Thanks to Tang Shaoyang's earlier attack, the beastmen sent out their guards to search for him in the forest. While the beastmen were searching in a group of five, Tang Shaoyang had a full team ambushing them.
"There's a group ahead, four of them," Yu Shun reported to Tang Shaoyang. He sent the Shredder to scout the area since the zombie was agile with his movement. This was the fifth group they encountered so far.
Tang Shaoyang nodded and asked in return, "Do you still need them for your zombie army?"Yu Shun now had seven zombies under his order, with an additional three beastmen zombies became his collection.
"No? The maximum zombies I can control are seven, more than that I need to level up my skill first," the young man shook his head, "Even if I have spare space, I will not take more zombies. I need to level up my zombies first before taking more zombies in,"
"Alright, we don't need to hold back anymore then. We will confront them head-on," Ambushing the beastmen was for Yu Shun's sake as they need to capture at least one of them alive. Since Yu Shun said he did not need any more zombies, facing them head-on was the simple way to finish them off.
Li Na summoned Moon, and let the Mystical Bear charge toward the group of beastmen. Zhang Mengyao and Tang Shaoyang followed the Mystical Bear closely. The tribal tattoos on the bear's body lit up, releasing blue burning flame as Moon put its head forward, crushing one beastmen and using its paw to take another beastmen down. A slam of its paw crushed the beastmen's chest.
Taking this chance, Zhang Mengyao cast [Unbending Strike], tearing the beastmen's body apart with her lance. Tang Shaoyang was simply swinging The Destroyer to the neck, killing the last beastmen instantly. With Moon joined the battle, it was much easier to kill them since their attention was solely on Moon.
"Where's our share?" With her jaw dropped, Shi Niu muttered in a low voice. Of course, she was not intending to ask for a share for real, the girl was shocked how they easily killed the beastmen when thirty seconds barely passed.
"You will get your share when we attacked the village," Tang Shaoyang grinned at his subordinate. The reason he hunted the guard around the wood was to let his subordinates familiarize themselves with the beastmen, "The Guards are looking for me, we can attack the village while the guards are away,"
The group then headed toward the village. Tang Shaoyang noticed that Dee Guards were concentrated in the right-wing of the village, the place where he killed two beastmen, leaving the left-wing empty.
"Beast is still a beast after all," Tang Shaoyang muttered when he saw the village naively tightened the guard on the right-wing.
"We will sneak into the village from the left-wing," through the woods, they went to the left side of the village while avoiding the watchtower at the village's entrance.
On the left-wing, the group found two Dee Guards standing in guard. Tang Shaoyang turned toward Yu Shun and the latter understood his intention immediately. He sent Shredder into the village to scout more about the beastmen.
'He was only stage-2, but that bear is so strong,' though everyone when they saw flame burst out from the ground. With a single tap, the bear had taken twelve stage-4 beastmen.
While everyone was focusing on the Dee Guards on the square, and the beastmen focused on Moon. Tang Shaoyang took this chance to sneak into the biggest house.
Inside, he saw the beastmen, the same beastmen on the outside but they wore clothes instead of armor. He even saw with a white headband and colorful feathers, 'That one seems to be the village head,'
[Basic Detection]
He cast the skill amidst the panicking beastment. To his surprise, the one that looked like a village head was just stage-4 beastmen. Even in the term of level, these beastmen were lower than the Dee Guards outside.
Nine beastmen including the village head, eight of them immediately stood up and cast [Fire Spear] at him. He was calm in the face of nine fire spears, his teacher, Zaneos taught him more things about mana. The mana not only strengthened the skill, but the mana could be used manually such as creating a barrier.
He controlled the mana from the mana pool, ejected it out, and spread the mana to cover his body. After he was done with this, he rushed forward and charged forward to the nine flame spears. The moment the fire spear hit his mana barrier, it burst out, engulfed his body.
However, the fire could not touch Tang Shaoyang's skin because of the mana barrier he created. Only a pang of heat reached his skin. What happened next was a one-sided slaughter, the beastmen, and even the village head was helpless in front of Tang Shaoyang.
Amidst the slaughter, Tang Shaoyang heard a notification, telling him he had leveled up.
After killing all the beastmen inside the house, he checked his mana. He left with 300 mana, creating a mana barrier consumed a lot of his mana. He did not bother to recover the mana and headed out of the house.
Outside, the Dee Guards from the right-wing had come to help. However, the reinforcement did not help at all, with Moon and Zhang Mengyao in the front, the Dee Guards were easily slaughtered.
He was relieved to see this, stage-4 beastmen did not pose a threat to his team. Did not want to be left out, Tang Shaoyang joined the fray. All Dee Guards in the village were killed in fifteen minutes.
[You have destroyed a hidden village of Clarity Forest!]
[Congratulations! You gained a hidden reward, a Hidden Treasure Chest!]
On the square's center, a blinding light burst out, and everyone closed their eyes. After the light died down, a treasure that emitted bright purple light appeared in the square's center.