The Great Sparrow City Military Department was perfectly capable of raising these three cubs.
The time required was also acceptable to the Military Department.
As soon as Yu Keyan said this, everyone agreed.
After all, none of them truly wanted to raise these three cubs. Their parents had died at everyone's hands.
After packing their belongings, Yu Keyan led the team and the three little ones off in a certain direction.
"Our field training is pretty much over now. The rendezvous point Boss Hei Guan told me about a few days ago should be in a valley." Yu Keyan walked at the front, leading the way.
After spending this month together, they had developed excellent coordination.
"Looks like it's coming to an end, Captain," Mu Shengqi said with a smile.
Although they were both Intermediate Mages, Mu Shengqi greatly respected Yu Keyan's leadership abilities. He brought out everyone's abilities very well.
Moreover, over this month of fighting, they had killed nearly thirty Servant-level Demon Beasts, along with one Lesser Warrior.
Mu Shengqi felt that his own combat strength had improved tremendously compared to before.
"Yeah, this time has been much more fulfilling than these past few years at school," Yang Wan chimed in. "I never imagined I'd take part in killing so many Demon Beasts."
Zhang Jierui wholeheartedly agreed. "When we get back to school, the other students definitely won't believe we're this strong."
"Everyone has improved very noticeably during this time," Yu Keyan said.
All four were elites from Magic City Seventh Magic High School. Mu Shengqi, in particular, had considerable experience fighting Demon Beasts, and the others-even Lu Wu-had some as well.
Moreover, they had not questioned his assigned tasks too much. Only through everyone's cooperation had things gone so smoothly.
As their leader, Yu Keyan had naturally noticed everyone's transformation.
"Especially you, Lu Wu. Your Fire Element is much stronger than I imagined. You played a very important role when we killed that Lesser Warrior Level Bone Spike Fierce Wolf."
Hearing Yu Keyan praise him, Lu Wu rubbed his abdomen instead. "If it weren't for you guys, I probably would've been torn to pieces."
Even now, recalling that perilous moment made Lu Wu's heart pound with fear. The Bone Spike Fierce Wolf had been so fast that he had not even had time to summon Little Fire.
Although Water Barrier had protected him, his abdomen had still been clawed.
Yu Keyan had abandoned his attack and used Intermediate Earth Element Magic to protect him.
Then Lu Wu had used Fire Burst to continuously disrupt the Bone Spike Fierce Wolf, buying Mu Shengqi time to prepare his Intermediate Magic. Combined with Captain Yu Keyan's Intermediate Magic, they had only managed to kill that Bone Spike Fierce Wolf after a long, grueling battle.
After that, they had rested for a full seven days. If they had not brought potions, Lu Wu probably would have had to return to Bo City to recover.
The greatest pity was that he had fainted before he could make a sacrifice during that battle.
By the time they went back later, the Bone Spike Fierce Wolf's corpse was gone.
"We never expected a Bone Spike Fierce Wolf to appear while we were fighting. Otherwise, how could we have let you end up in that situation?" Mu Shengqi said.
Lu Wu was clearly just a first-year junior, yet his magic energy reserves were terrifying, and his magic was extraordinarily powerful.
It was clearly only Fire Burst: Burning, a Basic Level First Tier Fire Element spell, yet it possessed tremendous destructive power.
"He did come first in the freshman assessment, after all. He probably even held back during that assessment."
"Yeah, exactly."
"His casting speed is even faster than mine." This was what Mu Shengqi remembered most vividly.
If it was a matter of how many spells he could cast, his vast magic energy reserves were surprising.
But what had left a deep impression on Mu Shengqi was how Lu Wu had cast one spell after another when he was in danger, each taking less than two seconds!!
"Maybe it's because I've kept practicing magic, so it takes me a little less time to cast," Lu Wu replied.
He had actually already cultivated his Fire Element to Basic Level Second Tier, but back then, for the sake of speed, he had only cast the Basic Level First Tier Fire Element spell, Fire Burst: Burning.
