The Lone Dragon 19 Slaughtering The Wolves

The next day morning, everybody gathered their bare minimum necessities in their xenon bag slots and hurriedly rushed to their meeting spot, to depart for the live combat training. The xenon bag slots are modified s.p.a.ce pockets, which shrinks a storage area based on special magic. This single invention greatly improved combat experts' lives, since now they didn't have to carry huge loads and backpacks, when they leave for long and gruelling missions.

Eluraa couldn't break from her daily schedule. She first finished her morning cultivation, prior to meeting everyone and arrived last in the designated area. She still had that lingering glowing aura from the energy gathered and all the remaining four students stared at her for a second. Breaking the silence, Reina loudly cleared her throat, "Now that her highness is here, we can finally start our training!". Then, she realised that Nidaros and Herald had appeared near them and immediately kept her silence.

"Since Blood academy is located in a dangerous territory, we will be using the teleportation portal today to travel to the outskirts of Nyan village. We just received a level 0 mission yesterday evening to clear out the ravage wolves prowling that area." Nidaros led them to the portal area and activated the departing mechanics. The whole process was very fast and they instantly arrived at the village main gates.

Nyan village was a small settlement and needed the backup a.s.sistance for maintaining border security from time to time. As soon as the group arrived, the village gate border guards greeted Nidaros and Herald and gave them further mission specifics. They didn't expect that top experts would be a.s.sisting them this time. Nidaros explained the training program and told him that they needed one to two weeks this time to take care of the problem.

"Ravage wolves are level 0 beasts with a health of 10000 and each attack with a power ranging from 50 to 100. So, when you are fighting, if you get hit once, you have to immediately switch with your team mate. I will be dividing the wolves, isolating them and sending them to you guys one by one. And you will be attacking the wolves one at a time. So, don't worry about any other attacks. And Herald will be over seeing the fights." Nidaros briefed the students with their game plan.

"Also, wear these additional armors and here are some common grade weapons. There are no healers here and no other a.s.sistance. Your Xenon should notify you when your armor or weapon integrity is low. Inform me immediately. This is not a simple combat training. But, at the same time, this is also not a life-threatening combat training. How much you can use these two weeks is all dependent on each of you, individually. Good luck. We will take a break after 4 hours of training." Nidaros signalled Herald and went ahead to locate a wolf pack. He then provoked the attention of a single wolf from the pack and sent it towards the students.

Jian Tan loudly elected Shi Meng to face the approaching wolf first. He had a solid plan, "Shi Meng is awesome and probably won't get hit any time soon. So, I am just going to keep watching this whole shebang, while munching on my chips." Shi Meng laughed and readied himself to face the wolf. With the 300 boost from armor, he now had a total health of 500. He could easily take one or two blows from the wolf and was not nervous. He calmly adjusted his stance and the triggered wolf was almost right in front of him.

Combat training and fighting fellow students in combat matches is completely different from facing a powerful wild animal, charging at you at full pace. Jian Tan was immediately frightened by the huge salivating animal in front of them. Shi Meng calmly used his long sword to first block its frontal blow and quickly thrust the sword under the wolf's body, in the neck region, dealing a critical hit.

Herald was impressed with Shi Meng's combat expertise "That was a very nice move Meng. One-fifth of the wolf's health was drained with that single hit. These critical hits are important when you are battling in life threatening situations. The more the number of critical hits, the better your chances are at victory. And these critical hit numbers will increase with your mastery of the weapon. You seem to be at around stage 1. You should now focus on improving this."

Shi Meng nodded and continued parrying with the wolf for the next couple of minutes. Then, he was able to land one more critical hit. This went on for an hour and finally Shi Meng was able to bring down the fully adult ravage wolf all by himself. When the health drops to 20%, the monster grows more ferocious and its attack speed and power increases. Hence it took him an hour to finish the fight. But it is still commendable that he could do this without even finishing his basic training yet.

He quickly collected the animal's spirit core, its pelt and meat in his xenon bag slot. The pelts can be used for making higher level armors and other clothing. And the magical creatures' meat is nutritious and helps in building the physical body foundation. Herald then signalled Nidaros to send another wolf their way and Shi Meng again faced that wolf without a break. Herald wanted to see how far he could push every student's limit. These were the future warriors of their clan and their survival depended on them.