494 Duststar.
Seeing the human leave the protection of Ivory surprised the sabertooth jaguar, but could only make it grin from ear to ear.
Immediately, Ivory conjured a tunnel of ice straight at the Jaguar, but the King rank beast questioned why should it dodge it when it could outrun it and still eliminate its target.
Without wasting time, the sabertooth began dashing toward ke, but that was when it noticed that the speed of the tunnel approaching it had doubled, shocking the hell out of it.
In an instant, the ice tunnel had caught up to the king-rank beast. The slippery ground as well as the intense cold from the ice drastically reduced the speed of its charge toward ke.
The sabertooth jaguar was wondering how Ivory’s power had increased on short notice, but that was when it realized something was wrong with the situation.
It was currently in a thick ice tunnel, and although it wasn’t being attacked, the fact that Ivory and ke were standing at both exit points spelled danger.
Returning to Ivory, which had gotten an unknown power spike, was more dangerous than going for the human. It was an obvious trap, but it didn’t have any other option so it continued its dash at ke.
“You might be a King rank beast but your intellect is still below mine.” ke said to the cornered beast as he raised his right hand and summoned Ivory.
Answering the call of its owner, Ivory changed back to its sword form and began flying at an incredible speed toward ke.
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SWISH!
Just as the sabertooth Jaguar was 6 meters away from ke, the legendary sword effortlessly passed through it like a hot knife through butter.
The sabertooth jaguar roared in pain as the sword went into its back and through its heart.
Knowing it had no chance of surviving, the King rank jaguar made ast attempt and lunged at ke with its razor-sharp ws.
‘Nice try.’ ke thought as Ivory in his hand turned to her Skoll form and blocked the attack before mping onto the neck of the Sabertooth Jaguar.
Once the jaguar was confirmed dead, ke and Ivory turned in Ebony’s direction to see the steel-beak bald eagle twitching in his mouth.
“That was fun!” ke said causing Ebony and Ivory to howl in agreement.
They had been traveling for more than a day now and the only way they had fun was by ying fetch. So the fight with the King rank beasts was the perfect opportunity to have fun.
[Was it necessary to waste so much time taking them out?] The system asked.
“That wouldn’t be fun would it?” ke chuckled causing the system to frown.
“On a serious note, I found it weird that 2 King rank beasts attacked us with the sole aim of killing me. My guess was that this was the work of a beast tamer who was somewhere around here.”
“So I asked Ebony and Ivory to pull back their punches so that I can figure out everything while giving the enemy the illusion that they had a chance of winning.”
“When it was clear that nothing else was going on, I decided to end it in a fun way.” ke said as he watched Ivory turn the ice that littered the battlefield to water.
[What do you n on doing?] The system asked.
Although they had easily taken down the 2 rank beasts, they were not sure that this was thest of the attacks.
“I have a hunch that this was an assassination attempt, but it’s not as if tamed King rank beasts are cabbage that can be gotten anyhow; so I don’t think there would be more attacks,” ke said.
[If this is really an assassination attempt, then it means that the ash corps of Duststar city are working with the drug dealers.] The system said.
It was only the ash corps of both cities that knew of ke’s movement. They also knew about the beasts that were pulling his carriage, thus knowing his estimated time of arrival.
So since the trade route connecting both cities was basically a straight line, that day was the perfect day to attack in order to make it look like an ident.
“You are right.” ke said. “We are currently not too close or far from Duststar city, making it perfect to assassinate me while also making it look like I was attacked by beasts.”
One may ask why they had sent only 2 King rank beasts to eliminate him when they had so much info on him. The answer was simple, no one except ke knew the true strength of Ebony and Ivory.
So with the info the assassinators had about Ebony and Ivory, they had thought that the insane mobility of the sabertooth jaguar and steel-beak bald eagle would have been enough to take care of ke.
“This is not part of a mission. So you guys are free to take their beast cores.” Immediately after ke said those words, Ebony and Ivory tore through the chest of the King rank beasts and consume their cores before eating their bodies.
ke wasn’t surprised by this because this wasn’t the first time that something like this was urring.
ording to the system, the bodies of King rank beasts contained vital nutrients that not only increased the chances of a sessful advancement but also affected the results of evolution.
For example, the highest evolution of a sde was a dragon, and the type of dragon it would evolve into depended on the environment, materials, and beasts it consumed.
If the sde was in a volcanic area which usually had very high fire mana density or it consumed the core and body parts of a lot of fire beasts. The chances of evolving into a fire dragon were very high.
“Oh, I almost forgot about our ride.” ke shot a fireball into the air, signaling the carriage driver it was safe toe out.
“Let’s resume our journey.” ke said to the driver after Ebony and Ivory were done eating.
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The journey continued, but instead of being tensed that another attack might ur, the driver noticed that ke and his pets were acting no different from when the journey started.
They would still go out to y fetch and explore the area when the carriage was parked.
‘I just can’t wait to reach Duststar.’ The carriage driver thought as he was longing for thefort of a soft bed.
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At high noon of the next day.
“We are almost there.” The carriage driver said as they arrived at the foot of the Herekasing mountain which was the tallest among the tens of and mountains in the area.
The city of Duststar sat at the top of the mountain making it extremely difficult to siege by both humans and beasts.
“This is one hell of a view, Cami and Tessie would definitely love it.” ke said as he took out his goldenmunication amulet and began recording the beautiful valleys and streams.
In no time, the carriage had reached the top of the mountain and stopped for a check at the city gate.
“This is a serious letdown.” ke was disappointed by the number of personnel and little defensive equipment that was mounted on the city wall.
Apart from that, the city walls were not as tall as that of Calton city, and the number of towers was not even up to half of Calton’s.
[Their position at the top of the mountain gives them a massive defensive advantage. So they don’t see the need to spend more on defense.] The system said.
Once Jerry the carriage driver disyed the seal of the ash corps, they let them into the city.
“Finally!” The carriage driver let out a sigh of relief as he drove the carriage toward the ash corps station located at the center of the city.
“This is a bigger letdown.” ke said as they drove through the city.
ke had pictured the city of Duststar to be an epitome of beauty. Its position at the top of the Herekasing mountain gave it the best view and also a cool temperature that facilitated the growth of exotic nts.
However, as they drove through the city streets, all ke could see were poverty and unhappy citizens.
He had seen quite a lot of homeless people in the alleyways, and even the existing buildings werecking in terms of quality.
“I was thinking of having our next vacation in Duststar, but I can’t bring Cami and Tessie here.” ke shook his head in disappointment.
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