Death... and me

The Leopard still hasn't recovered its vision, so it could only hear the scream at his side.

Inna Malaka might be a genius, but she is still a kid. Also, her cultivation is still far from being able to deal with that Horned Shadow Leopard.

The Leopard turned to the direction of the scream and instinctively pounced at it. Inna Malaka froze in place, and her legs simply didn't move at all. She wasn't like Rean and Roan, who had adult minds. So Inna couldn't deal with that situation and was scared out of her mind.

Opril and Diakar rushed over, but they were even further behind.

Roan tried to move as fast as he could, but speed wasn't precisely his fort.

Rean knew that he was the only one able to arrive there fast enough. But that would require him to overexert himself, forcefully keeping his Light Element over his legs for longer.

"Fuck it!"

Light Element instantly gathered on Rean's two legs, and he burst forward. Just as the Leopard attack was about to hit Inna, Rean appeared in front of her and used his sword to deflect the attack. However, he did that in a wrong position, and his legs gave in right after. The Leopard next claws ended hitting, leaving behind a deep cut on his chest. The attack's force threw Rean back, making him bump on Inna.

The Leopard finally recovered his vision partially and saw those two on the ground. But as it was about to attack again, Roan swiftly arrived and slashed down. The Leopard was taken by surprise, and the sword cut one of his legs. Diakar had higher cultivation, so he was the second one to arrive.

The Leopard tried to retaliate, but both Roan and Diakar were not weak. Once Opril arrived as well, its fate was sealed. With one leg missing, blood loss, and three cultivators attacking simultaneously, it didn't take long for it to breathe its last.

The three of them ignored the Leopard's corpse and immediately rushed to Rean's side. Inna had only a few bruises on her body while she held Rean.

Roan looked at the cut on Rean's chest and narrowed his eyes. Roan is Death, he had seen way too many people dying. Because of that, he knew that Rean's injury was far from good. Rean was almost losing his consciousness as well.

But surprisingly, he snorted.

"Hey, idiot. If you keep bleeding like this, you will die. Use your Light Element to heal your body. Well, if you don't want to, that's okay for me. It just means that all the desserts will be mine after you pass away."

Rean's expression immediately changed after hearing that.

"Ke-keep... dreaming!"

Light Element gathered around the injury of his chest, and it started to heal. Of course, Rean was far from being able to completely heal a wound like that, so the effect quickly disappeared.

"Again! Keep using it. If you lose control over the Light Element, just try again and keep healing the wound little by little. Make sure to focus deep inside and ignore the outer cut."

Rean gritted his teeth and did as Roan suggested.

Sure enough, his wounds started to heal. Every time he lost control, he would take a deep breath and try another time. Rean kept doing it until he completely ran out of Spiritual Energy in his Dantian. After that, he finally lost consciousness.

Roan looked at the cut on Rean's chest and sighed in relief. Rean was at least able to avoid leaving behind a fatal injury. It was still bad, but with Diakar and Opril's aid, they were able to stop the bleeding entirely as well.

Not long after, Alanda appeared in the scene like a ghost. Roan had crushed the Red Bead that he gave them some time ago, but he was quite far and took this long to arrive. His group had noticed Inna Malaka's disappearance, and he sent quite a few warriors to look around. But seeing the scene in front of him, he immediately understood what happened.

Other warriors soon arrived at the scene as well. Alanda passed the crying Inna to them and used his Spiritual Energy to check Rean's condition. But it was at this moment that he heard Roan.

"Don't worry, he will be fine. The way the injury is at the moment will not be enough to endanger his life. Once he recovers his consciousness, he will be able to use his Light Element to finish healing his chest."

Alanda was surprised to hear that.

"He can heal himself?"

Roan nodded.

"His Light Element stimulates life force, which greatly improves the body's healing ability."

Roan then explained everything that happened. And Alanda was obviously amazed to know that Light Element had this ability.

"By the way, how did Inna Malaka appear here?"

Alanda shook his head.

"She snaked out when all the kids were cleaning the demon beasts bodies. Because they were all concentrated around the corpses, the other warriors didn't notice that she wasn't present until a long time later. As for me, I was far ahead of the group, taking a look at the surroundings to see if any mob wouldn't be attracted by the smell of blood."

Roan and Alanda then glanced at crying Inna, who was being dragged back to the leading group.

"For her to be able to sneak out without any of the warriors noticing was quite impressive."

Alanda nodded.

"Her talents are not only in cultivation, after all. Still, she better be prepared for a very heavy punishment when we go back to the Tribe. When I found out that she had disappeared, my heart almost froze in place."

After hearing those words, Roan couldn't help but send a Spiritual Sense message to Alanda.

"Is she really just a Green Aptitude Level kid? It doesn't matter how I look at it; she is way above Rivio, who has the same aptitude."

Alanda grimaced and sighed in the end. First, because he was impressed that Roan can already use Spiritual Sense messages, and second because he noticed Inna's talent difference easily.

"With your intelligence, it is not a surprise that you saw that. Make sure to not say spread this information. Inna is, in fact, a Blue Aptitude level kid, far above Rivio in talent. She only loses for you and Rean."

Roan nodded and didn't say anything else. He is aware of what could happen with the Tribe if this information is to go out.