Beast Evolution

Sliver came over to him with a crystal in his mouth, Ray's eyes widen as he looked at silver.

"Is that the Minotaur's crystal?" Ray asked and Silver shook his head and confirmed it.

"Don't eat that, that is too valuable, drop it on the ground" Ray said.

Silver opened his mouth and dropped the crystal on the ground and Ray sighed in relief, the Minotaur crystal was the first high-level crystal he obtained.

Crystal could be used to forge equipment and the higher the level of the beast crystal the more powerful the equipment would be and the first high-level beast didn't leave a crystal because it was infected and it burst into flames.

Ray sat up and opened his [Void] where he placed the Crystal inside, he also placed both of his spears inside his void before closing it.

Ray looked at Silver and was surprised, Silver was looking at Ray angrily and he understood why, he opened his [Void] again and brought out all the bear crystals he had and fed all of them to Silver.

Some of the crystals belonged to Leia but she wouldn't mind if Ray explained to her.

Silver swallowed all the crystal but he still wasn't satisfied, he sat down and looked at Ray was sad eyes.

"Hey that was all the crystal I have, do you want more?" Ray asked and Silver shook his head sideways indicating that he didn't want crystals.

"Then what do you want, food...meat," Ray said and Silver jumped in excitement as he heard the word meat.

"I don't have any here and the carriage is gone, Cynthia went after it but when we get to the academy I'm going to feed you till your stomach gets stuffed," Ray said in confidence making Silver bark slightly.

[Quest failed]

[Quest: Defeat Infected Minotaur]

"Shit...I totally forgot there were more...but if the quest failed that means the knights defeated both of them" Ray inhaled sharply before standing on his feet.

Silver came to his front in an attempt to carry him but then loud galloping sounds alerted Ray and he saw Cynthia riding the carriage back to them.

To avoid being seen Ray bent down and retrieved Silver back into the system before standing up.

He walked slowly towards where the others were, Cynthia stopped the carriage as soon as the saw everyone on the ground.

She thought they were all dead until she saw Ray walking towards her with torn clothes soiled with blood.

"What happened?" Cynthia asked worriedly.

"Don't worry, everything is fine...they are just unconscious because of electricity...sorry lightning"

"What about the senior knights?"

"We're fine, no need to worry," Authur said making both of them look in their direction.

The senior knights were both smiling especially Alfred, he had a smug look on his face that proves they had a great battle.

Their clothes were partly torn and burnt with black blood staining mostly everywhere, Ray chuckled at the appearance of the knights, he had never seen them so unkept and happy.

"Why are you laughing and where is James?" Alfred asked.

"He's over there..." Ray pointed to the ground.

"Huh!! if he's on the ground, who defeated the Minotaur?"

"I did, this one wasn't infected but he had a nasty spell," Ray told them.

"Lightning...they can fire lightning bolts from their horns, but they have little to no control so it was easy to defeat them," Authur said.

"Lightning bolt...this one can create a lightning field that can strike everyone around and when it does, its body becomes as hard as iron even Sir James couldn't pierce it" Ray explained.

"They had different spells, maybe the infection tampered with their lightning ability and control" Authur muttered.

"The Minotaurs can't fire lightning bolts before they were infected, that would explain why they couldn't control it," Alfred said.

"But how did such high-level beast get infected, something is really missing from all this..." Ray said and all of them knew he was right.

They had to find the source before all the beasts in the world would be infected and when that happens, Draco could easily control the to attack and destroy any city of his choice and his first target would be Avalon.

"Ouch..." James's voice made the four of them turn around.

"Are you okay James?" Alfred asked immediately.

"I'm fine...I was caught off guard by the beast's elemental attribute, I'm glad everyone is okay" James spoke with relief in his voice.

If a student got hurt while under his care, he would not forgive himself.

"You got the carriage back, that's good news," James said to Cynthia and she smiled shyly.

Cynthia helped Leia and Gabriel and carried them to the carriage, Ray couldn't help her as his hands were still recovering from the dislocation, he used his healing spell but it was still twitching a little.

Alfred rode the carriage while James rested at the back with the students, they rode in silence as soon as they entered the carriage, Ray wanted to speak with Authur but he was thinking about something so Ray held himself.

They journey all night without sleep, Ray had already slept so he could stay awake all night, Leia and Gabriel were still unconscious and Cynthia was trying her best not to fall asleep.

The group stopped to stretch a little and relieve themselves, the sun came up quickly and Authur took over from Alfred and after a while, the walls of the bullmar academy could be seen.

Ray smiled as soon as they came out of the forest, the academy could be seen in all its glory.

"Finally...how long did you stay at the capital, o think it was..." Ray looked to the side and saw a part of the forest and smiled.

His mind went back to their survival training that was disturbed, Ray looked towards the academy and back at the forest.

'So we trekked all the way from there to here, now that we're on a horse the distance seems so short'