As Harry completed his ritual, he saw towards the group where, Tyler just had a breakthrough.
He didn't need to sit or do any type of assimilation of new power.
It was a smooth ride for him.
When Harry saw it, he was flabbergasted because he couldn't remove the memory of his leveling up to elemental master, it was a pendulum between life and death and now seeing someone breaking through while keeping eyes shut... It was just painful.
These were emotions that filled his head but his reasoning came back and he thanked the god if there was any for not facing a bottleneck.
Tyler opened his eyes feeling all the weariness vanish in thin air.
As he left a long breath and took back, his mind almost cracked with a pungent smell.
As he touched his nose he felt the tip of fingers stick to the nose.
"Not again" Harry almost traveled 50 metres in a moment, this process always leaves some bad memories behind.
As he saw Tyler covered in black impurities.
Another shock hit him.
Harry used a Qi refining skill during breakthrough but still he wasn't able to remove these many impurities as Liam did.
Eldrich Helped Tyler clean.
They were in the open area, they had been walking for 30 minutes but didn't face any beast or wolves.
"It's weird"
"Yeah definitely, not even a Normal beast yet wolves".
"Don't let your guard down" Nephis said hearing their chatting.
"we are already deep in their territory" she said noticing so many bones of dead beasts.
Down the way they saw a river downhill.
The terrain also Started changing, it was a mix of mountain and jungle with small hills in between.
"Not seeing wolves is one thing but we didn't find other types of beasts also" Eldrich said.
They stood near the river, to plan further.
Tyler was trying to find his affinity. He has tried everything but nothing was working. He failed to find either his body and Qi element.
'it's frustrating' Harry found a way to improve his soul cultivation and here he is, not even a single beast.
But he was also okay with it, since the exhaustion from using his element also vanished.
He still did not see the limit of how much he could use his barrier skill but one thing was clear the stronger and longer the barrier persisted the more he tired down.
He still has to test it in longer battles.
"We are screwed up... We are done". Nephis said grabbing her sword up.
There was not much light because of shadows of trees in the jungle but still it was dim and if one tried hard he could see surroundings.
In the dark he showed many pairs of eyes they were gaming with red Misty colour.
"One"
"Two"
"Three"
.....
"Ten"
Tyler counted; every time he went further in counting his voice breaking from agitation.
Without saying any word all of them prepared for the big fight, Harry also used inspect skill.
He had a sigh of relief, not all of them were elemental master but there were some. He brought his sword out ready to strike.
In the next second both groups collided.
He was planning to eliminate smaller fly first, in front of him there were two beasts one of them was elementary master level 2 while other only at level 9. his plan was to eliminate weaker beast first so it can't make much problem letter.
but as he made his first move on the weaker beast the stronger one came in front of him, its long silverback glowing in the dark.
When Harry was fighting stronger beast the weaker one came from behind and tried to attack Harry but Harry deceiving all the moments knew what they were planning.
"You dumb beasts, don't even know how to make a decent strategy" with that he threw the wolf back and in that split second made a space barrier behind him.
His two skills working on combination phantom stride and serpent's coil which system named as
'Serpent stride'. Its usage was to hide and deceive opponents till you can deal fatal damage.
Harry was maneuvering in the field jumping and escaping every attack, in between attacks he saw some opportunities and dealt damage to the beast but Its healing ability was fast and troublesome.
But his every attack and damage was a formation. Though its injuries healed but the blood still left on the skin some of it was soaking in dirt.
It was his limit he can't use the blood once it gets mixed up in other elements.
In between the fight he was slowly trapping the weak beast in his barrier, making it smaller and smaller now all four walls were pressing against the weaker beast.
But pressing those hard bones needed much greater force which would dry him and he won't be able to use skill again for some time so he didn't choose to do it.
But as he dealt a blow to the stronger beast he jumped inside the room of the barrier from above, with a swift strike neck being severed in half.
There was no notification because level 9 was too weak to give him any Exp.
He dismissed the barrier. It was hard to fathom how much these barriers affected him but he knew this trick can't be used multiple times.
Making four barriers and making them strong enough to hold a beast was no easy feat.
The only opponent left for him was also losing its healing ability, he has already figured that their healing capacity was something to do with fat.
As he was about to finish the battle a batch of 10 wolves came with similar strength.
Harry's heart throbbing, As the newer batch joined the fight remaining wolves that were 4 flanked towards the back of them.
Harry met his gaze with his group and smiled.
"Wanna bet who kills the mos..."
As he was about to say he saw 2 beasts lying near Tyler.
He was the only one who succeeded in killing both of his beasts in time.
Harry's face turned red, embarrassed he didn't complete his sentence.
He was feeling overwhelmed but this feeling was just so good.
Now it means Harry needed to fight 3 beasts, while the older opponent would try to attack from behind.
But then he noticed something that grossed him, the wolf in back was in the far distance with the level 9 beast he killed.
It chomped the meat from the corpse. Harry could almost see a grin on the beast and then it swallowed.
"Canablism".