Chapter 267

They arrive at the gate and immediately sees multiple Fox Spirits guarding the gate in their disguises.

"Interesting, but if you want to stop me, you got to do better than that."

BOOM!

Suddenly, his figure zips pass through the gate without anyone able to react quick enough.

What left behind was a powerful whirlwind from his stomp.

In order not to cause so much destruction, he propels himself using the force from his ultra fast kick on the air.

"Oh no! Quick! Chase after him!" The leader shouts in panic.

Everyone quickly chases after.

After getting far away, he stops and writes something before pinning it into a tree and his figure seems to have merged into the environment.

The Fox Spirits searches for him but can’t find him, only after a while did they obtain the letter he wrote.

[Tonight, I’m going to hunt every single one of you, prepare yourselves, as long as one can survive from my ambushes, you guys will obtain a passing grade from me.

-Tester.]

Their expression turns serious, the leader immediately communicates with her group.

"Have everyone that are assigned to today’s mission come here, we’ll turn this place into a temporary base."

*****

The sun was slowly setting, the Fox Spirits had transformed the place into a place full of traps and warning devices.

"Sisters, tonight, we will be all tested, we don’t know just how strong our opponent is but we are sure that our goddess wouldn’t pick someone weak."

"That’s already certain! Hadn’t you seen how he bulldoze on our blockade on the gate? He’s definitely stronger than any gold ranker we know."

"Come on, girl, you should at least give your sister some face, she’s giving a motivational speech for us."

"I don’t care! I told her that we’re going to be tested today but she didn’t listen to me."

Her friends can only smile wryly, they can’t deny this, she really did warn them, unfortunately, there was no evidence earlier and it was only her gut feeling.

"Ahem! Everyone, we won’t take shifts, we’re going to be on guard throughout the entire night, be prepared to assist the group."

"Sister, I think we should hunt him, we are children of the night, after all."

Everyone turns to her.

"Don’t you all think that it was a mere coincidence that our test is assigned today."

She points at the sky. "It’s the full moon, the time when our strength is currently at it’s strongest, tell me, why do you think that the final test is happening at night?"

"It’s to test wether we truly are hunters or preys!"

"Admirable, you managed to see through my test so quickly, you have potential, my young child."

Suddenly, a voice appears on the head of every Fox Spirits present in the area.

They shiver as they look around but doesn’t see their goddess.

Jasmine was giggling, what started as a misunderstanding had become too interesting for her to keep quiet.

"For your quick thinking and sharp intellect, I shall grant you the power to confront the terrifying being that all of you are going to face, good luck."

Suddenly, all of them feel the power coursing through their veins and they can’t help but feel excited.

"See! My gut has never been wrong! Tonight, we’ll show our goddess that we’re the hunters not preys."

"You are a much better leader than me, I think I should relinquish my position to you." Her sister suddenly states.

She shakes her head hurriedly.

"No, I can only think things clear enough because I’m thinking outside the box, I can’t shoulder the responsibility while trying to analyze the situation."

Everyone thinks about her words and finds it a bit logical.

"We need to capture him, since our goddess has boosted our strength, that means that the mission change from protecting him to capturing him, we won’t hold back!"

"Really!? What if we fail because of this?"

"I don’t think you guys understand the current situation, it’s highly likely that the man we’re chasing is a divine guardian, probably martial grandmasters Bun Bun or Invincible Emperor Wuk."

"What if it’s dragon king Dorgagon, I mean, dragons are known to be able to transform into humanoid creatures."

"Hmm, I don’t know, is there anyone that has information regarding dragon king Dorgaron’s location?"

"I do, my sister is stationed on dragon king Dorgaron’s security, I assure you that it’s not him."

"Uhm, I think I know who we’re facing against." Suddenly a trembling voice startles everyone.

They turn to the voice and immediately recognizes her, after all, both of her sisters are famous.

Alpha’s and Margaret’s sister!

"I’ve heard from my sister that he has returned, the man known by everyone, the legend marked in our world, and the myth told by our enemies."

"The man, the myth, and the legend, don’t tell us."

"Yeah, we’re facing him, the god of our world, the child of miracle, the master of all divine guardians, his lordship, the almighty, Sean."

Instantly, the entire battleground turns silent, this information was too explosive for them.

"Hmph! Using information obtained from your two exceptional sisters is considered cheating but since you quickly deduced his identity, I won’t deduct your points but you must now undergo a punishment, every thirty minutes, seven of you shall go to the wilderness to try to hunt him, the event starts.... NOW!"

Without hesitation, seven of their elites dashes towards the darkness without hesitation.

"Don’t split up!" Seeing that they misunderstood what their goddess, the Fox Spirit that trusted her gut shouts at them.

The seven Fox Spirits that were about to split pauses and follows her suggestions.

"Thank goddess that they heard me, now, we should create a much more complete plan, since we’re facing his lordship, we don’t need to worry about being able to kill him."

