The Magician of Sound

"Haiz, you are pushing me too much, Captain. What would you do if I were not on time?"

"I have been keeping track of you. It's within my calculation." He grinned. "Or else why would I ignore them?"

"Hmph! I should wait until the magical beasts hit you first before helping you. I can heal you later." Evan let out a long sigh.

"Haha. I know you can't do it," said Kai with a confident look. As a healer himself, Evan should know what it meant to heal someone else, especially his comrades. There was no way he would let Kai get hit by those magical beasts if he could help him.

After all, Kai had been doing the same thing for him during this period.

"Anyway, I will be handling this big one. You can focus on the small ones. Some of them will surely go to me, but you don't need to concern yourself with them. Meanwhile, the others that get past me, you need to handle them alone." Kai commanded.

"Receive the order." He smirked and started shooting again.

Just like Kai predicted, the grison immediately roared, ordering the beasts to charge at Evan first as he seemed to be weaker than Kai.

The magical beasts then started to go around them.

"Oi, oi. How convenient are you to have your subordinates follow your exact command after you kill many of them?" Kai exclaimed before launching himself to the grison's head with his Sound Blast.

"!!!" The grison panicked for a moment and bent down his body, so Kai didn't slash his head.

"Not good enough." Kai smiled and created another magic circle to launch him downward, allowing him to step on the grison's head.

He waved his sword downwards, trying to cut the head, but the grison immediately rolled over, trying to get Kai off his head.

"…" Obviously, Kai jumped a little bit to not get knocked out, but he soon saw an incoming paw coming from the side, planning to slap him away.

Due to that, he activated his Sound Blast, trying to cut down that last hand. However, another rumbling sound echoed in his ears as he glanced toward his back, finding the ground rising.

"I won't be fast enough." Kai instantly knew that the ground spike was to hold him down. And the grison had been planning to do that for a while to disturb Kai's movement. The paw would then hit him in this way.

In other words, the beast was also improving during this fight, making Kai see it in a new light.

"Seriously?" Kai clicked his tongue and turned around, facing the paw with his left hand and the spike with his other hand.

Because the two had the same strength overall, he was pinched by two giant stones that were trying to crush him.

Kai gritted his teeth until the magic circle completed and launched him out of these two things that pressed him.

After that, he landed on the ground and started killing the magical beasts instead of going back to attack the grison. He realized that Evan wouldn't be enough to deal with this many.

"There are still around two hundred, huh…" Kai observed the situation while killing this, disturbing the entire rank of magical beasts that were going toward Evan.

He managed to do it for a minute before the grison finally stabilized its body and swiped his claw to bring Kai into the same situation before Evan helped him.

Seeing this situation, Kai leaped to the air, avoiding this attack.

However, the grison suddenly opened its mouth as a green light started forming inside his mouth.

"Wait. What?! Do powerful magical beasts have the ability to shoot out a beam from their mouth? Is that a given?" Kai exclaimed in surprise while activating his Oscillation Shield.

The beast released the breath that turned seemed to be a green light ball and hit Kai's magic shield, creating a huge explosion that blew Kai away.

It was at this time, Kai smiled while getting blown away. His Sound Blast Magic Circle appeared behind him, launching him to the ground before he appeared below the grison and struck its body.

*Roar!*

The grison's roar echoed in his ears. It would never expect that the smoke produced by the explosion turned out to be Kai's smokescreen that allowed him to get closer to hit him.

In other words, Kai also tried to accommodate the progress that these beasts had and fought it on its own terms.

He didn't stop there as he immediately went toward the other hand and cut it off.

Without any hands, the grison shouldn't be able to run again unless it decided to use only his two feet. Even so, it was only at walking speed. It wouldn't pose much trouble for them.

After cutting the hand, Kai decided to glance at Evan while he was in mid-air. He saw Evan stepping on the magical beasts and hopping from one another as he kept shooting them.

He never thought that Evan would be that acrobatic, but it might also due to his newfound power.

At least, he seemed to be able to withstand the magical beasts' attacks for a few minutes. In the meantime, he needed to kill this beast first.

"Without arms, you pose no more threat to me." Kai snorted as he started going around while dealing some damage to the giant grison.

In the meantime, the grison ordered half of the beasts to attack Kai instead, but they were not capable of stopping Kai's advance as he continued using his Sound Blast to make great maneuvers.

After around two minutes of continuous attacks, the grison finally fell down to the ground, died.

Kai couldn't catch a breath as he immediately went to relieve Evan from the magical beasts' onslaught.

He then acted as a vanguard as they killed the remaining beasts.

"We have finally finished!" Evan stretched his hand, tired after fighting for so long.

"Haiz. That grison is certainly hard. I am even wondering why it would become like that?"

"What do you mean?!" Evan frowned.

"That grison can improve."

"A magical beast that can improve?" Evan widened his eyes. "From what we have known, there are only intelligent magical beasts, but they are only controlling the beasts around them like a boss. They can't improve their fighting style or anything."

"But that one is certainly can. It might have analyzed my attack pattern and do whatever it takes to disturb it. Luckily, my pattern is not something that can be easily defeated, or else, I might be the one laying over there." Kai let out a long sigh.

"Is this a new type?" Evan narrowed his eyes. "Or is there any intervention from the protectors?"

"I am not sure. Either way, this is something we should report. I don't know, but I feel that it will only happen to intelligent magical beasts." Kai sighed.

"Should we bring back the body?"

"You can bring that one back?" Kai pointed his finger toward the giant beast while staring at Evan with a weird look.

"I mean, we can ask for reinforcements to come and bring them back for further research." Evan shook his head.

"If that is the question, then no. The sound of them dragging this big one will attract the monsters in the surrounding. At the very least, it can only be tomorrow or the day after."

"I understand. I will report it to them first, so they can pick it up at dusk. I think everything should have been concluded by that time, right?"

Kai thought for a moment. "I am not sure. I have located three groups during this time that are separated from each other but in harmony. That's why we might need to face three magical beasts like this tomorrow."

"Seriously? I might need to bring more supplies." Evan let out a long sigh. "How is their strength?"

"A hundred beasts are surrounding them, but it shouldn't be a problem. The problem is their positioning."

"Hmm?!"

"They might be separated, but they are not that far away from each other. In other words, the two of them may aid it if we are not fast enough."

"That is a problem." Evan looked down, falling into deep thought. "There is a time limit, and there might be a chance that the two will show up at the same time."

"Indeed. That's why we need to risk it and deal with the first one before the two arrive. After that, we will strike the second one and kill it before the third arrives. There is a reinforcement option, but I think we shouldn't rely on that. But just bring a flare gun in case we need to call reinforcement."

Evan nodded. "I understand. I will bring the flare gun with me."

"Yeah. What do you think about the plan?"

"I think we can employ another tactic."

"Hmm?" Kai narrowed his eyes.

"I will be kiting the third one while you are dealing with the second one."

"That's a no. You will be exposed to danger. They are strong, you know." Kai shook his head.

"But that is more efficient. I have no doubt that we won't be able to kill the second one before the third comes. I know that you are avoiding putting me in danger because I am still a greenhorn, but please trust me a bit more. If it's running, I can still do that with my newfound ability." He smiled.

Kai gritted his teeth. As Evan said, he had considered that plan as well, but because Evan would be exposed to far greater danger, he decided to go with the current plan. Still, with him asking for it, he couldn't dismiss his thoughts like a dictator.

"I have one condition."