This time, Alec made sure that Titan led the attack since he was the only one who had been able to see through the Matriarch Hyena’s scheme and even heavily injure her.
He did this because he remembered a quote that stated, ’With pure power, all schemes are useless.’
However, it was proving difficult to reach the Matriarch Hyena, as the other hyenas had fallen back to protect her.
This also allowed Agnes and the rest of the group to regroup with Alec, Brandon, and Arthur, who were still trying their best to free Pale from the hyenas’ encirclement.
But Despite their efforts, things were not going as they expected.
The Matriarch Hyena’s limb muscles were twitching in apparent pain, yet she still looked at Pale and the other mage with greedy eyes, holding back her evolution.
Pale gritted his teeth as he cut his other second palm this time and used the Ice lance Spell again, but this time it was to create a path through the hyena barricade that was blocking their retreat.
He was feeling the aura emitted by the Matriarch Hyena and he knew it had surpassed the average level of danger and she was becoming more dangerous than ever.
With precision, Pale directed the newly cast Ice Lance Spell towards a specific location, cutting through the ranks of the hyenas blocking them as if they were butter and this was because he discarded using the Ice Lance Spell as an AOE skill.
However, just as Pale finished opening up a part to regroup with Alec and the rest of the group, the Matriarch Hyena moved, determined not to let any of her prey escape.
She lunged for Pale first, but since his both hands were still fresh with blood from cutting them earlier and had not healed yet, he wasn’t able to cast another Mid Tier Spell for protection in time.
So, he decided to cast an Ice Shield Spell with a rebound effect, but this time he re-directed the rebound effect towards his side.
And as the Matriarch Hyena closed in, he asked the other Mage to embrace him from behind.
As The Matriarch Hyena’s claws slammed against the ice shield defense he had created, shattering it almost instantly, with the rebounding effect launching him flying away.
However, the Matriarch Hyena was able to grab hold of the other Mage with her Jaws before he was launched into the air by the rebounding effect.
Since the mage hadn’t held onto Pale tightly enough, the Matriarch Hyena dragged him by his legs before Pale escaped.
As Pale landed, he was immediately surrounded by Alec and the rest of the group on the other side that have been waiting for him.
Although their faces showed anger, they were ignoring Pale for the moment and directing all of their rage towards the Matriarch Hyena, who had just killed the second mage and also devoured its heart.
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The moment the hyena swallowed the second heart, it let out a piercing scream as its body started to break down and reconstruct itself almost instantly.
The process seemed torturous, but it was actually going through the breakthrough stage to the Mid Rank Realm.
Even in pain, the Matriarch Hyena’s eyes still showed its greed.
It was clear that the Matriarch Hyena had wanted Pale’s heart to be part of its evolution process, as it had been eyeing Pale’s ice magic from the start.
However, it couldn’t continue delaying its evolution even if it didn’t get to consume Pale’s heart.
Cause if it continued with restricting his evolution, it would face another failed evolution and might never be able to enter the Mid Rank Realms, as it would have exhausted all its potential due to greed.
So, it had to settle for the heart of the second mage since it was running out of time and had to evolve quickly.
But the Matriarch Hyena consuming the second heart was something unexpected even to Alec.
As she was attempting to consume the power of two hearts and evolve with a dual ability, this was something that most beast would be too scared to try, but the Matriarch Hyena seems quite confident.
Alec quickly used his analysis skill on her once again.
[> Quasi Tier 4 Demonic Beast <](Evolving)
Name: Demonic Spotted Hyena
[Note: Has consumed the hearts of a wind element mage and a psychic mage, breaking through the barrier hindering its evolution. Its evolution will now be directed towards the wind and psychic path due to the hearts it has consumed.
After evolution, it will have access to all wind elemental and psychic spells that the owners of the hearts consumed learned and may even be more proficient, as it enters the Mid Rank Realm.]
Seeing such a description before the Matriarch Hyena’s evolution only increased Alec’s desperation to stop her.
However, they were still unable to penetrate the remaining Hyenas that were guarding her in the main time.
The Matriarch might have attacked them with only sixty Hyenas, but she had a few more hidden in the bushes as backup.
Currently, around forty additional Hyenas had emerged to defend their leader’s breakthrough.
Although they believed it would be relatively easy to halt her progress due to her unstable energy from consuming two hearts with different attributes and elements, but they still could not quickly overpower the Hyenas protecting her quickly.
Even Titan, who had been decimating the front line hyenas, was now facing a group of five powerful female peak Tier 3 hyenas that the Matriarch had sent his way.
These females were larger, faster, and more cunning than their counterparts, and their intention was just to keep him occupied.
Despite their delaying tactics, Titan managed to kill three of them.
However, other female peak Tier 3 hyenas immediately took their place.
They made sure to distribute enough hyenas to keep everyone occupied while the strongest female peak Tier 3 Hyenas stayed close to the Matriarch as she seems to be at her weakest.
After a few seconds, the wind around her turned violent, turning green with a hint of purple energy swirling around.
These two colours eventually enveloped the Matriarch Hyena, making her appear encased in a green and purple egg.
As the green colour dominated the purple colour, as the egg continuously expand, while wind element particles and psychic energy particles were drawn into the air around it.
The egg absorbed these particles rapidly, pulsating like a heartbeat.
The nearby hyenas guarding the Matriarch revered the egg while it absorbed the energy.
Suddenly, a flaming bullet flew towards the egg, striking it with great force and leaving behind a massive crack that revealed one of the Matriarch Hyena’ s eyes.