"I will take the first one. I want to see the difference between the mutated beast and the normal beast." Clovis grinned.

"What? That's not fair." Erwin dropped his jaw.

"As the vice captain, I should be the one doing it. Your authority will decrease if the captain makes a move first," Jay interjected.

"Hehehe. I just don't want you guys to get hurt." Without waiting for them, Clovis shamelessly charged forward.

Jay and Erwin's eyebrows twitched.

Christina could only shake her helplessly, while Melody pointed to a building. "Rin, Kanaria. You go up there and check the surrounding area. Assist him if necessary."

"Let's go?" Kanaria exchanged looks with Rin. They were releasing their butterfly wings and dragonfly wings respectively before flying to the top of the building. Thanks to the beast soul, it was easy to reach this far.

Rea had also taken off. She had been inside the bus for so long, so she had the urge to just take off to the sky.

Melody didn't say anything else. There was nothing else on the radar, so it shouldn't be a problem yet. It was best for them to watch Clovis' battle to determine the strength of this mutated beast.

For Clovis, a Tier 5 beast was something he could kill in seconds. Even a Tier 6 beast shouldn't be too hard. At most, he would take a few minutes to kill it, but if he didn't mind exhausting his power, he could immediately use some big moves that would drain his stamina to kill it right away.

After all, his strength was already at 'Super' Tier 7.

Unbeknownst to him and everyone else, this battle brought them a surprise they never thought was possible.

Clovis approached the beast fast, preventing the beast from screaming to alert its comrades.

Seeing Clovis, the beast surprisingly didn't even bother to call its friends. It simply ran toward him.

Its speed was what he expected from a Tier 6 beast, so it wasn't surprising. Since the purpose of this fight was to test the combat ability of the mutated beast, he couldn't kill the beast right away.

He first swung his blade up to knock the beast's body up. The beast, on the other hand, activated its beast soul, using its paw to slap the sword down.

"!!!" Clovis abruptly widened his eyes. At first, the force between his sword and the paw remained equal.

But all of a sudden, the power in that paw actually increased tremendously, as if it was having another strike without lifting his paw.

As a result, the unprepared Clovis got his sword knocked down to the ground.

Clovis hurriedly swung the other sword to deflect the dog.

The rest of the team also couldn't believe it.

"What just happened?" Kanaria asked. "Did Clovis just get overpowered by a Tier 6 beast?"

"It looked like it was using a beast soul, but was it that simple?" Rin frowned.

"Clovis getting overpowered by a beast of this level? It's a Tier 5 mutated beast, so it should have the strength of a Tier 6 normal beast…" Erwin shook his head. "Clovis shouldn't be overpowered by this kind of beast."

To their surprise, the beast landed on the spot and approached him again. This time, the beast leaped in two directions as if the body split in two and the other part had its head grown from the giant tumor on the neck.

"!!!" Clovis and the others were surprised. Clovis, fortunately, managed to react at the last moment and swung his blades at both of them. The short blade hit the dog that should be the real one due to its direction, but for some reason, he couldn't feel any contact.

Instead, it was his long blade that felt the contact.

"This is…" Clovis frowned, not expecting this kind of power.

Ragna rubbed his eyes. "Guys. I'm not imagining this, right? Did the dog just split in two?"

"It could be considered an assassin technique, a very advanced one at that."

"Assassin technique?"

"The dog is not an assassin."

Melody scratched her cheek while smiling wryly. "Is this what it means to be a mutated beast? This guy's beast souls have mutated as well?"

"Ah!" They all came to a realization. If what Melody said was true, it was simply too perverse. The mutated beast had greater physical strength as well as regeneration. But it turned out the beast soul was also mutated to a stronger version?

For Clovis, who didn't have this information, he would be struggling to face something he had never seen before.

Both Jay and Erwin somehow felt relieved that they were not the ones doing it, or else they would have lost face.

On the other hand, Clovis had already figured out what had happened. And Melody confirmed his suspicion.

The Tier 7 mutated beast he would face might be much stronger than he originally imagined. It might be stronger than the Tier 8 beast they first faced.

Even this Tier 5 beast felt like a Tier 6.5 normal beast. It could be said that this beast was equal to a Tier 6 overlord beast that usually ruled over other beasts.

Clovis had no choice but to change his approach. Since he had figured out the beast's strength, there was no need to play around anymore.

He started speeding up and left one slash after another on its body. In the end, it was still equal to the Tier 6 beast. His strength had surpassed that of a normal Tier 7 human.

As long as he watched out for the mutated beast souls, he could overwhelm this beast.

With the new approach, the Tier 6 beast was bullied by Clovis. It couldn't leave a single scratch on Clovis. On the other hand, Clovis kept increasing the wounds on the beast's body.

After a clash that lasted for a minute, Clovis finally killed a Tier 5 mutated beast. The others were thinking the same thing. They were really lucky Clovis was the one becoming the experimental subject. If it were them, they would feel embarrassed.

"Huu…" Clovis exhaled in relief.