In the middle of the night, inside a particular cave a fire was burning some wood

Around it were five people with some features not belonging to humans. They sat around the fire but all of them closed their eyes as if they are meditating monks

Although they are not monks they are actually meditating, they seize almost any time they have to increase their strength and since they don't need to sleep they might as well just absorb more energy

Venturing inside a forest at night was dangerous, who knows what kind of creature they will encounter. It was better to spend the night inside this cave

All the energy particles in the surroundings were absorbed by their group especially Kence it was as if he was some kind of sponge that greedily absorbs the water in the surroundings

Tak

Kence's ears twitch at that sound. He may be meditating but he didn't let his guard down as he knows that in this new world there is no safe place at all!

Tak tak

Kence heard the sound again and opened his eyes

"Prepare for enemy attack" he warned to the group of Mystics who all opened their eyes and surveyed their surroundings

Ivy as the least experienced of them all showed fear, her body was trembling a bit but she calmed herself by inhaling deeply

Tak tak tak

More sounds like that were heard, this time even King and the others can heard it too. It was as if there are many creatures coming into their way

In one of the passage way inside the cave an ant looking creature can be seen, however this ant was as big as a human's fist

How the heck can an ant be as big as this?

"Wooh, it's just a mutant ant thank god!" Calter heave a sigh of relief. Even Ivy's fear vanished

However, Kence's face become grim. He looked around and sure enough aside from a few passage way that a human can enter there are a lot of small size holes on the cave

They thought that those holes were just naturally formed but Kence knew clearly that they are wrong

"Let's get out of here quickly!!" Kence shouted, as soon as he said that thousands of ants emerged from the small holes inside the cave

Tak tak tak tak

The sound of thousands of fist size ants walking their way to their group makes their hair stand

Fortunately, they decided to camp close to the exit. If something from outside make their way inside they will immediately know it and they can quickly get out of the cave if there is something terrible inside it

Kence can't help but worry about the future of humanity. A single ant colony can have thousands of ants and in the whole world there are a lot of ant colonies!

Not to mention they are other animals or insects out there that also has great reproductive power!

An example of that are the rats. Just imagine millions of ants or rats attacking a human city. Even though humans now have superpowers the same was true for other creatures on earth!

Kence felt a sense a of crisis, it seems like humans have a lot of enemies in this new world not just the fallens!

Humanity was kicked out at the very top of the food chain!

Even though they are close to the exit a lot of ants still managed to get close to them and block their way

"[Innate Skill: Leaf Storm!]" Hundreds of leaves formed around them that attacked any ants on their way

Fortunately, although these ants has great numbers their individual power was weak. An AoE skill was enough to ensure that any ant that received it will die from a single hit

But although that is the case for every ant Kence killed more will come

"[Magic Skill: Bullet Rain!]" Around Calter few tens of bullet shape energy were formed that attacked the ants. Without them talking they had a tacit agreement that Kence and Calter will take care of the ants coming into their way as only the two of them has an AoE skill

The others will just waste their time and energy killing these ants one by one

Soon they reached the exit but the ants didn't stop their tracks

They run as much as they can to get away from these ants

Soon a horrifying scene happened inside the forest, all living creatures that were swallowed by the ant tide were immediately reduced into just a pile of bones. They are all eaten without any exception even a few of the few Knight Rank creatures in the forest that was not able to get away in time were eaten

Thankfully with the strength and intellect of Kence's team and with the help of the 'cannonfodders' a.k.a. 'mutant creatures' they safely exited the 'doomed forest'

After making sure that they are quite far from the forest they all sat down on the ground to catch their breath

All of them breath heavily as if the oxygen in the air was not enough for them to survive

"T-that was crazy" Cesar muttered under his breath. They thought that it was just thousands of ants but they were wrong!

It was hundreds of thousands of ants! It was not surprising that Knight Rank Mutant Animals were overpowered by this number

Woosh!

Five arrows flew in the air. The arrows target was Kence's group of Mystics. Kence was the first to noticed this

He waved his hand and hundreds of leaves quickly formed that blocked the five arrows

Thankfully, from the previous lesson of someone almost assassinating him and his experience of being a former assassin he decided to never let his guard down regardless of the situation

Kence mood immediately turned sour, they just want to go on bigger cities is it necessary for them to met many mishaps?

Around them ten people emerged holding all sorts of weapon on their hand while another three walk towards them

"Give us all of your belongings or die!" The what seemingly is their leader said to them harshly

The man has black tattoos on his arm that exudes out life force, the man was only wearing a black sando that showed off his muscles. From the man's life force that Kence and the others felt and they knew that this man is a Cultivator!

There are two people besides the man, one is man and the other is a woman

The man was holding a blue book, he might be a Mage

While the woman was not holding anything but for her to be able to stand besides Mystics she might be a Mystic as well!

