33 The incoming misfortune for the beast

"Come on, let's get this beast down on his feet! Don't you all want to see a mighty Half-step Warrior kneel down in front of us, Human?"

A loud shout echoed across the battlefield. The voice was deep and heavy, truly masculine.

"Yes!"

Like soldiers, a troop of well-armed men shouted back. They had layers and layers of armour, but it all looked shredded. The soldiers seemed to be adept at whatever they were doing.

"Then let's push! Push till we get through this moment!"

Once again, the heavy voice echoed. It was as if a war-god was aiding the battle!

The way that the soldiers were scattered across the battlefield looked quite organised. They seemed to be trained in such arts.

The soldiers seemed to be forming a rectangle, with the furthest back having bows. they seemed to be enchanted with Qi to shoot faster and stronger. The front and sides had long spears and a shield. The battlefield seemed to be wet in some areas and completely burnt in others. It was also covered in dust and debris.

The soldiers started to push forward. They had blood red eyes and a temperament that was between angry and energized.

The dust started to clear, showing a giant tiger with large scales, claws and fangs. Just like the warriors, it also had blood red eyes. They were full of rage and aggravation.

"It's weak right now! It had just rained quite a while ago, that meant that this big guy only has the prowess of a Ninth Layer! He is quite vulnerable!"

The one who said that was Lard. He was the one with a deep and heavy voice. He had a tall frame and quite a large body, almost reaching 210cm! His shouts were full of testosterone and had a profound feel to it.

The beast started to charge up, it was ready to take a head-on collision. Before, the soldiers and the beast were playing cat and mouse, with the soldiers being the cat. Even if a Town head had witnessed this fight, he would give his nod of approval.

Only with experience and skill could they pull off such a risky move and be on top.

The soldiers had taken quite a beating from the beast. It was obvious they had used some kind of short-term ability that allowed a sudden strength gain for a short period of time. Most-likely, they would run out of steam after a couple of time. The beast had just been parrying the soldiers, never had he really started to use attacks that would consume a large amount of Qi. Such an obvious thing was even noticeable to the beast in front of them.

Right now, the soldiers were at the edge of running out of steam. They were exhausted and already felt their strengths fading away. The beast was now getting ready to take them head-on. It was ready to blow off the anger that it had.

"Look at his smug smile, he's mocking us! Do you want your wives, children and grandchildren see you at this moment? They would always idolise us to no end, but we can't even take down a dumb beast? Do you call yourselves men? You seem more like women to me!"

Lard mocked, still trying to motivate the remaining soldiers. Of course, most of the stuff that he had said was quite false and stupid. There was no way to call this a stupid beast, it had already figured out a strategy to counter them, an advanced unit. The beast was at least multi-talented in Enlightenment. He was never smiling in the first place, the beast clearly had eyes flaming with rage.

In the battle, the soldiers had discovered that the beast was actually 'multi-talented' at enlightenment! Enlightenment was a mechanic that was never really touched upon by commoners. Only the core parts would really know what and how enlightenment worked.

Enlightenment was indeed the step to ascend, but that was actually the last step before many! Enlightenment, for many, was a way of controlling the environment, or in other words: converting Qi into the core elements: water, fire, air, earth and void. There were more elements, but they were quite rare and found in less.

Having multi-talent was rarer than just 'rare'. It was found in one in a million! Taking into to account that there were many who were unable to make use of their talent, only one in ten million would actually become crowned the genius among genius'! After all, genius' always built their path by stepping on those who were at the same level as them. If there was nobody the same talent as them, was there even really an improvement?

While charging towards the beast, the formation had started to split up. The rectangle had now turned into two layers of neat lines. What had happened was quite clever.

The rectangle's sides had gone in and tried to surround the beast, trying to invert. The beast already known that shaking them off was useless, he had tried it many times before. If this formation was made by normal soldiers, it would be quite easy to break out of, but because it was done by veterans, this formation was almost unbreakable!

The enlightenment that the beast had was darkness and fire! It was quite weak since the atmosphere was wet and damp. It couldn't really channel its fire properly. The beast would usually use fire as crowd control to deal with insects like the ones in front of it, but right now, using fire would cause even more of a disadvantage.

"We can take it down!"

Lard yelled. It was surprising even to him. He would never have expected to gain an upper hand when fighting a beast that was at the level of Half-step warrior! Even in his dreams, such a thing would almost never be possible. Humans and Warriors would be like the difference between Heaven and hell! It would be almost impossible for a Human to talk at the same level as a Warrior.

But right after that, the beast had started to have a dark orb surrounding it, stopping any attacks that were launched its way.

"Impossible! It is a high-level Demonic Beast! It can change into a different form so that it can adapt to different elementals! Stop it!"

Lard blurted, his tone was hurried and his face was pale, not radiating as much testosterone as before. He seemed quite a bit frailer than before. The orb had already started to levitate.

"It's turning into a water type demonic beast! Hurry, before he heads inside the nearest source of water!"

And indeed, the orb was indeed heading towards a source of water, which was the Crossing Dragon Waterfall. It would forever regret choosing such a decision...