Chapter 111: Chapter 108: The Death of the Assistant_1

The students’ trial was progressing in an orderly manner.

The assistants and the mentors were patrolling according to their assigned areas, faithfully fulfilling their duties.

"Roar..."

Black Stone Mountain, at the foot of the dense forest.

A two-horned leopard was climbing a tree trunk with a massive rabbit in its mouth, feasting on it with its head lowered.

Its eating manners were quite refined. It first used its sharp fangs to tear apart the rabbit’s fur, then picked out the entrails from within and chewed and swallowed them bite by bite.

After finishing the entrails, the two-horned leopard began to savor the delicacy of the rabbit’s brain.

The long ears disintegrated with a single pull, the hard skull crumbled with a single bite. When the red blood mixed with the gray brain matter tumbled into its stomach, the two-horned leopard let out a satisfied grunt and elegantly licked its sharp claws.

Tian Sai, clad in a camouflage outfit, was squatting nearby, petting the leopard’s head and quietly nibbling on dried insects.

A scar adorned his forehead, a testament to a past fight with an adversary resulting from his youthful competitive spirit.

Of course, he was the one who made it out alive.

This particular fight helped his Hunter ability accumulate enough experience points to smoothly cross the first rank barrier and ascend to the second rank.

"Roar..."

Having finished grooming its claws, the two-horned leopard stood tall on a branch several meters high, peering down at the ground.

Except for the glaring fresh blood dripping from the rabbit, it was difficult to spot any living creature larger than a palm within several hundred meters.

This... was now its territory!

The strongest beast within its realm, the very Rainbow Light Virtual Intro multi-eared rabbit it had just devoured whole, was no match for it.

And all of this happened silently, from the start of the fight till the end, it only took a minute or two.

"Hang in there, only a day and a half left until the end of the teaching target."

When he was alone, Tian Sai’s facial expression wasn’t cold.

The warmth and camaraderie tinged his gaze when he looked at the two-horned leopard, subtle but touching.

He stroked the leopard’s chin, and it squinted its eyes in pleasure, seemingly enjoying it.

"I know, the prey around here is mainly of the Mud-cast fetus rank, too weak to appeal to your fighting interest."

"After we return and handover the missions, we’ll take a rest and then we can go to a more exciting place. There, we can truly enjoy the thrill of hunting..."

With anticipation, Tian Sai mumbled to himself, his mouth widening into a grin at the edges:

"It won’t be long until you break through to the Great Completion of Rainbow Light."

"By that time, we don’t have to fear Wu Chong..."

"Continuing my calculations, within three to five years, I should be able to secure a position of a full-time mentor..."

"Roar..."

The two-horned leopard affectionately rubbed its head against its master’s palm.

Suddenly, it became vigilant, lowered its back, and growled in the direction it was facing.

"Huh?"

Tian Sai instantly cleared his distractions.

His duty was to guard the boundary line of Black Stone Mountain, preventing exceptionally powerful Fond Spirits from breaking through the dark forest on the other side into the trial grounds.

Six days of aimless wandering and occasional fights, there had been no surprises.

Yet, at this moment, at the foot of Black Stone Mountain, a small area... suddenly became foggy?

Relying on his Passive Ability ’Wild intuition’ and years of experience, Tian Sai felt uneasy as if he had a thorn stuck in his back. He had a vague sense of crisis.

He mounted the two-horned leopard’s back and they investigated in the direction of the fog immediately.

Then he discovered, the obscure white fog... was moving?!

On high alert, Tian Sai rode the two-horned leopard towards a higher branch.

He was seeking a vantage point from where he could observe and discern the cause of the fog.

However, right at that moment, the sound of a projectile tearing through the air echoed.

A blood-red light shot out of the fog, a faint smell of blood reached Tian Sai before the light even landed.

"Ah Bao!"

With a roar, the two-horned leopard leapt aside to dodge.

Benefiting from its amazing jumping strength, it made a leap of fifty meters effortlessly, landing lightly on another tree.

"Swish ——"

Just as Tian Sai was about to discern what the blood light was, it abruptly changed direction and its speed skyrocketed. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Its color became even redder and brighter, and with a force that could shatter everything in its path, it arrived less than five meters from Tian Sai.

Then, a large blood-red hand reached out, grabbed Tian Sai’s neck, and twisted forcefully.

"Snap!!"

His alert and serious gaze was still present in his eyes.

Suddenly, Tian Sai felt as if he was enveloped by a tidal wave.

A giant wave weighing thousands of pounds seemed to be squeezing him from all directions. He wanted to struggle but his limbs were powerless. He wanted to scream but no sound came out from his throat.

Like a lone boat in a violent storm, that sense of loneliness, that sense of helplessness, as everything in front of his eyes became increasingly blurry, slowly sunk into the depths of his soul.

