’It is a mid-rank Silver Core Beast!’ Shen Yuan pushed hard, but no matter what he did, the Axe did not go any deeper.

"You know, all this time I have been the ones doing you favours. When am I going to get one of my own?" Shen Yuan was talking to the other demon, barely standing on the side, but its stubbornness did not let it fall.

He could feel the bone of the beast crackling under the grinding, but there was no way the beast would let him do any more damage.

Shen Yuan pulled the axe and jumped back in time to dodge a torrent of wind. The blades of wind were so sharp that they chopped the leaves in the air into countless pieces in less than a second.

Shen Yuan looked down at the back of his hand and saw a cut running across it.

But thankfully, the cut was not wide enough to damage any arteries, which made Shen Yuan sigh in relief.

The massive wolf was already up on its feet by the time Shen Yuan landed. Its eyes gleamed with ferocious killing intent as it looked at the human that injured it.

"GRAWRrrr..." The blood coming out of its wound was a painful reminder of how it let a weaker being get better of it.

Shen Yuan watched the beast two times his size charging at him and lunged to the side using ’Silent Reaper’s Step’.

’If only it were nighttime.’ Shen Yuan clicked his tongue as the tree behind him was cleaved in half by a blade of wind that was almost invisible.

While moving, he collected the metal wire he had dropped to get away from the beast. All this time he kept dodging the claws of the beast.

The beast was faster than Shen Yuan, but it only had the brain of a beast and only attacked straight up.

It did not take long before Shen Yuan memorised his attack pattern.

’Now it’s time I take the lead in this dance like a proper gentleman.’ Shen Yuan suddenly jumped on the branch of a nearby tree before disappearing into the dense forest.

The scarfaced wolf lay there on the ground breathing heavily while blood seeped out of its wounds and watched the massive beast disappear behind it.

Woosh!

The massive wolf might have run after Shen Yuan into the dense forest, but it did not take long before it lost sight of him.

The beast came to an abrupt halt before roaring in annoyance. It looked around and sniffed the air, and soon it caught something and snapped its head in a certain direction.

There it saw a single drop of blood lying there on the ground.

And there was another one a few metres away from the previous one.

A predatory snarl escaped the lips of the wolf as it ran after the trail of blood like its life depended on it.

The blood trail went straight ahead before it took a sudden turn to the right.

Thump! Thump!

The trail kept going, and so did the beast, until it could see a familiar clearing where it had just come from.

"Awoo!" By now, the beast had lost quite a bit of blood, and it was already frustrated from running around so much, so when it saw Shen Yuan standing behind the last tree, it growled under its breath.

The air around moved faster and more sharply. The current kept charging; blades of wind started to take shape around his body as it ran forward.

The beast lunged into the air and threw the attack straight at the tree Shen Yuan was using as a shield.

Boom!

The cluster of blades exploded like a tornado, and the scene Shen Yuan had seen before reappeared again.

Half of the clearing was blasted completely while the other half was torn to shreds from different angles.

The beast landed in the centre of it all; its huge paws were resting right above the remains of Shen Yuan.

Or so it thought...

When the beast looked down, it realised that what it caught was nothing more than a piece of Shen Yuan’s servant robes.

"Awoo—" Just as it was about to let out another howl, a blur came from the side and threw the beast on the ground, rolling along with it.

Before it realised, the massive beast was lying with its back to the ground and the scar-faced wolf above it.

"Grrrr..." With a howl full of grudge, it bit down at its wounded neck from the side.

"Heavy Axe Slash, Bitch!" Shen Yuan did not stay hidden for long and appeared above the two wolves.

Twisting his upper body, he stabbed the axe vertically down its neck, harrowingly missing the scarfaced beast.

Splurt!

The Axe entered through the edge of the cut he had already made and managed to cut the carotid artery in the beast’s neck, killing its life eventually.

The blood splashed on Shen Yuan’s face, which was grinning in delight. But the grin faded the moment he realised the beast had died.

"Who would have thought that you would fall for the same trick twice... Well, I did." There he was, standing still on the dead beast’s chest, his naked body with blood all over it and his axe.

"What?" Shen Yuan wiped the blood of his eyes and lips before turning to the scarface demon that had rolled to the side when Shen Yuan came crashing down. "I called the name of the attack out loud just for you. Don’t look at me so begrudgingly."

He jumped off the body and landed on the ground casually, storing the axe away with a flick of his fingers.

He walked towards the wolf that was as bloody as he was, but it was covered in its own blood.

"I must say, you have the makings of an assassin." Even though the wolf was looking at him with vigilance, there was little to no killing intent in its eyes.

Shen Yuan patted his fluffy hand and gave it a good rub. "Who’s a good boy?"