Violetfiend Ape

Team was moving rapidly through forests in straight line towards Rook village so as to save time as road to village was lengthy as it was meandering on the outskirts of deep forest.

Zeph was maintaining matching speed with other team members.All of them was Talking intermittently to get familliar with each other.Zeph found out that Kyton was most senior member followed by Veena and Sephora Whereas Sauren registered about eight months ago.

"As we are moving we should discuss some strategies,what do you say?"Veena suggested.

"of course ,I will provide main firepower "volunteered Sauren.

"I can help in restricting movement , deflection and can also attack"whispered Sephora.

Veena nodded.

"I use crossbow and knifes so I can be long range attacker."

"I will flank him". Listening to Zeph's statement all seemed surprised but no one interjected.Of course except Kyton ,"Hey newbie,why flank swords man should be at vanguard they match strength to combat at close quaters"

"shut up Kyton , he must have his own way of fighting."barked Sauren.

Kyton stopped to talk,"well if I am team leader we should at least obey my commands"

"Hey who said you are team leader this is mercenary corps ,every one is autonomous until specified and I didn't remember seeing order of you leading team."

"well of course who else will then lead ,if not me . I am most senior here and there is responsibility on me to protect everyone which can be only done if you listen me."

Zeph founding chance interjected to clear himself from their quarrel,"I don't practise strength type techniques and suitable for flank or final attacks ,I can't fight head on .

"Everyone is adult and know what they are getting into they did not need for absolute instructions ,we are discussing everyone s fighting style to work as situation demands to assist each other we are loose Mercenaries.we are not expected to form permanent team,do we?"Veena seemed to be more clearheaded thus calmed every one down.

Zeph had no opinion on this matter as he was fine either way as he has never learned to fight in teams before so he was only curious.Sephora agreed with veena s statement strongly.Kyton sighed dramatically to show that it was their loss not his and Sauren gave thumbs up to both girls.It seems like both had already formed their girls camp thought Sauren as he observed them talking to each other whole journey in hushed voices.

They had just moved for another 5 minutes when loud enraged beast roar could be heard in forest.All of them stopped to listen.

"It is violetfiend ape right?"asked Sauren.

"Indeed"replied Kyton ,"what do you say girls a good chance to test our team prowess?

Damn! he directly ignored us two thought Sauren while looking toward Zeph and found him to similarly watching himself.He gave awkward smile to him to which Sauren's anger increased to see Zeph turning his head away to pretend he was not watching Sauren at all.

"yeah good idea, Ape's leather is also pretty expensive in market"Both girls nodded to suggestion and team hurriedly started moving towards source from where sound came moment ago.

Search led them to the plain lush grass filled area where a large violetfiend ape was roaring with anger.Its rage induced eyes looked toward the our team that was hiding in tree leaves.

He found us pretty quickly looks like in rage he was actively finding for prey to release his anger . Including Zeph all of them had similar thought.

"Show time " yelled Sauren excitedly and jumped towards the ape.He channeled power from his body forming a condesed fire energy revolving between his hands which was becoming bigger and bigger with each revolution and threw the ball on ape.

As fireball reached ape it exploded engulfing whole 20 m ape inside fire. As ape was inflicted with burns it roared with agony just then with' twang' sound two crossbolts were released and went into fire curtain.After second came scream of ape .

When fire subsided ,bloody figure emerged from it , Ape's violet fur was burned at various parts and it's two eyes were injured with powerful crossbolts which were sticking out of them .

Kyton muttered under his breath probably some mage technique and pointed towards place above Ape .Resonating with his words water vapours in air condensed into icicles which began to fall on Ape . It was enraged beyond limits by repeated barrage of attacks, it ignored the icicles and jumped toward Sauren who has just landed after his jump to squash him to death.

As just landed Sauren was on unstable footing ,Sephora quickly made air gap similar to vaccum behind Sauren which sucked him away from Ape.While being dragged ,he made condensed fire arc slash toward ape which cut straight into foot sole of ape inflicting deep wound in it from where large amount of blood began gushing out.Ape fell onto graund due to injury.

Seeing opportunity,Zeph disappeared from his position and striked toward his other leg .He activated blaze and jumped to strike other leg torso.Katana went through it like hot knife through butter while small katana seemed to pass through only external flesh but lightning curtain along with blade seperated whole torso into two half cutting leg from its massive body .

Whole bucket load of burnt flesh and blood began to gush out of stump of its torso . Due to inflicted injury over its body it began twitching his arms uncontrollably.Veena pointed her hand toward ape and with her iron control began to pushing crossbows deeper into socket in order to pierce through its brain . Sephora taking use of ape busy to pull out crossbow condensed extremely sharp air wave to slice off its neck.Air wave cleanly seperated its head from body ending misery of beast.

"That was easy ,with whole team working together mission will also be easy breeze "said Sauren looking toward whole team .

Zeph kindly reminded him that it was only C rank beast whereas upcoming mission is atleast C+or higher.

"So what ,we can do it together"he said raising his fist high in air.Due to his cheerful vibe,all other members also began to laugh.

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Well it was easier than expected' thought Kyton as he considered idea of making them his permanent follower of course excluding that prick Sauren.

Due to her need of leather ,all members volunteered to give their share of violetfiend skin to Veena.After cleaning up whole squad began to move towards Rook village with full speed to make up for time spent in battle.