The time it took the flame to go down, everyone has already done preparing their ultimate technique and was just waiting for the signal.

    After the flame went out, the demon came into view as its whole body was filled with injuries with black blood coming out of the injuries and a foul smell oozing all over the place.

    " URG what kind of awful smell is this, I can barely breathe" complain josh as he used is spare hand to cover his nose.

    " It smells more like a rotten meat" commented Ray.

    " You think this is funny" said the demon angrily as it staggered forward.

    " Why isn''t it funny, were you not the one that have been boosting about being superior ever since you came into our realm" replied josh with a smug on his face.

    Ever since they were facing the demon, this has been the first time that he has been really happy. Who won''t be happy about being among a team that took out a demon that is even a few levels higher than there.

    Looking at the happy expression in the face of the humans, the demon begin to huff as it energy that seen to be in a decline begin to increase. Seeing this, Ray remember how the system will inform beforehand in the mountain when an undead being is about to use it ultimate skill, and it was no difference from the demon. Channelling more energy than the previous time, Ray direct his energy into the tip of the arrow as it begin to glow in red.

    " Everyone gets ready, the demon is about to unleash a big move" said Ray to the group as he continues to gather energy into the arrow.

    " We can tell its preparing it final move which will likely be more deadly than the ones it has performed before replied Gray as his spear began to glow in a golden light.

    Seeing that the humans are still confident in their attack, the demon begin to laugh as if it has gone insane as it raised it hands up above its head as a little red ball appear above it head, and it didn''t stop there. The red ball begin to expand every two seconds.

    Seeing this, Ellis huff before saying.

    " The demon it''s channelling the energy left inside it body into the ball and I have a really bad feeling that it will not be a good new if it were to throw that ball at us".

    " Let just allow the filthy demon to have is last attempt" replied Ray with a smile on his face.

    " I think you are over underestimating this demon" said Gray as he turned to look at Ray.

    " No am not, can''t you tell that it is using what is remained in its body to create that ball, so letting it continue gathering more energy into the red ball the chance we have of ending the demon without it fighting back due to being out of energy" replied Ray with a smile on his face.

    " Oh I see, they sag demons are very cunning but it seen to me that the humans are always ahead of them when it comes to be more cunning" said Roland with a chuckle.

    Meanwhile, the demon has finally gathered the energy into the ball making it a lot bigger than a football club.

    " Lets see how you are all going to keep that smile on your face after you eat my hell ball" said the demon with a creepy laughed as he threw the ball at the group.

    " Now" said Ray as he released his grip from the arrow as it went flying towards the red ball and at the same time the rest also threw their attack at the red ball.

    With Ellis unleashing his Golden quake technique to power his mighty lion fury before throwing his punch forward as he fell to the ground after exhausting himself.

    With Ray''s arrow taking the lead while being powered by his cultivation base, went flying as it pierce through the red ball and continue to head for the demon piercing into it stomach. Feeling the intense heat coming out of it stomach, the demon to hold the button of the arrow and was just about to pull it out, but before it could, it saw a gigantic lion creating a large crack in the red ball before it coming to head toward it and the same thing also happened to the other techniques that went through the red ball before heading its way.

    Although the strength of the technique reduce after passing through the red ball,, but the strength left was still enough to put the demon in a bad state.

    After they went through the red ball, the crack that was created all over it begin to expand before exploding as flames begin to spread over the place. Reactivating his energy force field, Ray shielded himself and Ellis as the flames near them. The heat begin to get worst before an outburst occur as the demon was sent ablaze from the inside before the gigantic lion''s head ram onto it before the others attack struck it.

    Screaming in pain, the demon was light for fifty minutes before the flame went out with the demon taking it last breathe as it was burnt to ash. And that''s when the notification came in.

    *Ding*

    [Quest completed: defeat the demon serpentine]

    [Excalibur has been obtained]

    * Ding*

    [Level up]

    Name: Ray

    Race: Human/?

    Gender: Male

    Attributes:

    Strength — 22(+4)

    Dexterity — 20(+2)

    Constitution — 14(+2)

    Intelligence — 16

    Wisdom — 14

    Charisma — 13

    Cultivation stage: foundation stage 2

    Hp: 600/600

    Mana: 500/500

    Exp: 50/2000

    Ability: wind slash [2mana], flame burst [5mana]

    Technique: the starry sword art [advance stage], sky ripper [advance stage]

    Free stats point: 2

    Battle point: 2000

    Adventure class: Hunter [one star]

    Placing his free stats point into strength, Ray close the window before turning to the inventory where Excalibur is being kept. Tapping on it to take a better look.

    *Ding*

    [item name: Excalibur (saint tier weapon) +10STR

    Grant the user 10% boost in all attributes]

    '' Wow this is more than a reward, I wonder what I am going to get if I were to defeat the mountain king'' thought Ray as he clicked to equip his new-found sword only to be decline by the system.

    *Ding*

    [Host is not strong enough to equip Excalibur for a long time due to the lack of cultivation base and can only use it for fifteen minutes at current stage]

    " If that is what it is, it is still under my advantage as a trump card when I am in a dire situation" said Ray as he kept his bow in the storage ring since it won''t be of any use for the now before equipping his fang blade back to secondary weapon.

    After equipping his blade back, Ray turned to look at Ellis sitting at the side while looking pale and drain of every energy that is left inside him.

    " Are you going to be fine," asked Ray.

    " Yeah, I am going to be okay. All I need right now is to go back home and go into seclusion," replied Ellis.

    " Not again, now you are saying I won''t be able to have a conversation with you until you come out in two or three years time," said Ray.

    " Haha don''t be silly Ray, am just going to recover my energy and not attempting to breakthrough into another realm. By the look of things you have already broken through to the second stage of the foundation realm" replied Ellis as he laughed a little.

    " What can I say, fighting against a stronger being Really stimulate my core while forcedly breaking through my bottom neck" said Ray while scratching his hair.

    " I think that suit you better instead of sitting in one place cultivating," said Ellis.

    Walking up to the two as they continue to chat away, Gray sat down before saying.

    " Finally we have finished the quest with no one dying in the group"

    " Were you expecting someone to lose his life along the quest," asked Ray with a frown.

    " Not really but it was expected that whenever the squad members went out to complete a quest, the squad will surely lose someone in the quest" replied Gray.

    " So you are saying this is actually the first time members of the Raging Dawn squad went out on a quest and manage to come back without loosing a member," asked Ray.

    " Exactly and for that we are going to spend the night in the pub after reporting to the captain" replied Gray.

    " Wait the captain, I thought we are going to report to jenny as usual" asked Ellis.

    " No, hunter only report to jenny when they are not yet in any squad and as for those that are in a squad, they will have to report to who ever that is in charge of the squad" replied Gray to their doubt.

    " What about the statue," asked Ellis while pointing at the statue.

    " We will have to leave that for the guild to handle" replied as he walked back to meet up with Roland and Josh.