14 C-Class Portal

The village's population is made up of E-Class mages and the majority are children who haven't even awaken their elements.

"Xie Ying we must do something! They will surely die if we don't help." Zhou Xun shouted in panic.

Although both of them are B-Class mages, fighting against a C-Class portal would require the power of at least five B-Class mages. Their combined power is still nowhere near enough.

Zhou Xun bit her bottom lip then said, "Alright we will join the attack team, you guys can join if you want."

They looked at each other then eventually they all decided to join in. They were all educated to know how dangerous a C-Class portal can be, but even still they decided to join in.

At the entrance of the portal, there they found a group of people composed of E-Class mages.

One man from the group came and spoke to them, "Friends, could you please help us in closing the portal."

The rest of the people looked at Xiao Yang and the others, waiting to hear their response. They knew that they would need as much help as possible to stop the portal from unleashing destruction to the town.

Xie Ying looked around before replying, "Of course, how may we assist your team?"

Everyone was bought to joy after hearing that, they were able to sense the power of Xie Ying's team. They believed that with their combined power, they might just be able to close the portal.

"We have sent a team of scouts inside but half an hour had passed by already, yet none came back. So we fear the worst has happened to them." Said the man shaking his head.

After a short pause, the man continued by saying, "We are about to go inside now, it would be great if you could also join the attack."

"Okay," Xie Ying quickly replied.

They all entered the portal one by one. Once inside, they found themselves in a cave and a tunnel that leads deeper into the cave.

There were rows of dense flowers growing on the side of the tunnel, they released a blue light that illuminated the entire tunnel.

Once the flowers are picked, they lose their glow and turns into stone, making them useless to be used in alchemy. Not even Light element mages are able to make use of it.

Xiao Yang turned around to look at Qian Xian who didn't seem to have any weapons on her. Holding the C-Class armour ring up, he asked, "Mum put the ring on, it will keep you safe".

"There is no need, your mum is a C-Class mage." She smiled and patted him on the head. It was embarrassing for Xiao Yang in front of all those people.

As they ventured further into the tunnel, they found dead bodies scattered across the floor, they were confirmed to be from the scout team.

Their skins were gruesomely torn apart and with bones bulging out of the surface.

"This must be the work of a killer-wolf" A mage exclaimed.

"Killer-wolf?!" Many of the mages shouted in unison.

Killer-wolf looks just like a regular wolf, but their body is much bigger and their speeds are even faster than a regular wolf. They normally hunt in packs, they are known for their gruesome ways of torturing the victims before killing them.

The mages were visibly shaking right now, if they were to be attacked by killer-wolves then they would inevitably perish. They were struggling to kill E-Class killer-wolves in the past, so killing C-Class killer-wolves would be nothing more but suicide.

"What should we do? They could easily sniff out our scent and hunt us even in the outside world." A mage shouted.

"We have no choice but to destroy the crystal core. It's our only chance of survival." Xie Ying exclaimed.

She wasn't wrong, only by destroying the crystal core can they then escape and close the portal. If they don't destroy the crystal core then the wolves will be able to leave the portal after two hours.

While they were all dazed in their thoughts, a killer-wolf jumped out from the corner and its claws were headed right at an E-Class mage's throat.

"Watch out!" Xie Ying shouter, but it was already too late for her to help him.

Just when the wolf was about to slice the mage's head off, a humanoid figure emerges behind the wolf like a shadow with a dagger in both of its hands, the wolf realised something was wrong but it was already too late for him to retreat.

The two daggers stabbed right inside its sockets and eventually drove into the wolf's brain.

When the daggers were pulled out, blood started to shoot out from both of its sockets like a fountain. The body of the wolf soon fell flat onto the floor and its life force completely exhausted.

Everyone looked towards the humanoid figure and that was when they realised that it was a young man who came into the portal with them.

"Xiao Yang!" The group departed from DongHe city recognised him.

"Did he just killed a C-Class killer-wolf?" They all thought the same but the fact was right in front of their eyes.

"Their weakness is their eyes" Xiao Yang explained.

"Brother Chen, your reaction is too good!" Qian Fei complimented him.

Xie Ying was totally shocked by what she just saw, a C-Class killer-wolf was easily killed by a D-Class mage, not even she could have guaranteed to be able to kill that quickly. She thought to herself, "How can his reaction be so quick? Could he had already detected the wolf's present before it attacks that mage?"

Xiao Yang was indeed able to detect the presence of the wolf way before it even attacked, right now he is able to detect another three killer-wolves coming towards their direction.

He is able to take out one wolf at a time but three at the same time would be near impossible with his current strength, so he alerted the rest of them, "There's another three coming!"

Everyone quickly held their weapons and line up in a defensive formation, a minute gone by, but they still couldn't detect the presence of any beasts.