Mutant pangolin

We got into combat stance while the 6-foot tall pangolin stared at us with a murderous look, despite being trapped, she couldn't hold it any longer.

The first attack was mine, my goal was to distract the beast while Chen Ley and Hua Ting would be the main damage dealers until it couldn't take it anymore.

Seeing my approach, the whirling beast disentangled itself from the trap as it used its tail to block my attack. The impact was such that it threw me back a few steps.

Chen Ley and Hua Ting, seizing the opportunity, stepped forward and attacked each from one side.

The pangolin let out a snarl of pain facing the two attackers before turning to Hua Ting who looked weaker, raising one of her paws and launching an attack in her direction.

Seeing this Wei Qi took the lead raising his steel shield in preparation for impact as his brother came in a charging motion pushing the pangolin back as it hit him.

With no time to waste, I took the chance, jumping over the pangolin using the clawed glove to attack its head, and soon the blood began to flow, but the cut was not deep enough to cause a serious wound, this only left the beast even more furious.

We continued our attack as we took turns, with time the wounds were accumulating until he was losing strength, in a last attempt to escape he ran towards the rear where Mei Ling was positioned.

When we were apprehensive if the attack hit her, an arrow came spinning and lodged right where Han Long had cut her face earlier, so the beast still walked a few steps before all its movements ceased.

As it was Mei Ling who had dealt the final blow we were all looking at her with some hope, after a few moments of silence she smiled at us.

"Golden scale pangolin, an armor-like mutant beast soul, who will be the lucky one who gets it?" said Mei Ling

Earlier we had agreed that we would get a mutated beast soul for everyone in the group and like the Wei brothers and I wanted pangolin armor.

We kept looking at each other waiting for who would give in first since this was a mutant beast's soul.

"Long, what do you think about letting one of the Wei brothers have this armor, and let's hunt more mutant pangolins, if we go deeper into the forest it won't be that hard to find, so far it will depend on your luck". said Chen ley

"That's fine with me, as long as we're together we'll be able to hunt as many mutant pangolins as we like, as long as we're careful we shouldn't have any problems dealing with them." Said Han Long agreeing with the proposal.

That's when everyone focused their eyes on the Wei brothers. Which one would get the armor.

"Brother Qi you keep the armor as you are the stronger of the two." Said Wei Qing giving up the armor to his younger brother.

As everyone decided, Mei Ling passed the beast's soul to Wei Qi who was very happy, while he tried on his new armor, we went to prepare the pangolin meat to eat.

As the beast was so big it wouldn't make sense to be with just one person, so everyone will eat a part of it.

"Golden scale pangolin eaten, one mutant gene point obtained"

After ringing once you don't hear the notification anymore, that's why it's better to hunt smaller beasts so the points are more concentrated and easier to absorb.

Han Long: It didn't evolve

Status: None

Lifespan: 200 years

Points needed for evolution: 100 gene points

Gene points earned:

common genes 100

primitive genes 56

mutant genes 1

sacred genes 15

Beast Souls Won: 02

Wolverine weapon-type iron claws

Spear weapon type holy blood rhinoceros beetle

Checking my stats I would still need the meat of at least six primitive beasts to maximize my points.

When everyone was fed up with the meal, we started to move through the forest in search of another pangolin, leaving the traps behind, using them would make hunting easier but it would take much longer to wait for something to fall on it.

We didn't go a long way when we spotted a mutated red-crested Cassowary.

This animal was easy to identify its classification, thanks to the color of the crest, if it was brownish-gray it was a common beast, silver was a primitive beast, red was mutated, and golden was sacred blood.

Its main attack was to leap forward with a strong thrust and nail its crest into the opponent or its powerful claws that reach more than 20 cm in length.

It was a complicated opponent if you weren't careful with your onslaught, a single attack could be fatal.

While we were planning our attack the Casuar raised his head and saw us, as he was a very temperamental beast he already attacked in our direction.

Wei Qi took the lead and defended himself from the attack, without even being pushed, with the armor, his strength and stamina greatly increased, one could see why the mutant beast souls are so expensive.

We started the attack flanking the sides and before long the crossbow was on the ground, unlike the pangolin that had its scales to protect itself, the crested cassowary was defenseless, after some consecutive attacks hitting the same spot, Chen Ley gave one last blow and ripped his head off.

This was one of the characteristics of Chen Ley, he could attack the same place over and over again increasing the damage in each attack.

"This time we were not lucky, no beast soul" Said Chen Ley complaining of his bad luck.

After organizing the beast's meat, we continued hunting as time our collaboration got better and better. After more than ten days of hunting through the forest we got another mutant beast soul that belonged to a Casuar, it was a pair of daggers fastened together with a chain, as the only one using a dagger in our group was Hua Ting, the pair of daggers stayed for her.

With you already gone a long time away, we returned to the shelter with our gains, this hunt wasn't so bad and we managed to hunt 5 mutant beasts and 9 primitives, and still got two mutated beast souls.

My mutated gene points increased to 9, whereas primitives like the others had almost maximized left more meat for me, raising them to 93.

After splitting up we agreed to meet again 2 days later. Going to my room I used the teleporter and went back to the alliance.

At the entrance Qin Xuan was waiting angrily, I hope she doesn't mistake me for my brother.

"Where is your brother? He's been on the run for over half a month, if he doesn't show up, you'd better take his place." Said Qin Xuan

Han Long was surprised that Qin Xuan didn't confuse him with his brother, as only those close to them could do so, especially when they switched places playfully to confuse their friends.

"Hello Miss Qin, I'm sorry for the unfortunate event on the train, but it wasn't my brother's fault, I hope you go easy on him."

"You don't need to worry about that, he will have his punishment, it will be something bearable, I just don't guarantee that he will come out in one piece"

Seeing that she wasn't in a good mood I could only pray for my brother, at least he can't say I didn't try to help.

Leaving Qin Xuan behind, he went to the station and took a train home. Arriving home he gave his mother and Han Yan a hug before going up to his room to train jadeskin.

knock knock

Hearing the knock on the door Han Long stopped his training only to see that Han Sen had arrived.

"Brother why did you take so long at the shelter this time, Tang Zhenliu came to ask us out, but you weren't there."

"My group was hunting some mutant beasts to try and get beast souls," said Han Long

"Any luck?"

"Yes, we got mutated armor and a beast's soul that was a pair of daggers, in two days we'll be back to hunt again and try to get one for the rest of the group"

"That's good, it's thanks to my armor that I can hunt easily even when I'm alone" said Han Sen

Hearing that his brother always hunted alone while he had to be in a group to not take so much risk, he swore that when he got his armor even if he was a mutant beast soul he would hunt alone that way his earnings would be higher and he could

use his spear to make yourself comfortable.

"Sen, you met Qin Xuan on the way out, when you were coming back from the shrine she stopped me and by her face, she was not in a good mood." Changing the subject he asked about Qin Xuan.

"Don't tell me you can't imagine what I had to go through, but I have a solution for it, do you still remember the Ghosthaunt that dad said was especially effective with women I'm going to apprehend her tomorrow what to think of coming with me "

"I wanted to, but I'm still broke, during that time I ate all the beast meat I could to get stronger," said Han Long in frustration.

"Then leave it to me I still have some money left, should be enough for both of us"

"Ok" Han Long didn't say anything else and just nodded, even he couldn't believe he would agree so easily if he was getting used to relying on his brother.