Chapter 404: Testing (2/2)

The trees are not in the vicinity.

Sam looked at the two monkeys, who also halted in their tracks and looked at him. The Spear-monkey threw the spear straight at him. Sam easily dodged, but to his surprise, the Fist-monkey appeared right in front of him at this moment.

He crossed the distance in an instant, it is almost as fast as Phantom steps Sam used. Sam hurriedly dodged the strike and he was barely able to move back missing the punch by a hair's breadth and he aimed the gun at the Spear monkey as he shot an Impact crystal bullet which hit the spear that was running towards him.

The explosion made the spear divert the direction and the monkey's appeared puzzled for the first time. They didn't expect the bullets which they didn't even care to dodge at the first place also appeared to be changed at this moment.

After some dodging Sam finally realized how terrifying it would be to deal with these monkey warriors. They are beings of the higher plane and although he did possess a lot of theoretical knowledge about them, he doesn't know how difficult it would be.

Just based on pure estimation, he felt that he could handle two of them. But these are not average beasts and they are cooperating well.

They are even cleverer than some humans.

Sam took a deep breath after dodging some consecutive moves and spears. He decided on how to proceed and his body is surrounded by black smoke.

All of a sudden Sam disappeared from the place.

The monkeys' eyes widened and both of them are making incomprehensible sounds. But they failed to realize that a shadow is moving and appeared a bit away from them. Sam reappeared and before the monkeys could realize.

The guns are shot continuously.

The monkeys are hit by impact crystal bullets at the same point. Their flesh is so sturdy that even this spiritual energy explosion is not enough to penetrate.

But Sam didn't stop. After the initial hit, there is a continuous assault of bullets and after ten shots the first monkey is finally down.

Sam is seriously surprised. The Spear monkey is gone and only the fist monkey remained. Its defense is even more powerful than that of the Spear monkey.

Sam kept the guns away and took out the staff.

Since he confirmed that no one was near this place, he wants to see what he can do in close combat.

He swung the staff and targeted his head. The monkey dodged and went for a body blow.

There is a continuous exchange of offense and defense. The staff Sam has in his hands is made of normal Grade Six metal; it is not special in any way.

After some tough fight and taking some hits, Sam finally took down the monkey.

If anyone saw this battle from start to end, they would think that Sam is extremely stupid. Because, half of it doesn't make any sense, because if Sam could use shadow transfer, why did he bother running that far?

If he could continuously fire the gun, why did he avoid that and use a staff?

That is because Sam is not actually seeking battle with these two monkeys. The whole battle has been an experiment.

The whole battle is to gauge various aspects of the monkey warriors. Sam knew little about Monkey warriors and there is nothing he knew about how they work in groups or teams.

He doesn't know how good are their battle instincts or how good is their strategy going to be.

So, he tried to find out by himself. The first thing he did is, see how good these monkeys are at chasing. He deliberately changed the speed of his travel by varying the rate of fusion and initiated the chase. He could now estimate how good they are at preserving their energy.

Then, battle instincts. He climbed the tree and jumped back to attack them. To guess their battle instincts. But their instincts turned out to be too good to fall for his trap.

That also gave him a rough estimation of their trust between them, their teamwork is impeccable.

He wanted to see how much of an advantage the shadow transfer and guns would be and how effective the bullets would be.

Finally, he estimated his normal defensive capabilities against the monkey's attacks and also his brute force attacks with a normal metal staff on the monkey.

He gauged all the factors of the monkey warriors that could affect his battles and survival in the near future.