Above a great hill,overlooking the magnificent mountains,Jester laughed in arousal while acting out an exaggerative display," okay.....",he said controling himself to say a coherent word," But you must remember that a student,cannot die here it would be against Oliver's will,and would destroy this institutes reputation",saying so in a teasing manner as if begging for it to happen.
Jester pulled his body closer to Iron Claw standing behind him,then moving from Iron claws left ,and right shoulder rapidly saying," will you take responsibility....","well will you".
Iron Claw scoffed and laughed," hah!!!,if the institute really respected Oliver's will they would except non nobles with displayed merit,his origins make it clear he had no connection to any of the noble houses at the time,if they can make exceptions so can I ".
Jester laughed then smiled," I had no Idea you cared so much for the poor,the weak, the defenseless,oh my dear saint, have you gon back on your words from just a minute ago,it seems you couldn't wait to display your golden heart".
" oh I remember, your no noble yourself,but at the same time your far from peasantry,is that why".
Iron Claw payed his comment no real mind,as he replied,"This is comming from one born from a fallen noble house",such a statement clearly caught Jester offgaurd showing a bit of real emotion,a complex confusion of sorts.
" In any case",jester smiled,and continued on with the conversation,"Although Oliver's origins are shrouded in mystery,with no apparent connections to nobility,some say his the son of a fallen noble house,that had long since passed,or his a bastard son,or a descendent born from the lineage of a powerful ancestor,In anycase being purely ordinary does not seem to be the case".
" Ordinary",Iron Claw scoffed," How can anybody chosen by the blade of heroes be just Ordinary","Although its been confirmed by the Great vampire hunter himself Oliver's blood reeked of peasantry".
"As for the kindness of my heart,if you wish to test that theory you may stay,and find out, if not Scram!!!".
The way Iron Claw spoke sent a shiver down Jesters spine,"well anyways I have better things to do,it was nice catching up",Jester said as he turned around entering the doorway,while waving his hand to the back.
Meanwhile Siegfried was being chased by three eyed big nose Monkeys,or simply known as Asura monkeys.
These monkeys had four arms,and were very muscular,with white spiky hair,on their head, cheeks,back,some on the chest,the groin area including the waist,the tail,above the feet,and hand,most of the front of their bodies were hairless,showing off how muscular they were,with a clear distinct feature being their three red eyes two horizontally leaning,and one vertically inclined.
Their teeth were yellow,and dangerous especially four in specific two at the top,two at the bottom located at the very edges of both horizontal slopes,a bite left a deep wound that could rip off an arm or cause intense bleeding.
Now imagine being hunted by an entire troop of them consisting of a few hundred,well that was siegfrieds problem,he wore silver shining armor,and had a white cape drapped over him that gave off some similarity to a scarf,behind him was a shield,and lodged at its centre was a blade the two items came as a set other than that he had a leather pouch by his side,and wore a pair of Gauntlets.
The speed of the monkeys as they jumped through the forest was simply terrifying as they seemed to just slip through each ,and every opstical in their path,their legs were like arms that they used to grab hold of the branches,perfectly distributing their weight or spinning vertically as they held the branches.
A form of attack they used,was that they Threw small rocks they collected from the ground at their opponent with the force,and accuracy to cave in a human skull.
The other thing was their saliva once out of their mouth,and in contact with the air their saliva would harden in less than a second ,and turn into an extremely hardened stone they spat this out with enough force,and speed iquivalent to that of a machine gun, leaving dents in trees or demolishing them entirely.
And they did so with precision something they were taught naturally as children,and practiced till Adulthood meaning each adult was practically a master marksman,while carrying naturally,built sniper rifles,and amo.
Two of their arms were almost always crossed near their stomachs centre,while the rest of the body remained active,and depending on the species,and location where Asura monkeys were found,their two sets of arms were not all uniformed.
Meanwhile Simon was in his own sticky predicament his opponent was a thunder hunter bird a creature with the appearance of a road runner,and an ostrich with a beak larger than a krane with the need to peck at its opponent as if it desired to closely mimic a wood pecker,it was a deadly opponent to face.
As a thunder bird it fueled itself on lightnings,electrical current,and could create small storm clouds that could then effect the entire weather system,it attracted lightning as if it was a living lightning rod,and when a lightning storm began it would chase after the lightning in order to position itself at the correct place just to get hit.
This one in particular was mostly green in colour with purple mixed in certain standout areas,making it look beautiful, it's beak a signature yellow colour that shined like gold other parts of its body seemed to be covered with gold powder especially it's feathers,it's talons were like polished steel or iron each flick could rip the air itself.
