With Mo Fan leading the way, the others still didn't have it easy, as there were an unusual number of Cave Demon Sves here.

  After rushing out of the cave, Mo Fan looked back and saw that all of them, including Mu Ningxue, looked a bit disheveled.

  Upon exiting, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

  At the same time, they felt disdain for Lu Zhenghe's command.

  Compared to Mo Fan, his performance just now was clearly too poor.

  Lu Zhenghe was angry but helpless; his wolf cubs were at a disadvantage in the cave.

  Moreover, he didn't understand how Mo Fan's summoned beast could be so strong while he himself still possessed such power.

  However, he didn't show it at the moment; instead, he secretly thought to himself, “You just wait, I won't let you off.”

  While Lu Zhenghe harbored resentment, the others were already cmoring to clean themselves up.

  “Let's leave quickly and find a pce to set up camp and rest.”

  “Yeah, I smell awful all over.”

  “I'm feeling a bit dizzy; I guess my magic power consumption was too high.”

  “How is Xiao Feng doing?”

  The first one to be affected was a guy from Imperial Capital Academy named Xiao Feng.

  He was an Intermediate Mage, but unfortunately, he was ambushed by a Cave Demon Sve.

  This was unavoidable and could be considered a weakness of human Mages. As long as they were ambushed, even an Intermediate Mage could potentially be killed by a low-level demon servant.

  Xiao Feng remained the most seriously injured, and Peng Liang protected him throughout. Luckily, there was Bai Tingting, a Healing System Mage, in the team; otherwise, one of them would have been incapacitated before even reaching Desote City.

  They found a spot near the railway with a water source, specifically checking for any demon beast habitats nearby before setting up tents to rest.

  As night fell, the men sat on the ground around the bonfire, the firelight reflecting on their young faces.

  The night was quiet, with only the crackling of the fmes. Suddenly, Zhao Manyan broke the silence, saying, “Are you sure they're bathing by the stream?”

  “Yes, Mu Ningjiao, Mu Ningxue, and others are all there…”

  A thick surge of hormones transformed into a strange aura that enveloped everyone. Some swallowed, some licked their dry lips, and some couldn't help but gaze towards the stream.

  “Peng Liang, why don't we send you to take a look? With your Shadow Element abilities, they probably won't notice you,” Zhao Manyan said.

  “Uh, that's not very good,” Peng Liang said, a bit shyly.

  While his mouth said it wasn't good, Peng Liang's body was very honest, transforming into a dark shadow that silently merged into the shadows of the forest.

  Seeing Peng Liang disappear like that, everyone was even more envious, wondering why they hadn't awakened a Shadow Element.

  Beyond the wilderness, the sky was exceptionally clear, and the moonlight shone brightly on the forest, where tree shadows swayed and the stream shimmered.

  Nearby, some fragrant clothes were id out, varying in color and stylish designs.

  The stream water was crystal clear and flowed slowly; though a bit chilly, it was exceptionally comfortable.

  “You're tired of living!”

  Mo Fan was quietly enjoying the beauty, but at that moment, a cold voice echoed from the forest, and then he saw a bck shadow move away at an extremely fast speed.

  Mo Fan secretly regretted it, but then he immediately left the area.

  The girls reacted, hastily submerging themselves completely into the stream.

  “There's a Shadow Element aura fluctuation!”

  “Who has Shadow Element?”

  “Peng Liang, it must be Peng Liang!”

  The men were still chatting around the bonfire, mostly bragging about past experiences.

  But not long after, the girls appeared with cold expressions.

  “Who was it just now!”

  Peng Liang's face turned pale. “I didn't, I just went into the woods, I didn't even get to the stream before you found me. I really didn't see anything.”

  Zhao Manyan immediately sold him out.

  The girls huffily returned to their tents, while the men nodded frantically, determined to completely sell out Peng Liang.

  Late at night, when everyone was about to sleep, they began taking turns on night watch.

  “Mo Fan, where did you go just now?” Zhao Manyan asked.

  “Cultivating my mind,” Mo Fan replied casually.

  “How was it, who has the best figure?”

  “That would definitely be Bai Tingting,” Mo Fan said with a smile.

  “What about Mu Ningjiao and Mu Ningxue?”

