Chapter 32 : Wave

"Hey what are you doing?" Rina walk out of the tent and what hit her was the aroma of a well smoked meat.

Bright didn't reply her, but she continued walking and sat opposite him.

"Here have some" Bright threw a piece for her.

She looked at the meat trying to inspect it, but the aroma kept drawing her, making her salivate.

"Stop checking and dive in already " Bright said after noticing that she was hesitating.

"You can as well just take a bite to check how it tastes" he added.

As if she was waiting for his permission, she took a bite almost immediately.

"Hmm...." Rina hmm'd and began to consume the meat like an hungry beast.

"So how does it ta...." Bright was saying before stopping half way. He was surprised at the speed at which Rina ate the meat, just for him to check the piece he is smoking and raise his head to inquire if she likes the taste, she already consumed the meat.

"Wow i wasn't expecting you to eat it, you're so fast " Bright said awkwardly

"So how does it taste?" Bright asked

"Hmm....great " she limited herself to answer curtly.

"OK, do you want m....." Bright continued but was interrupted by Rina's immediate answer.

"Yes" Rina answers before he could finish his question.

Bright...."_"

"Eh, i'm sorry for acting that way, i want more" she said with a low voice.

"Cough...it's okay, ill just have to leave some for the rest of the team, u can have as much as you wamt" Bright said.

"Really....i can have as much as i want? " Rina questioned

with a shining eye.

"Yup, just don't forget about the rest. " Bright replied.

Rina began to gobble them meat, till she had her fill and decided to join Bright in roasting the remaining meat.

"Do you mind teaching me how to roast meats?" when asked

"Hmm...you don't need it, it will just make u look like someone from the village " Bright said refusing to teach her

"Pleasesssssssssssssssssss" Rina pouted making hard for him to refuse.

"Emm...okay just watch me" Bright said finding it hard to get his words out.

"Someone is in love" the blade said sarcastically, if it had a face, it would have being grinning.

"I'm not in love, i'm just surprised she wants to get her hands dirty" Bright replied while teaching Rina

"Her petite and smooth hand right? You know i have lived long enough to know when someone has a crush on the other" the blade joked.

"I won't call that hand of hers petite, though it's smooth and the way she carried it look gentle, but she used that hand to kill a beast. " Bright said not knowing he was staring at Rina's hands unconsciously. The blade was aware of this but it didn't voice that out.

"Don't you think the hand will be soft and good to caress, how do you think it will feel if it touches you?" the blade said

"Well, i don't know about that, i guess you are dying to know how it feels " the blade teased.

"Why is he staring at me like that, is there anything on my face? Wait he is actually staring at my hands " Rina thought to herself when she noticed Bright was lost in thought.

"Is he trying to make sure i'm doing it correctly? What is he actually thinking right now, hmm...why did he crease his head. He's frowning, he just smiled, no he frowned again, he widened his eyes did i do rubbish?" numerous thoughts were going through her head. She has also gotten carried away and is busy commenting on his constant changing expressions.

Then a burning smell entered their noise jolting them out of their thoughts.

"Omg....i burnt it!" Rina exclaimed.

" Don't worry i'll take care of that" Bright said before taking over.

"hahahaha!!!" the blade laughed loudly .

"You will pay for this" Bright said before taking one of the blades from its sheath and used it to scrape the burnt piece of the roasted meat.

Rina watched as he did it gently.

...............................

Inside the tent, two people were watching the leader and member pare staring at each other, with different expressions on their faces.

"Did you see that?" James asked

"Yeah, there is something between them " Noah answered

"I guess they have a thing for each other " James continued.

"Hmm....i guess so, that explains that weird moment they spent staring at each other." Noah said with a smile.

"Do you think they are a good match?" James questioned

"Yeah, they both have great potential, something is telling me Bright is going to change soon " Noah said calmly

"There is something different about them, but i can't pinpoint it" James thought out loud

"What are you guys talking about? " Timmy asked.

"What's this smell, sniff sniff" Samuel sniffed the air.

In response his stomach growled, and he immediately jumped out of the bed spread and went outside searching for the source of the aroma.

"Hey Bright, morning Rina... What is this can i have some?" Samuel asked but didn't wait for reply before taking a piece and biting it.

"Hmm...this taste great" he also began to dive into it.

"Won't you guys come and join, else i'll finish it all" Samuel shouted

The rest came out and they all enjoyed themselves, they ate to their fill and decided to store the rest. When they were done, they all stood up, clean the place and get ready to continue their journey.

"We need to get a river or stream to wash ourselves " Rina stated.

"Here take this " Bright threw the peak mediate crystal at Rina who caught it and inspected it.

