Alexei crashes his battle axe against the bear who finally reveals his enormous figure of between 3 meters to 3.5 meters, his thick black fur like a shadow with a black spot on the neck and a fairly powerful aura.
But Alexei only smiles saying: "What's wrong Little Bear?, is that all you've got?"
The bear, furious because his attack was blocked, injects his black eyes with a visible red light and his height grows even more from 3.5 meters to 4 meters and he quickly charges in Alexei's direction.
Elise sees this and warns everyone: "Quick, dodge, that Feral Jet-Black Bear has activated a skill."
Quickly the troops dodge to different sides, even Alexei dodges to one side, while he says: "So the little bear got angry, let me finish this quickly then!"
Alexei tightens the grip of his axe and injects his energy in increase while he prepares to attack when the bear finally turns around after missing his charge and furiously heads to attack him.
Alexei smiles coldly and says: "Piercing Ice Thunder Strike!"
The energy gathered in his axe begins to change color, an aura of blue and white taking shape, trembling and letting out a terrible cold, and when Alexei takes it with both hands and launches a slash toward the bear's chest, it lets out a sound similar to the blast of a large bomb.
This one instinctively feels the great danger in that strike and with all his strength tries to block it with his paws or at least deflect it, but… even though he manages to do so, it is useless.
Because beneath the energy slash follows a layer of ice spikes that grow from the ground in plain sight, so when the bear stops the slash with his paws injuring himself in the process, the spikes continue their path until they pierce his chest in a bloody manner.
Soon a huge amount of blood begins to gush from the bear, while the icy power contained in the spikes invades his body in a savage manner, soon the red light in the bear's eyes begins to fade until he falls motionless on the spikes in silence without moving in the slightest.
Alexei then with all his strength cuts off the bear's head and then orders: "Collect the corpse and clean everything, we need to set the formation, Darling, take care of the formation deployment team together with Miss Elise, I will take charge of eliminating the annoying threats together with the rest of the group."
Alina nods and says: "Alright love, take good care of yourself." Quickly Alina speaks with Elise and takes another girl from the army, in total of the 15 people in this team, 8 will stay to clean including Alexei.
Alexei then takes out his storage bag and stores the bear's corpse, not without first collecting the beast core and giving it to Vera, who eats it delightedly, then with axe in hand resumes his work…
While searching for more potential threats of energetic beasts or monsters, he could not help but continue feeling grateful for his young master…
Before he was stuck at the peak of the elemental realm because of the curse that was placed on his family and he could not even dream of defeating so easily an energetic beast in the mystic realm grade 1 advanced stage like that feral jet-black bear.
But in these months even without having awakened his bloodline like his sister, he already reached the mystic realm grade 4 initial stage, thanks also to the generous resources that Feicui Long provides them and to the recent cultivation rooms, for that reason he must strive harder, to repay this kindness… although as an ex-mercenary he knows that such kindness is not without a reason, he does not care, after all, everyone has their motives.
Alexei then with his group quickly runs through the area searching and killing every beast they came across, until suddenly they began to hear vibrant and deep clicking sounds, it was then when Alexei narrowed his eyes, this sound…
Raising his hand he makes his subordinates stop and hide behind a tree to see what happens…
…
Soon after restless footsteps were heard a vaguely humanoid figure appeared, the first thing of the figure were claws that stepped on the ground, then they noticed the color and shape of its scales, pale white and bright scales with the shape of a circle covering almost uniformly its body, from its legs to its hands and head, only its belly and chest up to below the throat are of another color, a beige color.
Its yellowish eyes with a reptilian pupil scanned its surroundings alertly, its nose opened its nostrils to smell the environment, when it could not find anything the figure relaxed its fierce posture and straightened its back while lowering its spear to touch the ground.
Alexei whispers very softly: "A slender lizardman with circular scales… no, there are more."
Soon behind the lizardman two more appear walking, one white with black lines on its sides and another of a sky blue color, the three look back waiting for someone else, all wear tribal outfits, skirts and caps, along with a bag with certain things, their weapons like the other are wooden spears with an iron tip.
