Erik immediately noticed the mass amount of experience points he had just gained by killing a single Genare. He didn't know what he would do once in a military school or once he got enlisted.
However, he understood clearly that if he could hunt higher leveled thaids with a team, he would be able to level up much faster than doing it alone.
Sure, he could kill multiple low-leveled thaids by throwing trees at them. Still, the amount of experience he would gain would be significantly reduced.
While thinking this, his eyes quickly darted to the left. The five men let another group of monsters get past them; this time, it was a small pack of five Ma-cofs.
These were another type of wolf-like thaids; however, compared to the Leylarhads, they had a single orange horn on the middle of their heads and silvery white fur.
Aside from that, they were pretty standard-looking monsters but had a very nasty power. They could send bolts whose power was not that much but paralyze their prey. This was their main hunting tactic since there wasn't anything else about these wolves that made them stand out as special other than being able to use electricity against others.
Erik analyzed them and quickly found out they weren't that strong compared to him if taken individually. However, avoiding their attacks was everything but simple.
Erik clearly understood that if he was alone, he would have perished against these monsters; however, now that he had an entire party backing him up, he knew all too well that things weren't going to go like that.
"Anderson! Elena! With me! We will kill the three beasts at the forefront!" Erik shouted. "Judith, Robyn, try to keep the other two at bay! Be careful; they can send paralyzing bolts!"
The four team members nodded in unison while simultaneously going into position. Anderson placed himself in the middle of a trident formation, with Erik on his left and Elena on his right.
Robyn started elongating his arms to attack the Ma-cof from a distance while Judith used her hounds to keep the other Ma-cof at bay.
Erik's opponent didn't waste time and sent a paralyzing bolt in his direction. However, the young man charged his sword with mana and parried the attack. The coat made with the ethereal substance absorbed and dissipated the attack ruining the creature's tactic.
However, this didn't stop the creature from rushing at the young man; the beast lunged at him with his mouth wide open and tried to bite Erik in the jugular.
Yet, Erik's dexterity was sufficiently high to allow him to keep track of the beast's movements. He dodged the beast's jaws by rotating his waist and chest and having enough space to use his Flyssa, he swung his charged sword vertically, chopping the creature's head off.
The young man quickly looked to his right to see how his teammates were doing. Anderson didn't have any problem at all as the young man saw him just plunging his claymore into the beast's heart, ending its life in a mere moment.
The problem was that another Ma-cof was on him. Robyn was the one tasked to stop it from approaching the young man, but apparently, a stray paralyzing bolt hit him, preventing him from stopping the beast.
However, Anderson was now free to deal with it since he killed the other beast. He also saw Judith killing another Ma-cof while hunting it with his two hounds.
However, Elena wasn't doing well at all. Her stats were lower than the beast, who was fast from her point of view. She could barely avoid its attack; however, he was fast enough not to get killed by the beast. Erik rushed to help her while Judith went to Robyn, who was now kneeling on the ground.
The awakener didn't waste any second and plunged his blade into the beast's cranium, instantly piercing its brain. Elena immediately turned around and thanked her teammate for helping her. Erik nodded back and then asked if she was ok.
"I'm fine, I wasn't injured..." however, she was panting heavily.
"Rest a little bit; we will take care of the incoming monsters..." Erik said.
Elena nodded. At the same time, Judith was tending to Robyn; he had trouble standing and was currently leaning on a tree.
"You alright?" Judith asked.
"Yes, but I will be incapacitated for a couple of minutes at least..."
"What happened?" the young woman asked since she didn't see the earlier attack.
Robyn briefly explained what had occurred before asking the young woman if she thought they would make it. Judith tried to reassure him; however, she didn't know if that was true.
At that moment, Anderson finished killing the last Ma-cof, and Erik received the usual notification.
[MULTIPLE HOSTILE MA-COF KILLED: MANA ABSORBING PROCESS STARTING.]
[0%...1%....5%...30%...70%...100%]
[MANA SUCCESSFULLY ABSORBED, STARTING CONVERTING PROCEDURE.]
ραпdα nᴏνɐ| сom [3...2...1...0]
[MANA SUCCESSFULLY CONVERTED INTO EXPERIENCE. 1305 EXPERIENCE POINTS AWARDED TO THE HOST.]
Erik still had 20 unassigned stat points, and he decided to dump them all into strength whenever he felt his life was seriously in danger, this way he could at least escape. If he did so, he would gain stat similar to the Genare.
However, that was his plan B. He didn't want to do that, so he decided to drop his future stat points to energy to improve his brain crystal since the neural links didn't improve it.
It would be better to use the neural links to improve his other stats and pump up strength, dexterity, and intelligence only because he was severely lacking at the time.
"FUCK!" Greg shouted. "There are too many. I can't possibly stop them all!" he added.
"Keep your fucking mouth shut and make yourself useful," Zachary shouted back.
They kept swinging their weapons and killing thaid after thaid, but they were too much, and some of them kept getting past them and attacking Erik and his team.
"If anything happens to the kid, we'll be fucked!" Zachary said.
"There is no need to remind me!" Greg replied. The other three team members listened to the conversation with amused looks; however, they were worried since they couldn't stop all the monsters.
At that moment, another beast went past Greg and rushed to Erik's team. However, luckily it didn't look that powerful, and he was sure that Erik would have been able to take care of it. The problem was that the young man's team had two people out of combat, but they weren't aware.
As Erik saw the beast coming, he called for his teammates' attention.
"INCOMING!" he shouted
At that moment, he, Anderson, and Judith went into a fighting position. In contrast, Elena went to protect Robyn, despite not having that much Energy. To compensate for the absence of the two team members, Judith channeled more mana and increased the size, strength, and speed of her two hounds.
The two dashed toward the creature while Erik and Anderson did the same. Erik used his analysis again and judged the beast weaker than the Genare so, with the two hounds, they would be able to kill it.
However, he was worried about Judith's mana. He had less mana than her, but once he got the Flyssa, he didn't have to use that much to fight since the weapon was already sharp. Though she was using a lot of it to keep the two hounds up, he didn't know how long she could last.
The monsters didn't come more than 4 minutes ago; however, she was exhausting a lot of mana since the fight started. If she ended up without mana, she would be exhausted from fighting, and they would lose the hounds.
The battle against the beast started, and Erik did his best not to let his comrades waste energy; however, that was not that simple.
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