Chapter 35 - Am, I, Clear? (1/2)

They moved forward quite fast, with Krune's gigantic Divine Sense, it was quite easy to avoid meaningless battles, it wasn't perfect though, two demon beasts had slipped in during the few minutes that Krune wasn't using it, but with his group strength, unless a 7th stage appears, they will pretty much be able to deal with it. Another reason to avoid battles was so that they wouldn't alarm the stronger beasts, this deep into the danger zone will not have Core Formation Realm beasts, but there is a chance of a 8th or even a 9th stage Foundation Establishment beast appearing if they make too much noise.

By the time they were getting close to their target, the strength of the beasts entering Krune's Divine Sense got higher too, he even found two 7th stage ones, but just as he expected, unless it's a demon beast specialized in the soul, they couldn't notice his Divine Sense, they obviously ignored such beasts.

Yusa looked on the map and then commented.

”We are more or less 500 kilometers away from the blazing alligators lair, it should only take one hour before we arrive.”

Ao replied through the communicator.

”That's good, thanks to Krune's pointers, my wind element manipulation got much better during this trip, I'm very confident that I can hold my own against a 5th stage ordinary beast if all I need to do it buy time, I should even be able to defeat a 4th beast if I put some effort too.”

Yusa agreed, Krune's views about element manipulation had opened her eyes too.

”Out target is the blazing alligators, as an water element user and Krune's previous help I think I should be able to defeat a 5th stage one, of course, that's because I counter them.”

Krune looked a little embarrassed, he wasn't used to people praising him.

”You can stop already, this is making me uncomfortable, all I did is point out where you were doing wrong, the rest was all up to you two to figure out, I had nothing to do with that, each person view of the elements isn't exactly the same after all.”

Yusa and Ao laughed at that, he then noticed something.

”You were doing it on purpose too!”

They confessed, Krune is very easy to tease, and it feels very good too.

Krune sighed helplessly, but he quite liked this atmosphere of friendship, until a few months ago it wasn't something common for him.

Suddenly, Krunes face changed.

”Not good, Ao, come back now!”

Ao Sulian noticed that something was wrong, he didn't delay even for a split of a second and rushed back at full speed.

Just a second later after leaving his standing place, the ground caved in, inside one could see two red eyes coming out, Krunes Divine Sense can reach over six kilometers above the ground, but it couldn't do the same under it, it was only when that demon beast was a hundred meters away from Ao that Krune finally saw it, fortunately, Divine Sense communication is faster than any gadget, one can send their thoughts into their companions minds straight away.

The three of them looked at the demon beast in front of them, it was an Earth Dragon, although it has a dragon on its name, it isn't a real dragon, he is just like the Lizard Dragons, the difference is that the concentration of Dragon Blood in his body is much higher than the Lizard Dragons, making him much stronger than ordinary 7th stage beasts, of course, because of that, it wouldn't be able to take the human form before it achieves the late Core Formation Realm, Divine beasts bloodline have their own disadvantages too.

”You are quite fast to be able to dodge that, I was pretty sure no one had noticed me coming, but that's that, to think that two 3rd stage and one 2nd stage Foundation Establishment cultivators would come this far into the Kaliu Danger Zone, it would have been faster if you had simply suicided, don't you think?”

Yusa then smiled.

”Since we are going to die anyway, why don't you let us go? It won't make difference to you anyway, right?”

The Earth Dragon shook his head.

”Even a mosquito's meat is still meat, why should I let it go?”

The Earth Dragon didn't even wait for them to answer and attacked straight away, he targeted Krune because he had the smallest cultivation.

The three of them spread their Divine Sense out to be able to communicate, they immediately dodged, but just because this Earth Dragon is a defense type demon beast, it didn't mean that it was slow, one has to pay attention to the difference in their cultivation levels too.

To the Earth Dragons surprise, Krune was able to avoid his attack, he was faster than Ao Sulian earlier, but this earth dragon had a vast experience in battle, it immediately used his earth element attacks to bind Krune in place, just as it hit the target, Krune's figure turned into water, it wasn't Krune who did that, but Yusa instead!

Water Frame!

During the days they were moving into the deeper parts of the danger zone, the group discussed about their own abilities as to better coordinate during times of peril.

The Earth Dragon Divine Sense caught Krune's silhouette appearing close to Yusa, that type of water skill was very hard to see through, even for it.

Ao wasn't doing nothing either, he was using his own wind piercing and wind blade attacks to target the Earth Dragons eyes. Ao is in fact a sword user, but he knows he doesn't have the attack power to breach the defense of the Earth Dragon, so can only use such methods to distract the Earth Dragon while Krune prepared an attack strong enough to kill or at least force it into retreating.

Sure enough, the Earth Dragon got annoyed with Ao's barrage of attacks, although it could use it's divine sense to see the battlefield, it felt really uncomfortable to not being able to keep it's eyes open, but it didn't fall for Ao's provocation because it was angry, it just thought that Krune and Yusa had no way of doing anything to it, Krune was faster than Ao, but the Earth Draon thought that because of it, Krune's attack power wasn't anything worth looking at, as for Yusa, she is obviously an water element user, her attacks have very limited effect on him.

Krune's eyes lit up, he immediately focused his power to create 62 blazing wind blades, he can't use his stone or water prison on that Earth Dragon, the first doesn't have the power to hold a demon beast with a cultivation much higher than his own, and the second didn't have enough power to breach the dragon's defense.

With Ao's Wind Movement and Yusa's Water Frame skills, they were able to hold the dragon for a few seconds, enough to bring it's attention away from Krune, but there is one thing puzzling Ao and Yusa, demon beasts are usually stronger in their real forms, but Krune is still using his human form even in a dangerous moment like this. Could it be that he doesn't trust the two of them enough to show his real form? But then they discarded such idea, if it was really the case, they could have simply signed a blood contract stating that they shouldn't reveal Krune's real form to anyone, the problem would be resolved as easy as that.

Krune was in a dilemma, it's not that he doesn't trust the both of them either, it's just that after he heard that even Divine Soul Demon Beast Cultivators keep an eye open for the situation in the danger zones, he is afraid of catching the attention of one of them if he shows that he is a wisp at the foundation establishment, for now he could only try to do what he can in his human form.