Offensive Formation

Because his cultivation technique [Thousand World Qi Manipulations] uses similar techniques to formations when cultivating and learning a new manipulation, Lester had been studying another scripture from his memories. This scripture touched upon basic formation studies, which he felt like he possessed a pretty positive talent towards understanding formations. Whether this came from his natural talent or the gem on his glabella, he was unsure.

The aliens possessed individuals capable of creating formations and they were called Formation Masters. Formations were a set of figures created with a very strict manipulation of Qi that allows the Qi to transform into whatever the formation master wished. There were attacking formations, defensive formations, enhancing formations, and many more. This fascinated Lester and although he had the aid of his cultivation technique and some knowledge in formations, studying a basic formation manual from his memory was already almost too hard of a task. He was barely able to even get one to work, and the number of times it did was small. Not to mention how strenuous to his mind and body the formation was. It required a great amount of energy, and with his current cultivation, these formations are too difficult to execute properly.

"Come on… we need this!" Lester said as he closed his eyes, allowing his Qi sensing to do all the work. The formation he was currently attempting wasn't anything grand, in fact, the aliens taught these formations to young talented people capable of understanding formations as a starting point.

The Qi in the surrounding area began to vibrate and move into strange shapes and letters that were almost incomprehensible. They moved into a circular pattern, creating intricate designs that would baffle the smartest of scientists. As the last shape began to take form, Lester's face could be seen to be serious and focused as beads of sweat rushed down his forehead head.

"Ah!"

The formation then began to glow as suddenly, the formation glowed even brighter as the tip of a humongous sword appeared from within the glowing formation, and before they knew it, it began rushing towards the creature, exposing the humongous longsword that was almost the length of two busses. The sword rushed out from the formation with such a fast speed, that even The others who were around to witness it were barely able to tell that the object was.

"ZOOOOOOOOOOM"

"BANG!!!!!!"

The loud sound sent shivers down everyone's body as the humongous sword slashed through the creature and everything behind it, sending a huge cloud of dust and rubble into the air.

Lester fell to the ground in exhaustion as he was relieved to have had this work.

The dust began to settle asthe scene was revealed to everyone. Homes and even trees behind the creature were completely cut down, leaving a path of destruction that concluded on the side of a hill.

Lester barely had the power to stand up and managed slowly, as Patrick was behind helped by the Holy Man as both were walking to see the status of the Hair Witch.

Strangely enough, the corpse of the creature was nowhere to be found, all that was left was the Hair Witch's unconscious body.

"I can't believe the [Formation of the Vicious Sword] worked…" A sigh of relief came out of Lester as he really couldn't believe it worked. He had been learning the creation of formations outside of his body and he was barely making progress. However, something about the urgency of the situation helped him take that little extra step that allowed him to create the formation perfectly, ultimately killing the creature.

"Witch!?" said the holy man as he let Patrick down and ran to the woman who was still unconscious. Flashing his hand near her nose he smiles and says, "She is breathing..."

Everyone present lets out another relieving exhale, but then the mood turns serious.

"She still isn't waking up though… We should call the emergency unit of Cultivation Island. The faster we get her out of here the better." Lester said as he looked towards the Hair Witch with furrowed brows.

All of them pulled their devices as they alerted the rescue team, which after an hour the helicopter could be heard arriving at their location.

Lester had regained a bit of his energy, and Patrick was still in a shaky condition as his side was cut quite deeply. This mission was very dangerous and proved that the current world was getting extremely dangerous and if they didn't become stronger, things would simply get worse for them and the human race. Mysterious creatures were appearing throughout the world, causing complete chaos, taking countless lives, and escaping unscathed.

"How long will it take?" Patrick asked as he looked towards Lester who was fiddling with his smartphone gifted by the Cultivation Island.

"Ten minutes." Said Lester as he looked back up and sat down slowly. His body was tired, weak and he needed a recharge. He was content with ending their expedition here, especially since no one lost their life.

The two missions that they had taken on, although, only one would have been considered complete, would still consider this expedition as a success. Lester felt it was successful because they had discovered the strange fruit, the golden macaque, and the strange creature in this village which they ultimately took down. They had gathered good intel that the Cultivation Island would surely want the details of.

As five minutes went by, they heard strange faint sounds from above. As they looked up, they noticed that there were four small drones about the size of a fist flying around them and the village. There were small cameras on them, as it looked like they were analyzing the surrounding environment and battleground.

"Duhduhduhduh" The sounds of helicopter blades could be heard as they got louder and louder.

"Swoosh!" Suddenly the wind surrounding the four began to pick up, sending their hair into a dancing frenzy as dust and leaves began to fly around them as there was a helicopter directly above them.

Looking up, the group of four slowly managed to get up as they looked towards the huge gray helicopter's slow decline. The helicopter had huge doors that were currently opened, as a few heads were looking down at them.

As the blades on the helicopter slowed and came to a stop, a person stepped out of the helicopter.

The person wore a blue robe with no sleeves exposing his heavily tattooed arms. There were brown leather pads on his shoulder and leather straps on his torso and the left of his robe there was the insignia of the cultivation island. The man had a bald head as strange purple lines were going down his head as they connected on his forehead where there was a diamond-shaped eye. He had piercings on his bottom lip which had purple lipstick on, his right eyebrow also had piercings that matched the piercings on his ear.

Looking at this man, Lester could tell that he was one step away from being a late-stage cultivator.

"Another four who bit more than they could chew… Hmm, you're lucky you're all alive... more than two cultivators alive after ringing the emergency button is quite rare… Get in, we have to get back, other people around the world need help."

The whole process was quite fast as they were here to escort and give medical aid. They entered the helicopter and were taken care of as the helicopter began to depart. Within the helicopter, they were asked questions in regards to the mission, and a rundown of everything that went on. Specifics in regards to how the beast was killed were not asked, however, the weaknesses of the beast were.

They were safe and ready to get some rest as they didn't need to complete a mission in a while due to their late success.