Chapter 1004
Any living being would become an unparalleled existence once reached the sixth rank. That was the peak of the heroic ranks and the power limit of the lower planes. Divine beings would usually leave the weaker worlds unless they were in peculiar situations.
Magical beasts in the sixth rank would be easier to hunt compared to cultivators and hybrids on the same level, but that didn't make them simple prey at all. Moreover, the forces in the hidden world weren't ideal for the task.
However, a hunt was different from a regular battle. Hunters could prepare the territory and their weapons before approaching their prey. As for studying the target, the cultivators in the hidden world had dealt with the Kesier species for ages. Each one of them was akin to an expert when it came to those Apes.
Noah stared at a simple mountain peak surrounded by a series of red waterfalls. That region was close to the rebel's headquarters, but it was still inside the range of the Ape God's mental waves.
According to Skully, the black sky helped the God spread its influence, so the rebel forces mined it. The lava lake where they lived was a blind spot in the divine beast's sight, and its summoning didn't reach there.
Skully had confirmed that the best target would be there. Those were the edges of the Ape God's domain. Any reinforcement would take at least a day to arrive, giving Noah and the other forces enough time for their plan.
Noah had eventually agreed to fuse Skully with a rank 6 Kesier Ape, but he had taken his time to prepare. More than fifteen years had passed since that agreement, marking Noah's twenty-first year since his discovery of the hidden world.
That period had been necessary to complete all the preparations needed to hunt a magical beast in the sixth rank. Yet, Noah didn't feel confident even after fifteen years spent plotting and training.
A rank 6 Kesier Ape in the lower tier lived in the mountain, and Noah had studied its habits and the terrain for almost five years by then. The creature was a perfectly healthy female specimen that came out of its lair twice a month.
Planting traps with such a predictable schedule was easy, but Noah knew that they wouldn't be enough to kill the Ape.
The plan saw him and other cultivators at the fifth rank's peak exploiting the traps to attack the creature. Still, their target was a magical beast in the sixth rank. They had to consider themselves lucky if they managed to hurt it.
The real killing force was in three disposable weapons that Noah had managed to create in those years. He wouldn't even have agreed to actuate the plan that day if it wasn't for them.
'I hope they are enough,' Noah thought as he stared at the mountain. 'I almost emptied their stash of black metal to complete these three.'
Three needles appeared in his hands, and Noah inspected them with the utmost attention. He had done that multiple times already, but he never felt that it was enough when it came to facing a creature in the sixth rank.
The needles were quasi-rank 6 items that Noah had forged after years of failures. Their core material was the black metal imbued with the Ape God's mental waves and processed for months in Noah's dark matter.
They were the best that Noah could do with his current expertise and power. His darkness needed to reach the solid stage for him to do better than that.
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