The nobles and their hunting groups began to enter the forest. Evans heard the footsteps, saw the people heading towards the forest, some groups brought slaves to put them in the vanguard as cannon fodder.
-Young Lord; we must enter. -A man with black hair and beard, who was the captain of Evans' hunting group, told him.
Evans' hunting party consisted of six warriors, 2 of them at the fourth rank and the rest at the third rank; and by 2 magicians in the third circle.
Evans looked at Aria; She was accompanied by Ana, Lizet, and by Stan who had become her personal guard.
-You have to win! -Aria exclaimed.
Evans nodded and said to his group:
-Let's go in.
Evans entered the forest, he did not lower his guard, although he considered that it was very difficult for someone to dare to ambush him with an imperial representative in the hunting group.
While they were walking, skirmishes could be heard in the distance; They didn't pay attention to the distractions, they just continued going deeper into the forest. Because they already knew what the target was that Evans wanted to hunt.
They had been deep in the forest for an hour when a red-fanged imperial boar attacked them. Although the red-fanged imperial boar was a variant for which they could award additional points, Evans continued on his way and the group captain ordered:
-We must scare away this beast! Wizards, attack the snout! Warriors, defensive position!
Several fireballs and stone bullets made the boar's snout bleed and it did not hesitate to retreat when it felt threatened.
"Apparently they must be avoiding being seen, while they evaluate whether they have a chance of hunting us."
Evans jumped easily between the trees and in the distance on a small hill was the Esquirian Alpha wolf.
"You must have been leading the rest of your pack."
Evans indicated to the captain:
-We are surrounded; There is an alpha Esquirian wolf ahead; cover me! I will attack the alpha!
The captain did not have time to comment because Evans walked away into the forest trees.
-Everyone pay attention, magicians to the center! Let's move forward! -The captain ordered.
Immediately the captain and the rest of the group followed Evans' trail.
Bang! ...Bang! ...Bang!
Evans was moving at speed through the trees while throwing magical ice slashes at the paws of the Esquirian wolf that was trying to catch him, but as Evans jumped between the trees they also became an obstacle for the wolf.
Bang!...Bang!...
The icy magical slashes continued to hit the wolf's joints, slowing down its movement; but as he was a beast at the peak of the fourth rank he did not give in easily, as Evans was only using mana due to the presence of the imperial representative; Evans had to start taking the mana elixirs while continuing to attack; The entire fight was being recorded by a magic crystal. The fight was dragging on, and Evans only had two mana elixirs left.
In a sumptuous tent, with elegant furniture, a golden carpet and white curtains, the imperial family observed the course of the tournament through magical crystals that projected what the representatives recorded.
-It seems that the duke's son is in trouble. -Dereck said as he watched as Evans took one elixir after another, while the rest of his group faced the Esquirian wolf pack.
In this tournament, the crown prince was absent.
The empress with a firm personality said to her daughter:
-I think that young Asert Feriac is an excellent candidate.
On another screen Asert was calmly extracting his sword that had been embedded in the heart of an imperial boar.
Amelia squeezed a handkerchief in her hand and responded calmly:
-If Evans is not up to my father's demands; I will agree to the compromise you want.
Evans distanced himself several meters from the beast, took the two mana elixirs, and attacked head on.
Despite being slowed down, the Esquirian wolf ran towards Evans.
One step and another step.
In the end they both jumped.
The Esquiria wolf opened its jaws, showing its sharp teeth.
Evans, with his left hand, gripped his sword tightly and accumulated all the magic at the tip.
When it seemed that the wolf Esquiria was going to bite Evans...
Bang!
Evans stabbed the air in front of the wolf's jaws and a freezing thrust caused the wolf to close its jaws.
Evans remained behind the Esquiria Wolf, who began desperately touching his closed jaws with his paws.
Evans exhaled and looked at the top of one of the tallest trees.
"I need to reach the third mana circle; this has been very inefficient."
Evans looked at the recording crystal, he smiled as he thought that because of that simple object he had not been able to easily defeat that Esquiria wolf.
"If I use my power here and they examine it, they will find similarities with the traces that may have been left on the bodies of the mercenaries."
Evans looked at his sword.
"This will be unsightly."
Evans breathed, then began to move away from the alpha Esquirian wolf to run towards an Esquirian wolf that was facing a warrior from his group.
Evans jumped with just the strength of his trained body.
Stab!
The wolf Esquiria fell dead after being stabbed in the ear by Evans. Evans had managed to fatally wound the wolf's brain at the time it was stabbed by the sword.
-Take out the core and give it to me!
Evans ran towards a mage and a warrior facing three wolves.
Stab!
Evans caught another Esquirian wolf off guard and killed it, the other two wolves turned their attention towards Evans, but the mage and the warrior took the opportunity to counterattack.
-Take out the cores and give them to me.
The warriors followed Evans' orders and gave him the magical cores of the "Esquiria" wolves.
The Alpha "Esquiria" wolf was tearing the skin from its jaws until the ice that closed them began to melt.
"Don't even think about opening your jaws again."
Evans still absorbing the cores ran with all his strength towards the Alpha "Esquiria" Wolf.
The wolf "Esquiria" attacked Evans with the claws of one of its front paws, but he only dodged at the last moment, jumping towards the head of the wolf Esquiris and with brute force Evans pierced his eye socket, burying his sword and his left arm, and then releasing the freezing energy.
The wolf "Esquiria" ran frantically to crash into a tree and thus free himself from Evans, but before the wolf Esquiria reached the tree he fell dead to the ground.