At this time Simon wore silver light weight armor,that had less metalic armor plates,and more brown leather,having small brown leather pouches filled with Silver daggers,and a red Scabbard with a silver sabre inside,black pants,a shirt,with silver poleyn,and silver winged thunder boots,while sporting a short pony tail hairstyle.
The creature had strong powerful attacks its beak stronger than steel,it's jumping capabilities were at an exaggerative level reaching up to a hundred metres,it had no arms but powerful talons that would rip almost anything to shreds it's speed it's jumps,and ability to dive bomb while taking minimal injuries were too scary.
On the other hand yulang rested above a huge Rock in a meditative position,Inviting, no daring every creature around to a challenge,a dual of sorts as he unleashed a strong aura causing most animals stalking him within those very forests to cower in fear,and or run.
He wore lamellar armor,with baggy pants,and warrior boots,and held his hair in an upward pony tail,throughout his journey alone he encountered nothing but small fry,that he handled with ease,it seemed to gain him a reputation among the small hunters of this part of the forest as they intentionally avoided him.
But a few minutes into his meditative rest,a true challenge appeared before his very eyes.
Before him flying mid air,while flapping it's wings on one spot,was a winged tengu,tall in stature,unlike regular tengu with red skin,it had pale skin like a polished pearl left within antarctic ice,with faint reddish pinkish blush on its cheeks,and slightly pointed nose,while having long white spiky hair that reached its waist,standing above it's eyebrows in a slightly curved manner were two pointed horns,blood red in color that were only a few centimeters longer than that of a goats,its eyebrows were white taking on the shape of flowing clouds,its wings large,and feathery white its eyes crimson.
The creature wore a set of lamellar armor,and had two katana like blades sheathed, and strapped near its waist.
It's appearance differed greatly from normal tengu,normal tengu besides being large had the stature of a dwarf each body part seeming compact,their arms long ,their legs short with a blade that was more than double the length of their entire body,using their bird like feat as a way to fight with the blade.
But this was clearly a tengu chieftain,the natural highest evolution a tengu had,second only to the unattural gift of an alpha position,tengu went through three states,a tengu footsoldier,a tengu Warrior,then a tengu chieftain,each having a vast difference in strength,and intelligence with each leap from each other,and with each leap they grew taller more sturdy,and were more humanoid in appearance.
The chieftains were unique,having unique appearances,that were simply random some maintained their red skin but it was not uncommon to find one almost completely altered only maintaining its core aesthetics.
Having more limbs such as four arms,more eyes,more wings,or unique abilities such as constantly being on fire,or bending space was something that could be expected from chieftains.
And yulang was no idiot,understanding the gravity of the situation when his aura was immediately contrasted by the tengus aura upon arrival,caused yulang to smile,as a bead of swet dropped on his face," to think the institute were able to capture such a powerhouse of a beast, just incredible".
The feeling of biting more than he could chew swelled within yulangs heart,but at that moment he smiled Omniously with excitement," Your!! what I want",he yelled in excitement, his face like a man gone mad.
Meanwhile in another area it was nothing but chaos,as Harrods group were frantically running through across,and under the trees within the dense forest,as something moved within it like a shadow jumping from one tree to another,but the creature itself was a dark blur to onlookers,only its black feathers remaining trailing behind its swift speed,left behind to be blown by the wind,it's movements wild but carrying strategic intellect as if hurding cattle.
While running Harrod was the fastest,and he had the best sensory,perception magic mastery out of the group that made him capable of seeing far distances,and tracking any danger,making his team fall back,and allowing him to lead the direction they were heading in.
Attempting to slow this creature of unknown level with projectiles was completely idiotic to them as it would slow them down.
But at the same time they knew they could not outrun this thing forever,and it was possibly fooling around,toying with them.
At the same time Harrod saberclaw stilinski,was the best out of his three man cell,and had rightfully dominated his two subordinates mentally to claim the title of leader, so ofcourse he had a plan,and that was to lure the creature into an open space to better deal with it.
All they needed was to stall it,or trap it,they had no intention of killing,capturing or inslaveing this creature to them it was way too big of a threat,they had already lost the mental battle demoralizing them.
At this time they had no idea of the hidden teleportation circles scattered throughout,and using luck to search for one while being chased had too many problems,also the group frantically running could be considered them using luck to find those circles anyway.
"Lincoln!!!",Harrod screamed as his friend stumbled ,and fell," Damn it!,these things can't kill us right,right!!,so why is my heart racing,why am I feeling such killing intent from that thing",Harrod remembered an unfortunate encounter when two,bladed sword beak hawks managed to wound them,and drew blood against them,at this point death was a possibility his mind contemplated.
Lincoln was quickly brought to his feet by Pontus,as the two finally reached open space running to its centre slightly panting,as they surrounded each other in a circle formation,fully geared for a battle.
