws.
The surroundings were pitch-black. Outside of the range of the flames, one couldn't even see one's own fingers. The night was not so calm. In the woods, who knew how far away, there were constant roars and howls of magical beasts, making one's hair stand on end. If a timid person were to spend the night in such an environment, he would probably be scared out of his wits.
Tie Ta flipped over a large piece of unknown magical beast meat on the rack. With the light from the fire, he could clearly see that Tie Ta and Jianchen's clothes were all tattered and covered in blood.
These bloodstains were all from the magical beasts, and their clothes were all cut by some thorns.
"Changyang Shōten, you really are amazing. I never thought that your rusty metal rod would be so powerful. You basically killed all the magical beasts we killed today. Only the small snake we met at the beginning was killed by me," Tie Ta praised.
Jianchen smiled faintly, "I just happened to grasp the opportunity. If you hadn't heavily injured the magical beasts, it would have been rather difficult for me to kill them."
Tie Ta chuckled. He finally found some comfort in his heart. He continued, "Changyang Shōten, can you tell me why you're always able to sense the approach of magical beasts beforehand?" Tie Ta's face was filled with curiosity. He had been holding this question in his heart for an entire day, and now he finally found the right opportunity to ask.
Jianchen did not hide anything. He pointed at his ears and head and said, "Use this and this."
Iron Tower followed Jianchen's actions and pointed at his ears and head. He asked curiously, "Are you talking about stopping with your ears and thinking with your head?"
"You're half right!" Jianchen rubbed the tip of the iron rod against a large rock that he had purposely moved near his feet. He replied absent-mindedly, "Apart from listening with your ears, you also need to use your spirit to sense the surroundings. However, the latter method is still a little too difficult for you right now."
"Oh!" Tie Ta nodded as if he didn't fully understand. Then, a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.
Jianchen placed the iron rod, which was almost molded, beside him. He untied the spatial belt around his waist and said, "Iron Tower, let's look at today's harvest." With that, Jianchen continuously shook the spatial belt and poured out all the monster cores stored inside.
As the monster cores rolled out of the spatial belt one after another, they gradually formed a small mountain in front of Jianchen.
Iron Tower did the same. He took off his own space belt and poured out all the magic cores inside. In the end, he also piled them up into a small mountain of one foot high.
"I have a total of 48 here." Jianchen wore a satisfied smile on his face. Today's harvest was undoubtedly huge.
"I have a total of 49 here, one more than you." Tie Ta's voice was filled with excitement. It was definitely the first time he had seen so many monster cores in his life. In the past, he had never thought that he would actually possess so many monster cores one day, even though they were all at the first level.
However, to Tie Ta who was born in a commoner family, this was already a huge amount of wealth.
"To have such a bountiful harvest on the first day, it's not bad. I wonder if we can become the person with the most monster cores with our current number of monster cores. After all, the rewards are very generous. A fourth level monster core and a spatial ring." Jianchen was also moved by the bountiful rewards. Most importantly, it was the fourth level monster core. The energy of a fourth level monster core was much purer than a first level monster core.
At this time, Jianchen's eyes suddenly narrowed. He shouted in a low voice, "Quickly put away the monster cores. Someone is coming." After saying that, Jianchen immediately put the monster cores on the ground into his spatial belt and hung it on his waist.
Tie Ta was not slow either. As soon as he heard Jianchen's reminder, he began to pick up the monster cores on the ground in a flurry. When Jianchen finished, Tie Ta had also put all the monster cores into his spatial belt.
After the two of them stored all the monster cores into their spatial belts, they waited for a few breaths of time before the grass in the distance began to sway slightly. With a rustling sound, a thin person walked out from the grass. When he saw Jian Chen and Tie Ta standing in front of the bonfire, he was clearly stunned. Then, he let out a cry filled with joy. Like a weak girl who had grabbed onto a life-saving straw, he ran over with messy steps.
"I finally found someone. I finally found someone. I beg you to save me. Don't leave me behind. I'm scared. I'm really scared. Those magical beasts want to eat me …" That person's tone was very flustered and full of fear, but his voice was very soft.
Hearing this, Jianchen and Tie Ta finally understood that this person was actually a girl. With the help of the flickering firelight, they could vaguely see that the girl was wearing Kargath Academy's uniform. However, the uniform had been torn by the thistles and thorns in the forest. It was already a bit of clothing that didn't cover her body. Even her white underwear was exposed. Moreover, her clothes were also covered with mud. It seemed that she had fallen many times.
The girl's face was full of mud and couldn't be seen clearly. However, her long cheeks had two clear lines of tears. Her pair of watery eyes were full of pleading as she looked at Jianchen. She looked very pitiful and helpless.
