A moment ago.
Clovis and Jay were fighting against the Tier 3 beasts.
"Oi, oi! You’ve hidden something incredible!" Clovis commented after Jay showed his hidden technique.
"What I pursue is absolute strength. If I don’t have enough strength, I will just get more of it." Jay smirked. "You, too, are a dishonest guy, you know that?"
Clovis smiled. "I guess I can’t really hide it from you."
The rhino was charging toward him as Clovis took a deep breath. The Star Method had been increasing the flow of his blood.
In fact, Clovis had taken advantage of the Star Method and the fact that he had 60% potential in the Brain and Heart.
The Heart pumped more blood, which allowed more energy and more oxygen to circulate inside his body.
When the beast closed in, Clovis took a step to the right, barely avoiding the rhino’s charge. At the same time, he waved his two swords, spun his body, and maintained the same distance to the rhino.
As the rhino passed him, Clovis had cut the beast more than twenty times. In sports or martial arts, the supply of oxygen would be the most important. That was why they developed a breathing technique or pattern.
However, due to the Star Method, Clovis was actually able to circulate the blood more effectively, allowing him to produce more energy and last longer with the same single breath.
That was why Clovis was able to unleash all his strength for a second, unleashing twenty strikes in rapid succession. However, that wasn’t all.
While he was still holding his breath, Clovis looped around the rhino’s body, striking it for more than a hundred times in just five seconds.
Even Jay wouldn’t be able to compete in speed with Clovis no matter how his muscle developed to increase his agility.
However, there was one main difference between Jay and Clovis. Due to Jay’s Muscle Affinity, his strength was more than enough to break through the tough skin of the beast.
Meanwhile, even if Clovis managed to unleash 100% of his strength, it was still not enough to pierce the rhino’s tough skin.
Still, the rhino’s skin was softer than the andrewsarchus’ skin. If one strike wasn’t enough, then he just needed to do it twice.
Clovis inhaled the air once again before looping around the rhino and striking it in the same pattern.
With how slowly he saw the movement, he was able to trace the little mark he left behind and successfully traced two-thirds of the total slashes.
*Roar!* The rhino was wailing in pain as sword wounds appeared all over his body. The beast didn’t expect Clovis to be at this level when he was only a Tier 1 human.
"That’s insane." Jay felt chills down his spine when he witnessed all those slashes. He couldn’t help but wonder how many slashes he could actually block.
Nevertheless, both of them couldn’t help but smile. Whether it was Jay who kept improving in order to defeat Clovis or Clovis who did all he could to retain his status as the captain, it was all for the sake of their group. This rivalry would just make them even stronger.
Unfortunately for them, their competition had to be stopped when they heard roars coming from the side.
"!!!" Both of them raised their heads, finding more than fifty beasts coming toward them.
"This is not looking good…" Clovis’s expression turned grim. In the first place, fighting a Tier 3 beast was all they could do. That was why Melody moved ahead and eliminated all the beasts on their way.
This time, no one was here to protect them from the other beasts. If they truly came to mess with them, the situation would be bad for Clovis and Jay.
In addition, the Tier 3 beasts positioned themselves on both sides, surrounding them. The buildings also stopped them from escaping, so they had no choice but to wait until those beasts reached them.
That would be the end of them. Even Clovis and Jay didn’t think they would survive with their current skills.
Clovis and Jay gritted their teeth, looking at how the two Tier 3 beasts stopped attacking them as if they were just trying to buy time. They instinctively knew what would happen when those beasts reached their position.
With their backs facing each other, Clovis was thinking, ’What should I do? Shoot them? The rhino will definitely block my trajectory. Call for help? They are still in the middle of a fight and will definitely be too late. Ask Kanaria and Melody to return?
But they are exploring the laboratory…’
Jay, on the other hand, let out a sigh. "Clovis… No, Captain."
"!!!" Clovis’s body shivered when Jay called him ’captain’ instead of his name. It showed how serious he was about whatever he was going to say.
"Please leave these two Tier 3 beasts to me. You go kill those beasts."
"Are you insane?" Clovis couldn’t believe what he had just heard. Even Clovis didn’t have the confidence to hold off the two Tier 3 beasts. But this was still the responsibility of the captain. "If someone is going to hold them back—"
Before he finished his words, Jay continued, "Your skill is much more efficient in killing those beasts. If there is anyone who can deal with them faster, it will be you. So, go kill them as quickly as possible and help me here, will you?"
Clovis gritted his teeth. He couldn’t deny that was the more effective plan, but what would happen to Jay?
Yet, when he heard this rarely determined voice of his, Clovis couldn’t really dismiss his plan.
Although he didn’t really want to do it, Clovis ran toward the rhino while saying, "I’ll leave them to you."
"!!!" The moment they saw Clovis moving, the two beasts charged forward to stop him.
Suddenly, Clovis decreased his pace for a bit, allowing Jay to appear from behind and grab the rhino’s horn.
"Haaaaaa!" He shouted at the top of his lungs while releasing every ounce of his strength to just change the trajectory of the charge.
When Clovis saw that opening, he passed the rhino in an instant and headed straight to the beasts that were currently approaching. Both his hands were clenching the swords tightly as he only had one thought in his mind, ’I will end this instantly.’
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