Chapter 196 Essences and Elementals
This chapter made its debut appearance via N0v3lB1n.
Using most of her wind blade techniques, Lucia beheaded a Sky Beast Stage Five-Clawed Rat, claiming the last visible kill.
"Tch..." Lucas gave an annoyed glance at her while she rolled her tongue at him.
'A competition?' Davis thought but then shook his head, "You guys still left one..."
*Clang!*
He threw his spear and it stabbed through a hidden Five-Clawed Rat, nailing it on a broken building.
It flailed around, squeaking in terror as the lightning turned it into a fried rat, giving off a mildly cooked aroma.
"No fair..." Lucia quietly muttered and pouted as she looked away while Lucas heartily laughed.
"You two would have gotten heavily injured because of carelessness. Next time, be careful..." Davis uttered with a reproaching expression on his face.
They both then nodded seriously to him, leaving their playfulness aside.
The reason that they were so obedient to him? While traveling, they had already challenged him to a duel one day using only Body Tempering Cultivation and lost badly.
"Lucas, last time I didn't give you the opportunity to use water techniques on me, is that a Water Essence you've used?" Davis curiously asked.
"Yes! It's a Peak-Level Sky Grade Water Essence, Corrosive Aqua Droplet!"
"Uh... Unless he wants to become useless, I guess it isn't worth it." Davis scratched his head wryly.
These people talked about having elementals as if were roadside vegetables, ripe for the taking.
But, he was glad that he didn't need to change his Lightning Elemental, Fallen Extinction Lightning for a new one. He decided to evolve it unless he comes across an even more powerful Lightning Elemental.
And for property change? He wasn't worried about that because he knew that Lightning was overbearing, and won't intermix unless tamed or was compatible with each other.
He then walked around the road collecting all the beast cores from the rat corpses by breaking open their heads while storing their corpses.
He did all this so he could make money, and get enough spirit stones to procure resources in the future to strengthen himself.
"Seems like we killed 383 of those critters and we still have to head to the underground cave to kill. We might face Spirit Beast Stage Magical Beasts; Fourth Stage Beasts there, so you two should stay here and hunt, while I go down and hunt, okay?" Finished collecting the beast cores and the bloodied corpses, Davis asked as he proposed his idea.
"No way! I'll come too!" Lucas shouted at him feeling determined and hotheaded like the teen he is...
Davis frowned after hearing his words. This was the optimal way he could think of killing those Five-Clawed Rats without facing any danger but it seemed like...
"Did you forget that I'm the leader, Lucas?" Davis released his battle aura, intimidating them into submission, "Your strength is too low to fight with the Spirit Beast Stage Magical Beasts!"
Lucas was taken aback from the powerful battle aura. His face turned ugly before he could only grit his teeth and accept that he was weak to follow Davis into the underground cave.
"Elder Brother, it's alright. We'll eventually grow stronger, and as Leader said, we'll only be a burden if we follow him, even endangering ourselves in the process." Lucia explained with a worried face.
She didn't even realize that she called Davis a Leader until her face turned red.
Lucas considered for a moment and hesitantly nodded his head, "Alright..."
Lucia heaved a sigh of relief, thankful that her elder brother gave up. She knew that her brother was competitive in nature, and realized that after losing to Davis his competitive spirit must have motivated him a lot to grow stronger.