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Chapter 17 - 17

As they continued moving inward they saw many traces of humans but had not met any till now . In ten days Hwang Jin had tamed 5 monsters including the flame wolf , they were the horned bull , a poison snake , and a pair of red face chimpanzees , the last one was a very clear improvement in his skills since he had tamed them both at the same time . While the monster forest was said to be abundant with monsters it seemed that the beginner area only had a small population of monsters above body strengthening 6th realm and mostly was filled with monsters from body strengthening realm 1 to 4 . 

Lu Xiao Tian had also told Hwang Jin to send out the tamed monsters to map out the area , since they could share information between them , it made it easier to explore the forest and avoid mercenaries as well .

Both of their cultivation realms had also progressed . Hwang Jin was at body strengthening 3rd realm and Lu Xiao Tian had reached body strengthening 5th realm . They had made steady progress this far but the level advancement was slowing down like how earlier Hwang Jin had managed to advance his level by just taming the flame wolf and reaching from 2 to 3 but had needed to tame three more monsters of the same level to increase it again .

For Lu Xiao Tian as soon as he had reached level 4 he had started creating energy beasts , for the first one he had needed a whole week to make him but the second one was already nearly done . Their appearance resembled humans but it was about 2 meters tall and had bones wings sprouting from his shoulder blades . It also had a long sword in one of its hands , when he checked it's status it showed that the level of energy beasts would remain the same as his level , so while currently they were not of much use in direct confrontations at later realms when the difference between realms increased and it was not easy to overcome it with just martial arts and intellect they would be useful in ensuring that no one could gang up on them easily with numbers . 

While watching a settlement of flesh eating spiders Hwang Jin asked Lu Xiao Tian " So Tian-ge what are we looking for , while there seem to be many interesting things here nothing seemed like something you'd be interested in " casting a curious side eye towards him he went back to watching the settlement letting the unasked question in the air ,silently asking for the real reason for their visit to the forest .

"Ha I don't know if I should be proud or frustrated to have such a smart and cute little brother , huh? When did you figure it out , hm ?" throwing the question back Xiao Tian indirectly agreeing to the fact that there was a hidden motive to them entering the forest . 

"Figuring that out was easy I mean you being worried about people realizing your skillset was laughable , in all these years even I myself am not sure if I know all your skills . And then you went to the old man's store and even brought weapons so openly . when normally you would have bought weapons secretly and on a a one on one basis so as to alert anyone to seeing two kids who most people consider to be poor in such a high end weapon store . " laying out his reasoning Hwang Jin waited for Xiao Tian to respond .

"Hm how would you like an army of flesh eating spiders at your beck and call Ah Jin -""Tian - ge don't change the subject ."" Haha fine fine I won't tease you any more , yeah the training while being a reason was not the main reason for this trip , there are two others ," raising two of his fingers he closed one " information , the awakeners association commissioned us to get information about the monsters in the beginner area since at the the star of the academy year many will come here for training and they want to give out accurate training and missions to the kids ."

"Then the second is a personal reason , isn't it Tian - ge "

"Haha yeah smart , the second reason is a test " seeing Hwang Jin tilting his head like he could not understand what was going on Xiao Tian released a low chuckle and explained "remember the mysterious guy the formation master's serving "

"Yeah I could not find anything on him and then you told me to not even think about it "

"Yeah I did , because that's not a level we can yet contend against , anyway the formation master gave me a seal to show at the entrance exam he probably wanted to introduce me to someone but the day after he gave it to me the seal let out a stream of information directly in my head , about a test , the test was simple spend at least two months in the monster forest without anyone but you finding out about it ."

"Ah so that's why you were so insistent on secrecy ." exclaimed Hwang Jin after recovering from the shock he just experienced .

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