Chapter 25 Achieving Perfection (1/2)

Chapter 25 Achieving Perfection

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One rock after the other started to roll down the pile, as the figure of the Commnader Steel-back Scorpion crawled out of it

Its body was a complete wreck The thick tail was broken in three parts and dangled without control, the side of his waist had been smashed, and the scorpion had been forced to rip that part of his body altogether, along with the leg connected to it, in order to free itself Huge chunks of whiteinjury

After Daniel was looking at the scorpion's conditions, he noticed a couple ofthe body of the centipede out of it

The centipede wasn't in better conditions when co worse While the scoprion's body was cos which spanned almost ten meters each, were not as resistant, and even if it didn't die fros but four

It could still crawl, but the scorpion's poison had taken effect long ago Without an external intervention, the centipede would die soon, and the scorpion will be able to consume its core and recover

The two beasts started to weakly attach eachother once again The centipede tried to pierce the scorpion's body with its res, while the scorpion tried to smash the centipede's body with the only part of his body that was left unhare, but Daniel could still feel the ground under his feet trehty blows

There was no doubt in Daniel'sthe scorpion to recover meant sure death for him Daniel started to look for a way to finish the heavily injured scorpion, and after looking around for awhile, he had an idea

He suddenly dropped on his knees and pressed one hand against stone, and one against the soft soil He then focused on the feeling of the earth essence, and for a

A few long second passed, before a faint earthquake round shake once more, but this ti beasts

Froround in front of Daniel, a bunch of se They formed a s after they reached the height of two and a halfup, but kept ether, they started to shi+ft into specific positions

Soft soilpile of stones, and filling the e rocks

The stones and ground took the shape of a rudiolem This was one of the elementals which Daniel had learned how to sus of the banditshould have resee of mastery This had been the first time Daniel had suiant h practice with -Fire Ele Whisp- he could have tried to sue used

Daniel unshethed his sword and stayed in hiding He wanted to finish off the scorpion, but he had no intention of going against two rank 4 beasts at once, even if injured

It didn't take long before the Cos of the centipede and ripped the it helpless with hundreds of bloody stu, the centipede could do nothing but squirm and wait for the scorpion to finish hi a beat, the scorpion raised his only reainst the centipede's back at full strength, right where he had puctured it with his aculeus The centipede's body split in half, and gooey green paste flew in every direction for tens of meters

The moment the scorpion dropped in front of the centipede's body, right as he was about to shove its face into its insides and recover the centipede's core, a sharp throwing dagger hit the broken part of its dangling tail, and cut it off completely

The scorpion let out a shrill cry and turned towards Daniel It then bent its knee and propelled itself against hi speed

Daniel saw the body of the co hiht he was done for But before the beast could reach hie boulder and nailed the scorpion's body on the ground just a few meters before Daniel

The scorpion felt the hit, but that wasn't nearly enough to finish it off Itas if he was covered in soft sand, but that was enough ti itself up with its re claws, Daniel rushed at him at full speed and slashed at its shoulder vertically

Normally, a rank 3 warrior could hardly injure a rank 4 beast, but this was no normal attack If one could look closely, they would notice a thin blue light shi+ne through the edge of Daniel's sword

Daniel had learned this sword skill right before departing for the hunting grounds The skill's naood part of the previous night practicing it

The slash had left a lingering thread of blue light wherever the blade passed, and luckily, it didn't stop when it enountered the hard shell of the scorpion, detaching its arm from the rest of its body

The scorpion, which was still trying to free itself froround and rocks, let out the loudest of the screams he had let out so far Daniel felt his eardruo of his sword and covered his bleeding ears with both hands

Too weak to fight back, the dying scorpion gave its all with a final screaching scree that Daniel would choose retreat The scream was so loud, that at a certain point Daniel couldn't take it anymore, and its eardrums finally ruptured

Under an i his ears and instead, grabbed two knives froh, and used the second skill he had learned, 'Through Stone and Steel' to stab the head of the scorpion

The pointy ends of the knives shi+ned with blue light and perforated swiftly into the scorpion's human-like head The hit was effective, but unfortunately, it didn't finish the struggling scorpion The screeching sound kept going as Daniel picked his sword fro ki on the edge of the blade, he used 'Splitting Ki' once again to decapitate it

Only after the scorpion's head rolled on the ground, the sonic attack finally ended

Daniel's face was purple red at this point He could barely keep hi profusely He felt like he had been hit in the head with a sledgehammer and couldn't help but feel like he could vomit the entire contents of his stomach at any moment

Daniel was about to fall unconscious, but before he could drop on the ground, a soft layer of cool soil wrapped around his legs Daniel couldn't olem He sloalked towards the Scorpion's body and sticked his entire ar

There were no bones, nor muscles The scorpions insides were completely ainst Daniel's arooey paste, and after reaching the contents of the beast's chest, he finally felt a solid bead-like object with his hand

He rapidly took the bead-like core out of the scorpion's carcass, cleaned it with his shi+rt, and observed it carefully There were no major differences between a rank 3 and a rank 4 beast core, except for one

The density of color of a rank 3 beast core was dense, almost opaque, while a beast core of the fourth rank resembled more a transparent bead filled with dense s beast essence contained within the beast core, and realized that its purity wasn't nearly comparable to that of a rank 3 beast, but of course, he expected that e wasn't didn't sie to one's essence, but also a qualitative one

Daniel pocketed the rank 4 core and walked slowly towards the centipede's body Luckily, the beasts thorax had been s the beast core wasn't as hard

By looking up towards the big hole on the roof, Daniel could guess that various hours had passed since he had fallen into that sinkhole

He had good reason to believe that, even if the head hunter agreed to send a searching squad to look for hi after, as beasts becaht

Also, the head hunter couldn't force anyone to go look for hiood pay was offered, nobody would risk their lives to find a bronze hunter, which had fallen into a hole in the ground alongside two rank 4 beasts

Daniel's only option, right noas to cultivate and recover