"Clovis, we’re about five minutes away from the lab. Get ready to turn left soon."
After hearing the report, Clovis immediately ordered, "You and Melody can speed up and pass us. We will stop at the junction so that these beasts won’t attack the laboratory."
"Alright." Kanaria and Melody acknowledged it and immediately increased their speed. Melody easily passed the rhino. Fortunately, Clovis kept shooting the rhino so that its focus remained on him.
Meanwhile, Kanaria had to wait until the right time since the andrewsarchus was actually bigger than the rhino. She had to sneak past it or the andrewsarchus would cause trouble before Kanaria could pass the rhino.
Seeing Kanaria waiting, Jay activated his beast soul to increase his speed, closing the gap between him and the andrewsarchus in an instant before hitting the beast with all his might.
The beast managed to stop him, but Jay managed to push the head to the side, preventing it from seeing Kanaria, who passed him from the other side.
After that, Jay stopped for a second to widen that distance. Until he thought it was enough for the beast not to care for Kanaria anymore, he began to run again.
Clovis repeated the same thing as when Melody passed the rhino. With both of them passing them, they had fulfilled their roles.
Kanaria and Melody exchanged looks before they turned to the left.
"Alright. We’re stopping here." Clovis stopped and leaped toward the rhino.
"!!!" The rhino was slightly startled that Clovis, who had been on the defensive this whole time, suddenly tried to be on the offensive.
However, Clovis’s size and strength couldn’t be compared to hers. So, the rhino didn’t hesitate to run straight to Clovis.
When the rhino was about to reach him, Clovis took advantage of the speed he got from the necklace and his blood affinity to make the last moment movement.
He barely avoided the charge and swung his sword. Surprisingly, the rhino’s skin was actually much softer than that of the andrewsarchus.
In that slash, he actually created a long but shallow wound on the beast’s head. It wasn’t significant, but if he kept inflicting this kind of damage, the rhino might die faster than the andrewsarchus.
*Roar!* The rhino was angered by the sudden pain and tried to push Clovis away with its head.
Clovis sped up, taking refuge underneath the rhino’s body. As if noticing it, the rhino tried to stomp him, which Clovis avoided.
Then, the rhino chose to drop its body so that it could crush Clovis with its full weight.
Clovis jumped to the side and rolled once on the ground before standing back up. After dodging the rhino, he struck the rhino multiple times, leaving more and more sword wounds.
*Roar!* The rhino didn’t expect that this human was able to damage him to this extent. The rhino was faster than Clovis, but Clovis kept dodging him at the last second, making that speed rather useless.
On the other hand, Jay had stopped about fifty meters away from Clovis so that these two Tier 3 beasts didn’t join hands.
The andrewsarchus charged at Jay and opened its mouth, trying to devour Jay. The latter moved to the side, but because of the sheer size of this andrewsarchus, he wasn’t fast enough to avoid the mouth.
In the end, Jay struck the teeth and put less pressure on his feet so that he would simply slide on the asphalt ground.
When the beast stopped, Jay spun his body and looped around the mouth, striking the beast on its jaw.
*Clang!*
The tough skin once again withstood his attack, making Jay furrow his eyebrows.
’This is rather annoying.’ Jay furrowed his eyebrows. He couldn’t help but glance at Clovis as if he remembered the time he got the bracelet from Clovis.
"Take this, Jay. It should be able to increase your strength even further." Clovis presented the Strength Bracelet to him.
Jay frowned. "What do you mean by this, Clovis? I have received a lot of things from you while not having done enough for the group. These items of yours are so magical that it will definitely cause an uproar if you just sell them."
Clovis chuckled. "So, you’re not complaining about getting power from outside help?"
"Is there anything to complain about? A good sword is needed to make a clean cut, and good materials are needed for durable armor or clothes. I’m not so naive that I believe I can cut everything with a tree branch."
"Then, you should wear this." Clovis smiled.
"But…" Jay hesitated. "If this is the Hacfield family’s secret technique or something, this information should have been spread or turned into rumor by your family’s enemies. Is this really your family’s secret?"
Clovis raised his eyebrows as if he didn’t expect this question.
"I might be too lazy to use my brain, but I’m not a fool, Clovis. Besides, the others should have some suspicion as well." Jay sighed before saying, "I won’t say anything about this, but I just want to make sure of something. You are not harming your life to produce all this stuff, right?"
Clovis couldn’t help but smile. Instead of keeping the secret, Jay only worried about his well-being. He shook his head. "You don’t have to worry about that. Other than risking my life if these items are found by others, I’m not harming my life."
"That’s good then." Jay nodded, feeling relieved.
"I hope that in the future, I can talk to you about it. Besides, I don’t understand everything right now."
"Sure thing. If you want to let me know about your secret, that’s fine. If you don’t want me to know, I still trust you. Don’t bear everything by yourself just because you are the captain." Jay patted Clovis’s shoulder.
Clovis extended his hand, shoving the bracelet in front of him. "Thank you, but you have to survive first."
Jay knew that Clovis was talking about the hidden threat that had been trying to kill them. If they were not strong enough, there was no way Clovis could let them know the heavy responsibility he had on his shoulders.
Jay grabbed the bracelet and said, "Don’t worry. I’ll become strong enough to even surpass you. So, you shouldn’t die before me."
Clovis chuckled.
When he remembered that conversation, Jay looked at the andrewsarchus and said, "I have been hiding this one, but it’s time to unleash it."
The muscle on his arms suddenly bulged, making it look slightly bigger. After receiving the bracelet, Jay noticed that a small change occurred in his muscles.
In addition, the star method actually allowed him to control his muscles. After almost a month, Jay finally got a bit of control over his muscles and pushed them to a higher limit this time.
The andrewsarchus charged toward Jay. Since the mouth couldn’t do it, the beast slammed its paw from above as if it were about to squash an ant.
Jay’s muscles bulged once more as he jumped as high as possible. At the last moment, he twisted his body to avoid the sharp claws and struck the skin between the claws. This time, his sword actually penetrated the beast’s flesh as blood splattered in the air.
"!!!" The andrewsarchus was stunned before screaming in pain.
Jay landed on the ground while saying, "Sorry, but this friend of mine is such a worrywart that he thinks I’m not strong enough. I guess I will have to kill you to prove my strength to him."
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