"Another tribe down," Alros muttered. It had three weeks since the first day he entered Lunos Forest.
So far, he had slaughtered about 200 tribes of monsters for the last two weeks. Even the smallest of the destroyed targets have about 100 to 500 monsters with the strongest having monsters in thousands.
In the end, they are still slaughtered by him and his monsters for the SP. With all the monsters he and his monsters slain, he manage to get two 3rd Volume Grimoire; The Grimoire of Demon and Grimoire of Fire.
Both for one reason, to defeat the A-rank monsters coming after him. However, while he did have the Grimoire, understanding its content is another thing. While it is in the language that was used by every being in the world, it seem to possess an ability that prevent others from prevent him from skipping through it.
Basically, he needs to read the whole thing first before he could even reach the spell part, as there are a detail explanation of manipulation of the chosen Element as well as the best way of using mana while using said element.
While it is helpful, the pages it covered took nearly half the books, and it is a 1 000 pages, possible even more books. Grimoire does not come with contents apparently. So, he had to read all of it. The plus side is his manipulation of both Fire and Demon Magic become better by reading it.
It just hardwork plus understanding the content of the books took a long time.
"Maybe I hunt monsters and upgrade my body parts instead," he decided. While there are still other Grimoires of the 3rd Volume he could use, the Elements will not do much against woods and trees.
Instead of using it on Grimoires that will not be that useful until later on, it is better to use it on something that will give him a fighting chance against the monster that will come after him.
"Let see then," he connected to the Phantom Wasp, sent to surround him from multitude of distance. It is the best way for him to detect any approaching danger. Hopefully, the monsters, if they are more of them, would be as large as the Forest Drake.
At least it made detecting them would be easier. As he thought of possible A-rank monsters, birds soon flew from the distance. The demon took it as a sign and flew upwards, scanning the treeline.
Such thing did not last as another monster, one closely resembling a Treewraith except scarier and larger leapt into the fray.
Unfortunately, despite being the same race as the Treeman, Treewraith have one advantage compared to the other of their races, they are fast.
It took everything he had to dodge the tail swipe coming his way plus the occasional claws mixed in the attack.
While he could fight and maybe hold them briefly, doing so us a death sentence as he could not hope to beat one of them in time before the other three arrive. So, the only valid option is to flee.
Using Wind Magic and Lightning Magic, Alros speed up his running, using both element to boost his speed to a brand new level.
Seeing this, the deer quickly ran after him, the Treewraith trying to follow. As for the humanoid, it decided to use the Greater Treant as a moving platform, trying to shot him fro the distance.
As he was chase by the 4 monsters, he wondered who send them and where is the other one. He get the later answer when the Forest Drake leap toward him. It took everything he learned to dodge attack of such scale, the claws of the Drake trying to tear him to pieces.
"Looks like there 5 of you now," he muttered as he prepared for the worst.
With his opponents being 5 A-rank monsters, it took all his discipline to not scream in frustration, which is an understandable action when one is in this much danger.
The 5 monsters keep their encirclement though not as part as a strategy, but simply a thought process to prevent him from escaping.
The humanoid had nicked another arrow, aiming to the sky while the other make sure he is surrounded, unable to escape the encirclement as they slowly moved closer towards him.