Extra's Path To Demon King

Chapter 78 - 76 The Predestined Fate 2

76: The Predestined Fate [2] 76: The Predestined Fate [2] In a dark and harrowing forest, 5 young mages were walking through it with apparent dread and discomfort.

It was a dark and dreary forest, filled with countless magical beasts of various nature.

Especially, those with deadly poison and dark elements.

In that dark and damp place, the 5 people looked extremely out of place, their clothes did not even have a speck of dirt, even when walking through deep muddy ground or water’s, their feet’s were not dirtied, a magic reflective barrier was warding off any substance that spit towards them, they were all powerful mages, all 5 of them.

Anti-sense magic and various other defensive spells were protecting them, diverting the senses of any magical beasts or creatures that might try to sense them.

Each of the 5 had their roles to play in the party.

As they were there to hunt a particular beast, that was their mission.

Despite each having their own strengths and weaknesses, they all had similar looking clothes with some slight differences here and there.

There is the same insignia on all of their clothes.

The insignia of the Sage Tower, which was often regarded as the strongest tower and profession of magic, only the arcane tower being able to compete with them somewhat.

But that changed in the last competition held by all the tower’s, where one undisputed supreme genius was revealed to the world that changed the hierarchy of the towers in their entirety.

The rune tower which was always regarded as the weakest, that one genius proved the world wrong and put the weakest tower as the strongest among the next generation of the mages.

The Sage tower lost all of its fame and glory in that one exchange.

But they were not to be looked down upon, as they also had their own genius emerging next.

And that very Genius was the little brother of the supreme genius from the rune tower himself.

It was Akon.

He was currently a peak 2nd circle mage, alongside his party, they were on a monthly mandatory mission that every mage from the sage tower needs to complete.

After completing the mission, Akon would have enough credits to buy the resources needed to advance to the third circle Sage.

The reason why Akon was held in high regard in the Sage tower is because, just like his brother.

He could also fight above his stage, though not to the same extent as his brother.

For now, he could fight and defeat any normal peak 3rd circle mage just as a peak 2nd circle mage.

His genius came from his insane comprehensive ability to understand spell structures and break them down or edit them on the fly.

The beast they were currently hunting was a 4th tier beast.

And since Akon himself had the battle prowess of a peak 3rd circle mage, it wasn’t too difficult of a hunt.

But the reason he had formed a party with the other 4 sages who were all talented in their own right was because the beast they needed to hunt down was one of the slightly troublesome ones among the 4th-tier beasts.

So, it was an extremely poisonous and smart serpentine beast.

There were many cases where stronger and powerful mages were killed by it because of underestimating it.

So, he had gathered enough information and made a suitable plan to deal with it, with utmost caution.

Normally, he himself had the confidence in killing the beast, albeit with some struggle perhaps.

But considering how strict his brother was about his safety, if his older brother heard of it, there would be no end to his constant nagging.

So, he was fairly sure that news would obviously reach the ears of his brother if he did take even the slightest risk.

Most of the world did not know that Akon was actually Ashborn’s little brother.

Maybe only the Sage Tower and Rune Tower’s vice master, mostly, a few other higher-ups of the Sage and Rune Towers.

Soon they reached their destination, the layout of the Damp serpents.

Yes, the damn serpents lived together in packs, each packs had two 4th tier beasts in charge, male and female and hundreds of 3rd-tier and more lower ranking beasts.

Now that was one of the more challenging parts.

How they would lure out just one 4th-tier specimen.

In their normal seasons, the male would go out hunting with some of its underlings that would make things easier.

Unfortunately, this was not their normal season, the opposite.

This was the breeding season, and they would rarely come out as they were busy breeding or warming the laid eggs together.

Akon used one of his spells to see through the walls of the cave.

As expected, since the beasts had covered the entire structure with their own poisonous gas, he couldn’t peer through it.

“Alright, everyone, let’s start,” stated Akon.

“Yeah, I’m getting sick of this dark and damn place.” intoned Arkos.

“Let me cast the fireball,” added Zhale “Yeah, this place is too disgusting,” added Korr “I’m already hungry, could we eat the Damn Serpent barbeque?” questioned Orin.

Everyone looked at Orin questioningly.

Zhale stated for the umpteenth time, “You idiot, how many time do I have to tell you that the goddamn serpents entire body is poisonous, its meat is not edible!!” He practically shouted in his face, but Orin simply ignored him.

Korr gave Orin an annoying look, “Just let this bastard do whatever he wants after we go back, and let’s stop wasting more time.

I don’t want to spend a second more here than I have to.” Akon only smiled at the antics of his friends.

But a moment later, their expressions turned serious, they were simply messing around to lighten up the mood.

But now it was time for business.

The first in action was Zhale, focusing his mana and making it flow through a certain pattern, a focused fireball was created, aiming at the entrance teeming with a disturbing amount of Damp Snakes, he fired it, the fireball shot right through the entrance.

And a loud explosion occurred.

countless snakes of the first tier and fewer were caught on spreading fire, it wasn’t just a normal fire.

But a slow burning fire of unique kind that caused extreme amounts of pain, and it was hard to put out, and could burn even the dampest things since it fed on mana rather than actual material.

Countless hisses and cries of snakes sounded in the surroundings, Korr immediately cast a camouflage spell, then two deafening cries that out shadowed all the snakes cries sounded thunderously, it was the two leaders.

It seems the fireball reached moderately deep through the cave and caused some significant destruction.

And the two 4th-tier specimens were extremely enraged.

However, they did not come out.

Rather, countless 3rd tier snakes came out and spread everywhere, hissing and sniffing everything in a certain radius.

They often flicked their tails and broke trees or various vegetation in anger and suspicion.

If something was hiding in the bushes.

More of Akon’s friends helped Korr to do a better camouflaging, through other enhancement type of magics.

Of course, they did not expect the leaders to come out with just that small spell.

They obviously needed all the 3rd tier ones to come out, when they became sure that most of the underlings within the cave came out, they dispelled their camouflage.

All the 3rd-tier and 2nd-tier specimens turned all of their heads at a certain point right in their middle as their instincts screamed in fear.

But the order of their leaders was obvious and overrode their fear.

But in that moment of hesitation between fear and obedience, their enemies had launched their wide-ranging, destructive attacks, something in which Akon himself did not participate.

Because he was not needed.

After 10 minutes or so, all the 3rd tier and lower levels of specimens were slaughtered like dogs, most of them did not even have their bodies remaining.

And there was a silence in the surroundings, an eerie silence in fact.

Akon himself, walking in some distance.

Nodded towards his companions and they also nodded towards him, and Akon hid himself through and invisibility and sense evasion spell.

In the next moments another deafening roar resounded from the cave, sounding far angrier than before.

Then a massive, disgusting-looking serpent came out, its looks were extremely disturbing.

The serpent’s body was filled with a sticky, liquid-like substance.

Its face looked disfigured and horrifying at the same time.

But the party was not deterred, the four looked at the large serpent with apparent wariness and the narrowed slits of the serpents eyes focused its intents on the 4 individuals.

While it did look extremely furious, but it did not rush towards its enemies blindly.

Rather it looked around for a moment, as if

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