Chapter 23

Joshua looked at the Tower in front of him and couldn't help but drop his jaw open. The Tower in front of him is even bigger than the one in Jakarta. If he had a guess, it was around two hundred meters tall or maybe more.

Currently, they are in Bontang City, East Kalimantan. The Tower in front of him is a B-rank Tower that just appeared not too long ago.

After the guild releases the information for the Tower, the Wild Hunt party decides to go there and hunt there for a moment. After looking at it for a few more seconds, Joshua walks away from the Tower and gets back to the hotel Laudia has booked for them.

After walking for a few minutes, he arrives in front of the hotel and sees Laudia and Rachel standing.

"Laudia, Rachel! What are you guys doing here? I thought you guys wanted to rest for a moment."

"We can't sleep. We are just about to visit some places to eat. Do you want to come?"

"Sure. I'm starving."

"Cool. Come on."

While walking to the restaurant, Joshua decides to ask Laudia about their goal in this city.

"Laudia, do you know what kind of Infernal Beast comes out of the tower?"

"Yes. The guild just sent me the information. However, because the scout cannot explore all the rooms on the first floor, they cannot promise this information to be a hundred percent accurate. There will be other monsters that we need to watch out for, but the main Infernal Beast on this floor is Bicorn."

"Bicorn? A horse Infernal Beast? The one that can be tamed?"

"Yes."

Bicorn is the opposite creature of Unicorn. Bicorns can be mounted by the people who lose their virginity, unlike the Unicorn, who virgin people can only mount. Because of this reason, many people want to tame this Infernal Beast and use it as an amount.

The other reason is that they are very strong. It is very fast, durable, and can fire lightning from its two horns. Not only that, if it can survive long enough, it can evolve. Its evolved form can fly and has other elements that it can fire from its horns.

A tamed Bicorn is at least one trillion rupiahs. That is the minimum price because the tamer really needs money.

"I guess that is why many foreign agencies are walking around the tower."

"Yeah. Bicorn is a really very sought-after creature. We are lucky that we are arriving now instead of another week. There will be more people here if we wait for another week."

"Yeah, I can see it. More competition means a higher danger rate. What do we need to watch out for? Their attack pattern or their attacking habit will be very useful."

Laudia looks at Rachel, who nodded her head and let her do the talking.

"Bicorn attack patterns are very straightforward. It will charge at you at a very high speed and stab its target with its horns. A normal shield will not work against this Infernal Beast because its horn has high penetration properties. It will pierce through your shield like wet tissue. Lucky for us, Laudia's shield has an enchantment that works against a high penetration weapon."

"Can it change direction while it is charging? Kobold cannot change its direction when they are charging at you while they are at their highest speed. It makes them easy to predict and counter."

"Unfortunately for us? They can. This is what makes them dangerous. A newbie will think that the most dangerous thing about Bicorn is their ability to fire a lightning bolt, but it was not. It was their mobility. They can change their charging pattern at wimp and make it even harder to hit."

"Hmmm, that only leaves us with lure and hit strategy, huh?"

"That is correct. Lure it to hit Laudia and hit them when she holds it from running away."

"Then what about if there are two or more Bicorn coming at us?"

"Lucky for us, that is rarely happening. Bicorn is an individualist Infernal Beast. It will hunt alone, and that will make our hunt easier. Ah, we are here."

Joshua, Laudia, and Rachel arrive in front of a small restaurant near the main road.

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"I hear there have already been ten people killed in the tower in the past two days."

"Really? How do you know this?"

"My neighbor is in the Scouting team, and he is one of the three people that survived the mission."

"Seriously? If what he said is true, then why did the government not tell us about it? The Tower will open up today, right?"

"Money. This Tower is big, and it contains something that is very valuable for the Blessed people."

"Just how much money is he willing to take in exchange for how many people live?"

"From what my neighbor told me, it reaches a quadrillion in number."

"You are not pulling my leg, are you?"

"No, I'm not."

Joshua put the noodle inside his mouth while frowning at what he was hearing. He did not like what she was hearing. He looks at his teammate, and he can see that they agree with him. With a low voice, he decided to ask his teammate.

"Do you think what they are talking about is true?"

"I don't really know," Laudia says while placing her bowl of noodles down. "That information may be only a rumor, but at the same time, smoke cannot appear without a fire."

"That means we're still going?"

"No. We will wait for twenty-four hours. We will see first, and if the situation is like what they said, we will not go, but if it were only a baseless rumor, we would go in."

"Roger."

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After waiting for another twenty-four hours, the Wild Hunt party decided to get inside the Tower when they did not hear any Blessed One team dead inside or not coming back alive. There is a team that comes back with their body full of injuries, and even one of them is dead when she gets out of the Tower, but it was a common sight when it came to the Tower.

"Let's go."

With that, the Wild Hunt party gets inside the Tower to hunt in the new field.