On the second day, the four of them continued to hunt mutant beasts. Over the course of the day, they managed to hunt another six beasts. Three 6th realm beasts and three 5th realm beasts.
That placed their point totals at 105 by the end of the second day. Surprisingly, they had nearly caught up with team Crimson God due to the sheer number of 5th realm beasts that they had hunted. With only 12 points between their scores, they were nearly neck and neck.
Of course, Team Spirit Flower was still ahead by a large margin.
Some time during the night, after removing his combat armor and washing up, Tian Qingfeng was lounging in his tent, scrolling through forums and the class chat group on his astral link. He also had the bracelet given by the school active as well.
Within the class chat group, half of the people were complaining about how hard it was to hunt 5th and 6th-realm beasts, while the other half was either admiring the teams at the top of the list or pestering them for advice.
The members of the top two teams were generally giving decent tips and advice on how to handle mutant beasts and how certain quirks of those beasts made hunting specific beasts easier.
Chen Zhiyu and Lu Tai, however, were baiting and goofing about in the chat, causing somewhat annoyed cries to ring out across the campsite at them.
While Qingfeng was laughing at their antics, he also pulled up the leaderboard. There were ten teams in total. Most of the Teams near the top of the leaderboard were from class 1. This is to be expected since class 1 is considered an elite class, created for students who were classified as a genius among their peers, while class 2, even if it was the best class on the standard track, was still just part of the standard track.
The talent division naturally created a strength gap between the two classes, with the weakest student of class 1 at the intermediate stage of the fourth layer of muscle strengthening, while the strongest student of class 2 was barely at the advanced stage of the third layer of muscle strengthening.
Scrolling back to the top, Tian Qingfeng looked over the leaderboard once again.
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1) [Team Spirit Flower]: 135 points
2) [Team Crimson God]: 117 points
3) [Team Cloud Hunters]: 105 points
4) [Team Swift Winds]: 71 points
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Unsurprisingly, Team Spirit Flower was still at the top of the list. This time, though, they seemed to have pulled ahead of Team Crimson God by two 6th realm beasts. Placing them 18 points ahead.
Recently, they had figured out that if you pressed and held onto the name of a team, you were able to see what mutant beasts they had hunted. The first two teams exclusively hunted 6th realm beasts, which led people to shower them with praise and pester them for tips and tricks in the chat group.
Qingfeng closed the leaderboard tab and pulled up his personal points.
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[Team]: Cloud Hunters
[Team Points]: 105
[Individual Points]: 33
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Surprisingly, he now had 33 individual points. Those were hard-earned points acquired by contributing more than what his other teammates had during combat. This naturally tired him out, but seeing his point total, Tian Qingfeng felt it was completely worth all that effort he had put in during the hunts.
While he was admiring those charming numbers, a sharp ding pulled his focus back to the chat group on the astral link.
In the chat group, a flurry of messages flew across the screen.
[Tai Shan: Wait, is this for real?!]
[Divine Spear: Kinda insane tho]
[Rosy Sky: For real]
[Imminent Sage: Does this mean day 3 is canceled?]
[Orchids Dream: No, read the announcement. It says that we'll go till noon, so half a day is left.]
Seeing what Fu Lihua sent in the group chat, he scrolled up in the group chat searching for the announcement. Eventually, he found the announcement posted in the chat by Teacher Su.
[Announcement: There has been news of a severely injured 7th realm mutant beast who has escaped in our direction. Their last reported location was about 500 km from our location, roughly 10.8 hrs from our current location if it comes here directly.
Seeing as there are hunters chasing it, it will likely arrive sometime past noon. That's also when a severe rain storm will come in from the west, so your final day will be cut in half. We will be leaving by noon. Good luck, and good hunting.]
As Tian Qingfeng read the announcement, he quickly analyzed the information.
"It's a 7th rank mutant beast, so its sprint speed is roughly 70 m/s. But it wouldn't be running at burst speed all the time. The hunters chasing and encircling it would also slow it down a bit.
"Given that the normal running speed of those at the 7th realm was roughly 21 m/s or 46 miles per hour, the mutant beast would definitely move slower than that, given the impedance of the hunters and its severe injuries.
"That's why Teacher Su's announcement says that the beast would arrive sometime past noon. Since we are ending at noon, then from the morning till the end we have about 5 hours left.
"Given that it would take roughly an hour to return and pack up camp, we would have 4 hours to hunt tomorrow."
After coming to that conclusion, he sighed.
"That's not a lot of time." Qingfeng lamented
Turning his attention back to the group chat, he continued to read what people posted.
[Snow White: That means we only have until 11 AM to hunt before we need to return to camp to pack up. That's not a lot of time.]
[Burning Spirit: True]
[Crimson Fighter: Gotta make the most of tomorrow then.]
After watching the messages continue for a while, he got a pop-up that said he had been invited to a group chat by [True Sage].
After accepting the invitation, he was pulled into a new chat room.