As a human, he wants to use tools to help him grow stronger but unfortunately, such tool are difficult to wield with his current strength or easy to destroy since they lack vital force.
'I want to learn such skill.' He thought, vital force is much more difficult to wield outside the body than elemental force.
Now reverting back to his original form, Wuk feels much more free, every time he enters the battle form, an uncontrollable desire to fight surges in his body and soul.
In his original form, that sensation isn't that strong, it only felt pride and the keen sense to cause mischief.
With it's nimble body and relative ease in wielding a staff, Sean decided to teach it a staff technique once he return back home, one he has on his memories.
The two shuffles through the battlefield, they don't want to continue entangling with the thick-shelled insects.
'Kyu!' A cry appears on Sean's mind and he can't help but smile.
Jasmine found the insect and has dealt with it.
Under a basement, a white fox with red tail was watching an insect with large head writhing in pain.
After absorbing its vitality, her level increases by one.
She quickly came out of the basement and bathe on the moon's afterglow.
Her breathing starts to return to normal, she's glad that she has Sean for support.
Easily escaping from the mindless insect monsters with her Moonlight Dance, she dashes to the direction where her soul is calling.
"Great! Jasmine has dealt with that pesky command insect, as expected, like most command type insect, it's combat prowess is relatively weak."
He informs Wuk as the two of them starts running a strange manner but it works and they throw off the chasing thick-shelled insects.
"Let's focus on insects that have strong combat strength but weak defenses." The two of them wreak havoc in the insect swarm.
With a staff that can crush shells and punches that flies everywhere, they start to garner some attention from other martial artists.
Buzzing sound comes from the portal, this time, a powerful aura appears.
"Silver tier." Sean unconsciously speak.
"All iron and bronze rankers fall back! Your priority right now is to take down the remaining bronze tier insects monsters and assist the silver-bone rankers present!"
Zack's voice resounds throughout the entire neighborhood.
*Sigh* "Wuk, we can only retreat, we aren't strong enough to contend against silver-bone, let's just hunt all the remaining bronze tiers before returning to the dojo."
Wuk also felt fear instinctively after sensing the aura from the gate.
Gripping it's staff tightly, this feeling, it has been quite some time since he feel this way and was enraged.
After obtaining the Monkey Body Tempering Technique, his advancement was quite smooth.
He heard from Sean that they're only lacking one item for him to rank up to bronze tier.
Now that a stronger foe emerges, the sensation of helplessness once again return.
Without even Sean telling him anything, he chased after the bronze tier insects, fully intent in venting on them.
Seeing him like this, Sean can only sigh, he looks at the martial artists present and was glad that no one died but a lot of them are injured, some of them even lost their hands.
'For now, I need to exchange for a spirit stone and return with Wuk.' He thought before opening the hunter website.
Unfortunately, his points are not enough, entering his real account using his other phone, he checked for a way to obtain spirit stones.
Meanwhile, Jasmine had returned, she took the camera from him and was now chasing after Wuk.
She wanted to watch the battle after all of this, seeing the two happily changing ownership of the camera, the viewers were laughing not knowing that the situation is quite dire right now.
'So spirit stones are created from the concentration of spiritual energy, many mystique creatures evolved after absorbing such energy.'
Reading the news regarding spirit stones, he thought about something.
'Why don't I just sign a contract with a mystique creature that can absorb spiritual energy nearly as fast as spirit mines?'
He then starts searching for such mystique creature and found one.
The gluttonous carp, a mystique creature known for their very fat body.
Contrary to their name, they're incapable of digesting solid food and can only feed on spiritual energy.
They are considered one of the high maintenance mystique creature.
They are always in a constant hunger for spiritual energy, their hunger would cause them to transform into monsters if they didn't manage to absorb enough spiritual energy.
If it weren't for the fact that they're prone to evolve into high grade mystique creatures after sufficiently absorbing spiritual energy, they would've been hunted by the federation.
'Too bad that I can't sell these carcasses.' He thought as he look at the insect corpses scattered everywhere.
With the silver tiers finally coming out of the portal, everyone below silver rank immediately retreats.
All of them knew that silver rank is just too different compared to iron and bronze rank.
Not only one can develop aura if lucky, their entire body would receive a baptism after successfully ranking up.
In fact, common grade mystique creatures has no hope of entering such rank, uncommon only has a chance and it was abysmally low.
Rare grade has decent chance and the reason why they're sought after by large family.
Returning back to the dojo with the disciples and instructors, everyone was now anxiously waiting for any news.
Unlike when Sean was present in the battlefield where they can watch what's happening, this time, no one knows what's currently happening in the battlefield.
They can only imagine, the explosions and shaking of the ground was not helping their anxiety.
Sean was looking at the battlefield with a grim expression.
He knows that insect race doesn't rely on individual power to hunt but by swarming their targets, overwhelming them with numbers.
BOOM! BOOM! SKRIE!
The explosions continues up until morning, everyone wasn't able to sleep peacefully except for a couple of individuals.
