Chapter 38: Forest Bear

Chapter 38: Forest Bear

"How the hell can you miss its heart? It was such an easy target!" Rowan practically cringed when he saw Alex miss such an easy attack.

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"It's not my fault for being short! I can't help it!" Alex was rightfully embarrassed and slightly angry when one of his few insecurities was pointed out.

The bear was over 4 metres tall while it stood on its hind legs, how was Alex supposed to reach its heart.

"What do you mean short?? Just jump, you're an awakened for god sake." Alex's face went bright red when Rowan pointed out such an easy mistake.

'This kid has a lot to learn, that's for sure — even more reason for me to recruit him to the university.'

"What's done is done, just help me finish this thing off!" Rowan shouted at Alex from the back of the enraged bear.

However when he looked at Alex, he noticed the depressed look on his face.

He could see that he was looking at something he held in his hand, but he was too busy wrestling at the bear's neck to care.

'My dagger...'

What Alex held in his hand was his dagger... what was left of it.

In fact all he held was just a handle, with no blade attached to it.

The moment his dagger made contact and pierced through the bear's stomach, it melted into a goop on the spot, pouring the molten metal further into the bear's stomach.

"My dagger's broken!" Alex awoke from his depressed stupor, less than a second had passed since he heard Rowan's shout.

"So? Kill this thing with your fists!" Rowan didn't care though, he just wanted to finish this fight as quickly as possible and move on to the next one.

"How am I supposed to kill something 3 levels above me without a weapon?" When Alex spoke with annoyance in his tone, Rowan felt like he had a brain fart.

Alex just looked at him with a deadpan face while he grabbed his hand.

"You could've warned me." He said to Rowan.

"You could've been more aware." With that quick response, Alex returned to silence. He didn't want to admit it openly, but Rowan was right.

Just because the beast is dead, doesn't mean the danger is gone.

Thankfully, with his F+ rank body along with the increased strength he had gained by the absorption of the soul orbs, he managed to avoid any major injuries, only gaining a few bruises here and there.

"You fight so clumsily I don't even know how you've survived up till this point, didn't the federation teach you anything about fighting?" Rowan was genuinely surprised at how incompetent Alex was when he fought.

"Where I come from, people like me rarely make it back from the Primordial Expanse." Alex said.

"Oh."

With that, the conversation was over just as quickly as it started.

By now, most of the fights between the beasts and humans were already over.

The beast tide had sustained over 1500 deaths, with the remaining few hundred fleeing back into the forested wilderness.

While the human side had only sustained around 60 deaths overall.

Most of these deaths had been from when that minotaur-like beast barrelled towards the unawakened group of people near the city barrier. But with the prompt action taken by Wildblade and the other two D ranks, it had been killed before it could slaughter any more of the masses.

After that point, the other D rank beasts were weak enough that the D rank human trio could split up and deal with them one on one.

"Is it over?" Jones, the 12 year old F- rank boy, asked.

Just as he asked that, shouts and cheers came from all over the battlefield. Every adventurer no matter how injured cheered at their triumph over the beast tide.

"Now it's time for the best part. We loot!" Rowan commented with a wide smile on his face as he headed over to the beast corpses he and his team had killed.