Guardian Of The End

'This big of a forest and they target us!' Jason clicked in tongue. Even though the beasts were only at the D rank, they outnumbered the group of five by an enormous number.

The monkey king was also present there which made things unpredictable.

"What happened?' Zeke asked with a frown. He slid of the bed of ice, his eyes wide open.

Amber and Mila also gathered around the three boys when they hard Wade's voice. The latter had a grim expression on his face.

"Hundreds of monkeys are heading this way and judging by the looks of it, they are coming here to pick on us." Wade explained.

When he had been securing the perimeter, Wade had encountered a dozen or so monkeys. All of them had screeched when they had seen him and had tried to hold him captive.

Wade had barely managed to escape by releasing his powers and getting away from the monkeys. He hadn't killed them since he didn't want to invite the entire horde towards himself.

But it had clearly not worked since the monkeys were heading towards his location with their king in tow.

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"This…" Izzy, who was silently observing the entire scenario from a nearby location, frowned.

She was well aware about the red-butt monkeys. They hung around the beginner's area of the forest and often attacked the students in groups of ten or so.

They only had small fights with the first years before they would go away. They never invited other monkeys to fight alongside them, much less their king.

'I might have to step in if things go south.' Izzy stood up from her sitting place.

She knew that the monkey king was no joke. He was one of the strongest beasts living in the beginner's area and might even be considered the ruler of the area.

Unless someone killed his subordinates, which didn't happen, he simply sat in his home turf and enjoyed being fed by beautiful females monkeys, who were personally picked by him according to his taste.

Izzy knew this because she had made a few trips to his home turfs. The monkeys had sometimes captured a few of her students and she had to personally go and get them from the monkeys base.

Izzy wondered whether the same thing was happening here as well. The blond-woman, however, was smart enough to know that something else was happening near her new students.

'I will let them handle things for now and only interfere if something wrong happens.' Izzy thought and continued to observe her students silently.

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'So thats the king of these red-butt monkeys,' Jason observed. 'I have to say that all of them do live up to their name.'

The red-butt monkeys looked like regular brown monkeys from Earth. The only difference in their appearance was that their butts were huge and were shining brightly as though someone had spanked them.

The king of the monkeys had an even larger butt which made Jason wonder about how he became the king. Did the monkey with the biggest butt automatically become the king?

'Inspect.'

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< Red-Butt Monkey King>

Threat level: B rank

- An evolved form of the red-butt monkeys. These monkeys are twice as large as their previous forms and gain a good control over one of their elements.

- When triggered, this monkey releases a sharp scream which will make every living being not belonging to his species temporarily paralyzed.

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Jason read the details on the monkey king with a serious expression. Not only the monkey was at the same level as him, it also had a terrifying attack.

"Guys, I think we should be ready to fight," Jason suggested while taking a battle stance.

The others followed his example and got into fighting positions. They were ready to wrestle with the monkeys if they tried to make a move against them.

[ Relax humans, I am not hear to attack you. ] The monkey king spoke with the help of telepathy.

(AN: Just to make things a bit clear, Verbally spoken words are put inside "this". Thoughts are put inside 'this'. The system's words are put inside [this]. Mental conversations, and words spoken by a guardian sometimes, are put inside [this].)

Jason didn't lower his guard and looked directly into the red-butt monkey king's black eyes.

"Why are you here then?" Jason asked aloud.

[ I am here to talk. ] The monkey king responded before looking at the rest the monkeys around him. [ These guys insisted on coming here since all of us were attracted by a particular thing. ]

"What is that?" Jason asked curiously. Just by looking at the monkey king, he could conclude that the other party wasn't interested in fighting for the time being.

[ I am here to talk to you. ] The monkey king replied with a grin, at least that's what Jason assumed. The beast had simply parted his lips and revealed his shiny pointy teeth.

"Uh…" the silver-haired boy tried to think of a response but failed miserably. In the end, he asked, "why do you want to talk to me?"

[ That can't be said here in the open. I want to invite you to our domain and have a talk with you there. ]

Once again, Jason was stumped. He looked at his new classmates with an uneasy expression before looking back at the monkey king.

[ Don't reply with "What if I refuse?" or "Let's go to your domain. ]

'You basically took the yes and no response out of the equation.' Jason replied with a sigh.

[ I am sure that you will figure something out. ]

The system was right about that. It only took Jason a few seconds before coming up with the right response.

"Where is your domain located?" Jason asked, neither expression agreement nor refusal.

[ Its located about fifteen minutes away from here but that's if we go by swinging. You humans aren't efficient at that so it will take you around thirty minutes of walking to get there. ]

Jason's lips curled up into a smile.

"I am quite fast," he replied before glancing at his classmates. "You guys stay here while I visit their domain. Miss Izzy will find us if anything wrong happens so don't worry about me."

After saying that, Jason handed away the food pills to Amber. The others felt reluctant about Jason leaving but none of them tried to stop him.

They had only met recently, excluding Amber, so there was no need for them to voice out their opinion regarding something Jason was about to experience.

Seeing that no one wanted to argue, the silver-haired boy directly looked at the monkey king again.

"Lead me to your domain and we will talk."