After leaving the battlefield, Kai and the girls entered deeper into Moscow.

While running and killing the magical beasts in their way, Sofia came to him and asked, "Kai, what are we planning to do? I mean, the schedule."

Kai contemplated for a moment and said, "Since we have three weeks here, we will stay in one location for two days before reaching another location to search for the next intelligent beast. From what I can see, they are aligned with each other, making it easier for us to go to them in succession.

"In other words, after dealing with this place, we don't need to have a long discussion before going there since they are pretty much arranged by them to lure us inside."

Sofia nodded in understanding while Roselyn asked, "Then, do you think we should bite this bait? I mean, shouldn't we make another plan because we don't know whether we are strong enough or not…"

Kai also thought about it, but he decided to go for it for two reasons. First, this would be a good measurement to see how strong Roselyn and Sofia are after the special training. Secondly, Arba told him that he had yet to master all his power since he might grow to an even more terrifying level in the future, so he wanted to see his current power and limit to look forward to the things he could possibly achieve in the near future.

"It's fine. I have made a few countermeasures if things go south." Kai waved his hand, trying to assure them that everything was going to be alright.

Sofia trusted him and said no more while Roselyn needed to ask one more question. "What is the probability of success?"

"I am not sure, but if I need to say it… I will say sixty percent to seventy percent."

"I understand." Roselyn nodded and chose to trust him as well.

They continued to go deeper and deeper, according to the map Roselyn gave him yesterday. Not long after, they found the Intelligent Magical Beast that had been controlling all the others.

It was an ape. Its fur was red and his fist was covered in fire. No one needed to discern his element again since it was so obvious.

Roselyn thought for a moment and asked, "May I use this opportunity to check my strength?"

"No, no. I am the one who is going to defeat the ape." Sofia furrowed her eyebrows, arguing with her.

Kai simply shook his head and said, "You two go. I will be handling all the beasts in our surroundings. I don't care if you can't work together as long as you don't stand in each other's way. That's all."

"Well, it's not like I hate working with her…" Roselyn tried to correct him, but Kai already disappeared into the surroundings.

It was true though. Roselyn and Sofia had been together for three months and they didn't hate each other anymore. This time, they just wanted to test it first because they knew no one could test their strength if the ape needed to fight the two girls together.

Some people might even consider this as a way for each girl to respect their rival.

Since Kai wanted them to cooperate, they exchanged looks and nodded. There was an agreement between them without even saying a single word.

Sofia went to the left while Roselyn went to the right. Their path curved, so the ape vision had a visual of them in both corners of his eyes. If he tried to see Roselyn, Sofia would disappear from his vision and the same applied to Sofia.

Due to the restriction of his vision, the ape decided to go to Roselyn because she summoned her exoskeleton in her back, making her feel more dangerous.

Roselyn smirked and raised his sword, summoning her wind magic. The control of her magic was so smooth as she formed a small wind sphere on top of his sword. It was none other than her compressed wind, one of the new things she devised in Emulda Kalan.

The ape continued getting closer and closer without any fear. Before reaching her range, the ape opened its mouth and released a breath of fire.

"…" Roselyn narrowed her eyes since her compressed fire would explode if it hit the small sphere.

Sofia already knew the predicament and came from behind while summoning a magic circle. "Freezing World."

The moment she used that magic, the ground and anything above it in front of her froze in a fan-shaped area. This meant the back of the ape, the ground, and ultimately the flame. It quickly froze and turned the fire into an empty ice shell.

"I got you." Sofia smiled and gave a thumbs up.

"Thanks." Roselyn smiled back and saw that the fire that covered the ape's fists had disappeared as well. The ape widened his eyes in confusion, but Roselyn took another leap to cover their distance and stabbed the sword into his chest.

The compressed wind burst before the sword even hit his chest, creating a small dent on his skin as if the bone behind it was crushed. At the same time, the ape was blown away in Sofia's direction.

Another blue magic circle appeared on Sofia's hand as she pointed it to the ape.

"Ice Dragon."

A huge dragon head, whose size was almost three times of the ape, emerged from the magic circle and swallowed him as a whole. The ape was caught between teeth, so her blue ice turned red in a mere few seconds.

She didn't use it for too long and spat what it had swallowed to the ground.

The ape was rolling on the ground, but everyone could see ten holes on the ape's body, stretching from his right shoulder to his left waist.

Roselyn stepped forward without sympathy and severed the ape's head before it could regain its balance. "It's over."

"To think we can kill an intelligent beast this easy…" Roselyn was impressed by their change.

"Let's talk about it later. We should help Kai to suppress the magical beasts in our surroundings." Sofia waved her hand since she had experienced power ups a few times when she was with Kai, so this kind of change was still within her limit.

Roselyn nodded in agreement and followed her moving around the area to kill as many as possible.

…

When the night came, there were two sea magical beasts talking to each other on the land as if they didn't need any water to breathe.

The first one had a fish face with a large mouth and sharp teeth. It might even tear a human body in a single bite. The fish's skin was dark green and its hand held a sword. His height was three meters, not that different from a human, but his body was buff.

Still, the most noticeable thing from him was the small antenna above his head that curved to the front, carrying a small bulb on the end of the antenna. Yes, he was an Anglerfish.

The Anglerfish looked at his partner for this mission. His partner had a small head despite his huge body that could be compared to the Anglerfish. In his hand were two giant shields with straight patterns from top to bottom.

"Oi, Clam." The Anglerfish called him while making a serious expression.

"You should stop calling me by that name." The clam narrowed his eyes and slightly bumped his shoulder with the shield on his hand. The shield itself was a feature of his body, so no one could take it off his hands.

"Fine, fine. Anyway, I have gotten the information that everything is going well. Kai Carter has entered our trap and will arrive in front of us within a few days. For now, we will be waiting for him until he is far enough from Belarus to avoid any reinforcement.

"In other words, we will be manipulating the magical beasts around us to attack him. Although the land beasts instinctively don't like us, we should still be able to work it out somehow. Besides, he is only going to this place with two other girls instead of his full team.

"There is no way they can contend with one of us. That's why this is the biggest opportunity for us to kill us, Hatker." The Anglerfish smiled as all the waiting they got finally paid off.

After receiving the news that Kai would be visiting the EU Base, the mermaid princess had asked them to kill him somehow. Unfortunately, not a single plan could work because Arnaud kept everything in check.

Kai was said to get a power up that made him a bit too confident, so they thought it would be the right time to utilize their spy and influence the other Union members to force Kai to accept their mission to this place.

They managed to succeed and left him with only two girls of the same age. No one at his age would be able to follow Kai's footsteps other than his group, so they thought their success would be pretty much in the bag as long as they didn't alarm Kai, making him turn back.

The clam, Hatker, thought for a moment before nodding in agreement. "That's good enough. I will be handling Kai Carter while you deal with the girls, Yuba."

"What?! I want to defeat Kai Carter with my own hands." The anglerfish furrowed his eyebrows and complained. "I don't like your decision."

"Do you think I'm joking?" The clam looked at him with a serious expression.

"Yes, you are."

The two wanted the opportunity to kill Kai so they would be famous in their place. After a while, the clam finally made a compromise. "How about this? We will use the remaining days here to decide who is going to fight Kai Carter and who is the one handling the girls."

"Sounds right to me. The usual?"

The clam nodded as they began fighting for their own fight.