Luck is a Charm

While walking, Zen noticed his orb making beeping sounds once again. Zen took it out to check and saw the original 8 has bumped up to 17 points.

"That's broken!" 

Krista Dragoon said when she saw his orb points keep rising up while she has zero. They haven't encountered any other magical beasts after their first one so Krista Dragoon wasn't in the mood at all.

Now that Zen was able to gain more points and it was obvious that Romu and the rest of the worker slimes were killing magical beasts, Krista Dragoon couldn't handle the cheats he got.

Zen shrugged his shoulders and said innocently, "It's not my fault that I'm born with the greatest luck possible. I'm also trying to find magical beasts but they seem to be avoiding us since we're too strong for them to handle."

Krista Dragoon gritted her teeth when Zen was pretending to be innocent. 

She was sure that he has a way to sense the magical beast but is purposely avoiding them. That was because every time she used her magic sense, she could detect a few magical beasts were lurking by but when she arrived at that location, the magical beast magically disappeared from her radar.

'Damn it, at this rate, he will get 1000 points while I and Leila will still be stuck on zero.' Krista Dragoon cursed inwardly.

Meanwhile, Leila Dragoon was happily looking at the scenery in front of them where she ran away, touching the trees and smelling the flowers growing in the soil.

There were times that she flew up using wind magic to check out the clouds in the sky and absorb the sunlight.

"What's that?" Leila Dragoon suddenly shouted as she pointed her finger at a flying figure.

Zen narrowed his gaze and found out it was a flying magical beast type. It is currently flying rapidly toward them but there was zero malicious intent coming from it.

Zen ordered Leila Dragoon to come down as he watched the flying magical beast fly over them in a rush, causing the wind to turn into a mini twister as the forest tree started shaking.

Zen had to cast a protective barrier to block off the wind impact and cursed at the flying magical beasts for making a mess.

"What kind of beast is that?" Leila Dragoon asked shortly after.

"It's a Swift Roc, known for its defensive shell and swift movement." Krista Dragoon answered since Zen had no idea either.

"Swift Roc?" Zen repeated the magical beast name before shaking his head since he was sure Kuro was better than the Roc.

Krista Dragoon tried to explain further but stopped when another beeping sound was heard. Her expression darkened as she glared at Zen fiercely and her hand turned into a fist.

Zen whistled softly as he started walking faster and checked his orb secretly. '48 points already! We just started and I'm already gathering so many points when compared to others.'

Seeing the expression of Zen, Krista Dragoon could have guessed that he got a lot more points. 

Gritting her teeth slightly, Krista Dragoon said, "I shall walk forward and determine the pathway."

Zen became dumbstruck by her sudden determination and wished to change her mind because he has been avoiding the magical beasts purposely, using the excuse that Romu and the worker slimes were traveling somewhere else so they had to change their path.

"Do you have a problem with that?" Krista Dragoon glared at him and asked him in an authoritative tone, causing Zen to shudder slightly.

Quickly shaking his head, Zen was unwilling to stop her any longer. And as expected, once Krista Dragoon started leading the way, they encountered multiple magical beasts where Krista Dragoon and Leila Dragoon would do the killing while Zen stayed on the sideline.

They forbid him from joining the fight since his points were already too much and Zen could only give a helpless sigh as he watched them.

The beeping sound intensified as the points they gained accumulated and Krista Dragoon was happy to see her points. At the same time, she was angry with someone.

That someone was none other than Zen as Krista Dragoon guessed that Zen has been avoiding the magical beasts while leading them since it was too much of a coincidence for the magical beasts to start appearing once Zen was pushed to the back.

Zen's back started sweating and wished that there's someone stupid coming out right now to rob them of their points.

However, his luck seemed to be over as there was no one retarded enough to try and rob points this early on.

SLAP!

Krista Dragoon slapped Zen hard on the face as she held Leila Dragoon's hand and walked away, leaving a red-hand palm Zen alone.

"Sister Krista, did that slap hurt your hand?" Leila Dragoon asked in concern when the slap was extremely loud and seemed to be more painful on the person slapping.

Krista Dragoon smiled bitterly and said, "Yep, it stings and I'm not slapping people again. Next time, I'm just going to cripple their little brother."

When Zen caught up to them and heard her final sentence, Zen hurriedly begged for forgiveness as he simply wanted to enjoy their moment together without being interrupted by another magical beast.

It wasn't like they're in a rush to leave this forest anymore since he can use teleportation due to the restriction being lifted off.

"Krista, forgive me already. I just wanted to spend some time together without having to fight every single time. It's too troublesome and exhausting to fight magical beasts simply for points." Zen said coyly, trying to earn some attraction by playing cute.

At the same time, Krista Dragoon was disgusted by his cute behavior when she recalled his ruthless manner in dealing with enemies.

"Stop it, I prefer you to never act cute again or I might really be unable to handle myself from kicking your little brother." Krista Dragoon raised her hand to stop his acting but Zen was distracted to hear her words.

"Your hand is red, let me soothe it for you," Zen said as he started coating his hand with cooling water and rubbed the redness on her palm.