"Go all out! Once we find him, we mustn’t hold back! We must show our teamwork!" Alpha’s sister immediately speaks.

Everyone turns to her.

"There’s only one weakness that I know of that our lordship possesses." Everyone was shaken by her words, even Jasmine frowns.

"He’s kind to a fault, too kind! He will never do anything that can potentially kill us, since we’re subordinates of his precious partner, he will definitely hold back, what we must do not just pass this test but also earn his recognition is to force him to use more power than he intended to."

Everyone turns to each other, they can see the visible excitement in each other’s eyes.

"If any of you can achieve this, I shall grant every single one of you extra blessings next month."

Jasmine’s voice once again appears on their heads, her words sent them into trembling excited foxes.

BOOM!

Unfortunately, they hadn’t completed their discussion when they heard an explosion appearing on the darkness.

"Oh no! They encountered him too fast! We need to check on their condition!"

"I’m going to-"

"Sister, no! You are our commander, your presence here is important, you should stay here!"

"You are also not fit to investigate, you’re the advisor, leave it to us." The remaining elites speaks.

There are forty nine of them that were assigned to protect Sean, they have more than enough numbers to even monitor an Innate but Sean is a different case entirely.

His existence itself is a considerable pressure for them.

Meanwhile, in the forest, Sean has just taken down two Fox Spirits when the remaining five summon a blast of white smoke to cover themselves.

They hadn’t even managed to see his shadow and two of their comrades had already fallen.

"Everyone, back-to-back! Now!" The strongest amongst them shouts as they quickly covers each other’s backs.

"We had underestimated just how silent the ambushes are, at least one of us must return to share-"

BOOM!

She hadn’t finished her words and was cut off, the ground beneath her caved in and she was pulled towards the hole.

"Disperse and attack!" Without even the command, they had already leap away from the ground.

BOOM!

Balls of yin fireballs was fired into their earlier spot.

"Everyone be careful, his lordship is testing our vigilance and our reaction to ambushes!"

"Oh? You managed to actually discover my true identity without your goddess’ help? Well done! Your performance rating has definitely gone up but this means that I’m going to increase the difficulty."

Hearing his words, a chill appears on their hearts.

"Master is having a great time teasing my subjects." Jasmine, who was watching everything pouts.

"Let us see if my adorable little puppies can surprise him."

If they managed to pass with flying colours, she will definitely brag it to her siblings.

"One check!"

"Two check!"

"Three-"

Just as the third one was about to announce that she’s okay, she was knocked unconscious.

"Sh*t! Cause some commotion! We need reinforcement!" The three remaining Fox Spirits immediately bombards their surroundings with indiscriminate attacks.

"One, return to the gathering point! Send some intelligence back!" Screams number two.

Number four quickly tries to look after number one’s retreat but her leg was grabbed and she was pulled away, number two was also taken out, leaving only number one left in their entire group.

Suddenly, number one’s leg was tied by a vine, her expression changes as she turns into a puff of smoke, transforming into a fox, then, returning to her spirit form.

More vines were thrown towards her, she opens her mouth and fires a large fireball, burning all the vines.

She lands on the ground but it caves in, her expression changes, her tail grows longer and stabs the walls of the hole.

"Too bad." As a voice appears behind her, darkness covers her eyes.

When the second batch appears on the scene, they only saw seven of their group knocked unconscious.

"Bring them back to the camp, they can be considered as taken out." A stone with letters was left behind.

They can’t help but feel the heavy pressure descending on them after learning the abysmal result of the first group.

Returning back to their camp, they brought the news of the seven individuals being knocked unconscious.

"Let them stay on the back of the camp, don’t let them interaction with anyone, they are now considered as "dead", in a battlefield, the dead can no longer speak."

"We need to make a plan, there are still a few minutes before the second batch his forced to hunt his lordship."

"Hmm? What’s this?" Suddenly, one of the Fox Spirits that were transporting the eliminated ones was surprised to find one of the fox spirits actually writing something using the yin energy and spiritual sense that’s unique to them.

[Ambush test, don’t separate!]

The person that written it was number two, just in case if number one fails to deliver the message.

"This, I didn’t expect that Rain would be able to send back a message even after being eliminated."

Everyone was surprised while one of them was clearly more excited than others.

"This is great! We already knew that we are going to get ambushed but we now found our a way to reduce the speed of our elimination."

"While hunting his lordship, we must watch each other’s back, we mustn’t separate even as we are escaping." Their commander instructs.

"We should check the area of the fight." The gut trusting Fox Spirit states.

"I’ll take ten members with me, we’re going to investigate and make sure that at least one of us can return."

"Be careful! This place is full of trees and shadows, it will definitely give his lordship many vantage points if he tries to ambush us."

The ten are fully alert when traveling, they didn’t even try to increase their speed, just walking steadily to the site, two individuals walking forward, two individuals at each side, three individuals watching their backs and one scanning the area in the center.

"Oh? Things just got interesting." Sean, who was watching their actions from a distance smiles in a cunning manner.