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"Alright! We will now begin your first hunt!"

I look around at the forest the academy owns and nod my head. I did not expect the academy to have a hunting education in its curriculum. I thought that it would be like an academy in the human world.

But I was wrong. The academy provides a real-life fight against a beast in the underworld, from a chimera to a pterodactyl that flies around the forest. After a month of basic training in survival and fighting, the teacher let us have a real-life hunting lesson.

"Let's divide you guys into five groups. Group A to Group E. Each group will have ten people in it, and each group will have two teachers accompanying you. They will be your protector, but they will only help you when they think you guys cannot beat the beast coming your way. I want you guys to either capture or kill the beast. The more you guys kill them, the more points you get. The group that has the biggest points will get a reward from us."

When the teacher mentions a reward to the kids, I can see them get excited about it. Even Sairaorg gets excited about it. Even with his brain only filled with training, he is still a kid after all, and a mention of a reward excites him.

A few seconds later, I got into group C. The only person I knew in this group was Zephyrdor Glasya-Labolas. He is a young boy with blue hair, blue eyes, and pointed ears. He is yet to be a candidate for an heir for the Glasya-Labolas clan as the current heir is still alive.

Just like in the canon, he is too confident in his family's bloodline power and makes him arrogant. Just like right now.

"Keh! You look really nervous, bird boy. Don't worry. You have me on your team! I know you are afraid because you always hide behind your peerage. Kehahaha!"

Hold yourself together, Riser. He is not worth it. He is still a child. Wait for a few years, and you can pay him back ten times.

"Alright, kiddies!"

I look at the teacher and ignore Zephyrdor, who boasts how he did not need the teacher to protect him as his bloodline power allows him to protect himself from all attacks.

"We have arrived at the hunting ground. You can hunt the beast alone or hunt it in a group. I already placed a tracker on your armor. It will notify me in case something happens to you. Not only that, but this tracker also lets you call me directly by pushing a little bit of your demonic power. However! Use it only in emergencies. The only rule in this training is that you don't fight with each other. Other than that, go all out."

The teacher looks at his watch, and after a few seconds, he raises his hand and says.

"You can begin… Now!"

After saying that, the kids start to run toward the forest, leaving the teacher and me alone.

"Riser? Do you not want to join the hunt?"

"Ah, sorry about that, teach. I will go now."

I walk toward the direction where the kids did not go. When I get a few dozen meters away inside the forest, my instinct screams at me to dodge. I reinforce my legs and jump away to the right.

*Boom*

When I land on the ground, I see three trees get destroyed by something. I look around and flare my demonic power. A few seconds later, I feel something coming from my right. I look to the right and take a defensive stance.

"Heh. Not bad, kid."

"Who are you?! What are you doing here?!"

A second later, I see a man walk out of the forest. The man wears a biker leather jacket with a baseball bat in his hand. He looks at me with an arrogant smirk and says.

"The name is Ares, and we have some business we need to talk about."

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|3rd POV|

Riser looked at the man in front of him with a frown. He did not know how Ares had a problem with him. He never met any of the Greek Gods or Goddesses in his life.

"What kind of business are we talking about? I have never even seen you before."

"Heh. Don't act like a fool, devil."

After saying that, Ares suddenly appears in front of Riser with his baseball bat in hand. It was so fast that Riser could barely raise his hands to block the incoming attack.

*BOOM*

Riser released a mouthful of blood as his body hit the massive boulder a few hundred meters behind him. His body goes through at least fifty trees and can still destroy half of the boulder from the impact.

"Argh!"

Riser clutched his chest as he felt an intense pain coming from his chest. Ares' attack is strong enough to break Riser's hands, and the shockwave from the attack breaks his ribs. He can feel his bloodline power healing him, but the pain still stays.

As he gets up from the ground, Ares lands in front of him with the same arrogant smirk on his face.

"Heh. Not bad, kid."

"I don't know what your problem is, but you should stop now. I did not want to cause a problem between our factions."

"Heh. You already become a problem when you decide to make my wife sad, boy!"

Riser quickly reinforced his body and dodged to the left just in time to dodge Ares' attack that created a massive crater on the ground. After dodging the incoming attack, Riser thrust his hand forward, and suddenly a torrent of fire shot out of his hand and hit Ares.

"Hahahahaha! Good! Fight me! Fight!"

It was not enough to do much damage to Ares as the God of War laughed and charged at Riser once again. With a swing of his bat, Ares creates a shockwave so strong that it destroys most of the tree on its path. Seeing the incoming attack, Riser decides to use his teleportation magic circle around his arms.

Riser appears twenty meters above Ares, and above him are twenty magic circles. At his command, a hail of spells came out from the magic circle and hit Ares, who was smirking at the incoming attack.

"Good! I thought this would be boring! Let me show you why I'm called the God of War, boy!"

Ares' baseball starts to change into a bronze spear that has a terrifying red aura around it. This is his symbol of power as the Greek God of War.

"Thus speak Lord of Mars… The War shall become victorious! May spines be crushed, may bones be broken, tendons torn, hair brains and blood mingled and trampled together with the earth. Come! The Sacred Animal of Mars! The symbol of War! Come!"

After activating his Authority, a massive magic circle appears underneath him. A second later, an enormous figure emerges from the magic circle. It was a thirty meters tall Boar with a massive flaming tusk.

The Boar itself has a blood-red color with an orange aura around it. Its eyes are a massive ruby that shines brightly. Its mouth is filled with too many teeth that are ready to tear apart anything on its path.

Ares is standing on top of Boar's head with a massive grin on his face.

"Riser Phenex! You are the first one to see my Sacred Animal after a long time! Be honored and die!"

"Like hell, I will."

Riser gathers as much demonic power as possible and then pushes his hand forward. A massive torrent of white flame appears from his hand and flies toward the Boar, who is charging at him. A massive shockwave appears as the two forces collide.

*BOOM*