Chapter 74 - The foothills (2/2)

Finally, we reached the top of one of the hills, I saw a gave a few hundred feet out in the distance and what looked like a white bear standing in front of it. The bear itself was slightly bigger then Noir. As soon as the bear had spotted us it beginning running towards us.

”Noir, don't do anything. I want to see how strong I've gotten.”

I looked at the bear which was now around ten feet away from me.

”If you hadn't attacked me first I would have given you a painless death since I am the intruder,”

The bear then went up on its back two legs and pounced at me. I smashed my two fists together and grabbed both of the bear's paws. The bear then suddenly realised that my strength was far greater than its. The bear attempted to pull away but my gauntlets black fingertips had sunken into the bear's hands.

I let go of one of the bear's paws and with the other punched the bear in the stomach causing a hole to form. The bear then fell to the ground.

I smiled, I was happy. Intermediate beasts use to be a struggle for me to fight, but now I had defeated one without getting a single scratch. Although I was happy with my improvement so far, I was still behind others like Sir K and the minotaur.

The system finally had given me a message it looked like my luck was about to change.

We carried on hunting around the foothills meeting two more bears. I let Noir face one of the bears on her own. The bear's attacks were slow but Noir also couldn't do any fatal damage, after around ten minutes of fighting I finally stepped in and dealt with the bear myself. Noir looked a bit upset by this but I explained to her we didn't have the time.

It was an expected result, Noir was an intermediate beast like the bear and she hadn't absorbed any more crystals after evolving, so she was just like every other magical beast.

After that, the hunt was complete. We now had a total of 16 basic tier crystals and 3 intermediate tier crystals. 2 of these crystals were obtained via the system and one had been carved out.

I let Noir absorb the first one bringing his points up to 8, while mine went up to 6. We started to head back to the academy before my roommates would become suspicious of my absence.