Chapter 875: The Dragon and The Tiger
"What?" she gasped, "What's your problem?" The beast girl took a step back.
"Matilda refused to participate in such stupid hunts?" He took a step toward her, and she backed away even more.
"She would be hiding in the bushes and waiting to attack, large beasts need to be taken down in teams. Sneak attacks are almost useless, you can't deal enough damage." She was almost about to cry, no matter how powerful she was, Arad still towered over her, and he was still carrying Lyla and Roberta.
"I heard she was too loud for an ambush hunter." Arad stopped walking and stared at the beast girls, the ground around him started shaking, but it was only her knees losing power.
"We ambush smaller prey that could be taken with a single attack, like deer and elks." She mumbled, "Matilda always charged forward against those. She charges against the weak, and hides from the strong."
Arad nodded, "I see, so she wasn't a failure, but the only one here with a brain over her head." He glared at the feathered Death Jaw corpse, "One hit will kill any of you here. This isn't a monster any of you should be fighting, let alone kids."
Arad turned, "Let's get back. I'll test something." Arad walked with them to the village as Gorarin and the rest dragged the corpse of the feathered death jaw. Zara was waiting at the gate, "Gorarin, I've heard you've gone to hunt a Death Jaw..." He looked behind them to see the feathered Death Jaw, "What a massive catch, to think you caught it in just a few hours."
Gorarin shook his head, pointing back, it was only then that Zara noticed the two women being strangely taller than everyone, and soon he saw Arad carrying them. "Wait...you hunted it!" He cried.
"I came across them about to get wiped out by its feathers so I killed it." Arad replied.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
"He didn't hunt or kill it, he kicked it to death, while carrying those two women no less. You didn't tell me was that absurdly strong." Gorarin cried.
Arad puts Roberta and Lyla down as they are within the safety of the village. "Welcome to the village of the tigers, it's called Iron Snake Lake." Arad pointed toward Zara's house, "Everyone else should be there."
"Father, Aron, what's going on?" Matilda approached them, "Wait...that's a massive feathered Death Jaw!" She looked at them, "How did..." She saw Arad, "Yeah...he did it."
She approached him, "Wait... who are those two?" She looked at Lyla and Roberta.
"This is Mira's mother, and this is a friend of ours," He smiled, "Zara, please guide them to your house with the rest. I've got something to do here." He looked back at the beast girl from earlier, "Come here..."
She slowly approached, "What do you want? I'm not apologizing."
"Of course not, your words are yours say whatever you want." Arad called Matilda to get closer, "You two fight. Let's see how you stack up."
"Is that what you wanted?" She smiled, "Of course, let..." CRACK! Matilda's fist landed on her face, sending her rolling on the ground.
the dragon's neck.
^With how strong I am, those kids probably won't make her a large enough opening to attack.^ Arad thought, ^Let's drag someone stronger into this fight.^ He lunged at Gorarin
with a clenched fist.
"Wait?!" Gorarin lifted his arms and blocked Arad's attack, but the impact sent him flying back, "Don't get me mixed in your game!"
"Come on," Arad looked at the adults, "Don't you care to show the young ones how to hunt a wild monster? Or are you only good for endangering them?"
"What did you say?!" One of the tigers growled.
Arad appeared right before his face, "I said, you can't hunt shit without risking the kid's life and using them as bait." He smacked him in the face so hard that he made him spin twice in the air. Tigers were surprisingly durable so that won't be so bad, healing potions exist.
It only took a few minutes for the brawl to escalate further, half the village was now trying to kill Arad, everyone ganging on him as if he's a monster that wandered into the village, and they were getting humiliated.
Soon enough, Arad started giving them advice and weapons, stopping at once, "You can do well at range, here, use this." He gave him a steel spear.
"Mana twist strangely around you, go learn magic." He lifted a girl up and smacked her on the
ground.
To Arad, this felt similar to how he handled the fighters' class, just beat them until they learned how to fight and get real experience.
Between all of the chaos, and from the rising dust and cries of the beast people, Matilda
lunged out from the shadows with a bite at Arad's neck, she managed to get in. Even she didn't realize, she had used all of her strength, that bite was intended to kill, all of her put
into a single attack.
Arad stood in place and started laughing with her hanging onto his neck with her mouth. "Out of the entire tigers' village, both adults and the young, the only one to reach me with an attack is the girl they ostracized."
It was that Matilda let go of his neck due to sharp pain in her teeth, she had cracked a fang on
his hard neck. He caught her in his arms, "Good Job. If this was a real hunt. You'll be the one coming with the kill. But sadly, I'm not a deer."