"Sit down first." Jianchen tried his best to make his tone more amiable. With regards to the girl's situation, he already had a good guess. In this kind of environment, even some men who hadn't experienced the hardships would feel their hair stand on end, let alone a girl.
Seeing that the other party was actually a delicate girl, Tie Ta also relaxed his vigilance. He gently put down the axe in his hand and looked at the girl with curiosity.
Jianchen looked at the girl and asked, "Can you tell me your name?"
"I … I'm called Liang Xiaole." The girl answered a little timidly. She looked at Jianchen and Tie Ta evasively. Her eyes were full of fear, as well as some faint worry and fear.
"You're a girl, why aren't you with others? You're so timid, yet you still want to walk alone in the forest. Just a few random roars scared you to this extent." Tie Ta asked in a low, muffled voice.
Liang Xiaole looked at Tie Ta timidly and said in a low voice, "I was originally with a few friends. Unfortunately, we met a magical beast later on. That magical beast was very strong. Even with all of us together, we couldn't beat it. Very quickly, a few of us were injured. In the end, when we were running away, I accidentally got separated from everyone."
Hearing this, Tie Ta pouted in disdain and muttered to himself, "A few people can't even deal with a first rank magical beast. How useless. Changyang Shōten and I killed almost a hundred magical beasts today." Thinking of this, a sense of pride spontaneously rose in Tie Ta's heart.
"Gululu!"
At this moment, a strange sound suddenly sounded. Immediately, Jianchen and Tie Ta's eyes focused on the source of the sound. It was actually Liang Xiaole's stomach. At this moment, her stomach was continuously making "gululu" sounds.
"Hungry." Jianchen's face revealed a trace of a smile.
"En!" Liang Xiaole nodded a little shyly and said in a soft voice, "I haven't eaten for two meals." Saying this, Liang Xiaole's eyes kept glancing at the golden magical beast meat on the fire. Her nose greedily sniffed the faint fragrance, but the more she was like this, the more her stomach growled. In the end, Jianchen and Tie Ta heard a rumbling sound in their ears.
Jianchen smiled and picked up the stick with the magical beast meat. He was not afraid of the heat and directly tore off a large piece with his hands and placed it in front of Liang Xiaole. He said, "Take it and eat. Be careful, it's hot."
Liang Xiaole rubbed her hands together and wiped the dirt off her hands with the corner of her tattered clothes. She carefully took the magical beast meat and ate it in big mouthfuls without caring about the hot meat.
Liang Xiaole was probably starving. He quickly ate up such a large piece of Magical Beast meat, and still looked at the remaining large piece of Magical Beast meat with an unsatisfied expression.
Jianchen smiled and tore off another large piece of magical beast meat and placed it in front of Liang Xiaole. He said, "Take it and eat."
Looking at the piece of magical beast meat in front of her, Liang Xiaole hesitated for a moment. In the end, she did not reach out to take it. Instead, she looked at Jianchen and Tie Ta and said in a soft voice, "I'm done eating. What are you going to eat?"
Hearing this, Tie Ta laughed and said, "Don't worry, we still have a big one. Look under that tree." Tie Ta pointed in a direction.
Liang Xiaole looked in the direction of Tie Ta's finger and found that there was an unknown magical beast under a big tree not far away. One of its legs had disappeared and there were still traces of blood on the ground.
Looking at the corpse of the magical beast, Liang Xiaole swallowed hard and said, "You guys are really amazing. Two people can kill a level one magical beast."
"Tsk … this is nothing." Tie Ta did not care.
Time passed silently. Very soon, Jian Chen and Tie Ta had finished eating as well. They were about to rest.
"Oi, where am I going to sleep?" Liang Xiaole asked awkwardly.
Jianchen pointed at the tree nearby and said, "Go rest in the tree. That way, even if magical beasts attack at night, they won't hurt you."
"Ah, there are magical beasts attacking at night?" Liang Xiaole's face paled when she heard that. Her eyes were filled with fear as she trembled all over.
"What about you? Where are you going? Don't leave me behind at all, or I'll definitely be eaten by those vicious magical beasts." Liang Xiaole followed up with a question. She stared at Jianchen and Tie Ta nervously, afraid that they would leave her behind and run off.
Jianchen sighed inside. He really had no way of dealing with the timid Liang Xiaole. Young ladies from noble families like her had never experienced much. They had grown up in a greenhouse, so they would lose their cool when they encountered danger.
"Don't worry, we won't go far. We'll just rest under that tree," said Jianchen.
Liang Xiaole finally felt some comfort when she heard that. However, the lingering fear in her heart did not disappear.
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