Chapter 31: Close

Everyone began to move into separate directions so they could find more prey.

"Does this place not have an end?" Samuel complained

"Must you complain about everything?" Timmy questioned

"As if you aren't tired of walking and not finding anything " Samuel said before increasing his pace.

"Watch out!!!" Bright shouted but it was too late.

A large worm came out of the ground where Samuel was standing, raising him up in its head and trying to swallow him while.

"Ahhhhhhh...."Samuel screamed out of shock

Rina decided to move but a white slash came out and slammed on the the worm, piercing into it an inch, immediately a fire ball was hurled at the worm.

'Boom' 💥

A loud explosion rang out and Samuel jumped down from the worms mouth while landing safely due to his control of air.

Rina decided not to interfere so as to gauge the strength of her followers, a fiery spear was created and it was sent straight at the worm, but before it could meet it target.

Its traget has been splitted into two making the spear pass through the two halves of the worm. Everyone eyes turned to Bright who killed the worm.

He shrug

"That's it? That's all you have to say after stealing my kill seriously ?" James questioned with a wtf look.

"We can't actually mess around with a low rank beast" Bright stated

"They are quiet good and precise, but why didn't i see when he slashed, he has improved " Rina thought

They continued to move on before Bright stopped walking.

"Are you sure, because i can't sense anything from here " Bright said to the voice in his head

"When did you start doubting me, i said i can sense beast presence from your right hand side but i the level increasing the more you move, I'm not in my full power else I would have sensed the details." the blade said

"Let's head this way, i have a feeling that we will encounter more preys from here" Bright said

"Are you sure about what you're saying, because i can't sense anything from this way at all" Rina inquired.

"Trust me" was his reply

They all moved to the said direction, they haven't gone far when suddenly the ground quaked and multiple worms came out from the ground and surrounded them.

"I can't believe we were led into a trap" Samuel said

They were surrounded by 5 ranker level all in the middle tier all led by a middle tier mediate level beast.

A battle unfolded immediately, Rina decided to fight the leader which is the mediate level specimen.

Samuel moves from side to side avoiding the poisonous saliva from the worm, he sent a barrage of wind blades at the worm, the blades weren't piercing deep into the the worm's body but it was drawing blood from it.

He charged in and shouted

"Wind spinning strike". Wind converge on his hand and began spinning, he swung his hand in a piercing motion after dodging the wild crash of the worm. His hand pierced through the worm and a spinning hole was created in the worm making it fall limply on the ground.

Blood was dripping from Samuel's hand, black blood oozed out of the hole. He began to carve and enlarge the hole searching for the crystal, not to long he found it and took. He held a shining orb like object which is the crystal, he looked back to see how his colleagues are faring, but alas they were all done with their battles and have also withdraw the crystals.

"How do you guys feel with killing beast for the first time?" Rina asked fearing for their mental health.

"As for me it's just like killing a wild chicken " Bright said

The others limited themselves to shrug.....

"Really you have killed a wild chicken?" Samuel asked with a wide eye

"Yeah of course, my dad do bring life one's from his hunt...i thought it's a normal thing " Bright answered not knowing what the big deal is about killing a wild chicken.

"Emm...a wild chicken isn't something a normal person who isn't brave and familiar with killing domestic animals could kill and moreover as the name implies it isn't like the domestic chicken or the forest chicken. It's a very dangerous species, yeah a mutated one, i'm also surprised you said you have killed one. " Rina said and cleared the misunderstanding between them.

"Let's get going, we need more crystals " she urged

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They continued their journey and came across several packs of beast roaming about in that area. They formed a barricade and built a tent so as to pass the night.

Rina decided to take charge in being the watch guard for the night, but Bright refused and choose to be the watch guard. They all agreed to switch positions in three hours till dawn and the rest will take turns the next night.

Bright sat outside the tent and was lost in thought, thinking about his life, how he grew up, the tough experience in school and he was thinking about his parents and siblings missing them.

"Be patient, you will be with them soon. You know you have to grow stronger so as to take them away from the slough" the blade spoke in his mind

"You know i can't just be thinking of training all the days of my life, i need times like this to think about stuffs concerning my life. " Bright replied

"I understand lad, but you are still too weak to change anything right now, so i'll advice you to start training.....wait i sense something. " the blade said before exclaiming

A low growl was heard and immediately something came into the Bright's perception range, then it appeared in his sight like a shadow with yellow eyes and large.