"How did you get this? " she asked confused

"From the panther" Bright replied and packed the rest of the things they needed, he then cleaned his blades and return it to its sheath.

" What? What panther? " Samuel asked the question on their minds.

"Yeah, what you all are was a panther" Bright not bating an eye.

Everyone... "_"

"What?" he asked

"Where did you get the dead panther from ?" Samuel asked .

"Must you have to make me look pathetic, well i killed the panther myself, i guess it a panther with the shadow ability." Bright said

"You mean you killed a peak mediate tier shadow panther on your own?!!!" Rina exclaimed

Bright then decided to tell them what happened while they were asleep, be omitted his battle and just said.

"I fought against it and defeated it, it was a touch fight tho" and as prove he showed them his torn cloth as prove.

"Let's get going then, we need more crystals " Rina said

They moved and hunted beasts like skinny hound, bats, cat snakes and more. They came across a vast land and came across another group led by a rare gen.

"Who do we have here, isn't it the Ice queen? "the leader said.

"We meet again " Rina limited herself to say.

"Yeah, and this time no sergeant or lecturer can save you" the leader said sarcastically.

"Larry just stop this, i don't wanna fight you, take your colleagues and leave this place. " Rina said

"And why do you think i'll obey you?" Larry frowned.

"I'm not commanding you, it's simple i'll lead my group to the other direction " Rina stated before proceeding to leave.

"Well, since we met here, i wasn't planning to let you go until you beg to be my whore" Larry smirked

"We can actually avoid this you know " Rina said.

She then decided to leave but Larry and his group stopped her.

"Where do you think you're going, didn't you here our leader ?" one of Larry's member asked

"Is it until we force you before.... " he continued before being interrupted by Bright.

"I sense something ahead " Bright said immediately wielding his weapon.

"What, how dare you interrupt me?" the boy asked with anger writing all over him.

Bright ignored him and slashed forward aiming directly at the side of the boys face, the slash was too fast for the boy to block the attack. No one expected him to attack, but instead of the slash to hit the boy it passed his side and divided a black raven into two halves.

Everyone was surprised because if Bright hadn't attacked, the raven would have clawed on the guys face and removed his eyes.

"An eye eater" Larry said .

"There is more coming " Bright said and immediately began to slash.

Multiple slashes went into the distance, they followed the attacks and could see ravens numbered in hundreds flying towards them. Though they were much in number they are a weak beast.

As prove Bright's slashes wiped out a good portion of the eye eater, the beasts close the distance between them and attacked them. The students began to attack and multiple abilities clashed against the beasts in few seconds the beasts were all killed.

They all began to harvest the crystals and a fight between the two groups almost break out.

"We need to get out of here!!!" Bright shouted .

The ground shook and made them lose their footing then more wave of eyes eaters surrounded them, their number made it hard for the students to kill them. They were all attacked in multiple directions.

"This is annoying " Larry said

angrily and prepared to unleash his full aura.

The ground shook again and cave in, Rina and Larry were at the center where the ground caved in, they weren't able to escape.

'Swoosh' 💨

Bright dashed straight to them and pushed his hands forward, he pushed Rina away and used his leg to kick Larry from the center. Suddenly a tentacle whacked him to the edge of the hole.

'Bam'

He hit the ground heavily and the eyes eaters unending wave swoop down at him, ripping his skin, making blood gush out. His blades fell into the hole, he tried reaching out to it but his hands was grabbed by a tentacle.

The tentacle swung him at the eyes eaters that was attacking it, injuries kept on piling up on Bright's body. His bones were broken and his body were full of claws, he could do nothing about it.

Then suddenly the eyes eaters became too much that the rest of the students had to run away from the area, Rina and Larry had to form a mini alliance and unleashed the their full potentials.

Instead of the attack reducing, more stronger beasts came at them, multiple beasts at the ranker tier and few mediate tiers and even some peak mediate upper tier level beast were attacking the group, making them have no choice but to leave the area and run for their lives.

Few eyes eaters gave them a good chase while the others tried to kill the quasi-intermediate tentacled beast, the beasts swung it's tentacles wildly, it didn't manage to stop the wave of eyes eaters.

It decided to retreat into the ground dragging Bright along, it was chased by few eyes eaters, Bright lost his eyes to the eyes eaters and his flesh was ripped in several places.

"Ahhhhhhh....!!!" Bright screamed till his mouth became sour.

The tentacled beast kept retreating downward till it got to a place that looks dark and weird, it then relaxed and decided to consume it's meal which was Bright and few eyes eaters it brought along.

First off it broke the bones of the eyes eaters by tightening the tentacles around them before putting them into its mouth that was located under it's cone head.