Sensing the approaching danger, Sean turns back and punches with all his might.
King Kong Ironfist!
The man easily catches his fist.
Sean's eyes widens, he expected the man would smack him away, not capturing him.
"You underestimate your value." The man then punches him the stomach, causing his entire body to arc.
Sean vomits from the punch, gritting his teeth, he swings a left hook.
The man laughs and swings him around like a ragdoll, smashing him from tree to tree.
"Your strength is at the same level as a silver ranker but if you think that you can escape from me, you're terribly naive." The man slams him to the ground and then stomps on his face.
Sean's blood was rolling in a chaotic manner, he spits out blood.
"The headquarters will definitely reward for bringing you, hahaha! That impossible task actually gave me such a treasure, it wasn't really foolish after all!" The man laughs loudly.
ROAR! A dragon's roar was heard, then one by one, multiple mystique creatures starts gathering towards their location.
The man frowns, he then looks at Sean and the more he looks at him the hungrier he gets.
The infused bloodline within him is going berserk, he opens his mouth, only to forcibly close it with his hands.
"Stop using that charm skills of yours or your going to get killed." He warns.
Skills from humans are different from mystique creatures.
All human skills had to use spiritual energy while technique only use vital force.
Sean's technique and skills are more closely related to mystique creatures than humans.
This is why this man thinks this is a skill, realizing that Sean isn't going to turn off this skill, he clenches his fist and fires a powerful blow to the surrounding air, disrupting the flow of spiritual energy with his gold rank vital force.
This is one of the methods gold rankers created to counter skills as all gold rankers have their own skill after ranking up to gold rank.
His eyes widens when he sees that the charm skill is still active.
"Impossible!" He shouts, Sean suddenly moves, he twists the legs the man was grabbing on and stomps the ground with his remaining foot.
Caught by the surprise, the man sees him escaping with just one foot.
"Foolish!" He roars as he chases after him, Sean grins, even after his face was destroyed after being slammed and stomped, he was still grinning.
When he's already in front of the familiar presence, he turns off his charm skill and makes a middle finger gesture at the man.
"Hahaha! Is this your last defiance against me, I'll-" The man doesn't finish his words when a powerful presence descends from the sky.
Raising his head, he saw a large dragon looking down on him with a greedy gaze.
His blood runs cold, the blood in his body came from a powerful dragon-type mystique creature, it might be incomplete but it's still quite attractive to dragon-type mystique creatures.
ROAR! The dragon let out a loud roar and dives towards him.
The man curses and summons his two pet beasts once again.
The two sides engages while Sean uses this opportunity to escape into Golden Paradise.
He starts breathing rapidly, hiding in a territory besides a gold rank mystique creature.
He's injured and was using Intermediate Cultivation Technique to replenish his vital force.
[Completion of five elements in Beast World, it can now be considered as a small world and can now raise living beings up to iron rank.]
Hearing this, Sean feels all the trouble he went through is worth it.
A world that he can call his, he can also raise mystique creatures inside to sell or raise for consumptions.
If only he knows the method of creating a blood crystal, he would earn more.
Blood crystals can be used to help martial artists generate more vital force and vitality, increasing the speed of ranking up but only silver rankers and above can absorb them without any drawback.
The sapling takes one of his contract spot but isn't considered a mystique creature more so like a treasure.
[Juvenile Tree of Life (Refined into Beast World): An item full of spiritual energy and life force but can't generate sentience after a high form of life destroyed it's former sentience.
Endless Life Force: Generates dense life energy to Beast World. [(Can be upgraded with blood crystals.) (Skills that can be learned by the host: Heal, Instant Regeneration, Growth, Plant Absorb.)]
Spiritual Liquid Condensation: Generates a drop of liquid that contains pure spiritual energy. [(Can be sped up with spirit stones.) (Skills that can be learned by the host: Transforming spiritual energy into liquid mana.)
Spiritual Energy Absorption: Absorbs the spiritual energy from the atmosphere. (Speeds up the host's spiritual energy absorption but will decrease the host's cultivation speed.)]
As long as the sapling develops, he can learn more skills from it making him happy.
Heal (Unique): Using vital force and spiritual energy to condense a life force capable of healing physical injuries and increase recovery of vital force.
Unfortunately, this skill doesn't work on him but only on others as it's his own vital force and spiritual used to generate the life force.
He can only use Intermediate Cultivation Technique to regenerate his foot, if he wasn't that desperate, he wouldn't have twists his foot off, nor leave it behind.
"Wuk will like these plants." It's already late, so he decided to stay at the inner core.
Closing his eyes, he connects with Jasmine and Wuk to tell them about his plans without informing them of what happened to them.
At the outer core, after receiving the message, Wuk creeps towards Jericho and the others.
He had captured a large bear that is of peak iron rank, he wants to push these three to their limit and the only way he knows how is to introduce them to danger.
He bares his fangs at the bear causing it to run towards the direction of the three's camp.
Unaware of the danger, Jericho was watching Kommi cooks their meal for them.
