Re-entering the Magical Beast Mountain Range

Half a year ago, Garen's blade technique had already reached the realm of basic perfection. Subsequently, through his insights into wind-elemental essence, he had developed some ideas regarding the realm of "lifting the heavy as if it were light," but he was still some distance away from creating his own ultimate technique and required more enlightenment and practical combat.

Although he hadn't killed any monsters in two years, his cultivation had still improved significantly.

Garen

Warrior Rank: Level 7 (14949/100000 EXP)

Transformation Rank: Level 9

Magic Rank: Level 6 (41485/50000 EXP)

On this day, after bidding farewell to Yale and the others, Garen and Linley set off on the road toward the Magical Beast Mountain Range, with the little Shadow Mouse Bebe jumping excitedly on Linley's shoulder.

Although both were only 15 years old, they were both 1.8 meters tall and possessed high warrior ranks; looking at their appearance, no one would guess they were mages.

The two walked along the road with relaxed expressions.

"Linley, now that my mage rank has reached level six, once we reach the Magical Beast Mountain Range, I won't be making a move against any magical beasts below level six. You'll have to handle them yourself."

Garen said with a smile.

"I came to the Magical Beast Mountain Range to train. If it weren't for our brotherhood and the fact that you're usually so boisterous—I'm afraid you'd run off alone and get into danger—I wouldn't have wanted to invite you along," Linley said, rolling his eyes.

"You guy."

Garen was speechless. It seemed he was still being too low-key. When they reached the Magical Beast Mountain Range and he unleashed his full strength, he wondered if it would give Linley a shock.

At this moment, Bebe began to squeak.

"Linley, what is Bebe saying?"

"Bebe says he is very strong now, and when we encounter level seven or eight magical beasts that we can't handle, he'll step in," Linley said, unable to laugh or cry.

"Haha, alright. Bebe, it's too early to brag; don't end up being chased by a level eight magical beast later."

Under Garen's experienced guidance, given their speed, they soon approached the outskirts of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

"Hm?" Garen's brow furrowed.

"What's wrong?"

Linley asked.

"There should be bandits ahead, twelve of them in total. Outside the Magical Beast Mountain Range, bandits often ambush passing adventurers. I'll take out the strongest one in a moment, and the other eleven are yours," Garen said casually.

Linley was greatly startled and wanted to use the Wind of Perception, but he was stopped by Garen.

"Don't use magic. If there is a wind-elemental mage among the bandits, they could sense the magical fluctuations, and they would be alerted."

Just then, Doehring Cowart floated out from the Coiling Dragon Ring and exclaimed in admiration.

"Linley, it seems this brother of yours is extraordinary. Without a single trace, even I couldn't sense any sign of bandits, yet he was able to sense them in advance. Strange, truly strange."

"Grandpa Doehring, Garen must have his own secrets to have reached level six as a mage so quickly."

Garen led Linley to hide their figures and slowly approached the bandits.

It was midsummer, and the vegetation was lush. The outskirts of the Magical Beast Mountain Range were a plain, and the dense grass was perfect for hiding.

Garen effortlessly killed the bandit leader with a single arrow, while Linley used a level five spell, Earth Spike Array, to severely injure five of the other eleven bandits and kill six instantly; the severely injured ones were also finished off by Linley, who rushed over to strike them down with his blade.

Linley was once again shocked by Garen.

"Garen, you actually have a legendary Space Ring."

Seeing the Purple Dragon Bow suddenly appear in Garen's hand, Linley almost misfired his magic.

"Mm, I have many things you don't know about yet, haha."

Garen laughed, very satisfied with Linley's shocked expression.

After the two looted the bandits' backpacks and split the Magic Crystal Cores, they set off again.

Garen didn't care about the small change from the bandits at all, but since this was Linley's first time in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, he was happy for quite a while after receiving dozens of level four and over a dozen level five Magic Crystal Cores.

As they moved forward, the two encountered some level one and two magical beasts, which they simply bypassed. When they encountered level three or four beasts, they left them all for Linley to handle so he could hone his combat skills.

Along the way, they also encountered some human corpses; some had been killed by magical beasts, while others had clearly been killed by humans.

Garen also reminded Linley that in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, not only were there magical beasts, but most humans were also enemies.

At night, Garen noticed two red dots approaching. After warning Linley, two Wind Wolves appeared in the nearby bushes shortly after.

Linley instantly cast a level four Shattering Stone, injuring one and killing the other, but he didn't expect the remaining one to let out a howl, summoning over twenty more Wind Wolves.

"Hmm, this plot is a bit familiar. It feels like I've seen this scene before."

Garen used a Levitation Spell to fly into the air nearby in advance.

He wouldn't intervene unless there was a level six magical beast, otherwise, Linley wouldn't get the training effect.

He remembered that in the original story, Linley had met his classmates halfway, but because Garen had brought him along at a fast pace, the plot had changed—yet here, the plot had miraculously converged again.

"This world has the laws of fate. Could this be fate? Even if one can change some small directions, will fate still pull certain events back onto the normal track?"

Garen couldn't help but think to himself.

However, as long as it could be changed, that was fine; otherwise, the subsequent mission to rescue Doehring Cowart would be impossible to complete, and the side mission rewards were extremely generous.

The previous Tiger-Striped Warrior transformation was a side mission reward, and it remained his greatest reliance to this day; he had a feeling that the further the side missions went, the more generous the rewards would be.

Watching Linley's arduous battle below, Garen couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Linley's combat instinct was truly strong; to be able to display such strength during his first time in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, he was truly worthy of being the protagonist of this world.

Ten-plus minutes later, at the cost of sustaining a minor injury, Linley utilized the level-five spell Gravity Spell to drive away the remaining Wind Wolves.

Just as he was tidying up the spoils of war.

"Linley, you're too pathetic, aren't you? A few level four or five Wind Wolves and they've got you in such a sorry state, haha."

Garen laughed as he descended from the sky.

"I know you're amazing, you're awesome, satisfied now?"

Linley, who had been feeling a little proud of himself, was left speechless by Garen's remark.

He thought to himself, this was over twenty Wind Wolves; he doubted Garen could necessarily have done any better than him.

After packing up, the two of them slowly left the area.

Before they had gone very far, Garen suddenly turned around and fired an arrow without any warning.

"Puchi."

A black shadow lurking in the grass was shot through the head by the arrow; it died without ever knowing when it had been exposed, its eyes filled with intense unwillingness.

"This guy was actually quite cautious, too bad he ran into me."

He stowed the black-clad man's parcel into his Space Ring.

Once again, the two of them truly left the area.

Linley had already gotten used to it; along the way, there were magical beasts that even his Wind of Perception couldn't detect, and he never saw Garen use any magic, yet Garen knew about them with perfect clarity.

(End of chapter)

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