"Yes," Lu Wan answered. "Be careful!"
Swoosh!
Something suddenly headed to Mu Xin's direction.
Raising her sword, Mu Xin blocked the attack. Her eyes widened when she saw the white stone that fell down.
Tak!
"What's that?" Mu Xin asked. Despite got caught off guard, she kept her composure and tried to assess the situation.
The three of them looked at the front as they saw a large spider coming in their direction. It was red in color with its web tangled around its legs. Its eyes were looking at them as if it wanted to issue a warning.
"Can you handle it?"
"You want me to fight alone?"
"Yep," Lu Wan replied right away. "It's just a rank 1 beast. Even though it can attack from a range by throwing its web, you might be able to win in terms of agility."
"Agility? I don't think so."
As Mu Xin dashed forward, Lu Wan went to another direction. At the same time, Ye Jiao moved back from her position in order to avoid getting involved with the battle. She might be able to fight, but she didn't want to show her skill to anyone.
The spider made another ball of its thread and flung it to Mu Xin's direction. Mu Xin evaded it to the side and reached the spider's side in a second. Her sword moved and cut off the spider's leg.
Slash!
The spider spun its body and used its legs to attack Mu Xin.
Tak!
'It's quite hard, but it's still not too much.'
Focusing her strength on her hand, Mu Xin pushed the spider back. She lunged forward right when the spider raised its legs to attack.
Scree!
Mu Xin rolled beneath the spider and used her sword to thrust the spider's stomach. Blood and other liquid splattered from the place where she pierced her sword. Pulling it to the side, Mu Xin made a large slash on the spider's stomach.
Splash! Bruk!
As Mu Xin moved back, the spider's blood filled the entire ground. Its leg shook hard and it fell flat on the ground, unable to move after twitching for a bit.
"You're not bad," Lu Wan commented.
Mu Xin wiped her sword and sheathed it before putting it back to her storage bracelet. She summoned out a small knife. "I'm a general's daughter, so I already learned a bit about hunting from him."
"Is that so? Then it'll be better for us to just take turns battling. The next battle would be on me. What do you think of it?"
Looking at the beast, Mu Xin knew that it was not hard for her to deal with one by herself. If they didn't encounter any rank 2 beast, which was supposed to be none in this forest, there was no need for teamwork. It was already enough if one of them moved to deal with the beast.
"I don't mind, but can you fight that well?"
"You're doubting me? Fine, you shall see my prowess in the next beast that we meet. Anyway, have you finished taking the core?"
Mu Xin shook her head. Her hands were still busy rummaging the spider's body. "I can't seem to find it. Is there no core?"
"That's impossible. The strength of the spider is more than ordinary beast," Lu Wan jumped to the top of the beast. He carefully examined the spider's corpse before taking out a small knife and pierced it. Making a circular movement, he made a small hole and put his hand in before taking a small ball out.
"Here's the core."
Mu Xin took the core carefully. "Are you going to be the one to keep it or me?"
"You can be the one to keep it."
"Ok."
Ye Jiao stepped forward and glanced at the spider's corpse. "By the way, can you eat their meat?"
"... Even if it's possible, I'm not going to eat it."
"I'll pass too."
"Eh?" Ye Jiao took another glance to the spider before leaving it and followed after the other two. It seemed that the spider's meat wouldn't be able to be eaten since they seemed to hate it very much.
She wouldn't pursue the matter too.
"There's another beast nearby," Lu Wan stopped and took out his sword. He dashed to the nearby bush and swung his sword as hard as possible.
Slash!
Blood splattered and the other two could see a beast like dog laying on the ground with its body cut off in two. That one slash from Lu Wan was enough to kill in it and decapitated it into two parts.
"You're faster," Mu Xin mumbled.
Lu Wan grinned. "It's easier than I thought. With this speed, I think we're going to have leisure time in the forest."
Ye Jiao didn't know whether to laugh or cry seeing how Lu Wan could finish the beast so easily. The two of them already instantly killed numerous beasts when they were in a hurry before. With their superior weapon, it was extremely easy to cut the beast and wound them fatally in mere seconds.
Even though he was using a sword, Lu Wan didn't have any problem with the beast.
'In the first place, we only come here to show Lu Wan's face to them. After all, he still has to keep up his reputation.'
Lu Wan threw the beast's core to Mu Xin. "Is the arrangement settled?"
"Yes, but Ye Jiao won't fight, right?"
"No, she's not. Oh right, starting from now, you're the one to collect the core from the beast, ok?"
"Alright, leave it to me."
"Great, now let's get moving."