"I can't believe that you're more useful than me in a battle in the wilderness." Missel complains.
The only reason why they managed to hunt this prey was because of Jericho, now she understands why Sean was adamant of letting the two trains.
"Too bad Komi is still not a martial artist if she was, hunting this would be much easier." The two understand just how formidable Kommi is.
Her talent is quite shocking, other than the abnormal Sean, she might be the most talented fighter they knew.
ROAR! Suddenly, their calm meal was interrupted by a loud roar.
A giant bear was charging at them.
Blazing Emperor and Golden (The wolf Jericho has, named from his dream of making it turn into gold using metal element) reacts quickly.
One soars through the sky and the other growls besides his master.
"F*ck!" Jericho curses loudly, he quickly reacts, throwing the two girls away, the bear might look big and clumsy but it's actually quite fast.
The bear raises its paw, realizing that dodging now would be too late, Jericho quickly takes action.
A jab to the face, his attack made the bear pause for just a split second but it was enough for Golden.
He pushes Jericho away, taking the blow for his master.
Jericho's eyes turns blood red when he sees, this, he charges at the bear, only to be stopped by Kommi.
"Let me go! I'm going to that kill that f*cker!" He tries to pry her hand away but she bites her lips and doesn't let go.
"Calm down, you fool! We need to regroup and attack!" Missel thinks that this bear was attracted by their smell.
All of them knows that humans are quite attractive for wild mystique creatures.
The bear turns its head to the direction of where Wuk is hiding, seeing it's captor's fangs, it roars at the five and charges.
The muscles on Missel's legs bulges, she dashes towards the bear and sends a flying kick to its face.
BAM! She was slapped away with one blow, she crashes on a nearby tree, injuring her internal organs because of the shock.
Seeing her splitting blood, Kommi's face turns pale, seeing this, Jericho grabs her and throws her away as he charges towards the bear.
ROAR! The bear swings an attack at him but he dodges it before hitting it with a spinning kick.
The bear wasn't hurt, it roars and raises its entire body before leaping at Jericho and biting his shoulder.
Skree! Blazing Emperor uses this opportunity to take the eyes of the bear, causing it to cry in pain and let go of Jericho.
Kommi dashes towards him but was too late, the bear smacks him away like he's some sort of broken toy, crashing into a tree just like Missel.
Her eyes reddens, not of anger but guilt, tears flows from them.
She wipes her tears and remembers the scene of her and her father talking about their family.
Something breaks from within her and she successful reaches iron rank.
She lets out a battle cry and dashes towards the bear and kicks its legs, when it tries to smack her away, she flexible stretches her body to dodge the blow and uses her hands to support herself before spinning and kicking the bear's neck.
Jericho was unconscious, the blow was too much for a newly broken through martial artist like him.
Missel frowns and orders Blazing Emperor to assist Kommi before running towards Jericho and waking him up with a doused of water.
AWOO! A wolf's cry appears and Golden has returned, it was limping but still glaring at the bear without fear.
"Is that really Kommi!?" Jericho was stunned, unfortunately, his words becomes jumble because of blood.
"Let's talk later, for now, let's work together to repel this beast!" She enters the fray.
Jericho grits his teeth, he looks at his pet beast and the two of them instantaneously made a decision.
Missel kicks the paw that was descending on Kommi away, he then kicks the jaw of the bear.
With its attention preoccupied once again, Blazing Emperor fires a fireball on it's remaining good eye.
The bear roars angrily but feels two creatures attacking it's two legs.
Golden and Jericho are now entangled in each legs, the former was biting with all his might while the latter was punching it with all his remaining strength.
The bear tries to shake them off but receive a fireball to the back and two kicks to its face.
Kommi and Missel were attacking at a coordinated manner, each hitting the bear where it's vulnerable at.
Wuk watching everything nods his head, he was no longer thinking of intervening, just watching them for safety.
The bear's body suddenly enlarges and its presence grows bigger.
"Berserk!" Missel shouts, the bear's ear twitches and swipes towards her direction.
BAM! Both Jericho and Golden blocks the attack, saving Missel.
"Ears and nose!" He shouts, the expression of the two girls changes as they dashes towards the bear.
BAM! Once again a simultaneous attack, this time, aiming at its two ears.
The bear roars, stunning them in their place, Wuk watching from afar scratches his ear, he picks up a rock and it starts to glow in metallic sheen.
SWOOSH! Before the bear can take a bite on Jericho's head, it was hit by a rock on its face, knocking it sideward.
Jericho notices this but not the two girls, for them, they only saw a light flashing before the bear was knocked to the side.
Golden bites the bear's nose, not letting go, causing the latter to shake its head to throw him off.
It charges without knowing the direction, it only has one thought and that is slamming the thing hanging on its nose.
"Let go!" Jericho roars, Golden lets go but the bear seems to had expected this and strikes with its paw.
If this lands, Golden might be killed, two figures dashes at the direction of the paw and kicks it away.