Damsel in Distress

"Help! Someone help!"

Peter momentarily stopped his meditation when he heard the sudden scream of a young girl. He was surprised at first to hear a human's voice after such a long time but he knew it wasn't impossible. Even if this enchanted zone was far away from society, there still might have been people harboring on the outskirts of the zone.

He immediately took over the senses of one of his shadow beasts that was near where the scream came from. He commanded it to scout the area. Even though he could only see the gray outlines of things through the beast's eyes, it was better than nothing.

After a couple minutes, he managed to get to where the scream had originated from. A group of men in hoods had captured a girl, looking to be around Peter's age - 11.

Peter stopped his sense sharing and decided to check the situation out himself. He imbued his legs with mana activating the shadow steps spell. He pounced from tree to tree and moved towards the outskirts of the zone. He also retracted all of his shadow soldiers back into his shadow.

It only took a couple of minutes for Peter to reach the spot again and the screams of the girl was now muffled due to a cloth around her mouth.

"Boss, why can't we play with her a little before selling her off. She's of the werewolf race. Chances like these will not come often." One of the men spoke.

"How many times have I told you, our clients like their merchandise unused. Now hurry up and get the mana binding chains. The full moon will be soon. We have to chain this thing up." The one at the back nearest to the carriage ordered.

Another muffled yelp resounded from the weeping girl.

Peter compressed his mana pressure completely, suppressing it. He scanned the mana cores of the 6 individuals. 4 were at the 6th stage of the Novice Rank whilst the strongest was at the 8-9th Stage of the Novice rank.

'This shouldn't be that hard.' Peter cracked his neck left and right, putting on his white mask and dropping down to the ground.

"Stop what you're doing and set her free." Peter demanded, releasing his menacing mana pressure mixed with all of his undead's pressures.

The pressure he was releasing was more of a bloodthirsty and merciless beast's than a human cultivator's.

"Wh-Who are you?" One of the men spoke, pointing a mana gun at Peter.

'Are you sure you want to take care of this? You might have to kill them. Are you fine with killing humans?' Noah asked, worried for his brother's mental wellbeing. He knew the world of cultivation would take a lot of killing and his brother was still too young; he didn't know how Peter would react to it.

'It's fine brother. I'll be okay.' Peter reassured, firming his resolve.

"I don't know who you are midget but you better leave before you die here." The leader of the group spoke up, moving to the front, where the other guys stood in fear. They could tell that the figure in front of them was far stronger than them despite the person's small figure.

The leader backed out his spear and charged in with a battle cry. Wind mana swirled around the tip of his sword as the thrusted violently.

Peter leaned to the side dodging the blow; he immediately countered by entrapping the man with 'Darkness Entrapment'. He then drew out his sword swinging it horizontally at the man's neck but it was blocked by the large spear.

'This is my first time fighting against a cultivator with a higher cultivation than me and some things are definitely evident.' Peter assessed the situation, exchanging blows with the tall bald man.

'His body is much stronger than mine and his mana control is as good as mine. Although he doesn't know many spells, he seems to have a decent spear martial art. I should be able to beat him.'

Peter used the 3rd form of the Ethereal Arts Martial art along with the 'Darkness Slash', one of his strongest combination attacks.

A powerful arc of Vibrating Darkness mana shot from Peter's blade and flew towards the bold man.

The bald man grit his teeth, getting pushed back by the powerful attack. The darkness mana eventually corroded his spear and cut into his chest.

'Did I kill him?' Peter sensed for a heartbeat and found the answer to his question immediately.

"Summoning! Come out, Bison." The bald man shouted, casting a spell. Immediately a 5 meter tall minotaur appeared out of the ground roaring. The man laughed after seeing its appearance.

"Let's see how you deal with a Tier 5!"

A smile appeared on Peter's face.

"Only one Tier 5?" Peter questioned, in a mocking tone. He then clicked his figures, causing the beings that were watching everything from within his shadow to erupt out.

Hundreds of Tier 5's and Tier 4's had surrounded the whole area causing the men to tremble in fear.

"Wh-Who are you?" The leader scanned the never ending number of Tier 5's and stumbled backwards.

"Tear them apart. Leave the girl alone." It was a simple command but it spoke volumes of Peter's power. The beasts all pounced towards the shrieking men, doing as their master told them to do.

'I would have handled things myself but he decided to summon his companions.'

'Petty.' Noah laughed at Peter's childishness.

It was only a matter of seconds but the 6 individuals could do nothing but scream before they were violently torn apart limb by limb.

'Exsurge a Mortuis.'

It was already a routine for Peter to resurrect anything dead in front of him. He had grown his army by hundreds in the past month and it was only a matter of days till he cleared the entire zone of magic beasts.

The 6 individuals all stood from the dead, their bodies repairing back together again. The leader at the front bowed.

"Now to save the girl." Peter looked to where the girl was situated but he could sense no pulse.

'They must have killed her. I'll give her a proper burial at least.' He thought, commanding one of the men that he had resurrected to bury the body.

'I guess it's time to go back to civilization now. Apex City Wait for my return!'