The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Chapter 173: Ch 173: Taking Care of the Great Beast

The great beast lived inside a forest just a few kilometres away from the city. Today only Himiko was accompanying Rein, Lan and Colinde as Mei was busy with a mission given by Rein. After seeing how powerful Rein and the others were, both of the protectors were less worried about their well being.

Before entering the forest Rein himself wore a powerful defensive artifact and also made his other companions to do the same. The great beast of this forest was a panther-like being and the skill it had boosted its already incredible speed. But the monster's ability to deal damage was not that great.

That was the reason why Rein was trying to focus on the defense as with a good defense, it was possible to prevent the great beast from dealing a bad blow. It was a very fast beast, so they would probably not be able to beat it in speed. But with a good defense, this beast would not be able to do much harm.

Even after all that preparations, Rein still advanced in a forest with a lot of caution. There was no one here who had a skill which was useful for scouting and that was the reason why he was so cautious. Himiko also had a skill called Body of Beril which was also a defensive skill like Rein's. So currently Rein's party had two tanks and a frontline attacker. As for Lan she was at most a support.

So his team currently was very unbalanced.

It turned out that the cautious attitude that Rein was taking was a good call from him. Just as all four of them entered a deeper part of the forest, a shadow suddenly ambushed them from the top of a tree.

This was a bit of a surprise as according to the recent information, this great beast was supposed to be quite big. At least it was not small enough to jump on trees.

The person whom this beast targeted was Lan. She was definitely the weakest among the people present here and the beast was smart enough to target her for that. As soon as Rein noticed the presence of the beast, he immediately attacked it. The beast tried to dodge but Rein was just too fast and blew it away with a punch.

Colinde followed it with her demon slaying sword in her hands and started fighting it.

Rein did not go after the beast while Colinde was fighting it and instead went to check in Lan. He inspected her body and found that, a part of the hand was missing some meat. Her armour was decent but the biting power of the beast was greater than expected. Fortunately this was not a fatal wound.

Himiko also came to Rein side and handed him a powerful healing pill. Rein did have some stronger pills but he did not take them out. The wound that Himiko had suffered was not that dangerous. The pill that Himiko had given Rein was enough to perfectly heal this wound.

In this situation, using a stronger pill was not helpful at all but instead it might even create some problems with its extra unnecessary healing energies.

After making sure that Lan was alright, Rein asked Himiko to take care of her while he went to beat the beast up. Rein was currently quite angry and he decided to vent a little bit on the unfortunate great beast.

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Colinde and the great beast were almost equally matched when it came to fighting power but when Rein joined the fray, the battle did not last very long. Very soon the beast was badly beaten up with several bruises on its body. It was unable to move even a single muscle with how much pain it was enduring.

Rein did not immediately kill the boss as he wanted to ask it a few questions. Not all the great beasts were capable of talking. But looking at how intelligent this great beast was, he most probably would be able to converse properly.

Just as Rein had expected, very soon this beast started talking. Even though this beast was capable of talking, it's intelligence was not very high and was only equivalent to a child's. The cunning decisions that it had made during the battle was mostly based on its instincts and there was no planning involved from the beast.

As for why it suddenly started attacking and killing humans after living peacefully with them for so long was because it was provoked by a human at that time. When it was chasing that human away, it came across a few others who attacked it immediately after seeing it. So in retaliation this beast ended up killing all of them.

A few days ago, this Beast was given a warning by someone it has never seen about a person who would be coming to kill it in the near future. Alongside that there was also a way written which could prevent that from happening. That way was to completely eliminate the nearby city. In which case no one would be able to come after it.

This beast was dumb enough to consider this plan but the wild instincts of this beast warned him that it was not a very good idea. He would not be able to leave his domain for a long time so he decided not to follow the written plan and just to keep a close eye on the forest.

That was also the reason why this beast was able to find Rein's group so easily. It was doing its regular forest petrolling and came across Rein and his group and sneak attacked them.

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Hearing this explanation it was clear that someone was trying to destroy the Flowing Stream City with a borrowed blade. First it provoked the beast to kill a few humans. This way the human city and the great beast became enemies. Then that person tried to manipulate the beast to attack the city. That plan also unfortunately failed because the intuition of this beast was too strong.

Now Rein was getting interested in finding out who this culprit was. This person was making very good plans but was extremely unfortunate as all the plans were failing because of elements that person had no control over.

After learning the whole story Rein decided not to kill this beast. A beast intelligent enough to be able to speak with a human was very rare and valuable. So just killing it would be a waste. If the Divine Scale Pavillion knew about the intelligence of this beast, they would have already tried to tame it.

Normally it was extremely hard to tame a great beast but it was very much possible to entice an intelligent beast with juicy baits. Intelligent humans and beasts both had desires and using that desire to recruit them was very much possible.

So Rein told the beast about his options. To die in vain or to live as a member of a powerful sect. Fortunately this beast was very sensible and accepted the proposal. Now Rein just needed to tell the sect about it and they would take this forest under them as this was the domain that this beast controlled. A domain type of great beast was also rare so it was insanely great profit for the sect.

Now Rein was done with all the missions but he was not planning to return before finding the culprit behind all these.