  “Those are my girls, why do you need to know so much?”

  Zhao Manyan was stunned. “No, isn't one enough for you?”

  “Is one enough for you?”

  “Damn it!”

  At night, while everyone was resting, Mo Fan noticed Lu Zhenghe secretly leaving and pcing a special device in an uninhabited area.

  Mo Fan knew he was giving Lu Nian the coordinates.

  He didn't care.

  But he couldn't let Lu Nian arrive precisely on time. He had to give Head Instructor Zhan Kong time to arrive.

  So he immediately had the Snow Frost Star Wolf carry the device away overnight, moving it to a different location.

  After confirming no one noticed anything, he continued his night watch.

  When the next person took over, the Snow Frost Star Wolf had already returned, indicating the mission was complete.

  Their journey was fraught with challenges, requiring them to cross mountains and rivers, and clear paths through dense thorns.

  Aside from the perilous experience in that cave, the group of seventeen had a retively smooth journey, encountering no more hordes of demons.

  With their current strength, they weren't so weak as to be completely devoured by demons after just a few steps.

  There were only four of the hunchback monsters. Since Zheng Bingxiao’s Rock Golem was clearing the path ahead, it did not detect anything out of pce along the way. Therefore, Mu Nujiao, Mo Fan, and Liao Mingxuan, who were following behind, had assumed their path was clear. The tunnel was not wide at all, thus they should be able to notice any beasts easily.

  To their surprise, the wall of the tunnel had already crumbled. There was a giant gap hidden by the bck vines, preventing them from noticing it at the start.

  Luckily, while Zhao Manting was lighting up the area with his Brilliant Light, it had also blinded the creatures for a second. Otherwise, they would have lunged at Mu Nujiao earlier!

  “It’s the Cavern Sves!” As expected of a genius, Qingqing was able to identify the beasts hiding behind the vines after only a quick gnce.

  However, Mo Fan could not have cared less what they were called. As his fme exposed their location, he immediately followed up with a Lightning Strike from his left hand as a gift.

  The tendrils of the Lightning Strike were like pythons winding their bodies, racing rapidly toward two of the Cavern Sves. The violet sparkle covered their entire bodies and the shock caused them to dance wildly, as if they were at a disco.

  “Maa!!”

  A bleat simir to a sheep’s was heard, but incredibly sharp and cking any hint of softness!

  The Cavern Sves leapt forward furiously. One of them shed at Mo Fan’s head with the giant bone in its hand.

  “These creatures like to smash anything alive into meat paste. Watch out for the bones, they will crush your skull instantly!” Qingqing immediately reminded Mo Fan.

  “If you have the time to speak, please lend a hand by casting a spell!” Mo Fan could feel his head aching.

  Fortunately, Mu Nujiao was more reliable. She altered her wind path and extend it to Mo Fan to speed his movement up.

  Mo Fan dodged aside and saw the bone stick itself deep into the spot he was standing at. The rail that it struck instantly bent into the ground!

  Mo Fan could finally take a closer look at the Cavern Sve’s appearance. It had a stooped figure with bent hind legs. However, its front limbs were incredibly muscur, and together with its wrinkled skin, Mo Fan preferred to call it ugly instead of ferocious!

  Who knew how long these ugly creatures had stayed single, that their arms could be so brawny. They would sh their bone sticks at anything they saw, and the limited space that restricted their ability to dodge did not help at all.

  “Vine Lash!”

  Mu Nujiao spoke as the Cavern Sve was about to hit Mo Fan.

  There were plenty of vines around, so her Pnt Element was super handy. She easily summoned a vine whip into her hand and struck the Cavern Sve’s legs hard.

  She did not end her attack there, as she seized the opportunity to tangle the Cavern Sve’s legs up with the vine and hang it upside down in the air.

  The Cavern Sve let out a panicking scream while waving its bone stick wildly.

  It had only struggled for a brief moment before several Lightning Strike: Wrath Shocks nded on its body.

  A burning smell instantly filled the tunnel. Clearly, the Cavern Sve had paid a great price for acting on impulse, being electrified to death in a miserable way while hanging in the air.

