At the border between the two great empires stood a dense forest. The magic beasts within were not particularly high-level, but their numbers were immense. Students from the Sacred Feather Academy and the Purple Wolf Academy occasionally went there to hunt magic beasts and obtain energy cores to help them advance smoothly.
That day, a small team of six came together to hunt magic beasts. They killed a batch of low-level beasts at the forest's outermost edge, working together with excellent coordination. Their leader was a Thunder-Type Spirit Master, while the other five wielded the wind, water, fire, earth, and light elements respectively.
Light-Type Spirit Masters usually had little presence, but they were indispensable to a team, providing support and healing.
"Sister Hao, we've had a good haul today. Why don't we go a little farther in? We might run into some level-three wind-element magic beasts."
The woman they called Sister Hao was the leader of their little team. She sorted through the magic beast energy cores they had collected along the way. Most were earth- and fire-element cores, with quite a few water-element ones, but they had not found a single wind-element core. There were no light-element ones either, though light-element magic beasts were rare to begin with. As a level-seven Wind-Type Spirit Master, Zhao Lei was particularly eager to collect more energy cores that could help him advance. His family was rather poor, so he could not afford spirit liquid prepared from spirit medicines, and his cultivation consequently progressed more slowly.
Seeing that it was still early, Hao Xiu nodded. "We'll go a little farther in. If we encounter wind-element magic beasts, everyone lend a hand. If we don't, we'll have to leave it at that. This forest gets dangerous after dark."
"All right."
Everyone agreed. After resting