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nStanding up within the bush, Jason made himself some space to dash out immediately when both would appear.

nJason could sense Artemis´ astonishment.

nAfterward, he felt that she used large amounts of her mana to enhance her wings in order to accelerate her flying speed.

nJason grew worried but he told himself that he had to remain calm as Artemis plumage could be seen from far away.

nShe was at least 20 meters high in the sky, while below her Jason could see green bison pursuing her on the ground.

nThe bison was enveloped by a light green mana, roaring enraged.

nShooting out wind-blades towards Artemis, she had to use her utmost efforts to evade them, which was barely possible.

nArtemis threw stones at the bison and made fun of it, which made the bison extremely furious.

nFollowing and attacking the flying beast pleased the bison as it was reassured once again that it was the overlord in this area.

nIt knew that the small beast could only endure the onslaught of wind blades for a few minutes at most before it would be exhausted.

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nThe small wind blades it used didn't take much of its mana because of the bison's mutation, which it instinctively figured out.

nCompletely without a single thought of protecting itself, the bison stared at the sky, not looking at what happened in front of it as it bypassed a big green bush.

nSuddenly the bison felt a painful sting at its ride-side as it grew weaker when its legs couldn't handle the bison's weight anymore before it collapsed.

nTurning its head, the bison saw a long red stripe with white bones sticking out of its body, caused by a Jade green dagger that stuck on its hindleg.

nThe bison's whole side was torn apart, blood and organs spilling out of the huge laceration caused by the dagger.

nCrying out in pain once it saw a youth squeezed himself out of the bush, the bison felt enraged.

nWith its last efforts, it gathered the remaining mana inside it to shoot out a wind blade.

nJason was still completely on-guard against his first opponent with an elemental affinity.

nHowever he was still only barely able to evade the wind blade as the blade´s draft blew away his hair.

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nArtemis dived down in rage after Jason was attacked, only to pierce into the bison's eyes with its sharp talons.

nImmediately afterward, the weight of the white beast vanished once the bison died without taking revenge on any of its attackers.

nJason was astonished that his plan worked out so easily, causing him to sigh in relief.

nThe only thing that worried him was the fact that the wind blades were faster than he expected while Artemis was almost hit by some of them.

nStill, the bison was way too full of itself as it didn't even notice Jason jumping out of the bush, tearing apart the bison´s whole side with his dagger.

nSometimes even a hunter might be hunted, and one should never feel too safe anywhere.

nJason ran to the dead body, only to see Artemis picking out the slightly green incomplete core which he instantly took out of her talons.

nThe amount of mana inside this core was almost at the awakened rank and he didn't want Artemis to eat this core.

nOtherwise who knows how long he had to wait for her to wake up.

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nThere was not much time left, as he had to hunt another four five-star wild beasts.

nHowever, he had to rely on Artemis for that.

nArtemis mana replenishing process was relatively fast while she sat on Jason's shoulder.

nJason strived around carefully to look out for some lone five-star wild beasts.

nHis luck couldn´t be considered good as he walked around until afternoon, even neglecting his Heaven's Hell practice, only to find nothing.... not a single solo five-star wild beast was in his sight.

nHe saw many larger groups of youth within the mid and a few peak Novice ranks fighting a large group of five-star wild beasts.

nFinally! Jason's luck paid off.

nSeeing a group of youths overwhelming a pack of five-star greater horned wolves Jason rejoiced.

nThey split up and an injured wolf-headed his way.

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nJason was still approximately 100 meters away from the whole battle.

nHe was delighted seeing that the youths pursued other wolves while the particular wolf who ran to him was alone.

nDeciding to hide behind a tree, he waited for the perfect moment to ambush the wolf.

nSeeing the wolf running past the tree, Jason gathered enough mana in order to push his speed to the limit in the shortest amount of time, thrusting out with his dagger, cutting through the unaware wolf's neck.

nThe whole assassination took less than a second and it was only possible because the wolf was foolishly running along the bush, not caring about any possible danger.

nNot knowing what happened, the wolf collapsed on the ground, with its eyes turning dim in a short amount of time.

nStoring the corpse without further delay, Jason vanished from the spot.

nOnly half a minute later, a few youths found the spot where the greater horned wolf was killed, looking down at the green patch of grass that was stained with fresh blood.

nThese youths were all at least a year younger than Jason, but they were already at the 8th Novice rank which indicated their strength.

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nOne youth with particular looked at the blood-stained grass patch.

nJason was running far away with a big radiant smile on his face.

nOnly three out of five beasts had to be hunted down and Jason had still time until two days later, when he had to meet Greg.

nHe didn't think that he would find a lone five-star wild beast until the evening which was only around two hours away.

nBut even so, he continued his journey around the wild zone.

nArtemis circles around him in the air, looking out for possible targets.

nSuddenly, around half an hour later something that both of them didn't expect happened.

nAbove Artemis, the sky turned dark with a weird sensation approaching her, as she looked above, only to see a huge vulture diving down.

nHorrified, Artemis cried out and also dived down with a ninety-degree angle, only to evade the vultures' talons by a hair length.

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nNoticing Artemis´ feeling horrified, he heard her crying out as he looked above.

nThere he saw Artemis diving towards him as the vulture pursuid her.

nThe vulture was heavier and thus way faster with its dive than Artemis and Jason knew that the vulture would catch up to Artemis only a few moments later.

nHe made up his mind and utilized the only thing he could think of.

nGripping his dagger firmly, Jason pulled his arm back as he aimed with his other hand, following the trajectory with one finger.

nInjecting half of his mana into the arm that held the dagger, Jason threw the dagger with a loud shout.

nJason knew he couldn't instantly kill the vulture, causing him to aim at a biggest part of the vulture, that was the abdomen.

nBut even so, he was still slightly off as the dagger pierced into the vulture´s wing.

nThe impact from the flying dagger changed the course of the vulture dive.

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nNoticing that, Artemis felt as if a stone was plucked from her small and tender heart as she continued her dive until she reached Jason.

nShe looked extremely horrified as if she was completely out of her wits and Jason had the urge to cuddle her.

nHowever, he was unarmed and the vulture which landed slightly apart from them.

nWith his mana eyes activated, he figured out that the Vulture was a five-star wild beast.

nJason saw the dagger stuck deep into the vulture's wing which made him sigh in relief as he had at least injured it slightly, causing its best advantage to discard.

nIt couldn't fly with the dagger in its wing but its razor-sharp beak and talons were still more than threatening to the unarmed Jason.

nBoth Artemis and Jason were only faster than the injured vulture with some mana as enhancement but they shouldn't underestimate their sole opponent, as the vulture's physique and strength were still much higher than theirs.

nBecause he had no weapon to defend himself, Jason had to envelop his hands with a thin layer of mana in order to prevent them from being cut off or seriously injured.

nAnother major issue was that Jason that Artemis was injured!

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