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    Boom!


    An explosion rocked a grassy field, sending a figure wielding arge hammer flying several meters away.


    "Daniel, are you okay?" Danny called out as he swung his axe at a two-meter-tall Red-Striped Crimson Wolf, a Tier 6 monster with an agile body and deadly attacks.


    "I''m fine, Danny, don''t worry. We won''t die." Daniel propped himself up and began hammering at the monsters. Danny sighed in relief and focused back on his battle.


    "Damn it!" Kilian eximed as he shed his ming sword at a Tier 7 Crimson Wolf. Beside him, Mark thrust his spear forward, aiming for the neck of another Tier 7 Crimson Wolf.


    On another side of the battlefield, Anna was surrounded by chilling ice as huge rhinos wreaked havoc. She did her best to send out ice spears at Tier 6 and 7 Crimson Wolves, shooting fire with every swipe.


    Kay was bathed in mes as one arrow after another rained down on the monsters. He moved swiftly, dispatching them one by one.


    As for Lily, she was shing across the battlefield, ensuring her friends weren''t attacked from behind. With her agile body and the aid of her wind element, her movements were lightning-fast.


    On the other hand, Hanna was dealing with three Peak Tier 7 monsters that seemed to have entered the next phase of their evolution, making them early-stage pseudo-beasts.


    They couldn''t take on humanoid forms yet, but their battle power was devastating, to say the least.


    She shot lightning arrow after lightning arrow, each release delivering a deadly strike to the three wolves, who stubbornly refused to die.


    The battlefield was utterly chaotic.


    However, the most chaotic scene of all was unfolding 2 kilometers away. us was shing with two humanoid beasts, each thick and muscr.


    They have wolves'' heads with red stripes on one side of their faces and humanoid bodies covered in fur. Each wielded a bone club engulfed in mes as they attacked us with lethal intent.


    "Die, human!" one of them roared, lunging at him and shing with his spear. us was pushed back a few steps, a smile tugging at his lips.


    ''Finally, the thrill, the adrenaline, the feeling of not knowing whether I''m going to live or die. I can feel it all,''


    us thought as he sidestepped a deadly swing from one of the Tier 8 half-beasts, which called itself Aldrick.


    A few hours ago, us and his pals arrived in the Tier 6 Forbidden Zone called Monster''s Den. It is a ce packed with different types of monsters and beasts alike. Most are pseudo-beasts, but there are loads of them.


    It''s a very dangerous ce, but it''s also where their missions were. us knew his friends couldn''t traverse the ce without his help, so they all decided toplete the team missions before starting their individual ones.


    For their first mission, they were to go to a valley south of the Monster''s Den and retrieve the Thunderberry fruit.


    The Thunderberry is a rare fruit that can be used to enhance lightning-based abilities. Eating it will boost one''s control over lightning, making attacks faster and more powerful.


    It''s also said to help heal injuries caused by lightning burns.


    Per the mission, the Thunderberry is protected by a Tier 8 Lightning Hawk. Of course, us was confident they could take down the Lightning Hawk.


    However, they failed to realize that the path they were taking led through the den of the Red-Striped Crimson Wolves.@@novelbin@@


    These wolves are among the Overlords in the Forbidden Zone, mainly due to their fighting force and two Tier 8 Pseudo-Beast leaders, male and female.


    The male, called Aldrick, is the Alpha, and the second-inmand is the female named Lyra.


    They are in the final phase of evolution, where they will soon receive the heavenly tribtions and be true beasts.


    Unfortunately, nine tiny humans disturbed their peace this fine morning.


    us sensed them, but what he didn''t know was that the wolves also sensed them, and theyid an ambush for them.


    Now, 30 Tier 6, 10 Tier 7, and two Tier 8 Crimson wolves were attacking with the force that suggested they wanted them down.


    us, who hadn''t had a good fight in a while, was already joyful as he attacked and defended against the assaults from Aldrick and Lyra.


    This was his first time fighting an intelligent monster. The past had been against brutes and zombies. Now, with 6 cores formed and the 7th almost there, us felt like a champ.


    He could kill the two at any moment, but he wasn''t about to do that. He brought his friends along to drill into them the experience they needed.


    Right now, they were cornered, but they weren''t at the helpless stage. Of course, his senses covered the battlefield, ready to intervene if they needed help.


    But since they were holding on, as long as there were no Tier 9 (Transcendent) level threats on the battlefield, he was fine.


    He might be strong, but he wasn''t that strong.


    "Colossal Giant Hammer Descent!" Daniel shouted as he jumped high into the air and descended with a huge hammer, immediately sting three Tier 6 and one Tier 7 wolf away.


    "Wind sh," Lily shed past Daniel, and before the three Tier 6 wolves could get back up, her attack imed their lives and injured the Tier 7 wolf.


    "Finish it, Daniel," Lilymanded, and Daniel obeyed. The next second, his hammer descended on the Tier 7 wolf, instantly iming its life.


    "None of you should use your techniques yet. Let''s see how far we can go with our normal skills and techniques," Annamanded, channeling more ice spears as she rained them down on the monsters.


    Anna and the others knew us wouldn''t let any harme to them, so she was counting on that to ensure they could see their limits despite the danger surrounding them.


    Right now, they werecking one thing: battle experience. They had little of it, and us, who noticed this, told Anna to prioritize fighting extended battles to see how far they could go.


    Of course, he also told them he would protect them only when they were at death''s door, so in case the situation wasn''t favorable, they shouldn''t do anything reckless.


    This didn''t seem dangerous enough, so they used the chance to address theirck of experience.


    Thirty minutester, us killed one of the Tier 8 Crimson wolves and was toying with thest one.


    Anna had also dispatched all three Tier 7 monsters and went ahead to help Anna deal with five more.


    As for Lily, she managed to do her job well, ensuring none of them got attacked from the rear while also delivering the final blow.


    This also meant she earned more experience points than her friends, but they said nothing. In the end, that was the formation Anna hade up with.


    She would control, Hanna would protect her while killing, Danny and Daniel would act as shields, and Mark, Kilian, and Kay would be the all-rounders.


    Lily, on the other hand, was meant to support all of them and kill at the same time.


    Forty-five minutester, the battle ended.