Chapter 27 - Chapter 27: Chapter 26: Accidental Gains! (Please Follow) (2/2)
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The Moonshadow White Bear, struck in the abdomen, howled in pain, its agony infused with even stronger rage. It then attempted to crouch down to launch another charge!
“Ha!”
Lucius charged forward with great valor, instantly activating “sword brandishing” and repeatedly slashing at the bear several times. The blade rolled up flesh and blood, and the howling bear instinctively retreated, failing to complete its charging stance.
Although it was a bear-type magic beast, Lucius noticed that, contrary to common sense, its defensive capabilities were not strong, and an ordinary person wielding a weapon could wound it.
“Charge now!” Lucius immediately roared.
The recent scene had been devastating to morale, and the seven surviving family guards, pale-faced, still managed to raise their three-meter-long spears and surround the bear from all sides with extreme caution.
Still not good enough, Lucius thought. Even though he had trained these guards for years, their quality was still not up to par.
If they coordinated with him and rushed in together, they could further damage the bear before them!
Despite knowing he wasn’t an outstanding instructor, Lucius was extremely disappointed.
“Roar!”
The bear swung its paws fiercely, its monstrous strength effortlessly sending several spears flying from the guards’ hands, while the remaining trembling guards immediately took several steps back.
As soon as the encirclement broke, it glared menacingly at Lucius, the male human who was clearly the most threatening presence.
Byrne had already pulled out his pen and paper, his head covered in sweat as he sketched, not even needing to look at the bear anymore, simply drawing accurately from memory.
It’s coming!
Lucius tensed up, and then the bear lunged at him again, its speed significantly slower than its initial charge.
He was already prepared to block, but his whole body shook violently from the impact, uncontrollably thrown into the air, flying several steps before barely managing to stabilize his stance.
Such tremendous strength!
It must be in a straight line, its charge can only be straight!
No sooner had Lucius landed than he rolled on the ground, and sure enough, the bear, already in a four-limb stance, charged at him like a moonshadow—too fast!
Impossible to block the charge; the best strategy was to try to avoid it completely, thought Lucius, dripping with sweat as he struggled to his feet, gasping for air.
Just one hit would be the end of him!
But he soon saw a glimmer of hope, noticing that the bear, having charged past at high speed, seemed unable to stop.
“Ow!”
The bear crashed into a large tree in the jungle, halting only with great difficulty. It had just turned around when it noticed two black alchemical explosives rolling at its feet.
“Boom!”
The violent explosion tore one of the bear’s arms to shreds, but it was unfortunate that the alchemical explosives Lucius had predicted to throw were a bit too far, failing to kill it.
“Woo woo woo ow!”
It started to howl miserably, not immediately engaging in battle again, giving the humans time to catch their breath.
The bear, having lost an arm, lost its will to fight and turned in fear to run away. Lucius did not choose to pursue it, only then did Byrne finish his drawing, rendering the bear “fragile.”
“I couldn’t draw any faster, I’m sorry,” Byrne said, looking down awkwardly.
Lucius laughed heartily, saying nonchalantly, “It’s absolutely fine, we’ve already won. We’ll clean up the corpse when we return. Now we need to follow the blood trail from afar.”
He didn’t lead everyone to chase after and kill the Moonshadow White Bear; instead, they followed the blood trail from a hundred meters away. After tracking it for a day and a night, the magic beast finally collapsed from excessive blood loss and didn’t move anymore.
The group waited for another half an hour without getting closer. Then Lucius picked up a spear and threw it with sharp precision, piercing the bear and causing blood to burst forth.
“Ow ow ow ow ow!”
The Moonshadow White Bear suddenly opened its eyes, rising furiously, its expression wild, trying to charge at the humans. But after a few staggering steps, its massive body finally fell backward.
A joyful smile spread across Lucius’s face as he lazily said with narrowed eyes, “Tsk tsk, now it’s thoroughly dead, unable to get back up ever again.”
Only then did Byrne breathe a sigh of relief, revealing a thoughtful expression as he said:
“There are two problems, the first is that extracting extraordinary materials requires a specialized spellcaster. In Nasir’s town, only the elder of the silver descendants clan has this skill.”
“Also, the extraordinary materials on the Moonshadow Demon Bear are Class 3. You haven’t digested the current Magic Potion yet, so we can’t use them directly.”
Class 3 Extraordinary Materials? Lucius was taken aback.