After waking up, Sean brought Wuk and Jasmine back to the battlefield without the knowledge of his family.
"The portal is now shrinking! We need to see what's happening!"
He dashes towards the battlefield, everything was now destroyed, there's no place untouched.
In fact, other than their neighborhood, the surrounding places were also destroyed from the aftershock of the war between silver rankers.
"Kill it!" A man roars, surrounding him were three silver tier insects with sharp scythe as hands.
Two people besides him attack a heavily injured scythe insect.
"Our injuries are now acting up, without any help soon, we're going to be dead meat!" Complains one of the martial artists.
Around them were their mystique creature partners and just like them, all of them are injured.
"Sirs, I can help you distract these insects but you must close your eyes so that you won't be affected!" He shouts at them.
The silver-bone rankers were stunned by him, they look at each other with doubt then return to Sean.
He wasn't advancing towards their location knowing full well just one insect monster present is already too much for him to deal with.
"Are you certain, young man? Doing so would bring you danger." Asks the man with one arm.
"Yes!" Sean wasn't afraid as it would be Jasmine using her charm to stun the insects.
He would be hiding far away with Wuk, once they sensed any danger, the latter would throw him away and he would send the two into Beast World.
The three silver-bone rankers nods their heads and told their mystique creatures to close their eyes.
"Now, Jasmine!" He roars before making a run for it.
Jasmine cries as her entire being seems to turn enchanting in the eyes of the insects.
"Now, sirs!" Sean roars, without hesitation, the silver rankers attacked with all their might.
Their eyes might be closed but as silver rankers, their senses are quite sharp, they easily pinpointed the location of their targets.
BOOM! BOOM! The insects weren't able to defend themselves and were all killed in the process.
The silver-bone rankers were stunned, they had been fighting for such a long time against these insects, this is the first time they killed them with ease.
"Young man, why don't you join the battle near the portal?" Asks one of the silver-bone rankers.
Sean shakes his head. "I can't, if it were just a group of insects, I would gladly help but knowing just how many insects there are, once my partner use her skill, every one of them would gather towards our location."
He knows that even if the insects were in a vulnerable state for just one second, those of the same rank as then can use this opportunity to kill them but with their numbers, their side wouldn't be able to kill them in one attack, endangering his life in the process.
The number of silver tiers in the enemy side is probably thousands while the number of their silver rankers including mystique creatures are just about a hundred or so.
The difference between numbers are just too great, the only good thing about is that even though monsters are more powerful than their mystique creature counterparts as insects, they are still relatively weak in individual strength.
"I don't know if this can help but please take these." He then presents bottles of basic detoxifying pill, basic replenishing pill and basic vitality pills.
The silver-bone rankers shakes their heads. "Pills of that level is no longer useful for us, unless you have superior pills, then, you should just keep these pills of yours."
Sean was a bit embarrassed, he doesn't know any of this, he just started his martial journey.
"Then, sirs, you should rest for now, I'll travel around this place to find groups that I can help with."
Bowing slightly, the three of them left, leaving the silver rankers to sprawl to the ground in exhaustion.
There are only ten gold-veined rankers in their city or at least what's shown in public.
The leader of the alchemist association, Flame Lord.
The former matriarch of the Evergreen Family, Mistress Evergreen.
The two prodigious sisters that came from the high ranking cities, the principal and the vice principal.
The feared head of the black market, Nightmare.
The king of all hunters, Hunter King.
The former patriarch of the Gold Family.
The ancestor of the Sun Family, Old Sun.
The new ascended Zack Gold and their new city lords.
The only reason why they survived bis because the other five gold-veined rankers stayed to defend this city.
Cracks appears in the portal, Sean who was traveling around the battlefield notices this.
Then one by one, the five gold-veined rankers came out, all of them looks disheveled.
Hunter King even lost a chunk of his body, Flame Lord no longer have any hair and was practically naked, Nightmare was being carried by the new city lord.
The only relatively fine ones are the principal and the city lord.
BOOM! The portal explodes into bits before shrinking and disappearing.
Compared to the portal break in the past, this was weaker, probably because it was man-made rather than a natural portal break which immediately spawns either silver tiers or even gold tiers.
Sean was relieved, he had been running around, helping those that he can but the presence of multiple silver tiers has been weighing on his mind.
"I can finally return, hopefully I can still hunt at the outside." Now that he knows his strength is practically unbeatable by any bronze tier mystique creatures, he now has confidence to earn two thousand FP.
Returning back to the dojo, first, he needs to find a new place for them to crash to.
They lost their house but he knows that the federation will definitely give them some sort of compensation for it.
Just as he enters the dojo, everyone's attention immediately centers to him.
Reina came running towards him together with her cousin.
"You returned to the battlefield, didn't you? What's the current situation?"
"Everyone, the situation is dire! The portal summoned dragon insects of the gold tier!"
He exclaim while looking scared, hearing his words, everyone turns pale with fright.