  The one who attacked with the Lightning Strike was not Mo Fan, but the student called Ming Cong. He had used a level three Lightning Strike straight away. It was more than enough to instantly kill a weak monster which had lost the ability to defend itself.

  “Maa~!!!” The Cavern Sves where the wall had colpsed burst out screaming after witnessing the death of their comrade.

  The cries echoed through the tunnel. It was difficult to tell if they were cries of anger or fear. Either way, the creatures stopped their attacks.

  “Just a few Servant-css creatures, nothing to be afraid of. Let’s continue forward,” Lu Zhenghe said in an indifferent manner after gncing at them.

  Zheng Bingxiao nodded. However, he quickly noticed pairs of blue eyes appearing in the darkness ahead.

  It started with a few pairs, but a few seconds ter, countless blue dots began to light up the darkness ahead, so densely packed that it would cause one’s hair to stand on its end!

  “F**k me, they were summoning their mates!”

  Rumbling noises could be heard coming from both directions of the tunnel.

  Song Xia and Zhao Manting quickly cast Brilliant Light. As the tunnel ahead lit up, the group took a deep breath when they saw several more caves exposed as the vines disguising them were torn apart by the Cavern Sves. They had assumed the vines were just covering the walls...

  More Cavern Sves appeared, almost blocking the entire path ahead. Their blue eyes flickered furiously as the bone sticks cnked with one another, rising together with their sharp sheep-like bleating...

  “Crap, we’re right in the middle of their nests, there are caves like these behind us, too!” Xu Dalong yelled.

  The same scene was taking pce behind them in the tunnel. The bck vines were too thick, so no one realized that the walls were actually non-existent.

  “This is the Cavern Sves’ nest. The white pieces of rocks we saw were actually the bones that they crushed!” Zhao Manting realized.

  The group felt a chill down their spine.

  It’s possible that they would end up just like white broken pieces on the ground!

  The Cavern Sves were extremely cunning. They had waited for the group to venture deep into their nest before showing themselves to completely surround their prey!

  “Those with the Fire Element, hurry up and burn the vines on our sides. We are being fnked from our front and rear, we don’t want to get fnked from the sides too!”

  “Everyone stay closer, we need to regroup! You will lose your life once you get separated!”

  There were three people in the team with Fire Element: Mo Fan, Song Xia, and Zhao Mingyue.

  The three immediately cast Fire Burst at the vines on both sides of the tunnel. Since they were using Burning Bones, the vines were burned away quickly...

  When the vines finished burning into scorched ashes, the group immediately realized that there were two other caves close to them.

  The Cavern Sves coming from the front and the rear were scary, but they could still hold them off with their magic. A potential ambush right beside them was the scariest, since it would catch the group off guard, and the magic they cast would also be friendly-fire if they panicked.

  “Those in the middle of the group should try and eliminate the Cavern Sves in the caves nearby as soon as possible!” Lu Zhenghe’s shouted furiously above the noise in the tunnel.

  Mo Fan was quite surprised. Lu Zhenghe might be arrogant, but he knew what he was doing as a commander. He was most likely the person that told them to burn the vines down.

  Their priority now was to eliminate the Cavern Sves in the nearby caves, as they could not be allowed to come close to the team. The biggest difference between the magicians and the demon beasts was not power, but the fact that magicians were way weaker when it came to close-quarters combat!

  A single swing of the bone stick would hit like a hydraulic hammer.

  Despite being elites in their respective schools, it was difficult for them to control the situation straight away when their lives were endangered all of a sudden. The student from the Imperial College called Xiao Feng found himself in an extremely dangerous position, as he was fnked by two Cavern Sves at the same time.

  “Bright Mirror Shield!” Xiao Feng activated his shield in the nick of time.

  However, the Cavern Sves were not as slow-witted as he had imagined. The bone stick that was aimed at his chest was repelled, but the other was aimed straight at his calf, where there was no protection!

  The bone stick made direct contact with his right calf, as Xiao Feng could not dodge in time. The horrifying sound of cracked bone rang out instantly.

  “AHHHH!!! Help....AHHHH!!” Xiao Feng screamed in agony, and before he could withdraw, his left calf received the second blow. His two legs, solid and muscur a few seconds ago, were smashed ft, leaving pulped flesh and bone behind.