His casting speed had already been exposed, but Lu Wu was not worried about it.
Even if he used Basic Level Second Tier Fire Element Magic, it would only show that he was highly talented and that, with cultivation resources poured into him, his cultivation advanced quickly.
That was all.
Only Little Fire would be difficult to explain if he were exposed.
"Lu Wu will be the pride of Magic City Seventh Magic High School in the future."
"..."
Perhaps because things had been rather tense before, everyone was in a good mood as the team traveled onward.
After walking for about an hour, they first encountered Wu Xiaoxiao's team, then Dongfang Qing's team.
The seventeen of them gathered together once more.
Wu Xiaoxiao's team leader was a girl, completely different from the short-haired Wu Xiaoxiao. Her lovely long black hair was tied up, and she wore somewhat loose, dark clothing.
Liang Baiye.
She was the only girl among the three team leaders. Yu Keyan had spoken about the three of them before.
Liang Baiye had awakened Dimensional Magic at the Basic Level, and she was a mage who had awakened the Summoning System at the Basic Level, at that.
"Why isn't Boss Hei Guan here yet?" Liang Baiye asked, noticing that the teams had already spent a while in the gorge, yet Hei Guan was still nowhere to be seen.
They were now at the edge of the Safe Zone, and it was very dangerous.
"Actually, have you noticed? If we were simply meeting up, Boss Hei Guan wouldn't have made us travel outward to get here," Yu Keyan replied.
"Maybe Boss Hei Guan has his own ideas," the other team leader offered. "Let's wait a little longer."
"That's all we can do..."
The three team leaders stood at the entrance to the gorge.
The others had more or less known one another before, and now they were all sharing their experiences.
"How many Demon Beasts did your team kill?" Wu Xiaoxiao and Dongfang Qing had already joined up, then walked over to Lu Wu.
"Over twenty. Almost thirty." Lu Wu thought for a moment; he only remembered the approximate number.
They had killed the most Demon Beasts on the first day.
"Looks like the area around Bo City still isn't all that safe." Wu Xiaoxiao did not doubt his words. She simply felt that Lu Wu and the others were truly impressive.
Their own team had only killed around twenty, and several of them had been injured.
"This is near the Safe Zone, after all. Of course there are lots of Demon Beasts." Lu Wu nodded.
Especially from the afternoon into the night, quite a few Demon Beasts appeared, sometimes even in packs, and they did not dare attack those.
"It was only this month that I realized that, however impressive you are at school, all sorts of things can still happen when you're facing Demon Beasts," Dongfang Qing said with feeling. "At first, I was no use at all except to get in the way and drag everyone else down."
"I was pretty much the same. When I first faced a Demon Beast, I had to try several times before I managed to cast my magic."
"That's all normal," Lu Wu offered a simple word of comfort.
The first Demon Beast he had faced directly had been Little Fire, but at the time, they had been connected through a soul imprint, so he had not felt afraid.
Later, there had been those truly wild Demon Beasts, the Azure Wind Pythons in Rongcheng's Demon Beast Park, and he had only needed a short while to steady himself.
After that, he had killed the injured One-Eyed Demon Wolf. After Rongcheng, he no longer had trouble even casting his magic smoothly.
His greatest gain this month had not been the courage to face Demon Beasts.
"I heard you were injured. Why didn't you mention it?" Wu Xiaoxiao asked about Lu Wu's injury. "Your team should have taken first place. You hunted down a Warrior Level Demon Beast."
"Captain Yu Keyan is an Intermediate Lightning Mage, after all. His Intermediate Level Third Tier Lightning Magic-that, what's it called, Thunderbolt: Wild Dance-is incredibly destructive!" Lu Wu knew that Captain Yu Keyan deserved a great deal of credit for killing the Warrior Level Demon Beast.
On top of that, apart from his Earth Element, Mu Shengqi's other magic system also possessed offensive, destructive power.