By time everyo over to the ke, it was already starting to head into the evening where the su. Lumina watched as the wolf man and his panio down a box with a rge animal corpse that was fresh due to blood seeping out of its wound. The corpse was set he ke but far enough to make the rge octopus be forced to actually leave the ke in order to retrieve it.

  He then signalled for his teammates to separate and spread out in a semi-circle around the bait for the octopus. Waiting for a moments before a ripple amongst the waves silently appeared slowly growing and growing until a submerged head of the creature protruded.

  The body of the octopus started to draw closer to the bait cautiously. Lumina seeing the beast out of the water realised that it appeared roughly the size of a small ship even without the length of the tentacles. As the suckers oentacle grabbled onto the bait, the wolf man shouted out loud for everyoo hear. "NOW!"

  Hearing the signal, the two mages on the left and right cast rge area of effect spells tlessly, their aura sug in the magicules dispg the air as they released a freezing temperature making the octopus start to slow dowo the ice. As soon as the rge octopus froze, a rge tanky looking man rushed over using a rge broadsword while the wolf man sprinted and jumped wielding a rge blunt hammer ready to smash it into its forehead.

  THUNK

  A tentacle that had yet to be frozen smashed into the wolf mans abdomen, hitting him backwards into the ground, while that tentacle got cut by the other mans broadsword finally freezing over the cut.

  The wolf man spun in the air before he nded heavily on his feet letting out a snarl as he swung his hammer inte throw.

  CRACK

  The hammer hit the rge octopuses head squarely making the ice crad splinter off leaving rge ks of the octopuses skin to go along with it. Lumina withe burst of blood and brain matter shed from its head as it roared in pain. Not taking any ces, one of the mages cast rge spear-like stone structs to pierce the brain while the octopus started tee this skin on its head.

  BOOM

  A sound wave was heard by Lumina as at one moment the spears were in pce by the mages and the hey were ihe brain of the rge octopus. its tentacles slowly being unfrozen were writhing and thrashing around in pain, hitting the ground creating small craters and shakes.

  As it was doing this, the wolf man and the burly guy used this to their advantage by being on top of the octopuses head doing as much damage as they . Eventually, the octopus stopped its thrashing and died down.

  "Whew, seems like its finally over." After, ing down from the beast, the wolf man looked at his panions with a triumphant expression. Lumina, decided that now would be a good time to get to know them seeing as they were finally finished with the fight.

  "Wow, you were amazing! thank you for letting me see what a professional hunting team do." Iement, Lumina gushes over the four person team making some of the blush and grin out of shyness while the overs felt it was just right. "Oh! I nearly fot, I don't even know your names My name is Lumina Cortez a D rank hunter a pleasure meeting you."

  one of the mages spoke up before the others could. "The pleasures ours, my name is Maria and this is my boyfriend, pointing at the bulky mahing the broadsword, Ja. The e is Thomas and our leader here the wolf man would be Agreas." Listening to her voice was rather soothing to Lumina where each wraced her ears.

  "Amazing, so Maria, I've always been curi-"

  Spsh

  Before Lumina could finish her sentence she saw some spshes of water as a small colle of octopuses bubbled up to the surface of the ke he dead Large octopus before looking into their dire in anger. "Hold that thought, I guess this must be their young." Agreas growled out and got ready to go into a.

  Seeing as these octopuses were siderably weaker than their rge mothers equivalent, Lumina brought out her rapier and decided that she would join in the hunt with the fellow hunters. She sped up into a run as she grabbed a hold of her rapier and thrust it through one of the octopuses before dodging tht to evade the attack of another. swinging the rapier, she flung the octopus off into a lunging cut into another.

  As this tinued, eventually all of them were dead by everyone's bined effort after a solid ten minutes of fighting. "whew, that's finally over with." Lumina started colleg the corpses of the dead octopuses and pced them ie bag ready to sell while secretly thinking of summoning a shadow from one of them. Looking back at the others and realising that it is finally nightfall after all this fighting, Lumina called out to them. "Hey, we should probably head bad rest for the night and theurn in the m."

  Agreas, looked back at Lumina before he growled a response. "No, its fine, we will head baow and send a report back to the hunters guild. You oher hand need more rest so stay here and you return in the m."

  Lumina, finding that he wasn't going to back down and seemed firm on this idea finally relented. "OK." After replying, she left the ke aered the temporary stay that she has been assigned. Grabbing one of the stronger looking octopus corpses she said Transd as she got its shadow of life to take form of a wispy shadow of the octopus.

  Ohat was done, she got it to return to her shadow and got into bed to finally rest for the night.