31 Hunting

Just like they promised, the group met up at the C-Class Student-Only section of the Thunderbolt Forest. The weather was like usual, calm from wind and clear from rain.

"The weather is nice like always." Qian Fei said, looking up into the vivid blue sky.

Perhaps it was the doing of the high elders but throughout their couple of months of living in Thunderbolt City, they had never seen a drop of rain being poured from the sky.

"I have already asked a few students, they told me a place where we can have a high chance of encountering beasts that has Vine or Healing element." Dong Zhou then pointed at the half-folded map of the forest.

"Mhm, we will follow you then." Xiao Yang nodded. Dong Zhou was more organised and smarter than he initially thought, he knew that Dong Zhou had been trying to get himself onto his good book but Xiao Yang had kept his guard up just in case he turned out to be like that traitorous Tan Ping.

They followed Dong Zhou to a sacred looking area in the forest, there were many different types of beasts roaming around and some of which had the same elements as Fang Qiong and Qian Fei.

Together in a team effort, they quickly hunted down the beasts that had the compatible elements, unfortunately, there were only a few of them. At the end of the hunting, they only managed to obtain 4 C-Class Vine Elemental Beast Cores and 3 C-Class Healing Elemental Beast Cores.

"It seems like there ain't any more left in this area." Qian Fei sighed, she then asked, "Brother Zhou, do you know any other places that we might be able to hunt more?"

Dong Zhou shocked his head and replied, "I'm sorry, I this is the only place I know."

"Alright, we should make our way ba..." Just before Xiao Yang gets to finish his sentence, a purple vortex suddenly appeared out of thin air in front of him.

Fang Qiong looked at Xiao Yang, no idea of what he happened, she asked, "Xiao Yang are you okay?"

"Guys look behind you." After he said that, they all turned around and saw the same vortex as Xiao Yang.

"A portal!" Qian Fei shouted in shock.

Qian Fei looked at it for a second then asked, "Should we attack it before it before the monsters get released?"

Fang Qiong inspected it then said, "From the looks of the energy being given off by the portal, it should be a C-Class."

"I don't think we should, we only have two C-Class mages and two D-Class mages. Attacking a C-Class portal would require at least the power of five B-Class mages." Dong Zhou explained.

"Xiao Yang, what do you think?" Dong Zhou asked, the rest all turned their attention to him.

Xiao Yang thought, "With my C-Class King Tier weapon, killing regular C-Class beasts should prove easy, but if a King beast appeared like last time then things might get out of hand."

Xiao Yang gave them all a silent stare, then finally decided to say, "Let's attack it."

They all looked worried after he said that, but Xiao Yang quickly took out three coins and gave them each an A-Class elemental coin. "This is an A-Class elemental coin, with this we shouldn't have any problem attacking the portal even if a King beast appeared."

They all thought about it for a few seconds then all nodded in agreement.

Seeing that Xiao Yang said, "Alright then since no one disagreed, but we all must stay close and be on our guard at all time."

They all went inside the portal with their weapons drawn. They were quickly teleported to a new world, it was a large desert and no matter which way you look, there was only an endless stretch of sands.

Luckily the purple vortex was still there so if they needed to, they could easily just teleport away with it.

"Where are all the beasts and the portal core?" As soon as Fang Qiong finished asking that questions, the ground suddenly went into turmoil and a large amount of sand from the distance suddenly rises up the ground.

The sands eventually grey a hundred metres tall then it slowly slid back down onto the ground, revealing a hundred metre high up structure. The structure looked to be a large tower made out of sandstones, it was somewhat decayed and slightly damaged, but the structural integrity seems to still be standing strong. There were about 10 floors.

"It seems the Elemental Portal Core must be inside of that tower." Dong Zhou said while looking at the tower.

"Mhm, we should make our way they with caution" Xiao Yang started to lead the team to the entrance of the tower.

As soon as they got nearer to the entrance, the ground started to rumble again and two giant holes suddenly appeared at the from of the entrance and two large scorpions suddenly appeared out.

The scorpions had shiny shells and were well protected in every part of its body, there was no visible weakness.

The scorpions seem to have noticed their presence so it suddenly started crawling towards them. The distance quickly shortened and with their poisonous tails, they violently hatched it towards Xiao Yang and the others.

The speed was too incredible for them to dodge so Xiao Yang and Dong Zhou used their elemental weapons to block the attack.

-Ping... Ping

They both managed to successfully block the incoming attacks but due to the force being exerted by the scorpions, they both got knocked back a few metres. Fang Qiong and Qian Fei were behind them when the scorpions attack so they too got pushed back by the force, luckily the ground was made out of sand so they weren't seriously hurt upon landing.

Xiao Yang's C-Class King Tier weapon was left with a slight dent on it, while Dong Zhou's super-fin sword was left unscathed, his sword was an A-Class King Tier weapon.

After they got launched back, the group were forced to be separated into two, Dong Zhou and Qian Fei were now in one side while Xiao Yang and Fang Qiong were on the other side, both groups were threatened by a scorpion.

Up until now they still had no idea what sort of element the two scorpions associate with so they couldn't act bluntly.