  Blood was spttered everywhere, as everything below Xiao Feng’s knees was shattered. He subconsciously crawled toward his teammates on the ground in extreme pain.

  It was shocking enough that he could still stay conscious, due to magicians having stronger minds than ordinary people. His calves had been directly shattered.

  “Ice Spread!”

  As the group finally realized that Xiao Feng was separated from them, Mu Ningxue was the first to react by casting her Ice Element spell.

  The yer of frost spread rapidly across the ground, turning the area where the two Cavern Sves were into an icy white zone. The icy mist immediately covered their eyes...

  “The Ice Spread won’t be enough to save him...” Peng Liang immediately acted as he was aware that the spell Ice Spread needed some time to freeze the target. By then, Xiao Feng would already be crushed to pieces!

  However, as soon as Peng Liang arrived in front of Xiao Feng, the movements of the two ferocious Cavern Sves suddenly came to a stop.

  In just less than a second, the not-so-muscur legs of the Cavern Sves were covered in a yer of ice. The Ice Spread froze their flesh first, before completely freezing the blood in their legs.

  It totally stopped the two Cavern Sves from moving, and they cried out in anger. They were totally unaware of the Ice Spread climbing up their bodies, swiftly freezing them solid.

  A moment ter, the only body parts that they could move were their muscur arms. They were turned into ice statues.

  Peng Liang opened his mouth wide, finding it hard to believe. Normally, the freezing effect of Ice Spread would need at least four seconds to work. However, Mu Ningxue’s Ice Spread had done it in less than two seconds. It was way too fast, even faster than those with a Spirit-grade Ice Seed!

  “AH!! Ugh!!” Xiao Feng continued to scream in pain, before he was rescued from the jaws of death by Peng Liang with his Fleeing Shadow.

  “I’ll take care of him.” Bai Tingting was standing right in the center of the team. She was no doubt the one protected the most by the team.

  When Peng Liang pced Xiao Feng on the ground, Bai Tingting had already completed the casting of her Healing spell. A light green drop of liquid slid off Bai Tingting’s fingertip and was sprinkled on Xiao Feng’s legs.

  The glowing liquid slowly penetrated into Xiao Feng’s injured body parts. When the liquid finally covered his mangled legs, Xiao Feng finally stopped screaming in pain.

  “I’m providing you some relief from the pain. It will take me some time to heal you,” Bai Tingting said to the pale-faced Xiao Feng.

  Xiao Feng wiped the combination of tears and mucus from his face. He had almost lost his life just a few moments ago, so he could not care less about his image.

  “Help the others first, I...I’m fine.” The healing liquid was like a strong anesthesia.

  “Xiao Feng, are you alright?” Ming Cong asked in a worried tone, while casting a Lightning Strike.

  “I was almost dead, luckily Ningxue reacted quickly enough.” Xiao Feng wiped the sweat on his forehead. He knew that now was not the best time to chat. They had to clear out the beasts on both sides as soon as possible. Otherwise, they would be in grave trouble.

  At the very front, Zheng Bingxiao’s Rock Golem stood no chance against the Cavern Sves’ attacks. Only half of its body remained after receiving countless blows from the beasts.

  “Zhao Manting, withdraw your Summoned beast,” Zhao Manting said.

  Zheng Bingxiao swiftly withdrew the half-crippled Rock Golem. At the same time, he could sense a strong watery mist in his surroundings. He looked back and saw Zhao Manting casting an Intermediate Water Spell, summoning rolling waves like a dam had just burst, which surged forward with a great roar.

  The furious tide reached almost half the height of the tunnel. It dragged the Cavern Sves that were closest to the group with it and continued to roll forward ferociously.

  The efficiency of an Intermediate Spell was instantly dispyed. The number of Cavern Sves coming from the front was the highest, and the rolling tide was enough to hinder their advance.

  “My turn!” Song Xia shouted as she began to cast an Intermediate Fire Spell on her wrist.

  Several Cavern Sves were still trying to recover from the impact of the fierce tide when they were terrified by the approaching Fiery Fists.

  A bright glow lit the entire tunnel up. The beasts that could not dodge in time let out cries of agony as they were burnt into ashes by the giant fists, leaving only the stench of burned flesh behind.