Chapter 35
Chapter 35: Prepare to fight
Han Shuo worked by himself during the nights, leveraging his perceptive senses to hunt down the magical creatures nearby. The flawless cooperation between man and skeleton had no drawbacks. They had gathered four level 5 cores by now, as well as some valuable skin and horns.
Han Shuo not only tried to cast magic whenever they hunted down magical creatures, but also repeatedly practiced the bone arrow magic, often combining missile and melee attacks for uncanny effectiveness.
Han Shuo never displayed the same panic and disarray that the students had displayed when they first met magical creatures. He always displayed the same calm, even a sort of numb callousness.
Even Han Shuo himself didn’t know why he didn’t have any negative emotions throughout the entire process. He could vaguely feel that his inner heart was actually brimming with eagerness and anticipation when he hunted magical creatures, as if he really enjoyed the process.
“I’m definitely not a good person!” Han Shuo laughed at himself, and accepted this time’s haul of cores and Windblade Wolf pelts from the little skeleton’s hands. He patted the darkly gleaming head of the little skeleton and smiled, “Let’s go. We can go back now.”
The little skeleton’s hand clutched its bone dagger, with no traces of emotion in its empty eye sockets. It trailed behind Han Shuo and swiftly returned along their original path.
Han Shuo chanted an incantation when they were halfway there and the little skeleton returned to the other dimension. Seeing that he was about to return to the camping area, Han Shuo slowed his footsteps and walked unhurriedly through the shadows of the trees.
As it was past midnight, the students standing guard in the camping area had changed to Fanny, Lisa, and Amy. Lisa and Amy had half-drooped eyes and looked incredibly sleepy. Anyone could tell at a glance that they were slacking off and not shouldering the responsibility they were assigned.
It was a good thing that Fanny understood the importance of keeping guard. Her pair of beautiful eyes roamed the four corners alertly, and her wary gaze immediately locked onto the direction that Han Shuo was coming from when his light footsteps grew near.
Several heavy footfalls gradually approached and fell into everyone’s hearing in the mess of the students getting ready. Han Shuo had started to calm down after Fanny’s pinch, and the previous lustful gleam in his eyes faded without a trace, to be replaced by a deep coldness. It was as if he was a bystander coldly observing everything around him.
Heavy footsteps accompanied by weird, airy sounds continued to approach the crew. Gene frowned and asked, perplexed, “Such heavy footsteps shouldn’t belong to humans, but two legged magical creatures are exceedingly rare. What could they be?”
Fanny furrowed her brow in deep thought as her beautiful eyes suddenly brightened with understanding. She suddenly called out, “Everyone hurry and summon skeletal warriors to the front, we seem to have run into the man-eating monsters in the Dark Forest.”
Everyone was gobsmacked when the words “man-eating monsters” crossed Fanny’s lips. A few of the female students shuddered as fearful expressions blossomed on their faces. Gene was also startled and hurriedly commanded everyone to form a circular defense pattern. He too brought out a brown magic staff, that looked like a tree branch. His face was full of careful wariness.
Rounds of incantations flew out from the students’ and teachers’ mouths. Multiple skeletal warriors, ghouls, and zombie warriors appeared out of thin air, as well as Fanny and Gene’s hate warriors.
Hate warriors were more advanced beings of existence amongst the dark creatures. These hate warriors were enormous in size, wielded metal clubs, and had incredible strength in all the fat on their bodies. Their bodies also possessed extremely durable defensive capabilities, and were a common meat shield used by necromancers.
Indeed, following their thudding footsteps, eight, grey-colored, 2.5 meter tall man-eating monsters wielding studded clubs and long spears soon appeared in everyone’s vision.
Man-eating monsters were pack creatures. Ten or so man-eating monsters counted as a tribe. The man-eating monster’s nature was lazy and they liked to steal things. They were born robbers. They understood how to use studded clubs and long spears, add to that, the toughness and durability of their bodies meant they had extreme power and damage in close combat.
However, what frightened people most wasn’t the strength of the man-eating monsters, but their habits. Man-eating monsters were labeled thus because they ate humans. If they met humans in the course of a robbery, not only would they steal everything, but they would carry off the human for food.
Han Shuo and co. had formed a defensive field, with the skeletal warriors, ghouls, zombie warriors, and hate warriors forming an outer defensive perimeter. A few necromancers readied their offensive missile spells and watched the approaching man-eating monsters gravely.
“Prepare to fight!” Fanny called out. Her staff had already been raised up.