Mahaansh: " Look Vishok, it is that one which ran form us. This time we are not letting it go.
Vishok: Hell yeah. This time we are going to get its energy core and innate core.
Azurbaan: Grrrr…."
Ben came to halt in front of them. He let go of his 'aether leap' form. But the 3 of them did see that.
Mahaansh: " Why did you have a tail?
Vishok: Yeah, what is up with it?
Ben: Well it is part of my new skill. The tail part is needed.
Vishok: Is it a movement skill?
Ben: Yes. But how did you know?
Vishok: Its not so complicated. The moment a tail is involved it can be inferred. Many animals use the structure of their body and the tail to control their movements.
Mahaansh: Well, you have brought us a feast. This lord class creature had evaded us last time. But this time it is not happening."
Saying this the 3 of them moved. Other than the quasi noble class prosimian, the other 3 strong ones were suppressed by the 3 of them. Mahaansh yelled, " Handle the other ones. It will help you in fighting a crowd."
Ben looked around. 11 prosimians were remaining. He got ready. Getting their leaders suppressed, they had tried to help them. But the aura of Azurbaan stopped them from proceeding. During that momentary pause in their actions, Ben attacked the nearby ones. He killed one of them and injured another. These prosimians were only at the stage were they could use basic blood armour and some projectiles. But coming from 10 opponents that was a problem. Ben abused the aether leap to the fullest, dodging both their blood armour attacks and blood projectiles. His claws were now extremely condensed and strong, causing some of the blood armoured attacks to crushed. The prosimians tried to surround him but Ben did not allow that. He moved around them at incredible speeds and charged. He attacked two of them using his claws breaking their blood armour and destroying their hands. On the jump he flipped around and struck another one with the tail. His tail was still kind of ethereal and was not really strong as the claws. But when the strike was to the head it still packed a punch. The 3 of the creatures retreated. But the other ones were coming his way.
The quasi noble rank prosimian attacked him first with blood projectiles and then with blood armour. He successfully dodged the projectiles and the punches and kicks. But behind it, two other qon prosimians were there who successfully attacked Ben. Their blood armoured kicks landed on Ben squarely on his chest sending him flying to a distance. Ben winced in pain. Even thorough that, he sensed a powerful energy signature moving fast towards him. The strongest of them, or the 'one' as he coded it was moving towards him at high speeds. He used his claws to stop himself and moved forward activating the aether leap. The strain on his body when doing this was considerable. But he was not in apposition to care.
Ben's forward movement produced sonic boom. That was the fastest that he had ever gone after he became a martial knight. The 'one' could not even respond, before which one of its arms was torn of by the impact. Ben did not stop there. With his right hand claw acting like a spear he attacked the qon prosimians behind, killing another 3.
The number of opponents he had was now reduced to 7. Of them 2 including the quasi noble was injured. That left the 5 strong ones. Ben did not hesitate he wanted to end this quickly and thus he moved again. The attacked the 5 strong ones. But these 5 became more organized and separated and began to attack Ben from several angles. They began to cover each others' weaknesses.
On the other side Mahaansh and team had finished of the lord class qon prosimian and 1 noble rank prosimian. The other one was kept alive.
Mahaansh: " These creatures seems to be more intelligent than I thought.
Vishok: People often underestimate animals. Many animus have lived a long life and have seen people fighting. Then there is also genetics that make them excellent hunters. These creatures are really vicious and blood thirsty. It is often said that they throw the prey at each other to instill extreme fear in it. And they often laugh at it. Nature's psychopaths.
Mahaansh: Truly vicious.
Vishok: Why are you keeping this one alive? Don't tell me…
Mahaansh: We are here. He should once try to fight some thing really stronger than him. And also there are countless knight rank people who have defeated noble rank ones. We are not asking him to fight a lord class creature.
Vishok: Lord class is both a qualitative and quantitative change. It cannot be compared with the other two.
Mahaansh: For now let us see how he fights."
The 5 prosimians that were surrounding Ben were attacking relentlessly. The quasi noble rank one was slowly recovering. Ben could sense that. He had to come up with a way. Ben suddenly dodged the coming projectiles by jumping up. Then he used the aether leap on air and went down fast. Using his claws he struck the ground with full force sending considerable amount of debris into the air.
The sight of all his opponent were off him for a while. The 'one' was staring at the rising dust and falling debris, when something came fast at it. It was a rock. It lodged into its right eye spattering it. Ben came at high speed from the dust cloud he created and struck at the creature with a kick. That not only launched it away, but also broke some of its ribs, causing it to vomit blood.
The other creatures were also regaining their bearings and thus Ben decided to act fast. He moved towards the injured one. He killed it swiftly. He reached the 5 which were giving him headache. They tried to organize themselves to hunt Ben. But he would not allow that. He killed one of them using a rock projectile. This gave him a gap in their net. He utilized it fully and drove the 4 into a corner. He had to kill them before the 'one' recovered.