Because of the darkness of the night they can't see quite well the features of everyone, this might be the reason why these group of 'bandits' ambushed a group of five Mystics even though they only have three Mystics and ten normal supernaturals

When the three walked close to them enough to see their features the three was taken aback and their face darkened

"Only knowing your enemy now eh?" Kence sneered as he was really in a bad mood now. He can accept it if fallens and mutant creatures attack them as most of them only acted on instinct but humans were different!

Instead of banding together to fight of their true enemies these bandits decided to harm their own kind!

What's more is that do these bandits actually thought that their team was a pushover

"Attack!!" Since the bandits already bit the bullet and enrage these Mystics they might as well continue and hope that they can beat Kence and the other

Kence once again used his leaves to block all the attack coming to them. All the normal supernaturals are just in the early and mid-stage of Warrior rank he can easily disposed all of them

Even the three leaders are not that hard to deal with as aside from the Cultivator that is in the early stage of Knight Rank the rest are only in the peak of Warrior Rank

Its just that there are three of them and they are all Mystics which made it a bit harder for them to deal

Kence released his Knight Rank Aura while the rest released their Peak Warrior Rank Aura, this immediately suppressed everyone and lower their fighting capability. This also lowered the enemy's morale. They thought that they are too stupid to provoke a Knight Rank and four Peak Warrior Rank Mystics!

"I'll handle these three, handle the rest" Kence ordered to his team and they all comply although they worry a bit about Kence after all the leader has the same Cultivation Base with him but still they comply as they want to kick the bandit's asses for trying to kill them

This was a good chance for Kence to test his strength. After absorbing the mutant wolf he was close to reaching the mid-stage. Although he was already in the Knight Rank for some time he didn't advance again because the energy needed was just too high! The amount of energy needed to reach the mid-stage was more than the amount of energy needed to advance from a normal rank creature to an early-stage Knight Rank!

This made it so that even though he reached the Knight Rank first the others still catched up to him but even then he was sure that he was more powerful than other Knight Rank Experts simply because of the amount of energy he has

"Aren't you too arrogant?" The leader spoke coldly and the tattoo on his arm shone brightly and filled his arm with more power

This tattoo was what the Cultivators will have when they broke through in the Knight Rank and it is up to them to decide where to put it. Naturally, most of them will put it on their arms or legs depending on their battle style

"We will know soon if I am arrogant or just confident" Kence spoke coldly too and behind him his tree body landed on the ground that made all the bandits shock

Just how did a tree suddenly appeared out of thin air? This is unscientific!

"[Rune Magic: Vine Bind!]" Cesar speedily drew ten runes in the air that landed on all ten supernatural bandits

"[Magic Skill: Twin Bullets!]" On each of Calter's palm a light green bullet made from energy was quickly formed and flew towards two of the bandits that was bind by the vine

"[Magic Skill: Energy Barrier]"

"[Magic Skill: Energy Barrier]"

The two simultaneously built a barrier made from energy, the bandits clearly has some experiencing in working with each other

Instead of just being selfish and defending themselves with the barrier they instead made it so that the barrier will layer with each other making a two-layered energy barrier

Although doing this will increase their defense unfortunately Calter's power was not something they can defend easily

The bullets slammed on the barrier and after using a huge chunk of its energy it hit the two bandit's body injuring them

"[Innate Skill: Root Arm!]"

"[Magic Skill: Harden!]"

"[Magic Skill: Harden!]"

King run to where the bandit was and struck it with his root

"[Magic Skill: Vine Tail!]" Behind Ivy a whip made of Vine was made that slammed one of the bandits on its chest causing him to cough out some blood

Mystics are really on a different level than normal Supernaturals!

Seeing this scene Kence smirked at the Cultivator who's face become as dark as the night

"Blame your wrong decision!" Kence sneered

The tattoo on the man's arm shone even more intensely as if it was a beast that was enraged by Kence's provocation

"I'll kill you" the man roared and attack Kence with his glowing fist

"[Innate Skill: Wood Palm!]" Each of Kence's hands tranformed into a half a meter palmshape roots that collided with the man's fist that was as hard as metal

Some part of the palm was destroyed and splinters flew everywhere

The palm however quickly regenerated

The other two seize this chance and attack Kence at the same time

"[Water Magic: Water Tentacles!]" From the mage's palm five tentacle shape water formed that flew towards Kence wanting to bind him

"[Rune Magic: Cannon ball]" on the woman's palm on the other hand a rune drawn using blood can be seen. She supplied it with her energy and a basketball size metal ball emerged from it

Kence's hands are occupied with the Cultivator, thankfully he also have another body

"[Innate Skill: Leaf Storm!]" From the tree's body a thousand leaves flew and shone with light green light

The leaves divided into two and collided with the other Mystic's attack

"Explode!" Kence commanded and the thousand leaves exploded at the same time

The three's eyes constricted. To think an early stage Knight Rank Mystic can tie with an early stage Knight Rank and two peak Warrior Rank Mystics