Tales of the Supremes 27 TRAP

The old man examined his body and realized that he needed only a month utmost to fully recuperate.

Forcing his energy to achieve the power of a grandmaster resulted in drained his energy. Even if he survived towards the attack of the beast, the ordeal of using such method was unavoidable. Slowly and surely, his energy will deplete until his dry.

The pill he consumed did really give him hope to survive.

Not only his wounds slowly healed up, but his energy was also slowly recuperating. He parted his lips to say something, but he closed it immediately when noticed that the boy wasn't in front of him anymore.

"I'm sorry, I only have three left of that pills, but don't worry your injury aren't that bad." Tala apologized to the remaining injured men.

"_" The other eight men

'Not bad. We will be bedridden for almost a month in our state today and it is not bad?' But they all tossed out that thought.

'This child might be saying that our injuries will not lead to our death,' they thought a positive way.

The old man hurried up and sounded, "Here are our healing pills. There were only twenty. Although it can't be compared to yours I hope it can aid you. The other one was lodestones," he handed over two pouches with embroidery of a wave. "That's all we've got," hearing that the three left pills of the boy were given to them, he felt bad.

"This little one thank you then," Tala clasped her fist.

"I am Astral master Lima." The old man introduced. 'Although my compensation pale to his help, I am glad he didn't ask for more.'

"A...astral Master?" Kalipsi was surprised beyond belief. He looked at Lima from head to toe, scrutinizing. He was wearing a dark red robe with a red stripe on its edge. The others were also wearing the same robe but without stripes.

"Yes, I am!" The old man smiled. A smile that was proud but not bragging.

Kalipsi unconsciously gazed at the lying beast from afar. 'If he was an Astral Master and his comrades weren't that simple. How did Tala do it that even if they couldn't?' He looked at Tala, tilting his head.

Understanding the looks of Kalipsi, Tala explained, "It was because the beast was already weak. From then, it's easy to deal with it."

Kalipsi nodded in understanding, but the curiosity of the other towards Tala deepened.

How would such a young age know so much about B beast? And even the beast's energy depleted, its thick skin wouldn't be easily cut through.

But they didn't voice it out, afraid to start an animosity.

"May we know the names of yours?" Dagat, the blue-haired man asked.

"I am Tala,"

"and I'm Kalipsi."

Tala picked up the sword lying on the ground and threw it to Kalipsi. Kalipsi caught it clumsily.

She examined the beasts. As time goes by, the creased brows of Tala deepened.

The old man wanted to ask what he was doing, but Kalipsi stopped him.

The B beast was a kind of beast that was seldom seen on land. So, what was the beast doing here?

There are two possible explanations. First, someone drove it away from its territory and second, something attracted it to travel this far.

Tala found murky water nearby. She immediately tossed out the first possibility for they were standing in the B beast territory itself.

"The latter," Tala murmured under her breath.

Tala examined every C beasts and found out an interesting clue.

Tala activated her Heavenly Eagle Sight and examined the surroundings. 'As I thought!'

Tala stood up, a playful smile surfaced her face.

"May I ask what brought you here?" Tala sounded like an authority who interrogated a victim.

The old man and his men froze. They did not expect that a young man would ask something odd. Well, his just a 14-year-old boy utmost.

The old man cleared his throat and said, "10 days ago, someone reported that there were beasts that were running wild in this area. That person did say that a number of beasts were around fifty, but he did not know its level." Seeing the youths were listening attentively, he continued, "I deduced that with that many beasts, they might have C beasts. I bring 10 of my warriors. They were all master level. In statistical number, we were outnumbered but our strength was visibly far above them, but I didn't expect to encounter a B beast. That's what turned the events upside down."

"Do you know this man who reported this mess?" asked Tala.

The old couldn't catch up to what the child wanted to prove. He answered, "I did not know. We get the report from the peace and order guild."

The peace and order guild were armed forces of the Butuan Kingdom who maintain the peace and order of their land.

"A friend or a foe?" Tala asked with her playful voice.

"What do you mean?" Lima felt a bad premonition.

"Seems like a hidden canny foe," Tala shook her head in disappointment. 'He does not realize that someone wanted his dead body.'

Lima felt something was amiss. "Is this a kind of trap?" He does not know why he asked it, but he felt that all of this was related to him.

"Bull's eye!" Tala exclaimed.

"But how?" Lima wanted to know how someone able to pull off this kind of trap.

Tala looked at the mountain of dead beasts, she said, "These beasts came from the west. From the looks of the surroundings, they have just arrived a day ago. Someone or something attracted them here." She faced Lima and continued, "The place we are standing was the territory of the Callous Buwaya. This kind of beast was good at hunting, only strike to its prey if its 100 percent sure to succeed."

"Such canny beast," Lila commented. She was the only women on the group.

Everyone's eyes fixated at her. She immediately covered her mouth with her hand realizing her mistake.

"You're right. They are a canny beast indeed," Tala winked at her. She faced Lima and continued, "The Callous Buwaya has been waiting for a chance to strike, but the pack of C beasts did not leave anyone of them behind. If it attacks, the C beasts will surely strike simultaneously which a disadvantage of this Callous Buwaya.

"The C beasts did not plan of stopping on this place. They should have been a hundred kilometers away from the Buwaya's territory tomorrow and the Buwaya should have missed its prey, but suddenly there you are. What great timing? You arrived just on time killing these C beasts before they flee in its territory."

The old man's scowled as realization dawned at him.

When they have killed the C beasts, their energies became weak. The Callous Buwaya take the chance to strikes as its prey were weak and the pack of C beasts was now dead.

If not for Tala, they were now inside the stomach of that beast.

"Don't tell me it's that bastard," Baga clenched his jaw.

"That bastard really wants you dead," everyone's blood boiled.

"That bastard lured us here with the right timing. It seems like we have been played," Sada, one of the trusted aide of Lima added.

If they have just a little late, they should have not encountered the Callous Buwaya.

"Such a great plan! A pity, he did not succeed," Lila sneered.

"Well, sorry for him. I did not die," Lima smirked.

'Wait for me, my beloved enemy. I'll show you how this old man gets angry, 'he suppressed his raging desire for revenge and put up a friendly smile before he said, "Tala, thank you for the enlightenment. I owe you again."

"It's nothing. I did it on my own volition anyway,"

"If you pass by to the Butuan Kingdom, just look for my name and I'll be there to assist you," Lima offered.

"Actually, we are heading that way," said Kalipsi.

"That's great! How about we travel together so that when you arrived, there's no need for miscellaneous thingy things to do," Lima stated.

"That's cool." Kalipsi agreed. "If we can enter the school without a problem, that would be much better." Kalipsi did not restrain himself from asking favors.

"It's just simple as long as you have the skills and talents," The old man chuckled.

"Then, there will be no problem," Kalipsi thumb's up.

"Let's go!" Lima and his men whistled. A moment later, three gigantic beasts halted in front of them. It's twice as big as Lipad.

Kalipsi gulped. It's here first timing seeing such gigantic flying beasts.

Kalipsi also called for Lipad.

Lima originally planned to invite the youths for a ride, but seeing the beast of the two, he felt a little shame.

The beast of Kalipsi might be small, but its speed was comparable to B beast while their beasts were just C beasts.

Before they set off, Tala glanced for the last time on the beasts as her face darkens for a second.

Chapter end