The Heavenly Crystal

They went back to the mansion and encountered a few weak beasts and undeads, but with their new strengths, they easily killed them.

In the mansion, Roan and Karl were still practicing their skills.

- [Superior Sword Mastery] + 50

- [Superior Sword Mastery] + 50

- [Superior Sword Mastery] + 50

Roan practiced his swordsmanship until noon, before he decided to stop. He looked at Karl and said "They're here. Let's go and open the gate." Karl nodded his head and followed Roan towards the gate.

When they opened the gates, they were shocked to see Terrius carrying a gigantic boar on his back.

"What the hell is that?" Karl exclaimed.

Terrius laughed loudly after hearing Karl's exclamation and said "We encountered this beast when we were about to go back, and I decided to bring it home for dinner." Tyron forced a smile as he thought 'You made it sound so easy and trivial after kill such a high level beast.' The others also thought the same way with forced smiles on their faces.

Roan's lips twitched and said "Good! Since we have new members, we can celebrate tonight by grilling this boar meat." Terrius smiled after hearing that.

"You guys can go back and rest. Also, call the ladies over." Roan said while looking at them. They nodded their in response and walked towards the mansion.

"You're back? Great! Roan and Karl already ate their fill, now it's time for you guys to go eat." Ayesha said with a beautiful smile.

"Thanks Ayesha! Oh, Roan said all of you ladies to go out now. It's your turn to go practice." Terrius said as he looked at the ladies. They each have excited smiles on their faces after they heard that and then they hastily went out of the mansion to meet Roan.

Roan and Karl saw the ladies running towards their direction with excited smiles on their beautiful faces. Karl laughed and said with a small laugh "Are they thinking that we are going out for a picnic?"

"Roan, is it time for us to go?" Athena asked excitedly.

"Yes, prepare the equipments I bought this morning." Roan answered.

"We have it all ready!" Lily said with a huge smile on her face. Karl smiled at the sight of the excited ladies and Roan's helpless look.

They proceeded to go towards Eastern Road which was opposite of Ridge City. Mark mentioned that it was much safer for the ladies to practice there since the beasts lurking in Eastern Road are much weaker.

Roan and Karl brought the ladies to Eastern Road. This was the only road that leads to Bright City, one of the biggest cities on Ubec.

They came across several beasts and undeads which were swiftly taken out by Karl's arrows making their journey towards Eastern Road much smoother than they expected.

"Karl, lure some low level beasts here." Roan looked at Karl who nodded his head in response and moved towards a forested place. After about ten minutes, he was back with several creatures below level five. Mark cut off the limbs of the beasts and let the ladies kill them all. The system will only recognize who killer the beast and they will receive all the experience points from the kill.

They continued doing this until the ladies were above level ten.

"Now, it is time for live combat training. Since all of you are now level ten, you should be able to handle beasts with much lower levels than you." Roan said seriously as he studied the ladies who were smiling widely from leveling up. Their faces turned pale when they heard that, but they were eager to grow stronger and have the ability to protect themselves. In this apocalyptic world, only strength matters. You may be beautiful or handsome, but if you are just a weak nobody, then your only fate is death.

"But will it be safe?" asked Athena with worry. The rest of ladies were also worried, but at the same time, they also wanted to experience real life combat to improve their fighting abilities.

"You will be fine as long as you are careful." Roan answered coldly. He then looked at Karl and nodded his head. Karl understood him and went off to the forest again to find beasts with lower levels.

Roan looked at the ladies coldly and thought to himself 'This only for your own good. We will not always be there to protect you guys, so you must at least learn how to fight on your own.' Roan might be looking at them coldly, but after living together with the ladies, he already treated them as his friends. He just did not want to show his care for them as they might feel complacent and don't practice anymore.

"I'm back! Haha!" Karl waved at them as he ran towards their direction with several beasts following madly at him.

[Red Ant] (Bronze)

Level 7

ATK: 8

DEF: 10

HP: 20

[Red Ant] (Bronze)

Level 8

ATK: 9

DEF: 11

HP: 22

[Red Ant....]

Roan studied the beast as Karl approached them and nodded his head in approval 'One, two,..., twenty-five Bronze level Red Ants. They should be able to handle it.'

Ayesha and the other ladies looked at the Red Ants worriedly.

"Sisters! Focus, they are just weak beasts with levels lower than ours." shouted Ayesha as she produced wind blades to kill the approaching Red Ants. The wind blades killed two ants which gave the ladies more courage. Janrose chanted something with her eyes closed while holding her hands together. Small globs of bright light emerged all of a sudden which melted upon contact with the ladies' bodies. Their stats improved significantly after that which impressed Roan greatly. Athena swung her Gold level sword on the ants and was able to cut them in half which shocked her in disbelief. She can't believe that her strength increased by that much after leveling up several times. Her passive skill Warrior's Heart increased her strength significantly everytime she levels up.

Lily wielded her twin daggers and slashed the necks of the ants, slicing their heads off from their bodies.

In less than fifteen minutes, all the Red Ants were killed.

"We did it!" lovely cheers broke out after they killed all the beasts. Happy and proud smiles were plastered on their beautiful faces. Roan smiled at the scene as well, but swiftly returned to his usual cold look.

"You will do it two more times before we go back home." Roan's cold voice was like a bucket of cold water poured at them, but this time, they had strong and firm gazes which made Roan smile inwardly.