Chapter 265: Going to be tricky
"Of course you can't kill it with a single strike, it's a king tier beast not an intermediate one." Alex said.
"Whate…" Jake stumbled on his words. "Shit!" He shouted as the beast stretched its head towards where they were and then it was seen moving so quickly towards them and in less than a second, it crossed a distance of three metres and its maw was seen opening up widely about to chomp down on Jake and Alex.
Jake quickly opened up his system in a flash and activated {Strength Surge} and poured all his Qi into his hands giving him a tremendous burst of strength and he grabbed the reptile's maws hard but he was being pushed back as the beast was putting on pressure while the ground beneath Jake's feet was being cracked and broken.
The beast was trying to close its maws but Jake was holding on tight with all the strength he could muster.
'If I hadn't used my system skills and along with all my Qi, I wouldn't have been able to hold the beast like this. Darn! I'm losing me grip.' he thought and then he shouted out loud towards Alex.
"Hurry the f*ck up will you! I'm losing my grip!"
"Almost done!" Alex shouted as he was pouring all his Qi into his sword leaving him with almost nothing.
"Done!" He shouted and then he exploded from where he stood towards the beast and then in a flash, he made a swing towards the open maw and he went all the way to the tail of the beast slicing it into two.
And right on cue, Jake fell down in exhaustion as his hand felt like it was on fire from holding onto the maw for so long.
"What took you so long?" Jake asked as he was still sitting on the floor in pains.
"I'm sorry, I needed to move the Qi evenly around my body and the sword to achieve the necessary effect." Alex said as he was also gently heaving and panting.
'Since it was Alex that delivered the finishing blow, I won't be able to receive the rewards the system promised me.' Jake thought and then he tiredly walked towards the beast and began extracting the crystal.
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'One down! Twenty-four more crystals to go! If it wasn't because of Alex, I'm sure I would have struggled a lot. I'm glad I made the choice to bring him along otherwise I would have struggled greatly.' He thought as he finished getting the crystal and he kept it safely in his inventory.
"Where should we go next?" Alex asked as he was cleaning his sword from the beast's blood.
"What do you mean by where we are going next?! Don't you get tired? Well, I don't know for you but I need my rest." Jake replied.
"Ha! Are you tired? Jake the great is tired from defeating one beast? Now the whole school gats to hear this." Alex chuckled.
"You're annoying, you do know that." Jake said as he swung his sword around and then looked at their surroundings.
"I do get that a lot, especially from Peter." Alex replied with a chuckle.
"Let's head there." Jake pointed towards a particular direction that led to the general direction of the burning buildings.
"You are the boss." Alex shrugged as he sheathed his sword back and began walking side by side with Jake who was carefully walking.
"I wonder why there are not a lot of beasts around here like the other planets." Jake said, looking around cautiously.
"That is because this is a red portal planet, it is filled with dangerous king tier beasts, they don't roll in groups. And they are pretty scarce." Alex replied.
"Have you gone to a red portal planet before?" Jake asked.
"Am I crazy? When it's not like I have a death wish or something. Only those of high adventurer rank like double A can go there. Not even an A rank adventurer can survive on a red portal planet." Alex replied.
"Well, we are about to change history then." Jake smiled.
They kept on walking cautiously for a few minutes before they stood in the middle of the burning street as they were surrounded by broken down buildings left and right that were currently on fire.
"What the hell is that?" Alex asked as his eyes opened wide and was currently staring straight ahead.
Jake also looked up and he could see what surprised Alex as straight ahead away from the burning buildings, was a huge castle that looked like it was divided in the middle by a long stream of fire and then went around the building surrounding it again.
"I wonder what's in the castle." Jake said, looking at it.
"Let's go take a look then." Alex said and then he took off running with top speed leaving Jake behind.
"This guy is so reckless." Jake said and then he also started running quickly trying to catch up with Alex.
Slowly, he was catching up with Alex and the far away castle was getting closer.
'Something feels weird, why haven't we encountered another beast since? This feels suspicious.' Jake thought and then he was slowly catching up with Alex who was just two metres away from him when he saw him stop dead in his tracks.
Worriedly, Jake pushed himself to the limit and quickly got behind Alex.
"What's wrong?" He asked and then Alex moved aside un-obstructing his view and Jake could finally see why Alex stopped dead in his tracks.
"This is going to be tricky." Jake said as he could see about a dozen beasts in front of them standing guard a few metres away from the castle and without doubt, they were all king tier beasts.
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