"That was actually not as hard as I imagined, both of us together could easily take out any mutated rank beasts!" Eric exclaimed as they made their way out of the ironwood forest.
After Eric chopped off the snake's head, they had stored the corpse for proof of completing the mission, as well as the corpses of the other magic beasts they had killed. On their way out, Eric couldn't stop talking about how the experience of killing a mutated rank beast was.
"How about we accept more missions together and build our reputation as explorers, and create a group of Core rank explorers, then we'll be hunting only mutated rank beasts! With both of us as the leaders, we'll become very popular!"
Alex stared at the boy with a blank face. He wondered if Eric didn't realise the amount of fame he already had by just being related to the shadow monarch, or if he was just joking.
