" I won't be teaming up" Itekan said
Those words had everyone on alert, even Kutote was shocked, he turned slightly and looked at Itekan. Keel Kun's frown seemed to become even more stressed.
"What do you mean?" Avery asked
"What I said, I don't have any intentions to stay with this group, I would simply be held back" Itekan said, his words gathered more gasps and expressions of shock.
Kutote was even more surprised, the Itekan he knew usually didn't act this way.
" Look kid-" one of the instructors started to say only to be stopped by Keel Kun who raised his hand to silence him.
" This is a yellow zone, it's not something you can just solo" Avery said trying to speak sense into him.
" That up to me to sort out isn't it, don't worry since you'll want a leader why not choose Avery, he seems to know what he's doing, however I am not interested" Itekan said and stalled into the forest leaving everyone stunned.
Kutote hissed at him and turned away from him.
Avery watched him walk away, the turned to the rest of the trainee's.
" Alright then let's start, we need those that have strong endurance skills in fro-" Avery started.
***
Itekan strolled into the forest away from the clearing, entering further into the dungeon.
For most part he would have no issues, according to the information they were given about yellow zone dungeons they barely had any monsters really dangerous at least on the first level.
Soon he increased his pace, to a slow jog, then a full sprint, he ran through the trees at a speed, such that his movements were only a blur.
Itekan dispite his speed kept his eyes open for any disruptions, in fact it was quite weird he had been in the dungeon for nearly twenty minutes now, but he yet to encounter even one beast.
Just then he heard a something move through the trees behind him.
Something was chasing him.
"Toitoi" Itekan whispered, immediately turning into his shadow form, not long after three large beast arrived, they resembeed gorilla's and large SE stones on their fire heads.
The presence of these SE stones meant that they could probably use SE, meaning they already had a core.
Itekan just by looking at the three beasts before him could already identify them, courtesy of the Spiritual beast identification and clarification classes.
'They're black wind gorillas, these ones usually have very high attack potency and lower defensive prowess, the wind in their names refers to their speed, so theyre definitely not slow' Itekan thought to himself as he watched them look at each other in confusion, wondering where their prey had vanished to.
However the reason they are classified as Grade E beasts, is because of two things, they lack intelligence that should be common for beasts of their levels, and their weak point is the SE stones on their fore heads. Removing those stones causes a SE deficiency, because they intelligence levels are so low, despite having a physical form of SE, they can't cultivate SE cores, meaning that as long as their SE stones are removed they would lose most of their present abilities.
'easy pickings' he muttered, as he stretched forth his hand in their direction.
" Shadow hand; shadow daggers" he said, as three shadow tentacles shot out from his being, these tentacles took hold of the black wind gorilla's neck, holding them in place.
He shot forward, his shadow daggers materialized into his hands, and within seconds all three SE stones were in his hands.
"Calogaja" he said, 100 shadow daggers came to being around the black wind gorillas, in one fluid motion, he impaled them.
Their greenish blood spilled into the earth.
Itekan threw the SE stones into his spartial ring, they were still important, because they are physically manifestations of SE they could be consumed during meditation, to increase one's SS, so he had no plans on letting them go to waste.
With this done he set off again.
In the sky above was a black crows, once Itekan finished with them and continued his journey, they too continued, following him not too far behind but outside his observation range.
***
They had decided to head in as a team, with Avery in the lead, they headed into the forest.
" This is an open type dungeon, meaning the moment we leave those points, we are effectively in the dungeon, I don't want anybody slack, stay active and alert at all times" Avery said and they headed in.
Unlike Itekan they were not as lucky the moment they stepped into the dungeon because of the large amount of SST's they were emiting.
-Growl-
The sounds of several hybrid flames wolves could be heard all around them. The dark eyes of the wolves glistened through the trees, and form within a pair of crimson red eyes caught Avery's eyes.
" Shit!" He muttered under his breath, they were surrounded.
Spiritual Energy -- SE
Spritual Sea -- SS
Spiritual Signatures -- SST