"Hmm...did you raised your strength, level or rank?" He revised his question.

"Ahhh, y-yes...I did," she answered this time.

"Eh, H-How? I mean...can you tell me how you did it?" He asked.

Certainly, this was the right mood to ask her now if how they raised their strength.

"Mhm."

She nodded. Then explained to him how she got the Magic Cryst. And what was the use of it?

'Magic Cryst and training. I see. So it was through tribulations and by training. Wait, Magic Cryst? I think I have it.'

He then checked again his storage and saw an object that was the same as what this girl Mina had described to him.

After several hours of walking, they finally arrived at the foot of the mountain.

The two climb without wasting more time.

Large trees, tall grass, plant, and animals of different types could be seen around.

As the two went deeper. They heard some roar and howl.

"Looks like, the other soldiers are lively, huh," he voiced out as they walked below the large trees. Right now, they were surrounded by trees.

"Fufu, they were jus—-"

OOHHHHHRRRRR!!!

Mina wasn't able to finish her words because from above, a hairy monster with four limbs, red eyes, black fur, five meters tall, and sharp claws dove towards them.

Fwissssh! Fwissssh! Fwissssh!

But before she could react, the monster dropped dead in front of them.

She was stunned.

Don't know what had happened. She just noticed three trailing red lights in a moment. But after that, the monster had plummeted on the ground?!

Without a tinge of life visible on it. It was dead on the spot!

<Level 10 Territorial Man-K killed>

<+500 exp>

After killing the monster, it was followed by a pop-up notification which only he could see.

She went down into a knee to inspect the monster's corpse. She scanned on its hairy body, then she saw three holes. Her eyes fixed on the wounds where black blood gushing out. One on its forehead, chest, and abdomen.

'Wait, t-this wounds look familiar!' She exclaimed in her thought.

"These wounds are the same wounds on the rat's corpses. Don't tell me...this guy—was the one who did that to the monsters?" she mumbled.

She was puzzled cause she couldn't find any weapons from him.

'Even though he was empty-handed? So how he did it?' She couldn't even see a piece of stone in his hands. As she stared blankly at the corpse, she remembered what kind of monster was lying in front of her. Mina instantly froze upon knowing what kind of monster that was lying dead in front.

This monster was known as the territorial beast, not only that. If one of them drops dead, all of its kinds would know. They have some kind of link to one another. And this kind of monsters won't let any enemy escape alive after entering their territory.

"Hey, we need to—"

Without letting her finish her words he replied, "It's too late for that."

Ha?" She anxiously looked around them.

"No, way..." she muttered.

They were surrounded by fifty to seventy monsters. And some were still coming.

Most of them were on the tree branch while some on the ground. They were both ready to start the battle.

She also notices that some of the monsters held javelin as a weapon.

Mina showed a grimace expression on her face.

No matter how strong they were, if this many would attack them at the same time, they would find themselves at a disadvantage. Even disregarding the place.

"Follow me!"

He said as he dashed towards the monster at their front. They were surrounded at all front.

"We are surrounded, there's no way—"

And then again she wasn't able to finish her words.

"If no other way, then let's make our own way!" He said as he took more stones from his storage.

The monsters from behind started chasing at them. The two rushes forward without stopping.

Mina followed him closely. She doesn't know what this guy was planning about. But, somehow she felt secure with him. Even though in this kind of situation.

She was puzzled about why she felt like this. She uses to hate him at first. No, not really, she just hates the way he disregarded his own safety.

Fwisssh! Fwisssh! Fwisssh!

Red trails of light drawing in the air as the stone penetrated their target's body at spot-on accuracy.

Three-body fell on the ground.

The monster's health points were not too high. He could kill them with one shot.

Fwisssh! Fwisssh! Fwisssh!

Another three fell limply on the ground.

Text in red color appeared in his vision every time he hit the monsters.

Mina couldn't even follow what were the things he was using to shoot at the enemy, because only the red trail of lights was visible in a second after he fired it.

The monsters from above dove towards while some threw their javelin in hands.

The two evaded the attack. After successfully evaded all the fired javelin, Yeman leaped towards the five monsters who dove towards them.

He shot the three monsters with his Finger Bullets skill.

They plummeted to the ground when the fired bullet of stones hit the target from different parts of their body.

The low growl of agony from the unfortunate monsters who been hit by his attack escapes from the monster's mouth.

After killing he continued killing the other monsters at their front. His figured which instantly vanished and appeared brought horror to the monsters.

The guy in front of her already killed about 20+ monsters just seconds after they rushed forward.

Mina deep inside was still hoping that she was stronger than him if she would use all her strength.

Like for example their family techniques. Even though she was not able to master them yet. But she was a prodigy in magic after all.

But this guy who supposed to be a no magic person. Was easily dispatching the aggressive monsters around them.

She saw him after killing the three monsters out of five that dove towards them, he leaped to the remaining two as his figure vanished and appeared behind the two monsters.

Using his left hand Stun Finger he tapped the other one on its head as he sent a kick on the back of the other monster.

The monster he tapped fell on the ground while twitching its body. Looks like it was trying to struggle or trying to break free, while the other one that had been hit by his kick was sent like a ball which followed by a loud *bang!* as its body smashed and buried in the ground.

Mina was dumbfounded to how quickly he was killing the monsters.