Tian Sai...lost his existence!

As his master died instantly, the backlash of the blood contract hit the two-horned leopard almost instantly.

Its eyes welled up with blood and, the next second, it was about to let out a roar to the sky, sinking into a state of extreme frenzy.

"Snap!"

The bloody hand, as if it was discarding a piece of garbage, flung Tian Sai’s body away, letting it fall to the ground.

As the light flashed, Blood Hand, who was now free, once again clutched the throat of the two-horned leopard before it could make a sound.

The same clicking sound was heard again, even louder and clearer.

Without any room to struggle, the two-horned leopard was hitting the ground, blood gushing from its mouth.

The light of anger and despair in its bleeding eyes had completely faded away.

And that sturdy and slender beast body, after the heart stopped, also slowly cooled.

"Hoo..."

The wind was blowing gently.

As if nothing had happened, the forest was as quiet and peaceful as before.

"Hehe, the boss is the boss, a one-hit kill right off the bat."

The white mist gradually dissipated, and three human figures hidden in black robes with different colored masks slowly emerged.

One of them, a man in a black robe wearing a black skull mask, stepped directly on the head of the two-horned leopard, and said in the most playful voice:

"It’s quite a pity that it just reached the small achievement of Rainbow Light and was killed within a short breath, how tragic."

"It would have been nice if we could drag it away. If buried in the soil of my home garden, it would definitely make a quality fertilizer, right?"

"What a pity, I am busy today, so I have to let the surrounding beasts feast on it..."

"Ghost Tooth, Ghost Hunt, Ghost Whip, do you understand our task this time?"

A chilling voice, piercing like the winter wind, suddenly sounded.

Blood light descended to the ground, and after the surrounding glow dissipated, it revealed a bird with a wingspan of two meters.

It appeared ferocious, as if the blood of a beast had been poured all over its body, with all its feathers dyed blood red.

With the trembling of its wings, the feathers flowed like liquid, and some dripped onto the ground, forming a pool of blood plasma, slowly and powerfully seeping into the ground.

"Hehehe..."

The creepy Blood Bird let out a bizarre laugh. A man in a black robe, also wearing a blood bone mask, tore off the semi-solid blood filmy between him and the Blood Bird, and landed on the ground from a prone position.

"Boss Ghost Hand, don’t worry, with your information, there won’t be any accidents on this mission!"

He, the man with the white bone mask in black robe, smiled obsequiously and confidently.

"Remember, I want them alive."

The man in the black robe with the blood mask coldly emphasized:

"Only the living have value."

"Once captured, do not worry about me, you retreat from the swamp on the side and rally at the old place."

"Yes, Boss Ghost Hand!"

The Black Robe with the white mask, the Black Robe with the black mask, and the Black Robe with the grey mask all answered respectfully.

"Besides ——" the blood-faced black-robed paused, "We have one more ’new guest’ who has also signed an employment agreement with me."

"Huh?" the black robe with the grey mask questioned, "Boss, don’t you usually only accept one client at a time? Are you changing your rules after all these years?"

"No."

The blood-faced black-robed man glanced at the grey-faced and answered tranquilly:

"Some of my information came from him."

"Of course, the best part is that what he wants doesn’t conflict with this mission. They can be achieved simultaneously, and naturally, I agreed."

"Is the, um...compensation high?"

The white-faced black-robed rubbed his hands together greedily:

"Boss, you know, I’m in this business for the money."

"Money is the most wonderful thing in the world. With it, you have everything..."

The white-faced man in the black robe hadn’t finished speaking.

The man in the blood mask said indifferently:

"The compensation is approximately one-tenth of the first mission."

"The difficulty...is almost zero."

"Are you satisfied with this?"

"Satisfied! More than satisfied!"

He, the white-faced black robe started laughing.

If it wasn’t for the fear of making too much noise and affecting the progress of the mission, he would have laughed out loud to vent his joyful feelings.

"Here’s his information, along with a rough sketch. Take a look, then burn it."

The Blood Robe handed out three thumb-size scrolls. The grey-faced, white-faced, and black-faced each took one and poured a bit of Soul Power into it.

"Eh? Boss, why is the prey again something that needs to be kept alive?"

The black-faced black-robed man was stunned, shaking his head in a woeful manner:

"In our line of work, it’s usually in with the white blade and out with the red blade.

"Catching two live targets today... that’s troublesome!"

"Hehe, as long as the money is in place, why not?"

The white-faced black-robed man laughed, "If you’re not satisfied, can’t you just kill the rest?"

"True." The black-faced figure sighed, turned to the side and asked with a grinning smile: "Boss, when do we move?"

"No rush." The blood-faced man in the black robe stared at the blood on his fingers, looked up at the sun overhead, and coldly said:

"Let’s go south first and lure the shepherd girl over."

"She will be the one to kick off this game."