First Group Hunt

'Status'

[Status

Name: Mark Ashfield

Combat Power: 200 (430)

Cultivation: Rank 3 Small Warrior

Strands of Energy: 43 ]

''What?!'' Mark exclaimed as he saw the huge amount of spiritual energy.

He had easily jumped from a Rank 1 warrior to a Rank 3 one and almost doubled his spiritual energy.

Not to mention the bonus brought from strengthening his body. With the combination of a huge amount of clones exercising and his body being strengthened with spiritual energy he finally reached 200 combat power with his body alone.

This is already equivalent to a Rank 1 warrior, after which each rank up costs 10 strands of spiritual energy.

If he follows his plan on hunting sparking rodents to gain combat experience, he can summon 11 clones capable of hunting the rodents.

This alone is incredible, a squad of 11 clones with 50 combat power is already enough to form an Bronze level mercenary group.

Mercenary groups are ranked from Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and finally an Extreme Mercenary group.

Bronze rank groups generally consist of no warriors and are formed of people who have only cultivated some spiritual energy. As soon as they get 3 Small warriors in the team it can form a Silver Rank mercenary team.

Naturally 3 Great warriors are needed for a Gold mercenary team while platinum groups only need a single High warrior watching over it.

As for extreme mercenary groups. There's barely any in existence in the entire world.

It requires not only a spiritualist to overlook it, but also a minimum of 3 high warriors watching over it.

Therefore it requires not only strength but also an incredible background to recruit 3 High warriors willing to be a mercenary.

But Mark had no intention of forming a Mercenary group. That required him to sign up the information of all the members, and there's a clear problem there.

Of course mercenary groups have a lot of advantages. Not only do you get a better price on selling products to the mercenary guild you also get discounts on buying products from associated companies.

You can also accept a variety of tasks as a mercenary group providing rare rewards or large quantities of credits. Far more profitable than selling corpses of beasts.

But Mark's priority wasn't the corpses. Except for the spiritual crystals in the body, Mark cared more about the combat experience than anything else.

Mark waited another half another before his clone returned back with a large sack on its back.

Mark wasted no time to summon another 10 clones meaning his strength was split into 12, each with 50 combat power.

All the clones formed with waves of spiritual energy, however the difference this time was the brilliant masks on their faces. Clothes were no longer a problem and Mark equipped 4 of the clones with the newly purchased weapons while one had the simple knife purchased before.

With only 5 of all the clones armed, Mark also ordered one of the clones to go purchase some cheap weapons for 100 credits each as they go out hunting.

Fortunately no one pays attention to the people exiting the school, and the group of 11 clones only attracted inquisitive glances from other students.

But they just considered it another group of students going hunting.

Mark on the other hand settled down to sleep ready for tomorrow's lesson.

It was an incredibly important one, it's teaching the students about body refining.

It included all of the students from the entire class including the ones outside of the elite class.

*****

During the night, the hunters had made their way to the field containing Sparking rodents.

They walked deep into the towering forest this time, much further than the last time they were here.

This was naturally due to the confidence brought about by the large numbers.

Suddenly there was a rustling in the bushes in front of them, all the hunters snapped their heads quick enough to see a flood of shadows popping out scraping against the floor.

A small group of 5 rodents popped out with small squeaking sounds.

The clone with a watch in his hand turned his head to command the clones.

''Split into pairs, each of you face a rodent.'' The clone who took the lead withdrew with his pair. They could help and create a 4 versus 1 situation, however there would be no chance to get any experience.

As the hunters consciously paired up, they slowly walked separately to face each rodent separately.

The first pair of clones, one with an alloyed steel sword the other a simple knife, faced the first creature.

The clone with the sword ran forward creating clear footprints on the falling leaves. The constant crunching around him represented each pair of clones running towards their opponents.

The clone swung his sword forward as it clashed against the sharp teeth of the rodent. A crack spread along its large fang before it fell off to the ground.

The knife armed clone had already swung around behind the rodent as it leaped forward piercing its flank with its knife. As he withdrew the weapon a flow of blood trickled down the rodent's leg as it squealed in pain flailing its head in the air.

However this provided a perfect opportunity to the other clone. He swung his sword against the fine threads of the rodent's skin, easily piercing through it.

A deep gash immediately appeared on its neck, it's throat barely visible as it fell limp on the floor drenched in blood.