Chapter 472: Appearance

Kai and the two girls began to kill all the magical beasts in the perimeter without any problem. The magical beasts started going into disarray as soon as Sofia defeated the ape anyway, so there wouldn't be a need for Kai to control them and order them to leave.

According to Kai, not many magical beasts would go to Belarus after their leaders died. In fact, the majority of the beasts returned to their nest, which was deep inside Moscow.

Kai already ordered the two girls not to chase them. Their mission was to kill the magical beasts to buy time for the army to retake all three countries. And Kai didn't plan to do more than that.

Roselyn felt a bit sad that there would be potential harm that those beasts might cause, but since she had gotten stronger, she had confidence in dealing with them in the future.

Kai then led the group to take on the next few magical beasts according to their schedule.

As one would expect from these elite three, they managed to complete their objective within a day. The intelligent beast never stood a chance and died in an instant while over five thousand magical beasts died under the onslaught of three people. And they didn't even work that hard.

Kai used those days to rest while learning more about Union from Roselyn. He even visited some of the attractions in Moscow, albeit the ones that were close to them.

After two weeks, Kai arrived in the seventh intelligent beast's territory. This was when strange things started to happen.

Kai quickly understood that this beast had abnormally prepared his attack as if he could see the future. Even Kai asked the two girls to proceed with caution.

Yet, the battle ended with so much disappointment. The beast couldn't even hold a candle on them and all his followers fled back to Moscow.

Suddenly, Kai found something that made him perplexed.

He stopped for a second and closed his eyes, listening to the surroundings. This caused confusion to Sofia and Roselyn, wondering if something went wrong.

Kai didn't explain anything and just listened to the sudden difference in movement. The magical beasts in the area suddenly stopped and gathered in an orderly manner. At the same time, he found that the magical beasts seemed to be approaching from outside his hearing range.

Their movements were simply unrealistic unless they had another one commanding them. In other words, there might be another intelligent beast that suddenly came to their place. But for what?

After killing the seventh magical beast, he understood that these intelligent ones didn't want to go to their opponent directly, so they kept lazing around their territory like how they were ordered to.

Kai didn't want to talk to them and killed them to prevent any confusion if the Union read his report. The moment they knew Kai had gone in his way toward the full-fledged protector, they would send all their armies to kill him first.

With this sort of limitation, he needed to see what kind of situation he was facing.

Suddenly, a few roars came to his ears. Now that he learned their language, he could finally understand what they were saying.

"Move, move!"

"We are going to prepare the best stage for those bastards."

"If we don't weaken these guys, those bastards will kill all of us."

Kai's eyebrows twitched, knowing that the magical beasts were threatened by them. He remembered when he first visited the Underground Nest and met a protector. At that time, the beasts followed their order, so Kai wondered if those beasts actually got oppressed as well.

Facing this problem, he didn't know whether to kill them or send them away. After all, whether humans or magical beasts, no one wanted to die.

He thought for a moment and sighed. "Either way, I can't afford to let a clue slip by that will mess the grand plan up for a few magical beasts whose name I don't know."

"Kai?" Sofia called his name when he opened his mouth.

Kai eventually opened his eyes and found their worried expressions. Kai simply smiled and assured them. "Don't worry. I can handle this. I am afraid we will fight against the protectors right now."

Sofia furrowed her eyebrows and looked at Roselyn. "Are you ready?"

"Yes." Roselyn nodded with a serious expression.

"There are three intelligent magical beasts coming to us. Hence, I want to eliminate them first, so they can't disturb us."

The two nodded as Roselyn asked, "What are we going to do?"

Kai pointed his finger at their right. "One of them is in this direction. You will find a wolf there."

He then turned to a different direction and said, "This direction has a bear. I will handle the last one. After killing it, we will return to this place to regroup."

Roselyn nodded and walked in the wolf's direction. "I will be going this way then."

Sofia shrugged and chose the last spot and planned to handle the bear. Other than S Rank Magical Beasts, he doubted they had a chance against them anyway, so it didn't matter who they needed to fight.

"Go!" The moment Kai's shout echoed in their ears, all three of them disappeared, carrying their own missions.

Kai quickly made his way to the last opponent, a deer.

When he showed up, the deer got flustered to see someone manage to appear out of his prediction.

His horn began to be covered by lightning, but Kai used his Sound Blast to arrive right before the deer's eyes.

The deer shot the lightning, but Kai had predicted it. He wanted to test his new strength but realized the deer wasn't worth it. Instead, he slashed the deer's neck in one stroke with his Super Sonic Sword, killing the deer in an instant.

Unfortunately for him, there was another problem he needed to face. He halted his steps despite being surrounded by angry magical beasts. However, Kai didn't even do anything because they knew Kai was too powerful to them and their leader had died too.

Before he could send them away, Kai furrowed his eyebrows when he felt two presences coming in his direction at a speed he had never seen before. Without a doubt, they were the ones Kai had been waiting for.

Kai didn't say anything and waited for them to arrive while looking at his front.

When the two figures, the clam and the anglerfish, came into his vision, Kai raised his sword and smiled. "Took you two long enough."

"Kekeke, you are still trying to act strong?" The anglerfish chuckled and raised the sword in his hand. "I'm going to chop you into pieces right now."

"Do you think you are capable of killing me? Instead of fighting, I'm more curious since when have you plotted something like this? From the way I see it, someone must have prepared this kind of plan to the point you would need to infiltrate the Union…" Kai narrowed his eyes and looked at the anglerfish to antagonize him since he looked to be dumber.

As one would expect from the anglerfish, he quickly shouted without any thoughts. "You… How did you know? We had done it so secretly that no one would have suspected it."

Kai smiled since he already got the confirmation. All he needed to do was to buy time for Roselyn and Sofia to finish so they could help him.

"You should see your formation again. I thought you were going to ambush me in the next spot, but it seemed I was wrong."

The anglerfish gritted his teeth. It was supposed to be the plan, but Kai took his sweet time to reach them. Unwilling to waste any more time, the anglerfish suggested approaching Kai instead of waiting. It wasn't like there were any traps they prepared other than themselves.

After careful consideration, the clam understood his intention and agreed with this notion. It obviously brought happiness to his partner. The anglerfish quickly summoned the remaining magical beasts around them to gather and go together with them.

Even though they were unwilling, the intelligent beasts didn't have any strength to protect themselves against these two people, so they complied and headed to Kai ahead of them.

Feeling that there was something wrong with the beasts, the two quickly made their way toward the killing zone where Kai had positioned himself to receive them.

It was then the clam started to think about what happened and why Kai would arrive before them without getting late.

His thoughts began to wander around as he couldn't care less about the information his partner blurted out, knowing Kai would just be a dead person after this. He gathered all kinds of evidence he could find in his surroundings and found that the beasts that followed the deer had yet to die. In fact, not a single beast had died yet.

Doubts started filling his heart as he remembered the past Kai would need a few hits to kill an intelligent beast. Within that time, the monsters should have attacked him and a few should have died.

The clam felt they needed to finish Kai as quickly as possible when he saw the wound on the deer's body. It was one clean strike, meaning Kai must have done something so powerful that the deer couldn't even protect itself for even a second to the point that no other beasts could react.

'He is buying time?' The clam realized what was going on and Kai's plan. It seemed they had underestimated Kai Carter's improvement, so the clam raised his shield and said, "We need to hurry to kill him."

Kai simply smiled and raised both swords. "If you're that confident with your restricted ability on land… Then, try it."