Darius lowered his center of gravity once more, adopting his final combat stance with the remnants of his pure muscle strength. The gaze of his eyes turned incredibly sharp and cold, reflecting the ripples of maturity of a true fighter. "And as long as the existence of this monster before me still breathes and possesses the instinct to kill... then my position in this place... cannot yet be tactically categorized as safe."Far above on the branch of the tall tree, Aldric slowly straightened his torso from his leaning position. For the first time since this extreme battle simulation was held since this morning, his arms unclasped from the folds in front of his black cloak's chest.The movement was made not because he intended to leap down and intervene in the match to save his servant's life from the final frenzy phase of the bear. Rather, it was because he wanted to see with a clearer degree of accuracy from the heights; to see with his own pair of eyes what kind of execution decision

The result was zero; the monster's corpse only shifted a few centimeters, triggering an extraordinary throb of pain across his cracked ribs. On the other side, the spiked boar in front of him began to scratch the surface of the ground rhythmically using its sharp front hooves.Darius froze in place. 'This is bad, it has locked onto its path.'"Darius! Do something quickly!" Nero screamed from atop the boulder."I know, Nero!" Darius shot back across his mental frequency."It’s going to charge forward!""I can see its muscle movements too!" Darius shouted, the veins in his neck bulging.Darius pushed with all his might once more against the Rock Bear's corpse atop his legs. The muscles of both his arms trembled violently, flushing red under a weight pressure that was far too forced. However, his physical system had reached its absolute breaking point. There was no more stamina that could be squeezed out from within his human body.The spiked boar lowered its head position, aiming its p

Darius reflexively held his breath upon seeing the encirclement from five directions. In the midst of that pouncing storm, Aldric did not shift his footing position even a fraction. Fifteen meters. Ten meters. Five meters."Master! Watch out!" Darius screamed in panic.Aldric raised his black Greatsword into the air with a single vertical motion that seemed far too slow. However, right when the snout of the first monster was a single span away from his cloak, Aldric unleashed a very clean, simple horizontal swing.Wummm!The air pressure inside the crater suddenly exploded violently, releasing a ripple of a vacuum shockwave that sliced through the mist distortion instantly. Darius widened his pair of eyes completely until the veins in his eyes stood out clearly.The surface of the earth in front of Aldric's standing position split deep, forming a single straight line spanning a dozen meters. The six Rank B monsters lunging from different coordinates suddenly halted simultaneously in m

His visual senses indeed did not possess a high enough capability just to capture the entire sequence of Aldric's movements. However, something strange within the deepest structure of his instincts seemed to force him to keep paying attention and analyzing in detail: The way Aldric shifted his center of gravity over the muddy ground, the tilt angle of his sword blade when colliding with bone spikes, the safe distance he left in every defensive movement, all the way to the momentum of inertia he utilized to save his physical stamina supply. Darius tried to record all those tactical visuals into the structure of his brain.Ding!Aldric, who was currently slicing clean through the neck of the seventeenth boar, suddenly found the transparent blue interface belonging to the system manifesting instantly in the corner of his field of vision.[Contract Growth Brand Active] [Contract Target is intensely observing the owner's combat patterns] [Target's Combat Experience Absorption Efficiency: