A large group is a hassle for Sean, with Beast World, he can just have Jasmine lure any powerful enemy away as he escape.
Unfortunately, such a lifesaving method isn't usable with a group like there's.
There's also the fact that Wuk has successfully reached bronze rank.
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Name: Wuk
Species: Battle Monkey
Grade: Rare
Innate Trait: Golden Vajra Battle Body
Rank: Vital Realm (Bronze Rank 1)
Demon Technique: Stage 1 Monkey Body Tempering Technique
Skills: King Kong Punch, Metal Element Imbue
Next Evolution: (-) Breakthrough to Bronze Tier; (-) Increase Vitality; (-) Reach 2nd tier of King Kong Punch
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He didn't proceed to evolution immediately, he wanted Wuk to learn a staff technique first, maybe it will influence the evolution direction.
Returning back home, Sean informs the girls that he will be leaving for some time.
"Hina, since you're still searching for your path, can you help me buy any technique that you can find, Yana, try to find techniques online if you can, no matter how absurd it is, just record it for me."
The two girls agrees immediately, they are more than happy to help him with such a simple task.
"What about me!? Is there any mission for me?" Tsu looks at him with anticipation.
Sean nods his head. "Unlike the two, you had found your own path, I suggest that you learn more recipe and start searching for a fire-type mystique creature that is suitable for your path as a chef and alchemist."
Hina and Yana thought about it, the two realizes that they don't know what they should do in the future but their mother does.
They can't help but feel a sense of urgency, especially Hina, she always wanted to be useful.
It's ingrained in her, become a chef like her mother? She likes eating more than cooking, continue her plan to become an evolution planner? Quite difficult and she has no talent, train hard to become a martial artist? Impossible.
Yana, on the other hand doesn't know what to do, she likes streaming, she looks at her sister and an idea forms in her head.
*Knock* 3X
"It's probably Steel Plate and others, I'll be going now."
When he opens the door, he was shocked to see another person in the team.
Nima.
"What the hell are you doing here!?" He's shocked but the latter smiles and waves her hand.
A clumsy looking beast starts walking towards her, it has yellow and white color.
'What is this? A yellow panda?' Sean was speechless.
"I finally managed to breakthrough with my father's secret technique, I am now a Spiritual Tamer!"
Sean's eyes sharpens, secret technique? Spiritual Tamer! Maybe, just maybe, he found a clue to their family's martial path.
"Still, you just broken through, don't you need to stabilize your current state?" He asks.
"I'm a Spiritual Tamer, now that I had awakened, I only need to accumulate enough vitality for me to continue improving my spiritual power." She raises her head high.
"Really? I never knew that, I just trained in Black Ape Fist normally." He was confused, this is different from what he thought.
"Don't compare everyone to you, you are a monstrous genius." Everyone agrees to this.
"Not to mention, didn't you say that your compatibility with Black Ape Fist is quite high, most Spiritual Tamer are like that too, once they learn a technique compatible with them, they don't need to train their vitality and spiritual power separately."
With the system's creation, it seems that he doesn't even need to train any of the two and the feedback of his two partners would push him to higher tier.
"Let's go on an adventure!" She raises her fist and starts punching the air, she's excited.
Sean quickly turns his head to Steel Plate, trying to ask him to dissuade Nima.
Steel Plate turns his head away from him, sweat can be seen pouring down his face.
The Gold Family is a large family with not only Nima but also a couple of young masters in the other branches.
The only reason why Nima is considers as the princess of the family because of two existence.
Her father and Zack, the two are major powerhouses that proved themselves, over and over again.
Another upset happened, Nima became a Spiritual Tamer, solidifying her seat as either the next powerhouses to be nurtured or the next head of the family.
This is quite blatant with her first partner being the Gold Eating Beast, the legacy mystique creature to the Gold Family.
"Don't worry, with me here, it would be easy to find a mineral vein compared to you guys blindly searching for one!" She confidently said.
The Gold Eating Beast has a natural ability to find raw metals, this was one of the reason why the Gold Family managed to reach their current status.
Knowing he can no longer persuade her, their group starts packing.
Meanwhile, inside the mansion, Harold was laughing like a madman, he was definitely laughing but tears was pouring down his face.
"That secret skill is actually true! Honey, our daughter has become a bonafide Spiritual Tamer, we of the Gold Family finally have our own secret skill!" He continues laughing, unaware that his only child was venturing to the dangerous Outside.
"So this is The Outside, I thought that we would immediately encounter a mystique creature once we arrive here." Nima says in a daze.
Everyone chuckles because they also first the same thing when they first arrived this place.
"The federation would periodically go into a purge everyone half a year but they can't do that in the inner core." Said Steel Plate.
"I never traveled far in the Outside." Sean lied.
"First, we need to know which direction we're going to travel." Steel Plate takes out a map.
"This is an incomplete map of the Outside, with the rules stated by the federation, we can only search for a suitable territory in the inner core."
