It's Time for a Hunt: Encounter with a Dragon

Alvin's heart became heavy after he received the memories from the previous owner. He did not have the excitement or curiosity of stepping into a new world at this moment since the memories had merged into his soul as though he had experienced every last moment of it in real life.

But what made him worried was the condition of his sister. It had been five years since he last saw her. At that time, she was already seriously injured, and if not given treatment in time, even her magic core might become permanently damaged or, at worst, result in death.

"Alice..." Alvin muttered to himself with a complicated look on his face. He was not sure how to describe this feeling, but he surely felt a strange bond and sense of protectiveness towards his sister Alice, which was something foreign to Alvin, who was an orphan in his previous life.

After a moment of silence, Alvin said to the tree at the center, "Are you the one who brought me to this world?"

But this time, Alvin did not get any answer. He sighed and asked again, "Fine then, I want to create a book on the Third Path of Asura Scripture."

The previous owner of this body did not have good talent in magic, but he was extremely gifted in martial arts. At the young age of eleven, he had already mastered an extremely difficult hammer technique called the Third Path of Asura Scripture. This was the reason why Alvin could fight effortlessly with all those magical beasts.

[You can also construct books to record your two bloodline traits. It will consume a total of 300 soul essences of the Ascension Realm.]

Ascension Realm is the first realm of cultivation. Above it comes the Master Realm, and next is the Grandmaster Realm. Alvin did not know about the rest of the realms, as the highest existence he had seen was only at the Master rank. He himself was also a Master-level martial cultivator.

Alvin blinked, "How much soul essence do I have currently?"

[A level one Master Realm soul flower is considered one Master Realm soul essence. Likewise, a level two Master Realm soul flower is considered two soul essences. Currently, you have a total of eighty Master Realm soul flowers left in the Tree of Life, ranging from level one to level ten. After calculation, the total soul essence is five hundred and two Master Realm soul essences.]

Alvin nodded, "Fine then, use it to construct the three books."

[You do not have any Ascension Realm soul essences to complete the books. Current Ascension Realm soul essence: zero.]

Alvin's mouth twitched, "So I can only use the soul essence of the same realm to construct books of that realm. This is going to be difficult..."

If he had to collect so many souls, he would have to kill at least three hundred Ascension Realm magic beasts at the first level. If it was a tenth-level Ascension Realm beast, then just killing thirty of them would make the numbers.

Still, this is a frightening number. To kill a magical beast at the same rank, more than ten human cultivators would be needed. Not everyone is like Alvin, who could kill beasts at the same rank so easily.

After thinking for a while, Alvin asked, "How should I exit out of this Shrine of Wisdom?"

[You can enter and exit with just a thought.]

Alvin closed his eyes and willed to exit the hall. The next second, he opened his eyes in the real world.

Alvin stood up from the rock he was sitting on and put on a beach short he had picked from the laboratory while he escaped that place. This was the only thing he had at the moment in the name of clothes, so he wore it even though he did not like the flower patterns printed on the shorts.

"It's time for a hunt, then..." Picking up the huge axe which was stuck in a nearby rock, Alvin walked into the depths of the forest. He was not worried about meeting some powerful magic beast like others, since it was a tier two forest ,the most he would face was a tenth-level Master-realm beast.

Even if it was a dragon, Alvin was sure he would at least be able to put up a decent fight with it.

........

At this time inside a meeting hall,

Several officers wearing military uniforms with an eagle symbol on their left chest and golden stars on their shoulders could be seen sitting at both sides of a long table with serious looks on their faces.

"Sam, have you identified the corpse?" one lady suddenly asked the muscular man who was presenting case details on a projector at the front.

This muscular man was the leader of the group who rescued the caged people from the laboratory. At this time, he did not have the confidence or the arrogance he had back then. In front of these bigwigs, he appeared both nervous and careful, like a child in front of his parents.

Sam wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "Yes ma'am. The old man's name is Edward Codson. He is a member of the Newgate Alliance and an eighth-realm ice magician with excellent achievements in the field of biofusion research. We are not sure how he died, but it appears that his head was forcefully pulled off from his body somehow..."

The young lady officer frowned, "An eighth-realm cultivator... even if all his attributes were suppressed by the rules in a tier two forest to the top of the Master realm, all his stats should still be at the maximum level of Master realm . What kind of existence could take down such a person so easily..."

Sam hesitated for a moment and said, "Ma'am, it's not only him. There were also fifty-six beasts above sixth realm among the corpses we analyzed. The strange thing was that the villagers we rescued only reported seeing a man with a huge axe walking outside, apart from seeing five aircrafts."

"According to our analysis from their testimony and some unclear CCTV recordings we recovered from the destroyed server room, all of them seem to have run away from the laboratory in fear of this man."

"They might have destroyed all the evidence in a hurry, which broke the concealment array at the place. That is how our satellites managed to locate their hideout so easily."