The First Legendary Demonic Scholar
Chapter 62: A Silver Core Realm Beast
"I wonder if I will encounter him today?" Shen Yuan jumped from one tree to another, moving like some ninja without even leaving a physical trace of his presence.
Woosh!
After several minutes of continuous running, Shen Yuan found himself in a familiar area.
The trees here were much thicker, and the grass was denser. Beyond the clearing, there was a garden of beautiful flowers where a hive of bees made their home to collect the pollen for their queen.
"After I am done here, I should go and sell those medical pastes I made." Shen Yuan carefully moved past the area and arrived at a cross section from where he could already hear the sound of rushing water. "The new servants might come any day now."
Just as Shen Yuan was about to take a familiar turn, he heard something.
Awooo!!
It was the howling of a wolf.
A painful one.
More importantly, Shen Yuan was familiar with that voice.
He did not even think twice before turning his feet in the direction of the voice on the other side of the fork road.
He moved through the greens and the brown in a straight line. It was not long before he was able to see where the voice came from.
GRRRRrrrr...
The voice came again, but it was different from before. It was heavier and carried a deeper weight.
He was still unable to see where the voices were coming from.
’There it is—’ A loud crack echoed through the forest before the voice of the battle faded away into the distance.
’They are moving away,’ Shen Yuan thought and increased his speed to the max.
Then he came across it. He stopped on a thick branch and looked down. The sound of the battle seemed to have disappeared, and the only thing he could hear was the faint rustling of the leaves.
The sight before him made Shen Yuan pause.
A giant chunk of the area before him was missing.
Trees had been uprooted from the ground. Others had been reduced to little more than stumps.
The surrounding vegetation had suffered no better fate. Even the trees that remained standing bore countless cuts across their trunks.
It looked like a tornado had exploded in the middle of the woods.
’Just what could cause something like this destruction?’ For a second he even thought of turning back and leaving the wolf to its fate.
Shen Yuan jumped down and walked towards one of the standing trees and touched the cuts.
It was smooth, too smooth. ’This was made by a single cut.’
The next second, his body turned into a flicker and shot forward.
He traced the battle’s aftermath and the blood trail left behind. Finally, after a minute of searching, he saw the beast responsible for all the mayhem.
’So, It IS you.’
There were two wolves.
One of the wolves was familiar to him.
It was barely standing, snarling at the beast opposite to it.
Its thick grey hide was riddled with deep life-threatening wounds from which blood was dripping.
Its scarred face was scrunched up in pain, but there was fury burning in its eyes along with killing intent.
Even though the beast knew it was about to die, it was not willing to go down without a fight.
"Grrr..."
Shen Yuan turned his head and looked at the other beast. It was massive.
The beast was at least twice the size of the wounded wolf.
The two beasts looked similar enough that one could mistake them for belonging to the same species.
But that was where the similarities ended.
The larger wolf’s body was broader. It had thicker limbs with bulging muscles branching from the gray fur.
Its eyes were magical. Shen Yuan could see a faint glow within its emerald eyes.
Not only that. The beast was special, more so than any Shen Yuan had seen.
"A silver Core Beast." That was the first thing that came to his mind when he felt the aura radiating from the beast, along with the current of air surrounding its body.
The wind shook the leaves and dirt all around it.
Shen Yuan could see endless killing intent in the eyes of the beast as it howled back at the scarred little wolf.
Despite the difference between their figures, the smaller beast did not back down and even stepped forward to growl, blood still dripping from its body.
’How foolish,’ Shen Yuan thought, but there was a look of understanding in his eyes. He instantly crouched low and pushed himself off the branch and launched himself into the air.
"Awoooo!" The massive wolf stepped forward to attack the smaller one; there was no mercy in its eyes.
But then, in the corner of his eyes, something flickered.
A bright light that came out of nowhere and caught it off guard. A metal wire so thin that the beast could not even see unless it focused on it wrapped itself around its paws and tightened.
Thud!
Before it knew it, the massive beast was down on the ground with a loud thud, unable to balance its big body.
A cloud of dust rose into the air, pushed by the air shimmering around it.
Before the beast could get up once again, it saw the shadow of a human covering a part of the sun.
The human had his arms up in the air as he came down from above, and in his hands was a massive two-handed axe.
"Heavy Axe Slash!" Shen Yuan poured everything, from the mastery of the technique to the mastery of the Axe Fighting Technique, into the attack.
A Silver Core Beast was powerful enough to play around with the scar faced wolf, so Shen Yuan would rather not hold anything back and made sure he could take it down in one blow.
Clank!
"AWOOOOO!!!" The blade managed to cut through the thick hide of the beast in one blow, but it only went 5 inches deep under the skin when it was stopped by a thick exoskeleton.
"It is a mid-rank Silver Core Beast!"