"Attack!" Clovis shouted while slashing a few beasts in front of him. However, one of the beasts actually managed to catch his sword, forcing Clovis to change his attack pattern and kill this beast first. In addition, he stepped back and moved away slightly because he had to consider the beasts’ strength.
After killing the two Tier 3 beasts, Clovis and the group began their killing spree, eliminating more than a thousand beasts in just two days.
Ragna was obviously shocked by their efficiency. This one trip alone was already equal to what his previous group did in seven days.
In addition, they didn’t waste a lot of resources because the main attackers were Jay and Clovis.
They first agreed with his rate per day, but looking at this amount, paying that amount was actually just a pocket change.
Still, Ragna wasn’t an ungrateful person. He didn’t say anything about his rate, considering he hadn’t done much for the group.
It was true that once he got used to the group’s fighting style, he began to move to the front line more often, helping Clovis and Jay directly.
However, his effort still couldn’t be compared to that of Jay and Clovis. Kanaria and Melody even did more than him by becoming their eyes.
After the long fight, the group finally marched toward their next destination.
Like earlier, Clovis and Jay stood in the front and started cutting down the beasts.
But there was something different about this place. Clovis and Jay noticed it and immediately shifted their positions to be more careful.
They still managed to cut twenty beasts easily, but Clovis was frowning the whole time.
Before them was a forest and a hill that separated them from the freshwater lake, their original destination.
Clovis squinted his eyes as if imagining the beasts that they would have to fight to reach their destination.
"Clovis. Did you feel it too?" Jay asked.
"Yeah." Clovis nodded with a serious expression. He raised his head. The sky was still orange, and it shouldn’t go dark for another thirty minutes.
The reason they reached this place so early was because he wanted to check the enemies’ strength.
And these beasts had just proven his suspicion.
Clovis fell silent for a few minutes, causing the others to approach them with worried expressions.
Finally, Clovis revealed his decision. "We’ll fall back for a hundred meters and set up the camp there."
"What do you mean?" Kanaria was the first to object, considering their plan was to set up at the edge of the woods. This way, it wouldn’t take too long for them to restart their exploration.
The one who answered her question was actually Jay. "No. The beasts are much stronger than the ones at our previous destination. If I calculate it roughly, I guess they are 50% stronger."
"!!!" Kanaria raised her eyebrows in shock while Melody recounted the information that Hana gave. It must be the main reason for Clovis’s decision.
"I’ve told you that the beasts here are much stronger. And the third destination will have a beast much stronger than the one here," Ragna explained, trying to make them rethink their decision. At the very least, they shouldn’t brush off his explanation since he knew this place better than them.
"Alright." Kanaria nodded her head. Now that she had understood the problem, she agreed with Clovis.
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"What is the distance of this place from the base?" Clovis asked. "Also give me the distance for our previous destination."
Melody looked at the map and calculated it. "This place is about 20 km. The previous destination was only 9 km."
"What about the next destination?" Clovis furrowed his eyebrows as if he had noticed something.
"50 km," Melody answered with a serious expression.
"Ah!" Kanaria came to a realization and thought, ’So that’s how it is. We don’t know if the strength increase will be linear or not. However, one thing is clear: 20 km from the base means that the suppression of the ’tunnel’ is reduced by 50%. And there won’t be any suppression around 20-50 km.’
Although Hana didn’t give them the exact details, they could roughly calculate the distance they needed to travel if they wanted to fight the beasts without any suppression.
With this, they could easily choose one place or another to specifically target them as a challenge.
"Anyway, let’s clean up first and retreat from this place." Clovis waved his hand, giving his order.
"Ah! I’ll gather the essence." Ragna hurriedly moved to the corpses.
Clovis mysteriously looked at Ragna’s back. With the beasts becoming this strong, even Clovis would sustain some injuries if he wanted to challenge the Tier 3 beast one-on-one. He couldn’t really risk everything.
In fact, taking on a Tier 4 beast might be a bit foolish.
It seemed that he had to make more preparation than he originally thought. But for the time being, the group retreated and formulated a new plan.
Clovis had reminded them that he planned to abandon any thoughts about the Tier 4 snake. Instead, they would focus on killing the Tier 3 Paraceratherium and use this place as a warm up for the third destination.
Jay also agreed. With their current strength, they wouldn’t be able to challenge the Tier 4 beast. In fact, the only thing they could do was probably run away just like they ran away from the Tier 2 Yurlunggur when they were only Tier 0 humans.
Now that they had agreed with the new arrangement, Clovis hurriedly excused himself from the team. Since there was such a risk, he had to be much more careful, especially with the fact that Hana wasn’t here to stop the assassins from doing something again.
Hence, Clovis searched for a secluded place covered in darkness before going back to the Another World Mall. He even double-checked with the radar since he didn’t want the assassins to know about his Another World Mall.
Unbeknownst to them, the exploration this time might be much more difficult than they originally thought.