Six large claw suddenly rose up from underground. It slowly withdrew but another six claw immediately shot up in its place. It continued for a while as trees standing tall fell and dust clouds soon covered the entire area.
*FWOOSH*
As the dust settles, a monster standing 50 meters tall and 100 meters long soon towered the forest trees. It has a red and black fur pattern covering its entire body and although its arms are short, it has a 20 meter long paws with six fingers each and nails over 4 meters. 10 horns stood atop its head while the monster's tail and claws glow a bright red hue like a saber of light.
*BLLEEAAAUUU*
Ji Liu's party was surprised as the monster roared, its pressure was overwhelming, but then, a soothing female voice rang inside Ji Liu's head regaining his sense.
*Ting*
"System has detected an Origin monster nearby, Young Ji Liu is advised to find a way to drink a cup of its blood. Drinking the blood of an Origin monster would improve the system."
But before Ji Liu could ask why, a scruffy male voice followed up.
"That means making you able to make contract with more monsters and fuse more monsters at a time."
Ji Liu was stoked. He was just about to command Xiao Su to turn tail and head back to the Souxun grounds, but now, he decided to first find a way to calm his party members.
"Guys calm down, judging from the fact that it came from underground, it should have eyesight more suited for the dark."
"Also look at how it moves its nose around, it's sniffing to find prey, which means we're safe here since Xiao Su has a strong rusty metal smell to cover our own." Ji Liu explains the situation while quickly taking a look at the monster's status.
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Darth Mole
Type: Earth / Fire
Level: N/A
Status: Healthy
Abilities: N/A
Evolution condition: N/A
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"Perhaps, but wouldn't it be safer to leave?" asks Wang Zi as he holds Yin Yin tightly.
"Then would you just leave every time you encounter a monster like this once you become a 'Monster Keeper'?" Saga Bergman was in agreement with Ji Liu's decision.
"Don't also forget the fact that General Electric is nearby, the commotion the monster caused would probably reach them by now." Ji Liu assured Wang Zi.
"So, should we just hang out here then? Or should we probe it?" Wang Zi started to rummage in his bag.
'Attack its flank, it's the monsters weakness.' A soothing female voice rang again inside Ji Liu's head.
"I think it's safe to attack it from the flank where its claws and tail wouldn't reach us. It would be a great experience for our monsters too." Ji Liu said as he thought 'strange, why did the system suddenly become active?' to himself.
"We should wait for other parties to arrive and in the meantime, we can surprise attack monsters running away, we still need to finish the exam." Saga Bergman then suggested, not confident in the 3-man party battling such a huge monster.
"Okay, you guys go down while I provide info on the surrounding and situation. Make sure to stay within sight." And the two agreed to Ji Liu's suggestion.
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When General Electric and his team arrived at the scene, what they saw was a pleasant surprise.
5 parties are currently fighting against the Darth Mole, although they are successful with their strategy of flanking the monster, their damage to it was also minimal. But it provided good enough distraction and prevented the monster from advancing towards Wanqiang Metropolis.
The parties were weak with only 1 Silver, 6 Bronze, and 11 Mortal level monsters. The Bronze and Mortal level monsters are split into two groups to each side while the Silver level monster flies on the monster's back. Their assault was alternately shifting, dictated by where the Silver level monster is located.
General Electric then sent a scout to communicate with the attacking 5 parties, after all, a slight distraction causing a shift to the Darth Mole's attention could kill and wipe out the 5 parties. They are here to ensure the exam's safety, not cause death to examinees.
A short while later, the scout came back and reported the situation.
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3 days after Darth Mole's appearance and retreat, news programs still are still flooded with its reports, especially since General Electric participated in stopping the monster in advancing towards Wanqiang Metropolis. Although the monster was not killed, there was also no civilian casualty.
The 18 examinees who participated were given C-Rank Monster Keeper identifications along with a bonus of being given 10 monster teleporter each, a rediscovered technology not yet introduced to the public.
These 'monster teleporters' are a pair of disks that works by large scale quantum entanglement. Monsters would need to be on top of one of the disk before being teleported to the other disk.
The current technology can only teleport monsters as humans aren't able to survive the process, but there was evidence that human teleportation device existed during the 3rd world war in which this device was based on.
Ji Liu was still at Wanqiang Metropolis staying at the Souxun facility. He's already doing Monster Keeper work like gathering monster materials and capturing for monster sale and experiments.
He also already got a system upgrade, making him able to make contract with 5 more monsters and fuse two more. He already learned a lot from his past mistake which ended up with him having a bunch of swamp type monsters.
This was mainly because he used to hunt a lot within Yun City's southern forest which has a lot of poison type monster. But now, he doesn't just make contract with a monster possessing an ability he is interested in but considers what type the monster can be and what combination would result in a new type.
This was his current focus and was repeatedly doing fusing experiments with Mortal and Bonze level monsters the past 3 days when he goes out to do quests.