Chapter 167 - Established Team (4)

Hearing what Asil had said while looking at the person who had come in stunned, Hanzo answered aloud: "Ooo... So the newcomer is an acquaintance of the Boss. Since everyone's here, we can go now, can't we, Boss?"

"Hanzo, you really look like a vulgar caveman!" Serma sneered at Hanzo, then turned her head to Nyks: "Looks like you're the last one missing. Although you are an acquaintance of our leader on this journey, we do not know you, and since we will be traveling together, you must first introduce yourself."

While Serma was speaking, her voice harbored clear jealousy. Although she hadn't seen Nyks's face, she couldn't help but feel unintentionally defeated. She came from a noble family and had an influential status in the family of which she was a member. But she still felt defeated by someone whose identity she didn't know or whose face she hadn't even seen. This naturally caused a feeling of jealousy to form in her without her realizing it.

Nyks turned her eyes slightly to Serma and said "Nyks," quite simply and casually, and continued walking, coming next to Asil. Serma, who was already envious of this act of hers, couldn't help herself and called out: "Little lady! We will be a team on our journey, no matter how much I don't want to. And in order for us to coordinate well against the difficulties that may happen to us in the future, we need to get to know each other as a team. Just knowing your name won't make us coordinate well!"

Nyks turned her head towards her, stared at her silently for a few seconds with her cold eyes, and then spoke with an indifferent expression: "No need! It is enough that you know my name and that I'm here because someone asked me to help the leader of your team."

"Ladies, we don't need to offend each other before our journey. I believe that our current conversations will cause a bad prejudice between us. And that will have a negative impact on us for the future." Sherise intervened to ease the tension.

"Well... I am... I am sorry..." Mira avoided making eye contact with Sherise by slightly tilting her face, which was flushed with embarrassment, as she stuttered and spoke.

Unable to bear the conversation between them any longer, Hanzo said as he looked at the assembled members of the team with his shriveled face: "Huh? Which language do you speak? One of you is constantly apologizing, one of you is acting like a crone, one of you is overly polite, one of you hardly even says your name. Haaa... This is Yesnok Land! This is a battlefield! People who come here don't come to have fun! Get yourself together and let's hunt some monsters! At least that way you will come to your senses! Politeness, jealousy, shyness... It is all unnecessary, the only truth is, war!" Speaking proudly, Hanzo turned his head to look at Asil, smiled impatiently, and asked: "Boss, when are we leaving?"

After Hanzo's question, Asil, who started to think that undesirable events might happen between his team during the journey, sighed and spoke to end the tension in the environment: "Since we are all here, if there is nothing to say, we can set out now."

Even after Asil's words, Serma snorted contemptuously as she looked at Nyks, Hanzo grinned happily and remained silent while the others were in their normal state. After no answer came from anyone, the team finally set out in the direction they were going under the leadership of Asil.

Even after walking about a kilometer, everything was still dead quiet. But after a kilometer, the marching crew members abruptly stopped their pace as they shifted their gaze to the right. At that moment, a black shadow appeared from behind the black rock with many cracks on it, three people long, which was located on the right side, accompanied by a wild howl. This shadow threw itself towards Mira, who was at the far right of the team, as its sharp yellow claws emitted a cold light.

Surprisingly, it was just a low-level profound beast, the Wild Wolf.

In the face of the wolf that was thrown towards her, Mira remained motionless on the spot like the others. As the Wild Wolf jumped up to bite her neck, Mira suddenly took out a small sword from her Spatial ring, swung her right arm out of nowhere, and attacked the Wild Wolf's neck region with her sword. With only a single 'tearing' sound, the Wild Wolf's neck area was instantly cut off. After its body had advanced about a meter in the air and fallen to the ground amid the blood splashing around, its entire body trembled violently and then all the shaking stopped.

Mira tilted her head and looked at it, knelt slowly, thrust her sword into the ground, and said: "I am... I am sorry! Maybe you were just hungry. Maybe you needed to find food for your kids. But... But... But I had no choice but to do it. I was just protecting myself. I am really sorry. I hope you died painlessly and I hope you have a better life in your next life."

