As Wesley fought with the beast, he realized that he was getting new insights on the sword technique. The star bead lit up with new lines as the starry body technique started running automatically. His lips curled up with a smile as he felt his body absorbing the spiritual aura around though not as fast as when he was in the inheritance space.
'slash' he sent the beast tumbling away with a deep slash on its front legs. Blood flowed freely and it let out a deafening roar in pain. The beast could no longer use the injured limb and stand properly.
When your enemy is down, go in for the kill. Wesley ran towards the incapacitated beast with determination. The beast realized its position was not good and sent its tail to block Wesley's advance.
As the tail came charging towards him, he lowered his body, dodged the coming tail, made a body roll on the ground and when he reached the beast's side, Wesley slapped the ground to get leverage and jumped to its head. He slid the entire sword into its left eye and while still in mid air, he kicked its head and used it as a spring board to make a backflip. He touched the ground gracefully and shouted for the rest of the three warriors to retreat.
'retreat'
He clearly remembered that Tresse had told him to always avoid the death throes of an enemy. When your enemy realizes that they are going to die, they can go into a rampage and if you are not cautious, you can lose more than you gain or even your life.
The three warriors were veterans, as soon as they saw Wesley's sword entering the beasts head , they had already started retreating.
'Hehe' Wesley laughed at himself for shouting something stupid when he saw them retreating faster than him.
They looked at the beasts roaring in pain while in its death throes. It took a long time time but the beast stopped its rampage, fell down and stilled all movements.
All of them sighed in relief, it had been a tough battle.
Wesley became cautious as the first man who looked like the leader of the three approached.
'Thank you brother for your help, which school do you hail from?' The man bowed and asked.
Wesley hesitated, he did not know how to answer the man because he did not belong to any faction.
'Oh, sorry I did not mean to sound rude." The man apologized when he saw Wesley's hesitation.
'My name is Desker, and these two are my brothers, Dirk and Rum" he introduced himself and the others.
'The short one is Rum and the thinner one is Dirk'
'rum" Wesley wondered how a person could be named rum if he remembered correctly, rum was a drink adults drank.
He stared at them especially at Rum. Wesley kept on wondering why they still had on the masks. He could only differentiate them from their height and size.
Desker looked burly and was almost his size, the shorter one called Rum was around 150 cm in height and Dirk was thinner and around 1.8meters in height.
He nodded to them in greeting and planned to introduce himself.'
'What should I tell them, I can't use my real name.' He thought of a lot of things in that split second.
'My name is Lesly and I am just a wanderer.' Wesley finally found what to tell them.
They looked at him and knew he was lying. With the way he had fought, he had to be part of an academy or school.
Desker gave a look to the others that meant they had to be cautious around Wesley. And as they were measuring up each other, the down beast let out a sound that startled Wesley, it sounded like s a ball leaking air.
He looked at the beast and took a step back in fear, the beast had started to shrivel like something was sucking out all of its essence.
At the end, everything that made up the beast disappeared and left only a jet black round bead. It was giving off some kind of energy and what surprised Wesley was that he could sense some type of rule being emitted from it.
Desker looked at Wesley in vigilance but Wesley was oblivious.
Wesley kept on wondering what the beast was and where it had come from and most importantly, what that bead was. He could feel that the energy in the bead could be used for cultivation.
Wesley had never seen such a beast since he was born.
He turned to Desker and asked him in a confusing tone.
'Mr, Desker, I would like to ask, what was that beast we just fought, I have never seen it before and the bead, what is it?'
The three warriors looked at each other, they were in shock, everyone in Black ore city knew the answer to that.
Desker looked at Wesley and pondered, this man was either a green horn on the matter of warrior training since he did not know what a body refiner was or a warrior who had just wandered to the vicinity of Black ore city or he was a very good liar.
Desker believed the first one.
He looked at the man who had helped them defeat the beast and decided to answer him.