"So that's why teacher Fidd requested you to come to the dean's office yesterday" James said while looking at William.

"I was surprised too when the dean's asked me to join the tournament" William replied to him.

"I thought you don't have any interest in something like tournament" Alice said as she kept staring at William.

"Well, you know my sister, she want to join the tournament so I have no choice but to agree" William said to Alice.

"This time I will train my sister in the Flame Ape forest in the north" William said shocking to the two.

""What?!"" Alice and James said at the same time.

"Why change the place?" James asked William. He know something about that forest.

Alice looked at William curiously. She also heard about that forest from her father. Her father told her that the Flame Ape forest was a very dangerous place. It's not a place that anyone can go in and out.

Flame Ape Forest was the most dangerous forest near the Hebrei city. It located at the north part, it's as large as the Hebrei city that span 300 km. There's many high level monster that live in the forest.

"You already know me and my sister Claire needed to prepare ourself in the upcoming tournament, so I decided to increase the difficulty of the place we're training" William explained to the two of them.

"If you want to join, just come with us after the class" William said to the two.

"Just think it carefully, even I will not be able to protect you against those high level monster, the only thing I could do is hold them for a while" William said sternly at Alice and James.

"I will come with you William" Alice said without hesitation.

William nodded at Alice.

James scratched his head at Alice answer, he know that once Alice decide something it was hard to change her mind. This lass was very stubborn.

"Okay, okay, I'm in" James said helplessly.

After a while teacher Fidd entered the classroom.

William sometimes explained things to Alice when she didn't understand something in the lesson.

****

After the class, William, James, and Alice waited for Claire at the gate of the academy.

A few minutes have passed and Claire arrived.

She waved her hands at him while saying, "Brother"

She stopped and looked at the two and said, "Good afternoon Alice and James"

"Okay, let's go" William interrupted them. He left the area, Claire immediately followed him. Alice also followed him while James could only smile wryly.

Before they went to the forest William and the rest went first to the town to buy a good weapon for them.

William presented his hunter's ID card to the city guard at the gate. After they passed the gate, they immediately saw across the field a large forest.

"First I will find a level 50 monster and let you fight it as you are already a level 48" William said to his sister Claire.

He then turned his head to the two and said, "Don't get to far from each other when hunting a monster and don't wander deep in the forest."

Alice and James nodded their head, they both know the monster that live here was high level. This forest was dangerous especially for both of them as their level was quite low.

William went in the depths of the forest to attract a level 50 monster for his sister.

The three waited for William at the entrance of the forest. After a while William came back with a giant snake chasing behind him.

"Sister" William shouted at his sister.

Claire immediately know what to do. She unsheathed her sword and dashed at the giant snake.

William vanished at his position only Claire was left in front of the giant snake. The snake was 7 meters long, a level 53 white tail snake.

William tightly held his sword in his right hand as the Burning Flame Blade coated his sword making it more powerful. He was ready to rushed over to help his sister in case something happened to her sister.

Alice and James noticed a flame coated William's sword. They both don't know that William have this kind of skill as they didn't see this even after practicing in the west forest for a long time.

The giant snake shot out and launched himself at Claire.

Swish!!

Claire swing the sword in her hands to the head of the giant snake, she strike the head of the giant snake away from her.

Clang!!

Claire was force to take a few step back, the giant clearly was powerful than her. She was used to fighting an opponent that was higher level than her, but those were a student of the academy they didn't have an intent to kill when they were battling against each other.

This was the first time she fight an opponent that was trying to kill her. She was quite nervous this time.

The giant snake glared at her while coiling itself at a distance.

Claire gulp nervously as she continued to observe the giant snake called white tail snake.

The grey scale that was covering it's large body was like a armor.

William noticed that his sister was quite nervous as her knees was trembling slightly.

"Take a deep breathe sister and calm yourself, don't let yourself be intimidated by it's killing intent" William said loudly at his sister.

'Brother is right, I can't let this continued' Claire thought, she took a deep breath and held her sword in two hands.

Once again the giant snake lunged at her. The speed of the giant snake was frighteningly fast.

Swiiish!!

Claire grip the sword in her hands tightly.

'It's coming'

The giant snake opened it's mouth widely and tried to swallow her. Claire immediately sidestepped and brought down her sword at it's thick scale.

Clang!!

'As expected it's scale is too hard to pierce with normal attack, it seems I need to use a skill the next time I attack' Claire thought as she looked at her sword.

The giant snake turned around and immediately rushed at her.

The sword in Claire hands glow lightly. She grip her sword tightly as the light brighten in her sword.

FIRST SLASH: SLICING THE EARTH!!

Boom!!