Steel Plate had already investigated everything.
"Firstly, we're only investigating if there's a suitable location we can turn into our territory but if we don't find it, we must return immediately and report."
"Why can't we just continue investigating deeper?" Asks one of the bronze rankers.
"Because it meant certain death for us, the inner core is filled with high grade bronze rank mystique creatures and multitude of silver rank ones."
Everyone gasps, this meant that they might face a pack mystique creatures that has multiple silver ranks within them.
"That's not the most terrifying thing about the inner core, from time to time, you might encounter a gold rank mystique creature if you're unlucky, this is the reason why the federation doesn't touch the inner core."
"There are at least a hundred mystique creatures in the inner core and some of them are even monsterfied."
Everyone turns pale from this. They can't deny that if they encounter a gold rank mystique creature, it would be impossible for them to survive, even escaping is not possible.
"Now you know why we can't continue investigating at the inner core?" Steel Plate asks in which everyone nods their head in agreement.
"We can only search near the boundary of the outer core, mystique creatures all seek to absorb spiritual energy and the further you go in the inner core, the denser the spiritual energy."
With Steel Plate as their guide, everyone is confident that they won't be lost.
"Nima, is there any weapon technique collected by the Gold Family?" He asks.
She shakes her head. "All of them were discarded in order to not lead any descendants astray."
"Are you trying to find a staff skill for your pet monkey?" Suddenly, one of the bronze ranker asks.
His name is Fred, a bronze ranker known for his boisterous personality.
"Yes, from what you know, it has a knack using staff." He didn't deny it.
Mystique creatures can learn martial arts too but they mostly disdain training in one since their innate abilities and skills they learn are more powerful than any technique.
Majority of techniques are learned from watching them or from the past, where such techniques are considered redundant and useless.
"Leo has a stick technique called dog beating technique." He laughs out loud causing others to laugh with him.
This wasn't a secret to them, according to Leo, this was a heirloom by their grandfather.
According to their family, this technique can be practiced but not to beat dogs but to beat children.
This was a treasure not for the entire family but for the parents.
Leo and the rest of the brats in his family are very obedient because they're afraid to taste the eighteen head strikes.
The name sounds simple but actually all strikes are on the backside and all their aim are stinging pain.
"Are you willing to teach me this skill?" Sean listens to the jokes and teasing of his group but still asks.
He doesn't care about the purpose of the skill, his only thought was to create one for Wuk.
"Sure, each male of our family has a copy of one." He then throws a book to Sean.
After reading the entire book, he now realized why Leo doesn't really care about it.
It might still have some use to civilians but is actually worthless on the eyes of martial artists.
[Mystical Weapon Technique: A skill that continuously grow by absorbing more techniques and learning new ones.
Requirements: (-) Learn a skill that can Imbue strength to inanimate object; (-) Learn a technique compatible with the weapon and user; (-) The user must have a high affinity towards the chosen weapon.]
His eyes lights up and immediately agrees to it, a flash of light appears on his eyes.
Wuk learns the Mystical Weapon Technique and after he did an additional information appears on his status.
[Next Evolution: (-) Breakthrough to Bronze Tier; (-) Increase Vitality; (-) Reach 2nd tier of King Kong Punch
Special Evolution: Refine one weapon]
'Refining a weapon?' He thought about it and realized, he doesn't know how.
[Refining method: Take one weapon and synergized it with an Imbue skill, the quality, composition and affinity towards the weapon will decide the duration of refining.]
It was actually quite easy, he'll just order a metal staff with a unique design once he returns from this mission.
This means, Wuk's evolution will be on hold until then.
"By the way, I want to ask this question since earlier but, where is your partners? From what he heard, you have two pets, the magical transforming monkey and the cute fox." Asks one of the three girls in the group.
"Both of them are already here, my partner, the monkey that you guys are interested in has successfully broken through and is now coming to this place as we speak." He lied.
Everyone was a bit surprised with his answer, they know that you can leave your pet here to train but not many martial artists would dare do this.
After all, the likelihood of your pet beast getting killed in the wild is quite high.
'Maybe this is the reason why his pet beasts are much stronger than regular mystique creatures.' They all thought.
Their journey is quite fast, it might be far for normal people but it was close for martial artists.
Nima who was now being carried by Sean was blushing.
Her pet beast was also being carried by Sean's pet beast.
Wuk, who "just" arrived together with Jasmine is now being used as a mount.
The lazy bear smiles as it nuzzles on Wuk's hair, it seems to be quite lax.
According to Nima, all Gold Eating Beast is like this, only after they evolve would they gain combat prowess.
"Be careful everyone, we're now entering the inner core, vigilance is a must." Steel Plate emphasizes once more.
Sean looks at the trees and was a bit surprised, the trees are different from the outer cores.
They're bigger, their leaves are more luscious and their colors are a bit darker.
Once they step into the dividing line made by the trees, Sean felt a different sensation.