What Bright was seeing right now is black panther, it is larger and more robust than the old normal panthers, it's eyes were glowing a yellow shade. It bared its fangs at him. Bright could see its cannines begging to crush the sweet savored meal in their presence.

"Kid you need to wake the others, you can't defeat it while protecting them." the blade spoke with alarm

"I can defeat it alone right? " he asked

"What the hell are thinking, it will be a tough fight and i'm not even sure you can defeat a peak mediate upper tier level beast, a black panther known for its deadly predatory abilities in the dark, a beast known for its ability of shadow." the blade said hurriedly.

Though the panthers shadows powers isn't as strong as the shadow wolf, it is by no means a child's play.

"I have an idea" Bright said ignoring the blade.

"What do you plan on doing, what idea... Lad" the blade was dumbstruck after seeing what Bright was doing.

Bright turned tail to the opposite direction leading the panther away from the tent. Immediately the shadow panther ran after him chasing him into the forest nearby.

"Lad, are you sure about what you're doing?" the blade questioned.

Bright continued running into the forest leaving a safe distance from the tent, suddenly the panther leapt up and closed the distance between them landing in his front.

It turned at him and pounced at him, Bright slide down and avoided a claw to his face, he drew out his blades and did a sharp turn, blocking another claw, but suddenly the panther vanished into thin air .

Bright turned 360 searching for the panther to no avail.

"To your side lad!!!" the blade sreamed in his head, but it was to late he was only able to save his head while the panther clawed at his chest. A claw mark appeared on his chest, ripping his cloths.

Bright staggered and ducked while gritting his teeth avoiding another swing to his head, blood dripped from his chest.

"Lad you need to get yourself together and focus, else you won't survive this, remember you are living gor a reason, there are people awaiting your return. How will your family feel if they heard you couldn't survive an attack against a mediate tier beast. " the blade said in a very low voice.

Bright groaned and avoided another swing before another claw mark appeared on his chest making it an X shape. More bloods dripped out of the wound.

"Fuck!" he cursed.

The energy in him rised, the panther swung it's claw aiming for its prey's head but it's claw met a with Bright's blade, swinging his legs immediately, his legs connected to the panthers side sending it backward .

"Growl" it growled and bared its fangs angrily.

Bright took a fighting stance but felt dizzy and staggered, ruining his stance. The panther glared at him while he did same, then the panther charge forward and leapt in the air with speed straight at him, he answered by also running forward.

Bright raised his weapon and slide down perfectly timing his attack, his blades hands emitted a sharp aura that rushed to the tips of the blades, the moment it connected to its target it went cleanly.

The panther fell down and didn't stand up, Bright fell down also while breathing heavily.

"Hey Lad... hurry and use the healing pill giving to you now" the blade reminded. They were all giving three healing pills to heal minor wounds.

Bright gulped two of the pills remaining one left, his wounds began to heal and his breathing calm down.

"Did you remember that you were actually given three pills ?" the blade asked

"Yeah what's up" Bright replied

"Really.....you just used two" the blade exclaimed

Bright..."_"

"Well it did it's work, there's no cause for alarn" he said

They talked about the battle, the blade gave him pointers on where to improve.

"Damn...it's almost time for me to hand over my watch guard duty" Bright exclaimed before jumping on his feet.

He has regained a potion of his energy, he went straight to the carcass of the panther and carve the crystal.

"Will this go to waste? I have an hour more, that should be enough to dress the meat, we can have a smoked meat instead of the dried reserved food " bright said to himself.

He stored the crystal in his pocket and dragged the panther all the way to the tent, it was too heavy for him to lift.

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"Where did this boy go to? I hope he's okay out there " Rina said to herself

She stood up to check on Bright, so as to check if he is actually watching or he has slept off and left them in the mercy of the beast.

On getting outside she couldn't find him, she waited for a while before going back inside to sleep.

Bright came back and checked if everything is still in its right other, he then went back to dressing the precious meat he killed. He is actually a very good cook in his previous world and in this present one.