Set off

The rest of the girls returned by evening, and after some practice and dinner, the went to sleep.

Later, after a few days, all of hem gathered at their place of meeting, near Chen's place.

Chen had brought along his 20 friends, some of whom were silver ranks and would help a lot during this expedition.

Later Ye Hong also arrived with his group of about 18-20 and waited for Red's group.

Then after a while, Red also arrived with Du Ze, Jun and Ming and Ziyun, Ninger and Lanrou on the tow.

"Great now that all of us have arrived, lets check on with all the necessary stuff needed." Red suggested.

Everyone then crossed checked on all of their belongings and confirmed hey wer not missing anything.

Then they all did a check on the strength of the group.

Chen's friends, consisted of 11 Silver Ranks, with 5 Demon spiritualists and 9 Bronze ranks with 3 Demon spiritualists.

Ye Hong's friends consisted of 10 Silver ranks and 10 Bronze ranks, which contained 5 Demon spiritualists each.

Now for the main team,

Red was now at 4 Star Bronze Rank, with Lugia who had grown up and will be able to fight with

2 Star Silver Ranks

Ziyun was at 3 Star bronze rank, with Articuno able to fight 1 Star Silver rank foes.

Ninger was also at 3 Star bronze and Zapdos slightly stronger than Articuno.

Lanrou was at 4 Star Silver rank with Moltress same strength as Zapdos and Sakura sightly stronger, able to fight, 3 Star Silver ranks.

Du Ze trio was same as Ninger and Ziyun and will be able to fight 5 Star bronze.

Du Ze had selected spear as his weapon, with Ming using Lance and Jun using a spear as well.

Ziyun and Ninger were good with daggers and ranged fire, same with Lanrou.

Red was main at sword arts with Chen, Ye Hong being his sparring partners in the past.

Chen had reached 4 Star Silver ,same with Ye Hong and had some powerful beasts as their spirits.

After the Rank check was done along with weapons, said .

"Lets move out." Everyone cheered and moved out.

After exiting glory city, Chen, Red and Hong lead the group with girls just behind and Top fighters at the behind.

The group then moved through the forest area as they were gonna moved towards the Black Devil forest first, then from there head to the ruins.

Red had informed that they might face Fox Bear's as they were active during this time of the year.

They set their camp, away from the Devil forest so as to not get attacked by the beasts there.

At the night time, the scout team consisted of one leader, i.e. Red, Chen or Ye Hong along with 3 Silver ranks and one demon spiritualist along with same number of Bronze ranks.

Then during the night, Red along with the girls entered the realm and started practicing. They might encounter the Fox Bears tomorrow and Red planned on fighting with them to strengthen themselves before facing the guys in the ruins.

These Fox Bears were of Bronze and silver ranks, and moved in packs, so with the coordination of all, they will be able to hunt them without any causality.

The next day the group set out quickly and moved carefully under the warning of Red.

They soon came across trails of Fox Bears,

"Ok guys now be ready to fight anytime." Chen said.

All got ready to fight while moving forward carefully. After half an hour they spotted some Fox Bears who started to roar loudly.

"Get ready, they are gonna call their companions". Red said and took out his sword.

Then Red also released the birds, with Ziyun and the girls releasing their own.

The other's were awed by them, but calmed down as they knew autocrats had tamed beasts.

The group then split in 3 , with Chen's, Hong's and Rd's group.

The Fox Bears rushed towards them in large numbers of 100 to 150. These were mostly 4-5 star bronze ranks.

The three team split up with Chen's and Hong's on the sides and end with Red's. The two created the funnel and reduced the pressure finally letting the others head forward.

Red's group was positioned in the open ground with the 4 birds above. Red at the front with Du Zr, Jun and Ming.

The girls provided ranged support with elemental attacks and support. Red and Du Ze were the main attacks and Jun and Ming as support.

Lugia was fighting against the once attacking from the sides along with his little brothers.

They were working on their coordination more as these were hard opponents and sometimes they would beat up one opponent if it was of silver rank or higher.

They team would immediately store the corpses after the kill so as to keep the ground free for mobility.

After some time the numbers died down and the elder members of the beasts attacked.

Red and Lugia were facing against a 4 Star Silver Fox Bear which was twice the size as others, the girls were firing attacks from a distance and managing the crowd so as to not any other beast break their stalemate.

Red attacked and parried the bear with lugia attacking from above with its claws and energy attacks and restricted its ability with water attacks so as to prevent any big moves. It would also protect Red with its power if he was in risks.

Red's arm slowly started to feel numb from the attacks of the Fox bear who was badly injured.

The Trio birds were fighting against a pair of 2 star silver bears with Du trio as mains.

Red then finally landed the final blow with the aid of Lugia and ended the fight and went to support others.

After another hour, they were finally able to defeat the tribe , with some escape with the cubs.

This fight was more tough than they had imagined and some were injured.

The leaders checked their teams and collected the loots.

After checking that everyone was ok, they quickly left with the birds flying low to warn them about any threat.

Finally tired they camped besides the mountain route and check on each other.

The Birds stayed outside to enjoy the atmosphere here and help them keep an eye.

Red's team was fine with small injuries and equipment damage.

"We did good against them and fought with good coordination. We hunt down a total of 30 bronze ranks and 9 silver ranks". Red commented.

"Red will the fight be even more fierce than this in the orchid city?" Ziyun asked.

" Yes , the beasts there are gonna be even stronger, and we might also face Gold rank beasts." Red said

"Dont worry, we how have much more experience to handle the crowds of beasts." Red consoled them and stated all their good points and weakness which they all took down notes on.

After their discussions they went to the main tent where Chen and Hong were gathered.