Chapter 61

Now that he could let loose as much as he wanted and his teenage body was now considered to have enough endurance to where he was able to train without the need to rest for at least three days without using any energy restoring pills, Timothy had decided that he would begin testing out the sword that Andrew had given him as a gift. The squad had decided that everyone would split their loot equally but if for example, every team killed five demonic beasts while Thomas's team killed six, then Thomas's team would split the earnings of the remaining one demonic beast's body and everything that could be sold from it.

Since that was the case, Timothy felt that he could go all out since anything above five kills per day would allow him to keep every bit of loot he had. Such matters would be written down and recorded since everyone was to give Thomas their storage rings to withdraw all of the corpses, souls, and cores of each beast so that everything could be in one place. If the situation called for it, Thomas, although having an extremely spacious storage ring that could fit an entire mountain of demonic beast corpses, also had eight more normal sized storage rings.

After heading out into the outer area that was much closer to the center of the mountain range, Timothy spotted a group of six gorilla type demonic beasts sitting around each other and eating some very tasty looking fruits that he could see were taken from a nearby tree. The fruit looked to be Moonlight Fruit which was an uncommon ingredient that could be used by an alchemist to make some medical pills. If he were to kill the gorilla type demonic beasts, there was a good chance that he could store up to fifty of these fruits into his storage ring in order to sell later on.

Before the night ended when he was out with Nora and his friends, Andrew told him that if he were to return and had enough things to sell from the trip, that the Rising Tides Merchant Group would beat any other offers he would be able to receive for such items he picked up. And so, unless completely necessary, Timothy wanted to save as much as he could for the merchant group. Since he was an official VIP member of the Rising Tides Merchant Group, he would receive an additional ten percent gold coins bonus per transaction and any purchases within reason, would be reduced by ten percent as well.

Timothy sitting behind a boulder watching the group of demonic beasts eating realized that they were not just all rank one, but that they were completely carefree. Since he wanted to test just how strong this Flame Sword of his was, Timothy instead of waiting for an opportunity to launch a sneak attack, chose instead to step out into the open so that the gorilla type demonic beasts would see him and most likely all charge at him at once!

His assumptions on how the gorilla type demonic beasts would react were correct. At first, they continued eating but as Timothy made his presence known and showed them that he was ready to fight them to the death, the demonic beasts took one look at each other and stood up to charge towards his direction. Seeing them act so quickly, Timothy quickly withdrew his Flame Sword that Andrew had gotten him and quickly slashed out towards the first of the gorilla type demonic beasts that reached him before the others.

It surprised even him, but without much effort on his part, the Flame Sword cut the gorilla type demonic beast in half as if Timothy was chopping a piece of butter with a warm and sharp knife. With no time to react other than continuing his onslaught, Timothy one by one was able to cut the heads off of each demonic beast and because they did not have any hidden abilities such as growing chopped off limbs back, after five swings since he took out two with a single swing of his sword, the battle was over. Immediately, Timothy placed all of the corpses into his storage ring and chose to place his body in a defensive stance.

Just like him, there was a nearby rank two demonic beast who was waiting for an opportunity to kill the group of weaker demonic beasts. But now that Timothy had done the job and took any semblance of food so that the demonic beast could not eat, the enraged demonic beast chose to make him its next target. At first, Timothy was unable to determine what type of demonic beast was watching him, but as it showed itself, it was clear that it was a rhino type demonic beast with three big horns on its head and of course it was a rank two demonic beast.

"At least you chose not to be dragged out from your little hiding spot!" Now that he was almost overly confident since he had yet to unleash the full power of the Flame Sword coupled with his battle qi and mana poured into it, Timothy was thrilled that the rhino type demonic beast was present because its skin was considered to be as strong as steel and extremely thick along with its charging attacks could take down big boulders like it was nothing. Using his movement technique, Timothy landed in front of the rhino type demonic beast that was now charging in his direction and swung down his Flame Sword towards the strongest area of the demonic beast's body; its three horns that were covered by its own energy!

For this exchange, Timothy only wanted to test out using roughly fifty percent of his full power coupled with the sword and to his surprise, he was pushed back by the demonic beast, but they were close to being even. And so not slowing down, the rhino type demonic beast that now saw what seemed to be an opening did not slow down as it continued charging towards Timothy. Having no other choice, Timothy stopped holding back and used his full strength for the next exchange and although he was unable to completely chop the rank two demonic beast in half as he was able to earlier with the rank one demonic beasts who did not lose by too wide of a margin comparing their skin and defensive capabilities, the rhino type demon beast dropped to the ground and died immediately.

Since Timothy was able to recover on his own fairly quickly due to sustaining not even a scratch on his body, Timothy had chosen to not use an energy replenishing pill and instead just sat down in place to recover. Next, since he knew he could take out one rank two demonic beast at his full strength and in a single attack, it was time for him to hunt down as many groups as he could like the gorilla type demonic beasts earlier. But before leaving, he plucked over seventy Moonlight Fruits from the nearby tree as well as over forty other fruits that were in the surrounding bushes.