Surrounding them was an incirclement of trees,and the creature had already reached those surrounding trees as it began running around them these trees unlike others were normal sized,and were not too far spaced.
As time flew by with each moment,came a drop of swet,and with each drop of swet the groups heartbeats increased rapidly from the stress ,and adrenaline of it all.
Near the hands of each of the groups members were magical arrays they were as ready as they could be.
The creatures swift movements caused air to shift,and in a matter moments a howling whistling burst forth,attacking from the groups right hand side Harrods eyes were wide open sensing,the danger.
Knowing that the creature would probably be vastly superior in speed compared to them,Harrod devized a plan his superior sensory abilities gave him a type of precognition,so in this case he could tell when the beast was coming,and all his friends had to do was sense any change in his emotional state,and react accordingly.
And it worked before the creature could reach five feet from them,harrod twitched,Lincoln felt this,and had already layed out an array beneath their feet simply activating it,"spiked crucifixion",large Earth spikes protruded from the ground with tremendous speed,and ferocity like a great white shark attempting to close its jaws.
The creature that had once adorned itself in black seemingly propelled itself backwards mid air jumping on the very tips of the wall of spiked Earth with just enough gentle force that even when it's foot touched those very spikes it could not generate enough focused force to Pierce through its foot.
But at the very least they caused this creature to retreat,a few 50 or so feet back," its humanoid in,shape it's killable",Lincoln replied as his Earth manipulation was a success.
Meanwhile harrods thoughts were in a small frenzy almost biting his lip,he knew for sure that many creatures evolution routes caused them to become more humanoid in shape.
Meanwhile pontus would not take this opportunity lying down,summoning a great Tornado of water,that covered the entire group," water Tornado",infact this was a standard spell within a path,but because pontus had no formal training in one this was a less efficient less powerful version.
He then added another spell on top of this,the Tornado provided defense but the attack was just coming,arrays appeared in multiple areas across the swirling Tornado of pure water.
From these arrays dragon heads made from pure water appeared,then shot out like a jet stream curving,and twirling moving as fluidly as the brush strokes of a master artisan painter.
Each one of these faces shot out ,and immediately targeted the humanoid creature,these had no lower body but were heads made of water connected to a pure stream of concentrated jet stream like water with enough pressure on them to cut steel like butter.
The creature had finally begun to show it's true pale face under that conical straw hat,its smile giving off an eerie vibe,looking as if it was truly savoring this Battle.
It's movements swift yet stationary for most of the battle,simply moving from left to right in one area waiting for these dragon heads to come to it while making short swift movements cutting each dragon head one after another.
The dragon heads attacked him from multiple directions,and when they were cut they could easily regenerate,the creature laughed becoming faster,and faster eventually deciding to take the fight to the spells creator as it jumped on the dragons heads,and ran on the 3 feet wide stream connecting the heads to the spell.
This spell was extremely dangerous as each time a head was destroyed it would blow up into droplets of water so dense,and powerful when they fell they would dent the very ground beneath.
The spells name," jet dragon formation",but the creatures speed was incredible avoiding each droplet even though they moved at faster than sound speeds,the Complexity,and control needed to pull off the spell alone required an array.
At this point the initial trees that surrounded them were destroyed or partially destroyed as the creature used them as stepping stools,being the cause of the dragons attacking them.
The caster at this point began to pant this took too much out of him harrod analysed trying to find a weakness but to no avail.
Finally a direct attack attempt occured as the creature proppeled itself blade in hand delivering a directing thrust on the Tornado of water,the current alone attempting to drag the creature upward but it resisted with pure muscle.
Harrod knew this was their only chance," drop! it now!!" He yelled,pontus immediately dropped both his hands to ground touching the flour," Grand Tsunami ",as the water used to create the water Tornado Completely collapsed into an Outward spanning Tsunami with the creature at its centre.
As the water crashed on the ground the wave mowed through trees completely shredding or uprooting them,pushing them back.
Meanwhile Harrods hands glowed with orangish yellow fire,as he fired shot after shot," burning candle barrage",a stream of fire headed towards the creature as it seemingly smiled as the fire consumed it only for it to dissappear.
Lincoln not seeing this creature prepared for an attack, telekinetically raising pebbles from the ground planning to rapidly fire them at high speed,pontus was still gasping for air.
Just then a group,a murder of crows formed an incirclement around them moving at high speed,appearing from knowhere, Lincoln in fear began blasting the pebbles creating dents in the surrounding areas,Harrod burning the crows that appeared around him.
The Creature seemed to teleport out of knowhere delivering a kick that was as fast as shadow,only a dark blur being seen directly on Lincolns guts,followed by kicks to the legs joints causing Lincoln to fall stumble down slightly,then an upward punch to the chin,at this point a few ribs were broken,and Lincoln was left unconscious.