The ground rumbled and shards rippled through the monster mob. Blood splashed onto the nearby trees.

Two mules ran off and one boar chased after the easy prey, but other than that all of them had been hit.

Copper-level monsters didn’t stand much of a chance against his move. While Max didn’t know the exact stats of the earthquake attack, the fact that it was a D-rank ability meant that the ability’s strength was anywhere between 31 to 50 and that was strong enough to rip through the flesh of weak E-ranked monsters, even some D-ranked monsters as well.

Max stood up and took in the destroyed ground and the nine copper monster cores laying in front of him. He snatched up the cores and coins.

Nearby, a tree had fallen over during his attack and the branches had snapped into pointy edges.

Max grinned.

He had to be as efficient as possible.

* * *

An hour later, a group of student climbers were practicing their squad tactics against a group of forest boars when they heard a huge rumbling sound.

They looked through the forest and saw a cloud of dust fill the woods while a stampede of boars rushed through the crowd.

“We better get out of here,” said one of the students. “That looks like enough monsters to be a monster wave!”

“I thought this floor was supposed to be easy,” cried another student.

“What’s happening!”

* * *

Max was either crazy or stupid.

Probably both.

He sprinted with all of his might as fifty forest boars chased after him.

He eventually arrived at a patch of dirt where an “X” had been drawn in the soil.

This was the spot.

As the mighty stampede of boars rushed towards him, he placed his hands on the ground and triggered the earthquake ability.

The ground rumbled and shook. The dirt cracked and stones jutted forth right into the flesh of the wave of boars.

Some had managed to dodge the attack and were still coming for Max.

SNAP!

All the nearby trees began to crack from the earthquake attack.

But they were more than just random trees. They were trees that Max had purposely climbed and broken the branches into sharp pointed bits.

They weren’t random trees any more—they were homemade guillotines, slicing downward and stabbing the remaining boars who hadn’t been killed by the earthquake attack.

STAB!

Max stood in front of the pile of boar corpses and watched the mound glow silver and leave behind a hefty splattering of coins and copper monster cores.

He collected all the loot and placed it in his pouch.

None of the monsters had escaped, so that was forty copper monster cores he’d just gained.

If he added them altogether, he currently had fifty-two copper monster cores.