"Another tribe down," Alros muttered. It had three weeks since the first day he entered Lunos Forest.
So far, he had ughtered about 200 tribes of monsters for thest two weeks. Even the smallest of the destroyed targets have about 100 to 500 monsters with the strongest having monsters in thousands.
In the end, they are still ughtered by him and his monsters for the SP. With all the monsters he and his monsters in, he manage to get two 3rd Volume Grimoire; The Grimoire of Demon and Grimoire of Fire.
Both for one reason, to defeat the A-rank monstersing after him. However, while he did have the Grimoire, understanding its content is another thing. While it is in thenguage that was used by every being in the world, it seem to possess an ability that prevent others from prevent him from skipping through it.
Basically, he needs to read the whole thing first before he could even reach the spell part, as there are a detail exnation of maniption of the chosen Element as well as the best way of using mana while using said element.
While it is helpful, the pages it covered took nearly half the books, and it is a 1 000 pages, possible even more books. Grimoire does note with contents apparently. So, he had to read all of it. The plus side is his maniption of both Fire and Demon Magic be better by reading it.
It just hardwork plus understanding the content of the books took a long time.
"Maybe I hunt monsters and upgrade my body parts instead," he decided. While there are still other Grimoires of the 3rd Volume he could use, the Elements will not do much against woods and trees.
Instead of using it on Grimoires that will not be that useful untilter on, it is better to use it on something that will give him a fighting chance against the monster that wille after him.
"Let see then," he connected to the Phantom Wasp, sent to surround him from multitude of distance. It is the best way for him to detect any approaching danger. Hopefully, the monsters, if they are more of them, would be asrge as the Forest Drake.
At least it made detecting them would be easier. As he thought of possible A-rank monsters, birds soon flew from the distance. The demon took it as a sign and flew upwards, scanning the treeline.
There, he spot arge moving tree heading his way.
"A Treant, and arger than regr at that," he muttered before flying away from the monster, not nning to call his Phantom Wasp as it would just be time consuming, and the Treant might reach him before they all gathered to him.
Keeping them at their current spot would also give him the necessary intels of his hunters location. As he took flight, he sense something fasting towards him.
This time, he manage to dodge whatevering. With his eyesight, he soon spotted the one who attacked.
''What is that?'' he questioned in his head. The figure is a humanoid with barks as skins and leaves and vines as hair. It also has a bow, pulling the string as another arrow nicked already.
Realizing the danger in plus how close the first shot is on skewering him, he fly down, doing his best to not be in the sight of the monster.
Thankfully, as another shot was fired, it missed him. The unfortunate part is that he could tell the forest would not be a deterrent to archer, who manage to hit the tree he used as cover, along with some other trees in the arrow''s path.
With the monster likely taking some time before firing, Alros took the chance to run away, not wanting to be peppered with arrows. He manage to run for about few hundred feet when trees grow at a terrifying speed, trying to cage.
"Dammit! Is the Forest Drake here?!" he cursed loudly, as he looked around for the monster. However, instead of finding the Forest Drake, he instead found arger than normal deer with bark as skin. It looked at him before its antlers glowed green, the trees moving like they are possessed towards him.
''So that''s whatmanding the nt,'' he thought as he ran away faster, a de of fire in his hand. Thankfully, despite the disparity between their magic skill, the advantage Fire has against nature help shift the advantage to him.
A single sh was enough to destroy the growing vines, the charred cut part burning and preventing anything else from growing, at least fast enough.
Seeing the tree being cut again, the deer stopped growing vine, allowing Ryker to run away without worry, for now.
Such thing did notst as another monster, one closely resembling a Treewraith except scarier andrger leapt into the fray.
Unfortunately, despite being the same race as the Treeman, Treewraith have one advantagepared to the other of their races, they are fast.
It took everything he had to dodge the tail swipeing his way plus the asional ws mixed in the attack.
While he could fight and maybe hold them briefly, doing so us a death sentence as he could not hope to beat one of them in time before the other three arrive. So, the only valid option is to flee.
Using Wind Magic and Lightning Magic, Alros speed up his running, using both element to boost his speed to a brand new level.
Seeing this, the deer quickly ran after him, the Treewraith trying to follow. As for the humanoid, it decided to use the Greater Treant as a moving tform, trying to shot him frothe distance.
As he was chase by the 4 monsters, he wondered who send them and where is the other one. He get theter answer when the Forest Drake leap toward him. It took everything he learned to dodge attack of such scale, the ws of the Drake trying to tear him to pieces.
"Looks like there 5 of you now," he muttered as he prepared for the worst.
With his opponents being 5 A-rank monsters, it took all his discipline to not scream in frustration, which is an understandable action when one is in this much danger.
The 5 monsters keep their encirclement though not as part as a strategy, but simplya thought process to prevent him from escaping.
The humanoid had nicked another arrow, aiming to the sky while the other make sure he is surrounded, unable to escape the encirclement as they slowly moved closer towards him.