“Five Fingers Claw Death!” Miles muttered almost inaudibly, as five beaming lights from top to ground made fissures in the air. When it clashed with a cockatrice looking like a monster, it made five bloody scars on its ugly avian head. The scars started to bleed immediately, as Miles jumped back.

“CAKOOO!”

“Move!” Alex shouted and Miles jumped back as the monster cried in pain. Its skin was too hard for it to be hurt by that single attack, but luckily Alex’s lightning was still effective and mixed with injuries on its head, it was enough to kill the monster.

Alex sent a lightning ball to the monster's head, and it fell to the ground with a great thump.

“Third monster, killed. Let’s see if there is another orb.” Alex said excitedly and walked to the monster and cut its brain. But the orb wasn’t there. Then they cut its limbs and right side of its chest and only found it on its leg.

“Another core. Let’s keep hunting.” Alex said. They were hunting for a while now and killed three monsters. The second one dropped an orb, and it was more suitable to Alex, so Miles let Alex have it. The second one would be Miles’s.

“Oooooooooooooooowhoo!”

Just after they were about to make a fire to cook the chicken-on-steroids, a wolf howl heard from afar. Miles and Alex looked at each other and vanished from where they were staying. Luckily, both were pretty fast, thanks to their bodies, and Alex’s element allowed him to move at lightning speed, they had no injuries, so they could still hide.

As they appeared on treetops, they nodded and started to circulate their energies to use Veil. Although it hasn’t been that long since they learned how to use it, Miles thanks to his attributeless energy made it easier to blend into nature, and Alex thanks to his family background knew a thing or two about energy techniques and had some experience with it. Although their Veil wasn’t perfect, there was a bleeding monster on the ground, so the wolf would hardly notice them.

The silver lining was, the wolf was alone. Normally, wolves would hunt in packs but this time it was alone. Which was a big surprise.

After it appeared, it smelled the air for a while then looked at the dead monster on the ground. Miles looked at the wolf and saw it was a black-gray wolf at least 3 meters tall. There was a creepy scar on its head where its brain could be seen. The eyes of the monster were full black and no pupils could be seen.

At the torso, its ribs were on display. There were no lungs and only a purple heart in its ribs, and it wasn’t moving at all. All in all, the wolf looked dead, but it was still moving. “Death Element?”

Miles looked at the monster in surprise and his eyes clashed with Alex’s. Both saw the excitement in the other’s eyes and were ready to attack. As Death element was so rare.

Miles placed the darkness elemental spear in his hand on the tree branch carefully and was ready to attack. He chose to leave the spear there instead of turning it back to its orb form. Also, the Darkness element had no effect on the Death element, luckily, the lightning element was super effective against the Death element.

After looking at each other for a short second, Miles and Alex agreed on what to do. They were both experienced, so words were unnecessary in their case. Miles jumped from the tree branch he was standing on, as his energy hid deep inside his body exploded. With the sudden emergence of a ball of energy, the wolf turned to look at Miles in shock.

After breaking the Veil, it was as if the sun was appearing high in the sky after a foggy day. The contrast was so bright, it drew the wolf's attention right away.

Miles was already holding his ten claw-like fingers in front of him and charged the second step technique he had just mastered, Ten Fingers Claw Lock. It was a two-hand attack of Seven Finger Punch Death Art. Normally it had to be executed with 14 fingers, but Miles, who had adapted the art for humans, was able to use it too.

Ten fingers, from two sides of the shocked wolf’s head, approached and locked on its head. Miles’s protruded claws stabbed into the dead soft flesh of the monster, as Miles locked his legs into the monster’s neck. He was locked under the monster’s neck.

Because of the position he got himself into, the wolf couldn’t attack, and could only try to shake Miles off. Alex was waiting for this to happen, so with a dash, he appeared on top of the wolf. Wolf felt the approaching danger, and howled in pain and tried to bite Miles, but its head couldn’t reach Miles.

“Divine Sword!” Alex shouted and grabbed the sword formed from lightning. It was two meters long and there were white runes on the sword's body. According to legend, this sword was Norsen God Ukko’s Sword of Punishment. He would punish mortals doing bad deeds with this very weapon.

The sword penetrated the creature's head from the top of its head and came out from its muzzle. Luckily Miles was on its neck and wasn’t hurt by the sword, although lightning still transmitted to his body through the wolf, it was manageable. Miles had worse experiences with the lightning, so he was still fine.

“YOOOOWL!”

The wolf cried in pain, as it fell onto the ground, Miles still clutched to his neck. Miles was under its neck, but his tough body was still fine despite the weight of its massive body. He kicked the body as he moved, and got free from the dead weight, literally. Miles looked at Alex excitedly as they cut open the monster’s head. There Miles found a pitch-black orb. Excitedly held it in his hands and looked at the gray item swimming inside of it.