Except for Mina and Serma, who knew Mira's personality well, the others were looking at her with puzzled expressions, suddenly Hanzo's reproachful voice was heard: "Why?! My God, why are they only attacking them? Why isn't anyone attacking me? Why? I want to fight too! My God, send me someone too! I..."

"Uuuu..."

Hanzo's reproachful speech was interrupted by the sound of a howl coming from behind the black rock. Hanzo turned his head to look towards the black rock and saw the Wild Wolf, sticking his head up into the sky and creating wolf music. In an instant, howls began to come from all directions, and before long, ten Wild Wolves were running towards Asil and his crew from all directions.

A happy expression came over Hanzo's face. He shouted as he left the team a bit to get the attention of all the wolves and made all the Wild Wolves come towards him. Then it swung its limbs like a wild animal. Whenever the Wild Wolves came into contact with his fists or legs, they instantly died. In an instant, wolf cadavers began flying in all directions, and bitter cries began to echo incessantly. In just a few breaths, ten or so wolves had fallen scattered around Hanzo and became squashed disfigured wolf cadavers!

"Too weak..." Hanzo sighed as he looked at the Wild Wolf corpses around him. Then he raised his head towards the sky. "My God, I'm so grateful that you just accepted my prayers. But these were not enough. Can you send something stronger?" As soon as he finished his words, Hanzo, who was trying to look around and see if a new creature had appeared or not, sighed again as he saw that the environment was quite calm.

After surviving the sudden movement, the team looked forward, quickened their pace, and continued to head to the west side of the outer-central section of Yesnok Land.

Within the surrounding ten-kilometer area, there were simply profound beasts from the Elementary Profound Realm. After traversing the ten-kilometer distance amongst themselves quarreling, weak profound beasts' ineffective attacks, and rejecting the humans who had invited them into their factions, Asil and his team had finally begun to come into view, either alone or in groups of Nascent Profound Beasts. At the same time, the terrain became more uneven as the dead trees and low hills became denser and denser.

Just like the rumors, the profound beasts here were madly in love with nature. When they encountered a human being, they attacked as if they were facing an enemy that they could never coexist under the same sky. Since Asil's motive was not to fight them, although Hanzo was reluctant to do so, they avoided encountering profound beasts as much as they could during their journey and destroyed those they couldn't avoid. In this way, they were advancing without encountering much danger and surprise.

After traveling for several hours, Asil and his crew had finally reached the western part of the outer-central section of Yesnok Land. Unlike the regions they passed through during their journey, there was neither the howling sound of a profound beast nor the sight of a human being here. This place was like a dead piece of land with no one. The only sound was the eerie whistling of the cold, ominous wind as it swept deeper into the dark abyss to the side.

Asil looked around and looked for something that was different. This was the place where Solomon had asked him to come. Something had to be going on around here. Otherwise, this journey would have become completely pointless. As the doubts in his heart increased, the members of the team began to wait for Asil to speak. However, Hanzo, as always, couldn't wait long, and after about ten seconds he spoke: "Boss, why are we standing here? More importantly, why are we here? We have nothing to fight here."

"The purpose of my trip was to come here," Asil answered simply.

"Ha?" Hanzo looked at him with a strange expression. "But, there is nothing in this area... Boss, did you gather this team to come here? Hmm... Then are we completing the task? But we haven't even had any fun yet!"

"If you don't mind, may I ask if the monkey legend that used to be so popular in this region was the reason we went on this trip?" Sherise asked in a polite tone as he looked at Asil.

Asil nodded his head. Seeing his approval, Sherise glanced around and spoke again: "It's not for me to say, but if anyone among us has an item that has the ability to find valuable items, can I borrow this item? If the rumors are true, there must be something here. If there is something that we cannot see with our eyes, we help our teammate by finding it with the help of the objects.. Thus, the purpose of our journey will be fully fulfilled."