Heavier and stronger footsteps are heard and the bushes and branches move a little, the head of a large lizard peeks out, its brown scales with a texture clearly similar to wood like an oak.
On top of it a snow-white lizardman with scales similar to marble sat on its back, this lizardman wore leather armor and his weapon was a short sword with a shield of wood fibers with intricate and striking patterns and with a wooden frame.
And beside that came another lizardman, an older one hunched and with clothing different from the others, his skirt was longer, he wore padded armor and his weapon was a wooden staff with the skull of an energetic beast at the tip decorated with feathers and bones.
When they all gathered they turned around to go in the direction where Alina and Elisa and the others were establishing the fragmented formations…
He quickly makes a decision and signals his subordinates, who immediately understand what they must do, they cannot let them continue on their path.
Alexei grips his axe tightly and waits for them to pass by the tree where he is hiding, he begins to count with his fingers visibly so that his subordinates can see…
10, 9, 8, 7… 3, 2 and 1 and then with a brutal injection of his power into his axe he jumps abruptly while the other melee soldiers follow him jumping and the ranged soldiers quickly fire their weapons.
With his brutal strength and with the amount of energy injected into his axe Alexei aims at the lizardman on top of the giant wood-scaled lizard, but although it was fast and surprising, the lizardman quickly tries to defend himself and use his weapon to block the powerful attack.
But the impact is so strong that it sends the lizardman flying and he crashes hard against the ground with a clear sound that something broke inside the lizardman, Alexei quickly clicks his tongue and insults: "Ah shit, almost well it doesn't matter."
With the other hand that holds the shield he hurriedly puts it up to block the tail swipe of the giant wood-scaled lizard which forces him to retreat a certain distance and Alexei says: "I see… you are the only threat here."
…
On the other hand the other soldiers were busy, that widowed man who once got into trouble, whose name is Anders Smith, grips his halberd and takes advantage of the moment when the companion with sword and shield blocks the spear of the sky-blue lizardman and quickly slips to one side and makes a charge with all his strength.
When his halberd finally pierces the lizard's side, Anders moves fluidly and kicks it to pull it out and then jumps to the side where an energy projectile impacts the site, Anders sees the old lizardman look at him with a fierce gaze.
Taking momentum he prepares to run at maximum speed and then the old one opens his hands and a light begins to emanate behind him…
A shadow… no an image of a serpent as large as a trunk begins to appear, progressively and slowly, becoming more and more realistic.
But suddenly one of the female soldiers, a dwarf woman who had been aiming her energy rifle at that elder because she saw him as a potential threat, says: "I got you."
And pulls the trigger, a precise shot of energy goes flying at very high speed leaving barely a blur in the air and the elder who realized the danger could do nothing, he could only see how the energy projectile pierced his throat like butter and how whatever he was doing was interrupted.
…
Alexei recovers his posture and says: "Vera I need you to use your breath!"
And soon the lioness who is barely the size of a large dog like a labrador or german shepherd, understands the orders of her companion and opens her jaws and with it an icy energy, which quickly lowers the air temperature below a few dozens of degrees, releases a jet of icy energy in the direction of the claws of the giant lizard.
Then Alexei taking momentum and begins to recite his technique with his martial words: "Golden lion, pride of the tundra, the one who freezes all those who dare to blaspheme against the queen!, come out and show them that their audacity has only one destiny!, Guardian Arts of the Frozen Golden Lion, Lord of the Tundra Strike!"
His axe begins to be covered with ice of a golden tone and holding the axe with all his strength he cuts downward, an icy and golden power violently splits the lizard in two, who does not spill a single drop of blood nor its viscera since its two halves remain frozen in place.
When he finally finishes and straightens up recovering his breath, while feeling his heart about to burst, he looks at the small battlefield and everything is finished, they won without difficulties thanks to the element of surprise.
He then takes his axe and goes toward the leader of the lizardmen, who is lying gravely injured by the fierce impact and lying on the ground…