They slept for the rest of the night peacefully, without any pressure. Clark dreamt that night of himself becoming the ruler of the whole world. Everything felt blurry to him, but he captured that all the presidents became his subordinates, as the world prospered under his rule.
He aspired to break King Solomon’s record in the bible, of having the most wives and concubines in history, and that’s exactly what he did.
All the Presidents provided the most beautiful maidens from their countries to him, as he selected 2000 from the maidens. He directly broke Solomon’s record, even doubling it.
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He finally woke up, feeling weird and puzzled. “I’m not sure that’s me, I don’t run after skirts. I guess staying with Leo influenced my sweet dream, adding the ridiculous wives’ part to it”.
“Where’s that piece of s**t?” He cursed, turned around, and saw his friend by the side, already eating the roasted meat of the Night Rakshasha.
“Gulp…,” he suddenly felt hungry on seeing this. He swallowed, as he got up to meet his bosom friend.
“Good morning Clark. I heard you muttering something about me influencing your dreams negatively. So, as a good friend, I decided to not interfere in your problems again bro.
This roasted meat is mine, don’t worry your raw meat is there,” Leo pointed at a corner. He started the morning with this ridiculous conversation, as soon as his friend came out.
Clark glanced at the corner. Seeing the stored raw meat of the Night Rakshasha, his eyes twitched slightly as he resisted the impulse to curse and fight with his friend on the spot.
“What the hell do I do with this bunch of raw meat? Hmmm, calm down, calm down.” He soothed himself inwardly. Arguing will only delay the time he was supposed to use to be eating, he comforted himself.
He calmly walked to his friend as he replied, “Oh, Leo you’re still so funny and attentive”.
“Don’t listen to that ridiculous side of me bro, we’ve passed that stage in our friendship. We’re buddies, don’t you know? Partners in crime, that’s what we are. You know what I mean.”
As he chattered on, he already sat next to his friend as he started wolfing down the meat without hesitation. Leo only glanced at him with a profound smile planted on his face, before ignoring him as they continued their feast.
After eating, they went to a nearby water reservoir to wash themselves up and their clothes. They relaxed for the whole day to clear their mind of the harrowing encounters over the last few weeks.
They mentally rejoiced, as they've succeeded in registering their 4th exobeast kill in less than a month. The day quickly went on without any peculiar happenings nor encounters.
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The next day, they continued their journey to leave the forest to other territories with exobeasts. They traveled for 3 days uneventfully before they finally reached another territory, a savannah grassland.
They were already experienced in entering new territories, so they quickly adapted as they started looking around for their new prey.
They searched for more than two weeks before they encountered the exobeast lording this part of the grassland. The fight was without suspense, as they boxed in their 5th exobeast kill.
They searched for another week before they discovered and killed the other exobeast ruler of the savannah grassland, getting their 6th exobeast kill.
Compared to other groups, their kill rate and speed were simply out of this world. They spread terror in every territory they passed, as they continued their travels.
Their next location was another forest, but it was far smaller than the forest where they killed the Night Rakshasha. The Night Rakshasha was, without doubt, the strongest exobeast they’ve encountered. They finally met their last exobeast, as time was almost up. This time, their opponent was a Boa constrictor.
This was the only exobeast that came close to the Night Rakshasha in strength, apart from the ape. It only caused them slight troubles before it was killed, netting them their 7th exobeast kill.
The 2nd phase of training was finally over as they waited to be picked up. They both experienced a lot from this training, they came back entirely different cadets compared to 2 months ago.
If 2 months ago, they were just noobies in terms of battle experience. Now, they were veterans with rich battle experience. They were not at the peak yet; it was still a long way to go. But they were now among the upper ranks of soldiers.